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3D view in AC 13

Anonymous
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Ive just installed AC13 and for some reason when i go to the 3D screen and try to pan around, the refresh rate is very slow. Has anyone else experienced this.
Is there some way i can change this

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Anonymous
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What rendering method are you using? If it is only happening in OpenGL there is probably some video card/driver incompatibility.
Anonymous
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Its when i press F5. Is that the open GL method. In Archicad 12 it worked fine.
I had a $800 video card installed about a year ago. I hope this isnt the problem
Anonymous
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Kev

3D Window Settings, 3D Engine selection as below, will be either OpenGL or Infernal (sic) Engine.
Anonymous
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Thanks Mate
The 3D setting was set to OpenGL.
Tested it again then and it is so slow that im going to switch back to AC 12 if i cant get it to work.
Anonymous
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So sorry guys,
just found out that my video card has shit itself
Thanks for your time once again

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Anonymous
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As we are using 13 more widely we are getting all sorts of display errors. The most common one recently has been 2d display - for e.g. losing dimension figures - to the point where we have to turn 2d hardware acceleration off. And that is with recent hardware...