I've reinstalled Version 6.

John Sayers · 15 Oct 2010, 04:38

Since I installed Version 8 I've had all sorts of problems. the pushpull is weird, i.e. it selects the wrong face, the mouse is weird - I have to add an additional click sometimes to make something like a simple delete happen, I can't capture a group of items as they highlight then unhighlight when I click delete, sometimes it appears the mouse is one step behind me and it appears to have infected version 7 as well which now shows similar symptoms. (I'm on a PC BTW)

I've checked my computer for Trojans and viruses etc and it's clean. I've tried switching off the acceleration but it makes no difference.

So I reinstalled version 6 and I think I'll go back to it. I can't find my copy of version 5 else I would have reverted back to it and 5 is no longer a download option, only 6 and 7.

Version 6 works fine with none of the above problems, it's also more intuitive.

I don't use the program in conjunction with Google earth so I have no need for the the updates, I don't use fancy styles, renders or street view scenes either. I just use it to make 3D models of my designs so I can show my client and export to .dwg for the 2D plans. I don't use layout as I have ProgeCad.

thomthom · 15 Oct 2010, 06:13

Why all the way back to SU6? Why not SU7?

As for the issues: PushPull in SU8 allows you to pre-select faces before pushpulling. You might be running into this.
As for other issues you have - newer SU versions demands better graphic card drivers as they use other OpenGL commands - have you updated your graphic card drivers recently?

John Sayers · 15 Oct 2010, 06:31

yes - I have the latest video card driver.

John Sayers · 17 Oct 2010, 22:17

Problem solved - I reinstalled a video driver from 2008 and all the problems have gone away. I hadn't seen the notice regarding Nvidia drivers.

So I'm now back to running V8.

thomthom · 18 Oct 2010, 06:12

What notice?

John Sayers · 20 Oct 2010, 04:14

Error 404 (Not Found)!!1

(groups.google.com)

thomthom · 20 Oct 2010, 06:28

Odd...
I have an nVidia GeForce 8800 GT - no issues at all.

Maybe it's an XP thing... I'm running Win7.

John Sayers · 20 Oct 2010, 07:11

Yes - I think it's an XP thing as you say.

tfdesign · 20 Oct 2010, 09:07

In all fairness, XP is a dead operating system. Here in the UK, it seems that many still haven't updated to 7, and as a result I'm producing stuff that some corporations (especially education & council based), can't use, because they still have to update. It's very frustrating. I wish everybody would upgrade to W7!

honoluludesktop · 20 Oct 2010, 09:28

Tom, What kinds of apps. run on Win7, but not on WinXP? The only thing I could think of deals with hardware, whose drivers for Win7 have no equivalent for WixXP.

tfdesign · 20 Oct 2010, 13:36

It's nothing to do with the apps (if they are up-to-date), more to do with investment in newer technologies (those apps not being up-to-date), for example, I am sent a load of MPG-2 files which Quicktime won't touch. These were created with some out of date application that was installed with XP on their PC's a few years back. The only thing that will play them is the VLC player. Great. I can playback, but I can't edit, or update, without myself having to spend even more money (which I haven't got).

It's lazy British IT basically, "if it works, don't fix it" type attitude, which is fine, if that whole department doesn't update, but your scr*wed if anything leaves the room. Generally it seems that applications don't get updated unless the operating system gets a boost.

Another interesting example was a department I was working in recently where CS5 kept crashing badly on XP. But after a whole load of internet searching, it was found that updating to Windows 7 was curing most peoples problems. The department updated only one PC to W7, and the problem went away.

Okay, they probably just need to update their apps, but many IT departments' budgets don't appear to stretch this far- at least in England. I think IT departments in the USA are far better at this and more 'on the ball' than we are!

John Sayers · 27 Oct 2010, 20:29

Nvidia have just released (2010/10/25) a new XP Nvidia driver. It now works with Sketchup.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-260.99-whql-driver.html

honoluludesktop · 27 Oct 2010, 22:05

Tom, I understand your frustration as a service provider, but I wouldn't want the State buy new cars just because the old ones don't have a video camera providing a view backing up. Aren't the Brit's currently climbing out of one of the worlds worst economic turn downs? Hope you can "hang in there" until things get better.