Fusion lag
Whether this o your issues are actually related tot eh graphics card is not clear.
I've explained this you you in your thread already. The Nvidia Qadro and AMD Fire GL are identical in hardware to gaming cards. Maybe not as overclocked.
However, the software divers for these cars are aimed a "professional" graphics programs of which many use the Open GL API. thus the Direct X performance of these cards is often fairly bad.
Fusion 360 uses the Direct X API and thus a cheaper Gaming Graphics card often fairs better than the Quadro or Fire GL cards.
I disabled optimus and it seems that things got little better. But from time to time this still happens:
Freezes until black section goes away..
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Can you post a copy of your diagnostic log files? It will be interesting to see if there are network errors in the log file.
There is a network troubleshooting guide here that may be helpful to reference.
There are a lot of suggestions such as adding domain exceptions to firewall or to anti-virus software that may help. It's quite possible that anti-virus software or some other background process is interfering with the normal operation of Fusion 360.
A really good procedure to try is try booting up Windows in Safe Mode to eliminate all the background processes and then retest.
If the behavior is the same while online, we may be able to rule out background interferences as the cause of the lag.
I hope that helps. If you have any quesitons, please let me know.
Thanks,
Nathan Chandler
Principal Specialist
I think it's too early to draw a conclusion about anything just yet. That's why I have a diagnostic procedure suggested. They will tell us more about the scenario. There certainly seems to be a graphics related component here since disabling graphics switching helped.
@friesendrywall If I recall correctly, you were experiencing an issue with lag when switching between design when you have x-ref's in the design? Are we discussing the same issue? Or are you reporting a new behavior?
My suggestions are intended to help further diagnose and address the issue, if the issue is a network issue. An IT and/or Network administrator may need to be consulted if working from such a secure network. There's no way around that if the user does not have access to modify these settings.
Mostly though, I suspect a background process....
Fusion 360 client utilizes all your computer's resources.. there are no streaming graphics and there isn't anything to buffer in that respect. Only designs are synced in the background after being saved to your local disk. That's why I can't understand why going offline would help. The only scenario I can think of is Fusion 360 is constantly thinking it's losing internet connection and getting prepared to switch to offline mode. The log files may reveal more information.
It's generally easier to troubleshoot an issue if there is a definite series of steps to reproduce it. If I create a large feature pattern, I can get the "black browser" box to generate while Fusion 360 crunches away on the geometry. That is the as-designed behavior when its computing.
I have requested the diagnostic log files to look for recorded errors. You can review the link below for how to manually collect them if you're interested in reviewing them.
I am happy to review any if you'd like to share them here.
I hope that helps. Let me know if you have any questions.
Thanks,
Nathan Chandler
Principal Specialist