Another Radeon Question

[RandallP]

Im new here and am looking for advise. I may be able to answer my question sifting through a bunch of previous topics, but I'd rather be more specific. I just purchased an HP ZD8000 laptop with the ATI Radeon X800 video card. Im running V9.1 MR0304 level 3. So far I dont like the video performance. I have turned the accelerator all the way down and everywhere in between with no good results. Can somebody give me an idea of what to do.

[Bullines]

Welcome to the forum

 

This has been covered a few days ago and many times before.

[RandallP]

Thanks Bullines. Is it possible to swap out the video card for an Invidia? Keep in mind this is a laptop.

[Bullines]

With a desktop...yes.

 

With a laptop...no

[RandallP]

Mastercam X does not have this problem from what I have read. Is this correct? If so, I guess I wont stress about it.

[Bullines]

As far as I know, X and ATI cards will get along.

[Mike@Dive Lab Inc.]

Hi Randall, I have a zd 7000 I purchased a few months ago. It has a NVIDA 5700 and it runs perfect with Mcam. I also have Autocad 06 and INventor. I havent had a lick of trouble until I loaded my Inventor 10. Inventor 9 ran great, but 10 will not run at all. This is what the tech told me, one of the issues is H.P. has some of thier own mods to the graphics card and the latest updates from NVIDA won't download to the laptop. Not sure about ATI, When the tech from my dealer contacts me with a solution I'll let you know what he says.

[RandallP]

Thanks for the help guys.

[TheePres]

What other options besides Nvidia work good on laptops, using MasterCam?

 

Would an intergrated Intel 855 or 915 give me problems?

[Leandro]

Randall:

Did you already download te latest ATI driver ?

Before I change to NVIDIA I had to run my ATI card with lower resolution.

This is not the best but in my case works.

[Bullines]

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What other options besides Nvidia work good on laptops, using MasterCam?

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Up to this point, nVIDIA is by far your safest bet.

 

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Would an intergrated Intel 855 or 915 give me problems?

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Intel's graphics chipsets are very entry-level and I don't recommend them for applications like CAD/CAM.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Man, ATI is the dead horse that won't decay. Ya know, you'd think that people in our industry would know by now ATI is the plague and should be avoided at ALL costs. ATI has been a problem since like V7... I'm thinking that's like WAY too long to be revisiting this issue every week. That's JMO.

[EZ3PUTT]

Hey Randallp where you working at ? I lived in Oxnard for about 30 years and worked in Camarillo

a few of those years before moving here to Colorado. Got lots of friends in the area in the machining field. We may have some mutual acquaintances.

[Bullines]

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Ya know, you'd think that people in our industry would know by now ATI is the plague and should be avoided at ALL costs

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I wouldn't put all of the blame on ATI. I'm not sayin', I'm just sayin'

[Jeremy Haage from MCAM NorthWest]

Try this out for your ATI cards in version 9.

 

www.mcamnw.com/filetransf/dloads/gl.zip

 

Download the file and unzip to your mcam9 folder. After you do this start up Mastercam and try toggling the "enable openGL® drawing" setting within Screen > Configure > Screen tab. It may work better on or off depending on your hardware, but these openGL files should help regardless.

[mayday]

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ATI has been a problem since like V7...

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like ATI is only interested in Mastercam? come on I think they are kik arse cards for a lot of software apps cept for (what bullines said)

[Bullines]

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come on I think they are kik arse cards for a lot of software apps cept for (what bullines said)

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ATI is the current the industry leader. They caught nVIDIA resting on their laurels a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. nVIDIA is the one playing catch-up now.

[mcpgmr]

Opengl32.dll fixed all my ATI troubles at my previous job. It can be found on the ftp as gl.zip. I don't remember what folder it's in but it was in there somewhere.

[BernieT]

Hi Randy !!!!

 

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

Actually ATI is a good portion of the problem. Their OpenGL implementation is the source of the problem, not all of the problem, but a good portion of it.

 

Just sayin'...

[Bullines]

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Actually ATI is a good portion of the problem. Their OpenGL implementation is the source of the problem, not all of the problem, but a good portion of it.

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Are you sure you're sure?

[Bullines]

Hey, Randalp, do you happen to have Hyper Threading enabled? Have you tried disabling it?

[MIL-TFP-41]

There was a time when I would put the blame on ATI, but no longer. ATI's products are now well proven in the cad industry, Solidworks works great on a ATI card, along with many other packages.

 

What Mastercam could/should do is start certifing hardware (much like Solidworks does) in order for users to get max. performance. The most you can find for Mastercam is some very dated (sept 2k3) "recommened hardware" lists.

 

Side note...I have found that mastercam can be very picky bout the video driver that you use, nVidia or not.

[mayday]

+10 JMC

lets get rollen

is Nvidia kept alive buy MC users alone ?