topic Re: Video card setting recommendations in Installation & update

Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2015 20:26:40 GMT

I have the following system running ArchiCAD 18, and wanted to know what video card setting would give me the most out of this system. Thanks.

Operating System – Windows 7 Professional Service Pack 1
Processor - Intel® Core™ i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40 GHz
System Type – 64-bit Operating System
Installed memory (RAM) – 32.0 GB
Video Card - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 11:46:07 GMT

Are we talking about settings within ArchiCAD or the graphics card driver?
What are the available settings options and their possible values?

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 20:40:10 GMT

I was thinking of both. I have a hectic schedule today, but I will try to put together the available settings tonight and send you the information tomorrow. Thank you for the response.

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:44:41 GMT

I apologize for the delayed response, I got tied up yesterday and could not send this information. I have taken screen shots of the NVidia settings dialogue boxes in an attempt to show you what options are available. I left out the section on the display and stereoscopic 3D settings, as I did not think those applied, let me know if I should also send those.

p.s. I had trouble attaching multiple image files, so I will add each screen shot as a separate comment.

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:45:29 GMT

Adjust video color settings

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:45:57 GMT

Adjust video image settings

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:46:33 GMT

Configure Surround PhysiX

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:47:07 GMT

Manage 3D settings Part 1

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 18:47:33 GMT

Manage 3D settings Part 2

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 22:07:42 GMT

To tell you the truth, I have never modified any of the default settings in the NVidia Settings Dialog. I always figured they are probably fine the way they are.

If you go to the 3D Window Settings Dialog, select OpenGL for the 3D Engine and click the Options button, the appearing Dialog is the place where you can control how the 3D Window is displayed in OpenGL. This is the only place I would go to change these settings.
Another place where you can set some graphics card-related settings is the Advanced Redraw Options page of the Work Environment Dialog. I usually don't change any of those default settings either, but enabling 2D Drawing antialiasing is a good idea because if will draw curves very nicely in Viewpoints.

You can check the description of all these option in the help files to understand what each of them does.

Re: Video card setting recommendations

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 05:07:12 GMT

without antialiasing it's easy to see lines slightly under an angle
antialiasing evens this graphically out which i don't like

Re: Video card setting recommendations

SenecaDesignLLC — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 15:16:04 GMT

I create a new 3d profile specifically for archicad and bimx and turn it all to the max!