Zed

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

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

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