Graphics Card

We generally recommend NVIDIA®, GeForce®, NVIDIA Quadro®, AMD Radeon™, AMD Radeon Pro™, and AMD FirePro™ cards. However, some graphics card models and/or drivers may cause application conflicts and/or instability. Graphic card models and drivers are constantly evolving and there may be exceptions to these recommendations, so please refer to the online rankings listed below, or contact Micromine Australia Pty Ltd support at support@micromine.com for the latest recommendations.

Some integrated or "on-board" graphics cards are not suitable for the application. For maximum compatibility and performance, you should choose a discrete graphics card that complies with the OpenGL 4.5 standard (or later).

The following online rankings may help you to choose a suitable graphics card:

PassMark Software Videocard Benchmarks (http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/)

NotebookCheck.net (http://www.notebookcheck.net/Comparison-of-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.130.0.html)

  • For a recommended laptop system, choose a Class 1 video card as near to the top of the list as you can reasonably afford.
  • For a minimum laptop system, choose a Class 2 video card.

Links were correct at the time of writing but may have been changed or deleted by their respective owners.

Maintaining your graphics card

Many of the problems encountered within the application are caused by incompatible or old and unstable graphics card drivers. No matter which graphics card you use, we recommend staying up-to-date with the latest graphics drivers.

Click the Project tab to open the backstage menu: Select Options | Graphics Configuration to view information about the graphics adapters and drivers installed on your computer.