Does Solidworks need high end video card like Inventor?

We have Inventor 9 here at work. Problem is we don't have any PCs
with a proper video card for I9 to run properly. It keeps kicking us
out of the program

Im curious if Sp is not so picky abt video cards and beter in that
sense?

 

There is a list of approved graphics cards and drivers on the SW website.

 

I have run SW without error on several motherboards with integral graphics
(who knows what chipset) and old sidelined PC boxes with miserable video
board specs.
Performance will be glacial, but it seems SW will accept any video system I
have thrown at it.

 

I teach both Inventor and SolidWorks with 5 labs of 25 seats. We do
not have certified graphics boards in our computers. We have a lab of
brand new computers that run Inventor no problem but have to change
SolidWorks to run with Open GL driver or dimensions disappear in
sketch mode.
On our older machines we set driver to Open GL for both Inventor and
SolidWorks and do not have any great problems.

J.D.

 

I teach both Inventor and SolidWorks with 5 labs of 25 seats. We do

Interesting! Thanks for that info

Well I have Dell Precision 350 with 1 gig ram and Win
XP Pro

But my video card is an ATI Radeon 7000

 

We had trouble with the Radeon cards we had. Those machines repeatably had
more crashes, dims not showing, etc. than the others.

WT

 

We had trouble with the Radeon cards we had. Those machines repeatably had

Yeah Im definitely suspecting this ATI video card

 

I hope this is just curiosity, because you can buy a hell of a graphics card
for the cost of switching to SW!

Cheap graphics cards are a classic case of "penny-wise, pound-foolish". It
had better be a damn fine job to put up with a manager stupid enough to not
buy you better cards.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"