success with rivatuner! 2

[Mitsu50]

after a few trys i managed to upgrade my fx5200 to a quadro fx500. it runs real nice now!

the performance in Solidworks is much better i think, also Realview is now enabled, and looks super!)

i anded up using Nvidia drivers 44.03, since soldworks website had them listed. Thanks to Unwinder for a great program.

now i have Quadro performace from a $99.99 vid card!

i followed this tutorial in case anyone else in interested:

http://www.digitalwizardry.ca/archive/sw/nvidia/softquadro_howto.txt

 

[dblurred]

I applied this and WOW!! It works great! I just happen to have a GEforce2 card and was going to buy a high end card. Thanks!

 

[TreeHuggingAsperger]

I'm gald it worked out in the end for you. I too found that finding that elusive plain & clear tutorial on how-to-use-SoftQuadro-for-dummies was the hard bit .

"Gimme dat stickwelder, will yer lad. No need to get all fancy wid'those modern drills." Apprenticeship Lesson 61

 

[lylek]

Is this likely to work for a GeForce FX5600SE card on a PC running XP?

 

[TreeHuggingAsperger]

lylek, check the link Mitsu50 posted above and the links in this thread

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=87117&SPID=559&newpid=559&page=1

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In short, yes if you use Pre-45.xx Detonator drivers and yes it is worth it if you are running any 3D CAD program. It is a bit scary the first time because it does require a fair bit of computer wizzardry, hence the need to find some plain & simple walkthrough for the conversion .

Be the Force with you...

"Gimme dat stickwelder, will yer lad. No need to get all fancy wid'those modern drills." Apprenticeship Lesson 61

 

[TreeHuggingAsperger]

Darn...the link to the other thread doesn't show up properly...Dooh...why oh why, it has worked before ?

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?SQID=87117&SPID=559&newpid=559&page=1

Well, looks like you'll have to copy'n paste this one .

"Gimme dat stickwelder, will yer lad. No need to get all fancy wid'those modern drills." Apprenticeship Lesson 61

 

[alexit]

Anyone try this with a GeForce4 4200 GO? I have a laptop that I'd love to boost a little bit...

Alex

 

[Mitsu50]

i am going to do my fathers t14200 soon. I've read posts on other forums that said it works great so i'll post back after i give it a shot.

 

[smcadman]

I have a Dell home pc with a gforce 2 card and installed the "Forceware" drivers and "Rivatuner". It took about 25 minutes to understand how to use this hack, but Solidworks believes I have a "Quadro FX 500" and I now have Realview!

Download both Forceware and Rivatuner from:

http://www.guru3d.com/

Get "GLInfo" to see what your render engine is:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download3640.html

Flores

 

[112275]

I tried this on my ti4200 and it seemed to work. everything but real view worked. maybey i did something wrong. anyone know why this is?

 

[smcadman]

I can't comment on the ti4200 because I am unfamiliar with it, but this site helped a little on how to hack my Geforce :

http://www.digitalwizardry.ca/archive/sw/nvidia/softquadro_howto.txt

Flores

 

[bmh2208]

I just got this working with my FX5200. I have realview enabled and working. However, the only time that I get the realview display is when I am looking at a single part. In assembly mode, the display is not renderedusing realview. I have checked the setting for large assemblies and it is checked to allow realview. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[pdybeck]

bmh2208,

What detonator driver version did you download?

 

[bmh2208]

45.28 was the driver used. Realview does work if I am working with only one part. If I am in an assembly, that same part does not render using realview unless I open the part, assign the material, save it, and then replace the same part in the assembly with the newly saved one.

 

[pdybeck]

I applied the hack with my GeForce FX 5200 and now it appears as a qaudro FX 500 under the device manager. I still can't seem to get realview to function in SolidWorks. Does anyone have any suggestions? I checked and made sure realview is installed for SolidWorks and that I have the Shaders and shaders_soft folders in my install directory for SolidWorks. I applied a material to several different parts and still the icon for real view is greyed out. Any idea why real view would not be functioning?

 

[Mitsu50]

@bmh2208, look in the tools, option, large assembly mode. There is an option to turn on real view for assembly.

@pdybeck, check to see if use open gl software is checked in the options menu. I had to uncheck mine for realview to work.

 

[pdybeck]

Mitsu50,

OpenGL is unchecked and has been. My device manager sees my card as a qaudro FX 500. When I open a part in SolidWorks the RealView icon is not greyed out for a quick second, and then becomes greyed out as soon as the file is loaded. I have the shader folders under my install directory. I am using detonator driver version 44.03. What else is there? Any help would be appreciated.

Pete Yodis

 

[pdybeck]

I searched my whole hard drive for the program shaders.exe and did not find it. Can anyone with RealView operating verify that they have this program installed? I'm wondering if I need to do a re-install of SolidWorks in order for this to install. Where could I get this shaders.exe program?

 

[SBaugh]

53.03 - See the SW website for proper drivers if that's the card your using. If you are using a true Quadro 500 FX, you should be using the Nvidia drivers not those.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

If you are in the SW Forum Check out the FAQ section

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[pdybeck]

I am using a Geforce FX 5200 hacked into the Quadro FX 500 using the patched driver 44.03. I don't believe the patch will work with the 53.03 drivers.