Screen flickering with PowerPoint 2010 on Citrix XenApp

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:18:22 +0000

Within half an hour of writing the article "Application causes Screen Flickering in Citrix XenApp Session" I got a message that the hotfix in that article also fixes a similar problem in PowerPoint 2010.

Office 2010 uses hardware acceleration for displaying images and when this is enabled (which is the default) you will see constant screen flicker when you try to display a presentation with Images on Citrix XenApp (Server 2003):

Screen Flickering when running WPF Applications on Citrix XenApp

PowerPoint2010 on Remko's Blog

Screen flickering with PowerPoint 2010 on Citrix XenApp