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please help w nvidia vista mystery
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Hi, hope someone can let me know what to do here...
So, I just bought a new laptop for school and need it for architecture/modeling. I ended up with a vaio with an nvidia geforce go 7400 video card and (of course) loaded with vista home premium. The most important program for me right now is Rhino (but I also would like maya and 3dsmax). So my question,
I'm not too savvy, but I know that there are opengl issues and whatnot, but I don't really have any option since my comp has vista and I don't really want to tinker as far as reformatting and just installing xp (seems extreme to me). Do I just wait for drivers and hope that rhino will work? Nvidia's site has "7 series drivers", and "7600/7800 drivers" but they don't seem to work when I download them. Anyone know if they will be making one for me? I still have a coupe of days to return my computer, but I think that this is really a software, not a hardware, problem.
Any advice?
So, I just bought a new laptop for school and need it for architecture/modeling. I ended up with a vaio with an nvidia geforce go 7400 video card and (of course) loaded with vista home premium. The most important program for me right now is Rhino (but I also would like maya and 3dsmax). So my question,
I'm not too savvy, but I know that there are opengl issues and whatnot, but I don't really have any option since my comp has vista and I don't really want to tinker as far as reformatting and just installing xp (seems extreme to me). Do I just wait for drivers and hope that rhino will work? Nvidia's site has "7 series drivers", and "7600/7800 drivers" but they don't seem to work when I download them. Anyone know if they will be making one for me? I still have a coupe of days to return my computer, but I think that this is really a software, not a hardware, problem.
Any advice?
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That would seem the easy answer, right? Nvidia only answers questions for people who buy and register directly from them, and otherwise sent me to sony's page for drivers, where I can download original drivers as installed (not too helpful).
Just wanted to know if anyone else ran into this problem.
Just wanted to know if anyone else ran into this problem.
No driver yet for the go series for vista..
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Originally Posted by jbocker34 
Hi, hope someone can let me know what to do here...
So, I just bought a new laptop for school and need it for architecture/modeling. I ended up with a vaio with an nvidia geforce go 7400 video card and (of course) loaded with vista home premium. The most important program for me right now is Rhino (but I also would like maya and 3dsmax). So my question,
I'm not too savvy, but I know that there are opengl issues and whatnot, but I don't really have any option since my comp has vista and I don't really want to tinker as far as reformatting and just installing xp (seems extreme to me). Do I just wait for drivers and hope that rhino will work? Nvidia's site has "7 series drivers", and "7600/7800 drivers" but they don't seem to work when I download them. Anyone know if they will be making one for me? I still have a coupe of days to return my computer, but I think that this is really a software, not a hardware, problem.
Any advice?
I just installed Rhino 4.0 on my laptop with Vista and a nVidia video card. Initially the partitioned screen was looking all messed up, although if I maximized one of the views that would work fine. Well, it just happens I changed one setting and everything seems to work now. This is what I changed:
File menu >> Properties >> Rhino options >> Appearance >> OpenGL
I just unchecked the box called "Use accelerated hardware modes".
Give this a try and good luck!
TD
File menu >> Properties >> Rhino options >> Appearance >> OpenGL
I just unchecked the box called "Use accelerated hardware modes".
Give this a try and good luck!
TD
File menu >> Properties >> Rhino options >> Appearance >> OpenGL
what screen were you in when you did this?
what screen were you in when you did this?
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Originally Posted by iceman47
File menu >> Properties >> Rhino options >> Appearance >> OpenGL
what screen were you in when you did this?
Just go to the "File" menu on top of your Rhino window, then chosse "Properties", and so on, following the sequence I described, until you get to "Open GL". Once there you uncheck the checkbox I mentioned.
TD
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