Solidworks & Radeon video cards

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by Robert R, Dec 14, 2003.

  1. Robert R

    Robert R Guest

    Does any body have any experiences, good or bad with Radeon gameing cards
    such as the 9600 & 9800 pro.
    I can get either of these cards fairly cheaply for a new computer i
    am building and want a card that will do most things well enough.I dont
    really want a specialist cad card.
    The Solidworks site gives these cards a "red mark" useing winxp but doesnt
    really say
    if they are seriously bad for SW,or have just minor annoyance issues.
    Thanks in advance.
     
    Robert R, Dec 14, 2003
    #1
  2. Red means serious problems, don't use these cards.

    Richard
     
    Richard Doyle, Dec 14, 2003
    #2
  3. Hi,

    I had a Radeon 9800 Pro 128meg, and had nothing but problems
    in Solidworks, for all other multimedia and games that card was
    exceptional, but when using "real" OpenGL application nothing
    would work right, I got myself a Leadtek GeForce FX5900 256mb
    all was pretty good when I installed it, but now with RivaTuner I have
    a Quadro FX3000.. and this rocks..

    Regards,

    Louis.
     
    Louis Raymond, Dec 14, 2003
    #3
  4. Robert R

    Dave Guest

    Robert,

    For a few years I've been reading all these wonderful reviews about these
    ATI (Radeon's and Fire) cards versus Nvidia and others. The normal
    experience that myself and a number of my friends that use SolidWorks is
    that these cards just don't work well with SolidWorks. Slow performance, to
    many minor annoyances, and so on. To me it seems like the drivers are never
    quite right. I would suggest that these cards be used for graphics apps,
    multimedia and games. Nvidia Quadro 4' XGL series and Quadro FX's seem to
    be the way to go. I personally think the Quadro FX500, FX1000, and FX2000
    are as good as it gets for SolidWorks. In addition now they have recently
    added the FX1100 and the FX3000 to the FX line.

    Adding one of the above Nvidia cards to a motherboard that has an AMD
    processor (Athlon or 64) and the Nvidia nforce motherboard chipset is I
    think a very good overall system.
     
    Dave, Dec 15, 2003
    #4
  5. i have a duel monitor system at work. a 3dlabs card apg and a radeon
    pci. my radeon will not work with solidwork. not even if i set it as
    my main graphics card.
     
    Sean Phillips, Dec 15, 2003
    #5
  6. Robert R

    Robert R Guest

    Thanks for the input guys looks like i will be going with Invidia.


    Robert
     
    Robert R, Dec 15, 2003
    #6
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