Autodesk inventor 2012 certified graphics cards

Did you find this reply helpful? If so please use the Accept as Solution or Kudos button below. Message 4 of 6. KevinPinks When it crash.. Are you seeing the Autodesk Crash report dialog? Get a copy of that file and place it somewhere before you exit the report. Next private message me and I will let you know what your next step is. Do not attach that file here.. It contains sensitive information to your installation.

Message 5 of 6. Message 6 of 6. Hi Kevin, Is the graphics driver updates? Many thanks! Autodesk Inventor supports OpenGL graphics for version running on legacy systems and environments and may not support all recently added display capabilities available in Inventor.

OpenGL drivers are only supported when using a graphics accelerator card and driver tested and certified by Autodesk. By default Inventor is set to Performance mode. Yes, if your graphics hardware can support some of the 3D display features in Inventor, you can turn on hardware acceleration.

Click on Diagnostics button on the hardware tab. A dialog will pop showing graphics hardware information including driver version. Pretty ridiculuous that I just used their "tool" and it only returned OpenGL cards in the list.

Generation listed as Consider the number of OpenGL cards out there, and the different driver versions, and how long it would take to test them all. Agreed, which is why it's a little disingenuous for Autodesk to offer a tool purporting to represent said "reasonably up-to-date" list.

And, the fact that the list does not include a single DirectX card seems like more than a minor oversight. I suspect the whole concept of an "Autodesk Certified" graphics card has outlived its usefulness - apparently that happened in according to Autodesks list! Completely agree! I have been using a good gaming card in my personal box and it outperforms my office machine with the expensive Quadro card. Hey, I've got vintage gaming cards in my personal machine at home, and they're doing great with Inventor , whether or not I enable Crossfire.

My 's are only MB cards! I moved away from Quadro cards about years ago. Now just a good fast "Gaming" card will do. Notice: updates available for Apache Log4j vulnerabilities. A year later I bought an entry level gaming card and the performance was much better. Inventor moved to DX about 6 years ago and since then workstation graphics cards and certified drivers aren't really needed. Certification was needed for OpenGL as there was no official testing procedure of any drivers so Autodesk needed to do it in-house.

Once they had tested and checked each driver with each software they would then "certify" it as usable or not. Because of all this there's no need for workstation graphics cards as they are tweaked for OpenGL and excel in that environment.

If you're interested in history here's a pdf created back at the time of the transition with explanation from an Inventor programmer:. Too many of us using gaming cards without problems to suggest the ROI of a workstation card is justifiable. Other cad SW still use OpenGL so they really need the more expensive workstation cards, but a workstation vendor shouldn't be ignoring gaming cards for use with Inventor as long as the customer doesn't use any other OpenGL programs - it's a great advantage of Inventor over other cad software which is rarely touted.

You'll have access to the extra memory of the 2nd gpu but I dont think Inventor is programmed to take advantage of the gpu processing power of the 2nd card. If you're getting any graphics problems it might be a possible thing to consider, whether dropping down to 1 gpu works any better Sam M. Inventor and Showcase monkey Please mark this response as "Accept as Solution" if it answers your question I can't believe this Cad card Vs Gaming card discussion has happened again.

Once again Sam-M you have provided a great description. One thing that hasn't been mentioned here is that most high end gaming cards which are still a 3rd or more the cost of a CAD card support various versions of OpenGL anyway.

As a result they are still more than capable when it comes to running some of the open gl based software in the new suites. At the end of the day good luck to the people who want to waste their money on CAD cards for Inventor alone! Please use.

I've tried a number of cards over the last few years, and I've pretty consistently noticed that I get the same performance from a GeForce as I get from a Quadro that costs about twice as much.