I forgot to mention in my last few posts that I bought a new graphics card for my home PC. It’s not very exciting and nobody cares, but I still need to write it.
Well, it’s actually secondhand, not new. But it’s way better than the old one, which was a shitty 8MB Rendition Verite 2200. I’ve had the driver at that page for a few months now, it gets a steady stream of hits from people who want a driver that works with the card for Windows 2000/XP. It’s a shit card, though.
Anyway, so I bought the new card, chucked it in and buggered around downloading and installing drivers for a while. When I finally got the driver installed and kind of happy, it would freeze the display whenever I tried to resize a window!! Not happy. I turned down the hardware acceleration in Display Settings->Advanced… and it seems to have fixed the problem. The old card would randomly freeze the computer without notice, at least this new one is more predictable. It doesn’t seem to freeze at random times when you have hours of unsaved work on the screen…