Ed,

I just started a new job and they got me a new computer. It has a ATI 3D Rage Pro AGP in it. I'm not getting any GPFs but moving controls around in the report designer is leaving ghost text on the screen from the prior position of the controls.

Do you happen to have any suggestions for this one.

TIA,

PF

>>My new Dell Inspiron 7000 laptop has the ATI Rage 3D chipset and FoxPro 2.6a GPFs everytime I start it. Fortunately, I just hit "ignore" (or tell Norton CrashGuard to ignore it) and everything is fine. I had no clue what the problem was until we rented a bunch of Compaq Deskpros for a tradeshow and only the PCs with the ATI chips exhibited the problem.
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>>ATI's website indicates that there is a compatibility problem with Rage and older 16-bit apps. They provide an older version driver that is supposed to solve it, but does not. I guess this is related to FPW 2.6's notorious use of "demanding" "optimizations" on the video subsystem?
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>>Anybody else heard of this?
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>Yep - FPW doesn't get along well with a whole lot of video and printer drivers. One thing that has helped me in the past is to reduce the level of hardware performance optimization in the Performance tab of the Advanced menu of the Display Applet; turning the hardware Acceleration down to the minimum has work in a few cases.
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>Using the Stndard VGA or SuperVGA driver may help, too, but doing this gives up lots of features in the display adapter chipset, and will require you to reboot the computer each time you change the setting; at least in some cases, you can 'turn down' hardware acceleration without forcing a reboot.
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>>TIA.