Fixing the Quicken 2007 Display Draw Issue
May 30, 2007 Posted by Jeff in : How-to , trackback,
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Well, I went out and got quicken 2007.  It installed easy enough, and migrated all my crap. The only issue was that when I started up the new program, the screen was not being completely drawn. I could not see the icons or the buttons on the new program, unless I guessed where they were, and hovered my mouse over it, I would see the button flicker slightly. That was annoying for sure. I contacted Intuit customer support, sent screen shots, and found their solutions completely off base. They told me to try deactivating all my services.. yea….brilliant, there’s a good solution. I tried it anyhow…nope…no difference.
I decided to take the bull by the horns and figure it out myself. I realized that it was a screen draw issue. At first I thought it might be that my DirectX version was old, but no… I was up to date. So I went into the display adapter setting.. I discovered my hardware acceleration was all the way up to max. In the past, this has never presented a problem. (I’m using a Diamond Viper II card). I figured, what the heck, and lowered the hardware acceleration all the way. Started up Quicken 2007…BINGO! it works!! After finding a compromise setting of about 45%, everything worked fine. So if you experience this issue…lower the hardware accel on your display settings. Â
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Works great. Forget all the suggestions on the QuickenCommunity sight. This is it. Thanks