Choosing a Graphics Card

We recommend NVIDIA®, GeForce®, NVIDIA Quadro®, AMD Radeon™, AMD Radeon Pro™, and AMD FirePro™ cards. However, graphics cards are constantly evolving and there are exceptions to these recommendations, so please refer to the online rankings listed below, or contact Micromine support at support@micromine.com for the latest recommendations.

Some integrated or "on-board" graphics cards are not suitable for Micromine. For maximum compatibility and performance, you should choose a discrete graphics card that complies with the OpenGL 4.5 standard (or later).

 

The following online rankings may help you to choose a graphics card:

PassMark Software Videocard Benchmarks (http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/)

• For a recommended system, choose a card as near to the top of the High End Video Card Chart as you can reasonably afford.
• For a minimum system, choose a card from the Mid to High Range Video Card Chart.

NotebookCheck.net (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.130.0.html)

• For a recommended laptop system, choose a Class 1 video card as near to the top of the list as you can reasonably afford.
• For a minimum laptop system, choose a Class 2 video card.

Links were correct at the time of writing but may have been changed or deleted by their respective owners.

 

Maintaining your graphics card

Many of the problems encountered within Micromine are caused by incompatible or old and unstable graphics card drivers. No matter which graphics card you use, we recommend always staying up-to-date with the latest graphics drivers.

To view information about the graphics adapters and drivers installed on your computer, select Tools | Check Graphics Configuration.

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