Dual monitor problems on Powerpoint XP

[AKBear]

We just scrubbed our laptop and upgraded from Office 2000 to Office XP. All
patches were applied. We are running Windows XP.

Our problem is that when we go into the dual monitor mode (without the
presenter view), the presentation slows way down. The display on the
projector takes about 1 second to catch up and the display on the laptop
takes another 3 seconds when I try to go from one slide to the next. This
is very annoying when trying to run a slideshow. In Powerpoint 2000, this
worked instantly. If I run the slideshow in the clone mode with the same
image on both monitors, it doesn't have a lag.

Any suggestions
Thanks
Royce

 

[Clay Harryman]

Why are you not using the presenter view?

What type of video card do you have? What about the processor speed?

What, exactly, are you trying to view on each monitor?

I am running at a church with a dual-projector system. We have an ATI 9600
dual-vga output video system. Before getting this video card, we had some
problems with lag. When we ran without the presenter view, we had serious
problems. If we try to do something else while running the show, we have
serious problems.

Office XP has a lot more overhead than 2000. We're using 2003 -- even
worse! Check out these variables and get back to me.

Adios,
Clay Harryman

 

[AKBear]

I am running this for a church also. The computer is a Dell Laptop that is
a year or two old. I would have to look at the computer Thursday during
practice to get the exact processor speed. We have the secondary output
hooked to the projector. I would use the primary display under Office 2000
to make changes on the fly during practice instead of stopping the show,
making the change and restarting the show. That is why I don't want to use
the presenter view, it didn't look like you could make changes on the fly
and have the regular editing view on the laptop follow the slideshow. But I
might be doing something wrong since we just started using XP last week.
The presentation does also lag in the presentation view, but like I said
there is no lag if I just display the Slide Show on the laptop and the
projector at the same time. The video card is an Nvidia Go.

I was hoping that it wasn't just increased system requirements for XP.

Thanks for working with me on this.
Royce

 

[AKBear]

Clay,

The church secretary thinks it is an Inspiron 8100 with a 1.0 GHz processor
and 512 Meg of memory.

Thanks
Royce

 

[Guest]

I dont know either, The combination XP powerpoint, and dual monitors do NOT
mix! I have a NEW 3Ghz pet 4 with 2Gig ram new XP and new Office 2003
powerpoint, and new ATI 9600XT dual card. Will NOT work at all with this
combination. Freezes/slows. I installed several new dual cards. did NOT
work. I uninstalled office 2003 powerpoint and installed 2000, did NOT work
either. Works fine on windows 2000 with any combination. New active X new
direct X, all the updates and patches. IT SUCKS WITH XO!

 

[Sonia]

I have an identical configuration that you describe in your first sentence and I
have no problem. Have you applied all available service packs, defragged your
hard disk, cleaned out your Temp folder, updated your video driver? ATI video
drivers are updated about every three months, so you can assume that your new
card shipped with an out of date driver. Also, what else do you have running in
the way of anti-virus software and other applications? Do your presentations
make heavy use of video, animations and transitions?
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Guest]

I have (had ) the same problem, A small Nazarene church in Edmond OK. brand
new custom built computer 3.2Ghz pentium 4 processor 80 gig HD and 500meg of
RAM. with no other programs installed and all the curent service packs
installed. would slow down to nothing with simple presentation running. using
ATI all-in-wonder 9600XT video with 128 RAM tried everything. unistalled
windows 2003 office and installed ppt2000 stand alone, same
problem...installed completely diferent brand new video card, same problem.
placed ATI video card in another machine (Windows 2000) ran flawlessly. Even
reinstalled XP office, same results. removed XP from system, installed
Windows2000. now runs flawlessly. XP and powerpoint and dual monitors should
run properly. but I can't figure out how. It will run correctly with laptop
XP...?