To me it may also be that he is on Windows 8.
No ArchiCAD version has been tested and verified to work on Windows 8 yet. Who knows about the quality of Windows 8 itself or the quality of graphics drivers written for it since the whole operating system is on the market for only a few weeks now.
I would not be surprised if these problems had to do with the "newness" of Windows 8.
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