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Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:25:54 -0700
> From: Scott Raney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Graphic Display > Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 17:31:11 -0600 (MDT) > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, 9 Sep 2000, Eva Isotalo wrote: > > > Similar happens here. I've a new Athlon 700 Mhz which behaves strange. > > Images are often gray at first. There are long delays between opening > > stacks and such. The Win machine I had before was 233 Mhz Intel .... > > don't remember but it worked much smother than this one. > > > > We found one "reason" for strange behavior - if screen resolution is set > > to the highest (I'm not with the Win-machine right now so I don't know > > the messurements, but 2 steps over 800x640) and Color to 16 bit, then > > palette stack are not drawn properly. Sometimes they are there and > > sometimes not. When lowering resolution one step this problem went away. > > > > But besides that we haven't a clue why it seems slower on a faster > > machine. > > Both of these problems are almost certainly due to bugs and other > non-features in drivers for the graphics card you're using and not > anything to do with the hardware or OS. The standard procedure for > dealing with these is: > 1) Make sure you have the absolute latest drivers from the vendor's > WWW site. > 2) Disable acceleration in the Display and/or System control panel. > Trying other screen resolutions or color depths might also be a > workaround. > 3) Find a reproducible example and report it to the vendor and insist > that they fix it. We're always happy to help any vendor identify and > fix the problem, but have yet to be contacted by any of them even when > we ourselves have reported the bugs to them. Sometimes the bug > quietly gets fixed in a new driver version, but more commonly the > vendor just blows off anyone that reports bugs like this. > 4) Get a different, more reliable, graphics card. > > In any case, it would be helpful to know which specific graphics > adapters you see these problems with so that we can warn others not to > buy them. > Regards, > Scott > > > Regards, > > Eva > > > ******************************************************** > Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com > MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... Unfortunately we can not always choose our customers nor let them buy new computers ... so we have to get workarounds ! According to my tests, there are "incompatibility problems" between MC, some video card drivers and some non-really-standard file formats. - MC display always OK the RVB jpegs, but display sometimes bad the gray-level jpegs or the "optimized" jpegs. - MC display always OK the ordinary gifs, but display sometimes bad the transparent gifs For jpegs, the workaround is easy : open the files in Photoshop, transform as rvb images and save as standard jpeg files. The same for plain gifs. For animated or transparent gifs, i am still looking for a reliable solution. Regards, Claude Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.