always seem to have these issues with Houdini which I just take for granted is a graphic card issue….you'll be working along fine and then Houdini won't highlight points or faces that you've selected…totally annoying…but I've noticed that if you box select entirely around an object it won't select the points ever….is this some sort of new “feature”. Is there a a setting? happens on my home machine which has a 680 card and also on my work laptop which has a quadra……..

More of a bug sounding issue than a ‘feature’

Can you try the latest Houdini daily build, as there was some recent fixes, and then when it happens again please post your graphics card, driver and operating system

Thanks!

I've been having a lot of trouble with that as well, no hilighting on selected geometry and issues with the viewport not updating templated geometry and unreliable display of primitive normals (sometimes I have to toggle buttons on and off before they update properly), it's a little difficult to reproduce reliably.

Houdini 13.0.362
OS X 10.8.3
Nvidia GeForce GTX 680MX

Try the new production build.Houdini 13.0.376 There were some fixes.

Non-realtime normal updates is a known issue.

376 and new drivers improved things on both machines…thanks…
still I'm thinking it is just a big tease….