GiD and the Operating System |
Specific questions about GiD in the different operating systems.
I try to open GiD by the first time on MS Windows and it crashes |
Tipically, these type of problems are caused by the graphics acceleration card.
A possibility to avoid the problem is the following: Try to start GiD safe mode (from the start menu) and activate use Software OpenGL If the problem persists, try to deactivate the graphic hardware acceleration (Screen properties->Advanced options). Also try a different colour resolutions (select 32 bits of colour for example) Search in the web page of your card if there are actualized drivers for your graphic card.
Check also See section Does GiD support 3D graphic cards?.
Upper Menu locked |
With the OS Microsoft Windows, sometimes exists a conflict with the menu bar, and they remain
blocked. It is possible to unlock the menu bar without restarting GiD, by using the
keyboard shortcuts (e.g. Alt+f, to invoke the Files
menu).
What OS versions does GiD support? |
We have currently versions only for: Silicon Graphics, Win95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP, Digital alpha UNIX and Linux. Maybe in the future we will have more versions for several machines. Everything depends on the interest of the people.
Does GID works on SGI with IRIX 6.4 and 6.5? |
Yes
Demonstration version on SGI possible ? |
Yes. Check our web page: http://www.gidhome.com
Which are the requirement for one PC : 300 MHz or less or more? |
GiD works in any pentium. Normally, the critical issue is the RAM memory. It must be related to the size of the mesh to be generated. As a rule of thumb, 32Mb for meshes of 30-40M elements or 512Mb for half a million elements to one million or more.
Does GiD-Windows support spaces on filenames? |
Version 6 and newer supports spaces on filenames. But it is advisable not to include spaces in the model names because it can give problems in the calculations process.
Does GiD-Windows support spaces on machine names? |
Version 6 and newer supports spaces on machine names.
Due to an interaction problem between GiD and Microsoft Windows, machine names with spaces can not be used in version 5.0p47. In the meantime, this problem can be avoided using a machine name without spaces. After 5.0p49b this problem is be solved.
How can I see MPEG files on my Microsoft Windows NT machine? |
Just download the MediaPlayer (ftp://www.gidhome.com/pub/drivers/windows/mpfull.exe) and install it on your Microsoft Windows NT machine, or get it from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mediaplayer/).
How to make GiD use more than 2GB on Windows XP? |
This only works for Microsoft Windows XP, and for GiD version 7.5.x and newer.
In a standard Microsoft Windows machine, each program only can work with 2GBytes of memory, although there is more installed. So if you have a machine with lots of memory, more than 2GB, and running Windows XP, you can enable your system so that a program, if it is able to, sees and uses more than this 2GB of memory. In a Microsoft Windows XP 32bit environment, the program will be able to use upto 3GB of memory, and on a 64bit environment, up to 4GBytes, althought the program is 32bit.
MS Windows XP should be configured by adding the flag /3G to the Boot.ini file. To do this just open the Control panel, click on the System icon, on the Advanced options panel, then press the Configuration button of the Start and recuperation section. In this window click on the Edit button inside the System start section and the Notepad will pop-up with the Boot.ini file opened. In this file there should be a line like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect
just add the /3G flag at the end, like:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /3G
Now the file must be saved, and MS Windows restarted
More information can be found at http://www.gidhome.com/support/gid3gb/index.html .
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