ati firegl

[mjm3xs]

i have a dell precision 590 with the ati fire card,went from laptop using v9 to this computer x2.problem is, lag time . when i go to toolpath drill arc center , i cant just pick the hole , i have to wait for the computer to catch up so to speak. any ideas?

[crazy^millman]

Get more memory for the computer bump it to 4 gig should help a lot.

 

HTH

[Colin Gilchrist]

Go buy a new video card. Mastercam and ATI do not work well together. I would take a $50 Nvidia card over an expensive ATI card any day.

[Mike Klein]

Definiately the video card. I received an ATI Fire GL card with my new system and this created big lag problems, ghosting, crashes on occasion. Nvidia Gforce 6800 series or better. 256 MB of RAM minimum and you should be happy. You need a fullsize desktop case to hold the card however. Not the little midget cases that are becoming popular.

[Josh T™]

I have an IBM T60p Laptop with an ATI mobility FireGL V5200 card and everything runs fine. I had to adjust the performance settings on the battery (was lagging) but after that it was fine. I have a NVIDIA Quadro4 980 XGL on my desktop computer (laptop for travel) and I can't tell the difference between the two. Card memory settings maybe?

[Matthew Hajicek - Singularity]

So does anyone know if there are reasonable ways to upgrade / change the video card in a laptop these days?

[gcode]

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So does anyone know if there are reasonable ways to upgrade / change the video card in a laptop these days

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buy a new laptop.. they are usually built into

the motherboard

[camgeneration]

"Go buy a new video card. Mastercam and ATI do not work well together. I would take a $50 Nvidia card over an expensive ATI card any day."

 

I have been running ATI firegl cards with mastercam for 6-7 years on several different computers and never had a problem.

[gcode]

I had 1 laptop with an ATI card than ran V9 with no troubles. I've had desktops that were a real pain. I don't know what the fix for ATI cards is, I just stay away from them

[mjm3xs]

ok ithink colin is right!dont know if there are any fixes for the ati but i think i'd be better off buying an old commodore 64 from the antique store!dont quite know how to tell my boss the owner, yet,that his so called computer builder f'd up.and the card he chose(something like 1500 bucks),sucks.

[camgeneration]

"dont know if there are any fixes for the ati "

 

Have you tried different drivers?

 

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[mjm3xs]

dont know a whole lot about computers so drivers? yeah i wouldn,t know where to start.i know how to program sometimes, but thats about it. by the time i get all the features x2 has to offer i'll have x3, and have to start all over!

[camgeneration]

go to control panel, display, settings tab,advanced tab, adapter, properties there you can see what driver you are running. download the latest driver, install and see if that works better, if not you can actually try earlier versions if needed.

[mjm3xs]

oh yeah by the way. i was complaining like usual about this situation,so some dellcert'd tech came replaced the mother board and fan(which when we first got the thing sounded like a jet enginge in my office)had'nt sounded like that in months , tech said its not supposed to sound like that but i think the faster the better.so i take the side panel off now and throw a fan on high to cool sht down and it seems to cut the lag time.don't know how much this so called tch cost but i came up with a better solution for 17.99 from wallmart.this is just insane!

[camgeneration]

How much memory does the computer have?

[mjm3xs]

2gb computer. the driver is ati firegl v7200,256 mb