Graphic Violence

We hear from a number of customers who have trouble with one of three related things in AutoCAD 2006:

1. A regen causes machine to lock up
2. Switching between layout tabs causes machine to lock up
3. Previewing a plot causes machine to lock up

While these three things are not limited to the 2006 version of AutoCAD, they do seem more prevalent on that release. Inevitably these problems all point to the graphics card. Either there is not enough memory on it or more likely the card is not compatible with AutoCAD 2006 or later.

An easy way to verify if your card is okay with AutoCAD is to visit their Graphics Hardware List and look up your card to see if it is fully approved. If it is not approved then I recommend that you get a new graphics card. Which one? any one that is Autodesk Certified will do you well. The graphics card we are using on our newer machines is the NVIDIA Quadro FX 1400 and yes, it does work well.

Comments

[LarryH]

We use the NVIDIA Quadro FX 540 and had problems until I disabled the nView Desktop Manager Features that came with the graphics card. This actually gave problems with many programs, all is well now.

[Arthur Dove]

Thanks, Larry