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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / November 2007Presenter's View problem with PPT 2007
I've encountered a problem that I've seen repeated on other systems. I have an Alienware notebook with a Geforce Go GTX 7800. I'm running Vista Business and have the latest Vista 32-bit drivers for my video card. And I've added a printer driver as explained on PPTools' site. Here's the problem. When I run my presentation on a second screen and use Presenter's View on my own screen, the slides will not display on my screen while "Enable Hardware Acceleration" is checked in Set Up Show. If I uncheck this option, the slides will display on my screen, but then animation quality is terrible. I've played with nVidia's Vista drivers in attempts to adjust what it seems replaced XP's graphics acceleration settings, but that didn't work. The only workaround is to disable PowerPoint's hardware acceleration, but this isn't a reasonable option because then any animations that are supposed to be smooth and flowing are choppy and cheap. I've also seen this same behavior on a Dell XPS, also running Vista. But this problem has never occurred under Windows XP. Please help.  SignatureDaniel Lewis Digital Designer, D.Joseph Design www.DJosephDesign.com Speaker / Presentation Designer, Answers in Genesis www.AnswersInGenesis.org Hi Daniel, I wonder whether the video drivers are actually designed for Vista? I installed some here on my Dell and it got so slow I was grumpy for two months. Maybe try this: Right click on your desktop. Personalize. Display settings. Advanced button. Driver tab. Update driver. Search automatically. Then see what happens. Note that I would NOT actually *uninstall* a video driver and then do an update. If you have to reboot, you may lose your screen and not be able to see anything. Also, and probably just for the heck of it, can you go Start| Run and type in dxdiag It should be version 10. SignatureRegards, Glen Millar Microsoft PPT MVP Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at the original www.pptworkbench.com glen at pptworkbench dot com ------------------------------------------ PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com Come and say "G'Day" to the Aussie! > I've encountered a problem that I've seen repeated on other systems. > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Please help. The drivers are for Vista, and I even tried Microsoft's stock nVidia drivers. Yes, I'm running DirectX 10. SignatureDaniel Lewis Digital Designer, D.Joseph Design www.DJosephDesign.com Speaker / Presentation Designer, Answers in Genesis www.AnswersInGenesis.org Hi Daniel, Does it happen if you run as a clone desktop without Presenter View? Else: You might have to contact Nvidia or Alienware: http://www.nvidia.com/object/hardware_support.html I do know from experience that PPT 2007 Presenter View seems to be a massive memory grabber. It might be a display setting or a number of things. SignatureRegards, Glen Millar Microsoft PPT MVP Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at the original www.pptworkbench.com glen at pptworkbench dot com ------------------------------------------ PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com Come and say "G'Day" to the Aussie! > The drivers are for Vista, and I even tried Microsoft's stock nVidia > drivers. > > Yes, I'm running DirectX 10. > Does it happen if you run as a clone desktop without Presenter View? I configured my laptop to display 1024 x 768 cloned to the laptop screen and an external monitor. Presenter's View was disabled, hardware acceleration enabled. The slides displayed perfectly on both screens. But as soon as I re-enabled dualview with Presenter's View, the preview would remain black, regardless of if Presenter's View was on my screen or the other. And I also tried adjust the resolution of my laptop screen. But nothing. SignatureDaniel Lewis Digital Designer, D.Joseph Design www.DJosephDesign.com Speaker / Presentation Designer, Answers in Genesis www.AnswersInGenesis.org Hi Daniel, Well, that narrows it down. The clone means PowerPoint is not using anything to force it out to a second screen. If that works better, it seems like a PowerPoint problem. That's not good, because even if it it can be reproduced, it could take time to find a solution. I'll pass it on but don't hold your breath. SignatureRegards, Glen Millar Microsoft PPT MVP Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at the original www.pptworkbench.com glen at pptworkbench dot com ------------------------------------------ PPTLive! Oct 28-31, New Orleans http://www.pptlive.com Come and say "G'Day" to the Aussie! >> Does it happen if you run as a clone desktop without Presenter View? > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > also > tried adjust the resolution of my laptop screen. But nothing. Thanks, Glen. But I don't think it is totally a PowerPoint problem. It's *something* with Vista. This problem was nonexistent running PPT07 under Windows XP (however, that had its own graphics issues, like the lack of animation previews, but I digress). What has changed since then? Vista, and, consequently, different nVidia drivers. But the fact that the difference is between PPT's hardware acceleration option makes me question PPT's involvement. Both PCs that have shown this behavior were not originally Vista PCs. Mine is basically an Alienware M7700 (Sager NP5720), and my friend's PC is a Dell Inspiron 9300. Are any of you running Vista and PPT07 that you can duplicate this problem? SignatureDaniel Lewis Digital Designer, D.Joseph Design www.DJosephDesign.com Speaker / Presentation Designer, Answers in Genesis www.AnswersInGenesis.org For what it's worth, I'm having the same exact problem. I have a very similar setup (Vista Biz 32, nVidia card) on a Dell XPS M1210. Presenter View did work fine with XP on this same system before I went to Vista as well. Sure would be nice to see this resolved. By the way, been a fan of AiG for years! Signaturewww.webrenown.com > Thanks, Glen. But I don't think it is totally a PowerPoint problem. It's > *something* with Vista. This problem was nonexistent running PPT07 under [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Are any of you running Vista and PPT07 that you can duplicate this problem? Here's another person with the same identical problem. HP DV6000 AMD Turion 64x2 Mobile Technology TL-56 at 1.8 GHz...2.00 GB RAM...NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200 I'd love for VISTA to come up with a solution > For what it's worth, I'm having the same exact problem. I have a very similar > setup (Vista Biz 32, nVidia card) on a Dell XPS M1210. Presenter View did [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > > > > Are any of you running Vista and PPT07 that you can duplicate this problem? |
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