win nt

[pei11]

When running mcam 8 or mcam 9 on the computer

that is running win nt we are having problems with

the highlight area on tool bars. The mouse arrow

can be moved then 30 seconds later the toolbar

hightlight will move. It just does it in mastercam

Any ideas to fix or should I up grade to xp.

It came with xp but was downgrade to nt buy the boss. Do not ask why. The computer is a dell

4500 dimension

 

Thanks,

Pei

[cadcam]

My 2 cents go back to XP more stable the NT4 and there will be some speed pickup.

[David S]

Would you tell us:

 

1. What version NT are you using? How big ram do you have?

 

2. If it is NT4, what sp on the NT4? (sp6 should be latest?)

 

3. What graphic card is on your Dell PC? What kind display setting on it? Have you checked the OPEN GL?

 

4. Your MasterCam V8 is V8 or V8.1.1? Have you downloaded all of the sps for them?

 

The reason I am asking is we used to use NT4, Dell Pc on our MasterCam V8 before. It worked fine. Now we use Win 2000 pro, sp2 for our V9.

[pei11]

Dave,

 

We are using NT4 sp6 with 255 ram. The video card

is dell p1130 set at 1024x768 pixels and 85 hertz.

The display is ati tech. rage 128 proII 4xl with

32 meg of ram.

 

Thanks,

pei

[pei11]

Dave,

 

We are using mcam 8.1.1 and mcam 9.1 .

We have downloaded all the sp packs.

One problem we have is that mcam 6 is still

running on the computer because one guy does

not want to change and learn the newer versions

 

Thanks,

Phil

[BernieT]

VER 6 !!!!!! Holy Moly!!!

 

Ver 6 was a great improvement from earlier versions and a very good CAM package, BUT ver 7, 8, &9 blow it away!!!

 

Anyway, each to his own........

 

Do a search on ATI cards, that is probably your problem.

[David S]

quote:

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mcam 6 is still

running on the computer

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This might be the problem. Try open MasterCam V.8.1.1 or V9.1 before open V.6.

 

CNC Software could correct me on this one that, prior to V.8.1.1, MasterCam like other old “DOS Windows” software (old AutoCad, 3D studio...) were memory hunger. They would take as much memory as they could from the system (they would not share). I remember we used to have problems on some Windows software while our MasterCam V.7 running. However, when V.7 open after those software every thing were OK. Have you tried run V8 or V9.1 without V6 running? What happened?

 

Can your boss give that V6 user a separate DOS PC?

 

Hope this would help.

 

[ 04-18-2003, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: David S ]

[cadcam]

Dave I dont think V6 is giving any trouble I have a few boxs I run V6,V7,V8 and 9.1 and have know troubles or slow down.

 

I have these to have a refrence back for support.

 

All running XP Pro and one Win2K.

[David S]

Jay had a point.

 

OK, Pei, could you add your memory to 510 or greater? That might work (at least it would not hurt). Memory is cheap this days. Please let us know.

[pei11]

This all happening with mcam 6 off.

If we run just mcam 6 it runs ok.

If we ran mcam 8 or mcam 9 is when we are having the trouble and the trouble is with highlight on

the tool bars or icons at the top.

As for the memory, can not hair of a toad.

 

Thanks,

pei

[David S]

Now, there are two options left:

 

1. Do Burnie said check Dell website to see if there is upgrade on your graphic card.

 

2. Do Jay's 2 cents. Beg your boss "go back to XP". But XP pro also needs more RAM. 255 is basic for CAD/CAM.

 

Good luck!

[Guest]

pei1:

 

Dump the video card. Get a nvidia or 3dlabs. This is from the hardware requirments section of this site.

 

"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."

 

HTH