Problems with screen

[tecno]

Hello

 

I have a problem with my X2, when drawing or simply moving the cursor over the geometry when analizing the entities, the cursor, appears to leave a "phantom square" where the cursor was on the graphics area, looks like it is not repainting the screen in the rigth way, if I press "F3", this square dissapears, but is very tedious to have this image on the screen, have anybody solved this problem?, I think that maybe is a problem of the configuration of my video card, but my supplier does not have any idea about this.

 

Any help will be apppreciated.

 

Ragrds

[gcode]

what video card are you running

what OS??

XP or Vista??

[tecno]

Hello Gcode

 

Thanks for your response, actually I do not know wich brand is my video card but what I can see in my control panel is that I have this adapter: Intel®946GZ Expres chipset family, but it works with an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver, 128 Mb in video memory and the OS is Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3. Hope this helps

 

Regards

[Guest]

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Intel®946GZ Expres chipset family, but it works with an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver, 128 Mb in video memory

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This is an integrated on the motherboard card.

 

It is going to cause you NOTHING but headaches, there is little if anything you can do to make it work right. This IS NOT A CAD/CAM card nor obviously workstation.

 

You need to see if your IT person can get an Nvidia Quadro Card into that system, if not, you will likely need a new system

[tecno]

Thank you Jparis

 

I´ll check this with my supplier

 

Regards

[tecno]

Hi

 

As additional data my screen is a Samsung SyncMaster 732n Plus.

 

Regards

[Guest]

It's not your screen it's your graphics accelerator, ie, the video card.

[MotorCityMinion]

You do not necessarily need a Quadro, they are way over priced. Save some cash and buy the regular version Nvidia. Check this link and read up about what is decent.

[tecno]

Thank you gentlemen

 

 

Regards

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

Try right clicking on the desktop, properties, settings, advanced, troubleshoot, set the graphics acceleration bar from full to 1 position right of none, apply, ok, appearance, effects, uncheck the (use the following transition effect for menus and tooltips. This will help with graphics issues a lot of times. Will be hit or miss on the integrated graphics tho.

[tecno]

Hello Mike

 

I´ve tried what you said and looks like it works, thanks fot the tip !!!, I´ll be desinginig all day to check what happen, just one question, setting the acceleration to almost none, Could be that I´m not using at 100% something (in this case video)that I´ve paid for? I mean, looks like I have not the problem by now but then the accelerator is not working at full and I do not know if this affect general the performance of the video maybe for another software(beacause of the settings I think that must affect), we also use SolidWorks, anyway I´ll check but if you or somebody else have had any experience like this please let me know.

 

Regards

[Guest]

Yes, this will affect performance.

 

I will generally only use this to verify a card/hardware issue.

 

I would not recommend working like this all the time as you will notice system performance issues.

[MotorCityMinion]

"Could be that I´m not using at 100% something (in this case video)that I´ve paid for? "

 

Not being mean spirited here but if you have no video card in the computer and your using any type of CAD/CAM product and having trouble with video and slow speed in general, you are getting 100% of what you paid for.

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

Yea, this is by no means the best fix but for low end or integrated graphics it does help. As John said it is just a workaround for those who can't make the company buy a better card or until they get the better card, or to get a laptop with integrated graphics to at least let you be able to work.

 

In a situation where it does help you could then try bumbing the setting back up some to find a happy medium whre Mastercam will still work o.k. and you get a little better performance.

[tecno]

Hello Guys

 

Mike

 

You won´t believe this, as I mentioned, I did what you wrote and the problem was fixed, now I tried to go back with the settings as originally set and I expected to see the problem again, but now I do not have the problem, I have the acceleration at full and the transition efect is checked and now the machine works "normally", is this posible?, I mean,Could happen that something was "fixed"?, Do I still have to change the Video Card?, Is possible that this "repair" any day returns?

 

Thanks to everybody for your reply

 

Regards

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

Hard to say, that is an odd result I haven't seen before. Maybe something patched itself somehow. If it starts to go crazy again thou you'll probably have to set it back and look at a Nvidia Quadro FX or ATI FIRE card.

[Mike Gates from Barefoot CNC]

Motorcityminion is right other cards can work just check them out here by doing a search on that card to see what results might be posted. Nvidia Quadro is by far the most successful on the most varied types and brands of computers, some of the cheaper cards may or may not work on your configuration. In other words it can be a crap shoot with a cheap card.

 

Hope we've been able to get you started in the right direction. I'll be out away from e-mail for a few days but the other guy's here can help you. A lot of them, including John Paris are a lot more computer savvy than I am.

 

He's o.k. for a dang yankee!

[tecno]

Thank you very much gentlemen !!!

 

Regards

[Guest]

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He's o.k. for a dang yankee!

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Thanks Mike.

 

I knew buying all those rounds would payoff eventually

 

 

[Goldorak]

tecno , if you don't makes mold , like me , the nvidia GeForce 8800GT , will do the job !!!!

 

and it cost nearlt half price of an QuadroFX

[tecno]

Hello Axela 09

 

Actually we do molds, we are planning to buy the Nvidia, Thanks for your reply

 

Mike

 

When I edit the nodes of a parametric spline the node points are not displayed util I press F3, so, the problem was nos solved at all, as metioned above, we´ll replace the video adapter.

 

Regards