I am trying to determine why my new laptop (Dell Inspiron 16 running Win 11) with Radeon graphics (processor: 0x15E7, DirectX 12, Direct Draw Enabled, Driver v: 31,0.21024.5, Direct 3D DDI: 12, Driver Model: WDDM 3.1) is failing to render a particular type of shaded image in my professional CAD application.
The CAD application (Microstation v8i) renders superb images. The core application graphics engine handles display in the various working windows and provides exceptional wireframe shaded and unshaded monochrome isometrics, wireframe and filled hidden line, shaded and unshaded transparent views of objects having great compexity. The "shaded" window "Display Style" is presented with precision and very quickly even on my oldest workstation computer running Win 7 with a graphics card (based on an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, DirectX 11, DDraw Status: Enabled, D3D Status: Enabled, Driver Model: WDDM 1.1) I am running full HD 1080x1920 on a 17" monitor and the results are more than satisfactory. See the attached .jpg below labeled "Original." My reasoning is that if the processing is so good on a 13 year old system it should be just fine with current technology.
About 5 years ago I ported the CAD application over to a new laptop ACER Aspire (A515-51G with display technology based on an Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 base processor and a supplemental graphics engine based on an NVIDIA GeForce MX150, DirectX 12 ) running Win 10. Once again, Microstation output from the core display functioning in the working windows at Full HD on the laptop display was exceptional in every way.
This brings me to today and the issue related in the first paragraph above. I need to know if there remains a control panel of sorts for setting specific parameters for the Radeon engine. As time passes Microsoft in updating their O.S. seem to make detailed interaction with hardware and firmware increasingly more difficult and I can't seem to find any Radeon processor specific user interface. If the lack of performance of the graphics is due to some additional settings I have to make then I would really like to understand how to do that. I would like to understand what conditions may be effecting this loss of shading in my images. Do I have to install a special driver and activate certain settings?
I have attached two .jpgs to illustrate the Original Win 7/10 result and the Win11 Failed Shading version. I can send DXDIAG report text if necessary.
Original Image is on the Left. The same display settings on the Radeon system Win 11 laptop appear on the Right
