Hi,
I must admit I havent installed the latest drivers for the video card, all
was fine icon wise before the rebuild with my current driver, the something
I installed was Microsoft Updates, you get prompted to install something
like 30 or more of them having gone onto the internet for the first time
when the PC is WinXP SP2. Those updates would take days to do one at a time
to find the culprit. As thjey are all supposedly vital should one be left
out ? I did this rebuild twice, having found the updates messed up the icon
redraw speed I elected to do them in batches based on their function, trying
to isolate a batch as to the cause. All seemed ok after all were on, but
then next day everything is sloooooow.
I could try the latest driver for the card, as long as it is compatible with
the flight sim I run. I recall it having a detrimental effect on such but
perhaps thats been sorted by now.
Is there any memory allocation that controls redraw speed?
Steve
"Malke" <notreally@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> Steve wrote:
>> Hi, post not appearing in outlook express so sorry for late reply.
>> 3.4Ghz Pentium and 2Gb DDRAM, Video card 5950 ultra 256Mb ram Geforce
>> Enough to run a WW2 flight sim with all features turned on max.
>> So I am amazed that all icons were redrawing instantly, al through the
>> rebuild, WinXPhome then SP2, then all the progs, all ok until I installed
>> the Msoft updates as part of the rebuild and towards the end of it..
>> Steve
>
> Part of the rebuild? I don't remember you mentioning that in your first
> post. Did you remember to install the latest drivers for your video card?
> Possibly you installed a driver from Windows Updates that you shouldn't
> have? Since you think the problem occurred after you installed something,
> uninstall the something and troubleshoot from there.
>
>
> Malke
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