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Bill,
I was having the same problem, running TS2K on a P2/400 with 256 megs RAM
and an 8-meg video card in Win98.
When I migrated to Win2000, I upped the RAM to 384 megs, and the flicker
problem in TS, along with various other OS-related problems, disappeared.
Kimball Morgan
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Wood" <wrwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <fritz@xxxxxxxx>; "Omega-List" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 7:21 AM
Subject: Chart Flicker/Jumping/Update Every Tick
> Speaking of wierd Ts2k problems I continue to have horrendous chart
flicker
> with an indicator set to update every tick. For example a simple daily
> stock chart with a volume indicator plotted as a histogram in a subgraph
> below the price bars. During mkt hours the chart jumps like a kangaroo if
> it is a hot stock. It goes away if you turn off update every tick. Gary
> Fritz mentioned that the chart redraws if it is rescaling. This is
> definitely the right area but the perfect solution still eludes me. My
> volume indicator causes the chart to redraw every tick even though it is
not
> rescaling. Vol starts near zero at the open and grows during the day.
The
> scale is only forced to expand if the current day's volume exceeds all
prior
> days. The jumping occurs right from the open. The jumping does go away
if
> I set the scaling for the vol indicator to Entire Data Series instead of
> Screen. This is OK but I like screen scaling much better since if there
is
> a big vol spike back a ways the scale becomes too large and the normal
size
> bars get very small and difficult to differentiate. This is definitely a
TS
> bug of some sort since it has plagued me for many years. Disabling
Hardware
> Acceleration has no effect whatsoever. Somebody else mentioned increasing
> the weight of the bars. I made them super fat with no effect on jumping.
> Anybody figures this out will be most appreciated.
>
> Bill Wood
>
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