Disappearing boxes on new G4's

[tking]

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

[tmadsign]

Originally posted by tking:

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?

Turning off Nvidia 2d Acceleration allows me to use thousands and millions of colors on my G4 533 dual.

[shtark]

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Originally posted by tmadsign:

Originally posted by tking:

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?

Turning off Nvidia 2d Acceleration allows me to use thousands and millions of colors on my G4 533 dual.

I also have the same problem

my question is how do i controll the Nvidia 2d acceleration?

i can not find a control pannel or so.

Thanks

[Guest]

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my question is how do i controll the Nvidia 2d acceleration?

i can not find a control pannel or so.

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Open up the Extensions Manager control panel and use it to disable the NVidia 2d accelleration extension. Close the Extensions Manager control panel, and restart your computer.

Caleb Strockbine

caleb@nemetschek.net

[Andrew Bell@NV]

For more information, check the "Video card woes" topic under the General Discussion board.

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