My menus do not display correctly and I cannot see most of the commands, making the products almost completely unusable. The menu options all appear to jumble together in a pile, and while they are still clickable,I have no way to know what I am clicking. I have attached a picture showing the problem.
This problem exists in both Inventor 2014 and Autocad Electrical 2013. I have tried a clean install of both products. Inventor 2013 and autocad 2013 both worked on this machine prior to an upgrade to a SSD that required a reformat and re-install. Other than the SSD there were no hardware changes.
The computer specs:
Dell precision T3400
Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz
8 GB of ram
SAPPHIRE 100270SR Radeon HD 4850 X2 2GB 512-bit (256-bit x 2) GDDR3, direct-X 10.1 support
Windows 7 Enterprise N x64, SP1
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This is an interesting error. Maybe change the font size and color to back to default. i.e. To restore the default font settings.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/change-your-font-settings
David,
Thanks for the suggestion, but it did not correct the problem.. I've also tried uninstalling the video card drivers and reinstalling the video card drivers, and that did not work.
Actually your post got me to thinking about the windows visual elements, I had never considered that this could be the source of the problems.... I went to
control panel-> System -> advance system settings - Performance Settings
and then played with the settings...
when I set it to 'adjust for best performance', windows takes on the classic windows '98 look but the menus rendered correctly...
so I turned all the visual effects back on and played with them one by one and it is caused by one of two settings:
'Enable desktop composition' and 'use visual styles on windows and buttons'... I can have one or the other of these on, but not both and it will reneder correctly.
Turning off enable desktop composition turns off the aero effects and transparencies, but keeps the visual styles while turning off visual styles makes it look like the classic windows '98 appaearance.