David
Thu May 22 08:34:10 CDT 2008
Makes no difference.
Has anyone else here seen the animations not work in PPT 2007 preview with
hardware acceleration turned on? As I have mentioned, this has consistently
been the case with PPT 2007 from its installation on two difference
computers.
"Austin Myers" <austinm@grm.net> wrote in message
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> One more suggestion, try turning the Aero Glass feature off in Vista.
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> Austin Myers
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> "David James" <davejames@jamesjournal.org> wrote in message
> news:6A49F29F-5D4B-4C53-BD4D-5B98F9EEBD7C@microsoft.com...
>> No problems reported either way.
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>>
>> "Austin Myers" <austinm@grm.net> wrote in message
>> news:OA0Iq32uIHA.3564@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> David,
>>>
>>> Try running dxdiag.exe from a command line. This should tell you if
>>> the video card / driver is having a problem with any of the directx
>>> functions. (Run it twice with HA on and off.)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Austin Myers
>>> Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
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>>> Creator of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
>>>
http://www.playsforcertain.com
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>>> "David James" <davejames@jamesjournal.org> wrote in message
>>> news:74E87489-C52C-4ED3-A6A9-B67D18AF292E@microsoft.com...
>>>> If you mean integrated video, no - it has a dedicated Nvidia GeForce
>>>> 8600 GT
>>>> with 256Mb. The computer has an Intel Duo Core, but I don't know what
>>>> the
>>>> chip set is on the video card, but almost certainly isn't Intel, I
>>>> wouldn't
>>>> think.
>>>>
>>>> My previous computer, an Acer Ferrari with a dedicated 128Mb video card
>>>> (Nvidia I think), and this one a Dell XPS M1530 are essentially
>>>> high-end
>>>> desktop replacements and quite powerful, with very good Vista graphics
>>>> performance numbers. The Dell rates as 5.9 - way above the Acer.
>>>>
>>>> However, I never had this problem with PPT 2003 on significantly slower
>>>> computers with only 64Mb video RAM. But with PPT 2007, the problem has
>>>> been
>>>> identical on these two much faster computers.
>>>>
>>>> Does PPT 2007 have a known issue with Nvidia drivers from Dell? I don't
>>>> know
>>>> if I can directly get drivers - as Dell tends to somehow require
>>>> proprietary
>>>> drivers for their implementation of video cards.
>>>>
>>>> It is frustrating to have to run with hardware acceleration off and go
>>>> in
>>>> and change every single "by letter" text animation to "all at once" -
>>>> when
>>>> it worked perfectly in PPT 2003. I don't understand how hardware
>>>> acceleration actually degrades graphics performance.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Glen Millar" <abuse@pptworkbench.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:58AD6884-F8BA-4EF3-85A0-9DA7ACDCE996@microsoft.com...
>>>>> David,
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have an embedded Intel display chip?
>>>>> --
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Glen Millar
>>>>> Microsoft PPT MVP
>>>>>
>>>>> Please tell us your PowerPoint version
>>>>>
>>>>> Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
>>>>> the original www.pptworkbench.com
>>>>> glen at pptworkbench dot com
>>>>> ------------------------------------------
>>>>>
>>>>> "David James" <davejames@jamesjournal.org> wrote in message
>>>>> news:9B9205D1-020A-4726-B31D-9792C3DC71D2@microsoft.com...
>>>>>> I've had PPT 2007 installed on two very powerful laptops but find
>>>>>> that hardware acceleration just doesn't work like it did in 2003.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With HA enabled the result is the same on both computers:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Problem #1: the object animations do not play out in the slide
>>>>>> preview - everything just appears (but play correctly with HA off)
>>>>>> Problem #2: when playing the slideshow HA has no affect on the speed
>>>>>> whatsoever - and is sometimes even slower.
>>>>>> Problem #3: all the object animations are slower with much faster
>>>>>> computers in PPT 2007 than they were with slower computers in PPT
>>>>>> 2003
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It seems that MS has managed to just break the hardware acceleration
>>>>>> function between versions. I can't be the only one who has this
>>>>>> problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Config:
>>>>>> Dell XPS M1530
>>>>>> Intel Duo Core 2.4
>>>>>> 4Gb RAM
>>>>>> 256Mb video RAM
>>>>>> 200Gb, 7200 RPM HD
>>>>>> Vista Ultimate
>>>>>> All updates installed for Vista and Office
>>>>>
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