E221b Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 When I'm adding text, after I click on the text tool and then a position on the page the program freezes for about 20-30 seconds before I can type anything. After I deselect the text, if I select it once again, the program will again freeze for appx. the same amount of time before I can do anything (change font and size, or edit the text). Any help to get rid if this lag will be appreciated (I need to number the 33 linesets in the fly gallery in the theater I'm modeling in Spotlight, and the lag for each new number is killing me - I can't even copy and paste, because when I eventually change the number, the freeze happens). [ 09-13-2004, 08:19 PM: Message edited by: E221b ] Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 What version of VW are you using? What OS are you using? Quote Link to comment
E221b Posted September 14, 2004 Author Share Posted September 14, 2004 I knew I forgot something. I am using VW 11.0.1 (VectorWorks Industry Collection 11 with RenderWorks) and I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 Laptop running Windows XP Professional SP2 [ 09-13-2004, 09:06 PM: Message edited by: E221b ] Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 I have noticeable freezes in text since v11 came out. Mine are only 1 to 1.5 seconds. [ 09-13-2004, 09:25 PM: Message edited by: Ray Libby ] Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 E221b - Have you updated the video driver since installing SP2? E221b and Ray - Do you guys have "Hardware Accelerated 2D Navigation" and/or "Use VectorCashing for Faster Drawing" enabled? Quote Link to comment
Ray Libby Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 quote: Do you guys have "Hardware Accelerated 2D Navigation" and/or "Use VectorCashing for Faster Drawing" enabled? Nope. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 Ray- Turn on the second one to see if it speeds up any. Quote Link to comment
E221b Posted September 14, 2004 Author Share Posted September 14, 2004 I have a Dell laptop as I said above and driver updates for my nVidia GeForce4 4200 Go video card are few and far between so the last driver update was on 9/18/2003 and is version .6.14.10.4487. I don't think that there is anything I can do about that. Both of the above mentioned options are enabled - no help. Quote Link to comment
E221b Posted September 14, 2004 Author Share Posted September 14, 2004 I just found new drivers the might work, I'll see. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted September 14, 2004 Share Posted September 14, 2004 Did you get the driver from nvidia.com? I'm using a similar setup and don't have that problem with the new driver. Nvidia is actually pretty good about releasing new driver updates. They usually issue one every 3 or 4 months. Quote Link to comment
E221b Posted September 14, 2004 Author Share Posted September 14, 2004 Yeah, but not for laptop video cards. Those are (supposed to be) released by the OEMs of the laptops and Dell hasn't released a driver update in over a year. I tired an unnoficial modification of the NVIDIA detonator drivers that work with laptops called the omega drivers. They're supposed to work really well with games, but their unnoficial so it was a crapshoot as to whether it would work with Vectorworks. It didn't, so I rolled back my drivers to the old Dell ones and still have the same text problem. The program works great in every other respect, thought. Quote Link to comment
E221b Posted September 15, 2004 Author Share Posted September 15, 2004 The drivers that I just tried make Vectorworks freeze and shut down (by windows) right after VW loads a file or starts a new one on startup. There are little black marks on each corner of the drawing window and VW shuts off. I might roll back my drivers. Quote Link to comment
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.