miketomei Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I've been running into an odd issue where AutoCAD will consistently cause my entire PC to freeze in a hung/crashed state. I have to do a hard power cycle on the PC to bring it back to life. It's worked fine for 3-4 years, but now crashing consistently. It seems to be graphics related, because when I turn off AutoCAD's graphics hardware acceleration setting the issue goes away. It's obviously very annoying to work like this, so I'm hoping I can list the symptoms and someone might have a suggestion for me: Not version specific: it's happening with AutoCAD 2018 and also 2022 Not drawing file specific: happens with various drawing files and also just creating a new blank drawing. I tried forcing Windows to use the NVIDIA Quadro M1200 higher quality graphics card with AutoCAD, rather than my laptop's built-in on-board graphics card. AutoCAD’s graphics properties showing the NVIDIA graphics card is being used. Did a full clean uninstall and reinstall of all AutoCAD products on the computer. When starting AutoCAD for the first time it said that my graphics card doesn’t meet minimum specs, so disable graphics hardware acceleration. The odd thing is that this laptop's NVIDIA card meets spec, and has been fine for years. No recent hardware changes on the computer, but hard to say if there was a new graphics card driver installed automatically. Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 (edited) I am reminded of the old gag..."I told the Doctor that it HURTS when I go like this. He told to stop doing it." Have you tried checking the driver history for the graphics card in Properties? Perhaps you need to roll it back to an earlier version, as that seems like it just might be the fly in the virtual ointment. Then again Windows 10 mandatory forced updates have been known to rock a few boats. Have you checked and tweaked your Hardware Acceleration settings, to turn on only those which really serve you? Please update your current software profile, so that forum members can better assess any issues you may be experiencing, thanks. Edited October 12, 2021 by Dadgad DOB 1950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Use the graphics driver from Autodesk. If still happens try the latest from Nvidia site. As stated, please post your computer specifications. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 Like Dadgad there was a mention over at Bricscad forum that using an older Nvidia driver solved some problems with that software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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