not refreshing automatically

[Robert Ouellette]

mastercam has stopped refreshing the screen. when i change views it does not erase the first view but shows both the new and the old. tried reinstalling video drivers but no help.

 

Please help

Bob

[mold100]

How big of file? Every file?Does it work after a re-boot?I am not aware of this problem but My computer

does funny things once and a while,especially if my drive is getting full,or I am trying to do to many tasks at once,this is a ram killer.How old and what kind of graphics card?

 

Also the pros will want to know what version, and maybe operating system.

 

AND welcome to posting on the forum

 

[ 09-11-2002, 07:42 PM: Message edited by: mold100 ]

[Robert Ouellette]

I have a PIII 500mhz a vodoo 3500 16mg video card, and 256mg memory. I am running 98SE. I have mastercam 8.1.1.I have not had to work at home for a little while now but i needed to program a part tonight and it started bugging up tonight. It is happening on all the files i try open and it only happens after i try to backplot. I hope you can help. It is frustrating to have to refresh the screen manually everytime you do something. It will not even high light the entities i pick.

Bob

[mold100]

Is after or during backplot,What are your display settings in backplot?

[Allan]

Try turning off the opengl (alt-s) try turning down the colour depth to 16-bit.

 

Allan

[mold100]

Alan, opengl is that pertain only to rendering?I havent tried this before.

[Allan]

The opengl is active anytime the shading is active. The opengl is also active anytime the button is turned on in screen configure.

 

The opengl problems have been discused here many times check out these threads.

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=001530#000005

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=000983#000004

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=000608#000001

 

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=000162#000001

 

Allan

[kwolf]

Probably the quickest way is to reduce hardware acceleration of your Graphics Card to none.

[Roger Peterson]

I had similar and worse problems using the video card you had on a previous computer. Setting the hardware acceleration to none helped a bit but still not good. I tried all these suggestions and more but was never happy. Good luck finding a driver for it. I beleive the company went out of biz or was bought out. I feel your pain, good luck.

[P_Scott]

bob23168,

 

What I had intended to say is replace the Voodoo card with one that has OpenGL drivers. Mcam is an OpenGL application and needs a video card with OpenGL drivers. VooDoo cards were known for gaming and other entertainment purposes but not OpenGL applications, that's why the video is acting strangely. Video cards using the Nvidia GeForce chipset have been known to run Mcam well. Avoid the LEAST expensive cards but all others using the GeForce (except an MX 200) should do well. Also avoid ALL ATI video cards. HTH

 

[ 09-16-2002, 02:31 PM: Message edited by: Peter Scott, SFA ]