How to display background graphics while editing?

[Guest]

I know that this question or derivatives thereof have been asked. What I'm
not seeing is an answer that fixes the problem.

Just recently, I've stated experiencing no graphics in my presentation when
I'm editing it. The graphics show up everywhere else other than the main
pain. Rather frustrating as I've all the updates, to software and hardware. I
double checked all of it today. Still the problems persists. Not to mention
that PPT is running slower than normal. I'm at a lost... any help would be
greatly appreciated.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I know that this question or derivatives thereof have been asked. What I'm
not seeing is an answer that fixes the problem.

Just recently, I've stated experiencing no graphics in my presentation when
I'm editing it. The graphics show up everywhere else other than the main
pain. Rather frustrating as I've all the updates, to software and hardware. I
double checked all of it today. Still the problems persists. Not to mention
that PPT is running slower than normal. I'm at a lost... any help would be
greatly appreciated.

I'm not sure we've seen an answer to this, but have you tried turning back your
video graphics hardware acceleration, if only as a test?

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm

 

[Guest]

Yes, I just tried it. Turning it down about half way seemed to work. I also
noticed that changing my display, either size or HIGH/TRUE color also worked
until I change the presentation in any fashion... to include making the
window the main focus. This is the oddest thing since everything was working
just fine and now... pffft! Thank you for the suggestion... no, thank you for
the solution Steve. I can't help but wonder how this will affect my other
applications though. How common is this problem?

BTW, I have no video card installed. It's all part of the 910GL Express
chipset. Curteosy(sp?) of Gateway.

 

[Echo S]

If you're not running games or editing video or anything like that, turning
hardware acceleration down probably won't affect much. Heck, I often run
with it all the way to the left...

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Yes, I just tried it. Turning it down about half way seemed to work. I also
noticed that changing my display, either size or HIGH/TRUE color also worked
until I change the presentation in any fashion... to include making the
window the main focus. This is the oddest thing since everything was working
just fine and now... pffft! Thank you for the suggestion... no, thank you for
the solution Steve. I can't help but wonder how this will affect my other
applications though. How common is this problem?

BTW, I have no video card installed. It's all part of the 910GL Express
chipset. Curteosy(sp?) of Gateway.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Yes, I just tried it. Turning it down about half way seemed to work. I also
noticed that changing my display, either size or HIGH/TRUE color also worked
until I change the presentation in any fashion... to include making the
window the main focus. This is the oddest thing since everything was working
just fine and now... pffft! Thank you for the suggestion... no, thank you for
the solution Steve. I can't help but wonder how this will affect my other
applications though. How common is this problem?

Very. It generally means that the video driver claims that the video card (or
chipset in the case of laptops/on-board video, same diff) can do something that it
really can't quite handle. Setting back the video simply asks Windows to handl
things in a more generic but reliable fashion.

I doubt it'll have a huge impact on other apps (other than preventing screen
corruption when THEY access the same feature that caused the problem here).

You might want to check with Gateway to see if there are new drivers; that might
correct the problem and allow you to kick acceleration back up to full.