@ Matthew, yes i've informed graphisoft of the issues, and submitted bug reports.
@zeropoint, no problems outside of archicad, however no other applications that i use have a particularly graphics intensive environment, so it's no surprise. I tried switching to internal engine and just to see, and the 3d editing plane doesn't show up at all, let alone correctly..
@laszlonagy, currently using most up to date Nvidia drive, however previous to that I was using the vendor supplied driver, it doesn't seem to make a difference which one i'm using, both produce the same errors.
The most inconvienient issue is the crashing of the file when I have trace references on and existing elemens set to override, both of my current projects are renovation projects - obviously I can work around it for the time being, but nonetheless it is a little hindering. The graphics issue i'm less concerned by, but overall it's still an unstable environment and can be hard to work with. I haven't used the editing plane for a while because it wasn't working, however I tried turning it on in a few projects and came up with different results. In one file (fresh 15 file -the one i've had recent crashes in) it works fine, slow performance, but visually it works. In a second file (migrated from 12) it shows up white, and in a third file (migrated from 12) it also shows up white, as well there is a wierd red veil that seems to hang from the roof around the whole building - see image below.
Obviously there's graphics issues, big ones, but I don't see how graphics can be contributing to the crashes related to the renovation filters... but who knows, stranger things have happened.
does anyone know how to finetune the nvidia settings to get the best performance out of AC?
I'll also try completely reinstalling AC.