graphics card help on new laptop

[Cjones]

No matter what settings I choose in

system config -graphics support I get an unwanted effect.

It is either choppy or the redraw rate is so slow drawing a line turns into a nice line cluster. What am i missing? Any help would be much appreciated.

Hope everyone was safe on the 4th.

 

Here is my new laptop specs

Asus Notebook G73jh series

Intel i7 quad CPU Q 720 @ 1.6gHz

6gb ram

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1gb video card

running driver version 8.683.0.0

windows 7 64 bit

 

I got it basically because it was geared toward gaming, so i figured mastercam would run well. Plus bestbuy is running an 18 month 0% APR credit card. It was hard to pass up!

 

TY,

Chris

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 1gb video card

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Sorry, but it always recommend you use a Nvidia Card. Using the ATI you are probably going to fight it. Have you tried going into troubleshooting and turning it down to none and running Mastercam?

[Cjones]

ugg. the more I read, the more I want to return it to best buy. Thank you

[Jayson Kramer]

did you try turning off Disable hardware acceleration in Mastercam settings?

[gcode]

Right click your Mastercam desktop icon

choose properties, then compatibilty and turn off desktop composition. might help .. might not

[Cjones]

I switched off the desktop composition and turned the graphics to GDI. Which makes it run fine now. What do I loose by using the GDI instead of the openGL really? It gave a dialog box about disabling art by using it, but everything else should be functional right?

thanks for the help guys.

[MotorCityMinion]

I can't help ya with the GDI, WTF is that really, never seen it in any other modern CAD/CAM apps yet, but if your posting good g code and can see what your drawing, be happy.

 

ATI is a crap shoot. I've seen on board video systems work better than advanced system with ATI cards. It may work just fine disabling desktop composition and/or the front buffer. If this doesn't work, ultimately it's Mastercam's fault as this this has been an issue FOREVER considering half the world uses ATI cards. Stop using Mastercam or choose an alternative as this has always been a bunch of bull$h!t.

 

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[?Mark]

Great system. I got similar G51Jx-X1 but with nvidia gts360m and that thing smokes thru x4 and x5.

I'm really surprised you have a problem with that ati card as this is one of a top laptop cards at this moment but then again as it was said above, for some reason some ati cards do not play well with mc.

Make sure you have the correct driver for WIN 7 64 bit OS.

hth

[Chris Rizzo]

I just picked up a sony f series laptop that has some darn impressive benchmark times. Take a look at that thread, it's a sticky. Paid 1300 and have 12 mon. no interest. Just an idea.

[90rsgnuguy42]

+1 motorcityminion. Happy Birthday!