Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4758
Opening MS Powerpoint presentations in Presentation crashes
Last modified: 2003-09-08 16:54:41 UTC
I have opened three different ppt's in Presentation and all three have caused my system to become unstable and crash. This is the first time I have ever "blue-screened" win2K. I am using Win2K Pro on an Intel PIII 600 mhz cpu with 768 Mb ram. I use dual monitors run off of a Matrox Millineum G450 video card. I mention this, because moving the application on to one screen makes the system become unstable. Sometimes, I can get to task manager, and sometimes I just have to use the reset button. Sometimes, I see an "Application Error" box very briefly. Even when I can call up task mgr, the application has already closed itself. The desktop will not refresh itself until the next reboot. Sometimes, the presentation will work correctly for about half of the slides, but you can see errors start to creep in and things start to display incorrectly. I have been an Openoffice.org user for 1 hour now so the problem is probably operator error.
Reassigned to Christian.
I can't reproduce the problem, please attach the Documents to this Issue.
I have been using 1.0.0 without trouble until I have changed my AGP ATI VGA to an older Creative 3D Banshee 16MB VGA. Now my win2k professional just gets hung when drawing the Presentation program window. I have to use the reset button on my box.
please try if you can start the Impress when you switch off the OpenGL driver. To switch off the driver: - start any application (e.g. the writer) - change to 'Tool/Options/OpenOffice.org/View' - deselect the settings in the '3D view'. I hope this helps.
I reported yesterday having similar trouble after I downgrade my AGP graphics card (ATI) to a Creative Banshee 3Dfx (Microsoft signed driver!). I have learned that any OO program I lanuch completely hangs my system while trying to draw the application window. It seems the problem could be connected to the fact of dual headed systems (or, like me, PCI VGA cards ... maybe my register still keeps some info about the previously present AGP VGA card so OO thinks it is still there and tries to use it?). It is NOT Presentation dependent, it happens the same with any other application of OO suite (that was working ok before I switched graphics cards). It is NOT a file format related incident (at least mine).
I can't reproduce the bug. Please attach the documents to this issue. I will test the files with different graphic cards and different office settings.
Mine was fixed by reducing one notch the "hardware acceleration" slider in the screen control panel.
Hi John, The bug from Miguel is fixed. Whats up with your bug. Please attach the document if the bug still occuures.
John don't send a bugdoc. I think his bug is also fixed. I close this bug. If the bug still occures please reopen the issue.
I close this issue.