MyraGe

Thanks to everyone, mainly to Rafal at Sidefx that FIXED my problem…



Talking further about my problem, I successfully register (validate) the license by following the same procedure then I did with my 2nd computer, as the layout was the same… After the validation, I noticed that not only the fonts were messing but also the icons… Here's few pictures:
Icons problem - image 1 [myrage187.com]
Icons problem - image 2 [myrage187.com]
Icons problem - image 3 - Close Up [myrage187.com]

When I showed those picture to Rafal at sidefx, here's the answer I got:
I just looked through your attachments of the Houdini window, and while there are no elements missing, all the icons share the same unfortunate fate as the fonts (ie, they are not rendered properly in the UI). This leads me to the conclusion that it is not the font issue, since the icons don't use fonts at all.

One thing that is common to fonts and icons is that they use texture mapping to draw themselves on the screen in Houdini. Therefore, there must be some issue with the graphics driver or some Windows setting that affects the texture mapping. Meanwhile, you could bypass the hardware OpenGL by setting an environment variable in Control Panel > System > Advanced Tab > Environment Variables. If you add HOUDINI_OGL_SOFTWARE variable and set its value to 1, you may be able to get the proper UI.

Thanks again, the last sentence fixed my problem.
Icons problem - image 4 - Fixed [myrage187.com]

Wondering… Does this line could affect at all my Open_GL for the other software I am using ???

LoL it's all good… I am not feeling at this time to re-format my pc with a fresh windows installation, as I did it last week and I am still in the way to install everything I need and houdini is not on the list of the softwares I am using. if there is no easy/quick fix for this problem, well I will put houdini on the side and will try it again next time I'll reformat my pc. 3 days ago, I didnt know what was houdini so it still can wait a while. I was more curious to see it in action, to see the power and the rendering time compare to others CG softwares and mainly, how user friendly is the interface…

Dunno maybe someone here have demos or project done with houdini I could watch to judge a lil bit more ?
the only reference I have is this: http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/gallery/herigstad.html [thegnomonworkshop.com]

I am just coming back from China, I have been there 5 weeks and just tought the caracters was really similar but as I can't read those languages, well I'm pretty sure you are right… The fact is when I came back, I reformatted my computer and installed with windows some asian languages because I have met few peoples there and I tought in a way it could be useful to install them… So I really tought the issue was related to this… I first uninstalled many languages and did re-install houdini many times also, always the same problem.

On the nvidia website, they still only have the 169.21 available for geforce 7… I am wondering where you have found your 169.25 ????

ForceWare Release 169 WHQL
Version: 169.21
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Operating System: Windows XP, Windows XP Media Center Edition
Language: U.S. English
File Size: 43.8 MB

thanks again,
Chris