Quadro FX 3500, best drivers?

[Jeremy Haage from MCAM NorthWest]

I've got a customer with a new PC using a Quadro FX 3500. We've recently updated to the newest 91.36 Nvidia Quadro drivers and it fixed a couple issues he had with crashing and the tool moving forward/backward in backplot while stepping.

 

We have disabled the unified back/depth buffer setting within the display properties for the card and set all other features to application-controlled.

 

He still has one issue still lingering which is that the Window that appears when you do a Zoom Window or selection window doesn't appear all the time. Usually once it starts to appear it will be ok for that session, but after he closes and restarts Mastercam, then loads up his file he usually has no Window appear during Zoom Window.

 

Any ideas on a fix for this or a recommended driver version? We tried to install driver 77.56 because I had heard others use this driver but the install says it doesn't detect any valid hardware

 

BTW, we also turned off all of the Appearance Effects in Windows.

[gcode]

Try setting Mouse Themes to "None"

[Jeremy Haage from MCAM NorthWest]

Thanks for the suggestion gcode. I've never messed with a Mouse Theme. Is the "Scheme" setting found in the control panel > mouse properties > Pointers tab, the same as what you are referring to?

[gcode]

Yes, Some of those Mouse themes cause strange behaviour in V9. I've always run them at "None"

[Roger Peterson]

3500 guys, what driver version are you running?

 

thanks,

[gcode]

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3500 guys, what driver version are you running

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I'm running an FX-3000 on the latest release

(91.36) with no issues at all.

Make sure you have the front buffer disabled

in Mastercam Screen confige page and

"Unified back/Depth buffer" turned off on the

Nvdia "Performance and Quality Settings" page.

[Jeremy Haage from MCAM NorthWest]

Just revisiting this issue for my customer again. His mouse themes were already set to none. He's running 91.36 drivers on his Quadro FX 3500 and still has the issue with the zoom window and window selection not appearing all of the time. When it finally does appear, it will keep working for that session. Also he can usually do a zoom window right after opening his session (with a blank file), then load up the MCX file he was working on and it fixes the issue. If he loads the part first he usually experiences the problem.