working with the latest beta im getting random freezes of the viewport, it just freezes the whole app then the UI comes back to life so i can save but the view ports are messed up and i have to force quit it. im running vista 64bit and its on a core2 duo dell m90 laptop. didnt happen in previous versions. Any ideas ???
Hi Dave, that really sounds like a video driver problem.
Try going to the web page of your video card vendor and install their latest drivers. If that does not help, try installing a driver from 6 months or so back instead.
But generally scrambling of viewports means something is really going wrong with the video card. There have not really been any changes in what MoI sends to your video card in any recent beta releases, the last major change in this area was in the Aug-8 beta release with the lighting engine update.
Also that kind of a random scrambling of a 3D viewport could possibly indicate an overheating issue - have you recently pushed your laptop back a ways on your desk or something where there is not much space behind it for its fan to blow out into? Also check to see if it has gotten choked up with a bunch of dust that needs to be vacuumed out.
Those are my best ideas from your description - let me know if you can see any kind of pattern to the freezing like if it always happens after you have used one particular command or something like that.
But I'd definitely recommend updating to the newest version of your video driver direct from the manufacturer's web site (rather than through Windows Update which can have more of a lag) as a good starting point.
yeah the drivers are updated it is a quadro nvidia card, it worked fine before on the previous oct beta. the thing is it freezes if i do something like network then tries to come back alive but the viewports dont come back but i can save etc etc but do nothing with regards to the viewport. but i shall try going back to an earlier driver but as it freezes rather than just messing up the viewports i thought it was related to something else
Hi Dave, so far yours is the only report of this behavior so I don't have any pattern to work off of.
My best guess is that you possibly had switched the driver that you were using, and that's what actually changed between using the Oct beta and the new one...
One other tip - try going to the nVidia control panel and disable the option for "Threaded optimization", sometimes that will solve some problems like this with nVidia cards.
the laptop hasnt been with me that long to change the drivers for anything :) it has only been with me a few weeks. i shall try the nvidea settings and see if that solves it. yeah i know that if im the only one with the issue it is hard to pin point the issue ( if indeed it is moi or system related, but thought it was worth a post incase someone else has had the same etc etc)
i shall let u know if the settings changing solves it :)
If you want to test something, try disable UAC. then on the properties of your MoI launch Icon, right clcik, choose properties and on the compatability tab, disable desktop composition and Visual themes.
