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[Turnanburn]

I have read the threads concerning this problem and have downloaded nvidea's latest driver 21.81 but still have the problem. I am runing athlon 1.0 gig with geforce 2 mx 200 video card on win 98se, any other suggestions??

[gcode]

Upgrade to WIN 2000 Professional.

[Turnanburn]

has this proven to be the qure for the prob. before, I just would like to know before I spend the $ for the upgrade.

[Bullines]

Unless, I've overlooked something, I've noticed two consistant factors in this cursor problem with Mastercam:

1) not running Windows 2000

2) MX versions of the GeForce2

[Christian Raebild]

I have two suggestions.

 

1. Download and install the latest driver for your GeForce card.

 

2. It may sound crazy, but try to install the latest version of DirectX.

 

Performing one or both have proven successful in the past.

[EDIT]

Installing Win2k automatically installs DirectX 8, so that may be why installing Win2k resolves the problem.

[/EDIT]

[ 09-24-2001: Message edited by: craebild ]

[Turnanburn]

I was thinking the same thing about directX and did load version 8.0, then uninstalled Mcam and reinstalled it and still have the cursor problem. Could there be some problem with Opengl? From there web site I found a driver utility prog. that I installed and it said Opengl had no driver for my video device but the shadeing seems fine. I don't get it.

[Bullines]

What's the name of the utility?

[Finecut]

For what its worth in video cards, here is what works for mastercam as I have found so far.

1)G-force cards work great EXCEPT THE MX VERSION !!

The mx does not support all the opengl routines as the others do.

2) Oxygen cards work great. These are the best. Upper end cad systems use them big time because they support opengl completly.

3)Matrox Millenium g450 or better. Older cards in this family are only 2d

I just installed a pci version of this card,and found it smooth and clean. Verify in mc8 has no problem. Win 98 SE

4) ATI---- Trash can it

5) voodoo cards--- Game card only.

If you just happen to have one or replaced

it with a different card, here is a tip.

Make sure after uninstalling a voodoo card you ck the registry for "voodoo " refrenceces

This one likes to hang around , meaning a uninstall doesnt always get rid of it all.

This can affect the next video card install.

I'd advise if you do not know how to work with the registery, find a good tech who can.

Just my 2 cents

Finecut

[JAMMAN]

Hey guys-

This "disappearing cursor" thing has come up so many times now- doesn't anyone have enough pull to get someone at CNC who knows the problem together with someone at NVIDIA who can solve this evidently common problem?

I'm about ready to buy a "MX" so I can figure it out myself. One post mentioned loading an older driver- does anyone have an original disk from the original MX or something? Lots of brains on this forum, I'm sure someone knows someone that knows someone that has a solid solution?

Jim

[Bullines]

The point at which Mastercam uses DirectX (soon, according to the grapevine) as a graphics library, will be the time when our video card woes subside.

And Finecut is right, the MX GeForce2's do the odd funky thing with Mastercam. They're very good cards for the buck and seem to be fine on Win2k, but they are a lite version of the GeForce2. As the old saying goes, "you get what you pay for".

[Turnanburn]

Thank you all for your suggestions and advise on this, it seems the best thing for me to do now is upgrade my video card, i'm going from the geforcemx2 to ddr, I was quoted $75.00 for the pugrade. Any problems with the geforceddr I should know about?

[Christian Raebild]

Something just came to mind. Use the CNCReg utility (accessed from the Windows Start menu), and register the mc8view.dll, mcbitmap.ocx, mcint.ocx, mclstctl.ocx and mcreal.ocx controls. This has worked for me in the past.

[Guest CNC Apps Guy 1]

I'm going to tell this forum something and I hope it doesn't upset anybody.

Most of the gamer card people could give a %()#*@!# about our puny little CAD/CAM market! Face it we(CAD/CAM Professionals) account for a mere single digit in the scheme of things. Few card mfr's have made it their mission to cater to CAD/CAM/CAE Applications. Matrox and Creative Labs to name a couple. In a nutshell, if gamers rave about it(the card) it usually will not be what we need in a card.

S3 for years put out cards that they knew had a bug and did nothing.

JM2c

[ 09-27-2001: Message edited by: James Meyette ]