Title: AccuRender and Elsa Synergy cards

General instability in AccuRender can be caused by poor OpenGL drivers.

AccuRender 3 does not run well on the standard drivers of the ELSA synergy II cards. 
I was able to fix the problems with the addition of some Elsa files that they have on their web site. 
The drivers on the web site were updated on 10-28-99, so they are very new.

I downloaded and installed the files -

syiibios.zip - This allows you to flash your video bios to 3.05.00
syiint4b.zip - This installs the Elsa Driver 4.11.10.150
powerl_b.zip - This installs the Powerlib drivers to 6.00.03.03

You can look in your display properties dialog under the information tab to check these numbers against the drivers that you have.

I have done more testing and I am finding that there is also a conflict with AccuRender and the Elsa EV3D (ElsaView 3d 2) add-on. 
If you uninstall the ELSAview 3d 2 out of Control Panel -> add remove programs, you will find more stability.

This has fixed all the problems I can find with this card.


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Keywords : AR3, AccuRender, AutoCAD 2000, crash, error, exception, fatal, unhandled
Version : 3.0 3.1 
Platform : Windows ============================================================================= 
Article last modified on 10-17-1999