SIMetrix Intro & Vista

[Geoff]

Has anyone successfully installed SIMetrix Intro onto a pc running Vista?

I have been using SIMetrix for a number of years and have just replaced my pc with one that has Vista Business on it. I have installed Intro v4.5 (which I prefer) and the latest v5.3 onto the new pc and find that in both cases the grid does not display correctly in the schematic window.

There are 22 columns of dots followed by a similar number of blank columns then a further 22 columns of dots then another series of blank columns and this continues across the full width of the screen.

I am using a 19" WS monitor with the resolution set to the recommended (native) 1440 x 900 and the alternating dotted and blank sections persist at different levels of magnification within the schematic window. The 'snap to grid' still works in the blank sections but obviously without the dots to identify the grid positions accurate component placement becomes difficult.

Catena have not come across this problem before but suspect that it is display driver related since the two versions use completely different underlying graphics subsystems. Having checked, I am using the latest driver for both the monitor and the graphics controller (Intel 946GZ chipset).

Any suggestions as to how to resolve this problem would be gratefully received.

Geoff

[TwoSpoons]

Ditch Vista.

[planet10]

Originally posted by TwoSpoons
Ditch Vista.

I don't do Windows (no time to put up with 3rd rate OS), but both the PC guys at the 'puter shop i work at are trying to keep their customers away from Vista. Vista i understand is doing a great job convincing people to swith to Linux or OS X.

dave

[Geoff]

Thanks for the suggestions. I too would have preferred to avoid Vista but unfortunately it was not an option in this case.

[valveitude]

Vista i understand is doing a great job convincing people to swith to Linux or OS X.

Yup..first Gateway lost a sale due to their insistance that they bundle Vista, and now I'm running the Ubuntu distro of linux..LTSpice runs perfect under Wine. I still have a Xp partition for a few proggies though..as soon as I can find replacements under linux, it to will be gone.

[planet10]

Originally posted by valveitude
..LTSpice runs perfect under Wine.

When i get my new Intel Mac, one of the 1st things i'm going to download to try is the OS X verion of WINE (Cross-over Mac)... have you tried running MathCAD (MJK worksheets) in WINE yet? Duncan's PSUD? TubeCAD?

dave

[Geoff]

Originally posted by planet10


When i get my new Intel Mac, one of the 1st things i'm going to download to try is the OS X verion of WINE (Cross-over Mac)... have you tried running MathCAD (MJK worksheets) in WINE yet? Duncan's PSUD? TubeCAD?

dave

Dave

As a moderator you should know better than to hijack threads. If you want to ask questions like this please move the off topic posts to a new thread.

Geoff

[planet10]

Just following the conversation.... and not off topic if one considers the real question to be "problems with Vista"

In every instance i've run into with issues like this on Windows is that the user -- after considerable frustration with getting it to work on Vista has had to go back to XP.

If you can't get XP on the new computer you got, i would take it back and get a refund or swap for one that will run XP.

dave

[dark_avenger]

if the laptop is running vista buisness then u can legaly install xp pro. the licence is down gradable.

[Geoff]

Originally posted by planet10
Just following the conversation.... and not off topic if one considers the real question to be "problems with Vista"

dave

The conversation is definitely off topic. The 'real question' was related to running SIMetrix on Vista, not that Vista sucks. If I wanted to discuss problems with Vista I would go to a different forum.