Solved: Having some graphics issues with creo 3.0

ptc-4490234 · ‎Mar 05, 2015

Hi all, I recently upgraded to creo 3.0 from creo 1.0. I have some complex assemblies that I use to be able to view, but now that I load the model, I get an explosion of color. I'm confused by this. Any recommendations on how to fix this would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time.

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Inoram · ‎Mar 06, 2015

It appears your driver is really old (going on 5 years?) since the latest drivers appear to be in the 14 range (versus your 8). So you probably need to update your driver.

Changing your "graphics" to "win32_gdi" wasn't really the fix. That was the test to see if your graphics card/drivers were the issue. Now you can run on win32_gdi if you want, but it's not using your video card fully and everything may run slower.

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TomD.inPDX · ‎Mar 05, 2015

Have you considered selling it as new age art?

Do you have perspective turned on?

Try the setting: graphics win32_gdi just to get a baseline.

ptc-4490234 · ‎Mar 05, 2015

Are you making a bid???

I don't know how to check if perspective is on, but I doubt it, because some of my simpler models do display correctly.

I can't figure out how to set win32_gdi either. It doesn't show up in the config.pro list.

Inoram · ‎Mar 05, 2015

What graphics card and driver version?

ptc-4490234 · ‎Mar 05, 2015

AMD Radeon HD 6350 driver version 8.830.0.0

Inoram · ‎Mar 06, 2015

It appears your driver is really old (going on 5 years?) since the latest drivers appear to be in the 14 range (versus your 8). So you probably need to update your driver.

Changing your "graphics" to "win32_gdi" wasn't really the fix. That was the test to see if your graphics card/drivers were the issue. Now you can run on win32_gdi if you want, but it's not using your video card fully and everything may run slower.

ptc-4490234 · ‎Mar 06, 2015

Sounds about right. I don't mess with the drivers on my work computer much. I'll update them and see what happens.

ptc-4490234 · ‎Mar 06, 2015

Yep, updated driver fixed the problem. I removed the graphics option from the config.pro. Seems to be running a bit less laggy too.

Thanks for your help guys.

TomD.inPDX · ‎Mar 06, 2015

The option is "graphics" and the setting is "win32_gdi"

ptc-4490234 · ‎Mar 06, 2015

Adding that to the config.pro file seems to have fixed the problem.