Hi and welcome to the GEC.
First of all click on the technical support link in my signature below and read through both posts.
If anything helps let us know. If nothing helps let us know too.

Cheers TL

TubbyBtch,

Your performance experience is uncommon, but it may be that what you're trying to do is uncommon also. 80% import success from 3ds/Maya sounds good based on the current Collada support. We're working on better compatibility, but be sure to select triangles on export. Tstrips/polyons aren't yet supported.

Regarding performance. If you're loading _alot_ of Collada files, its likely you've thrashed video memory and that is causing the perf you're seeing. We're working on managing it better, but GE4 is not going to automatically disable older models if things get overloaded.

thank you for this:-)

perkeo

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- Language selection in client: Tools->Options then the "General" tab

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You certainly CAN turn the compass off and on in beta 4! Just use the view dropdown menu....

Compass works just fine here.

An addendum to my former post where GE 4 would just zoom in most of the way to my default place and then lock up with a busy bee and I'd have to exit the program (at least I could do that!). I found that running it in directX mode solved that problem. Prior to discovering this I always ran GE prior versions in OpenGL mode with no problem.

Also, I do not find any 'slow down' in GE 4. It's as fast or maybe even faster than earlier versions were. I have a pretty standard HP media center with a 3 ghz processor, 1 GB of ram, and the standard 128MB ATI x300 video card.

I suspect that a lot of the people experiencing 'slowdowns' have a lot of 'fancy stuff' loaded like many overlays, vector stuff and the like.

Try starting GE in DirectX mode. You can do that from the Windows program menu and it'll default to that when you run it again (like from an icon). Or if you're running it now in DirectX mode, try running it from OpenGL mode.


Worked for me!

Any chance that one can go "really" fullscreen in this new version of Google Earth?

More specifically what I would like to do is to eliminate this annoying bar that is on top, i would really love to be able to see only what I like to, and that is the earth, not buttons.

No, it's the NVIDIA Quadro FX Go1400 in an Alienware m7700 notebook PC.

Todd

I like v. 4 beta more than v. 3, but I noticed that in v. 4, when you zoom using the mouse's scroll wheel, it does not zoom in or out smoothly. Instead, it zooms in/out in inconsistent amounts, in a unsmooth way. The same thing happend when I pan by clicking and dragging. Is there anyway to fix this in preferences or something, or is this just how Google Earth v. 4 beta runs?