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NVIDIA driver 305.93 causing erratic behavior

Posted Oct 11, 2012, 10:13 a.m. EDT Geometry Version 4.2a, Version 4.3, Version 4.3a 5 Replies

Erik Shipton
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COMSOL was working great until I got a Tesla NVIDIA GPU. After installing the driver NVIDIA 305.93 I started getting erratic behavior when mouse clicking on the graphics. When I click to highlight a domain a completely different domain gets highlighted. Same thing on boundaries. For some reason COMSOL thinks the mouse is pointing somewhere else on the screen. The behavior is repeatable but unpredictable. For example everytime I click a boundary the same wrong boundary gets highlighted but its impossible to predict which wrong boundary will get highlighted after drawing a new object. There are also domains that I can't highlight no matter where I click on the model.
I uninstalled the driver and COMSOL went back to normal.
Using windows 7 64bit.
COMSOL support hasn't seen this problem before now.
I don't need the Tesla drivers for COMSOL but its not very convenient to uninstall every time I want to run COMSOL and reinstall when I need to use my GPU.
Anyone else have problems with NVIDIA drivers?
5 Replies Last Post Dec 12, 2012, 4:10 p.m. EST
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Iker Rodriguez
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Posted: 1 decade ago Nov 21, 2012, 9:41 a.m. EST
Many people is complaining about that. See www.comsol.com/community/forums/general/thread/32259
Many people is complaining about that. See http://www.comsol.com/community/forums/general/thread/32259
Geoff Olynyk
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Posted: 1 decade ago Nov 21, 2012, 4:06 p.m. EST
Whoops, I didn't see this thread, and created a new one:

www.comsol.com/community/forums/general/thread/33146/

There are now three threads on the same issue.
Whoops, I didn't see this thread, and created a new one: http://www.comsol.com/community/forums/general/thread/33146/ There are now three threads on the same issue.
Geoff Olynyk
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Posted: 1 decade ago Nov 21, 2012, 4:07 p.m. EST
Erik, the issue exists on NVidia driver versions 306.97 and 307.45 as well.
Erik, the issue exists on NVidia driver versions 306.97 and 307.45 as well.
Iker Rodriguez
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Posted: 1 decade ago Dec 12, 2012, 3:42 a.m. EST

Erik, the issue exists on NVidia driver versions 306.97 and 307.45 as well.


Geoff, have you tried one of those drivers with the update 1 of COMSOL 4.3a?
[QUOTE] Erik, the issue exists on NVidia driver versions 306.97 and 307.45 as well. [/QUOTE] Geoff, have you tried one of those drivers with the update 1 of COMSOL 4.3a?
Geoff Olynyk
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Posted: 1 decade ago Dec 12, 2012, 4:10 p.m. EST

Geoff, have you tried one of those drivers with the update 1 of COMSOL 4.3a?


I can confirm that on my machine at least, with NVidia ODE drivers 307.45, the problem is fixed in Comsol 4.3a Update 1. OpenGL works fine now.
[QUOTE] Geoff, have you tried one of those drivers with the update 1 of COMSOL 4.3a? [/QUOTE] I can confirm that on my machine at least, with NVidia ODE drivers 307.45, the problem is fixed in Comsol 4.3a Update 1. OpenGL works fine now.

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