topic Re: 3d View problem in Modeling

3d View problem

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:40:55 GMT

im having this issue with my 3d view.. everything is fine while i pan and orbit the model, but once i remove my fingers from the mouse buttons the image goes like this (attachment)

any ideas?? some times its fine and others its not. i was thinking graphics card problem? but the other designer is using the exact same PC and it dosnt happen on his.. maybe a setting on mine that iv messed up??

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:42:47 GMT

Wow.....that would give me a headache.

Sorry I can't help though, I'm not on XP or AC12.

Re: 3d View problem

vistasp — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:12:18 GMT

GeNOS wrote:
any ideas?? some times its fine and others its not. i was thinking graphics card problem? but the other designer is using the exact same PC and it dosnt happen on his.. maybe a setting on mine that iv messed up??

* Do you have on-board video?
* Maybe too much RAM is being used by other apps?
* Could also be a faulty graphics card.

If you add basic machine specs in your signature, it would help.

Re: 3d View problem

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:28:16 GMT

What are your 3D Window settings?
Certain 3D Window settings with the Internal 3D Engine can produce a picture like that.

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:50:20 GMT

settings are on
engine - open GL
mod - Shading
countours - best
diplay - 1300 x 840

the rest is locked out.

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:51:28 GMT

vistasp wrote:
GeNOS wrote:
any ideas?? some times its fine and others its not. i was thinking graphics card problem? but the other designer is using the exact same PC and it dosnt happen on his.. maybe a setting on mine that iv messed up??
* Do you have on-board video?
* Maybe too much RAM is being used by other apps?
* Could also be a faulty graphics card.

If you add basic machine specs in your signature, it would help.

ill check the details and post them up.. i dont know much aboutthe PC as it just the one at work. (i didnt buy/build it. IT did)

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:15:30 GMT

XP pro V2002 SP2
intel core 2 duo
E6750 @ 2.66 GHz (dunno what that means?)
2.00GHz, 3.oGB of ram
ati radeon hd 2400 256 vid card

Re: 3d View problem

David Collins — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:43:13 GMT

I have the same problem, if that's any comfort for you. I think the culprit is the graphics card, an ATI Radion hd 3850 on my setup. It may be stealing RAM from OpenGL. A reboot fixes it, until the next time. It's very sporatic.

This is new in ArchiCAD 12. The same card and PC worked just fine with AC 11. It's interesting that the guy next to you with the same machine doesn't have the same problem. Are you listening to music, by any chance? Streaming audio content from the Internet seems to set it off it on my computer.

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:54:37 GMT

David wrote:
I have the same problem, if that's any comfort for you. I think the culprit is the graphics card, an ATI Radion hd 3850 on my setup. It may be stealing RAM from OpenGL. A reboot fixes it, until the next time. It's very sporatic.

This is new in ArchiCAD 12. The same card and PC worked just fine with AC 11. It's interesting that the guy next to you with the same machine doesn't have the same problem. Are you listening to music, by any chance? Streaming audio content from the Internet seems to set it off it on my computer.

yep thast the same here, no problem in 11, only 12.. and yeah, its very random when it happens.
i always have music playing, but its from my hard drive not streaming.
ill leave it off and see if it makes any differnace

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:37:22 GMT

this definitely seems to be a graphics card issue as opposed to AC.

we've had sporadic instances of this happening, in v11 and v12.

the latest, when we had a widescreen tv set as a clone monitor on a PC for a presentation and afterwards switched the TV off ( didn't unplug it from PC) but forgot to readjust graphics card settings; a couple days later, this same graphics problem started. Adjusting card settings and restart solved it.

Re: 3d View problem

David Collins — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:19:14 GMT

Updating the ATI driver seems to have fixed the 3d broken glass problem for me. A new version of Catalyst was released this month. It may be that just re-installing the Catalyst driver and software fixes the memory conflicts (like I would know).

Re: 3d View problem

Anonymous — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:20:08 GMT

yeah i installed the latest driver about a week ago.. havnt used AC enough to say its deffinatly fixed the issue, but i havnt had a problem since.