[Virtualacorn-list] Windows panes flashing under dead full-screen RO

[Chris Hughes]

In message <5BAD186E-F76A-4E66-BA36-70CEDAFB1D0A at pittdj.co.uk>
          David Pitt <pittdJ at pittdj.co.uk> wrote:


> On 19 Nov 2010, at 18:39, Chris Hughes wrote:

>> In message <07e6907851.rogerarm at rogerarm.freeuk.com>
>>          Roger Darlington <rogerarm at freeuk.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 19 Nov 2010, Roger Darlington  wrote

> [snip VRPC XP compatibility setting]

>>> I wonder if Andrew left it un-ticked so that VA-RPC would run faster
>>> on my computer. Certainly ticking it seems to make it go slower.
>>> [and, according to T.O.M.S - ticking it will do nothing to prevent the
>>> fault condition in this subject heading that I sometimes see - for the
>>> fault condition also occurs (according to them) in WinXP !
>> 
>>> I think I'll un-tick it again, since I'm sure Andrew would have known
>>> what he was doing leaving it un-ticked.
>> 
>> 
>> To be clear here, none of the 4 Windows 7 machines here have this
>> ticked.

> One of my Windows 7 machines does require XP compatibility to be set.
> It is the machine with the nVidia, geforce 8600M GT, graphics.
> Otherwise VRPC in a Windows window does not awake from  sleep or
> hibernation,  a failure create primary surface terminal error is
> issued.

That sounds like a video driver issue. Are you using the latest 
drivers?

-- 
Chris Hughes