Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

PD 4.51 -> 5.15 caused flickering and corrupted graphics

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • PD 4.51 -> 5.15 caused flickering and corrupted graphics

    I had a Millennium II for a while, and it didn't really give me any problems. When I upgraded to a Marvel G200 TV PCI in December, some mouse pointers (but not others) flickered. Just today I installed PowerDesk 5.15, and now ALL of my animated pointers flicker. In addition, I notice new flickering and sluggishness when bringing up the Start Menu and doing various thing in Explorer and elsewhere.

    I tried playing around with "device bitmaps caching", bus mastering, etc., but nothing helped. Furthermore, the mouse pointers flicker and sometimes get corrupted at any screen resolution and color depth. However, I did notice that the high-color and true-color pointers are being drawn in 256 colors for some reason. Since the palette has to be converted during each frame, that could be the cause of the flickering. But the pointers were mostly fine until I went from PD 4.51 to PD 5.15.

    Any ideas? I may switch back to 4.51 and the previous Video Tools to avoid the problem for now.

  • #2
    Did you completley uninstall the previous drivers first or just install over the top.
    Judging by what some have done on this forum you might as well remove the present setup with the new unistall utility and then re-install again.
    Chief Lemon Buyer no more Linux sucks but not as much
    Weather nut and sad git.

    My Weather Page

    Comment


    • #3
      Yeah, I completely uninstalled the previous ones according to the instructions... twice even. I also reinstalled 5.15 once... but I'll try again in a while. If I still have problems, I'll go back to 4.51, considering 5.15 doesn't have much to offer anyway.

      Comment


      • #4
        I just tried... I completely killed PD 5.15, and when I installed 4.51 again the problems went away. I completely killed 4.51, installed 5.15 again, and the problems returned.

        Comment

        Working...
        X