Kiryl SidarchukĬo-founder and CEO of AR-Generation, which is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program for cutting-edge startups, Sidarchuk with his company developed MagiScan, an AI-based 3D scanner app. By allowing AutoCAD 2015 to use DX9, the problem of getting AutoCAD to enable Hardware Acceleration is solved.Editor’s note: This post is a part of our Meet the Omnivore series, which features individual creators and developers who accelerate 3D workflows and create virtual worlds using NVIDIA Omniverse, a development platform built on Universal Scene Description, aka OpenUSD.Īs augmented reality (AR) becomes more prominent and accessible across the globe, Kiryl Sidarchuk is helping to erase the border between the real and virtual worlds. I do think that on some laptops/graphics cards there might be a compatibility issue with AutoCAD 2015 and DX11. These settings enabled the Hardware Acceleration for AutoCAD. On the forums they mentioned a couple of Windows System settings to make AutoCAD work with Dx9 instead of Dx11.

I also checked via Dxdiag.exe that the Quadro is DX11 compatible – which it was. I rebooted between each task and also checked that AutoCAD Sp2 is still installed.Īfter searching the internet, I downloaded and reinstalled DirectX11. I then repaired/reinstalled AutoCAD 2015, but that also did not work. I then Installed the Certified NVidia drivers from the “Autodesk certified hardware site” for the Quadro and they did not work. Windows 7 Service Pack1 and AutoCAD 2015 SP0 was installed. I also double checked that AutoCAD used the High Performance Card, although this did not make any difference.ĪutoCAD read the Quadro card but still used the hdi software drivers.

First I checked the Optimus dual NVidia graphics card settings in the NVidia control panel and I made sure the Global Setting was set to High Performance VGA Card.

After installing AutoCAD 2015 on a year-old Dell Laptop, a customer had trouble enabling the hardware acceleration – even though he had an NVidia Quadro 1000M graphics card and the latest drivers.

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