"pete" schrieb:
No. When you open a drawing AutoCAD has to do the same job as with the REGEN command - and that is done by the system processor and RAM and has nothing to do with the graphics card.
Only the REDRAW command depends on the performance of the graphics card, and while some manufacturers claim huge differences of several
100% of REDRAW performance, this is only a matter of the magnitude of 0.01 seconds versa 0.03 seconds. If you really want to spend some hundred $$ for this 0.02 seconds speed improvement is up to you.You can simply do a benchmark using (command "._REDRAW") 10000 times in a loop, and 100 times with (command "._REGEN"). Tell me what differencies you find between a system with a $50 graphics card and another one with a $500 card. And, BTW, I already did this benchmark with a $50 noname card and a Oxygene 4 which was $2500 at that time.
1 GByte of RAM may be OK when you are usually dealing with drawing files of 50 or 100 megabyte size. Most people don't, and even where people have this kind of drawing files they could easily do with much smaller sizes if they would organize their work properly.Tom Berger