How to improve Display Performance on MS V8i under Windows 10 with NVIDIA Quadro Video Card?

Make sure that you are actually using Nvidia GPU and not integrated.

Is this a laptop or a desktop? If it is newer laptop then don't use USB-C charging.

i7-7820HQ CPU seems to be for mobile.

Thank for comment.

• According to Nvidia Control panel I have active Quadro Video Card
• According to Windows, I have set "High Performance" for MicroStation
• Indeed, this is a Lenovo Laptop, now I have used around 3 years and working great except now after some Updates from Windows, I do have from time to time my cellphone charging, however I'm using regular USB 3.0 cable and the connector on the mobile is USB-C, how this should be impacted to the video card? Also maybe is interesting to consider as well the following:
  • I'm using a Laptop
  • I'm using a Dock
  • I'm using two monitors though HDMI-Display Port

As I mentioned early, me and my co-workers have this issue since the last update on Windows 10, I use another laptop that was not updated yet (not used around 6 months) and the looking of same files where as it should.

I retrieve this for GLSTATS so far:

QVision version 03.42.17 - 24.Jun.2016, 32-bit (cvs)

Seurat Context [1]:
Image Format = 8-bit int per band
Depth Format = 32-bit float
1 or more adapters support interface
adapter on monitor 10001 supports interface 10

Direct3D11 Context for hwnd 4b0cf2 on adapter 0:
HAL/hardware Device (generation 0)
Feature Level 11.0
Shader Model 5
Graphics Card Driver from NVIDIA
maximum number of lights: 16
additional clip planes: 16
largest texture: 16384 by 16384
D3D capabilities:
occlusionQuery 1
scissorTest 1
uvwSupport 1
colorMask 1

Thank for comment.

• According to Nvidia Control panel I have active Quadro Video Card
• According to Windows, I have set "High Performance" for MicroStation
• Indeed, this is a Lenovo Laptop, now I have used around 3 years and working great except now after some Updates from Windows, I do have from time to time my cellphone charging, however I'm using regular USB 3.0 cable and the connector on the mobile is USB-C, how this should be impacted to the video card? Also maybe is interesting to consider as well the following:
  • I'm using a Laptop
  • I'm using a Dock
  • I'm using two monitors though HDMI-Display Port

As I mentioned early, me and my co-workers have this issue since the last update on Windows 10, I use another laptop that was not updated yet (not used around 6 months) and the looking of same files where as it should.

I retrieve this for GLSTATS so far:

QVision version 03.42.17 - 24.Jun.2016, 32-bit (cvs)

Seurat Context [1]:
Image Format = 8-bit int per band
Depth Format = 32-bit float
1 or more adapters support interface
adapter on monitor 10001 supports interface 10

Direct3D11 Context for hwnd 4b0cf2 on adapter 0:
HAL/hardware Device (generation 0)
Feature Level 11.0
Shader Model 5
Graphics Card Driver from NVIDIA
maximum number of lights: 16
additional clip planes: 16
largest texture: 16384 by 16384
D3D capabilities:
occlusionQuery 1
scissorTest 1
uvwSupport 1
colorMask 1

Hi,

thanks for the details.

diablo_666_2 said:

As I mentioned early, me and my co-workers have this issue since the last update on Windows 10

I read you original question and (maybe because I am not native speaker, so "lost in translation") that from the last Windows Update, the graphic card control was changed to Windows, not that the problem with MicroStation begun.

diablo_666_2 said:

I retrieve this for GLSTATS so far:

It's not complete!

When you open 3D DGN, more information should be displayed in the statics. Most of them are system information, but a few of them can be valuable to know.

diablo_666_2 said:

Also maybe is interesting to consider as well the following:

In general, laptop can never be as good as workstation, because both processor and graphics card are limited (unless "workstation laptop" machine is used). When talking about MicroStation performance, form "normal notebooks" the best would be some gaming, preferably in combination AMD processor (because current models are substantially better than anything from Intel) and AMD graphics card (because providing better DirectX performance, which is what MicroStation uses).

diablo_666_2 said:

however I'm using regular USB 3.0 cable and the connector on the mobile is USB-C, how this should be impacted to the video card?

As Oto wrote, charging using USB-C is limited to 100W currently (future standard will change it), whereas real consumption can be higher. To compare standard charger and UBS-C makes sense, on the other hand you wrote it was fine in the pat.

Regards,

  Jan

Here GLSTATS:

QVision version 03.42.17 - 24.Jun.2016, 32-bit (cvs)

Seurat Context [1]:
Image Format = 8-bit int per band
Depth Format = 32-bit float
1 or more adapters support interface
adapter on monitor 10001 supports interface 10

Direct3D11 Context for hwnd 13121a on adapter 0:
HAL/hardware Device (generation 0)
Feature Level 11.0
Shader Model 5
Graphics Card Driver from NVIDIA
maximum number of lights: 16
additional clip planes: 16
largest texture: 16384 by 16384
D3D capabilities:
occlusionQuery 1
scissorTest 1
uvwSupport 1
colorMask 1

System Information:
Computer:
Name: ######-##-CAD08
Mfgr: LENOVO
Model: 20HH0018GE
OS:
System: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Arch: 64-bit
Version: 10.0.19043
Memory: 7.81 GB
Processor:
Name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7820HQ CPU @ 2.90GHz
Addr: 64
Cores: 4
Graphics Adapter 1:
Name: NVIDIA Quadro M2200
Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 32-bit color @ 60 Hz
Memory: 4095.00 MB
Drivers: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvlt.inf_amd64_91f4c43bb194a2cd\nvldumdx.dll,C:\WINDOWS\
System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\nvlt.inf_amd64_91f4c
Version: 27.21.14.6230
Date: Montag, 5. April 2021 00:00
Feature: D3D11 Feature Level 11.1
RastAvl: D3D11 D3D9 SEURAT
DevID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1436&SUBSYS_224D17AA&REV_A1
Graphics Adapter 2:
Name: Intel(R) HD Graphics 630
Mode: 1920 x 1080 x 32-bit color @ 60 Hz
Memory: 1024.00 MB
Drivers: C:\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\iigd_dch.inf_amd64_8829ad0eb26b3ef6\igdumdim64.dll,C:\WI
NDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\iigd_dch.inf_a
Version: 27.20.100.9320
Date: Mittwoch, 7. April 2021 00:00
Feature: Unknown
RastAvl:
DevID: PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_591B&SUBSYS_224D17AA&REV_04\3&11583659&0&10
Monitor 1:
Name: HP 24e Display
Adapter: 1 (NVIDIA Quadro M2200)
Origin: 0, 0
Size: 1920 x 1080
PPI: 96 x 96
Monitor 2:
Name: HP 24e Display
Adapter: 1 (NVIDIA Quadro M2200)
Origin: 1920, 0
Size: 1920 x 1080
PPI: 96 x 96
Main Window:
Origin: -8, -8
Size: 1936 x 1066
On Monitor: 1
Time Zone:
(UTC+01:00) Belgrade, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague
Direct3D Runtime:
Version: 11.0
QVision:
Version: 03.42.17 - 24.Jun.2016
Runtime: 32-bit (cvs)
Rasterizer: D3D11 Feature Level 11.0
PixDraw: 998.3 MPx/s (1920 x 1080)
PixShdwVol: 51836.7 MPx/s (1920 x 1080)
Init Time: 01:34:38 PM Mon Aug 02 2021

Thanks for the details!

I do not see anything obviously wrong, and even when I compared it with mine notebook, equipped with GeForce GTX1050, the numbers look similar.

Some differences exist:

• Your driver is slightly newer
• From the screen capture it seems you HW/SW configuration does not allow to use Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling.

But they are not reason for wrong display (even when sometimes specific Nvidia drivers causes problems in MicroStation in the past).

Regards,

  Jan

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