Cura problems after win 8.1 'upgrade'

[geoff-t 0]

Microsoft finally FORCED me to 'upgrade' to win 8.1 from win 8.0, I'd been resisting since the end of last year as every time I went through the process it failed to upgrade and offered no solutions to the problems and generally required a factory reset to get things back to normal.

Anyway yesterday despite my best efforts to avoid any change it offered no choice but to upgrade within 4 hours! it restarted itself and upgraded, mostly successful but has left me with some significant problems.

I had problems with Cura 14.07 straight away, ultra slow reactions in the active model window. I can't zoom, rotate the view or use the other buttons, If I do a rotate view nothing happens tab through to another application then back to cura and the move has happened. I've removed re-installed and tried other versions of Cura but still the same problem even with very small models or no model loaded.

I'm running on a lenovo laptop with Nvidia GEFORCE and intel onboard graphics, played around with options on those and disabled virus firewall.

This is obviously a microsoft problem but given the symptoms in cura I wonder if anyone has any suggestions.

 

[Dim3nsioneer 486]

Reboot? Helped me once with a similar issue.

Certainly installing the newest graphic drivers will not hurt... it might be that your present opengl drivers are not so harmonic with Win8.1.

You really were forced to upgrade? I still run my laptop with 8.0 and was not yet forced to upgrade...it's the machine I slice all the prints with Cura 14.07... o-oh... :huh:

 

[geoff-t 0]

Thanks Dim3nsioneer, yes I was forced, it started with an option to delay for 2 days maximum which after that the choice limited to a maximum 4 hours, once restarted that was it.

I've re-booted many times with no success, I can remember that solving a similar issue last year when trying to upgrade. I'll have a look at the opengl drivers.

 

[donmilne 2]

I'm still using XP, very happy with features, driver support and stability. Forced to upgrade? Pah! (just remove the tick from the auto-update checkbox).

 

[geoff-t 0]

not fixed yet but definitely opengl issue, I tried opening Google Earth in opengl mode no imagery, works fine in directx

 

[geoff-t 0]

I'm getting there, my windows user profile got corrupted in the 'upgrade' process, I created a new account and from there I can now use Cura and other programmes that had stopped working properly. So at least I can get back to work with the minor inconvenience of having to change users.