Hi,
I realised that all Microsoft products(even teams while making video conferencing) are listed in Nvidia's Activity Process Tool.
I am wondering if this is not filling up the graphic cards GPU. If No my question ends here, but if Yes ;
1 - I have 2 graphic card in my laptop(See details below). I am searching a way to move microsoft products(and others which should not use Nvidia like ProjectWise) from Nvidia and use Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 for them. I want to dedicate Nvidia only to OpenRoads. Does someone have an idea on that ?
2 - I am also searching to know which "Predifined General Preferences" to use to make the best advantage of my graphique card for OpenRoads Designer software.
And does Bentley have suggestions/best practices to have the best profit of Nvidia graphic cards ?
Any additional configuration propositions to spped up the processing and visualitaion time will be wellcomed.
We are using Open Roads Designer Connect version 2019-R2 but will be moving to 2020-R3 soon.
Is there any changes between these 2 versions on this subjet ?
My Computer configuration is :
HP Zbook
Intel Core i7-9750 2.60Ghz
32 GB RAM
Graphique cards:
Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630
Nvidia Quadro T1000
Thanks.
Cem
Cem, a couple things to offer here presuming your hope is really to limit usage of the Nvidia card. On the Global Settings in the Nvidia Control panel is a "Preferred graphics processor", I would set this to the Intel integrated graphics. I don't think the Global presets are going to be applicable to your efforts.
I would then use the "Program Settings" to direct ORD and any other programs you want to the High-Performance processor. From there you could also look at customizing the individual settings for ORD, that is well beyond my knowledge as to how much affect that will have on performance.
Those are the items I have implemented and for the most part have been pretty happy with the performance in ORD for tasks that I suspect leverage the GPU, very clean movement when zooming or panning for example.
Hope that helps.
Steve
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Hi. Thanks for your replies.
Steven, I passed my NVIDIA Prefered Graphic Processeur to "Integrated Graphics" and this removed Microsoft and Teams from by NVIDIA Card. I forced Microstation and ORD to use NVIDIA and it works better.
But "Bentley Connect Client" and "Connect advisor" stayed on NVIDIA. I forced them to use Intergrated Graphic Card manually.
But they stay on NVIDIA. Maybe Bentley can tell us why we can not shift them to Integrated Card.
And I still have a question ;
Does "Global Presets" which can be selected on Manage 3D Settings window have an impact on ORD performance ? Why we don't have "Global Presets" for Bentley Softwares ?
These are some really great ideas and thanks for sharing!
Mark
Cem, I don't think most of the Global Presets are going to impact ORD, as they seem to be program specific. We are on the outer edge of my knowledge here, so most of this is inference or guess. It is my impression that the Global Settings and Program Settings are effectively the same thing, only the Global are preloaded by the driver. If you look at the Settings in them, you have the same listing. I have only used the control panel to force the application to the desired GPU, so all my settings are set to "Use global setting" which is controlled by the Base Profile option. The performance difference on the discrete GPU versus the integrated GPU has always be enough to meet my needs. I think most of these settings are not likely to impact performance in ORD, as they seem to be more related to fine tuning what I would call "active rendering", the type of work you would do in video production or photorealistic rendering processes (or gaming).
In my opinion, Bentley has historically done a decent job at memory management. Resource loading comparted to Civil 3D for example is much lower, with C3D being the primary driver of the specifications I have in my current machine. I actually would be quite surprised if you found any significant improvement by fine tuning these beyond ensuring you are using the NVIDIA GPU. I would think that to be true as well for your concerns in your other post referencing corridor processing and plan production. These likely aren't GPU heavy operations.
Just my thoughts hope they are helpful.
Happy to share Mark. The value in the forums is really dependent on us offering our experiences. I am regularly grateful for you contributions here as well.
:-) :-)