Visual Studio 2010 messes up visually

Question

Not sure what is going on here, if it's just my computer, or a VS bug. It is annoying.

When scrolling, text in VS sometimes gets really messed up. it also happens to other window elements on occasion.

I've noticed something similar in Dreamweaver CS4 & CS5, so I don't know if it's my computer or something with WPF. Any way to fix this problem?

Windows 7 Pro

Answer 1

MSDN put up an article not too long ago that can help troubleshoot the problem.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ff716700

The first two things I would try would be to update your video drivers. Then maybe turn down hardware acceleration.

This KB article touches upon how to do it about half way down the resolution section.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263039

Answer 2

I would suspect this is a WPF issue that may be resolved by updating your graphics drivers if your card can handle it as Reed Copsey suggested.

If you don't have any luck with that, you can try turning off some of the hardware-accelerated rendering by going to the Tools menu, selecting Options then disabling the Automatically adjust visual experience based on client performance option and the following two options under the Environment > General section.

Answer 3

I have similar problems with my VS2010. It isn't a graphic driver issue but an issue with WPF/VS2010. I was hoping the SP1 would solve this problem, but it didn't.

Answer 4

This is most likely a general WPF issue, and could be related to your graphics drivers.

I would recommend looking for updated graphics drivers for your graphics card. If this doesn't work, try reducing the amount of hardware acceleration, as this tends to clean up many WPF rendering issues.