ATI 3100 GL Video

I recently upgraded my workstation from a 1.8Ghz with 768megs of Ram
and an integrated video card (Dell Nvidia), to a 3.0 Mhz comp with 1Gig
of ram and an ATI 3100 GL 128 card. SW seems to be running worse than
it did before. It is choppy when I rotate a part, (even a small part
not an assembly). I read that I should disable the hyperthreading,
which i have done. Is there anything else I should do to speed this
up? All of the options settings are low. I should be able to work
faster with this machine.

 

Sounds like a video driver problem to me. Try a different one. Even
more so than with Micro$oft's Windows "updates", the latest is not
necessarily the greatest.

'Sporky'

 

Reilly,

Sounds like your running in software OpenGL mode. Launch SW, and with no
documents open, go to "tools-options-performance". Down at the very bottom
there's a check box "use software OpenGL". If it's checked, uncheck it. If
it's greyed out, you have an incompatible, bad, or improperly configured
driver. This may also mean the card is bad.

Regards

Mark

 

Due to a "shy" budgetting of our IT guy, we are about to buy a station
fitted with an ATI 3100 GL 128 card.
Anyone else having trouble with it?
TIA
JM