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Turbotax 2005 Screen Quality

Am I alone in observing that Turbotax 2005 has serious screen quality problems?

I am running Win98 SE2. I have the display set at 1024x768 pixels, high color (16 bit).

I find that the navigation buttons seem to come and go. Sometimes I can see both, sometimes one, sometimes none. The folder tabs at the top of the page are borderline unreadable.

I've used this program since the early 1980's, when I had an Apple 2+.

This is the most unreadable display I've encountered in 20+ years.

Have other users found a workaround?

I've offered to send some screendumps to Intuit, but they are hard to reach.

baumgrenze

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baumgrenze
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"baumgrenze" wrote in news:1143012629.679027.83500 @g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

I have a problem with a scientific program that needs to run in 256 colors (indeed it's ancient). On some monitors when I switch to Excel (normal colors), that becomes unreadable, on other monitors, the switching is fine.

I suggest you try higher color resolution. Even my ancient laptop (Compaq) running some kind of W98 (used basically as a backup drive for SWMBO's current laptop) can run 24bit color.

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Han

Thanks for the suggestion.

There is only one reference on the packaging, in the fine print on the side under 'Minimum System Requirements.' It reads: "Monitor: Win SVGA color monitors (high color 16 bit.)

A quick search tells me that my graphics adaptor, NVIDIA TNT2 M64

4xAGP, uses XF86˘SVGA driver.

I'll try higher color resolution, but my current settings should work as they appear to meet the stated minimum system requirements.

Anyone else with another insight?

Thanks,

Baumgrenze

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baumgrenze

I have the same problem with TT2005 and 98se. I set my display adapter to a refresh rate of 60hz from optimal and this seems to have worked. Other setting: 1024x768, true color. Good luck.

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fwc01

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