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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
I've recently noticed things looking "funny" - when I exit or minimize
an app or folder, instead of just doing away, there's an obvious "peel down" as if the screen contents are being rapidly erased from the top down. I've tried reinstalling the video card drivers - NVidia GE Force FX5200. No difference. Never did this before. Any suggestions? Thanks |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
Should have specified I'm running XP SP2 Media Center.
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
"brassplyer" wrote in message ... I've recently noticed things looking "funny" - when I exit or minimize an app or folder, instead of just doing away, there's an obvious "peel down" as if the screen contents are being rapidly erased from the top down. I've tried reinstalling the video card drivers - NVidia GE Force FX5200. No difference. Never did this before. That's actually how windows erases a window from your display. Bit it normally happens so fast that you don't see it happening. In your case it sounds as though Windows is using a generic video driver to drive you graphics that is unable to utilise the accelerator features of you card. Have a look in device manager and check that the correct drivers are actually being used. |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:29:56 -0700 (PDT), brassplyer
wrote: I've recently noticed things looking "funny" - when I exit or minimize an app or folder, instead of just doing away, there's an obvious "peel down" as if the screen contents are being rapidly erased from the top down. I've tried reinstalling the video card drivers - NVidia GE Force FX5200. No difference. Never did this before. Any suggestions? Thanks Check your "Visual effects" settings (AKA "Eye Candy" :P ) Tab in "System Properties". Custom: "Animate windows when minimizing" under Performance (eating) options. The FX5200 is a decent card for older, non- (modern) gaming use. They are still available at Fry's. |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
On Oct 1, 5:04*am, Steve Urbach wrote:
Check *your "Visual effects" settings (AKA "Eye Candy" :P ) Tab *in *"System Properties". Custom: "Animate windows when minimizing" under Performance (eating) options. Nope, makes no difference. |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
"brassplyer" wrote in message ... On Oct 1, 5:04 am, Steve Urbach wrote: Check your "Visual effects" settings (AKA "Eye Candy" :P ) Tab in "System Properties". Custom: "Animate windows when minimizing" under Performance (eating) options. Nope, makes no difference. I have no idea what's causing this, but I suspect it's a built-in desktop animation feature from some third party app or utility. It's certainly not native to Windows. |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
"Peter" wrote in message om... In article 0f69897c-ed67-4b60-a43e- , says... I've recently noticed things looking "funny" - when I exit or minimize an app or folder, instead of just doing away, there's an obvious "peel down" as if the screen contents are being rapidly erased from the top down. I've tried reinstalling the video card drivers - NVidia GE Force FX5200. No difference. Never did this before. Any suggestions? Thanks Sounds more like a system that's struggling to perform because of overloaded background programs or not enough RAM. I agree. Process Explorer may help to see what's taking resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer -- Rob |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
Ο "Rob" έγραψε στο μήνυμα ... "Peter" wrote in message om... In article 0f69897c-ed67-4b60-a43e- , says... I've recently noticed things looking "funny" - when I exit or minimize an app or folder, instead of just doing away, there's an obvious "peel down" as if the screen contents are being rapidly erased from the top down. I've tried reinstalling the video card drivers - NVidia GE Force FX5200. No difference. Never did this before. Any suggestions? Thanks Sounds more like a system that's struggling to perform because of overloaded background programs or not enough RAM. I agree. Process Explorer may help to see what's taking resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer And run msconfig to see how many programms run at startup of windows. -- Tzortzakakis Dimitrios major in electrical engineering mechanized infantry reservist hordad AT otenet DOT gr |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
On Oct 2, 7:43*am, Peter wrote:
Sounds more like a system that's struggling to perform because of overloaded background programs or not enough RAM. I don't think that's it. P4 2.4 gig, 3 gigs ram. It never did this before I did a recent re-install of XP MCE when it had a lot more apps loaded than it does now. It didn't do it immediately after, I just started noticing it. There doesn't have to be anything going on. If I open any folder, or app, it does it on closing or minimizing. Overall performance doesn't seem to be impacted - can still do video work, play a/v files fine etc., but it's annoying. |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
brassplyer wrote:
On Oct 2, 7:43 am, Peter wrote: Sounds more like a system that's struggling to perform because of overloaded background programs or not enough RAM. I don't think that's it. P4 2.4 gig, 3 gigs ram. It never did this before I did a recent re-install of XP MCE when it had a lot more apps loaded than it does now. It didn't do it immediately after, I just started noticing it. There doesn't have to be anything going on. If I open any folder, or app, it does it on closing or minimizing. Overall performance doesn't seem to be impacted - can still do video work, play a/v files fine etc., but it's annoying. Check Display control panel and the acceleration slider. Control Panels : Display : Settings : Advanced : Troubleshooting Check Device Manager, and see whether the chipset's interface to video is running in the fastest mode possible. (On an AGP system, this is AGP versus PCI, where PCI is slower. There will be a "bridge" in Device Manager, that mentions AGP, if it is set up properly.) You can go to Start:Run and type in "dxdiag" and run the DirectX diagnostic. Under "Display" there are some test buttons. There are also some enable and disable buttons, but you have to be a little careful with the interpretation of them. On some older OSes, the buttons didn't seem to be indicating correctly. So I always treat what they're saying, with some suspicion. I can think of three levels of communications, for moving data around. For example, move a texture via AGP protocol (2166MB/sec perhaps). Move a texture via PCI protocol (a lower rate, but still pretty fast, maybe 266MB/sec?). Those would involve mechanisms similar to DMA perhaps, where Direct Memory Access is handled by a hardware engine and can happen without processor interaction for each byte. The third way to do things, is with the processor, transferring words of data at a time, into the frame buffer. This can occur at much lower rates, perhaps below 100MB/sec. Depending on how many software routines are exited and entered, in the processing of each line of a bitmap, the transfer can be pretty slow. And that might show up as a slow painting or removal of an image, from the screen. The trick then, is determining whether the rendering path has slipped into such a backup mode, and why. Paul |
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Dsplay acting strange - everything "peels down" when exiting
In article , says...
Ο "Rob" έγραψε στο μήνυμα ... "Peter" wrote in message om... In article 0f69897c-ed67-4b60-a43e- , says... I've recently noticed things looking "funny" - when I exit or minimize an app or folder, instead of just doing away, there's an obvious "peel down" as if the screen contents are being rapidly erased from the top down. I've tried reinstalling the video card drivers - NVidia GE Force FX5200. No difference. Never did this before. Any suggestions? Thanks Sounds more like a system that's struggling to perform because of overloaded background programs or not enough RAM. I agree. Process Explorer may help to see what's taking resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_Explorer And run msconfig to see how many programms run at startup of windows. Better still, disable the whole let and see how things run. One other thing I would check for are virii or spyware. -- Pete Ives Remove All_stRESS before sending me an email |
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