Q2006 Premier has started continually 'repainting' screens

Mine is not continual, but it does about the same thing with Q-2007. It started for me when I bought a new high end computer with two nVidia video cards. I think I've read that some nVidia drivers have a problem with Quicken. If you recently updated the video drivers, perhaps going back to an older level would alleviate the problem.

Other than that, since it sounds like it was working at one time, look for something else that you changed, even if it seems unrelated. In addition to the video drivers, mouse drivers can aggravate Quicken graphics.

-- Jim

Thanks for the response. It sounds like your situation is similar to mine, I have an nVidia card, and I recently updated the drivers, so that could very well have been the cause. But there was a definite need for the update, my system was not displaying photographs correctly, and the new drivers corrected the problem.

So it sounds like I'm forced to choose between which problem I prefer to live with, or attempting an otherwise unwanted Quicken upgrade to see if that will resolve the repainting.

Editorial Opinion: AFAIC, an application that can't work well with ANY current major video card is a piss-poor one.

Search this group in Google Groups for threads about screen flicker and look here:

Select the Quicken for Windows forum and then enter "screen flicker" w/o the quotes in the search box at the upper right.

It isn't fixed, it probably won't be anytime soon. One person says that Quicken 2009 still flickers.

Things that help:

Use an ATI video card or other non-nVidia card, that seems to help.

Don't use a Logitech Mouse or if you do, try other mouse software, MS Intellimouse seems to work with some Logitech mice and helps the flicker problem (along with eliminating the conflict with Quicken's Billminder.)

Hope this helps...

What application would that be?

Nothing said in this thread, and nothing I have read anywhere else, suggests that Quicken, "can't work well with ANY current major video card".

In fact, most of what I read strongly suggests that Quicken problems with devices are mostly problems caused by the makers of the devices (who are 100% responsible for creating the device drivers to make their devices usable by application programs).

Intuit isn't immune from introducing problems in their products. Neither are you immune from drawing false conclusions.

Evidence! Provide verifiable evidence. Otherwise ... please do not substitue unsupported accusactions in place of that verifiable evidence.

The only evidence that I can provide is that dozens of other applications work flawlessly on my machine, and Quicken fails. The machine can run Google Earth, Turbo tax, other financial software, graphics demos, movies, web browsers, videos, video editors, image viewers and editors, and games from a dozen developers with just about every possible graphic option turned to the max, and never have a hiccup. Also, the video drivers have passed Windows certification.

Meanwhile, the Quicken community forums are loaded with a lot of people having problems with Quicken and various device drivers.

While not incontrovertible, the evidence all points to one culprit, and that is Quicken itself.

-- Jim

Once again, I am in agreement with JimH. I cannot incontrovertibly assert Quicken is at fault here. But the fact remains, it is the application giving me problems and I experience nothing like this in any other the other programs I run, so it's an easy conclusion to arrive at.

Thanks for the info, I registered and ran the search as you suggested, AFAIC there's an overwhelming amount of evidence that this is a long-standing problem with Quicken.

Yes, it's been addressed here as well over the years.

We know that Quicken 2009 apparently does not fix the problem so the only way to make it better (not fix it completely) is to use a non- nVidia graphics card that should help...

NOTE: If you have an nVidia graphics card and don't want to change, downloading and installing the latest drivers may make it better but may also make it worse, make sure you can revert to your current driver.

Here's a For-What-It's-Worth update on the situation:

I removed the updated nVidia drivers I'd recently installed by rolling back to the previous ones. This improved the situation inside Quicken in that the graphics only repaint and flicker once or twice instead of continuously, so I'm again able to reconcile statements, etc. The old drivers don't display photographs correctly, but at the moment that's a problem I can live with.

So it sounds like the long-term solution is either: A) Get a non-nVidia graphics card, or B) Replace the Quicken software. Neither choice has a lot of appeal, but the longer I stick with Quicken, more and more of its shortcoming turn up, and the more inclined I am to try something else. The only trouble is, what else is there beside MS Money? For all I know, it's as bad or worse, overall.

I don't really like MS Money at all but that's only personal opinion.

Set your newsreader to this server: msnews.microsoft.com and look at the group microsoft.public.money, you should be able to get a look at problems people are having and compare it with Quicken. You might ask some questions as well.

Hi, XS11E - and Enigman.

The shortcut way to do that is to just click here: news:/msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.money

You guys probably know this, but, for lurkers...

Than single click will (unless blocked by something like a corporate firewall) start your default newsreader (OE or WM or WLM or a third-party product); create a News Account for the Microsoft public news server, which is free and does not require a logon; subscribe you to the Money newsgroup; download the 300 newest messages there; and open the latest post for you to read. After some familiarization time, you can click Tools | Options and customize OE/WM/WLM to suit your own news-reading style.

RC

Did you consider reporting the problem to NVidia? They may be able to provide some kind of trace software to determine the root cause. They may even be willing to fix it.

-- Jim