NVidia FX1000

I'd sure like to know how they come up with the TANs after they approved a card which seems like it ought to be able to do everything but backflips. Is it based on one computer and one installation? Is some graphics testing company testing cards with Pro/e and how systematically? Is there a published set of graphics functions that a card/driver should have to perform well with Pro/e? I sure haven't seen any such thing from PTC, although Dell has published a list of OpenGL functions the nVidia card will perform.

So, what I'm saying is that I wouldn't panic and start buying other cards just yet. PTC might simply be playing cya with a big client. It's support style generally reminds me of the computer business's idea of support from the 80s where you'd call up Dell or Compaq and they'd say, no sorry, that's not our problem, you've got to call Microsoft; then you'd call MS and they'd say, no sorry, that's not our problem, you've got to talk to the peripheral vendor and get their latest driver, etc, etc, where 'support' is a finger pointing run-around. The answer to this has always been ~ hold their feet to the fire, make them give you what you paid for.

David Janes

Well, I don't see what all the fuss was about. Wildfire transparency appears to work fine with only the expected slight degredation in performance because of the increased intensiveness of the application versus the old stippled method.

Hardware: Dell 650, 3.06 GHz (hyper threading off)

2Gb ram NVidia FX1000 UltraSharp 20" flat panel at 1600x1200 Wildfire 2003330

Tested it in a 75 component assembly.

Note to Vericut users: I am having lots of trouble on this platform with machine simulation view and Vericut exiting with a javaw.exe error. Different dispaly drivers and versions of the Java Runtime Environment installed, with no fix yet. Files are at PTC and are probably going to be forwarded to CGTech.

Regards Peter Brown Jarvis Products Corp