Slow Screen Updates - MacPro, Nvidia 8800, and 30" Cinema HD

I've noticed some truly odd behavior from my rockin' box. The cursor update is really sluggish as I draw over an image. The lasso, paintbrush... well every tool chugs along at about 10-15 fps as I edit an image. It feels incredibly laggy (I'm using CS3).
I've also noticed that Quicktime doesn't play any movie smoothly. Even though Quicktime Player Pro reports a movie is playing back at 30 fps, the screen clearly isn't keeping up (it's maybe displaying 15-20 fps).
Has anyone else run into this?

Did you add the 8800 card sometime after you bought your Mac Pro, or was this something that's been going on from the start? There are some problems reported with the card using Apple's Motion.

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Is it really neccassary to update driver even if I have no problems using Photoshop?
Do I have to uninstall the CS4 software before updating the NVIDIA driver and reinstall CS4 afterwards or is there a way around it?
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I have never had to reinstall any program for a video driver.
Now, check out the instructions for your particular nVidia driver, and the exact steps can differ. Just did my Quadro FX-4500 and it was just an install over the older driver. However, looking at another nVidia card's driver, and there were 3-4 settings in the nVidia console, that had to be reset BEFORE installing that driver. Did not affect me, but would have been a different operation for the next guy, with a different nVidia card. nVidia makes it easy with the necessary instructions - follow those to the letter, or issues can arise and the entire driver can get hosed. Things could be a simple as download, and execute, to having to do several things before you execute.
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My brand new MacPro (2x 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM, 1x GeForce 8800GT) crashes continuously during Boot camp (v2.0) start up after showing lines of artifacts at the top of screen. Some other times the screen from grey becomes pink with inverted colors.
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ScreenUpdating=False fails to prevent screen updating, and causes bizarre behaviour

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' AAA.xls is open in the task bar.
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' I see workbook ScreenUpdatingTest.xls on the screen with no flickering.
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' The message that BBB.xls has been opened appears in the status bar.
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' >>>NO<<< message that BBB.xls has been opened appears in the status bar.
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' The message that CCC.xls has been opened appears in the status bar.
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' I see workbook ScreenUpdatingTest.xls on the screen with no flickering.
' AAA.xls, BBB.xls and CCC.xls are >>>NOT<<< open in the task bar.
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' AAA.xls, BBB.xls and CCC.xls are open in the task bar.
' The message that we have switched back to ScreenUpdatingTest.xls appears in the status bar.
'Excel 2013:
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' If Msgbox "Hi" is commented out, the focus is with CCC.xls.
' If Msgbox "Hi" is uncommented, the focus is with ScreenUpdatingTest.xls.
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End Sub
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With Excel 2013, this is utterly trashed, with flickering, unpredictable behaviour (who knows what will get the focus?) and inefficiency (things are so much slower when the screen updates). With Office 2003 going out of support, vast numbers of people
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we are desperate for a solution. A solution would either have to restore the former Excel 2003 functionality of ScreenUpdating, or it would have to introduce a new method which really does turn screen updating on or off without exception.
Please, HELP!
-Peter

Thanks for the input, Jim.
I don't think the Single Document Interface is contributing to the problem. Since installing Office 2013, Excel 2003 has also inherited a Single Document Interface - yet while it behaves like a charm, Excel 2013 behaves ineptly.
Whatever the reasons for the problem, the fact is that this functionality is now broken - one might even say catastrophically broken - and some sort of resolution is essential. It would be madness to allow something like this to have such a severe
impact on business operations.
My call for help is still out there, as loud as ever! BTW, I can send my example files, zipped, to anyone who might like to look at them.
Peter
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Hello, flobelix!
Thanks for your instant reply.. and I'm sorry that I could not immediately reply as I lost the forum URL
Anyways, I solved the problem!!
I knew that the problem was caused by the driver update, so I decided to connect an external LCD monitor, and the desktop screen showed right away on it. I was curious, so I disconnected that external LCD monitor to see if the laptop's screen went back to normal, and it DID!!! Anyhow, I immediately reconnected the LCD monitor to completely delete the corrupted driver (v314.22) and reinstalled the same driver again...
And by the way, the suggested way of approaching the safe mode when the PC is not normally functioning did not work, whatsoever! I sat for at least two consecutive hours trying it.. in vein!
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