New video card Nvidia Quadro K420

[Anonymous]

I recently installed a new Nvidia Quadro K420. Works well, I found it on the tested cards by Autodesk for Autocad. My only concern is that the hardware acceleration is turned off/ greyed out. So the 3dconfig option is not available to me. 

I have updated the driver , it has the newest one downloaded from Nvidia. 

How do I resolve this?

Everything else works fine.

[rkmcswain]

The GraphicsConfig and 3DConfig commands (same thing) are available regardless if HA is enabled or not AFAIK.

Have you tried typing in these commands?

Also try the -GRAPHICSCONFIG command (note the leading hyphen).

If they do not work, are you getting an error?

[pendean]

You will need an Autodesk-authored driver if the one from NVidia can't do it: same place you got the info from probably also had a driver.

[Anonymous]

It's still greyed out. I have even downloaded the driver from Autodesk for my graphics card. Restarted my pc and still nothing. 

I have run graphics config and the option to run accelerator is greyed out. Please help.

[rkmcswain]

When you run the GraphicsConfig command, what does it say in the Hardware Setup section? Does it show your NVIDIA card?

[Anonymous]

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[john.vellek]

Hi @Anonymous,

Can you prepare a NFO for me and send it to [email protected]?  i would like to examine your configuration to see if there is something obvious that would be causing this.

[john.vellek · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Try forcing the DirectX to make this work. Here is an article that desribes how to do this with DirectX 9. Just substitute 11 wherever you see the older version in the instructions.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Wow that last post worked. I entered the value Dx9 and followed the steps and my hardware acceleration is on :). thank you!