PowerPoint Presentation

[Wim]

Originally Posted by TCC_ADM

just to check again,

we are using XP, and have the targus dock which uses display link.

we have confirmed the fault within powerpoint 2010 when in mirror mode, and have also confirmed that to work around the issue we need to notch back the hardware acceleration on the primary display back 3 notches which disables the direct draw, direct-3D and also Direct X...
now where this fixes the issue for powerpoint, it has obvious consiquences for any program requiring direct X, etc etc. such as the cad software the school runs, plus google earth and other apps.

now if we use extended mode, on the majority of the interactive whiteboards, things are fine, however we have 10 new board which calibrate using a hardware calibration, and so extended mode doesnt work....

so my question is, besides not using the dock, upgrading the school to windows 7 and turning off the hardware acceleration, is there any way Displaylink can get around it, or is there another work around more suited....

I'm afraid these are the only workarounds. PowerPoint 2010 will use HW acceleration if available, and this is not supported by DisplayLink in mirror mode on XP.

Wim