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I have bought a pentium core 2 duo with 4g of ram
The graphics card is a gigabyte gef 7600 gt
Speed is ok but I am having trouble with the basic colours in revit.
colours in windows are ok
The monitor is an old CRT Philips 21 BRILLIANCE ” which works fine with revit on an el cheapo card
The new machine and graphics card show Red as almost black and that includes the sample colours in the dialog boxes
revit has no colour adjustments in i tapparently
Has any one got any ideas on how to change these colours?, or should I swap the card back to a fx540 or similar and which one?, they all appear to be pretty old ?
i will try to download the latest driver for the video card
Thanks and regards
Robert.
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This is no way to change the colours except for the settings under -
Settings > Options > Graphics
here you can change the selection and alert colours. Otherwise try changing the display driver to open GL. under this same dialog box.
Your best option is to contact your hardware sales person or send a query to the graphics card manufacturers.
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thanks for your promt responce.
i did follow your instructions
i ticked both boxes
red still stays black.
the selection dialog box also displays the wrong colours.
i did try a colour which is available on the selection card but still no luck
tied both boxes unticked. still no change
thanks for your help.
robert
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i would adjust the gamma settings on my card or sell that card and get a quadro or firegl. Sounds like you have a Geforce, thats a gamers gpu and isn't built for high end opengl
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Thanks for your reply, this was ambarrissing. after installing a new quadro graphics card the we discovered that one of the pins in the cable sockets was bend one does not expect the monitor to work at all with damage like that. cheers, robert
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"i would adjust the gamma settings on my card or sell that card and get a quadro or firegl. Sounds like you have a Geforce, thats a gamers gpu and isn't built for high end opengl" Buying a quadro or Fire GL for revit is complete waste of money. I've always used gaming cards and never had issues. This is primarily because gaming card drivers are updated much more frequently then the workstation cards. Also, revit does not take advantage of high end cards at all, so you would be best spending your money on more RAM and more CPU grunt. Pick a mid range gaming card and use the latest drivers (preferably without bent pins too  ) HTH.
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as an owner of an firegl v3100, v7100, quadro FX 3450, and two geforce 7950 gtx's i am constantly testing capabilities, true revit is processor driven, so we will just have to agree to disagree. but then again i am also using 3ds max, ADT, photoshop, and piranesi so being 1 dimensional isn't a luxury I can afford. best thing i ever did for Revit was RAID 0 and dual Xeon X5355
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thanks chris, i am truly converted now. talking about ram. revit does not a have a 64 bit system out yet. with this in mind i thoght of still getting vista 64 bit version so that at least i can make use of of that lovely ram (got heaps of 150 mb files) i have been advised however that although i might have a operating system with more than 3 gig of ram revit itself will not make use of this, which sounds rather strange with a hungry system as revit. is this true? the other news or fib is that, revit 2009 has spat the dummy when upgraging large files to 2009 i am now very weary of upgrafing to 2009 (which i now have) thanks again, robert
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i have been researching 64-bit vista too, i see lots of pros and cons. autodesk claims revit 2009 eventhough it is not 64-bit that its memory allocation feature utilizes the extra RAM i guess. My software retailers inform me though that they nor autodesk offer tech support for vista 64 which i can not confirm. I dream one day of filling all my dimms and harnessing the power of 128 GB of RAM........ *daydreaming*
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I'm currently using Revit 2009 with Vista x64 Ultimate and have been for some time. It all works fine and revit is making use of all the RAM that i've fed it. They only annoying bug at the moment is that the thumbnails will not display in windows explorer... I haven't any issues yet with upgrading files, but I haven't had a chance to upgrade some of our larger projects as the client hasn't upgraded yet... Although they have upgraded one of their 200MB files and it actually fixed issues they were having... My video card is an 768MB 8800GTX Ultra, but we are also using a few 512MB 6600GT's which run revit fine on dual monitors. I also run Photoshop CS2, In Design, Adobe Illustrator and the gaming card does okay on these applications. Not using Max though, no need to Mental Ray in Revit
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i have the same thumbnail issue with vista home premium on my laptop. I think when my workstation goes vista i will try dual RAID 0 and load both 32 and 64 vista ultimate...... cross my fingers and hope nothing blows!
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