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Just to pile on, we have the same issue with our new DP533-G4's with the Geforce2 and either an ATI Rage Orion or ATI Radeon Turning off the Nvidia 2d accelleration extension works for Vector works, but slows everything else down pretty badly. Tim

quote: Originally posted by doug shaffer: Howdy - Here's the latest... I continue to have the problem discussed under the topic entitled 'Video Card Woes'. After much inquiry, and finger pointing between Apple and Nemetschek, I received this email from the Nemetschek Tech Support Manager. I called him and was assured that it IS indeed a Vectorworks issue, and that the 'engineering' department was working on it. He also told me that an interim solution (downloadable software fix) may be posted on the site soon, and that V9 (due 'shortly') will solve the 'Video Card Woes' problem. I hope this helps. d. s h a f f e r a r c h i t e c t Dear Nemetschek North America Customer: Thank you for your inquiry. We have been getting a number of customers having the same situation. Our Engineering dept is being made aware of this problem and I will be contacting you shortly with a possible solution to the problem. If you have any other questions, comments, or suggestions, please feel free to contact us at (410) 290-5114 (tel) or (410) 290-8050 (fax) or tech@nemetschek.net (e-mail). Respectfully, Mike S. Technical Support Manager Do you know what the latest is on this. I haven't seen any movement other than version 9 being released. Tim

I just purchased a lab of G4's with the Nvidia G2 cards on an apple 17" monitor, and either a ATI Rage Orion or Radeon PCI card driving a Sony CPDe400 19" monitor. I did not have this problem when running the same version of VW on G3's with the builtin video cards and the same ATI PCI's. Randomly, it would seem, when I draw boxes I can't see them while drawing them, and I don't get the "buttons" at the corners to change the box dimensions after it's drawn. Is this a video card issue? It seems to help if I knock the colors down to 256...from either thousands or millions. Thoughts? Tim