FX 5900

CNCme · February 9, 2004

Good Day,

Got P-4 - 2.4Mhz- 1Gb ram -9.1 Sp2...

was told FX 5200 was low end video

Axis indicator and WCS indicator

disapear when shaded

Installed FX 5900 and same thing

any help

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

_________________________________________

End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO"

And coolant and chips are like the enemy

Under your boots as you advance in the

Manufacturing Battle

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February 9, 2004

Do you have the latest drivers? The deafult drivers BLOW. I've got a 5600 with 256MB RAM and it's quite an improvement over the old Matrox G450 32MB. Smooth dynamic rotation even with large complex files.

HTH

CNCme · February 9, 2004

Good Day,

Yes, got 53.03

for Xp... it came with 52.01

tried both

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

_________________________________________

End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO"

And coolant and chips are like the enemy

Under your boots as you advance in the

Manufacturing Battle

--------------------------------------------------

February 9, 2004

I'm new to NVidia cards. There's got to be some settings. I've not had a chance to tweek with mine too much so I don't know all of the in's and out's yet. Jay's had NVidia's for a while now.

JAY!!!!!

Jody · February 9, 2004

I also have a FX 5600 it does the same thing. My dealer said to install an older driver 44.03 but I can not figure out how to install an older driver. other problems i have noticed the arrows when chaining and in solid disappear. and show drive surfaces doesnot do anything.

Jody

Jayson Kramer · February 9, 2004

Jody to un-install the drivers go into the Hardware option under System in the Control Panel and you can remove the video all togeather.

before you do this go to add & remove software options and remove the Nvidia drivers ther to start.

Once you restart it will say it found new Video now you can run the older drivers.

Jayson Kramer · February 9, 2004

I have just gotton a FX 5600 to play with and have been having good luck. but I did not noticed

quote:

Axis indicator and WCS indicator

disapear when shaded

But now I do now that you say some thing.

I am going to see what I can do to fix it and reply back soon.

Jody if you have the older driver 44.03 can you put them on the FTP so I can test this.

Just let me know so I can get them.

thanks jay.

gcode · February 9, 2004

Jay,

You can get any NVIDIA driver you want from the NVIDIA drive archive

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html

Jayson Kramer · February 9, 2004

thanks Gcode.

Jody · February 9, 2004

jay it is alco on the FTP under video drivers

thanks

Jody

Chris Rizzo · February 9, 2004

quote:

Axis indicator and WCS indicator

disapear when shaded

Gee, I thought it was just another Mastercam thing. I'm running an Gforce 4200ti 128mb, and have always had slightly quirky graphics isses...especially displaying the axis with ALT F9 things get goofy and jumpy.

A neat site that has some Invidia utilities and downloads- www.3dgurus.com

MATSSMan · February 9, 2004

I have the same problem on an NVidia G-Force 440GO in a Dell Inspiron laptop. Turning down the video acceleration to the 2nd last setting, solved the problem for me.

cadcam · February 9, 2004

Mat, is right. but I find this slows down the system to.

I am going to ty the old driver real fast right now.

gcode · February 9, 2004

I've been running a Quadro FX-500 on my home machine and have had no trouble at all.

This is a dedicated CAD/CAM card not a gaming card. I have found no issues at all with Mastercam

and it ROCKS with SolidWorks and Predator.

The price of this card has come down quit a bit.

I paid $285 for one from Amazon.com 6 months ago.

That was a killer price back then.

You can get this card from Monarch Comuputer now

for $237.

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/m...gory_Code=VC-PN

Jody · February 9, 2004

Jay,

I could not uninstall the video driver. and I did not see the nvidia in the add remove programs. The is win xp pro.

Thanks

Jody

Jody · February 9, 2004

double post opps

Brendan P · February 9, 2004

I just recently had a new comp. built.

Our it guy put in the 440 card which wacks it.

i did a search here and I found that Jay recomended the 5600.

So I had him get this instead.

Now it rocks.

Having xp installed with the latest and greatest hardware also helped out alot too!

I did find that I had problems with the "out of the box" drivers,and had to go to their site and downlosd the latest.

I was told that nvidia makes updates all the time,so you may want to check there often.

cadcam · February 9, 2004

Jody, the driver calls should be in the Add & remove under Nvidia.

I did try like had stated earler.

Oh maybe you need to have Reader Rabbit Learn to read installed first.

I was testing my kids games on WinXP Pro.

Brendan P · February 9, 2004

Hey Jay....

Are the reader rabbits your personal favorite programs??

Jody · February 10, 2004

well I finally got the older driver installed (thanks jay) but it still does not show the axis when the part is shaded. I guess we just have to deal with it.

Maybe I should try to program with reader rabbit

Jody

Jayson Kramer · February 10, 2004

Dang I thought I posted that I tried them and they did not help.

I went back and noticed I forgot to post these findings before you did it.

CNCme · February 10, 2004

Good Day G-code,

What kind of machine is the quatro-FX running?

And you didnt find any problem with viewport or

WCS indicator flickering or disapearing...?

Tony G

Almost Employed Senior Programmer

N.E Massachusetts - Southern New Hampshire

_________________________________________

End mills and tooling are like The "AMMO"

And coolant and chips are like the enemy

Under your boots as you advance in the

Manufacturing Battle

--------------------------------------------------

Jody · February 10, 2004

quote:

Dang I thought I posted that I tried them and they did not help.

I went back and noticed I forgot to post these findings before you did it.

thats ok i'll forgive you as soon as you figure out how to fix our disappearing axis's's

Jody

gcode · February 10, 2004

The Quadro FX-500 originally ran in 2.3P4 clone. Its now running in a 2 year old Dell workstaion

at home. I have had no trouble with Mastercam in either machine.

My boss just bought me a new Dell workstation

3.2 P4 with a Quadro FX-1000. It is also running

Mastercam without any problems

edit: The FX-500 is an 8X AGP card. Both of these

machines have 4x AGP motherboards so the card cannot run at full potenial on either machine.

CAM-mando · February 11, 2004

Tony,

Anymore news on the FX5900 ?

I am considering either FX5600 256MB or FX5900 128MB.

Dave

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