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This has been an issue for a while. I'm using Outlook as part of Office 365 on my desktop, Dell XPS 8950. While writing an email, all of sudden, text disappears or gets distorted (e.g., some part of the text is shown and the other part is not). After scrolling up and down the mouse wheel, it usually returns to normal.
I've searched for a solution and found almost all suggested solutions say that I need to disable "overtype mode" as below. However, both options were already unchecked but the issue does not go away.
Text disappears as I type (microsoft.com)
TYPED TEXT DISAPPEARING BEFORE MY EYES ALL THE TIME WHILE TYPING EMAIL - Microsoft Community
If you know other causes or solutions, please let me know. This is really annoying and refuses to go away. If standalone Outlook (e.g., Office 2021) does not have this issue, please let me know. Thanks.
Using Classic Outlook on Windows for personal email, calendar, and contact management
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I will defintly try this. Will evaluate and come back once I tested it out. Thanks you very much👍☺️
Hello,
I've found a "work-around" on reddit that fixed this issue on my nvidia and AMD desktop
On the nvidia panel, Go to program settings, under Manage 3D settings, select Microsoft Word/Microsoft Outlook and other 365 app you're using with this problem
Search the "Low latency Mode" option, and put it to "On"
Restart your application, and it should be fixed
Its the same things with AMD, the option is called "Anti-Lag"
Here the link for the detailled proccess for AMD
Well, hallelujah! I think that worked. Thank you for sharing it. Hopefully it stays fixed. It has been an infuriating experience and made Office borderline unusable since I installed my AMD 6900 XT eight months ago.
I went ahead and added explorer.exe and dwm.exe and chrome.exe as "games" and enabled anti-lag mode for them as well.
So far it seems good. I think this may be an idiotic feature of Windows 10/11 21H2 and newer trying to enforce their stupid "save the planet" nonsense. I think the already-too-aggressive power management AMD employs (ULPS) with their GPUs makes it worse, but some people have reported the same issue with NVIDIA cards.
So, just for good measure, I did the same on the other desktop running a 4090 and added all of the Office apps to NVIDIA Control Panel, disabled power management for each, enabled low-latency and set "Prefer Maximum Performance" to help ensure nothing stupid starts happening there.
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This fix seems to work on my PC.
I still experienced few glitches but they are infinitely less frequent and sever than before so it seems to be the solution!
Thanks a lot!
S.