Graphical error in appearance manager

[DareDevil]

I get this strange graphical error in my appearance manager. Does anybody have any clue?

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[KrisR]

I've posted about this before but cannot find it.

It's a Win 7 issue. What version and datecode are you using? This doesn't affect performance, it just looks crummy.

[DareDevil]

Sorry, I couldn't find it either. Anyway tanks for the pointer. To day I am running Creo Elements 5.0 M120 but I am trying out Creo Parametric 2.0 and I get the same crummy error. As you said, It doesn't affect performance, and some times it doesn't appear at all, but when it dose, it looks cheap...

I run Windows 7 Enterprise with SP1

[ptc-291018]

Hi Daniel

Are you using a certified graphic driver?

You can also try to start Creo in different compatibility mode in win 7.

Regards

Johannes

[DareDevil]

How do you mean by different compability mode in Win 7?

I have used a certified driver, but no difference. It has not always been like this, but I can't really remember when it appeared.

Maybe it has when I updated Creo from M80 to M120 to prepare for the update of Windchill.

[ptc-291018]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-windows

Most easy way are to right-click and select properties on Creo start icon

[KrisR]

Are you on 64 bit Win 7?

We had this issue with M080. We are now on datecode M130 and no longer have the issue.

Aero or non-Aero seemed to have no effect for us.

[DareDevil]

Yes, I am runing 64bit Win 7. The funny thing is that sometimes it looks just fine. I will try to run M130

[KrisR]

Aha! I had posted it on the proecad exploder list; here's the reply that seemed to work for people.

This issue has always occurred on our 64-bit machines (never on our 32-bit ones).

I put the following into our config.pro:

web_browser_homepage about:blank

and the issue goes away!

We had another problem in which creation of a STEP file of a particular model caused Pro/E to exit but only on 64-bit machines. Amazingly we isolated it to the web browser home just like this problem. If we switched to a text-only homepage the issue was fixed.

Please add this to your config and see if it works for you!

[DomenicLaritz]

Maybe it helps, if you change the display style to a non-aero style.