Blank menus using GUI

[John F Hall]

I get an occasional, but recurring problem, when using the GUI in 18.  See screenshots below.  Sometimes the whole screenshoot gets blanked out.

 

I'm using it with Windows 200 XP Pro on a (2003) HP Pavilion 1 gb of RAM.  18 seems to swallow memory, but I have no problems when using 15.

 

I could upgrade to 2gb memory, but would that make any difference?  I've thought about getting another computer, but this would mean Windows 7 and all the other software updates around: installing all the software was a nightmare last time I changed.

 

 

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Any idea as to what's going on?  Has someone at SPSS been sticking pins in my effigy?

 

John Hall

Journeys in Survey Research

[Jon K Peck]

Screenshots don't come through, but I think you are seeing the video acceleration problem.  Some video drivers have a problem such as you describe.  You can turn off video acceleration by right clicking on the desktop and choosing Properties>Settings>Advanced (exact menus vary depending on the video driver you use), or do this.
Create a file named
DirectDrawOff.txt
in the SPSS installation directory.  Contents do not matter.  If SPSS sees this file, it will suppress video acceleration for the app.

HTH,
Jon Peck
SPSS, an IBM Company
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312-651-3435

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I get an occasional, but recurring problem, when using the GUI in 18.  See screenshots below.  Sometimes the whole screenshoot gets blanked out.
 
I'm using it with Windows 200 XP Pro on a (2003) HP Pavilion 1 gb of RAM.  18 seems to swallow memory, but I have no problems when using 15.
 
I could upgrade to 2gb memory, but would that make any difference?  I've thought about getting another computer, but this would mean Windows 7 and all the other software updates around: installing all the software was a nightmare last time I changed.
 
 

 

 

 
Any idea as to what's going on?  Has someone at SPSS been sticking pins in my effigy?
 
John Hall
Journeys in Survey Research