Dynamic Highlighting Problem

Hey guys I could really use some help on this. It's really getting on
my nerves. I'm using the SolidWorks Student Design Kit on Vista and
whenever I mouseover a line my dynamic highlighting gets all funky.
It highlights it but it also has a solid black square encompassing the
whole feature. It's kind of hard to describe here's a picture of it.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1411/1412679167_b07acede8b.jpg?v=0

 

So I realize this might be a graphics card problem. If so I'm screwed.

 

what's your hardware and software (version of Vista) setup?

Regards

Mark

 

Most likely a video card issue, or just a Vista driver issue for that
particular card. Please supply specifics (hardware, driver version,
OS version) with these types of questions.

JP

 

right, I have an XPS m1210 with the geforce go 7400. I'm running
Vista Ultimate.
Thanks guys

 

Like Jeff suggested, I suspect that it is a problem with your graphics
driver. Do this: Launch SW, then before you open a part (that know
crashes) go to Tools>options>performance and checkmark "Using software
OpenGL" If you part behaves without crashing, this is an indication
that it is the graphics driver problem.

The 2007/2008 Student Design Kit is the SW2007 version and as such has
know issues with Vista graphics - mainly performance. This is why we
never released 2007 for Vista (only pre-release). We did for the SDK
because we didn't feel it was fair to make students wait a full 2
years (education/student release are one major release behind
commerical.) A major rearchitecture of graphics was needed for SW2008
Vista because of the way that MS chose to Implement Graphics in Vista
- i.e. entire sceen is now redrawn constantly (by DirectX or OpenGL)
as before only the SW window was redrawn and updated as needed by
OpenGL.

Regards

Mark