Powerpoint Viewer 2003 with Hardware Acceleration

[Peter Haasemann]

Hello all,

I created a slide show with powerpoint 2003 which only looks good
having the hardware acceleration feature in powerpoint switched on.
With that slide show I made a cd for distribution which uses the new
powerpoint 2003 viewer. It works fine so far, the only problem is that
the viewer doesn't use hardware acceleration by default.
Does anyone know if there is a way (command line option, script,
macro,...) to get the powerpoint 2003 viewer to use hardware
acceleration?

Thanks

Peter

 

[Austin Myers]

Peter,

Not really and that is as it should be. Consider that many people go to
some length getting their hardware set "just so" and probably would not care
for someone changing it for them.

Austin Myers
MS Powerpoint MVP Team

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

My guess is that the results will depend on the computer your prsentation
runs on; that is, hardware accel may be necessary for some but not for
others. But what exact differences do you see when you turn accel on/off on
your pc?

 

[Piet]

Austin,
The "use hardware acceleration" option in PP does not change any hardware
setting; it changes the way PP controls the video adapter for a particular
presentation. So I agree with Peter that the viewer has a serious drawback
by not using hardware acceleration. Presentations with advanced animations
like fade-overs perform much better when acceleration is enabled.

Piet

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Peter,

PowerPoint Viewer 2003 does not use display hardware acceleration
regardless of presentation settings (Set up Show in PowerPoint) or system
display hardware acceleration. There is no way to get it to use hardware
acceleration.

If you (or anyone else reading this message) thinks that is important for
the PowerPoint Viewer to respect (when possible) the Set up Show hardware
acceleration settings or to provide it's own options (or any other
PowerPoint Viewer performance recommendations), don't forget to send your
feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.

IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

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[Peter Haasemann]

Thanks for all the replies to my posting.

I would like to point out though that my question was not intended to
be a product suggestion. I thought the product already had the feature
I needed and that I was just too lame to figure out how to use it.
Powerpoint itself has the hardware acceleration setting, and I know
that all the viewers of my presentation have got modern PCs with
modern graphics adapters, so why not use the feature with the viewer?
And as far as the "why" this is important to me: My presentation uses
many of the powerful animation and blending features that have been
included in Powerpoint by Microsoft for some reason. And they only
look good having hardware acceleration switched on (why else was the
feature implemented in Powerpoint anyway?)

I can only repeat myself: Powerpoint 2002 and 2003 have got the
hardware acceleration feature FOR SOME REASON... so why not equip the
viewer with some little command line option...

Maybe Microsoft considers my suggestion for the PP2004 viewer then

Thanks to all,

Peter

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hi Peter,

Anytime a Microsoft product doesn't work the way you expect or want it to
(and it's not by design), there an implied product suggestion or customer
wish (PowerPoint Viewer 2003 does not use display hardware acceleration <by
design> and you <and others, it seems> would like it to). However, in order
to be considered, customer wishes need to be formally submitted (we've
tried to make this as easy as possible for all Microsoft products by
providing a single web page for all product suggestions).

If you feel strongly about this suggestion (for next version of Viewer),
don't forget to send your feedback to Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

For FAQ's, highlights and top issues, visit the Microsoft PowerPoint
support center at: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=ppt
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of any included script samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm

 

[Peter Haasemann]

Hi John,

thanks for the feedback. I do indeed feel strongly about my
suggestion, so I submitted it to the web page you mentioned. Thanks
for providing the link.

Peter