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Old 9th November 2005, 09:13 PM   #1
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Default Motherboard problems

While waiting for the new motherboard I was playing around with the newly built computer, and went to the second drive (My old one still had AC3D 40) clicking on the icon the AC3D4 program loaded fully from this old hard drive perfectly, meaning no grey boxes or funny going ons.
So I copied that from the old hard drive, and moved it to my new drive, it open just fine, no grey boxes or holes. I uninstalled it and loaded AC3C 5.0.21 and AC3C 5.0.21 again showed the grayed out boxes. Is there an install problem I am encounter? Or what?
It appears there is no problem whatsoever with the video, motherboard or drivers on the new motherboard (As AC3D4 works fine on from the same motherboard, so it couldn't be the display- or could it), but something with the newer versions of AC3D, that, of course is a guess. :?:
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Old 10th November 2005, 04:17 AM   #2
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The sort of driver problems that you were experiencing are usually inconsistent. You may find that resizing the window or restarting AC3D gives different results e.g. different views missing.

We used to get more reports like this but they were usually fixed when people upgraded their drivers. A few people were unlucky in that they either had an old graphics card/chipset with no recent support, or just not-very-good graphics drivers.

These days, most big graphics card manufacturers test their drivers with stuff other than a single-view Quake/Doom games, and we don' t see the same problems.

Note that there are currently thousands of people using AC3D without these problems.

As I think Jeff said earlier, it's quite possible that you could drop in a cheap graphics card and and solve these problems.
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Old 10th November 2005, 07:42 AM   #3
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Andy, I agree as I had it working fine before on a lesser machine,
I have ordered a new motherboard (Replacement, same board) and a new video card, before I change the MB I will install the new video card and see what happens, then when I do receive the new motherboard I will install it without the video card and see what happens.
Thanks for you help and for replying to my message.
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Old 10th November 2005, 05:04 PM   #4
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Andy, correct me if I'm wrong, but AC3D 4 did not use shared rendering contexts. Or 4 did and 4.5/5 doesn't. I forget.

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Old 10th November 2005, 05:12 PM   #5
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It may have. I'm pretty sure that only the orth contexts were shared though.
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