Transparency causes repeated blink, flash

[Guest]

When I add transparency to a large rectangle or freeform shape, the object
blinks, flashes, refreshes, repeatedly, 30 - 50 times before it stops. The
behavior does not occur in slideshow mode, only in normal view.

Office 2003 SP1

Any ideas?

 

[Echo S]

Try turning down your hardware acceleration. See How to set graphics
hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm for instructions

 

[TAJ Simmons]

What Echo said... but also

"update your graphics card drivers" for your version of windows

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Try turning down your hardware acceleration. See How to set graphics
hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm for instructions

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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When I add transparency to a large rectangle or freeform shape, the
object
blinks, flashes, refreshes, repeatedly, 30 - 50 times before it stops. The
behavior does not occur in slideshow mode, only in normal view.

Office 2003 SP1

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

I updated the Graphics Driver (Nvidia GeForce 6600) and then had to turn down
graphics acceleration to "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations,
as well as all cursor and advanced drawing accelerations. At this point...is
this a Microsoft PowerPoint issue or an Nvidia Video Card driver issue?
Also, what else will be affected by turning down the graphics acceleration.
This is a business machine with work in powerpoint and some large graphic
images (TIF) manipulations, but that's about it. Thanks.

Trevor

 

[Echo S]

I suspect it's a combination of both PPT and the video driver.

FWIW, I have an Nvidia card, and I usually have my hardware acceleration
turned all the way down. It doesn't affect much of anything. I do have to
turn it back on when I play certain games, but other than that, it's not a
problem.

Heck, at the office I had this kick butt machine with a kick butt graphics
card, and I'd still end up turning it down for PPT sometimes. No big deal --
I'd just turn it back up when I was editing video and stuff like that.

I'd imagine it will be fine to turn hardware acceleration down on a basic
business machine.