Geforce Fx and CATIA

[kartsel]

Has anyone tried Geforce Fx5200 for CATIA?
Which commercial gaming card will you suggest if you are going to buy it. The reason for gaming card is $$$$

 

[Azrael]

I have tried with GF2, GF3 and GF4 but not GF FX. They all run without problem until your model get´s heavy or you build assemblies.

I would strongly recommend the ATI Fire GL 8800 that´s very fine card for reasonably money

 

[Azrael]

If you are going for a gaming card I would suggest GF4-4800 or Ati Radeon 9700 (haven´t tried the Radeon but I hear that the openGL support is alright)

 

[K6III]

I strongly suggest the Matrox Parhelia, which is certified for CATIA and has both the best 2D and multimonitor support.

 

[friedrich]

Azrael, it seems to me you have quite some experience about using gaming cards for CAD purposes.

I plan to buy very soon a GF4-TI4800 (150euros here in Paris) and use it with CatiaV5R10. Did it work fine for you? Did you use the Softquadro tuning, and if so, was it difficult?

I guess using a gaming card for CAD takes some time to tweak it, so I you have a few tips, I would save me from reinventing the wheel!

Thanks in advance!

 

[engineer222]

My home computer running Windows XP Professional which uses a GeForce4 Ti4200 AGP 8X with the standard nVidia Detonator 44.03 drivers runs V5R11 with no problems.
I have not created very complex models with V5R11 yet so I cannot comment on performance with complex models.

 

[MagnusA]

I use SoftQuadro4 with my GF4 ti4200 card and I notice a huge improvement over the non-modified drivers. SoftQuadro4 is one thing I can recommend you who don´t use it.