According to the SW support page driver 182.46 is certifiedfor SW09 and yet in the nvidia release notes it states under knownopen issues - not nvidia issues - that quote :
. Quadro FX 570: Solidworks 2009 - lines are covered when movingparts.

So my questions are: How does SW arrive at certification status?Did they even read the notes before posting their recommendation?

Its a bit difficult to ascertain what the issue is from thedescription but this sounds like a driver to avoid.
In fact it sounds like an issue that users should be made aware ofin a tech bulletin instead because apparently this a SW bug in thegraphics code that needs to be dealt with.
You would hope it is destined to be fixed in a sp although itsanyones guess which or if it is only sp specific.
You would hope also it doesnt mean the FX570 is a dud card for SWuse from here on in..

182.08 apparently doesnt have this issue or at least its notlisted.
Shouldnt that be recommended rather than 182.46??

I wonder if there anyone at home in SW providing real adminsupport?
Hopefully when they have caught up with this one they will move onto posting about compatibility with .NET3.5, IE8 and WS4.0 on therequirements page

cheers

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