LabVIEW front panel display poor resolution

[Rod.Loewen]

I installed LV 6.1 on a Windows XP machine and see poor resolution on front panel items (around the borders especially). I've used 3 different video cards without success. Other apps work fine. Anyone know what's up?

[Ben]

No one else guessing at this one eh?

LV 6.0 and up is optimized for 16 bit color make sure your display is set for 16 bit.

I believe I saw some srt of desktop setting that maybe (guessing) associated with active desktops that was called "Smooth Edges" or something like that. You may want to hunt for this.

Are you using the latest and greatest drvers for the display?

Have you tried cutting back on hardware acceleration for the video adapter?

Done guessing.

Ben

[Rod.Loewen]

Tried most of these and more...ended up grabbing another machine (pretty much an identical Dell as far as I can tell) and it works just fine. I'll blame it on Microsoft like everything else. Cheers, Rod.

[mindsclay]

I am now seeing this issue on my computer. It has been fine for the past 10 months, then suddenly, coming in from the weekend, the display is garbage. Remnants of other windows are imprinted on the VI front panel, and as mentioned in an earlier post, the edges on the front panel are speckled. Everything else on this computer looks great, just not LabVIEW front panels... diagrams look fine.

I was going to try the 32-bit/16-bit idea, but I am offered only 32-bit, so I can't try that.

Does anyone at NI know what could be causing this?

NOTE: I have seen this only once on one computer, and that computer is now displaying front panels just fine.