If i run the uniegine benchmarks the results seems fine compared to others. But if i run Cadalyst performance the 3d performance is just abyssmal if i look at other results.
Even installed a game Dota2, and got decent fps 60.
In Revit as soon as i hit the 3d views and its somewhat complex rotating the model is painfully slow.
Tried gpu monitoring tools and they say that maybe 10% av the gpu is used when rotating(dunno if it checks the performance for vgpu or the physical card)
Desktop composition redirection is disabled thats about it with policies.
I have EnableWPFHook in the registry.
Config looks fine, but what CPU’s in the physical server?
CPU Speed can affect performance dramatically as both AutoCAD and Revit are single threaded and very CPU intensive. We’ve seen PoC’s where CPU speed has been the bottleneck.
In order to get AutoCAD 2014 running with vGPU, you need to update the AdskHwCertificationDatabase.xml file, located at C:\Users\Public\Documents\AutoDesk\AutoCAD 2014\R19.1\PTXML, with the appropriate vGPU profile. So if you haven’t made this change, AutoCad will revert to CPU only.
You should confirm that hardware acceleration is enabled in both AutoCad and Revit.
Hi thanks for your input, i have thought about the speed also.
Its 2 Xeon E5-2660 2.2 ghz, any experience with that one?
I’ve been to the customer today and looked at the performance difference between local and Xendesktop and it actually was only abit fast on their Pcs in Revit.
They also had a consultant from their Cad supplier there and he said that they work slightly wrong, loading the full models instead of only relevant parts.
Yes only slightly more delay for them. Their Cad consultant support also said that it was almost impossible to get their models completely smooth in 3d view with any computer.
Uhm hardware virtualisation in the vm? i see the option in vsphere but not in xencenter.
Hardware virtualisation is enabled in bios.
But i see activity on the gpu with external tools and nvidia-smi command in xenserver.
Even tho it doesnt seems like much, less then 10% while rotating a 3d model in revit.
I ran the Uniengine directx11 test also and it seemed to score decent so the gpu should work
In the application settings (for Revit & AutoCAD) inside the VM. Not on the VM iteself. If the applications aren’t configured to use hardware acceleration, they’re going to render on the CPU.
It looks as though you’ve made some progress in the application usage pattern to improve perfromance though having seen this thread here: