CODEWITHSUNDEEP
visual-studio-2010
Andrea Sciamanna
Andrea Sciamanna

Reputation: 1474

Scrolling in Visual Studio causes text to become unreadable

Since the past week I'm having a very bothering issue that blocks me from using Visual Studio.

For instance, here's what I normally see:

But as soon as I scroll a bit down (either with the arrow key, mouse wheel or the scroll bar), this is what I get:

As you can see, part of the frame seems to be "locked" in the screen.

The only way to see it right, is to make some other window cover VS's window, then going back to VS I see it right.

This is what I have tried (checking if the issue was solved after each step):

None of these steps solved the issue.
This happens only with VS2010, regardless the project or solution I'm opening.

Upvotes: 17

Views: 8470

Answers (8)

Eibi
Eibi

Reputation: 400

I am using Windows 11 and VS 2022. I recently had the same problem when using VS through Remote Desktop, it was solved for me after I have unchecked "Use all my monitors for the remote session" on the "Display" tab of the Remote Desktop connection dialog.

Upvotes: 0

user8879332
user8879332

Reputation: 1

I had the same problem in Visual Studio 2017. When I changed the color theme to 'dark' the problem seemed to be fixed

Upvotes: 0

tjwrona
tjwrona

Reputation: 9035

I had this same problem and it turns out it wasn't a graphics driver issue. The company I work for uses software that acts like a virtual monitor to remotely log into our PCs to install software and fix problems. It turns out that this extra virtual monitor was the problem. Disabling it fixed the scrolling in Visual Studio.

Upvotes: 0

Stuart
Stuart

Reputation: 1

For me, using VS 2013 Pro, the cause was having the JAWS Screen Reader installed, which, ominously, included a video interceptor. Once uninstalled VS started working normally again.

Upvotes: 0

Etienne
Etienne

Reputation: 1106

I'm having the same issue in VS 2015 pro. Setting the editor windows to float fixes the problem which definitely looks like a bug in visual studio. I'm on a Citrix virtual Desktop and the problem appears to be that a "column" of the editor (on the left side) is not redrawing properly after scrolling right, left, or down. For some reason scrolling up is fine.

Upvotes: 1

Chris H
Chris H

Reputation: 521

I had the same problem and it was due to the DameWare Development Mirror Driver.

I disabled it and the problem went away.

Upvotes: 3

user1429597
user1429597

Reputation: 101

I have the same problem with VS 2012. Scrolling up and down, does not refresh sections (rectangles) on my text editor view. (unfortunately I've not enough reputation to post a screenshot.)

I managed to workaround it in VS 2012, by floating the editor. i.e. Right Click on a file tab / Float All.

Otherwise I tried everything posted here, without any luck. Hopefully someone out there knows how to undo this magic.

Upvotes: 10

ziesemer
ziesemer

Reputation: 28687

I think you need to start looking beyond Visual Studio for issues. The next thing I'd look at is your graphics driver. Make sure you have the latest available version.

Upvotes: 11

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