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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
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        @sketch3d.de said:

        run XP in safe mode

        Thanks Norbert,

        I'll try that.

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          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
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            @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.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
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                    @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
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                      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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