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Published on December 30, 2005 By eieio In WindowBlinds
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on Jan 25, 2006

Mjollnir32: It seems the slowdown in the 2D tests is also caused by having per pixel under the test window.

Does your desktop feel slow in use, or is it just these test results that makes you think its slow?

on Jan 25, 2006

It definitely feels slow to use.  Before I reinstalled XP and ATI drivers (had to anyway), it was getting to point that I would shutdown ObjectDock and WB in order to get things done.  Benchmarks are meaningless to me if you don't see the difference.


I will try turning off the perpixel or find some older skins to use in the meantime.  Thanks for the heads-up.

on Feb 03, 2006
ATI Radeon 9600 SE, 128 MB
Catalyst version: 06.1
Driver version: 8.205.0.0
Driver Date: 04-Jan-06

No problems
on Feb 03, 2006
ATI Radeon 9800 128MB - works fine nomatter what driver I have used. Just updated a couple of days ago.
nVidia Geforce Go 6400 - works fine as well. Pretty recent drivers.
on Feb 08, 2006
I have the dreaded GeForce 6200, latest drivers, tried overclocking still very slow. Went and got a GeForce6600, same problems. Finally uninstalled WB 5.0 and performance got much better (still not as fast as should be).
Used PC pitstop, got like 20-30mp/s with WB and object dock, 104.6 without.
on Feb 27, 2006

Nvidia GeForce FX Go5200 - Problems with transparency on start menu. The First time the start menu is opened it keeps whatever is in the transparent area. So, if the background changes or another windows is behind the start menu when it is opened a second time, then instead of showing transparent area properly it shows the original contents from the first time opened.


Otherwise seems to be ok. Including transparency on explorer windows and taskbar.


Toshiba Protege M200 - Tablet. Latest drivers published by Toshiba - so not as new as what is available on Nvidia - except GeForce FX Go5200 drivers are not available directly from nvidia - without hacking away that is.

on Feb 27, 2006
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have 2 monitors.

(ViewSonic 17GS-2) 1 is attached to RADEON 9600 SERIES
(Dell P780) 2 is attached to RADEON 9600 SERIES - Secondary

runnin ATI CATALYST
Version1.2.2084.76

Hope that helps you/us all out!!

peas
cityboy
on Feb 27, 2006
WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY*

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

This is because :

Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha. WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor. Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware. Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature. Onboard graphics tend not to.

You have one monitor in total.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to ALL-IN-WONDER 9200 SERIES

Running latest ATI Catalyst 6.2 Drivers. The monitor in question is a Xerox XL-795D. I usually don't have any trouble with the skins, but when trying to see Solaire-Dark, I was getting the XP-style buttons at the top.

Since I just updated my drivers yesterday, do I need to do a fresh re-install of WP5? I just updated it through SDC, and am not sure what to do next ... if anything. Your assistance would be great! (Sorry for asking in this thread.)

-- Mike
on Feb 27, 2006
Using the latest Catalyst drivers 6.2 with ATI Radeon 9550 256mb on a Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro2 Mobo. WB5 latest version works well in all departments but sometimes my system seems to run more slowly when using per pixel skins...redrawing, etc. CPU usage (P4 2.8E) tends to fluctuate more when using per pixel skins, as does RAM (DDR400 1.5 gig)....especially when using Firefox for some reason.
possibly more information than requested but I figured it all tied in with WB5 usage.

WindowBlinds 5.0 System Information Report:

STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+

WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.

WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC

Your machine supports per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.

You have one monitor in total.

(SyncMaster 910V/910M/913V/915V) 1 is attached to RADEON 9550

Wblind.dll 2006/02/10 19:33:34
Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/05 12:58:22
Wbconfig.exe 2005/12/05 18:42:52
Wbload.exe 2006/01/19 16:19:18
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 13:28:26
on Feb 28, 2006
opps
on Feb 28, 2006
Sapphire 9200 Atlantis, ATI 128 mb .... no problems with
ATI Catalyst 4.1, ATI Catalyst 6 don't work
on Feb 28, 2006
Radeon x700series (Pro in my case)

latest Cat drivers = no problems.
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