Tuesday, July 04, 2023

How to upgrade a graphics card.

I had setup a computer about 12 years ago to be used as a cad station.  I had just recently updated it's hard drive from a 500GB SATA HDD to a 1TB SSD. 

Here are the Specs


The video card being replaced is an ATI V4800 Fire Pro with 1 GB of Video Ram

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/firepro-v4800.c572

With updated system requirements Revit 2023 Video card requirements are

Video AdapterBasic Graphics:
Display adapter capable of 24-bit color

Advanced Graphics:
DirectX® 11 capable graphics card with Shader Model 5 and a minimum of 4GB of video memory

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/System-requirements-for-Autodesk-Revit-2023-products.html

The Fire Pro is being replaced with a Nvidia 1630 which is about 80% faster or almost 5X Faster; dispite the 1630 being a 64bit Videocard vs the 128bit V4800.



So the first step is to remove any software before uninstalling the driver in this case we need to remove the CCC (Catalyst Control Center) then we can remove the display driver for the system.


You will want to removal ALL AMD Software


Uninstall All Versions


Once the uninstaller has finished I selected no because I also want to ensure the software driver was removed.  

Once verified I shutdown the system.  Replaced the V4800 with the Nvidia 1630.  Installed the driver and verified Revit could see the card. 


If you are replacing a Nvidia videocard with an AMD videocard; follow the same process but make sure all the Nvidia software is removed before you install the AMD Videocard.




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