SketchUp acts strange on laptop [hepl requested]
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Hy I have a shiny new ASUS M51Vr laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470(256 RAM, I think), 3GB DDR2 and Core2Duo T5800(2GHz) and I am badly surprised of SketchUp's poor performance.
First problem occurred is that I can't select entities over mouse cursor. Instead entities behind what I want to select are selected.
If I disable hardware acceleration, select works normally, but SU responds slow when rotating a model.
One more big issue is leader text... some of leader text items don't show up in printing (on paper, pdf, or else), but are visible in 3d model.
One year ago I was working on a desktop with single core @ 1.6GHz and NVIDIA 5500FX video card and it performed much better.
One more thing: how can I force CPU to work at full capacity, because most of time it stays at 797MHz, instead of 2GHZ?If someone have some suggestions I can't wait to try...
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Hi NewOne,
I'm not sure how this should actually work with newer cards but in the OpenGL settings, could you try checking (unchecking) "Correct reverse picking driver bug" or something (I don't have SU open ATM).
Also, are you sure you have the latest driver for tour graphics card? A new machine generally comes with a CD or something but the driver can be months old on it.
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@gaieus said:
Hi NewOne,
I'm not sure how this should actually work with newer cards but in the OpenGL settings, could you try checking (unchecking) "Correct reverse picking driver bug" or something (I don't have SU open ATM).
Also, are you sure you have the latest driver for tour graphics card? A new machine generally comes with a CD or something but the driver can be months old on it.
My new machine came with VISTA drivers only, so I was forced to download the newest drivers available
. I tried "Correct reversed picing driver bug", it corrects single click selection, but when I double or triple click it selects something else (if I am inside a component and select a face, when I double click on face, it goes out of component and selects a different entiy beyond that component).
What "Hardware acceleration" is?
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Well, HW acceleration practically switches your video card on. Without it (simply speaking), you computer acts like as if it didn't even have a video card.
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Hi NewOne,
Test you videocard withs this soft:
http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/download.html
It check you videocard to work with Open GL.
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I tried to find on http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx newer drivers for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470, but it seems that the manufacturer doesn't have such drivers for XP(or other OS). This is really strange! Instead I found something here http://www.radarsync.com/drivers/d177866-ati_mobility_radeon_hd_3470. I will install that and see what happens. My current drivers are from ASUS website.
EDIT: it looks like those drivers are not for my hardware... If somebody knows a little chinese (or taiwanese) man who manufactures ATI videocards, please tell him to e-mail me newer drivers.
In my actual situation, SketchUp works better WITHOUT video card -
don't know if it works on vista, but i resolved that issue intalling the fire gl drivers for my card. Ati cards sucks in working with Sketchup :S
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Laptop drivers you often have to get from the manufacturers of the laptop, not ATI or nVidia. Often they aren't updated that often, which might leave you with bad drivers.
If you have Hardware acceleration off then you have really poor performance and SU will choke very quickly as your model grows.
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PROBLEM SOLVED !
I have downloaded this tool http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool.php and modded the drivers from here http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/ati.htm. And now I can work in SketchUp on my laptop!
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