Slide show falters and stops

[Guest]

My presentation is 40 slides, contains pictures and sounds and after
compressing the pictures the total file size is 5,819KB. When I run it as a
slide show, it falters after about 17 slides, I have to escape out and
re-start it so that it runs for about another 17 slides and then falters and
stops again. There are no fancy transitions, or entries, I have nothing else
running, and have disabled the computer screensaver. Can anyone help me fix
this?

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

My first guess would be one of the images in the presentation is causing the
problem. If it is slide 17 that causes the problem each time, delete that
slide, do a save as and run the show again. If it plays straight through -
that image is the problem. Resave the image (as a .jpg or .png) and
reinsert.

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[Guest]

Thank you very much for responding Troy. I don't think it's slide 17 that's
the problem, it's that the presentation works fine for about 17 slides then
it stops and I have to restart it. From that point, it works fine for about
the next 17 before it falters again. I'll try re-building it from scratch
and add one element at a time until I can pinpoint what's going wrong.

 

[Sonia]

When you go to Slide Show > Set Up Show, do you see that it is set to play all
slides, or is it set to run a range of slides?
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Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

So it goes for 17, falters, then goes smoothly for another 17 and so on?

Try setting your graphics hardware acceleration back as described in this FAQ
with the odd name of:

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

 

[Guest]

Thanks very much Steve and Sonia - right, I've done the graphics hardware
acceleration back and I'm now convinced it's not the images that are causing
problems but the sounds that I've added to my presentation. These are small
midi files and sound effects. Could something be causing problems here?
I've tried setting "Stop Previous Sound" on the Slide Transition options and
all the slides are set to advance on a mouse click.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thanks very much Steve and Sonia - right, I've done the graphics hardware
acceleration back and I'm now convinced it's not the images that are causing
problems but the sounds that I've added to my presentation. These are small
midi files and sound effects. Could something be causing problems here?
I've tried setting "Stop Previous Sound" on the Slide Transition options and
all the slides are set to advance on a mouse click.

I can think of one way to test that: lose half the sounds in the first part of your
presentation. Does it now go for more than 17 slides before it falters? If so,
you've fingered the perp.