>>>>>>>>>I have VFP 5.0 running on Dell Dimension 450 Mhz with Windows NT. Everything works fine.
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>>>>>>>>Thanks for the info...so it's certainly not speed alone causing the problem...
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>>>>>>>G'day Bruce,
>>>>>>>My partner just got a new fast computer. Couldn't click on Project tags. Turned out to be the super-you-beaut Diamond Viper video card.
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>>>>>>Don't tell me - it was a Viper V550...
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>>>>>>I've had problem intermittently with both that and the STB Velocity 4000, both based on the nVidia Riva TNT chipset. I'm using the AT and matrox cards now, with much more stable results, at a slight expense in frame rate under Quake II and Unforgiven.
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>>>>>Yes , a Viper V550! You asked me not to tell you that:-). So I guess that wasn't related to your problem?
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>>>>I dumped both the Diamond and STB cards; I'm using the ATI All In Wonder Pro on my Win98 box at home, and the Matrox G200 in the NT boxes, and the problems seem to have gone away. The Diamond card in particular was uncooperative at best, and left some nasty droppings in the registry that had to be cleared out by hand before the Control Panel applet was usable with another card. I had some similar lockup problems with the STB card (in all fairness, the install wasn't 100% clean, following right on the heels of the Diamond card) and I switched to the ATI card from there, since both the Diamond and STB cards are based on the same chipset, and I have a whole lot of stuff in my 98 box that it might not be getting along with. The ATI card has been very good to date; the only real problem came when I installed WaveTop beta 2.0 (a data reception service that works in the background off cable broadcasts) which gave me some fits with my LAN. The problem was pretty clearly with WaveTop,
>>so
>>>>I switched to using ATI's TV display applet instead of Microsoft's Web TV, dropped WaveTop, and have had no problems since. The Matrox cards have been rock-sold from the start, but didn't have the extra toys I wanted (the ATI has video capture, TV in and out on the card, and decent acceleration for games; the Matrox is a little less 'feature rich').
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>>>Ed, when you move the report controls in the Report Designer, do you have visible traces after them on your on screen with your ATI card? (they go away in you minimize/restore the report window.
>>>My ATI-All-InWonder does that.
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>>The last set of drivers I downloaded from ATI's board for the Rage Pro chipset seems to have fixed the redraw problems; I had real problems at 1024x768 with the drivers that shipped with the All-In-Wonder Pro 8MB board (it wouldn't even let me use a decent refresh rate with a Nanao (Eizo) T2-17ts, a monitor that's completely happy running 1280x1024 at 100MHz refrsh rates with other boards.) The original drivers left shadows, and noticable haze during screen refreshes. The drivers that I downloaded about a month back, along with the ATI Video Player version 5.2 seem to have fixed that; I now run at 1024x768 @87Hz refresh, with 32 bit color, and no problems with redraw.
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>>I can get the specific driver version and settings if you like when I'm home this evening.
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>It would be great. At least I will know which version works for sure. :)
I'm using MACX4W.DRV version 4.10.2440; the downloaded driver set is needed to use ATI's Video Player 5.20 or later. I'm using the driver set provided in W82240EN.EXE, with the video player drivers in W8PL52EN.EXE, and NO WEB TV. You can download them from
Rage Pro Driver Page
