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[RiderFan]

When I have G-force as my visulization, when I switch from standard view, to display view, then back to standard view, the playing now portion of the screen is frozen.

If I right click, I get the option to "set display". If I change it to cover art, then back to g-force, it will work again.

I am seeing this on 2 seperate machines so it must be a bug.

I have the latest g-force and MC 12.0106

MC built in visulizations do not show this faulty behaviour.

Can someone try to reproduce or let me know how to fix it.

I have re-installed MC and gforce on both systems and it doesn't help.

[Berto]

I don't think it's a bug, because I don't have the problem you describe.

[glynor]

This is a bug in G-Force, which has a conflict with ATI Catalyst drivers version 6.6 and newer.  Soundspectrum is aware of it.  There is more information here (and I would appreciate it if you would post here to confirm that you suffer from this bug too):

http://forums.soundspectrum.com/viewtopic.php?t=1577

[RiderFan]

Well I hate to burst your bubble but I am using an Nvidia Gforce 6600GT and I am seeing this exact same problem. Updated the drivers tonight and still no joy. My other computer has an ATI 9800 Pro and does the exact same thing so I think it may be a different problem.

[RiderFan]

I also wanted to note that on both machines, If I uninstall MC 12 and reinstall and then reinstall gforce then it will work 100% for a while (couple days) then all of a sudden switching views will go back to the goofy behaviour.

It will only correct itself if I uninstall MC 12 first then reinstall, not if I just reinstall over the old version.

[glynor]

Interesting.  Well, I was able to correct it on three different machines by rolling back to Catalyst 6.5 and earlier.  It is a problem in the OpenGL acceleration in G-Force.  You can disable OpenGL, and G-Force will work properly (but slower).  Take a look at that thread I referenced (if you didn't already) for instructions.

[RiderFan]

well, my PC with the nvidia card seems to be fixed. I can switch views without gforce locking up. I downloaded the newest drivers and gforce and reinstalled. Haven't seent the problem since.

My ATI machine is still effected, and I guess I'll just have to wait for newer catalyst drivers that will fix it.

1 question... Using gforce without openGL seems to work fine. Am I losing anything not being in OpenGL mode or is it just harder on my CPU/Video?

[glynor]

More CPU usage.  Only slightly for my systems.  Of course, I have:

1. Opteron 165 (dual-core) @ 2.6 GHz
2. Athlon 64 3200+ @ 2.5 GHz
3. Pentium D (dual-core) @ 3.2 GHz
4. Pentium 4 @ 2.0 GHz

So I'm not running on wimpy CPUs (except for the older P4 I suppose).