So I bought a RTX 4000 ADA card to have in the new PC I’m building, and I did check the hardware list for Solidworks 2021 before i bought the card and found that there is a patch for using never cards on Solidworks 2021, but of course I didn’t read the release notes.
When I’m now ready to install the card I see that the RTX 4000 ADA isn’t in the list, but the older RTX 4000 and the RTX A4000 is in the list, does this mean that I will have to return my card and buy an older card, or is there any way to edit the *.msi file and add the card?
The file I’m referring to is here and listed as (For SOLIDWORKS 2020 and above) https://www.solidworks.com/support/hardware-certification/I , I’ve also read that there should be a specific file for Solidworks 2021 version, but I can’t seem to locate the file.
Are there any plans for Dassault to update the file, as the card is listed as supported in never versions of Solidworks. Any other workarounds for this or maybe it will work without being listed in the patch file?
I see there are quite a few registry hacks out for the GeForce line of cards and that they put there hack in a folder named NV40 as is the folder for old Quadro cards like Quadro Fx4000 that would be my pressor line of cards. RTX 4000 would be TU104-850-A1, RTX A4000 GA104-875-A1, RTX 4000 ada AD104.
So if I can ask someone with a Solidworks install of 2022 or never to share there tree listing of folders in the registry for Solidworks GPU, eiter as an text file or screen shot, I think all I will have to do is replicate the folders and settings in them for the RTX 4000 ada, in the folder AD104.
I really would like to use the card as I have other programs that will take advantage of the more powerful card.
Don’t worry, just install and use the card.
Never got certified video cards on any CAD.
SW 2020 works fine on laptop with Intel Graphic. Even dual screen to 4k TV.
“Certified” means someone ran some test and it passed.
“Non-certified” means someone didn’t have time to run those test.
i have the same card (although never ran it on v2022). It will most likely be super fine. No need for concern at all. Just crank it up!
I’d go so far as to say even the gaming cards used to work fine back in the day. I can attest to them lately as I’ve been running “Workstation” cards for years now but i used to run GTX variants for years and had no issues aside from the on-purpose performance gimp imposed (i used to run them SoftQuadro’d for years to get around that until nVIDIA hardware “corrected” this behavior).
“Workstation” Card = A Card they charge 4 times as much to buy for and use the excuse that the drivers are somehow special or different then the gaming cards when they aren’t and its all a big lie that most people believe.
If you happen to run into graphics glitches try various driver versions for that card instead of different card.
I don’t know if this specific case applies to the RTX ADA series, but we did have some graphics related problems on our machines with the P2000/2200 cards while running SW2019sp5. I’m not 100% certain of the cause, but the newer drivers that Windoze update kept installing were problematic. The problems would go away as long as we ran older driver version. Now we’re on 2023 and I have been trying the newer driver versions and no troubles. Trying different drivers is much simpler than different cards.