How to stop PowerPoint charts from flickering on screen?

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JerseyGrrrl - 06 Sep 2006 18:35 GMT

Thanks in advance for your help on this. I'm working on a PowerPoint
presentation with numerous images. Every time I hit a slide with a table on
it, the presentation starts flickering. It freezes and keeps flickering for
about 60 seconds. Then, I'm able to resume. Each time I click on the table,

Instead of using a table, I drew 6 boxes. It worked fine until I tried to
shade the boxes. Then the flickering resumed.

The problem also happens in another presentation that has screen-sized
photos. I created this presentation several months ago. It worked fine until
now.

It doesn't seem to be a space issue. I have over 50% capacity (52GB free).
When I click on the slide, CPU usage pops up to 13 - 49 and memory usage goes
from 37,992K to 37,998K.

Any about what's happening and how to fix this?

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Echo S - 06 Sep 2006 18:49 GMT

It's a display issue, usually fixed by turning hardware acceleration down.
(I know it's counterintuitive, but I often have the same problem here.)
Sometimes turning off certain background programs helps, as does not having
a ton of other applications open at the same time.

How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

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> Thanks in advance for your help on this. I'm working on a PowerPoint
> presentation with numerous images. Every time I hit a slide with a table
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> Any about what's happening and how to fix this?

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John Wilson - 06 Sep 2006 20:13 GMT

Echo almost certainly has the answer. Just to add needing to turn the
accelleration back often means that the graphics driver is not doing a good
job (but thinks it can if you see what I mean). You may find that there's an
updated driver available.

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> It's a display issue, usually fixed by turning hardware acceleration down.
> (I know it's counterintuitive, but I often have the same problem here.)
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> > Any about what's happening and how to fix this?

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