3DConfig Setting For Civil 3D

I am in Dallas at Autodesk Tech Camp.  I just spent 10 minutes with the guys from Nvidia video cards at their booth.  My Dell Precision M90 laptop has one of their cards in it so I wanted to know if they knew any tricks for speeding up video performance, etc.

What I learned I have to share . . .

1. At the command line in Civil 3D type 3DCONFIG.
2. Toggle off ADAPTIVE DEGRADATION
3. Select the Manual Tune button
4. Toggle on HARDWARE ACCELERATION
5. Pick OK twice to exit the 3DCONFIG command

Now enjoy the difference.  It made such a big difference on my laptop I had to run up here to room to make this post.  Thank you Willy Ortiz with PNY.  3D Orbit and the Object Viewer are once again a pleasure to use!

Forgive me if this is old news and I'm the last to know - that has happened before.

Comments

[Nick H]

Peter,

What video card are you running in your M90? I am assuming it is one of the Quadro's?
thanks

[JC Davis]

I really value this information and could use a list of the cards that are effected with this setup?

Thank you,

J.C. Lee Davis
David Evans and Associates Inc.
Corporate I.S. Autodesk Support Admin
Civil 3D Project Manager
[email protected]

[kelseyp]

All,

I have a NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500M video card in my Dell M90.

Based on my conversations with PNY (NVIDIA) yesterday I know that this toggle effects all NVIDIA cards.

Pete K.

[refurbished computers]

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[cheap computers]

Often Compaq systems do produce such noises, so don't worry about it it's not a big issue keep it on.