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Re: Problem with LDView
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lugnet.cad
Date: 
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:33:36 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Travis Cobbs wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Tim David wrote:
> > I have a problem with LDView. When I open any file it gets as far as Calculating
> > Size and crashes out.
> > 
> > Error signature
> > AppName: ldview.exe AppVer: 3.2.0.5 ModName: atioglxx.dll
> > ModVer: 6.14.10.5014 Offset: 004353b7
> 
> It appears that the crash is happening in the ATI OpenGL driver.  (Note: I'm not
> saying that the ATI driver is responsible for the crash, just that that's where
> it's crashing.)  Some things to try:
> 
> Create the following DWORD registry key and set its value to 1:
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnoreAllOGLExtensions
> 
> If that fixes it, then probably LDView's use of one specific extension is
> causing the problem.  You can try to figure out which one by changing the above
> registry setting to 0, then setting the following DWORD keys to 1 one at a time:
> 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnoreVBO
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnoreMultiDrawArrays
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnoreAniso
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnorePixelFormat
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnoreMultisample
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnoreVAR
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Travis Cobbs\LDView\IgnorePBuffer
> 
> If IgnoreAllOGLExtensions doesn't fix the problem, none of the above will
> either, since IgnoreAllOGLExtensions is equivalent to setting them all to 1.
> However, if IgnoreAllOGLExtensions does fix the problem, then hopefully only one
> of the above needs to be set to 1 to also fix the problem, and then you still
> have all the other functionality enabled.  If you have questions about setting
> registry keys, send me an email.
> 
> Another thing you could try would be to update your graphics driver to the
> latest available one (assuming you haven't done that already).  While I already
> stated that the ATI driver isn't necessarily at fault here, the crash did happen
> in the ATI driver, so it MAY be at fault, and updating it may fix the problem.
> 
> Note that even if one of the LDView-specific registry settings fixes the
> problem, updating the video driver still might be good, as it would allow LDView
> to run without requiring functionality to be disabled.  On a side note, my
> recently purchased computer has an ATI video card in it (HD 2600 XT), and it
> works fine with LDView.
> 
> --Travis

Thanks for that, I'll have a play. I suspect that the problem is likely to be
the latest version of the graphics card driver! I tend to keep stuff up to date
and LDView certainly worked in the past on this hardware (might have been a
previous version tho)

Tim



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Problem with LDView
 
I found a newer ATI driver and installed it, still same problem! I uninstalled all graphics card drivers and re-installed new one, LDView now works Thanks for the pointer Tim (18 years ago, 26-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)

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  Re: Problem with LDView
 
(...) It appears that the crash is happening in the ATI OpenGL driver. (Note: I'm not saying that the ATI driver is responsible for the crash, just that that's where it's crashing.) Some things to try: Create the following DWORD registry key and set (...) (18 years ago, 25-Jun-08, to lugnet.cad)

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