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George 2008-04-05 23:08
I have a problem with UltraMon 3.0.2 (3.0 Beta 2.1) on Win XP Professional with ATI Sapphire 2600XT graphics Card in Virtual PC 2007. It is about bad screen redrawing in Virtual PC environment, eg. previously hovered menu items or selected desktop icons remain highlighted, some artifacts are appearing on screen (even during the POST and boot process of Virtual PC, ie OS independently) etc. I have tried all available ATI display driver versions but problem still persists. Without UltraMon running or if using the UltraMon v. 2.7.1. the Virtual PC works correctly.
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Christian Studer 2008-04-06 11:02
Maybe it's related to the UltraMon window buttons, you could try if disabling them for Virtual PC via UltraMon Options > Compatibility fixes the problem.
I haven't been able to reproduce this issue though, worked fine for me on both XP and Vista. I tested with Virtual PC 2007 and UltraMon 3.0.2, with Virtual PC both in windowed and fullscreen mode.
On Windows XP I used the default blue visual style, let me know if you're using a different style.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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George 2008-04-06 17:55
Thanks a lot!
I have disabled the Window buttons for Virtual PC and then the problem has been fixed.
FYI: I have tried different graphics card (ATI X600, ie with different drivers) and VPC works perfectly even with enabled Window buttons so it seems to be a problem of 2600XT display driver.
Btw: on WXP I use default blue visual style too.
Thanks again
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Cam 2009-07-27 01:43
I am having the same issue, but disabling windows buttons does not fix the it.
I have found that if I close UltraMon, start VirtualPC and then start UltraMon, everything works correctly. If I just start Virtual PC with UltraMon running, I get the same symptoms described earlier in this post.
I am running UltraMon 3.0.6 Beta, on a XP machine. Both the physical and virtual machines are new installs of XP with everything left as default (XP theme, etc.)
I have two monitors set to 1280x1024, 32 bit colour, 75Hz refresh. ATI Radeon HD 3400 series video card.
Do you have any suggestions as to what else I can try?
Thanks,
Cam
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Christian Studer 2009-07-27 07:41
You could try if disabling the menu commands and dragging of maximized windows as well fixes the problem.
I still can't reproduce this issue though, Virtual PC 2007 works fine for me on XP with UltraMon 3.0.7 and all features enabled.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Christopher Hill 2011-02-22 00:56
Hi,
Am experiencing the same problem here with Virtual PC 2007 SP1, Windows XP SP3, UltraMon 3.1.0, and ATI Radeon HD 3400 graphics (driver version 10.10).
Running XP SP3 on the VM, if I log in and hover over the Start button to get 'Click here to begin', then move away, the tooltip remains. Also graphical issues with the command line when using tab completion to complete paths - the fonts become corrupted and unreadable.
If I close UltraMon, the problem immediately goes away.
Have tried disabling window buttons, menu commands and dragging of maximised windows for 'Virtual PC.exe', but it doesn't seem to help.
Help!
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Christian Studer 2011-02-22 09:26
I still can't reproduce this issue, just tested again with UltraMon 3.1.0 and Virtual PC 2007 SP1 on 32-bit XP.
What happens if you completely disable window buttons, menu commands and dragging of maximized windows? You can do this under UltraMon Options > Buttons and Menu Commands, also uncheck 'enable moving of maximized windows using the mouse' on the General tab.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Christopher Hill 2011-02-22 20:20
Hi,
If I completely disable Window Buttons, then the problem goes away. Unfortunately, this is the feature that I used the most.
It's definitely a graphics driver issue, probably related to certain ATI graphics cards. I have an old ATI card which I may try in the computer at some point to see if it still manifests itself.
Kind regards,
Chris
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Christian Studer 2011-02-23 09:15
I have an ATI Radeon 4350 installed on that system, with an older driver version though.
I'm not sure why only disabling buttons for all apps fixes the problem, maybe the presence of one window with the UltraMon buttons already causes the issue. To confirm this, you could test if the issue also occurs with window buttons only disabled for Virtual PC, but no other window open.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Christopher Hill 2011-02-23 21:22
Hi,
This does indeed fix the problem - and it's only if there's a window *on the same monitor* with the window buttons enabled *and visible* - if you have Virtual PC running on a monitor by itself, with the buttons disabled, then it works fine - but the moment you put another window on the same monitor which also has the buttons enabled, the issue occurs.
Strange...
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Christopher Hill 2011-02-23 21:23
Should add that it works fine if the window on the same monitor with buttons enabled is minimized - hence the buttons are not being 'drawn'.
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Christian Studer 2011-02-24 08:17
In that case the issue is related to the window used for the buttons, and not the hooks installed by UltraMon.
My guess would also be a display driver issue, not sure why though, the only special thing about the window is that it's a so-called layered window, with transparent areas.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Christopher Hill 2011-02-24 20:20
Hi,
If you mean it's an issue with the app that shares the monitor with Virtual PC, I'm not sure. It seems to happen with every application, not just one in particular.
Today I tried using my old ATI Radeon HD 4550 card, instead of the ATI Radeon HD 3400 which came with my new PC. This is working fine, using the same drivers (Catalyst) 10.10), which means it must be pretty specific to certain card models. I am pretty sure the card itself is OK. Perhaps there is some 'feature' on certain ATI cards that is not present on others, which is causing the issue? Judging from the previous post, it's an issue with cards based on the Radeon R600 chipset, as both of the cards mentioned use this chipset (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_R600), whereas others like the X600 and 4350 don't (R300 and R700 respectively).
I don't suppose you have an R600 based card around that you could test it on, or one you could borrow? If not I might be able to send you my one for testing, depending on where you're based. Would really like to get this one fixed, as it's extremely annoying!
Kind regards,
Chris
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Christian Studer 2011-02-25 10:09
It's related to the button window, not the specific application which has the buttons. Could also have been something else, for example the hooks installed by UltraMon.
You would need to file a bug report with ATI, can't be an UltraMon issue, otherwise you would get this with every video card.
Christian Studer - www.realtimesoft.com
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Christopher Hill 2011-02-28 20:25
Never mind. At least it works with the other card.
Could you put a note in the release notes to this effect, so that other people with the same card don't wonder why this is occurring?
Kind regards,
Chris
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