Pro Engineer Mouse Difficulties - Help Please!

[benpriestleyuk]

I'm having some trouble with my mouse pointer in proE. I've been using the education edition from my university for a project but my mouse pointer doesn't seem to be aligned properly, when I click it isn't at the end of the arrow as it should be, it is below the pointer to the left and when I move the cursor it lags behind...
I have tried in my university for help with this problem but none of the lecturers, lab assistants have seen this problem before and could not help. I have also tried updating the drivers for the mouse that I'm using but that did no good either.
I have attached a very crude picture to help show what I mean if my explanation is too vague, its done with a print screen into paint but obviously the mouse pointer doesn't show so I have drawn a example to show the problem I'm trying to explain.
Thanks in advance for any help I have an assignment to work on for next week and could really do with this working properly.

 

[looslib]

We need some information about your computer in order to help you.
What mouse do you have (2 or 3 button or more) and what driver?
What graphics card do you have and driver version?
What version of Pro/E?
What is your OS?

This may be a graphics issue and has nothing to do with the mouse.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[benpriestleyuk]

the mouse is a logitech g5 with 3 main buttons and the driver is provided by Logitech version 5.20.12.0
the operating system is windows vista home premium with service pack 1 installed.
the graphics card is: mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family
i think the driver is: display adapter driver version 7.14.10.1244
and the version of proE i am using is wildfire 4.0
I hope thats all the right information

 

[looslib]

I see 2 problems right away. The OS is not supported for Pro/E, only the professional or ultimate versions of Vista are supported. While Pro/E runs, it isn't the best OS to use.
The second problem is the graphics chip. The Intel chipsets are NOT certified as they aren't powerful enough to effectively handle the graphics requirements of Pro/E. Pro/E uses OpenGL for its display output and the Intel, like gaming cards, Nvidia GeForce, etc, do not process OpenGL data. This puts extra load on your main CPU to do the conversion from OpenGL to DirectX, which is what these chips/cards need.

The cursor not being where you think it is very likely caused by the Intel chip and not the mouse at all.

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[benpriestleyuk]

ah i see, thanks very much for your help anyway

 

[RBobroski]

What Ben said. The lag behind the cursor makes me think it more of a processing issue.

The OS, while not supported, would not cause this issue. I have run Pro/E WF 4.0 Educational on my Vista home computer back when I was in college, and while slow it didn't have any major errors like this.

 

[seymours2571]

Try disabling all of the graphics acceleration via the display properties dialog box or set the config.pro option graphics to be win32_gdi.

You will get some ugly looking shading and poor performance, but it may be your only choice at this point.

Good luck,

Steve


Stephen Seymour, PE
Seymour Engineering & Consulting Group

http://www.seymourecg.com