New NVIDIA Quadro v320.78 drivers with Inventor Base Profile support

View this email online Quadro v320.78   Windows 7 Windows Vista Windows XP   Top Release Highlights* Performance increase with Adobe Premier Pro CS7 Lumetri and AVID Motion Graphics. Fixes application launch issues with NVIDIA Nsight. Fixes application irregularity with Inventor when using Base Profile. *May not apply to all O/S & Product configurations. Note: Before downloading and installing a new driver, please check to confirm that your system includes a supported NVIDIA GPU (refer to the list of Supported Products in the Release Highlights section on our website). You can also use our automatic driver scan (refer to the Driver section on our website) to find the latest driver for your NVIDIA GPU. Download links in this notification will point to the latest driver available.

Nvidia Release Quadro Driver 276.28

Just a quick pointer that Nvidia have just released a new driver for their Quadro/FX graphics cards. This is available for Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit). See below for important highlights from the release notes:

Open Issues in Version 276.28

As with every released driver, version 276.28 of the Release 275 driver has open issues and enhancement requests associated with it.

Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit Issues

Quadro FX family: Autodesk applications–random crashes occur when launching the application.

Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit Issues

Quadro FX family: Autodesk applications–random crashes occur when launching the application.

Download for yourself at http://www.nvidia.co.uk/drivers.

3D Connexion 10 Beta Drivers

With the ingenious new 3DxWare 10 driver platform, it’s now possible to use a 3D mouse in any application. From Microsoft Office to internet browsers and from media players to games with 3DxWare 10, a 3D mouse can complement, or provide a compelling alternative to, most input devices including keyboard, traditional mouse, joystick and gamepads.

New ATI FireGL/Pro Driver Released (8.773)

The ATI FireProFireGL Unified Driver version 8.773 software is designed to support the following ATI FirePro/FireGL products:

Check Your AutoCAD Graphics

Every year AutoCAD configurations get more complex. As new features are introduced – such as the new Advance Material Effect and Smooth line display in AutoCAD 2011 – we become more and more dependent on the support of our hardware partners. Prior to AutoCAD 2007 we only had a dependency on the Operating System, but since then we have also become more dependent on Graphics Cards and Drivers. Each new level of dependency brings new potential for interoperability issues. To cut down on the complexity of these dependencies and improve user experience we have created a hardware certification program within the AutoCAD team that is located at this site Graphics Hardware List. To check whether you are running certified drivers for AutoCAD, follow the procedure below.

• Type 3DCONFIG at the command line and hit Enter.
• Click the Check for Updates button.