I needed a basic laptop to hook up to a Microscribe arm. Nothing fancy - it just has to be able to run Rhino 5 and give me access to the 3D digitising toolbar and let me set up new layers to help me make sense of all the points once I get back to my workstation. No huge files or rendering or any other arduous stuff. Also, it may get used in some fairly dirty environments. I didn’t want to spend out on something high spec & precious.
So I dusted off my venerable Dell M90, which I haven’t used for a while but didn’t want to chuck it as it’s still in very good condition. It’s also sporting a reasonable SSD and Windows 10. GPU is a Quadro FX1500m. Device ID is NVIDIA_DEV.029B.01
Rhino 5 installed without a problem, aside from the usual warning on first start up that the driver is too old and I should update it. I’ve had this before but tbh haven’t noticed any problems. Until now. With hardware acceleration enabled in Rhino, mouse right-click and hold will neither pan the ortho views or rotate the perspective view. The cursor changes to a hand/orbit symbol, but the view is completely unresponsive. All other controls (button clicks, pop-up, right click etc) seem to work fine. Driver version is 259.47 - well behind the minimum recommendation of version 340.66, but the more recent drivers have no support for my venerable GPU and simply won’t install. A driver of similar vintage seemed to run Rhino 5 OK on Windows 7 - I never had a problem with viewport manipulation, that’s for certain.
If I disable hardware acceleration, view manipulation works as it should, but I get nasty moire effects and no antialiasing, plus the usual glitchiness associated with Microsoft basic drivers.
Is there any fix for this?