Bug: 4.0b Beta 12: Wildly flickering Collections menu

I've been seeing this problem lately where the Open dropdown menu in the Collections panel flickers wildly (scrolling madly up and down by what appears to be one page worth) and I cannot select anything from it because I can't tell what I'll be clicking on. I don't have a 100% reproducible case, but it seems to happen when I've been messing around with creating new collections and/or deleting them. It only started happening in a recent beta (I think 10 or 11 or 12; can't remember when).

Here's a video showing it:

[view:http://content.screencast.com/users/rosiep/folders/Default/media/0cad2878-67bc-4283-b20e-13b292e7947d/Flickering Collections Menu_controller.swf:640:498]

System specs (I'm giving lots of video info from PC Wizard 2010, since it might be related to my video config if nobody else has seen this):

Current Display : 1920x1200 pixels at 60 Hz in True Colors (32-bit)
Number of monitors : 1

General Information :
Manufacturer : Nvidia
Model : NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Bus Type : PCI-Express
Processor : GeForce 9800 GT
Converter : Integrated RAMDAC
Refresh Rate (min/max) : 56/75 Hz

GPU Information :
Number of GPU : 1
Processor : G92
Revision : A2
Bus : 256-bit
Memory Type : 512 MB GDDR3
GPU Frequency : 601.71 MHz
Shader Clock : 1512 MHz
Memory Frequency GPU : 900 MHz
DirectX Support : 10.1
Pixel Shader Version : 3.0

Video Bios Information :
Date : 11/13/08
Version : Version 62.92.69.00.30
Forceware : 8.15.11.8618

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SteveF

I've been seeing this problem lately

Mine has been doing this for MANY betas. Sometimes I can get a letter typed into the "select"? window and it stops. (Bradley?) a long time ago said they could "occassionally"? make it happen. Never heard anything else.

For me this is CONSTANT on the deletion of a collection from within the "drop-down"

Rosie Perera

Mine has been doing this for MANY betas. Sometimes I can get a letter typed into the "select"? window and it stops. (Bradley?) a long time ago said they could "occassionally"? make it happen. Never heard anything else.

For me this is CONSTANT on the deletion of a collection from within the "drop-down"

Oh, good. I'm glad it isn't just me. Maybe there's some hope of getting it fixed, then. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to help track it down, Bradley and Logos developers! Would a log file for a short session when I'm just doing this help?

NetworkGeek

I guess it's a long shot Rosie but the latest NVidia drivers for your card are 196.21, you are on 186.18. You might want to try that.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

Rosie Perera

I guess it's a long shot Rosie but the latest NVidia drivers for your card are 196.21, you are on 186.18. You might want to try that.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

I updated my nVidia drivers to the latest and rebooted my machine. The menu problem is still there.

BillS

I guess it's a long shot Rosie but the latest NVidia drivers for your card are 196.21, you are on 186.18. You might want to try that.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

Dominic,

Thank you for this post! With nvidia's auto-scan, I was able to EASILY find an updated driver for my notebook, too. Thank you!

Rich DeRuiter

I guess it's a long shot Rosie but the latest NVidia drivers for your card are 196.21, you are on 186.18. You might want to try that.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index5.aspx?lang=en-us

DO NOT update nVidia drivers for nVidia cards made by third party manufacturers this way. For example, if you have an eVGA brand nVidia card, it has the nVidia graphics chips, but also some non-nVidia chips (for other processes the card handles). Updating the drivers from the wrong site can cause big problems (and did for me a while back, which is why I know about this).

So, if you have a 3rd party nVidia card, or an OEM (e.g. Dell) version of an nVidia card, ONLY download updates from those manufacturer's sites. Otherwise, you could run into trouble.

And yes, nVidia's scan looks at your current drivers and updates them, but it can't tell if the drivers are specific to 3rd party or OEM cards (unless they changed something recently -- again, I speak from an 'untoward' experience here).

All that said, you may be just fine. However, if you notice any performance degradation, find the correct 3rd party/OEM drivers, uninstall the drivers you just installed and then install the correct ones.

Todd Phillips

Oh, good. I'm glad it isn't just me. Maybe there's some hope of getting it fixed, then. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to help track it down, Bradley and Logos developers! Would a log file for a short session when I'm just doing this help?

No it's not just you. I have it too, and I have an ATI card. I don't think it's video drivers though, since it only happen with certain program conditions.

Melissa Snyder

This is a known issue that we hope to have fixed in a future beta.

Rosie Perera

This is a known issue that we hope to have fixed in a future beta.

Yay!

DO NOT update nVidia drivers for nVidia cards made by third party manufacturers this way.

You scared me at first, Dominick, as I'd already done it so it was too late (though I'm glad to learn from Richard that it's relatively easy to roll back if I discovered the new driver was causing problems). But I think I'm OK. I didn't build this PC myself and don't feel like opening it up to check, so I'm trusting what PC Wizard 2010 tells me about my video card:

General Information :
Manufacturer : Nvidia
Model : NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT

Thanks for the warning though, I think I'll keep being aggressive in updating but test more thoroughly when I do update!!

I'm generally not aggressive about updating drivers. My attitude about them is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

NetworkGeek

I'm generally not aggressive about updating drivers. My attitude about them is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

You would be surprised how many flickers, bleed-overs, color artifacts, ghosting, crashes, and other oddities occur because of buggy graphics drivers. If you're one whose eye notices that, it can drive you insane. Hence the penchant for updating drivers [8-|]

Dewayne Davis

"if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Unlike some of us whose motto is "if it ain't broke, I could probably sell it and get the latest and greatest instead" [6]

NetworkGeek

A recent lawsuit over "Vista capable" resulted in lots of Microsoft data becoming public, some of which documented the crashes in people's systems, when the computers call home. Out of 1.6 million crashes supported, 38% were video drivers from ATI and NVidia alone! To me that's a rock-solid reason to keep your drivers current: