Re: Screen Display of V9.1 for Windows Badly Broken - Unusable

/David/:

> 1.  Upon opening an "html" file with Amaya, there is a few flashes of 
> garbage in the display window...
> 
> If I click the scroll down arrow once, the page displays correctly...
> [...]
> 3. Selected a partial line of text to replace.  As I type, varying lengths 
> of selected prior content flash on and off.
> 
> 4.  After selecting several words, and then clicking to put an insertion 
> point, the text remains selected, but the extent of selection changes.  Keep 
> clicking...keeps changing...
> 
> 5. When selecting test that is expected to scroll past the bottom of the 
> window, it doesn't.  (I've seen a previous report that says this is fixed!
> 
> Tried turning Ant-Aliasing off....  Better, but still causes vertical offset 
> of portions of lines when an insertion poiunt is created.  Even segments of 
> multiple lines display as disjoint, with varying length sections displaced 
> vertically in the display window.

I observe pretty much the same behavior on one of the two systems 
I'm trying Amaya. With the previous version 9.0 I could observe 
similar effects on the both systems (although the one showed 
somewhat better).

> I'm running a Compaq Evo (Desktop) with Windows XP-SP1 with a screen 
> resolution of 1152 x 864 on Intel 82845G graphics controller, not that it 
> should make any difference.

Both systems I test with run WinXP SP2. The difference seems to come 
from the graphics card and its driver. The one is NVIDIA GeForce2 
MX400 (it's ASUS V7100 Pro exactly) and the other is built-in Intel
adapter in GIGABYTE GA-8IG1000MK motherboard (and its VGA driver [1]).

Till lately I was able to reproduce these kind of "garbage
flickering" problems on the system with the NVIDIA video card too,
but now when I've installed the latest driver from NVIDIA it seems
to be working fine.

I speculate it is a graphics card driver problem related to some 
kind of bitmap caches but then it is happening only with Amaya. 
Could it be wxWidgets library problem?

[1] 
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-8IG1000MK.htm

-- 
Stanimir

Received on Monday, 2 May 2005 13:46:19 UTC