Hoster screen flashing on & off with 3.313

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bryant

Sorry if I am double posting here as this came up in another post as well. But I think this really belongs here.

Last week I had changed some video resolution settings and noticed the redraw disappeared. But last night the redraw returned but very infrequently, few and far between. Again, my problem occurred only when closing the search screen; it took a few seconds and then Hoster would sort of blink in and out for a second.

These are the settings I use that seem to improve the situation greatly:
Set computer at 1024 x 728 16 bit color.
Set second display at 800 X 600 16 bit color (sometimes it sets itself back to 32 bit, depending on your sound card).

The other thread also mentioned to leave the DXDiag box open during Hoster as a pretty good cure.

I'm gonna test with both tonight.

Bryan why do you have a different setting for the TV monitor and computer screen. I run both of mine at 1024x768 and have never had the redraw problem. How much video card memory do you have?

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Bryan why do you have a different setting for the TV monitor and computer screen. I run both of mine at 1024x768 and have never had the redraw problem. How much video card memory do you have?

256 mB 256 bit on the show shuttle machine; test machine is on my signature.

I got the idea from a DJ program I use that utilizes videos and video-mixing, requiring high end graphics cards w/plenty of memory and ram. I followed a suggestion, but it didn't help too much with the video mixing problem I was having, but others said it cleared up most of their problems with video's.

I often use message-oke w/Hoster and that works well with 800 x 600. Killed two birds w/one stone, you might say. It worked completely on the shuttle, but one redraw Sunday night returned (just one time though) with the laptop. But didn't have the DXDiag on either.