Adobe Illustrator - Wierd Screen Artifacts

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Wierd Screen Artifacts

MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-09-28, 12:15 pm

My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
it just my machine? It's big irritation at the moment...
I have a pretty good graphics card [a 128mb nVidia]... I was wondering
of there where any issues with this brand...
Also, when I try to access my fonts from the character palette, they are
no longer there! Although they are still accessible from the main
drop-down menu at the top of the page...
D'oh! Are my prefernces buggered or something?

If anyone can help it would be appreciated,

many thanks

m.c.

Stuart

2004-09-28, 12:15 pm

MArtin Chiselwitt wrote:
> My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
> For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
> get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
> this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
> this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
> it just my machine? It's big irritation at the moment...
> I have a pretty good graphics card [a 128mb nVidia]... I was wondering
> of there where any issues with this brand...
> Also, when I try to access my fonts from the character palette, they are
> no longer there! Although they are still accessible from the main
> drop-down menu at the top of the page...
> D'oh! Are my prefernces buggered or something?
>
> If anyone can help it would be appreciated,
>
> many thanks
>
> m.c.

What version of Illustrator are you using? Which point release is it?

Stuart

n8 skow

2004-09-28, 7:16 pm

Sounds like a screen redraw issue... Try updating the videocard drivers?
Detonators?

n8

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> What version of Illustrator are you using? Which point release is it?
>
> Stuart
>

Orchid

2004-09-29, 4:14 am

MArtin Chiselwitt <none@none.invalid> wrote:

> My version of Illustrator is exhibiting some odd behaviour.
> For one thing, when i draw something and then move the object I often
> get some sort of vestigal lines on the artboard. If I zoom in or out,
> this sometimes clears the problem and they dissappear. I tend to get
> this a lot when working with guides. Is this a bug in the program, or is
> it just my machine?

I'm pretty sure it's your machine. This also happens to me on one of my
older Macs. I'm not sure what causes it but it's either your video card
(as someone else suggested) or not enough RAM. Try running only
Illustrator and reducing the number of undos to see if that helps.

If not, you're probably going to have to put up with it or get a
better/upgraded machine.

Orchid

MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-09-29, 11:14 pm

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> same thing.
> Illustrator CS (& ATI, Catalyst 4.9 and before)
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yeah , i was afraid someone was gonna say my machine was crap!
as it happens the card I have was highly recommended and I have 512MB of
ddr ram... ho-hum :(

MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-09-29, 11:14 pm

Hecate wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:32:05 GMT, MArtin Chiselwitt
> <none@none.invalid> wrote:
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> MArtin, what exactly are your specs?
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i have a gforce4 Ti 4600 card and 512mb ram. my cpu is athlon 2400+

i just did a clean install and re-install and now all seems fine.. very
wierd...

:-0

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2004-09-30, 7:14 am

"MArtin Chiselwitt" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> yeah , i was afraid someone was gonna say my machine was crap!

!?
I just wrote that I have the very same artifacts in Ill. CS with radeon
graphic card (although I don't think it's the card's fault)

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MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

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> I just wrote that I have the very same artifacts in Ill. CS with radeon
> graphic card (although I don't think it's the card's fault)
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like i said in above post, i did a totally clean install [i.e.
reformatted my machine] and now the problem has gone away...
beats me... illustrator seems to be very buggy generally... who knows?..

Stuart

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

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2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

"MArtin Chiselwitt" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> beats me... illustrator seems to be very buggy generally... who knows?..

I use CE fonts - Illustrator was unusable (crashed within 3min after
starting) without a patch...

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Hecate

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:44:50 GMT, MArtin Chiselwitt
<none@none.invalid> wrote:

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>i have a gforce4 Ti 4600 card and 512mb ram. my cpu is athlon 2400+
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>i just did a clean install and re-install and now all seems fine.. very
>wierd...
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>:-0

That is weird, your specs are fine though I'm not a fan of the nVidia
based cards for 2d work.

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MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

Hecate wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:44:50 GMT, MArtin Chiselwitt
> <none@none.invalid> wrote:
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> That is weird, your specs are fine though I'm not a fan of the nVidia
> based cards for 2d work.
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> veni, vidi, reliqui

No, and i am discovering another thing, the card overheats like i cannot
believe. last night, i put my hand near it to test the temp. and it was
scolding hot to touch. So, i took it out and stuck my old 32mb ge force
back in... my machine's running sweet now.. what a shame though: a £250
card that i can't use... well, not unless i find some other fan or
heatsink for it... wonder if anyone else has had similar problems. It
was also very noisy at times, like a car changing gears and , now and
again, a sound like a sword being hit agains steel... [sorry, bad
metaphor, but i am tired today! :) ]

martin the fatigued

The Doormouse

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

If your video card overheats, it might be getting too much voltage.

My 2 cents' ...

The Doormouse

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MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

The Doormouse wrote:
> If your video card overheats, it might be getting too much voltage.
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> My 2 cents' ...
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> The Doormouse
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well, if anything, i think it may be that i don't have *enough* voltage.
I am using a 350w supply.. i talked to someone the other day in a local
computer shop who said that it is now common for people to buy 450w PUs...
I don't think that's the problem, but thanks for the suggestion... I
think its just that the heatsink and fan are somehow not working as they
should...

The Doormouse

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

MArtin Chiselwitt <none@none.invalid> wrote:

> well, if anything, i think it may be that i don't have *enough* voltage.
> I am using a 350w supply..

How much voltage does your graphics card need? If you have an older
motherboard supplying (for example) 6 volts to a graphics card that really
uses only 3.3 volts ... welllll, that'd be a problem.

:)

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Hecate

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 14:38:40 GMT, MArtin Chiselwitt
<none@none.invalid> wrote:

>No, and i am discovering another thing, the card overheats like i cannot
>believe. last night, i put my hand near it to test the temp. and it was
>scolding hot to touch. So, i took it out and stuck my old 32mb ge force
>back in... my machine's running sweet now.. what a shame though: a £250
>card that i can't use... well, not unless i find some other fan or
>heatsink for it... wonder if anyone else has had similar problems. It
>was also very noisy at times, like a car changing gears and , now and
>again, a sound like a sword being hit agains steel... [sorry, bad
>metaphor, but i am tired today! :) ]
>
>martin the fatigued

LOL! Think yourself lucky - when they brought out the cards abased on
the FX58/9 they were double height and apparently, the cooling fans so
extreme that when you started the computer (and this is the
description I read) it sounded like a 747 taking off... ;-)

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MArtin Chiselwitt

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

> LOL! Think yourself lucky - when they brought out the cards abased on
> the FX58/9 they were double height and apparently, the cooling fans so
> extreme that when you started the computer (and this is the
> description I read) it sounded like a 747 taking off... ;-)

LOL..

OK, i am lucky, mine only sounds like a Lada going through 5 gear-shifts

Hecate

2004-10-02, 12:14 pm

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 23:32:05 GMT, MArtin Chiselwitt
<none@none.invalid> wrote:

>. .:xcat:: wrote:
>yeah , i was afraid someone was gonna say my machine was crap!
>as it happens the card I have was highly recommended and I have 512MB of
>ddr ram... ho-hum :(

MArtin, what exactly are your specs?

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