Window size/feature selection

Is there a way to dictate the window size pro opens to? I have a 1920 x 1200
screen and when pro opens and fills pretty much all of that screen'
selections become sluggish or impossible until I drag the window to a
smaller footprint

 

Well, I hope this helps, too. But, I usually keep mine at 1 and never had this
problem, even on Toshiba laptop with an nVidia Geforce 2 GO display adapter with
16 megs of video memory, driving a 15" screen at 1024x768 res. IOW, this is NOT A
NORMAL PROBLEM of screen resolution.... unless you've set yours way beyond that
which your display adapter defaults to. Is 1920 x 1200 your default, optimum
"resolution"? Or just what you're trying to drive an inadequate card to fill that
slick new 24", 16-9 aspect ratio LCD at. So, have you checked out the
adapter/driver issue? That's what I think of first when I hear of goofy problems
like this one.

 

1920 x 1200 is optimal res (native). It only makes sense that the more
pixels in the active screen area the more work the card has to do to find
the proper pick. I'm currently using a quadro 980 xgl nvidia card witth very
mature drivers to drive this acer al2416w monitor. I'm waiting on an nvidia
fx 1000 which will let me focus bothe dvi processing engines to the one
monitor which should improve performance. At the very least I'm sure it will
improve the performance slowdown which occurs while using many windows. The
same 980 xgl driving 2 1280 x 1024 monitors doesn't miss a beat no matter
how many windos I throw at it..

 

... It only makes sense that the more pixels

I'm sure this can get more complicated than my underwhelming knowledge of
relevant issues will support but I'd disagree and guess you might be on to
something at the same time. Check out the config option pick_aperture_radius.
Might help.

 

In looking into this a little more, I've discovered a couple things
* The nVidia 980 xgl gpu is at least 4 years old; most of the literature dates
from 2002. So, while it supports OpenGL, I suspect that you'd be content with its
performance about as much as you would the 4 year old computers it ran on;
* The Quadro4 980 XGL is a certified and supported card for WF2, so there is no
official reason why it should not behave perfectly (full-screen included)
* Window size (i.e., total number of pixels) has never been a limiting factor for
Pro/e selection as OpenGL is not based on pixels but on geometry drawing commands:
it is a vector based graphics system for vector based graphics programs, of which,
Pro/e is one. "The Pixels be damned, full speed ahead!"
--
David Janes

 

Thanks.
Upon further testing it seems that when I shrink the window, items I
couldn't pick or had a difficult time picking are now much easier to
select - as I've explained before. Yet when I bring the window back to
approx. where it was I don't revert back to or lose any selection
sensitivity.

I still have a quadro fx1000 coming. We'll see if that helps. Supposedly one
can direct the processing power of both outputs to one large monitor.

 

Stumbled across this. Maybe related. Similar subject.
Win64 and certain builds though no mention of resizing window.

http://www.mcadcentral.com/proe/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=32895


(Thought I'd cross post it in case someone tries searching before asking <G>)


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Thanks.
Upon further testing it seems that when I shrink the window, items I
couldn't pick or had a difficult time picking are now much easier to
select - as I've explained before. Yet when I bring the window back to
approx. where it was I don't revert back to or lose any selection
sensitivity.

I still have a quadro fx1000 coming. We'll see if that helps. Supposedly one
can direct the processing power of both outputs to one large monitor.