We purchased a PCI Quadro 4 200 NVS graphics card to use with version 8.11 and was wondering if anyone else is using a PCI card. The computer we have does not have an AGP slot so we have to us PCI. Right now we are seeing some issues when back plotting. We get a lot of garbage on the screen. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [email protected] [ 05-22-2003, 09:53 AM: Message edited by: 5-axis ]

My error on saying we are running Win 98. Actually Win 2000 Pro. As to what we are using for benchmarking, it's called Mastercam, SolidWorks, Surfcam and a stop watch. Setup the same file, same toolpath, extrude function, etc., press 'Enter' and the stop watch button at the same time. Whichever machine finishes first seems to me, the winner. So far, Intel. Big time.

Personally, I prefer Intel processors due to their superior floating point performance. We have a P-III 800 that smokes a 1Ghz Athlon routinely. Same amount of RAM (512MB), Mastercam configured same, same size and brand HD, both Win 98, etc. We have benchmarked and the Intel wins by 15-40% every time. As to graphics cards, I perfer 3dLabs stuff. Since we run SolidWorks, Mastercam, Surfcam and all the MS Office stuff, they have been the most stable. We are running VX1 and GVX1 all with 32MB.

PDG, Thanks, that seems to have remedied the prob.

Last week we updated our two seats from v6 to v8.1. All is well until we start to run verify. As soon as the verify screen opens we get a warning as follows: Failure: in stock definition. I am not new to Mastercam nor v8. I have used Mastercam daily since 1990, v3 through v8 at other places I have worked as well as my own contract business. All the params are setup fine and this is only happening on one PC. Dell XPS T500, 256MB Diamond Viper V770D Ultra 32MB, latest drivers, haves slowed hardware acceleration one notch at a time with no improvement. Once the warning box is closed, Mastercam is aborted.