outlook 2013 screen refresh issue - still assessing

Discussion in 'Windows Virtual Machine' started by Duncan Whitcombe, Oct 25, 2012.

  1. Duncan Whitcombe

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    Hi,

    I have a [non-retina] MBPro 15" i7 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD. I have latest version of Parallels 8. I have Windows 8 x64 installed in a VM with 4 CPUs and 4 GB RAM & 512 MB Video RAM (DirectX v9). I have just installed Office 2013.

    In Outlook, I have the reading pane enabled and on the right of the display. sometimes when browsing the messages, the text in the message is not formatted properly - sometimes not appearing until it is scrolled and sometimes woking to different margin sizes.

    As this is new I am still assessing whether it is an Office 2013 thing, a parallels thing (Coherence / full screen / windowed), a video setting thing, or a "I have an external monitor" thing.

    Just thought I would flag it straight away to see if there has been anything similar experienced.

    testing DirectX 10 compatibility and view - coherence, full screen, windowed.

    cheers,
     
  2. Duncan Whitcombe

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    I have changed the Video options to DirectX10 (experimental) and enable Full resolution for Retina display (even though I don't have one :)

    I left the Video RAM at 512 MB.

    So Far it is looking better even in Coherence.
     
  3. Ambrogio

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    I'm seeing the same thing. I have DirectX 10, 1024 Video RAM, 3072 RAM, Win8 fully patched, and Office 2013.
     

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