monitor performance question

[lylebeidler]

I have a very strange issue I'm hoping you all can help me with. I have
been running dual monitors for a while now. I just got a new, widescreen
monitor yesterday, and moved my old primary display to be my second display.
On my new display, if I select a dimension, note, or balloon, and drag it,
it lags behind the cursor. If I throw the Pro/E window to my second (old)
display, there is no lag. One odd thing is that if there is a note with no
leader line, there's no lag. If the note is attached with a leader line,
there's lag.



Here are the specs on my machine:

Graphics card is NVIDIA Quadro FX 3500

Primary Display - I-inc iH254 at 1920 x 1080, 60 Hz refresh rate - through
DVI (the one with the lag)

Secondary Display i-inc iX191A 1280 x 1024, 60 Hz refresh rate - through VGA



Any suggestions?

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Lyle Beidler
MGS Inc
178 Muddy Creek Church Rd
Denver PA 17517
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[ShandRonnie]

The problem is with your NVIDIA drivers. Some NVIDIA graphic cards cannot handle the dual monitors. Although they are excellent for single monitors.
The problem happens with 2D Pro/E (Sketcher and Drawing mode).
Try updating your NVIDIA drivers to the latest version.
If the drivers do not correct the problem, then you are out of luck with that card.

Ronnie Shand

[TimMcLellan]

I would recommend starting with the latest and working your way back. It
worked for us a while ago.



Tim McLellan
Mobius Innovation and Development, Inc.

[dbrainsky]

The problem may also be related to the wide monitor. I had a simlar issue after installing a single wide monitor. So I went to the monitor web site and downloaded a driver file. ProE never gave me any more issues. You did not mention whether you are using Windows 7 or XP.






David Brainsky
Chula Vista, Ca. 91910

[IanBlackie]

Yes, go for the Nvidia driver update, it helped with BSODs on a brand new PC with an FX4600.
Here's a suggestion from left field... in your config.pro do you have the option "open_draw_simp_rep_by_default" yes. If you do, set it to NO.
We had huge performance issues in drawing mode related to dims and leaders with lots of lag or simply being unselectable, this is back on WF2, we've never turned it back on.
Hope this helps.
Wildfire 4.0 M160 PLM 8.0 M050
Ian Blackie
MCAD Administrator
514 341-2000 ext. 2798

[nkaminakis]

Same issue with my grafix card Quadro FX 1700 +2 monitors. I had very very
poor performance with 2D: sketcher & drawings.
I've updated the to latest drives (certified by nvidia for Pro/Engineer) but
it didn't solve the problems. In 3D the performance is a
expected. I switched to single monitor for this reason.

If anybody, anybody has a workarround for this problem please let me know.

best regards,



On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 22:37, Shand, Ronnie (N-DUA COMPUTER RESOURCES,
INC.) <-> wrote:

> The problem is with your NVIDIA drivers. Some NVIDIA graphic cards cannot
> handle the dual monitors. Although they are excellent for single monitors.
>
> The problem happens with 2D Pro/E (Sketcher and Drawing mode).
>
> Try updating your NVIDIA drivers to the latest version.
>
> If the drivers do not correct the problem, then you are out of luck with
> that card.
>
>
>
> Ronnie Shand
>
>
>
>
>
> *From:* Lyle Beidler [

[BrentDrysdale]

Hi Folks,
I am using dual monitors on a Dell M6300 with the laptop as one screen and
an attached 24" monitor as the second screen. I do not see the problem as
discussed and this machine only has the lower end FX1600M card.

Mine is set up with the large monitor as the primary and the 17" laptop
screen as the secondary on my left hand side. I have this running as a
super wide screen i.e. the mouse moves between the screens as if they are
joined. Not sure how other people set up the two screens.

I was careful in the equipment selection to specify that both the laptop and
larger screens have the same native resolution (1920x1200 pixels). This
runs on the "Plug and play Monitor on NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M" setting not
the "(Multiple Monitors) on NVIDIA Quadro FX 1600M" setting

Not sure if this is of any help to anybody.

Regards, Brent Drysdale
Senior Mechanical Designer
Tait Radio Communications
New Zealand
DDI +64 3 358 1093
www.taitradio.com