Slides disappearing right after page load in IE8

you can fix it via css, it is kinda "dirty", but it works

#views_slideshow_cycle_teaser_section_slideshow-block (parent div of div.rows) {
width: (img width) !important;
}
#views_slideshow_cycle_main_home_slider-block {
overflow: hidden;
height: (img height);
}
.views-slideshow-cycle-main-frame-row {
position: static !important;
}

Confirming that the fix in #1 worked for me, thanks!

Moving this to Views Slideshow's queue.

Oops, lost the most important part there...

I've had this problem a few times: the solution is to remove img { max-width: 100%; } from your CSS (or overwrite it with "auto") in your theme.

if anyone is still experiencing this, please re-open with details about module versions and preferably a link.