hardware acceleration panel glitch

[flaminghotsauce]

Hi! I searched a little before posting this and didn't find anything, so here goes.

When I'm going to adjust my OBS or radio freq or whatever, on mouseover the whole panel window glitches over. I have to park the mouse pointer on the windshield when not in use. When I get to the knob I'm wanting to adjust, I have to just click on it, not knowing which way it'll go, and the dash and gauges reappear, but glitch if I let the mouse pointer sit too long over the knob or gauge.

The only cure I've found involves disabling hardware acceleration. That makes the graphics really suck. I've tried different settings, different rendering settings, etc. I thought for the last year that it was my inferiour 10+ year old monitor, but I replaced it yesterday and that wasn't it. So I'm back to where  started.

My system is an AMD 1700, 356mg memory, onboard AGP video with 32mg mem. IBM monitor...

Any help would be appreciated. Nothing worse than trying to adjust a radio in the clouds and have it all zap. Surely there is something I'm overlooking, that I can slap my forehead over.

[dave3cu]

Hi fhs,

My first guess would be DirectX compliant drivers for your graphics.

Check with your computer mfg. or the graphics chipset mfg. for updated graphics drivers.

Might help in getting more definitive answer, to post your full system specs.

Cheers,
Dave

[flaminghotsauce]

Well, I'm in the middle of a scan disk on that machine, and it's gonna take all night.

It's S3 pro Savage DDr 32 meg mem video onboard, AMD processor 1700, 356 memory, Directx 8.1, Windows98SE, uhh, I'm not sure what more you need to know. HD is Maxtor 20 gig... MS flight sim 2002...

Beyond this glitch, it runs great.

[dave3cu]

If you havent, you should run the Direct X Diagnostic utility to see if your ProSavage and drivers are Dx capable. From the desktop click Start>Run then type in 'dxdiag' , without quotes. With the utility you can test graphics and sound systems to determine compatibility and troubleshoot if necessary.

Note: I had a somewhat similar, problem with my graphics (GeForce2). The panels would pixelate until i moused over, it would clear for a couple seconds and then pixelate again. This was solved by reducing my graphics mode from 1024x768x32 to 1024x768x16. No noticable difference in colors rendered, but solved the problem.

As you have integrated graphics, S3Graphics http://www.s3graphics.com/Drivers.html recommends you check with your system or motherboard manufacturer for any driver updates if needed.

Cheers,
Dave