I've reinstalled Version 6.
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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.
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What notice?
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Odd...
I have an nVidia GeForce 8800 GT - no issues at all.Maybe it's an XP thing... I'm running Win7.
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Yes - I think it's an XP thing as you say.
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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!
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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.
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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 These were created with some out of date application that was installed with XP on their PC's a few years back.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!
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Nvidia have just released (2010/10/25) a new XP Nvidia driver. It now works with Sketchup.
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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.
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