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I once saw a coworker get destroyed by a rendering glitch in SSMS - he had GPU acceleration enabled and didn't notice his text selection highlight glitching out
by gfody 5y ago
I once saw a coworker get destroyed by a rendering glitch in SSMS - he had GPU acceleration enabled and didn't notice his text selection highlight glitching out, smashed F5 on a query that looked like it had a where clause selected but if you fiddled with the scrollbar suddenly it wasn't actually selected. I noticed his query blocking everything and killed it, walked over to his office like WTF and he reran it right in front of me reproducing the glitch exactly - he couldn't believe what he'd done. disabling GPU acceleration in SSMS fixed it.
- hotsauceror 5y agoI’ve had something similar happen with lag on the right-click menus. It’s very easy to actually be clicking on the wrong option, like “Delete database,” because there was lag in updating the cursor position. Happens in scary places like MMC too. Hope you don’t accidentally drop a cluster volume because windows wasn’t done drawing a pretty arrow! Powershell FTW.
- rspeele 5y agoThe GPU accelerated text rendering in SSMS 18 is incredibly bad. The other thing it likes to do sometimes is continue showing the text from tab A when you switch to tab B, until you scroll (not possible in short snippets) or edit it (and only the edited part updates!)
- breakingcups 5y agoI'm still so confused about why a glorified text editor would need GPU accelerated text rendering. It's never rendered slow for me before. Seems like not trusting the OS to do things right and re-inventing the wheel yourself for little gain.