Intellipoint Software > 5.5 causes screen flickering

My intellimouse 6.02 software worked fine UNTIL I installed a microsoft
windows update. Thats when my applications started to flicker. And yes, it
was driving me mad. I therefore re-formatted my computer. Everything was
great until the last few windows updates. Then bingo! I'm back to flicker and
can't get rid of it. Even when rolling back the windows updates, my programs
flickered. Ugh!

Anyway, thanks to this site, un-installing the explorer software has fixed
my problem. I wish I knew this 5 days ago!



"Rich D" wrote:

> I'm also having this problem. Images in Photoshop periodically flicker and it
> makes me want to rip out my eyes...sorry for the graphic reply hehe. The
> problem is just annoying.

i have the same problems, just was under a MS-Support Ticket for another
issue for a week with instant testing,
so there should nothing else cause the problem.

Installed a new Explorer 3.0 USB-mouse, from the CD tried 6.1 (also the
latest now available at MS-download site)

->>flickering : Explorer Windows, Desktop when closing an Explorer Window,
Filemaker Pulldowns are corrupted,
Screensaver (Charater) is jerking.

deinstalled, reboot

installed 5.2, but no Explorer 3.0 found, so deinstalled, reboot,
installed IP 4.0, everything is fine.


br, klaus

first post here, man, I thought I was going crazy, I was using adobe
photoshop and having the same problem, its bad enough to make an
epileptic go into seizures. I killed the ipoint.exe and it works fine,
you would think microsoft could have figured out some way to fix this
by now. I am glad I found yall talking about this I have spent two days
trying to figure this out, i thought it was my video card or monitor.

BTW, does ipoint.exe have to run, I have the wireless internet explorer
2.0 mouse and wireless multimedia keyboard? Should I just uninstall the
intellipoint software or look for an older version?

tks


--
copotay
------------------------------------------------------------------------
copotay's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=30809
View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=626401

http://forums.techarena.in

copotay <copotay.2wnnzb.TakeThisOut@donotspam.com> wrote:

> BTW, does ipoint.exe have to run, I have the wireless internet explorer
> 2.0 mouse and wireless multimedia keyboard? Should I just uninstall the
> intellipoint software or look for an older version?

you can uninstall it, but any "advanced" features will be lost - you may
not care about that tho, so give it a try.

The subject line states, and I agree whole heartedly, that version 5.4
(and 5.5 too) are/were very stable and work just fine with older mice
(pre 2006). The newer mice do require the newest drivers to take
advantage of their advanced features (zoom viewer, etc).

FWIW, I just installed 6.1 on a entry-level laptop running XP w/ a new
"compact optical mouse" and that driver worked fine - no flicker at all,
advanced features work fine, and no conflicts with the built-in trackpad.
So I suspect the flickering is a conflict issue with just a small subset
of systems out there. those experienceing the flickering should consider
posting your config so we can see if there is some common factor.

It certainly sounds like the mouse interrupts are causing the video driver
to hic-up; a video driver update may be in order (or down-grade; often
video updates are just for newer cards and they sometimes break older
cards - go back to a driver that was released shortly after your card was
released). And be patient - video driver changes almost never go smoothly
at first. Read up before jumping in, a clean uninstall of the old driver
first may be necessary. you could also investigate the IRQ being used,
and alter it if possible.

Oh, and if it's a PS2/USB mouse, try it both ways if you can - those two
interfaces will handle interrupts differently and that may be all it
takes to stop the flicker. Worth a try.

Hopefully MS will get around to resolving it someday, good luck...

I am using now Intellipoint 4.0, no problem at all, (XP, all updates, non of
Intellipoint of course )
also mouse button setting of the "ESC"-command works fine,
which is a problem working CAD and as MS had purged this option since IP 5.X

Unfortunately I have to agree with everything written on this forum so far;
among other things, indeed a lot of screen refresh problems are caused in
professional 3D applications (those using OpenGL I believe) by IntelliPoint >
5.5 software. If you are searching the Internet you will find that this issue
has been reported since the beginning of last year, and I cannot believe
Microsoft still hasn't done anything to address this issue. I used to be a
Microsoft hardware fan, but not anymore. Logitech seems to care a lot more of
their customers.
And this - for me is one of the reasons not to go the Vista way.

I own two Microsoft mouses - a simple "Wireless Optical 2.0" on my desktop
and a "Wireless Notebook Laser Mouse 6000" which are both excellently
engineered pieces of hardware but their software support lacks badly. Except
the whistles and bells, of course...

I noticed the aforementioned problem, a very disturbing screen flickering in
a 3D-modeling software called Rhinoceros (widely used in architecture), and I
also noticed a strange error in Google Earth - the scroll wheel zoom works in
the opposite sense. These two issues are both specific to IntelliPoint
drivers; I'm having no such trouble with IntelliPoint 5.5 but I cannot use
any newer version.
Therefore no Windows Vista for me and I'm not the only mad professional in
my group.

I hope someone responsible from Microsoft reads this. They lost me as a
customer but they still have a lot more to lose.