Quicken 2008 flickering

You are so desperate to try to find something that will make you appear like anything other than the jerk that you are, that you are now trying to pretend that folks in this group should listen to you tell me who I should respond to, and how I should control who I should respond to.

You poor pathetic moron.

Please continue to post your ignorant comments: they confirm what I have said time and again.

I mean it: please continue to confirm your ignorance.

Yup.

I JUST ran into the flickering problem this past weekend and was searching for answers when I ran across this thread. Outside of the flames going on, here's what's going on with my problem.

I was running Quicken 2007 Deluxe on an 6800XT card w/ zero flickering issues (XP SP2). Upgraded to an 8400GS card, along w/ dowloading the latest drivers. BAM! Flickering like a strobe light. :( Will try rolling back the drivers tonight. If all else fails, am going to go back to the 6800XT...

Interesting that you did not have flicker with a 6800XT card.

One thing I did go back to a earlier driver dated 8/27/2007 6.14.11.6230 that still has flicker but is usable.

None of the other corrections that were forthcoming from this group helped.

Regards

Don

Went back to a Nov. 2007 (?) driver and the flicker is non-existent. Can get the actual version number tonight and re-post.

I have been running a straight PS2 mouse driver on my Q08H&B since I had the flicker problem. Tonight I went to MS downloads and got IntelliPoint ver

Went back to a Nov. 2007 (?) driver and the flicker is non-existent. Can get the actual version number tonight and re-post.

Thanks I am looking forward to that version number.

Don

Went back to a Nov. 2007 (?) driver and the flicker is non-existent. Can get the actual version number tonight and re-post.

Never heard of Quicken customer support. As I recall you could report bugs but it came with the caveat that they may not be addressed or may appear in a future edition. I just upgrade to 2008 because my 2005 version of premiere would not accept my web connect files. What a bunch of bullshit. The flickering is real and is terrible.

Today I got release 7. Are the contents/fixes posted some where? Fred J.

I had a Chat session with Support in regards to this issue at

Here is the transcript from my chat session.

Rajesh Kumar:Welcome to Quicken chat support. My name is Rajesh Kumar. Please give me a moment while I review the info you provided. You: i see the flickering when i move the mouse in the Accounts panel. Rajesh Kumar: Hi, Fred! You: also after i minimize a report the entire screen flickers You: not just once, a least 3 times. Rajesh Kumar: As per my screen flickers when you work in Quicken, correct? Rajesh Kumar: I am sorry for the delay. You: yes - i notice it very often Rajesh Kumar: Okay. Rajesh Kumar: Please create a new account with administrative rights .. and restart your system and login through that ..

You: i am running with administrative rights Rajesh Kumar: Which version of Quicken do you have? You: premier 2008 Rajesh Kumar: Okay. Rajesh Kumar: Please open Quicken. Rajesh Kumar: Now go to help>>> about Quicken. You: ok i am running release 7 Rajesh Kumar: good! Rajesh Kumar: Now let us follow these steps. You: ok Rajesh Kumar: This issue is caused by a conflict between Quicken and other processes running on the computer. The most common cause is a video driver conflict. In most cases, reducing the hardware acceleration settings resolves this issue .

Rajesh Kumar: In an empty area of the Windows Desktop, right-click and select Properties. You: ok Rajesh Kumar: Select the Settings tab, and then click Advanced. You: ok Rajesh Kumar: Select the Troubleshoottab. Rajesh Kumar: In the Hardware acceleration section, move the slider one notch to the left, and then click OK. You: ok Rajesh Kumar: Click OK to close the Display Properties window. Rajesh Kumar: Now open Quicken and check if you face same steps again? I am sure it must be much better now.

You: trying it Rajesh Kumar: Okay. You: i stop and restarted quicken. You: there still is a lot of flickering. should i try to reduce the hardware acceleration another notch? Rajesh Kumar: Yes please try it as well. You: well, that really doesnt seem to help - pushed it all the way to the right. i think interferes with the NVidia panel but i can continue to try it. Rajesh Kumar: Oh. You: ok thank you for your time, perhaps a future release will address the problem. Rajesh Kumar: Can we follow some other steps? You: yes You: i can try some other steps Rajesh Kumar: Close your Quicken. Right click on Desktop>> Select Properties You: ok Rajesh Kumar: Please click on Setting and then select Advance Tab. Rajesh Kumar: Please click on Troubleshoot and then select the Hardware acceleration as None.

You: restarting quicken Rajesh Kumar: Please click on Apply and then click OK. Rajesh Kumar: Please open your Quicken and check the Account list and please check the screen flickering it will be much better. You: well it still flickers when i run the mouse in the Accounts pane. Rajesh Kumar: Oh. You: thanks for you help. perhaps a future release will addess the problem. Rajesh Kumar: Fred, this is a work around to resolve the issue regarding Screen flickering in the Account list. If the issue persists, repeat these steps and move the Hardware Acceleration slider another notch to the left until the issue is resolved.

Rajesh Kumar: Or if possible for you please try to go through this web link at your end. Rajesh Kumar: Title: What if the screen flickers or jumps when using Quicken? URL:

Rajesh Kumar: Please use the hung up button to end this chat session without closing your browser window.

Hi, Fred.

I didn't try to follow the entire sequence - since I don't have the flickering problem. (As it says in my Sig, I'm running Quicken 2008 Deluxe (now R7) in Vista Ultimate x64. This is on an EPoX MF570sli motherboard (nVidia chipset), AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ CPU, and an ATI Radeon X1600 Pro

But I'm wondering whether there's a typo in this exchange, or a miscommunication:

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Did you try the slider all the way to the LEFT, Fred?

RC

Well, here's one:

After reading through the responses in this thread, and, seeing as I've been suffering with the flickering issues, I went out and found the latest drivers ATI for the Radeon 9600 graphics card in this box. There had been an update in March. Followed the instructions from ATI on how to remove the old and install the new.

Results: No more flickering.

Considering the angst on this thread, you could knock me over with a feather.

Box is running Windows XP3, 1 GHz Pentium III, 512 MB of RAM, and a ATI

Ken Becker

You are correct, I meant to say I pushed it all the way to the left - eliminating Hardware Acceleration. I image at that point I am getting little benefit of having a "good" AGP card!

I meant to add their suggest did not help. Perhaps I need > Hi, Fred.

You are correct, I meant to say I pushed it all the way to the left - eliminating Hardware Acceleration. I image at that point I am getting little benefit of having a "good" AGP card!

I meant to add their suggest did not help. Perhaps I need one of those $100 PCs to run Quicken. Ha Ha. Fred J.

I'm also using an MS wireless mouse, but refuse to use Intellipoint. Every time I install and use it, upon shutdown of the computer, I get all these Dr. Watson error pop-ups, forcing me to manually acknowledge them before the system will shut down.

Anyhoo, the driver version I reverted to on the 8400GS is:

I came across a free exchange program from Microsoft for the mouse I had which used up the batteries quite fast. They sent me a replacement one, "Wireless Optical Mouse 2.0" free of charge which included a CD with the latest version of Intellipoint 6.xxx?? This did two things to me, one the flicker and the other was the vertical slider bar would run very slow when viewing the check register etc. It would scroll about 1 line in 2 seconds. I stopped the process in task manager and that cured the problem. Ver 5.2 is still working ok for me, have not had any visits from Dr. Watson.!

I'm also using an MS wireless mouse, but refuse to use Intellipoint. Every time I install and use it, upon shutdown of the computer, I get all these Dr. Watson error pop-ups, forcing me to manually acknowledge them before the system will shut down.

Anyhoo, the driver version I reverted to on the 8400GS is:

I use Quicken 2008 because I am cheap AND two of my computers are still running W2k, that shows exactly how cheap I am. 2008 is the last version which runs on W2k. I got this flickering monitor with Quicken problem, on just one W2k computer, and looked all over the net for a resolution. I finally fixed it by replacing the nvidia driver 169.21 with a version 163.75, the problem completely went away! 169.21 was supposedly the last nvidia card driver which supported W2k.

Hope this helps some lost soul.