Zener,
Thanks for the post.
It is an upside down world. One would think that free software
(Fedora Linux) would have caveats like
you describe. But no, it auto-detected my cheap (old) graphics adapter
and set itself into fallback mode.
I am running Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) these days with
Firefox/Chrome/Opera and have had very few issues.
I am not surprised that unit sales of Windows 8 have dropped between
10-15%. On older machines,
earlier versions of Fedora also work fine.
Scott Corcoran
sc...@pogysoft.com
541-912-1395
On 3/1/2014 2:34 AM, Zener Stanfill wrote:
I don't know how many of you this may affect, but I thought it useful
information to share.
Case:
Windows 7 (any version could be affected) (Clean install or not)
Internet Explorer 9 and up
When I ran Internet Explorer, the start up page would load, but
instead of seeing a webpage, all I saw was white. My cpu usage was
pegged. I would get an error message and click the close browser
button. The browser just kept throwing out the same error message over
and over again.
When I disabled the Display Adapter (video card) in Device Manager, IE
worked just fine.
I discovered a setting that can be used in Internet Options that fixes
this problem. IE by default, uses GPU (Graphics Processing Unit aka
Video Card) rendering for its webpages. If you have a wimpy (cheap)
Graphics Adapter like the one in the machine I'm working on, it won't
be able to give IE what it wants/needs. So instead, IE needs to use
Software rendering.
In an ideal world, (hint, hint microsoft...), IE would detect this
conflict and automatically fix this issue with no user intervention.
Until then, some of us need to do things the manual way.
Here's the trick:
Open the Internet Options (do this in the Control Panel>Network and
Internet>Internet Options).
Click Advanced tab.
In the Settings section, find Accelerated graphics (for me it was at
the top of the list.)
Put a check mark next to: Use software rendering instead of GPU rendering.
Click OK.
Run IE. All is fine...
The information about this conflict and resolution can be found at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn338138.aspx
in the section titled:
"Internet Explorer is crashing or seems slow".
Note: The microsoft page references IE 11. As I stated earlier, this
affects IE 9 and up.
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