X2 update1

[gcode]

Earlier this month I linked to some Solidworks

benchmark tests showing an 80% perforrmance

hit when running Vista. Like Mastercam, SolidWorks

uses OpenGL.

This is from the Path1 on VIsta thread

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I have X2 and X2 MR1 (Beta) both running on VISTA, be aware that some users have found a dramatic decrease in performance of Mastercam especially with NVIDIA Graphics cards not having effective drivers for CAD/CAM applications at present.

JM2C

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no shoulds or could here... Vista does not support

our graphics engine and any drivers that NVIDIA

comes up with will be a work around.

Microsoft as really given the Cad/Cam world the shaft with Vista.

 

Something I hadn't considered....

Maybe Mastercam/Vista will run OK with mainstream graphics cards now and we won't have

to buy high end Cad/Cam cards to get acceptable graphics performance???

[jctjct]

What does a performance hit mean though? Processing time, or does it have to do with the apperance?

[gcode]

I am guessing it means that shading a solid or surface takes a long time, rotating a shaded

solid or surface is very jerky and backplot and

Verify run very slowly.

[Mick]

X2 takes a performance hit on my Toshiba M60 notebook, running XP Pro. I dont have an issue with X MR2, but whenever I try to shade a large model, or use a solid in Verify, it locks up my notebook :/ We have one programmer using a Dell workstation experiencing the same issues. Is there any resolve for this? (I tried the usual measures, like altering graphics acceleration etc, with no improvement)

[mrmead]

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feb 28th release on mr1?

 

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2008?