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Visual Effects Glitches



 
 
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Old March 4th 09, 04:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
bogelas
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Default Visual Effects Glitches


I have two problems with the Visual Effects in Vista Business x64. The
initial problem is the following:

Problem #1
Assuming I have all visual effects enabled, the computer boots, Vista
loads, everything is pretty and fine. The first time I make a selection
from a menu, that menu selection does not fade out. It persists on my
screen. All subsequent menu selections fade out correctly. If I do
something that forces a screen refresh (say set color to 24-bit and then
revert back to 32-bit) the menu selection is cleared by the refresh but,
again the first menu selection will persist. Right Click menus and drop
down menus are the culprits but Start Menu selections appear to be
exempt from this glitch. This happens regardless of my scheme i.e.
Aero, Classic, Standard, Vista Basic, etc.

Problem #2
This occurs when I attempt the most obvious work around to the first
problem. If I disable the Visual Effect "Fade out menu items after
clicking" then my problem goes away. When I reboot, however, the Visual
Effect reverts back to being enable. If I change the radio button for
my Visual Effect from "Custom" to "Adjust for best performance", that
change appears to persist through reboots but despite that I get Problem
#1. So, TLDR version: Customization of Visual Effects refuses to
persist across reboots.

Dell Precision M6400
Vista Business x64
6GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro 2700M (driver version 7.15.11.7653 )


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Old March 5th 09, 07:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
bogelas
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Default Visual Effects Glitches


Eventually I found fixes.

Problem #1
Scrapped Dell's official video card driver and also the Solidworks
approved version of that driver. Got newest driver version from
laptop2go.com. This had the side benefit of fixing the nvlddmkm.sys
crashes I was also having.

Problem #2 I had UAC turned on, like a newb.


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Old March 31st 09, 07:28 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance
Ford GT
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Default Visual Effects Glitches


I'm having the same problem. I updated to nVidia's new drivers and it
seems to have worked for now. I would right click and the first option I
would choose would remain on the screen in a semitransparent state until
I played around with the display settings.

I turned off the fade menu item visual effect. I had to turn it back on
as the menus would appear very transparent until I moved my mouse
slightly and then they would appear normally.


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