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No graphics with GeForce Driver 451.77 with Discovery

    • tentechllc
      Subscriber

      Hi there,

      I do realize this is an NVIDIA driver issue, but I wanted to bring attention to an apparent issue with the latest GeForce Drivers (in this case Studio Driver 451.77).  In short, the excellent Discovery 2020R2 loses its graphics entirely with this new driver.  The older driver works OK, which is a mild workaround as this doesn't support the new Windows 10 Hardware-accelerated GPU Scheduling.  Can you guys at ANSYS ping NVIDIA and look into it?  Here's what it looks like:

       

    • Charudatta Bandgar
      Subscriber

      Hello TEN TECH LLC ,

      Thanks for bringing this to our notice,

      This issue has been noticed before as well, and our developers and testers have tried the GeForce Driver 451.77 with Discovery, it does work for some machines, hence might not be a general issue. There could be other factors involved as well, which the developers are investigating. 

      Are your CUDA drivers up-to-date?  

      I will let you know if I get any further information regarding the progress.

      Regards.

      • tentechllc
        Subscriber

        Charudatta Bandgar Thanks for the quick reply.  The machine in question is a laptop with an RTX 2080 Max-Q.  Discovery Live works perfectly, but not Discovery so I'm not sure if it's a CUDA issue...  I'll check on another machine with GeForce to see...

      • tentechllc
        Subscriber

        Charudatta Bandgar Tried it on a Desktop GeForce 2070, and Driver 451.77 and it works as designed, so you're right, something's up the Mobile version of the card/driver combo!

      • Charudatta Bandgar
        Subscriber

        Hello TEN TECH LLC ,

        Thanks for confirming.

        something's up the Mobile version of the card/driver combo!

        I will highlight this observation to the concerned people.

    • Charudatta Bandgar
      Subscriber

      Hello TEN TECH LLC ,

       

      something's up the Mobile version of the card/driver combo

       

      One way to determine if it's GPU specific is to disable GeForce on the laptop (with hardware GPU enabled) and then try to load geometry.  Can you please try doing it?

      Regards.

      • tentechllc
        Subscriber

        Charudatta Bandgar If I force Discovery to run off the Intel UHD Graphics card, the graphics are back.  BTW, driver 451.48 is as bad as 451.77.  I guess the whole 451 branch has an issue...

    • Charudatta Bandgar
      Subscriber

      Hello TEN TECH LLC

      driver 451.48 is as bad as 451.77.  I guess the whole 451 branch has an issue

      May I know what issue you are facing with 451.48?

      Regards.

      • tentechllc
        Subscriber

        Charudatta Bandgar Same as 451.77: Ansys Discovery (not Live) is not displaying any geometry/graphics

    • tentechllc
      Subscriber

      I tried the Gaming Driver latest (451.67) to no avail, still no graphics in Discovery.  Reverting back to 442.92 Studio Driver, the last one to work with Discovery...  3 months old driver that doesn't support GPU Scheduling on Windows 10 :-(

    • tentechllc
      Subscriber

      Tried with the new 452.06 today and same issue... I guess it's something with the 45x version 

      • Charudatta Bandgar
        Subscriber

        Thanks a lot, TEN TECH LLC .

        This is very valuable information and I will convey it to the developers. I had filed a bug report (Bug ID:323999) to address this issue, I will keep you posted with the updates.

        Tried with the new 452.06 today

        Did you try it on your laptop?

        Regards.

    • Charudatta Bandgar
      Subscriber

      Hello TEN TECH LLC ,

      Can you please check the 45x.xx drivers with the new 2020R2.5?

      Regards.

    • tentechllc
      Subscriber

      Sadly, same issue...  Didn't realize R2.5 was out, thanks for pointing it out!  I even tried to set Windows' Graphics Performance  to no avail:

       

      • Charudatta Bandgar
        Subscriber

        Thanks for the information, TEN TECH LLC 

        Regards.

    • tentechllc
      Subscriber

      Tried the brand new 456.38 driver and still no dice, very frustrating!

      • Charudatta Bandgar
        Subscriber

        That is not good, TEN TECH LLC 

        I will inform the concerned people. 

        Regards.

    • jchokan
      Subscriber

      Hello,

      Have there been any updates on the rendering issues in Discovery 2020 using 45x series graphics drivers? I have version 452.06 and am having the issue.

      Thanks

      • tentechllc
        Subscriber

        Jchokan looks like the 45x.x series was a "no", but I'm now running 460.79 and got my graphics back!  Feels good to have a driver that's not 8 months old :-)

    • tentechllc
      Subscriber

      Good news on this front: NVIDIA Driver 460.79, albeit being a Games driver (and not Studio) finally works with Discovery 2020R2.5!

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