Graphics card problem ??

solo

No need to open up to find out, as you said it's an AMD sempron, so it's single core with integrated graphics presumably 3d now technology (2004/5 build)

It should work, you may need to turn off 'accelerated graphics' to 'software' in preferences.... if you can get SU to actually start.

guzman tierno

@solo said:

It should work, you may need to turn off 'accelerated graphics' to 'software' in preferences.... if you can get SU to actually start.

Thanks Solo,
the problem is I cant get su to start, it freezes at startup without showing the menu bar.

Is there any way to set preferences from a command line ?

thanks.

sketch3d.de

@guzman tierno said:

Is there any way to set preferences from a command line ?

run XP in safe mode (= standard, lame, low-res Windows drvier), press F8 several times during boot for getting the menu concerned.

hth,
Norbert

guzman tierno

@sketch3d.de said:

run XP in safe mode

Thanks Norbert,

I'll try that.

guzman tierno

I hope to find a solution 'cause otherwise I wont be able to make my (middle school) students use Sketchup
and that would be very sad,

sketch3d.de

@guzman tierno said:

I hope to find a solution ...

you may alse evaluate replacing your shared low-end graphics sub system by something capable, i.e. a dedicated video card which will surely show a big boost on display output speed during screen transformations.. as well as running more stable w/ SU.

on older system with an AGP port only a nVidia GeForce 7900/7950 GS/GT is the fastest you can get.

hth,
Norbert

guzman tierno

That could be a good solution,
is it difficult to mount the graphic cards ?
are they expensive ?

Thank's a lot,
I didnt know how to face this problem,

guzman tierno

Thanks so much for your help,

I'll try with Windows safe mode on Saturday, 'cause I wont be at work tommorrow.
I'll tell you if it does work,

thx,
guz.

sketch3d.de

@guzman tierno said:

I didnt know how to face this problem,

did you have tried runnung SU in Windows safe mode for disabling the SU hardware acceleration option?

pluging in a video card is not very diffcult, be grounded before doing this and install (recent) driver w/ admin rights preferred.

for pricing check e.g. Amazon, the mentioned ones should not cost more than roughly U$ 100. Don't buy ATI Radeon series... weak OGL support.

hth,
Norbert

guzman tierno

@sketch3d.de said:

run XP in safe mode

Here I am,

I tried XP in safe mode:

by doing so I was actually able to reach sketchup menu bar and turn off hardware accelerations,

BUT:

when I use Sketchup it only works for 10 secs or so,
after that it seems that the options "hardware acceleration" is turned on automatically and
SU crashes,
restarting it I find the "hardware acceleration" option is turned on.

I tried many times, to set the option off, quit the program, etc ...
It automatically retruns to ON.

I tried SU 6 and SU 7, same result.

Any ideas ??

(ps: I dont know why, but new files start withount Sang ...)

guzman tierno

In case anyone has the same problem:
I finally find the solution (in my situation).

The computers I was trying to install SU on,
had an Integrated Graphic Processor AND a video card.
I finally discovered that by desabling the IGP
(from system->hardware->devices->video cards)
SU works fine.

guzman tierno

I'm really glad that with your help I solved the problem,

THIS wouldnt have been possible otherwise.

Thanks everybody.
guzman.