CAd-specific GPU for light CAD use, or higher spec consumer card?

[mattie]

I'm using AutoCAD 2016 (have a version for Windows and for my Macbook, otherwise would be Solidworks) - I'll try for a specific driver from the CAD vendor side.

I've noticed that device manger tells me my monitor is generic PnP, whereas when I use the Dell installer it tells me I have drivers for the correct monitor but I cannot find any way of changing/getting W10 to recognise the specific monitor. Seeing as the problem is to do with the resolution modes messing up I'll try to get the monitor recognised. Can't recall if this was the case before the problems started, but I've never had any problems with on-board VGA in W10.

It's a pretty irritating problem, but only once in a blue moon - suspect it might be related to W10 updates, will disable auto updates so I can stage-manage it. Assuming W10 lets me do that, of course!

Cheers all, will keep you updated.

eta: Had a quick peek on the Autodesk website, appears they only support/assure cards from Nvidia. I'll have a quick ask on the AMD website as suggested by humbug, maybe it's a known issue.

 

[meldarthx]

ah find the drivers for the monitor and install it; windows is getting confused with the monitor and what it can run once in awhile.

finding the drivers for the monitor will fix that

 

[mattie]

This is driving me (no pun intended) spare - I can't get W10 to allow me to update driver or recognise the monitor is anything other than PnP. I've tried uninstalling, running Dell driver executable, loading Dell driver manually through device manager, shouting at it and banging the desk. Nothing seems to work.

W10 is really a bit of a pain.

 

[mattie]

Just noted that W10 is calling it a non-PnP monitor, I was reading it as PnP. Might not be good.

I'm starting to really dislike W10. It doesn't let me do anything I want, and makes what should be trivial actions difficult.

 

[muziqaz]

Ok, guys, just received my workstation.
HP Z420. I cannot log in yet, but little peak inside revealed nvidia quadro K2000, and SSD and some sort of xeon processor and 4 dimms of DDR3 RAM.

PC was used before by someone, since it is scratched all over the place. But it came with brand new HP ProDisplay P242va for a change, which is quite enjoyable to the eye

 

[LS_Chao]

I use Solidworks so I am stuck with pro GPUs, but I think that autocad 2015 onwards have support for direct X now. And since for CAD all the compute is done by the cpu anyway, shouldn't a gaming card work?

 

[muziqaz]

I use Solidworks so I am stuck with pro GPUs, but I think that autocad 2015 onwards have support for direct X now. And since for CAD all the compute is done by the cpu anyway, shouldn't a gaming card work?

I know, but corporate IT is tied up to contracts I suppose, money laundering at its best

I tried cad 2013 on intel integrated (haswell), while it wasn't perfect it was smooth enough. I also tried some super low end radeon with dual core haswell, and cad was very smooth as well. But hey if they are overkilling themselves with xeon E5-1620 Xeon (8 threads), 16Gb of RAM and quadro k2000, I don't mind
Though inclusion of SCSI 120GB drive is mystery to me. Only 32GB free :/

 

[meldarthx]

I use Solidworks so I am stuck with pro GPUs, but I think that autocad 2015 onwards have support for direct X now. And since for CAD all the compute is done by the cpu anyway, shouldn't a gaming card work?

I'd have to look up Cad; but cad also has hooks for opencl - again gaming card on AMD side would work to a point; but you'll be missing those hooks and plugins you can get for the pro-cards.

As I said if you're going to be going into cad; use a pro card - you don't need to sink a lot of money in the first one; but you will notice the difference.

 

[Kurgen]

ive always wondered if there is any real advantage of using a quadro for 2D autocad, I'm using onbaord Intel on my work laptop on 2x 1080p screens and it works fine.