The 3D Systems support team has shared a couple of useful tips which help boost the performance of NVIDIA Quadro cards.
Optimal settings for Artec Studio 12/13 and Design X More information about driver versions is available in this article. For optimal operation, a very specific version of the NVIDIA graphics driver needs to be installed on your system.NVIDIA Quadro cards are not recommended for Artec Studio 9 and 10, although they may deliver acceptable performance after you tweak a certain parameter in the NVIDIA Control Panel (see the "Threaded optimization" section further below).
Older Quadro models such as the 1100M or 2100M are not supported.