Sketchup 2014 UI slow to populate

mitcorb

I am not sure where to put this, other than Discussion.
I experienced the invisible selection box problem several days ago. And like some others, I "fiddled" with the OpenGL settings. Not too pleased with results. I also have fiddled with Simple Template feet and inches, mainly to remove profiles.
I wasn't totally satisfied, so I went looking for a video driver update.
NVidia GTS450 factory installed on a Dell Studio XPS, Win7 Pro.

After the update, I had browser freeze up problems requiring a force shutdown, BSOD occurrences causing a windows report that did not go through, and so forth. So, I rolled back to the previous driver. That seems to have helped. But it begs the question, why would an update create such problems? That is for NVidia to answer, if I can figure out who what when where to contact. Very opaque website--the takeaway is they are not interested in hearing from you.

At this point, when starting SU2014, the program toolsets that I have chosen and the frame load up immediately. It takes about 5 or 6 seconds for the rest of the window to fill out. That means a white screen in the workspace--no Sophie, no ground, no axes, no sky.

All of this experience makes me wonder if this is an under-publicized, under-attended problem to be dealt with by folks with that kind of expertise.

Do any of you have suggestions to consider, besides stop computing and move out to pasture?

pbacot

Why down-date the software?

mitcorb

If you mean why did I rollback the driver, it is suggested by windows to do this if performance problems are an issue. I interpreted this as one reason for the BSOD and display problems. Using available tools through Windows Control Panel was my first approach. After about 3 reports to wherever it is sent, I got back a response in the "Solve PC issues" system tray message thingy that Hewlett-Packard personnel wanted to have a crack at this. But the dataform presented was all about laptops, not desktops, and this just looked like another deadend backwater path to travel down.

EDIT: If you mean why did my profile say 2013? That was an oversight which I have corrected herewith. I am still using 2014, and this is the version in which I am experiencing this issue.