I ran into a problem where Fusion 360 would crash loading a design I had created with it the previous day.
My laptop has both Intel HD Graphics 4000 and an NVIDIA NVS 5400M display adapters. It seems that if you're running the Intel you may be able to create a drawing with a reference image, but once you exit Fusion 360 and try to reload it'll likely crash the Intel display driver. I was able to switch to the NVIDIA adapter and load the drawing that was previously crashing.
But there's a wrinkle - I thought I had been using the NVIDIA driver the entire time. The web deployment method for Fusion 360 causes a problem. The NVIDIA control panel stores settings for programs installed on the system, but your web deployment system changes the executable file location without the user being aware of it. So after the last update the location changed and the settings I had previously made were no longer being used and it was back to the default Intel adapter.
So there are two action items:
1. Fusion 360 should pop up a warning when it's running with a graphics processor that's not sufficient instead of crashing. I'd think it should pop up a warning that the user can disable if they only have one adapter and accept the limitation. If they are like me this warning would be a clue that something has changed and the adapter control panel needs to be updated.
2. Fusion 360 should be installed in a more permanent location or at least a launcher could be in a more permanent location which then finds the webdeploy location - I suspect that the display settings for the launcher would then be used for any child programs that launcher kicks off.
