Hi Michael,

I've installed the June 23 beta on my HP tx2 Tablet with ATI Radeon HD 3200 graphics, running Vista Home Premium, every time I run MoI
some of the Icon text fail to render until I mouse over them, then it's fine, it only happens when I first launch MoI and it's always random icons.
I've tried different graphic settings, but no luck.

Any ideas?



~Danny~

Hi Danny, hmmm well that is really rather strange.

Is this something that is a new problem for v2 that is not present previously? Like for example if you install v1 there does it have the same problem?

Also, which version of Internet Explorer is on that machine, is it IE7 or IE8?

One thing you may try to see if it has any effect is to right-click on the shortcut that starts MoI and choose Properties, and I think there is a compatability tab or something that has a "Disable desktop composition" entry in it. If you set that, does that have any effect?

That's a rather mysterious problem.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I'll check those things when I get home.

Cheers

Hi Michael,

I've sorted this out, it's got to do with the vista desktop composition.
I'm new to vista and found out that it had a program compatibility wizard, who knew, which I ran and tried the various compatibility settings.
I've also attached the reports that, after finishing the wizard, it sends to Microsoft. I thought they might help in indicating the compatibility problem for MoI.

Cheers
~Danny~

Hi Danny, thanks for the update and I'm glad that there is a solution.

Yeah, that new desktop composition mechanism is a pretty major change in Vista for how programs end up being drawn on the screen. I rather wish that they would not have made such a big change because it introduces a variety of issues that were not generally present in Windows before, like actually an increase in flickering in some instances which is difficult to avoid since the program is not in complete control of how it is drawn anymore.

But anyway, yes you can turn it off on a per-application basis. In addition to that wizard, there is some kind of compatability tab that you can set on a shortcut when you right-click it and pick properties.

This particular thing with the missing labels looks like it may be just a bug in the desktop composition engine though, it is possible that it may go away in a windows update at some point.

- Michael

Hi Michael,

Just to let you know that the above issue has been fixed in Service Pack 2, no compatibility mode required.

Cheers