Thanks to a long time customer, I now know about the AutoCAD command for tuning up your 3D performance. It is 3DCONFIG.
This brings up the 'Advanced Degradation and Performance Tuning' tool (sounds futuristic, eh?). From here you can tweak this or that to speed up 3D, but some of the highlights are as follows:
1. Check for Updates: This will check for updates to your display driver
2. View Tune Log: This will tell you if your card is certified by Autodesk. It will also list which features are available or not available for your card and will tell you what driver version you are currently using.
3. Manual Tune: This feature lets you turn on features that are not turned on by default for your particular situation, such as Hardware Acceleration. This is one I am going to turn on myself, to see what happens. If I don't ever post again, my machine crashed an I lost access to this blog and you will never hear from me again.
Autodesk has published a white paper on this topic, and it includes a number of handy tips. View it HERE.
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