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tsutt

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screen problem

I just opened AD, and my grid is screwed up i have the settings for 1 inch spacing. it's good for 4 lines skips a space then 4 more line ect.? Closed it down and reopened same thing WTF! :shock: Todd
 
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MilesH

Alibre Super User


No significant changes to your system since you last opened AD?

Seems like one of those annoying graphic card driver related things...
 
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MilesH

Alibre Super User


If you're running 24/32 bit color, you could try the old trick of reducing to 16 bit.

I'm presuming that Snap still works correctly. Is that so?
 
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tsutt

Member


I just tried it, no diff. all drivers are up to date snap does work but diplay area is doing funny things also. x axis is gone. grid disapears ect. other apps work just fine so its something in AD or something ad doesn't like. And this comp is the one i really need it on. :evil: Todd
 
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indesign

Alibre Super User


Sounds a little like the graphics card issues in a Dell system. For some reason it just lost things. Anyhow a system restore may work if it's not a hardware issue.

If it's a hardware problem then it may take replacing the card. If you have a card you could put in for tests (borrowed from another comp) you could verify if it is hardware.
 
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tsutt

Member


Geforce 5500 256mgsddr open gl. here's the deal I had a problem with the previous moboard so i put in a new board, processor and hd. this video card worked fine with the previous setup. it's an asus k8n board with a atholon 64, 3000 processor. 1gid ddr 400. I've been just getting this up and running. I have a couple other cad packages on here they work fine? Not sure where to go from here. Todd
 
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tsutt

Member


I just rolled back my driver and now i get the lines but drawing is impossible. it's in slow motion. Todd
 
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indesign

Alibre Super User


New MB...hmmmm. I wonder if the BIOS needs an update? How about reinstalling DirectX? Man it really sounds like driver issues.
 
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indesign

Alibre Super User


:?
Got Me....
Sounds like you covered all the normal issues. Not sure where to go from here. Did you run the directx diagnostics?

run>dxdiag

Of course even if it checks it doesn't mean couldn't still be the problem.

Of course I found an issue when running other directX programs with Alibre. Check and be certain that no other programs are running in the background.
 
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jwknecht

Alibre Super User


Still sounds like a graphic card / driver issue. Some previously posted that you can tune your card for better performance with directx (as opposed to open gl). You might give that a try. You might also try the Omega drivers. Very popular with gamers (directx).

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

You can always roll back the driver, but I think the omega driver might do the trick (can't hurt to try).
 
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jwknecht

Alibre Super User


Actually, using the driver software to change the settings. Somewhere in the forum there is a post with more specifics.
 
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tsutt

Member


I just installed omega drivers which are a little older that nvidia's BUT it worked screen back to normal. :D :D Todd
 
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