I believe that with the G450, alpha blending is done thru software simulation, not hardware acceleration. This would cause the very slow motion. However, the latest drivers & having the latest direct X installed may solve the problem as desktop Alpha Blending is a fairly recent capability of Windows which may not be fully implemented with all video cards & their drivers.
Also, both screens need to be 32bit color, if 1 isn't, the system can go back down to software simulated alpha blending, this happens on my NVidia card. _________ Brian G. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Saputelli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Protel EDA Discussion List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 5:31 PM Subject: Re: [PEDA] AD6 component disappears while moving -fixed but VErY slow > thanks darren & harry ! > > i went to another box, no issue with moving > > went back to first machine turned off alpha blending and that did do the > trick (fixed problem) > > so the question is, what if anything will be lost by not using alpha > blending? > > turned alpha blend back on and changed color depth to 32 bit, retstarted > AD and that also worked but moving the component was so slow as to be > useless > > card is G450 2 head > > BTW, the G450 allows 16/24/32 bit depth on screen 1 but only 16/32 on > screen 2, or maybe that has to do with the monitor types ?, > 1 CRT, 1 LCD, both 21's > > another note > the program sure is poky and jerky while moving the component and my > first practice board only has 4 components! > it feels like some huge grid, but the snap grid is at 25mils > > the box w/ the G450 is not too old, 2Ghz, and it does have 512K ram > (it had 1G ram but we pulled out one stick about 1 year ago which solved > a lot of crashing issues, interestingly replacing the second stick > didn't help that either, maybe that is a mobo issue) > > ds > > _______________________________________________________________________ > Integrated Controls, Inc. Tel: 415-647-0480 EXT 107 > 2851 21st Street Fax: 415-647-3003 > San Francisco, CA 94110 www.integratedcontrolsinc.com > > > Harry Selfridge wrote: >> AD6 uses Alpha Blending for graphics transparency. One possible >> source of your problem could be that your graphics card can't process >> Alpha Blending. >> >> Try turning it off in Preferences>PCB Editor>Display. >> >> -Harry >> >> >> At 12:51 PM 1/16/2006, you wrote: >> >> >>>Hi >>>i know this has been asked and answered but i couldn't find it >>> >>>just getting starting with AD6, makes me feel quite dumb again >>> >>>when i move a component it disappears under the cursor until it is >>>plopped down >>> >>>how do you see the component while moving it ? >>> >>>i messed w/ the 3 mask level sliders to no effect >>> >>>as far as i know all the color settings etc are all default >>> >>>thanks! >>> >>>Dennis Saputelli >>>SNIP >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum >> >> To Post messages: >> mailto:[email protected] >> >> Unsubscribe and Other Options: >> http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com >> >> Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] >> >> > > > ____________________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum > > To Post messages: > mailto:[email protected] > > Unsubscribe and Other Options: > http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com > > Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > > Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the PEDA discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/peda_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
