On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, Hugh Senior wrote:
> This may or may not be video-driver related, but any window in which an
> active player controller is displayed invariably gets splattered with
> artifacts from other windows at the drop of a hat, until a screen refresh.
> Kevin and Scott have both mentioned reducing acceleration in the Windows
> control panel and ensuring up-to-date drivers.
>
> So...
>
> Would someone be kind enough to explain where/how to do these in NT? I
> cannot see anything in the control panels and am unable to locate either of
> them in the NT on-line help. What am I meant to be looking for?
It depends on the graphics card driver, but this setting will appear
in the "Display" control panel if available. But reports of
graphics-card related problems are very rare on NT. Not sure whether
that's just because of the much smaller installed base, better quality
drivers, or just the fact that NT doesn't even support the very
low-end graphics chips/cards that tend to have these problem on
Windows 95/98.
But, your problem doesn't sound like a driver problem. It's more
likely a problem with QT, with MetaCard, or with some interaction
between the two. My guess would be the former, because QT doesn't
work so hot on NT because it makes way too many assumptions about
being able to monopolize system resources (e.g., like any good OS, NT
punishes processes when they seem to be sucking up CPU time for no
good reason, something QT does a lot). As always, if you've got a
reproducible example, and especially if it happens on both NT and
95/98, by all means send in a report to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards,
Scott
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