These settings pertain to the graphical appearance and system performance.
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Several factors contribute to the end result, such as:
- Operating System (OS) - determines which level of DirectX is supported.
- Graphics hardware capability
- Graphics hardware memory
- Graphics hardware generation
These factors can be different in a number of ways, for example, the OS may support DirectX 10, but the graphics hardware may not. The reverse can also be true.
If graphics windows are open when any of these settings are changed, the new settings do not take effect until all windows have been closed.
The following graphics setting choices determine your graphics preference and can influence system performance.
- Quality
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This setting favors graphics presentation over system performance.
- Antialias is On
- Graphics multithreading is On
- Graphics Performance Optimization is On
- Performance
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This setting favors system performance over graphic presentation.
- Antialias is Off
- Graphics multithreading is On
- Graphics Performance Optimization is On
- Conservative
- This setting favors reliability over system performance. Algorithms and mechanisms to obtain the highest performance from graphics hardware are not invoked, which should lead to a more reliable but possibly lower display performance.
- Most stable mode
- Antialias is Off
- Graphics multithreading is Off
- Graphics Performance Optimization is Off
If you encounter stability issues with the Quality or Performance settings, use this one.
- Software graphics
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Specifies the use of software based graphics processing rather than hardware based. The setting has often been seen as a last resort for graphics choices. If a graphics card issue arises, for example a graphics card failure or use of an incompatible card, this setting is automatically used by Inventor and performance is reduced. When the issue is resolved, go to Application Options
Hardware tab and select your preferred graphics mode.
Diagnostics displays a message box with results of diagnostic testing, which differ according to the selected Hardware Driver Type. When reporting a display issue, click Diagnostics, then click OK, then paste the contents of the copy/paste buffer into the report. If a Customer Error Report has been generated and sent to Autodesk, this information was included in it.
Ray Tracing Option
- Enable Viewport GPU Ray Tracing
- If the computer has qualifying GPU hardware this option is enabled. Select the option to use the GPU for ray trace rendering in the viewport. If the hardware does not have the correct support, the option is disabled and a message displays beside the option.
See About GPU Ray Tracing, To Work with Ray Tracing, and Reference for the Ray Tracing Dialog.