Quadro 5010m is not supported for 3ds max. You should not buy it!!!

[leandrom]

Hello friends.

Recently bought a laptop with quadro 5010m for use in 3ds Max. The intention was to improve the performance of the viewport.

Unfortunately I discovered too late that the 3ds Max performance driver (MAXtreme) is not available for this quadro, which is the top for notebooks.

I'm putting here a conversation I'm having with nvidia support.

I ask everyone to think carefully before buying this quadro, because will be disappointed.


Customer Leandro Martins via CSS Web 05/07/2012 02:06 PM

Quadro 5010m don´t have 3ds Max Performance Driver?



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Response Cindy via Email 05/08/2012 09:37 AM

Hello Leandro,

That is correct. The Quadro 5010M does not have 3ds Max Performance Drivers.

Regards,

NVIDIA Customer Support

Customer Leandro Martins via CSS Web 05/08/2012 05:38 PM

Thanks for the answer

3ds max performance driver will not be released in future for this quadro?

I just purchased a notebook just to come with this quadro, and could buy a desktop quadro.

This quadro card is top to notebooks and should have a support and drivers like the others.

Regards,

Leandro


Response Cindy via Email 05/09/2012 12:14 PM

Hello Leandro,

Please tell me what version of 3ds Max you are using.

Regards,

NVIDIA Customer Support


Customer Leandro Martins via CSS Web 05/09/2012 12:47 PM

Hello Cindy,

I have 3ds max 2010 and I will buy the 2013 next week. I will use both

I just bought quadro 5010m for my viewport support more polygons and vrayproxyies.

Regards,

Leandro


Response Cindy via Email 05/09/2012 02:46 PM

Hello Leamdro,

Thank you for the additional information. The 3ds Max Performance Drivers were never available for laptops.

For your laptop and the desktop that you plan on getting, you can use a plug in named iray that will use the GPU (CUDA) for acceleration.

Click on the link below for more information on iray:
http://area.autodesk.com/blogs/shane/the_iray_faq

I cannot tell you what will be available for support on the 2013 version of 3ds Max.

You can see the list of drivers that Autodesk certified for their software and the NVIDIA hardware.

Click on the link below to see this list:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...linkID=9241178

Regards,

NVIDIA Customer Support


Customer Leandro Martins via CSS Web 05/09/2012 05:01 PM

Hello Cindy,


Why then on the link below has 3ds max performance driver for the quadro fx 3800 notebook serie?

The nvidia site is wrong?

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us

Else, Iray and vrayrt are renderers and do nothing to viewport. They still have many bugs and are not intended for professional jobs. Vrayrt does not render proxies, so I'm still dependent on conventional rendering by cpu.

I work with architecture and landscape in 3ds max since version 4, and I was always interested in my viewport quadro to accelerate, especially in scenes with several towers and many trees, vegetation and complex textures. During production of the scenes is very important to have a quick viewport.

Too bad the lag when you're spreading the vegetation for example.


Anyway. I hope that due attention for quadro notebooks. The notebook workstation market has increased.

I bought a clevo with quadro 5010m, intel i7 3930k (yes, they are using desktop cpu) and 32gb of ram. Except for the fact that my quadro does not seem as professional as well, I have a notebook that is much better than desktop workstation.

I think it's very precarious information about the advantages of quadro on the geforce in the 3ds max. And worse still talking about the advantages of quadro desktop on the quadro notebook.

Nvidia not have the ability to create a 3dsmax performance driver for quadro notebook?

This is very funny to report to the various forums in the world of computer graphics.

I'm very disappointed.


Anyway, thank you for your attention.

Leandro Martins.


Response Cindy via Email 05/10/2012 03:06 PM

Hello Leandro,

I apologize for misspelling your name.

Actually, you are right. For some reason I was thinking of the GeForce based notebooks..

I do understand the difference between rendering and viewport but unfortunately as mentioned, there is no Performance driver available for 3ds Max for the Quadro 5010M. I do realize how important it is.

Regards,

NVIDIA Customer Support


Customer Leandro Martins via CSS Web 05/10/2012 08:35 PM

No problem Cindy. Many people for other countries are confused with my name, and my English is not so good :P

But anyway, I ask for software engineering at NVIDIA to develop the drivers for quadro notebook series, because many users of 3dsmax are migrating to high-performance notebooks, and if the nvidia makes the best video card for notebooks, she should have the same respect that the quadro for desktop.

Is not possible to be so hard to produce this driver, do not you think?

Regards,

Leandro Martins

[poopipe]

maxtreme hasn't been as fast as DX for several years and is nowhere near as fully featured

compared to nitrous it's totally prehistoric

you're losing nothing by not having it

[leandrom]

I have not yet tested the 3ds max 2013, but in 2012, the nitrous modeling has many bugs. I do not know 'cause in some cases of polygonal modeling, pivots, booleans and other things, he is simply crazy.

I did not buy the 2012 for that very reason.

The forum of Autodesk, and others are full of complaints from the nitrous.

It really is faster, but so is the same case and Iray vrayrt ... still not 100% perfect for professional use.

[poopipe]

ive been using 2012 professionally for about a year now and you're right - it was a total disaster at the beginning but now it's fine - as solid as 2009 was and you can't say that about 2010/2011

however - maxtreme stopped being worth using when the DX9 viewport drivers were finally sorted which was at version 9

seriously - it really doesn't matter and nvidia know it