Sketchup on Vista
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Ok, so I just reinstalled SUP6 on my Vista machine to see if it would fix the problem but it didn't.
So the problem is that on XP and other OS' when you drag to select something a box appears around the area which you dragged from and to. Well on my computer when I drag nothing comes up! So I can't really see what I've selected until i release my mouse.
Does anyone know why it's doing this and a fix for it?
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I'd start first thing by upgrading your video card drivers. If they are the newest, then dig around the forums here and people have listed other video card drivers makers websites so you could download drivers by someone else that might be better than the official drivers. But yeah, sounds like a video card issue.
Chris
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I would have to agree with Chris Fullmer. It sounds like a video card problem. If you have ATI or nVidia, you could try http://www.omegadrivers.net/
These drivers intended for gaming but i had a lot of luck with them in Sketchup. -
Yep, problem here as well. Nvidia on an hp notebook, sketchup freezes completely. I did actually manage to fix it one time, by turning the card to slow mode, but it don't wanna play that game again. Will look for updated drivers as suggested and await the next version I guess.
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What graphic card models do you guys use? And what driver version?
I've been using Vista with nVidia 6800GT and 8800GT with no such issues. I keep my drivers fairly updated. At work I got a nVidia Quadro FX 3500 on XP. Also no issues.
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i think i may have encountered this problem before it may be ur video card but you could try going to preferences and changing the graphics card settings seeing if it gives you a different result
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Problem solved, Nividia GeForce Go 7600 on HP notebook, couldn't find any new drivers on the nvidia site, but found thru HP site instead.
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FYI you will never find 'mobile' GPU drivers on nVidia's Web site - these cards and related software/drivers are the sole responsibility of the mobile platform OEM. As suggested above either look at:
OEM (you already found) for vanilla drivers
OmegaDrivers (http://www.omegadrivers.net/) optimized however does not appear to be updated anymore
OverClockers (http://www.ocforums.com/index.php) primarily for gamers and tweakers
Laptop2Video (http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/) very technical but will probably contain a fix for almost any situation -
@darkhelmet said:
FYI you will never find 'mobile' GPU drivers on nVidia's Web site - these cards and related software/drivers are the sole responsibility of the mobile platform OEM.
jfi, in the meanwhile nVidia offers some GeForce 8M and Go 7 mobile series video drivers for several Dell XPS systems on their driver download page... maybe because of the thermic problems of the GPU casing which recently has arised.
Norbert
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@verrou said:
So the problem is that on XP and other OS' when you drag to select something a box appears around the area which you dragged from and to. Well on my computer when I drag nothing comes up!
check if disabling the 'fast feedback' option in the SU display settings fixes the problem, if not disable the graphics 'hardware acceleration' (= OpenGL) too.
if disabling either one or both of the above settings cures the effect, your video driver resp. the OpenGL support of the driver is causing the problem.
this problem can regularly be avoided by using a video card with a driver optimized for and supporting the full OpenGL stack as e.g. the nVidia CAD series 'Quadro FX' instead of gaming cards optimized for speed only as e.g. the ATI Radeon series or shared and slow low-end solutions as e.g the Intel GMA series etc.
hth,
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@sketch3d.de said:
...problem can regularly be avoided by using a video card with a driver optimized for and supporting the full OpenGL stack as e.g. the nVidia CAD series 'Quadro FX' instead of gaming cards optimized for speed only ... and slow low-end solutions....
Norbert,
Regarding the Quadro FX cards, nVidia even has a "partner certified driver" for SketchUp. (The driver is currently available only for XP.)
I was pleasantly surprised the other day, when I installed new Quadro driver
Note that, when your system reports that a newer, updated driver is NOT available, you should question from whence that message comes. Apparently, Microsoft is providing this assessment. How do they know? If I check Windows Update, it says no newer driver is available, yet nVidia had one. I suspect that Microsoft will always be behind on it's driver update notifications. Do yourself a favor, and actively search for one on your own. (I have the mobile version of the Quadro FX, and couldn't be happier with this new driver.)
I'm sorry that I can't report that will help Vista users, including Verrou. However, the adviceNorbert provided, regarding 'fast feedback,' is typically the most-effective fix for cursor and marquee-selection problems (XP and Vista, alike.) Turning off 'fast feedback' doesn't slow down SketchUp as much as disabling 'hardware acceleration.' Hopefully, the feedback setting alone should resolve Verrou's problem.
Taff
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