I did a search in the technical forums and found no answers for this issue.

In windows I have six settings for hardware acceleration.

1 being the lowest and 6 being the highest.

I have to set mine at the 3rd mark to get Houdini 9 to produce a working UI.

Houdini starts just fine but I'm left with only a window frame and no contents.

This particular setting “Disables all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations, as well as all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations. Use this setting to correct severe problems with DirectX accelerated applications.”

Is there something in particular I'm missing here?

Perhaps a preferences setting inside Houdini that I'm overlooking?

The issue is present with both 64bit and 32bit versions of Houdini 9.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

- Zed

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OS: XP 64 bit

GFX Card: ATI X1650 pro 512mb

Memory: Dual Channel 2gb 800mhz

Chipset: Nvidia nForce4

35 views and you're all clueless, that's amazing.

Well, certainly being a brand spanking new user and making an obnoxious insult to everyone here is the way to bump things up in priority for many of us.

J.C.

JColdrick
Well, certainly being a brand spanking new user and making an obnoxious insult to everyone here is the way to bump things up in priority for many of us.

J.C.

First off you shouldn't make assumptions. That certainly doesn't make you look good.

I'm not a brand new user. I can see because I have only one post you may “assume” that I am but that's only an assumption on your part and a bad one.

Secondly, I in no way was trying to insult anyone, at all. Again another assumption on your part.

After reading a rather large amount of posts, I see that we have a lot of very knowledgeable Houdini users here and was extremely surprised that with so many views no one had any clues yet as to how to resolve my issue.

So please try not to insult me by pointing a finger calling me obnoxious and making assumptions.

If you can't or don't want to help by posting constructive comments then don't.

Thanks,

- Zed

Well i would say “try linux” but i won't…

I have no experience with windows anymore (i am trying to forget everything involving that os) so just hoping i can point you in the right direction…

first of all, houdini uses opengl so tweaking directx probably has no effect. second, it might be an issue with ati drivers. Ati and houdini don't mix well together (at least under linux…).

And third, if you ask something and don't get a direct answer and want to “bump” your post, please be a bit more kind/diplomatic…

I did a search in the technical forums and found no answers for this issue.

There are plenty threads about problems with ATI cards here. I suggest to study all of them as ATI doesn't like Houdini and it used to be like that but later on some people have found some solutions.

As Pagefan said Houdini doesn't touch DirectX so your changes in settings don't help too much.

cheers,
sy.

PS There is nothing wrong with being novice here . Most of us are like this. Except several guys… and you had a bad luck to annoy one of them . Peace.

Yeah Houdini is the kind of program that makes you feel like a novice for a long time. Plus that it makes you hate it and love it at the same time, she can be such a bitch oops

BTW, i do hope ATI/AMD make some decent Linux drivers for their new FireGL cards. They do look very promising.

Wasn't annoyed, not worth the blood pressure hit. Being called “clueless” by a complete stranger out in public usually results in a middle finger salute from me. Forums are no different, although admittedly I have to be in the mood.

J.C.

P.S. Anything's possible, but the amount of earth-shattering shakeup that would be required at ATI's driver department to have them actually start doing their job would need to be a Richter 8. They have sucked for so long, it's got to be inherent in their design. I rank them up there at almost half as bad as Creative's drivers, which have to be the worst in the world.

D yeah think so to JC. I hope someone here on the forums wants to be the guinea pig… twisted

D yeah think so too JC. I hope someone here on the forums wants to be the guinea pig… twisted

I replied last night here:
http://forums.odforce.net/index.php?showtopic=5910 [forums.odforce.net]