Mastercam Lag?

[locofoxtech]

i've just installed mastercam onto my system. its a athlon 1.4 with 512mb with an ati radeon 7200 64mb card running xp pro. for some reason, whenever i start up mastercam, the cursor blinks and keeps on blinking. when i move the cursor over the tool buttons, it lags. it doesnt move smoothly. if i try and draw something, what i am trying to draw something, when i move the mouse, i can see what i am drawing but it still blinks. when i stop moving the mouse, what i draw disappears for awhile until i click the mouse and then i see it. is there something wrong with my system or bad install or what? thanks.

[Rekd™]

It's your video card. ATIs are not recommended.

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

'Rekd

[Rekd™]

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ATI's commercial line of cards which include the Radeon, Rage, All In Wonder, and Xpert series are not recommended. As it stands, ATI is notorious for having weak OpenGL implementations in its commercial drivers which can result in poor performance and instability in OpenGL-based applications such as Mastercam. ATI's workstation line of cards, FireGL, do not appear to be plagued by OpenGL issues.

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'Rekd

[Jack Mitchell]

Try switching your mouse comm port. I suspect this area more than the video card.

 

As always, get the latest driver.

 

Best of luck.

 

Regards, Jack

[BernieT]

Sometimes reducing the Hardware Acceleration a notch or two will help.

[cadcam]

Still if you had a card tat supports open GL better this would help..

 

You can do a search on this topic on the board and find alott of info.

[locofoxtech]

thanks everyone. i figured it would be my graphics card. too bad i can't afford a real high end commercial card. i switched it out with a matrox millenium card i had around. 4mb goodness. =D and it doesnt lag anymore. so now i'll go out and search for a new card. thanks again.

[locofoxtech]

oh and btw, what low end but decent card would you recommend for mastercam? i've also seen the recommendations. i can't really afford a 5600 and my friend has a 128mb 4200 ti, and thats still over $100

[kwolf]

GeForce FX series, GF4 Ti series,GF 4 MX series.

[kwolf]

Actually I'm working with a GF 3 128MB at work and so far so good.

You can buy GF 4 MX 440 under $100. But first try newegg or the likes, you can buy better cards for under $100 from what I've heard.

[BernieT]

A lot of Ti 4200's on E-bay for around $50 or less.

[cadcam]

(GF 4 MX series. ) do not use these really cheap cards.

 

I have found these to contain troubles to.

[locofoxtech]

i see. i'm not getting those for sure. well i've found an asus 4200ti 8x 128mb for under 100. oem, but it'll have to do. just gotta see if i have the funds. thanks everyone for your help.

[cadcam]

I know by hands on you will have much better results with that card.

[DC Gorn]

You have time and no money might want to look into converting your ATI card to a FireGL. My 9700 pro works sweet as a FireGL X1.

 

Edit: Starting point, http://forums.guru3d.com/index.php

[iowajim62]

Good video for price.

 

BFG Asylum FX5200 256 mb ram $99 Fry's Electronics