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Stage Disappearance
Good Day,
I have recently purchased Particle Illusion 2.0 SE (Version 2.0.4). Initially, I had trouble running the program on Vista as the Stage area would not display properly. Instead of the regular black background, I saw nothing but a gray box. This was also true of the Layers window. The fix was to run the executable in Windows XP SP2 mode. All was well and I appreciated the great effects available.
Unfortunately, feeling bold, I installed Vista Service Pack 1. As you may have guessed, no Stage and no Layers window. Nothing I have tried seems to bring back these much needed program components.
Has anyone experienced this before. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for any insight.
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2 Replies
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My first thought is video drivers. Try running with software rendering (use the “run with software rendering” option in the Start – Programs – particleIllusion SE menu (may be in a ?troubleshooting” submenu there).
If that works fine, then it definitely is a driver issue and you should get the latest drivers from your card manufacturer’s website.
Alan.
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Hi Alan,
Yes, you were correct. Under OpenGL hardware acceleration, several strange things have happened. If I resized the main window, I could lose the stage (back to gray). By resizing again, the stage would return to it’s normal display mode. Further, even when the stage was operating correctly, I could not select an emitter without zooming in quite substantially. When software rendering was turned on everything functioned as expected. I will attempt to upgrade the video drivers. Strange, however that this laptop is less than a year old. I would not have expected driver problems so early on.
Thanks again for setting me in the right direction.
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