very slow graphics rendering in Word 2003

[Jamie]

I have docs with .PNG graphics inserted (not linked). Every time I scroll the
graphics on the next page take ages to render (5-20secs). I need to see the
pictures so placeholders option no good. If I minimize the window and
maximize it immediately the pix appear? PITA tho'

XP/Pro + SP2 running Word 2003 on P4 3.6GHz 1GB DDR mem ATI Radeon X600
card. I have all available Office updates applied (well except the French
language thingy).

Thanks

 

[Mary Sauer]

Might think about a video driver update.
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Meanwhile turn the acceleration down on your adapter, right-click the desktop,
properties, settings tab, advanced button, troubleshoot tab.

 

[Jamie]

Might think about a video driver update.
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html
Meanwhile turn the acceleration down on your adapter, right-click the desktop,
properties, settings tab, advanced button, troubleshoot tab.

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Mary, I reduced acceleration from Full to the half way mark and this has
made an immediate improvement (about only 1 sec delay).

Your assistance has given me back a bit of my life very many thanks!

I'll play with this setting to fine tune it - however if you have a minute
perhaps you could explain both to me and any other interested parties why
'deccellerating' a graphics card speeds word graphics rendering up ??

Thanks again for your very prompt help
Jamie

 

[Mary Sauer]

I would update the video card, you probably could use full acceleration.

This article may help understand the issue:
You receive an error message and then the program quits unexpectedly when you use a
program of Office 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;835262

 

[LarryranTX]

Just a quick observation: "Picture" is the only format that Word reliably
supports. If you cut your PNG and Edit->Paste Special as "Picture (Enhanced
metafile)" you should see an immediate improvement.

Larry Randall
Word Expert

 

[Paul (Bornival)]

Hi,
I had the same problme with an ATI Sapphire Radeon 9600 ATLANTIS Video Card.
I looked at the ATI web site but could not find an update. Yet, turning the
acceleration from full to medium solved mots of the problem. Thank you for
this, but,
- again, how does it come that decelerating te video actually accelerates
the rendering of the pictures (alle were pasted as metafiles);
- would this negativelya ffect other programs (its does not seem so far, but
....)
- wil I have the same problem with pther video cards ?

Regards,

Paul.