drawing file path in drawing area

[ehernandez]

Each day, after working in Autocad 2016 for a few hours, the file path (of the file I'm working in) will show up in the drawing area and will not go away...even if I open a new drawing file.  I have to completely close out of Autocad to make it go away. The file path bar gets in the way of any drawing I'm trying to do and it's just incovenient to have to close out of Autocad every few hours because of this.  I've gone into my display settings and made several modifications, but nothing I do keeps it from popping up.  The strange thing is that I've used the same display settings on every version of Autocad since release 14, and this has never been a problem.  The attached file shows what it looks like on my screen.  Does anyone have any idea of how I can keep this file path bar from popping up at all?  Thank you!

[Patchy]

There is a post from Cadtutor.net asking the same thing, if that post is not yours, then it is a bug because nobody has solved it yet.

[ehernandez]

I reported it to Autodesk, but they don't have a resolution a this time.  I had to stop using Autocad 2016 because the issue was happening so often it was making it difficult to be productive.  Hopefully, Autodesk releases a "fix" soon.

[Anonymous]

I installed SP1-2016, that support understood would include a fix for the problem. Unfortunately, not only is it not fixed, it appears worse. Rather a nuisance, I must say.

[Anonymous]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I installed SP1-2016, that support understood would include a fix for the problem. Unfortunately, not only is it not fixed, it appears worse. Rather a nuisance, I must say.

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Have you tried toggling hardware acceleration on or off?

[Anonymous]

Yes, but without affect. AutoDesk service rep advised that they were not aware of hardware acceleration being linked to the issue. Mousing over the Start tab will usually banish the filepath for some time. I have noticed, however, that (a) this work-around appears to be somewhat more intermittent in working now, and (b) the program appears more unstable. This observation is based on several hours of use, and a few restarts of the application and a few cold boots of the workstation. Repeated audits of the drawing files do not reveal any errors.

[ehernandez]

Going to the Start Screen was a decent work-a-round, for a little while, but then the issue became more persistent.  The file path "hovering" over my screen would occur multiple times within the hour, so I, finally, got fed up and just went back to using Autocad 2015.  Like it was said, previously, it seems like the program becomes more unstable with use over time. It's an annoying distraction when trying to get work done, so I decided not to use 2016 again until Autodesk released a definitive fix for this issue. 

[Anonymous]

What Graphics cards do the users have ?

Updated drivers ?

OS ?

Ron

[Anonymous]

We are having this same issue. We use a Nvidia Quadro K4200, updated drivers, Windows 7 pro x64. PLEASE fix this, its so annoying. 😞

[Anonymous]

Unfortunately, we continued to experience the issue even after the installation of the latest service pack. In communicating with customer service it appears AutoCAD is of the opinion the fix in SP1 corrected the problem for nearly all users. The advice we received that has so far worked is to set Startmode to 0 and Startup to 0. A bit inconvenient, but acceptable. FWIW, we are also using an Nvidia graphics card, with all drivers certified and up-to-date. We upgraded to Windows 10. My hunch is a problem with Nvidia, as I personally have not heard of the problem with Radeon machines (they may exist; I just haven't heard of them). On the machine in question the issue presented before and after the upgrade to Win10, and was not affected by driver updates.

[Anonymous]

In our case, Nvidia, updated drivers, Win7Pro & Win10.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Yes, to no affect. Set Startmode to 0, Startup to 0. Inconvenient, but it works.

[Anonymous]

Setting Startmode to 0 solved the problem.. many thanks 

[Snomatic_Autocad]

Thanks!