Map 3D 2008 only importing half a shp file??

[Jmurphy]

Looks like your video driver/card or display issue. Even though you only posted the one file ESRI shape file format contains at least 3 files xx.shp, xx.shx, and xx.dbf. I was able to data connect to it and it displays everything for me.

[guyver1]

ok mate, thanks for your help. At leasr i know its a hardware issue now and i can get a case together for an upgrade.

[guyver1]

what GFX card are you using out of curiosity?

GeForce or Quadro?

and what model?

cheers

[Jmurphy]

GeForce 8400 GS, the original one that came with my home system a few years ago.
You might be able to fine tune your settings to work. In AutoCAD enter 3dconfig at the command line and select manual tune, toggle hardware acceleration a few times and a few other settings and see if that makes a different

[guyver1]

na doesnt make a difference

looks like I've put together a convincing enough case for them to upgrade the CAD machines to nvidia Quadro FX580's and 4Gb of RAM

I'd just like to make 100% sure that this display error is 100% because of the gfx cards (3 machines with same display error as noted here, on 3 diff cards, GeForce 6 6100, Geforce5 FX5200 and an ATI 7500) and not some random windows setting or autocad setting.

You've been extremely helpful so far so thank you for that.

How much RAM are you using? do you have a way to drop your machine to under 1Gb? that would emulate my office machines which are only running 512mb or 768Mb.

Would like to rule out a lack of RAM

[Glenn Pope]

my office machines which are only running 512mb or 768Mb.

Wow! Amazed you are able to have Map run at a workable level. Even if this doesn't fix the issue, you'll love to speed increase of this.

[Jmurphy]

The recommend RAM for 2008 was 1 Gb to start with.

[guyver1]

Wow! Amazed you are able to have Map run at a workable level. Even if this doesn't fix the issue, you'll love to speed increase of this.

who said anything about 'workable'.....

I'm just doing voluntary work for this charitable company and their hardware is archaic to say the least.

Its only since I've been there and pointed out all the flaws in their hardware and hows its affecting their software performance that they're actually sorting out some sort of upgrade for the 3 CAD/GIS machines

The main engineer is on an ancient Socket A AMD Athlon 1.8Ghz Thunderbird with 512mb RAM and an ancient ATI 7500!!

[guyver1]

Update:

got an 8400GS installed with the latest nvidia drivers and its still the same

machine has also now got 2Gb of RAM.

Im pretty much stumped now as to what is causing this problem :/

[Jmurphy]

Try cleaning out the users temp folder and map cache folder, setting the page files up a bit more. Turn off hardware aceleration in the 3dconfig command.