Calling all nvidia quadro users...

tomsdesk · 14 Jan 2009, 17:10

...I'm being told the reason IE takes 100% of both processor cores and three times as long to open a website like msnbc, this forum, or google search for that matter, is my quadro graphics card isn't made for multimedia: hogwash or what???

tomsdesk · 14 Jan 2009, 17:57

Really...anybody else having similar troubles?

solo · 14 Jan 2009, 18:03

..or not many have quadro cards.

Anssi · 14 Jan 2009, 18:42

@tomsdesk said:

hogwash or what???

IMO definitely hogwash. My work computer has a Quadro FX 1400 card and I have not had any IE problems with it. Surfing is faster than at home, which almost certainly is due to the company's faster network connections.

The general understanding is that almost any computer capable of running the browser is fast enough for Internet. Most of the time it will just sit there waiting for the data to download.

Anssi

PS. Still I must put a word of warning about the Quadro NVS series of graphics cards. While almost certainly capable of internet surfing, they won't work with SU, being strictly 2D cards meant for stockbrokers and the like using excel etc. on multiple screens.

remus · 14 Jan 2009, 20:31

Might be worth looking at other browsers, im sure it'll make coen happy if nothing else

http://www.mozilla-europe.org/en/firefox/
http://www.google.com/chrome

sepo · 14 Jan 2009, 21:09

I have Nvidea Quadro FX 1600M on my laptop. It works no problem with IE.

cadward · 14 Jan 2009, 21:34

Hey Tom
Sounds like hogwash....I have a quadro FX 3450 on a Dell Precision 490 and have had no problems. Surfing is faster than my son's Dell XPS or my old Office computer. Both the Precision 490 and the XPS are on a cable connection.

Gaieus · 14 Jan 2009, 22:15

I simply cannot imagine that any modern graphics card would chuckle from that "richmedia content" the Internet even nowadays can provide. Can you run a simple avi or wmv movie in your Windows Media Player?

Anssi · 15 Jan 2009, 20:51

Tom,

What antivirus/security software are you running? There seems to be some difference between those, even within the same firm. I somewhat hate the Norton 360 thingie running in my other machine, whereas the Norton Internet Security I have in my other machine seems to run smoothly without causing any lags. I also suspect the antivirus at work (from a different supplier) of the unexplainable lags happening in my Autocad work lately.

Anssi

tomsdesk · 16 Jan 2009, 20:07

Sorry took me so long...but at least I spared you a bunch of "would've been censored" ranting and raving. I was sure the idea was hogwash indeed, but wanted to hear it confirmed as I was starting to hear otherwise. Still having all kinds of stupid transient problems with this new (been over a year now) machine. This time they changed out the graphics card (FX 1700 w/ 512mb) to not much avail...now all that's left is the motherboard?

So, got this thing back late Friday...besides the vid card, supposed to have had both HD's clean wiped, windows reloaded, and all tweaked up with latest drivers (and all the crap cleaned out) so I didn't have to do it...with assurances it was doing great (I took SU down to the shop this time and indeed it was snapping 3D like a champ) and had a pcpitstop score of 4810 w/ 3d graphics in the 0 %-tile (whatever that means).

Since then (besides deleting and defraging the D-drive they didn't touch) I've had to install IE7 (it had IE6 and an IE7 Beta toolkit...?), WMPlayer 11 (it had ver9...this load from my harddrive took over 20min?), and uninstall several sophomoric web-based office and graphics programs I'd never seen before (all of them phoning home from startup and elsewhere deep in the "you can't find me" bowels of XP). Since this didn't really fix it, I started in shutting down or disabling as many of the update and other comm links the programs I wanted to keep had open...now I was better.

After finally taking the chance to uninstall Nero (thank god xp can at least use the Asus to read a cd) I am now in pretty good shape. I tried getting rid of Realtek, because I thought maybe one of it's drivers was in conflict with something of Nvidia's causing the remaining sound issues (since the "let's just see" ATI swap card didn't have the sound issues), but xp couldn't take over for the intel motherboard's onboard sound...? BTW: no security software - just xp's firewall.

So now here is where I stand: sometimes I get choppy sound playing a clip in WMP, sometimes on line, and sometimes just with the rebooting wave; IE is very slow to load (BIG processor user) and stays slow until I shut it down and then start again...this is better if I wait 10-15 min after turning on the computer before trying anything (SU does this too); I'm getting a lot of "done, but with errors" notes at the bottom left of IE...status bar?

But...sometimes MSNBC loads so fast I can't believe it. SU almost always responds wonderfully without wireframing on orbit, beachball inferencing, or hopscotch scrolling in or out 8~)) Exports are faster too and PSP doesn't wait for fancy filters to work near as long. So I guess if I have to wait for this machine to warn-up it's worth it...but I'd rather not:

This wait period doesn't show any processor activity in task manager, but I'd swear the machine is doing something else...at least that's how it acts (or bathroom break?). I have the processes running down to as low as I've seen:
So when I get up some guts again I'm gonna have a go at the windows processes...any help or suggestions are begged for and will be fawned over, thank you very, very, much!