Re: Slow mouse reactions on SW 2006

Ah......No.

I did not turn on "Software OpenGL" in SW. I mearly toned down one of the
default "accelerated" settings for OpenGL on the Radeon Video card driver so
that it was more compatible with "Applications" that DO NOT follow the
complete OpenGL standard (apparently like SolidWorks).

If SW followed the full OpenGL standard then all cards that are OpenGL
compatible should work with SW. Naturally a few should have bugs but the
problem should not be most are not fully compatible, but only a few are
fully. That is completely backwards thinking.

I am not the one that wrote on the SW site that the Radeon 9800 Pro works
but limited to 5 fully rendered windows. Obviously that was SW so I should
naturally expect my hardware to function as documented on their site. Since
I only render a window or two at a time "Get another video card" should not
be the answer to an issue. That is totally bogus.

So still SW, not ATI.

If I switch to a solid modeling program that really uses standards like
OpenGL I will snatch those Radeon's up in no time. Not that Nvidia is bad,
but I have 7-8 year of good luck with ATI. Why I can even get the cards to
work with a program like SolidWorks for more than one or two versions so
these babies must be real gems!!!


"matt" <m_lombard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:MPG.1e5313232c7e2bb498979c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <738e4$43e91539$d8ccbf04$1153@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
nojunk_allowed@xxxxxxxxxx says...
Problem solved! Not the video card, just an adjustment on the Default
Open
GL settings for the video card to accomidate Solidworks.



Right, disabling the driver would do it. It's using software OGL
instead of hardware OGL now.

I know a few companies that have spare Radeons sitting around, big boxes
of 'em, in case you're gonna build more SolidWorks workstations. It'll
save you that $4000 annual charge. Let me know, I'm sure they'll let go
of them cheap. ;o) They might throw in a boat anchor to boot, but it
sounds like you've got some of those already.


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