# Unability to select some surface
**URL:** https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298
**Category:** General Questions
**Created:** [December 21, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298 "2024-12-21T20:45:26Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Riga00](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Riga00)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/1 "2024-12-21T20:45:26Z")
Hello comuinity, I am facing some **serious** issues right after switching to a windows 11 laptop.
The issues I am facing consist into the unability to select some random faces of step models when defining new surfaces or node sets.
When setting up the new laptop I installed the .NET framework 4.8.1, may this be the issue? Or should I search somewhere else?
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### Author:  [@Matej](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Matej)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 7:38pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/2 "2024-12-23T19:38:59Z")
It seems there are problems with the selection on some hardware/driver configurations. The reason for this is hard to determine. There was a topic about it on the forum in the past, where some suggestions were given.
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### Author:  [@Riga00](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Riga00)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2024, 7:58pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/3 "2024-12-23T19:58:49Z")
Yes I saw the discussions, but I didn’t understand if the issues were solved or just the discussions were closed.
I should at this point try contacting the users who met this problem before me and ask them about the workaround procedure
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### Author:  [@Matej](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Matej)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/4 "2024-12-24T13:06:09Z")
If you have a dedicated graphics card, you can try switching which card is used for running PrePoMax. You can also try to change/update the graphics drivers. I would think it is an OpenGL issue,
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### Author:  [@OpenSourceFEA](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/OpenSourceFEA)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/5 "2024-12-24T16:25:08Z")
I also had the issue, switched from iGPU to dGPU and issues went away. I did it after I saw the same discussion previously. My older computer had only dGPU and there was no issues there. I thought that Windows 11 was also the issue but that previous discussion helped me. The GUI also started looking better with the more powerful graphics processor.
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### Author:  [@Matej](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Matej)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/6 "2025-01-22T10:19:27Z")
Since this is not really a bug that I can do something about I am moving this topic to general questions.
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### Author:  [@FEAnalyst](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/FEAnalyst)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 9:32am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/7 "2026-07-20T09:32:29Z")
I had the same problem (couldn’t select pretty much anything apart from dragging the box and selecting the whole mesh) on a HP Pavilion laptop with Windows 11 and only integrated GPU (AMD Radeon™ Graphics). I’ve finally solved it by installing the software and drivers package from [Drivers and Support for Processors and Graphics](https://www.amd.com/en/support/download/drivers.html) (it automatically applies proper drivers for the detected GPU).
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### Author:  [@Matej](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/Matej)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 10:20am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/8 "2026-07-20T10:20:45Z")
So it is a 3D OpenGL driver issue?
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### Author:  [@FEAnalyst](https://prepomax.discourse.group/u/FEAnalyst)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2026, 10:34am UTC](https://prepomax.discourse.group/t/unability-to-select-some-surface/2298/9 "2026-07-20T10:34:04Z")
I guess so. My AMD drivers were quite outdated. I don’t think I updated them manually since I got the laptop in 2021. Now the driver version is Adrenalin Edition 26.5.2 (from 20.05.2026). The OpenGL version is 4.6.