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lebeau  
#1 Posted : Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:02:52 PM(UTC)
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Hi, I'm wondering if anyone knows why the screen goes black when Shark starts. I'm feeling that it's a incompatibility with the graphics card that is reset each time it starts. I have a HP 64bit laptop PC with a radeon HD6770M graphics card. Perhaps there's something I can do something in the settings to fix it. It doesn't happen with an other software I start.

Mark
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jdi000  
#2 Posted : Tuesday, January 15, 2013 1:26:33 PM(UTC)
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Hi Mark

If its windows it changes the display from aero to basic

Regards

Jason
Windows 11, 10
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phil  
#3 Posted : Tuesday, January 15, 2013 10:00:45 PM(UTC)
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Yeah, it's switching into the Open GL mode (instead of the usual Direct X mode).
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posh.de  
#4 Posted : Wednesday, January 16, 2013 8:16:23 AM(UTC)
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Shark disables the Windows Aero desktop during startup for ensuring a reliable [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL"]OpenGL[/URL] graphics output.

You may want check for the recent [URL="http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx#1"]Radeon Catalyst video driver[/URL] too.

hth,
Norbert
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lebeau  
#5 Posted : Saturday, January 19, 2013 3:21:39 PM(UTC)
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Thanks for the reply. I was mainly curious why it didn't happen with any other software. But this answers my question and I assume it's nothing to worry about. I assume I'm not losing any performance.
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zumer  
#6 Posted : Sunday, January 20, 2013 8:03:09 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: lebeau Go to Quoted Post
Thanks for the reply. I was mainly curious why it didn't happen with any other software. But this answers my question and I assume it's nothing to worry about. I assume I'm not losing any performance.



I also use TurboCAD, which does the same thing (with a "Aero theme is disabled because it yada yada yada" message) when render modes are started, but not when started in wireframe.
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