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Simon Chadwick
Simon Chadwick

Reputation: 1148

Visual Artifacts in Visual Studio 2010

I'm using VS 2010 on Windows Server 2003, running on a Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop. VS 2010 runs fine, except for persistent and random screen re-drawing issues. Samples of these are here.

These artifacts occur as the mouse moves over items that highlight on a mouse-over event, while scrolling, and when switching tabs. VS 2008 has non of these issues, so I assume that it is related to VS 2010's use of WPF. Could it be that my video card or driver is not up to the task of rendering WPF? Some other WPF applications (not Silverlight) also have some of these screen repainting problems.

I have tried a variety of settings in System Properties-->Advanced-->Performance Options-->Visual Effects, and in the related "Advanced" tab, Processor Scheduling is adjusted for best performance of programs.

Many thanks for any suggestions!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 730

Answers (2)

cchamberlain
cchamberlain

Reputation: 17956

This has been answered for a while but I just fixed a similar issue with screen artifacting I was receiving in editor views of a MVC3 application. I'm running on a Core i7 3960X 6 core processor, the graphics card is a Radeon HD 6950 2GB. Needless to say, I shouldn't be getting these issues. It looked to be something related to my graphics card because going to Tools > Options and then unselecting "Use hardware graphics acceleration if available" caused the issue to stop occurring -

VS Options

Upvotes: 2

Daniel Little
Daniel Little

Reputation: 17263

Visual Studio uses WPF which used the video card alot more than traditional GDI applications, I'd check your card drivers and make sure they're up to date.

Upvotes: 0

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