Graphical Issues on Laptop

[Rich O Brien]

Hi Guys,

Here's my Laptops Specs

Dell Latitude D400
Intel Pentium M 1700MHZ Processor
1GB Ram
Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller
40GB HDD

Recently while modeling the house below i experience display issues

I've each part Grouped and on its own layer but when i attempt to add interior walls to existing interior walls artifacts appear and faces vanish? Also no indication appears on any face when is use select tool or push/pull etc. And at time SU will push/pull the adjacent face?

Here's an example of the issue

And here's my system preferences

Recently i've installed some plugins but i don't know if that is the issue? All my drivers are up to date as i've DriverMax 5 installed and it keeps it up to date on a daily basis.

Any ideas or advice?

[Gaieus]

Hi Rich,

@unknownuser said:

Intel 82852/82855 GM/GME Graphics Controller

That's the culprit. It means you don't even have a "real" video card at all (these integrated chipsets are okay to work in an MS Office document maximum). From the "zero" antialiasing options in your HW acceleration I also suspect that you practically have no video card support at all.

Turn off hardware acceleration completely; you don't benefit from it anyway. It would (probably) help with the issues at least (while your performance souldn't be worse)

[Rich O Brien]

Hi,

Thanks for the info, it worked alright but now that i know laptop is not much use for modelling larger models i'm gaining leverage for the boss (herself) to get me a new one!!

Anyone got suggestions on which laptop is good for modelling on? That's within €700 or so