Hello everybody
I know this is a bit off topic but want to share with you my franken-workstation build.
Last year I upgraded my RTX 2080Ti to RTX 4070 Ti Super - amazing card, brilliant for gaming, brilliant for rendering projects fast in Vizalize tool.
Sadly - as a consumer device, not certified and not officially supported.
Most of the time it would work in Solidworks but on my large projects I would get graphical artifacts - contour lines missing, surfaces dissapearing/re-appearing - mind you this was also the case for older 2080Ti.
So I taught - how about having a dual card setup? - entry level workstation card for SolidWorks CAD workflows and consumer card for my gaming and rendering needs?
Windows allows to specify which card to use for the application.
And behold:
My franken build with:
AMD Radeon PRO w7500 as main display adapter
Nvidia RTX 4070Ti Super as secondary one
Initial idea was to keep Nvidia as primary one - unfortunetly SolidWorks didn't honour the Windows Graphic Settings where you specify which display adapter to set.
On other hand - most video games allows to specify which Display Adapter to use; the ones that didn't - or the applications that didn't I could enforce via the Graphic Settings in Windows.
SolidWorks Visualizer - as I selected the nVidia rendered - defaulted to the RTX card.
And I am happy to announce - it works!
No more graphical artifacts due to uncertified drivers.
And flexibility to use the consumer card with oomph for non-CAD work :)
For reference - rest of the box:
Intel i9-13900k
ASCore Taichi Z790 Motherboard (with two PCIe5 16x slots)
64GB DDR5 RAM
AMD Radeon Pro w7500
Nvidia RTX 4070Ti Super
But request for SolidWorks - just add an option to specify which display adapter to use in SW!