Turbocad

What works

Program Installs if you ignore the CD autostart Menu, and navigate to bin/setup.exe.

Program starts. However initial splash screen menu disappears behind the main user interface screen, but has focus. User must minimize main screen to get to spalsh screen. Splash menu is distorted and buttons not visible. Splash can be closed, and then UI has active focus.

Options menus open.

Sample drawings load.

What does not

Options menus work, but OKAY button is displaced to left offscreen and has minor other rendering defects. Button can be selected by carefully using TAB key and then hitting enter.

Loading sample drawings are distorted an mis-rendered. Type is grossly oversized and misplaced.

Program crashes.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Most functions weren't tested due to rendering problems. This is a CAD program, and display of drawings is critical to functionality.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

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• Driver:

Additional Comments

I believe the crashing may be due to the windowing problem. This system was recently tested with IMSI's other CAD product DesignCAD, and that received a first-time gold rating after proprietary NVIDIA graphics card kernel drivers were added to allow hardware acceleration. It also had earlier window rendering problems that made it unusable. So there is some hope that Turbocad too will be fixable and runable on Wine. This test shows that late version TurboCads can be installed and opened, and drawings imported in a recent Wine ver. A nice advance for Wine.