Both machines Jafo has been using are in trouble....
He should be back to normal in a couple days.
ATI Radeon 9550 Pro 256mb w/ driver version: 6.14.10.6517 (Basic drivers only)
Everything seems to work fine here.
ATi Mobility Radeon X700 64bit-64MB
No major issue. One minor issue: MDI buttons can not be skinned. I think this isn't an issue caused by graphics card or driver.
ATI X800XT-PE with Catalyst 6.1 on a very fresh install of XP SP2 (p4-3.2Ghz, 1GB RAM). WB5 works fine but slows my desktop way down. Happens with all skins that come stock. Tried WB v5.00.01 and b.011. I used Passmark Performance Test 6.0 to come up with differences:
Benchmark no WB WB5----------- -------- -------2D Lines 118.76 7.252D Rects 89.54 54.482D Shapes 7.90 3.462D Fnts/Txt 168.04 71.343DWin Simp 2014.39 9.393DWin Med 350.54 17.92 3DFullScr 32.41 32.41
I don't know what all the number mean precisely, but I can replicate them on demand. In fact, no tweaking I've tried within WB seems to make more than 5% difference.
Mjollnir32: The slow 3dWin results is due to a problem on ATI boards when a windowed D3D app uses antialiasing and there is 1 or more pixels of perpixel on screen. This can be reproduced with a simple DX gadget on screen (on a multi monitor system you can even see the change as you move the window in & out of the screen the test is running on).
We will be reporting this to ATI to see if they can fix it in future drivers.
I can reproduce those 2D slowdowns and I suspect the slowdown is caused by the progress bar updating. I will post here with more information when I get it.