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    • G Offline
      guzman tierno
      last edited by

      @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.

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      • sketch3d.deS Offline
        sketch3d.de
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        @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

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          guzman tierno
          last edited by

          @sketch3d.de said:

          run XP in safe mode

          Thanks Norbert,

          I'll try that.

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          • G Offline
            guzman tierno
            last edited by

            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,

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              sketch3d.de
              last edited by

              @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

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                guzman tierno
                last edited by

                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,

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                  guzman tierno
                  last edited by

                  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.

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                  • sketch3d.deS Offline
                    sketch3d.de
                    last edited by

                    @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

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                      guzman tierno
                      last edited by

                      @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 ...)

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                        guzman tierno
                        last edited by

                        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.

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                          guzman tierno
                          last edited by

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

                          THIS wouldnt have been possible otherwise.

                          Thanks everybody.
                          guzman.

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