8 Replies Latest reply on Jul 19, 2017 1:12 PM by John Bryjak

How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?

John Bryjak Jul 17, 2017 1:13 PM

I am trying to figure out if I have a slow graphics card or slow computer.

Are there any graphics tests I can perform that will point in one direction or another?

Re: How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?

John Pesaturo Jul 17, 2017 1:20 PM (in response to John Bryjak)

John, you could start here ...

Followed up by the SW Rx ...
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Re: How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?

Jeff Wygum Jul 17, 2017 2:49 PM (in response to John Bryjak)

SolidWorks has a performance benchmark test.
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Re: How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?

Alin Vargatu Jul 17, 2017 2:51 PM (in response to John Bryjak)

John Bryjak wrote:

I am trying to figure out if I have a slow graphics card or slow computer.
Are there any graphics tests I can perform that will point in one direction or another?
What are the symptoms you experience?
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- Re: How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?
  
  John Bryjak Jul 17, 2017 4:32 PM (in response to Alin Vargatu)
  
  My symptoms:
  
  1)After I rotate a component in the assembly, it takes a minute for my cursor to come back after it stops "thinking"
  
  2)Sometimes when I drag a new part into the assembly, it will not allow me to select if for a couple of minutes.
  (even though I can see it on the screen)
  
  Thanks
  
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    Jeff Holliday Jul 17, 2017 4:42 PM (in response to John Bryjak)
    
    Are you aware of the recent slowdowns being caused by a Win10 update which allows/causes hardware drivers to be updated automatically? On my Dell Precision laptop this did cause a problem. You can find info from the MicroSoft site to stop the automatic updates. Run SW Rx diagnostics to see if the graphics card driver is supported.
    
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Re: How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?

Jaja Jojo Jul 17, 2017 8:33 PM (in response to John Bryjak)

if your using NVIDIA GPU try checking the driver version avoid the 376.XX driver version its the buggy one you can use the 375.xx but id rather recommend nvidia driver higher than 376.xx because windows 10 will automatically update 375.xx to 376.xx
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Re: How can i check if my graphics card is slowing me down or if its something else?

Ian McLean Jul 18, 2017 12:16 AM (in response to John Bryjak)

Use GPU-Z
Check "GPU Load" (frame rate tends to slow as it nears 100%) and "Memory Used" (you don't want to be using more memory than video card has, things get very slow if you do)
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  John Bryjak Jul 19, 2017 1:12 PM (in response to Ian McLean)
  
  Ian
  What does the following day to you"
  
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