Realview and FX500?

Must be video cards by Nvidia (and only certian ones), what do you have?

Opps, missed the FX500. I'm using a Geforce 4 TI4600 hacked to a Quadro4

Keith

as long as it is a quadro card then it should work... I run a PNY Quadro fx500 & realview works just fine for me.

1. Make sure that you are not in large assembly mode. If you are you can turn on the ability to have real view graphics in large assembly in tools options.

1. check that you are not in software open GL mode.

2. check to make sure you installed the solidworks shaders. You can verify this by looking in your solidworks install folder for two folders called "shaders" & "shaders_soft" collectively they should be about 418 megs. Then again there could be a chance that they may have been broken & you may have to run a repair on them. OR at least run a modify on the solidworks install & remove them & then readd them.

Hope that helps

Thanks, Steve Tietz

Also, make sure you have a current driver for the FX500 and the advanced display setup states you have the proper card with driver.

Not every Quadro will work. I remember seeing a list somewhere, but I don't remember where. Too bad I can't remember.

Okay, here is the deal as far as I see it. When you installed solidworks you did not have a realview card, so realview was not installed (Yes it is an OPTION). So what you need to do is insert your solidworks cd and do a modify (Windows installer) and do a custom. Select realview as one of the options (it will be listed with the items like Toolbox, Routing, Moldbase...

That should take care of your problem...