Now we do not recommend that you start 'hacking' your graphics driver or firmware on the board, because as far as our 'support' of your configuration, that's not going to help at all ;-)
Now that does not mean that we have not tried to at least provide, whenever possible, some minimal level of graphics supports for whatever display card that you're using, but to find out exactly what that level of support by NX is, there are a couple of things that you can do. First launch a session of NX and under Help select the 'NX Log File' option. Once you have the logfile displayed in the listing window, do a search for the word 'adaptor'. When you find it, note what's reported in the next several items. The first one to look at is 'Graphics device'. If it's reported as '
GDI Generic', then you know that you're probably not getting acceleration from the graphics card at all and it's in what's called, as it states, a 'generic' mode of operation. Or you might find something a little more descriptive like:
This is an unaccelerated graphics configuration. Unigraphics performs better on accelerated configurations. Perhaps the graphics device is unsupported or perhaps an incorrect device driver is installed.
Now if you see either of these notes, there's not a whole lot that you can do to help you if you're running on an uncertified graphics board or using a non-certified driver, but you should, at a minimum, run the 'Evaluate Graphics Performance' utility found on the Preferences -> Visualization Performance... dialog. This will run a series of tests on your graphics configuration and will give you a report of what it finds and some recommendations that you can do inside of NX to perhaps improve your performance.
I hope that this helps, but you're still better off getting an approved graphics divice and driver because at least in that situation, we might be able to provide more real support through the GTAC organization.
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
UGS NX Product Line
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UGS PLM Software
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