I'm going to run an openGL viewer I ran into today, to see if the drivers have specific problems with open GL 1.5.

I'll let you know how it goes, later on..

Regards

Guru

@unknownuser said:

... or drop the whole system, which is obviously not a recent one, and invest the money in something more current as e.g. an Intel Core Duo w/ a nVidia 88xx series (PCIe).

That's what I intend to do, but I want to maintain my present system as a working station as it's more than capable for CAD and 3d visualisation operations, and is essencial in scene rendering phases (half the final rendering's total time .

I'll probably buy for this system the fastest / best AGP card I can get!

Norbert

Thought I mentioned it, but you're right..

The OS is WinXP Pro SP3, the card is a Sapphire 9600 XT 256 mg AGP, no problems before, with sketchup 5 on any driver.

I did follow the book regarding uninstallation of previous drivers:

• administrator
• uninstall driver
• reboot
• clean garbage left behind
• reboot
• run in safe mode
• use driver cleaner: clean ATI leftovers; - clean driver.cab, SP3.cab
• reboot
• scan registry with Advanced System Optimizer: clean anything from registry related to Ati
• install new driver
• reboot.

I do that procedure before any driver installation. I even create a restore point and backup the system state before such operations. So I don't think that's the problem.

thx anyway

PS the Guru term comes from a long way back..., there's so much more to life..

Thanks for all your help

I tried an older catalyst model (8.1) but still no go.

I also tried the latest omega drivers, based in the catalyst driver 7.12, but after installment, I couldn't launch Ati control panel (click it but doesn't start!), only Ati tray tools work, and inside sketchup, the option hardware acceleration was grayed out, wich, I assume, means sketchup didn't recognize hardware acceleration capabilities with that driver.

perhaps it means the installation was corrupted.

Has this ever happened to anyone, the Ati control panel, I mean..

Thx in advance

PS. Juju, what Bios optimization guide are you refering to?

Hi

Please help.

I'm having all kind of weird problems with sketchup pro 6 (demo version).

Besides having strange graphic anomalies, I can't edit, push / pull, draw, pick surfaces, etc.. in perspective mode, but if I change to parallel projection view, everythings OK. My graphics card is an ATI 9600 xt 256 mg and I already tried diferent catalyst drivers, from 8.3 onward, and the problem remains. I even unchecked fast feedback from preferences, disabled mipmapping, catalyst A.I., anti-aliasing, but the problem remains. The only thing that aparentely resolves it, is if I uncheck hardware acceleration in sketchup preferences, but that way is unbearble slow to work with, and the stranger thing is that, as I said, with "everything on", the problems only occur in perspective mode.

Help

Guru

PS A colleague of mine also has the same graphics card, but working with old drivers, and no problem there.