This is one for the ages. Like that relative that nobody talks about, but appears for Christmas in years with the number '6' at the end, I've only seen this one come up three times in my entire career. Two I directly saw, the last I ran across on a discussion group.
When you start a program in Windows, all of a sudden your screen resolution drops to 'ugly'. I'm showing this one in Inventor, but it's not limited to Inventor, or even Autodesk at all. You can change the same options on programs like the 3Dconnexion Driver, and some of the Adobe products as well.
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If you shut off your program, it magically goes away. It's quite infuriating (like when that same relative empties your refrigerator). So what would cause it?
If you right click on the short cut that starts the Windows Program (Inventor in this example).
(Click to Enlarge)Choose properties, click the 'Compatibility' tab, and you'll see the following screen.
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You'll usually find that one of the check boxes on this screen are checked, causing the program to drop the resolution when you start it.
Unchecking the box (256 colors) in this example, has fixed the issue every time I've encountered it.
Why does it happen? I haven't a clue. I've only seen the aftermath. It's not even a setting that a user could easily find and check by mistake.
It's kinda like coming home and finding that your relative has crashed your car into the swimming pool, but somehow all the fences around the pool are still intact.
So that fixes what might be one of the strangest 'errors' I've encountered. It seems to me more prone to happening on an XP box (I couldn't force my Vista 64bit box to create the error), but who knows. It's pretty strange.
Definitely one for a game of geek trivia!
And on one final note! Autodesk Manufacturing Academy (AMA) is back! October 15th for us in So. Cal., and October 22nd in No. Cal.!
Check it out! I hope to see everyone there!
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