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Realview in SW 2004

Question asked by Peter Gillespie on Dec 13, 2006
Latest reply on Jul 10, 2007 by Peter Gillespie

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I am running a new C2D 6600 with a NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 card and Solidworks 2004 SP2.1, and am unable to turn on Realview graphics. I am using the 84.26 drivers, which are the latest supported ones for 2005 (the SW website doesn't list the supported 2004 drivers).

Things I have tried:
Tools>Option>Performance>Use Software OpenGL is unchecked (always)
Shaders folder is present with presumably all files
Successfully turned on RealView in 2006 installed on the same machine.
Tried Part / Assemblies with textures / materials / colors applied
Edited material >Visual Properties - RealView is greyed out.
Double checked the install to make sure RealView was selected.
Did a repair on the installation.

Any other ideas?

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Dan Bertschi Dec 14, 2006 8:53 PM

Hello Peter, my friend!

Please go here:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/par...ertified_drivers.html

scroll down to SolidWorks and click the 'Certified Drivers' link
We're running nVidia Quadro FX 1400 128MB and using driver 71.84
I just checked and Real View worked, but I had to 'Edit Material' in SW to trigger it, if that makes sense.
We're running SW2006 SP 4.1
Since you're running older SW, you may need an older driver.
And try editing the material to force a change, after you turn on Real View.
Good Luck!!

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Peter Gillespie @ Dan Bertschi on Dec 15, 2006 12:27 PM

Dan, thanks for the reply.

I tried playing with editing the material more, but with no luck. If I create a new material, I can setup the realview and photoworks settings, but as soon as I try to apply a material, the realview selection is greyed out, both on the toolbar and in the material selector. I'll have to see if IT will roll me back to the oldest driver that is certified.

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Peter Gillespie @ Peter Gillespie on Jul 10, 2007 5:10 PM

I figure I might follow up on this thread. SW 2004 never got realview to work on my Quadro FX 550, but after upgrading to SW 2006 it works fine. We tried all sorts of drivers and whatnot, but I think the issue is that SW2004 didn't know the 550 could run realview. Just my best guess.

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Dan Bertschi Dec 14, 2006 8:53 PM
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Hello Peter, my friend!

Please go here:
http://www.nvidia.com/page/par...ertified_drivers.html

scroll down to SolidWorks and click the 'Certified Drivers' link
We're running nVidia Quadro FX 1400 128MB and using driver 71.84
I just checked and Real View worked, but I had to 'Edit Material' in SW to trigger it, if that makes sense.
We're running SW2006 SP 4.1
Since you're running older SW, you may need an older driver.
And try editing the material to force a change, after you turn on Real View.
Good Luck!!
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- Peter Gillespie @ Dan Bertschi on Dec 15, 2006 12:27 PM
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  Dan, thanks for the reply.
  
  I tried playing with editing the material more, but with no luck. If I create a new material, I can setup the realview and photoworks settings, but as soon as I try to apply a material, the realview selection is greyed out, both on the toolbar and in the material selector. I'll have to see if IT will roll me back to the oldest driver that is certified.
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  - Peter Gillespie @ Peter Gillespie on Jul 10, 2007 5:10 PM
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    I figure I might follow up on this thread. SW 2004 never got realview to work on my Quadro FX 550, but after upgrading to SW 2006 it works fine. We tried all sorts of drivers and whatnot, but I think the issue is that SW2004 didn't know the 550 could run realview. Just my best guess.
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