slow screen draw

Support Basics & Interface
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i know this has been mentioned before – i have searched for and read the other posts.

HOWEVER…

none seem to come to a satisfactory conclusion.

the problem is that under win xp (and poss. 2k aswell) all the text in the menus/tooltips/buttons etc draw excruciatingly slowly.

i have tried 2.23, 2.25 and now 2.27 and all have the same problem
i have tried all the compatibility (!) settings.
i have all latests hardware drivers.
i have looked through both blender and driver controls for settings to change/etc.

all to no avail.

does anyone know the cause of the problem?
does anyone have a solution which works (and doesn’t involve going back to windows 98).

this is mega-frustrating… as blender is soo cool, and i really want to use it again (after a year or so absence)… but it’s sooo slow and it’s painful to use like this.

any ideas appreciated,

Doug Hammond

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it seams to me that you have aproblem with the driver for your video card…try installing the latest driver for your card, it shoud solve the problem.

3

Did you try changing the color depth of your screen?
ie. 16 bits per pixel, 24 bpp, or 32 bpp.

I understand how frustrating these incompatibilities can be. Hope you get it resolved. There seems to be be quite a few people experiencing trouble with Blender under Windows XP. For myself, using older hardware (about 5 years old) 2.27 actually seemed to be a little faster in drawing the user interface. I hope I don’t run into this problem when I update my computer.