Something’s gone wrong with graphics..

[drvogler]

Hey,



Company just upgraded us to Ilink 2.4, from 2.2.



Now My graphics are all choppy and slow when I rotate even medium size
assy's. I'm using ProE2001, graphics are set to Open GL, just as
they were.



Anybody have a clue or some experience why this occurred? And how to fix it back to fast and useable?



Thanks,



Dave

 

[caddie]

Iwould suggest upgrading the graphics drivers for your graphicscard. You probably got a slightly updated version of proe (later build) so proe software is now a lot newer then the graphicsdrivers. They normaly need to be approx the same "age".


Not important: ilink 2.4 and 2.2 ??? no such thing exist if you mean Pro/INTRALINK

 

[Dell_Boy]

What operating system and service pack are you using



What is your graphics card and driver version



What build of 2001 are are you using

 

[drvogler]

I know what happened.



I added a second monitor, and both monitors then default to win32_gdi...



So even though the graphics are set properly, ProE doesn't know how to use the video card to its best cabpability...



So here's my workaround:



Disable the second monitor, start ProE in opengl, Enable the second monitor, and ProE keeps the good graphics.



Kind of a pain, but it works.



Dave

 

[Dell_Boy]

ProE 2001 DOES know how to use two monitors correctly. I have used it
myself but the version of graphics driver can make a huge difference to
the results.



Your workaround sounds to be a right PITA. If you give more information someone may be able to help you solve the problem.

 

[drvogler]

Definately a PITA...



Windoze 2000 SP 4,

ProE2001 v2004290

ATI FireGLX1 graphics card, just installed the latest video driver.



Dave

 

[Dell_Boy]

my experience is solely with nVidia cards but similar principles should apply to ATI



nVidia based cards offer a program called nView to handle more than one
monitor. This is vastly superior to the native Windows Dual View. I am
fairly sure that ATI have a program equivalent to nView and would
suggest using that in preference to Dual View which will cause you
problems.



Newer drivers are not necessarily better, particularly so for older
graphics cards. Vendors openly acknowledge they tweak their drivers to
get maximum benchmark results on the latest games and applications for
the newest cards. Experiment with different versions and record the
results.



running Pro/E 2000i with dual monitors on Win2k SpP4 with XGL900 cards
we got best results with driver version 41.04 and with 2001 the best
driver was 43.54. With these drivers we could get Pro/E to reliably
maximise to the first monitor with the menus appearing on the left hand
side of the second monitor. However we could still get Pro/Table and
Excel to span across both monitors. We would also run Model Tree
undocked in the second monitor. Once you have done this you will never
have it docked again. Other versions of drivers gave us varying degrees
of worse results.



nVidia are great in that you can get virtually any driver version you want off their ftp site.



Hope this helps.



DB