Screen Rendering issue with 2.0.2?

[hkhwong]

I'm having some strange rendering or screen refresh issues with Fusion 2.0.2. It has been spotty in previous releases, but now it's more common.

Specs:

Macbook (late 2007)

2.2GHz C2D

4GB RAM

VM

Windows XP SP3

Allocated 1.25GB RAM

1 CPU

3D acceleration disabled

30GB allocated (split VMDK files, grow as needed).

This issue can be really seen when scrolling around Office 2007. In Excel 2007, I can scroll around a spreadsheet, and then when I scroll back, the text inside the cells are empty (causing panic), but if I scroll around again, it shows up. It's intermittent, but happens often enough to really cause problems. I especially see it when I'm in fullscreen mode.

[hkhwong]

I think I can narrow this down. This problem seems to happen when I am using the Freeze Panes feature. Areas that aren't supposed to be frozen are frozen. Very strange.

[admin]

So far I've not been able to reproduce this. Is there something in particular about the Excel file that seems to contribute - size, interaction with external data elements, etc?

Thanks --

Kevin

[hkhwong]

It might be the size or the use of colors -- basically what would happen is that I would scroll using the scroll bars, but the content within the window wouldn't change or would be blank. If I highlighted a cell, though, the content would appear. This is very weird. I was hoping 2.0.3/4 would fix this, but it hasn't so far. Not sure if there's a strange interaction between how Excel redraws the screen and the VMware video driver.

I'm in fullscreen mode most of the time, but i think it happens in window mode as well.