Resolving USB to DVI / VGA adapter conflict with Visual Studio 2010

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Having troubles running Visual Studio 2010 on a monitor connected through a USB to VGA or DVI adapter? Then your solution will most likely be to turn off hardware graphics acceleration.

To turn off hardware graphics acceleration in Visual Studio 2010, go to Tools | Options | Environment | General and uncheck “Use hardware graphics acceleration if available”.

VS2010 - Options

Before I did this, my screen looked garbled like this:

Visual Studio 2010 - Hardware Acceleration Troubles

And here was the culprit, a little USB to DVI adapter that obviously can’t do hardware acceleration:

USB to DVI Adapter

After I made the above changes, all was well and Visual Studio ran as smooth as butter. =)

  • Kyle

    Hurray! I’ve been living with this problem for a couple of years and your post finally fixed it!

  • erdem

    thanks for your crucial help, I have been facing with that problem on VS 2010 and Ive resolved it that thanks to you.