vista graphics issues

[DaveR]

link

 

 

I saw this advice, it did not help.

 

using vista ultimate

 

I'm running an intel MB with 3gig dual core chip, 4 megs ram, 2 NVIDIA 8800 GTS cards in SLI latest nforce drivers.

 

Latest MCX2 mill 3 version

 

When I drag a line or anything across the screen it whites the screen out with a big smudge, screen will reset with clear colors, looks like a video card or driver issue but I'm not sure what might fix it.

 

Any ideas?

 

Dave

[cadcam]

I don't know any one running Mastercam with SLI for starter then on top of it in Vista.

There are not allot of drivers out yet. I would stat that you should move to XP Pro and get supportive drivers from there.

[DaveR]

Yep made this game rig and knew I was asking for trouble. I'll keep hacking at it.

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

On the startup icon for Mastercam on your desktop -

 

Right-click

Properties

 

Select the compatibility tab

 

check the 'Disable Desktop composition' box

 

Apply

OK

 

Or you can disable desktop composition using the performance settings.

[DaveR]

It did work, had to shut down and restart MC after the changes.

 

Thanks.

 

Dave

[nem3]

Running X2 MR1, and disabling the desktop composition did nothing for me.

 

Running Inhell Core 2, Nvidia 7900 and Vista Ultimate.

 

Perhaps some of you guys could share what Vista drivers are approved for use with MR1. I would greatly appreciate it as the only way I can get rid of graphics issues right now is to disable Mastercam from even using the graphics card.

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

I am using the latest from www.nvidia.com

 

On BOTH my 32bit single core laptop and 64bit dual core Desktop - the same setting fixed both systems.

[nem3]

I would love it if Nvidia came out with drivers that were made for Vista that supported my 7900GS mobile. But I am stuck with either Dell's which were pretty bad, or modded ones from others.

 

Craig, you say the latest, could you tell me exactly what ver. you are running.

[Craig Madsen from CM3D]

On my Toshiba Tecra M4 Nvidia 6600 - Tablet PC - Vista Business x32 version 98.13

 

On my Desktop AMD FX-60 Nvidia 8600GT Vista Ultimate X64 version 162.22

[Jack Neelands™]

my laptop came with vista on it and its been nothing but trouble since ....X and solid works would not work on it .....X 2 would scrimp along with video problems ....so in went the xp pro disc ...now i have X and solid works ....but no X2

 

kind of a bad trade off I should not have to deal with ...but anybody got another operating system that will run all 3? with no issues?

 

cause I'll buy it ....got no qualms with that

[DaveR]

You have to DL solidworks 2008 beta to get it to run on Vista.

 

Dave

[gcode]

quote:

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X and solid works ....but no X2

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Do you have FrameWork.Net 2.0 installed?

X2 will not run without it.

[Goldorak]

does it gives you someting like this:

 

 

win2000 sp4 ATI radeon 9200

 

i never find a way to avoid this

(i know i got to upgrade but my boss think it's not my computer )

[nem3]

Every so often I get line displays like that. But my main problem was that after I would verify, wierd things would happen. Like if I scrolled over the toolpaths, the main window would flip back and forth from the verified part, to the wireframe toolpath.

 

Now, granted I am not using straight from Nvidia drivers. But these work great in everything else I use in Vista. Solidworks, 3DS Max, Maya, ACAD 02, and 07 and Rhino. Never had any problems like this in those programs. I also never had to disable some of Vista's features to get them to run correctly.