Video card questions

[Trapper Paul]

Hello forum long time no visit. How is everbody doing?

 

I am running Mastercam Version 9.1, Mastercam X2, and SolidWorks 7 SP2 on a new Dell Precision 390 (DOU Core 2) with the NVIDIA Fx3450 256MB card it installed by Dell.

 

I'm having trouble with it crashing relativly small mastercam files. It shuts down Mastercam and I loose my drawing.

 

Any advise? Better video card recommendation?

 

Does anyone remember a Pete's Pic information about video cards? II might have the wrong name. But he mentioned a "horsepower pic" and a 'wallet friendly pic" Anyone recall this? Is it still around?

 

Dell also has 2 other cards availeable as options for this DUO Core 2 system. One is a Fx4500 512MB the other a Fx3500 256Mb...

 

Crashing hourly. Paul

[gcode]

Uninstall the Dell video drivers

Install the latest from the Nvidia Drivers page

 

turn off "save a bitmap image" on the Files page

of System Config

 

On the Nvidia Performance page turn off

unified back/depth buffer

 

Turn off Depth Buffer of the Screen page of

System Config

 

Set video for Maximum performance in the Advanded

settings in My Computer

[Colin Gilchrist]

The FX 3450 is a great card. We run them here at work. Right click on your desktop, Go to Nvidia display, Performance and quality settings, and change the active profile to "Solidworks". Then go into Mastercam, Settings, Configuration, Screen Topic, and Check the Box for "disable front buffer". You should notice a huge performance increase.

 

Also, Turn OFF autosave if you have it on. Only use Backup.

 

HTH,

[Colin Gilchrist]

Uh yeah... what Gcode said....

 

[Trapper Paul]

On It!

 

Where is the System Config area?

 

Thanks so far!

[Colin Gilchrist]

Inside Mastercam go to:

 

Main menu bar - Settings - Configuration. In the Configuration Dialog box click on the screen topic.

[Trapper Paul]

Ok, thanks guys! Will do.