Recovery time from Screensaver

[Bill]

I have set all the power management options, that I can find,  to "always on".  I am using a stardard windows XP Home screensaver.  The displays are an LG Flatron with a DVI connection and an old Mag crt. The video card is a Sapphire 9600XT.

Recovery from the screensaver with XP seems to take 3 or 4 times longer than  it did with my old Win98 system.  When I move the mouse, the screensaver seems to freeze, then disappear (screens are blank) and then the desktop appears .   Far from the almost instant response I'm used to.

I have really no comparative except the old system.  Is this delay normal, or I am missing something?

Bill

[scuzzy]

This is an odd problem that I too have experienced, and I accidentally found the "weird" cure. I have to get to my ATI based computer to give you the step-by-step, which is currently not available. As soon as I can get access to it, I'll get back to you on the fix.

[Bill]

Thanks, Scuzzy.  Not an urgent problem.

Bill

[Chandler]

Sorry to jump in on this.  :D  I've noticed that some screensavers (particularly the OpenGL ones) run in a lower resolution from the desktop (e.g. the screensaver runs in 800x600 16bit while the desktop may be set to 1280x1024 32bit).  The time required to change the desktop mode can be up to 4 seconds.

[Bill]

So, is the short answer not to run a screen saver at all?
This a Windows XP, standard screensaver called "FlowerBox"
Bill

[scuzzy]

I'm in a big hurry - keep in mind that I'm using ATI's Catalyst driver with Windows XP.

Right click on desktop:
>>Properties>>Settings>>Advanced>>Options

Once there, play around with the ATI taskbar options. If necessasry, click on Enable ATI taskbar to uncheck "Show ATI icon on taskbar". Then uncheck "Enable ATI taskbar icon..."

Strange, and I don't understand the connection - but this is the fix for this irritating problem.

[scuzzy]

BTW: This fix worked for both of my systems that are using an ATI Radeon based card & Catalyst drivers.

[Bill]

Thanks Scuzzy, that was an improvement.

The other change I made was to switch to a "blank" screensaver, one of the standard options. Could be the suggestion Chandler made was also true. Between the 2 changes, system reponse is now what I think is normal.

Thanks guys.
Bill