britsteve Posted November 1, 2007 Share Posted November 1, 2007 I note that there has been discussion on screen flicker. I have had this since upgrading to 12.5. I had thought that 2008 would solve this but unfortunately having installed it today the screen flicker is still there. It can be reduced if the floating pallets are docked. We have two seats and the second seat with identical hardware has no such problem. It would be great if Katie had found a common link for this cause it is driving me mad!!! Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted November 5, 2007 Share Posted November 5, 2007 There has been a long thread on this which is well worth reading and hopefully we will have a solution soon. Quote Link to comment
cbaarch Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 it turns out that Intellipoint 6.0 is the culprit so check which version your mouse driver is running if it 6.0 2 methods for a fix if you have intellipoint 5.0 then delete installation of version 6 and reinstall 5.0 otherwise you can do the following Ctlr-alt-del opens task manager select Process tab and find ipoint.exe end the process for a permanent disable during reboot you need to run msconfig (under Start button) under startup tab find intellipoint and deselect this has worked on 3 computers with intellipoint 6.0 and it fixed the problem Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 I don't have an Intellipoint mouse or Intellipoint driver. I have a version of the screen flicker where just the top blue bar of my application window flickers at about 4 cps. This occurs on the final click of creating an object, or when I select an object. The duration of flickering seems to depend on whether the object or type of object has been recently created or selected. It can be as little as one blink (or none), or as many as 20 or 30 blinks. I'm curious - how would you describe the flicker you have been experiencing? Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Neither do I. Nor do I have ipoint in the processes. One pc has a Logitech wireless mouse and the other has Dell wired mouse. I think the flicker has been decribed extensively elswhere, but ours is a flicker of the top blue bar and occurs more when you click on an object, especially the first object when you have opened the file, and then the object info flickers. It comes and goes and sometimes can be quiet extensive and more so on the other pc, which is older and less poerful. Quote Link to comment
panthony Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Pete, Michael, Britsteve, I have solved my screen flicker issues by taking a look at my hardware set-up and noticed that my motherboard had a 24 power supply socket and the power supply had only a 20 pin plug fastened. The power supply however has an adittional 4-pin plug that was meant to be used in a 24 pin socket. After plugging in and a restart all occurances of the screen flicker have dissapeared. For what its worth. Pete A. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 A person from FormZ actually led me to a resolution to this. It appears to be an issue with the Microsoft Mouse program called ipoint.exe and several programs have experienced the screen flicker problem. To check to see if your flickering is caused by ipoint, go to the Task Manager (Control + Alt + Delete and choose Task Manager) In Task Manager, click on the Processes Tab Choose ipoint.exe and disable it. Please report whether the screen flicker continues after disabling this. Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted November 6, 2007 Share Posted November 6, 2007 Hi Katie, that was a great piece of research, but unfortunately it doesn't apply to my situation. I have no ipoint.exe process. I also notice that during the flickering associated with selection of an object, the OIP does not register any object data until the flickering has ceased. The above applies to both v12.5.2 and v2008. The flickering is worse in 2008. Pete, thanks also for your input. I don't think I'll be cracking the case on my Dell 960 anytime soon, much less tinkering with the wires inside! But next time I'm there I'lll look around for that, and if I find something I'll call Dell tech support. Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 Same here, as I said previously, no ipoint. Tried Dell and they came up with several suggestions but none worked and they sais the problem was with the software. I had heard that the flickering was resolved in 2008, especially with the update, and was just about to put our order in for licences but I will place that on hold if the flickering is worse. Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 A fellow user came up with this suggestion. Those who suffer the 'flicker' problem and please confirm the following facts: 1. Does it only occur on Windows applications? 2. Does it only occur on Dell pcs? Perhaps this will narrow the problem down. I have not tried the pin socket thing helpfully suggested by Pete but will do. Quote Link to comment
britsteve Posted November 7, 2007 Author Share Posted November 7, 2007 Tried the intelipoint advice and it worked. Thank you it saved my sanity. Quote Link to comment
P Retondo Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I have flicker on two computers, one of which is a Dell and the other of which is an HP laptop. The latter has an MS Intellipoint bluetooth mouse, but neither shows ipoint.exe as a process. Steve, was your flicker the same as mine (i.e., a ~4 cps flicker of the blue band at the top of your application window)? Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Keep flicking between one flicker thread and the other flicker thread! It seems the only consistant fact is that the flicker only occurs on Dell pcs!? May I suggest NNA speak with Dell? As we have said we do not have ipoint. Quote Link to comment
britsteve Posted November 9, 2007 Author Share Posted November 9, 2007 my flicker was the whole screen and my computer was not a dell when I had completed several operations the lines or graphics that made up the drawing would flicker about 10 or 15 times then stabalise until another batch of info was input. As I said the intelipoint software was the culprit, interesting though Michael my system is not a dell but is a dual core with 256MB ATI radion graphics. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 There is a separate screen "flicker" issue, which I think will be resolved in a future update. But I don't think your symptoms, Michael, sync with those specific symptoms. Have you contacted Computers Unlimited directly on this topic? Have you specifically sent a computer spec, VW spec, and detailed activity description to bug submit? Quote Link to comment
michael john williams Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 We have contacted you directly on these points and used the threads to discuss the problem further. However, we will email CU and bugs to see their response. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted November 14, 2007 Share Posted November 14, 2007 I recall you sending the info to me, and I probably passed it on to the testing dept. Since then, we've found two sources of the issue. I no longer have the email. If you can please send the above info again to both me and bugsubmit, we can see if your specific case is resolved with a fix posted in the next maintenance update of VW 2008 Quote Link to comment
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