Display & rendering problem

[navinkc]

Hi
6 months back our office purchased new DELL PRECISION T5400 workstation with
Intel Xeon 64-Bit
CPU E5420 @2.50ghz
2.49Ghz,4.00GB of RAM with NVIDIA 1600 graphic card (2) dual
I am using 3Ds Max 2009 with V-ray 1.5 SP2
I am having problem with display in 3d as shown above the picture. last month i upgraded with graphic card NVIDIA 4600. after rendering same scene i rendered with previous NVIDIA 1600 i am getting same rendering time and same problem in display. No change and DELL people is telling that 3DS Max is not compitable........? they reformat the machine saying the display driver is not updating? does anyone can help it?.................please

[rivoli]

after rendering same scene i rendered with previous NVIDIA 1600 i am getting same rendering time and same problem in display.

well, as long as render times go, you can swap as many cards as you like and that won't make any difference to vray. rendering it's not aided by the gpu in any way, it's only a cpu task, to put it simple.

since max 9 it's much better to run direct3d display drivers instead of opengl. that's why people tend to avoid quadro cards and usually go for high end gaming ones. you might try to switch to directx and see how it goes, but I'm still on 9 so I don't really know how 2009 works..

[navinkc]

thanks for the reply,
i made a test scene and rendered it in my machine with this specification and it took 6 min17 sec to render it with my previous graphic card Nvida 1600 and it took same time with new Nvidia 4600 no improvement in display and in rendering time. so i checked with my friend machine with
HP XW 6600
intel xeon cpu
e5430@2.66ghz
1.97ghz2.00gb ram with Nvidia quadro 3400/4400graphic card
and i got the rendering in 3 min12 sec.So is this machine problem or graphic card problem?

[tehamnes]

This is a graphic card/software problem as far as I know.
Had the same/similar problem with my fx3000 quadro card and 3dsmax some time ago.
The "3dsmax 2008 performance driver direct3d 9.0" worked wonders for me. Search Nvidia homepage if there's one for your card. Worth a try.

[theedge]

since max 9 it's much better to run direct3d display drivers instead of opengl. that's why people tend to avoid quadro cards and usually go for high end gaming ones.

As far as I know, since a few years now the maxtreme drivers no longer use opengl but direct3d rather. So I don't see why one should avoid them.

[rivoli]

good to know.

[navinkc]

ok i tried 3dsmax 2009 performance driver direct3d 64 bit driver and checked but i am having same display problem whn i change graphic mode to CUSTOM-3dsmaxpd.drv. not with OPENGL and Direct3d.