will we see some kind o fix for this half a screen problem. Its driving me batty! At least i have not had the install problems or very few crashes just yet. It
seems wings3d is in a pile poo even vista is crap neck deep in it! 
wings is a pile of poo in Vista
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(06/17/09 04:36:11) |
Video Drivers...
Remember, for Vista, Microsoft left OpenGL support up to the hardware vendors without any "software fallbacks". Wings is ALL OGL. Look to your vid card mfr. for solutions
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06/17/09 04:38:53.
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TheWraithMaster |
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(06/17/09 05:06:23) |
i guess video updates from the vendor will have to do or half a screen will be my new look
with or without new drivers.
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(06/17/09 14:10:50) |
Did you try right-clicking the title bar (the one within Wings itself), clicking 'Fit' and then 'Both'?
Sorry if this wasn't the problem you were having, but it sounds very similar to a problem I was having under Windows 7. Also, it took a couple of maximizes/restores for the menu to appear for me. |
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Entity325 |
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(06/23/09 11:11:04) |
The Wings display refuses to render more than 50% of screen width and 75% of screen height in certain conditions. You can move the window anywhere you want,
but anything outside of the 50x75% window gets ignored.
What kind of video card do you have? I have trouble on my laptop running Intel GMA 945, but apparently not my work desktop which has effectively the same video card. Laptop = Vista, work desktop = XP. Natch. I believe I tried it running Vista on an Ati Radeon 9600, and it worked fine, but that machine is parts right now. I blame Intel for making cheezy graphics cards. |
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marcin wuu |
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(06/23/09 12:57:08) |
there is nothing wrong with wings on vista. There's everything wrong with intel chipset drivers. Im running laptop with ATI gpu and it works like a charm.
My wife is running vista on an intel based dell laptop and its no go for wings.
(Im running windows 7 rc on my main machine and it works like a charm by the way). |
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BigBS |
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(10/25/09 22:20:53) |
can anyone help me with my vista install problems? when i run install and it begins i get a message saying abort, ignore, or skip because it cant find or
write or something i cant remember exactly.
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extrudeface |
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(10/30/09 12:46:21) |
I installed in a vista the other day, no probs.. .I guess is indeed prob of some ATIs, or better said,some drivers...
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pauljs75 |
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(10/31/09 15:11:41) |
I remember catching some video somewhere that demonstrated a Vista/Windows 7 problem with OpenGL on the more recent graphics cards. (If only I could recall the
link, it's either got to be at Vimeo or YouTube.) Anyhow the solution that was presented there was to hide the desktop taskbar. I'd guess something
that drives the overlay there interferes with OpenGL rendering. Or maybe it causes it to render in a software mode rather than using the graphics hardware. So
perhaps it's more a Windows glitch problem in rendering an app from the desktop than a Wings3D one.
If anyone else saw what I mentioned, please post that link. (If I don't run across it again and follow up with the link.) |
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ScotsFurian |
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(11/07/09 08:16:06) |
Ok Guys I just may have a very simple and effective 'fix' for this problem. First I'm running Vista 32 bit OS on an Acer Extensa 5510 Laptop with a
gig of ram and some Intel Chipset Gfx Adaptor,. There's not an ACTUAL Gfx Card installed. Anyway I downloaded Wings 3D just last night and encountered the
Half Screen Bug immediately. The first time I simply stretched the screen to the full size of the window using the little corner tab but today that's
obviously hidden on the half of the screen that's white. I tried the right click menu bar and fit both fix but that didn't work for me. However
I've discovered that simply minimising Wings3D to my Task bar and then opening it again from the task bar tile for want of a better description resolves
the problem. I just have to repeat it every time I open Wings form the desktop / Quick Launch Icons. Hope this has helped someone out there in the vastness of
the web.
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extrudeface |
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(11/07/09 10:57:19) |
could try it in a win 7, 64 bits, nvidia... no probs... so...for now, tested in 98, win me... xp... 7... no issues... but havent tested in any ati...
(logically I advice in purchases of computers to friends, and for drivers and ogl probs, always recommend nvidia... but I think this is changing, as the
drivers improved a lot for ati. )
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dgud |
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(11/10/09 00:07:39) Wings Magician |
That is true that Nvidia have made better Opengl drivers, but ATI have improved a lot over the years.
ATI also have best performance for the money, currently. But I have been trying to further optimize wings and I discovered a horrible bug in the ATI drivers, that stopped the easy optimizations, sigh, "googleing" on it shows that it have been a problem the last couple of years. |
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(11/10/09 15:16:38) |
"The Wings display refuses to render more than 50% of screen width and 75% of screen height in certain conditions."
Shot in the dark, but you wouldn't happen to be trying to run wings on an HDTV by chance? The emboldened segment perfectly describes an unrelated problem I was having with playing flash video on a second monitor. Long story short, this was happening due to Nvidia's DRM crap kicking on because the other monitor was not HDCP compliant. If you have no other monitors to test this on, try setting your desktop color depth to 16 bit, it was the ONLY workaround to resolution clamping I could find. |
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Entity325 |
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(11/12/09 11:32:17) |
No, it was my Intel graphics card. I recently upgraded to a laptop still running Vista, but now with an Ati Radeon x1200(it was an upgrade for me, OK?), and
that was one of the things I checked. No undrawn areas.
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extrudeface |
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(11/22/09 09:02:15) |
thanks for the reply (dgud) , just hadn't seen the thread...
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