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
Hi Cem,
Cem Donmez said:I am wondering if this is not filling up the graphic cards GPU
I think all these settings have nothing to do with how specific application use GPU (because it's solely controlled by the application itself).
The tool primary task is to allow to define, in situation when 2 different GPU are available, what GPU will be used by particular application (e.g. MicroStation) in certain situation (running on battery...). It solves a question how an application, not knowing what GPU is better (or even not aware of there are more GPUs available), should choose GPU.
In the case of desktop, I do not see any reason to switch between Intel and Nvidia. On notebook, I use something like "use Intel, when on battery, otherwise Nvidia" for all applications.
Cem Donmez said:And does Bentley have suggestions/best practices to have the best profit of Nvidia graphic cards ?
I am not aware of such recommendations, plus it has to be always clearly specified what application will be used.
Be aware ORD (and all Power platform based products) is solely DirectX application. Unfortunately Nvidia does not focus on DirectX too much and has long history of bugs, performance issues and even laying about support of specific DirectX features. On the other hand, for last few years Nvidia provided the best hardware in terms of performance and computation (now it seems AMD offers performance-equal HW finally), which is in parallel with Nvidia focus to OpenGL applications, AI and similar tasks.
So when talking about ORD, check what DirectX related settings your driver offers. Of course ensure you use the latest driver and also you card has the latest firmware. MicroStation uses specific DirectX featuers to move computation (e.g. tessellation) to GPU, also I guess some printing related task are handled, when possible, by GPU.
Different situation can be when you will use LumenRT for visualization, because it's able to use Nvidia GPU (specific types) for some rendering processing. See Technology preview feature documentation of this enhancement.
Cem Donmez said:Any additional configuration propositions to spped up the processing and visualitaion time will be wellcomed.
As recommended already, to use fast SSD is important. The most of motherboards and notebooks today allow to use M.2 SSD (or adapter can be used), which is substantially faster than older SATA 3.
With regards,
Jan
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