Couldn't resist jumping in here guys. I see this quite frequently, but haven't considered it to be a significant problem. I just minimize DXB and re-open it and all is well. I first loaded DXB 2004 on an old 350Mhz box where it ran flawlessly for some time. I then did an upgrade to an AMD 1600 with 512 meg DDR RAM. Again it ran very will and the speed really helped some of the functions to run much faster and again never saw any video problems. I have recently upgraded again to a Pentium 4 with HT running at 2.8Ghz and a Gig of RAM. Again the speed is very nice when you run reports or initialize tables. I'm not sure why internet bandwidth would have any effect, but for what it's worth but my cable company has recently increased my average speed to well over 3 Mbytes/sec. I too have a 128Mb video card designed to handle fast, high resolution video games which DXB is not and should have minimal video requirements. I do have a local LAN within the house, however seldom are either of the other computers even powered up. Again I don't consider this a problem, but I'm not sure speed is the answer.
73 Dave -N4DB- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert B. Bonner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'FireBrick'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Bob Main'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'DXBase'" <dxbase@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 7:49 PM Subject: RE: [DXBase] Refeash I totally agree with Bill, if you have a relatively high speed processor with a lot of free RAM and a large Video card and quick Internet bandwidth you won't have this issue. Outlook is a memory hog. Load her up with a lot of windows open and you'll have video card issues. I cured most of it at XMAS when I built myself a new shack computer. The $1000 fix. 2.8GHz, 2Gb RAM and a 128Mb gaming style video card... A 256 Video would have been better. I very seldom see the previous window shadowing anymore. I always did with my 850 with 640 Mb RAM and 32 meg dual port video card. My only issue is now my 13YO has the 850 repackaged also for XMAS and has 3 different IM's running, AOL, a bunch of user names and ties up my Internet bandwidth.... If you have Internet bandwidth issues this will bog the computer's processor... Shoot the kids and pull their plugs and the rest of the issues will go away. My question is does Military school or summer camp fix all other family related issues? Man I'm glad I retired a couple more years of this computer stuff and I'd have gone wacky. Ready for another beer? Sincerely, Bob KØDD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FireBrick Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:46 PM To: Bob Main; DXBase Subject: Re: [DXBase] Refeash I see something similar every once in a while. I use a high resolution setting on both monitors. Occasionally if I open a window on top of DXBase I'll find some little remnant after closing. I 'think' it's a video card thing. Maybe the memory needed to draw a large Dxbase Screen strains the video card and it can't rewrite properly. As you said, minimize and re maximize the DXB screen clears that anomaly which is why I'm suspicious of a video issue. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Main" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "DXBase" <dxbase@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2004 4:32 PM Subject: [DXBase] Refeash Just wondering I have noticed that if I open another window on top of DXB, for instance Outlook Express, and then close it that I have a "shadow" left from where the window had been sitting. The way I do a "refresh" to bring everything back is to close the window and then reopen it. Is there an easier way, if not there should be. Bob KB4CL --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML or had an attachment. Attachments are not allowed. To learn how to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html --- _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase _______________________________________________ DXBase Reflector - Please visit us on the web at www.dxbase.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To UNSUBSCRIBE please visit: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase
