Funky Civil3d hiccup - Dual Screens & Windows 7

[Anonymous]

We've just started testing out Civil3d 2010 on Windows 7, and we're liking it so far. We've run into something kind of wierd & was wondering if anyone else has seen this...

When working with Civil3d spread out accross 2 screens & doing something fairly memory intensive such as re-building a large corridor, Civil3d will partially minimize itself (it temporarily occupies about 1/2 the screen space), gets kind of fuzzy looking, then will pop back open when its finished processing.

Has anyone else seen this or know why it would be doing it?

[Anonymous]

I don't have any large corridors but I have not seen that issue on my
machine.

John
Core2Quad @ 2.83 GHz 4 GB RAM
Win 7, Civil 3D 2010, Raster Design 2010, LDC 2009

[Anonymous]

I don't think this has anything to do with Funk.

Oh, you mean unusual.

Sorry, can't help you. I've been running in that environ as well but
haven't seen that issue. Have you updated the display drivers? Just
random guessing...

JW

[Anonymous]

That seemed to do the trick! Thanks!

[hgohel]

Windows 7's desktop window manager has a lot of nifty features with respect to how it interprets your window movements. Based on that it automatically places, resizes, minimizes and maximizes windows and that may be what you were seeing.

Don't have a complete list (or a handy link) of the features, but here are a few things to try:

1. Grab a window (that does not occupy the entire desktop) by the toolbar and take it to the top of the screen and release - it will maximize
2. Grab a window & move it to the left (right) edge of your display - Win7 will show you that it would occupy half the screen if you released.

Windows also recognizes "shake" gestures to return window to their original sizes. I believe there's a web page/video on MS's Windows 7 web site that goes through these new shortcuts.