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Jakob Svarrer
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Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject:
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Hello everyone
I don't know a lot about CAD and 3D, so I hope you will be able to help me.
One of my users are running ADT 2005 and Autocad 2004 on a HP NC8000 laptop
with 512 MB of RAM . This laptop contains a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series
graphic adapter with 64 MB RAM.
When my user enables 3D Hardware accelleration i ADT, the performance is
slower than if he's not enabling hardware accelleration. The system is using
the latest videodriver available from HP. Don you need to do anything apart
from installing the videodriver and enabling Hardware accelleration to make
it work, or is the ATI adapter just not capable of perfoming well?
yours sincerely
Jakob Svarrer
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Jerry G
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Wed Sep 28, 2005 8:10 pm Post subject:
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To the best of my knowledge Autocad does not use hardware acceleration.
The 9600 has pretty good hardware acceleration, and if Autocad were
ritten to use it, would be a suitable product, but if Autocad does't use
the hardware acceleration, I don't see the point of a sophisticated
videocard on the machine unless you are also using it for gaming.
Jakob Svarrer wrote:
| Quote: | Hello everyone
I don't know a lot about CAD and 3D, so I hope you will be able to help me.
One of my users are running ADT 2005 and Autocad 2004 on a HP NC8000 laptop
with 512 MB of RAM . This laptop contains a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 Series
graphic adapter with 64 MB RAM.
When my user enables 3D Hardware accelleration i ADT, the performance is
slower than if he's not enabling hardware accelleration. The system is using
the latest videodriver available from HP. Don you need to do anything apart
from installing the videodriver and enabling Hardware accelleration to make
it work, or is the ATI adapter just not capable of perfoming well?
yours sincerely
Jakob Svarrer
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Marc Clamage
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Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:
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Sounds like you need more RAM. According to the specs, the minimum for 2004
is 512 megs; 2005 and 2006 require a gig. The programs will still run with
less, just slow as molasses. The more RAM the merrier--you will really see a
difference. Don't bother getting more than 2 gigs, though. As currently
configured, Windows doesn't recognize anything over 2 gigs.
Marc
"Jakob Svarrer" <notforthisone@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hello everyone
I don't know a lot about CAD and 3D, so I hope you will be able to help
me.
One of my users are running ADT 2005 and Autocad 2004 on a HP NC8000
laptop with 512 MB of RAM . This laptop contains a ATI Mobility Radeon
9600 Series graphic adapter with 64 MB RAM.
When my user enables 3D Hardware accelleration i ADT, the performance is
slower than if he's not enabling hardware accelleration. The system is
using the latest videodriver available from HP. Don you need to do
anything apart from installing the videodriver and enabling Hardware
accelleration to make it work, or is the ATI adapter just not capable of
perfoming well?
yours sincerely
Jakob Svarrer
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Jakob Svarrer
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Fri Sep 30, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:
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"Marc Clamage" <emasary@comcast.net> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Sounds like you need more RAM. According to the specs, the minimum for
2004 is 512 megs; 2005 and 2006 require a gig. The programs will still run
with less, just slow as molasses. The more RAM the merrier--you will
really see a difference. Don't bother getting more than 2 gigs, though. As
currently configured, Windows doesn't recognize anything over 2 gigs.
Marc
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Hello Marc
So the use of Hardware Accelleration raises the need for more RAM? I was
begun to think, that it could be an issue of the ATI Radeon Mobility card
not being fully OpenGL compliant. The laptop is running quite acceptable
when Hardware accelleration is not enabled.
Best regards
Jakob |
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Marc Clamage
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Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:10 pm Post subject:
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No, the actual program requires more RAM. Read the "Minimum System
Requirements" in the manual or on the outside of the box your ACAD came in.
It's spelled out pretty clearly. It may be that your laptop has enough brute
force to calculate its way through a CAD session despite theoretically not
having enough RAM. It will definitely run better (you may be pleasantly
surprised) with more.
Not sure about your hardware acceleration question though. ATI is a very
reputable graphics card.
Marc
"Jakob Svarrer" <notforthisone@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Marc Clamage" <emasary@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:9vidnXpfSKdAXqHenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
Sounds like you need more RAM. According to the specs, the minimum for
2004 is 512 megs; 2005 and 2006 require a gig. The programs will still
run with less, just slow as molasses. The more RAM the merrier--you will
really see a difference. Don't bother getting more than 2 gigs, though.
As currently configured, Windows doesn't recognize anything over 2 gigs.
Marc
Hello Marc
So the use of Hardware Accelleration raises the need for more RAM? I was
begun to think, that it could be an issue of the ATI Radeon Mobility card
not being fully OpenGL compliant. The laptop is running quite acceptable
when Hardware accelleration is not enabled.
Best regards
Jakob
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Saab Guy
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 5:17 am Post subject:
Re: Question about Hardware Accelleration (ADT 2006 needs 1G |
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Jakob,
Autocad ADT 2006 requires 1GB of RAM?? Why????????
We just upgraded our desktop from 256 to 1GB thinking we'd be in the clear for a transition to 2006!
SG
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"Jakob Svarrer" <notforthisone@hotmail.com> wrote:
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"Marc Clamage" <emasary@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:9vidnXpfSKdAXqHenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
Sounds like you need more RAM. According to the specs, the minimum for
2004 is 512 megs; 2005 and 2006 require a gig. The programs will still run
with less, just slow as molasses. The more RAM the merrier--you will
really see a difference. Don't bother getting more than 2 gigs, though. As
currently configured, Windows doesn't recognize anything over 2 gigs.
Marc
Hello Marc
So the use of Hardware Accelleration raises the need for more RAM? I was
begun to think, that it could be an issue of the ATI Radeon Mobility card
not being fully OpenGL compliant. The laptop is running quite acceptable
when Hardware accelleration is not enabled.
Best regards
Jakob
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uNkulunkulu
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Mon Oct 03, 2005 8:10 am Post subject:
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Well I run both with 512MB and they work well enough
"Saab Guy" <nothing@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Jakob,
Autocad ADT 2006 requires 1GB of RAM?? Why????????
We just upgraded our desktop from 256 to 1GB thinking we'd be in the clear
for a transition to 2006!
SG
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:55:56 +0200
"Jakob Svarrer" <notforthisone@hotmail.com> wrote:
"Marc Clamage" <emasary@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:9vidnXpfSKdAXqHenZ2dnUVZ_s-dnZ2d@comcast.com...
Sounds like you need more RAM. According to the specs, the minimum for
2004 is 512 megs; 2005 and 2006 require a gig. The programs will still
run
with less, just slow as molasses. The more RAM the merrier--you will
really see a difference. Don't bother getting more than 2 gigs, though.
As
currently configured, Windows doesn't recognize anything over 2 gigs.
Marc
Hello Marc
So the use of Hardware Accelleration raises the need for more RAM? I was
begun to think, that it could be an issue of the ATI Radeon Mobility card
not being fully OpenGL compliant. The laptop is running quite acceptable
when Hardware accelleration is not enabled.
Best regards
Jakob
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