Problem with Toshiba Satellite running cocreate

[bruce]

I have a Toshiba Satellite and have loaded Cocreate personal to carry out an evaluation before purchasing.
When i open the software and go to draw a rectangle or any other line the work plane w1 dissappeares from the screen. can any one advise on a solution, I have checked for any update for the graphics card and there are no new updates. the lap top is only 9 months old. It dose have 3G Ram.

[clausb]

Operating system version? What's the graphics configuration (hardware, driver version)?

Claus

[bruce]

it is a toshiba satellite u300
mobille intel R965 express chip set family which i have just upgraded to the latest version

[clausb]

Ah, I see.

We've had several reports about problems with Intel Express chipsets. One potential workaround is to set an environment variable called "SDPIXELFORMAT" and assign the value "SOFTWARE" (without quotes) to it. The procedure is described in more detail at http://www.clausbrod.de/OneSpaceModeling/OsdmFaqGraphics#BuggyDrivers

Claus