program crashes

Hello group,

I'm a student and I just installed Pro/E 2001 Student edition. I was going
to buy wildfire but I had 2001 lying around. Anyways, every time I run it as
soon as it gets to the main screen it crashes. I don't know why. I'm running
a P4 2.6 ghz w/ 1GB ram, and a ATI Radeon 9200 video card, so I really don't
think thats it. Any thoughts? Is there a setting that I'm missing? I've
tried to change the compatibity options of the program and that does
nothing. I've been to ptc's website, but you have to log in to have
technical support and I don't have an account with them.

Thanks,
John

 

Apparently, Radeon cards can be problematic with ProE. I had a problem with
a 9000 card that I kind of fixed by setting the "AGP fast write support" in
cmos to disable.

You also might want to try different versions of drivers from the ATI
website.

-jk

 

Okay I'll try that. As for the drivers I just downloaded and installed the
most current driver. Should I try going back to a previous driver?

Thanks
John

 

Try completely uninstalling the drivers and re-installing them. I had a
problem when I didn't do this and Pro just stopped working. Interestingly
enough, since nothing else hammers OpenGL like Pro/E everything else worked
fine.

 

I was just talking to an ATi engineer .... he said, "Hmm.
You know what ? We should have developed a gaming driver
and an OpenGL driver."

Yeah, they should have. The hardware isn't really the
problem. It's the crappy gameboy drivers, not that that
helps us much. Maybe if all you ATi owners wrote them
explaining how ATi gets *very* bad publicity in the
high-dollar professional computing world, the management
would listen up ? Gotta throw the high-dollar part in
there, that's about all they listen to.

 

Hello group,

I finally figured out that Pro/E was trying to access the internet for some
reason and my firewall was blocking it. So I just set the firewall to allow
Pro/E to access everything it needed and BINGO it works just fine.

Thanks for all your help

John