Scrolling in Visual Studio causes text to become unreadable

Question

Since the past week I\'m having a very bothering issue that blocks me from using Visual Studio.

For instance, here\'s what I normally see:

Answer 1

I have the same problem with VS 2012. Scrolling up and down, does not refresh sections (rectangles) on my text editor view. (unfortunately I've not enough reputation to post a screenshot.)

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I managed to workaround it in VS 2012, by floating the editor. i.e. Right Click on a file tab / Float All.

Otherwise I tried everything posted here, without any luck. Hopefully someone out there knows how to undo this magic.

Answer 2

I had the same problem and it was due to the DameWare Development Mirror Driver.

I disabled it and the problem went away.

Answer 3

I'm having the same issue in VS 2015 pro. Setting the editor windows to float fixes the problem which definitely looks like a bug in visual studio. I'm on a Citrix virtual Desktop and the problem appears to be that a "column" of the editor (on the left side) is not redrawing properly after scrolling right, left, or down. For some reason scrolling up is fine.

Answer 4

I had this same problem and it turns out it wasn't a graphics driver issue. The company I work for uses software that acts like a virtual monitor to remotely log into our PCs to install software and fix problems. It turns out that this extra virtual monitor was the problem. Disabling it fixed the scrolling in Visual Studio.

Answer 5

I think you need to start looking beyond Visual Studio for issues. The next thing I'd look at is your graphics driver. Make sure you have the latest available version.

Answer 6

For me, using VS 2013 Pro, the cause was having the JAWS Screen Reader installed, which, ominously, included a video interceptor. Once uninstalled VS started working normally again.