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**Night Hawk** · 01-08-2009

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve Jain [MVP]

On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:24:52 -0800, "Zootal" <msnews@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Quote:

>I have a fresh working Win98 install in VPC2007. Graphics updates is
>erratic - for example, if I press the start button, I might see something
>like this:
>
>http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/temp/badvpcgraphics.jpg
>
>I have the VM additions installed, and it doesn't matter what resolution I
>set it to. Any ideas how to fix this?
>
>Host is WinXP64 with ATI 3870, 4GB ram.
>

First thing to try is changing the hardware acceleration under the
Performance tab in Display Properties. Knock it down a tick at time
and see if it makes any improvement.

--
Cheers,
Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP
esSJae.com Virtual Machine Downloads

That would certainly be another thing to look at as well.

01-08-2009	#4 (permalink)
Night Hawk Geek Join Date: Dec 2008 7 Ultimate 64Bit(retail) Primary OS, 7 RC 64Bit Secondary, ubuntu 9.10 on Virtual Box 379 posts	Re: Erratic video update on Win98 guest desktop. Quote: Originally Posted by Steve Jain [MVP] On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:24:52 -0800, "Zootal" <msnews@xxxxxx> wrote: Quote: >I have a fresh working Win98 install in VPC2007. Graphics updates is >erratic - for example, if I press the start button, I might see something >like this: > >http://zootal.no-ip.info/stuff/temp/badvpcgraphics.jpg > >I have the VM additions installed, and it doesn't matter what resolution I >set it to. Any ideas how to fix this? > >Host is WinXP64 with ATI 3870, 4GB ram. > First thing to try is changing the hardware acceleration under the Performance tab in Display Properties. Knock it down a tick at time and see if it makes any improvement. -- Cheers, Steve Jain, Virtual Machine MVP esSJae.com Virtual Machine Downloads That would certainly be another thing to look at as well.
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