Office and Lync 2013 Public Preview (Beta 2) display corruption - white or blank content

Some video drivers seem to be rendering the content incorrectly.

Thankfully, there is an easy workaround for this, for most cases.

The telltale signs look something like this:

If your display driver version has been blacklisted (forced software rendering) by IE 9, Firefox, or Chrome, you are more likely to have this occur.

In most cases, using updated videos drivers will solve the problem.

If all else fails, run these two commands from an elevated command prompt:

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Graphics" /v ForceClientSoftwareRendering /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f

reg.exe add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Graphics" /v DisableHardwareAcceleration /d 1 /t REG_DWORD /f