SIMPLE HELP!!!!
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I have lost my mind. I recently installed SU on a borrowed computer. It is an HP with Windows Vista Home. SU Seems to run fine until I try to draw a line or select something. When drawing the line, it is appearing when I begin to draw it but when I click to end the segment the line disappears. When I opened a file and tried to highlight and select things, there was no bounding box but whatever would have been in said box had it appeared was selected. How do I fix this?!?!?!
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Sounds like a video card problem. The often come with old drivers. Try finding out what video card you have and then download the newest drivers for it. See if that fixes it.
There are also some display options in the SketchUp Preferences that you might play to see if they help fix anything.
Chris
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How do I find out what kind of video driver I have? This is a borrowed computer and the owner does not know what kind of driver it is.
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@smithryan07 said:
How do I find out what kind of video driver I have?
"Win+R > dxdiag > OK > Display > Device/Driver"
hth,
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That left me confused, what is that?
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Win+R = keyboard shortcut for "Run"
Type: "dxdiag", click "OK"
Click Display-> Device/Driver
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oh cool. I never ever use my "win" key. dxdiag, very useful little utility. Thanks guys,
Chris
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@chris fullmer said:
oh cool. I never ever use my "win" key. dxdiag, very useful little utility. Thanks guys,
Chris
On Windows7 you got some new nifty Win keys. (Win+Left and Win+Right are very nice to create split views)
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How do I make sure the driver is up to date? I googled the driver and all that came up was a bunch of world of warcraft forums.
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Mostly you just need to find the card type. "nVidia GeForce 8400", "ATI Radeon 7000", "intel graphics 950" are all examples of what that might look like. Once you determine what type of card you have, you go to the maker's website and look for their downloads section. The input your card type and eventually you will get to the drivers download section. Just download and then run it and it should upgrade your drivers.
Then reboot the computer and try SU again to see if it helped.
Chris
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awesome let me give it a try and see. Thanks everyone, i'll let you know how it goes.
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It worked, thanks for all the help it is much appreciated!
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