corey1138

Join Date 10/2003

Per pixel borders & ATI x600

I have a ATI x600 and it id not showing per pixel borders on any skin. Is this still attrubited to the ATI driver?

Curently I am running at 3200x1200 on dual 21" monitors.

Dell GX280 P4 3GHz, 1g Ram, ATI 6.3 drivers

Below is my Sys Reoprt from WB. Any ideas?

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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 RADEON X600 Series

Wblind.dll     2006/03/21 13:33:46
Wbsrv.dll     2006/02/05 12:58:22
Wbconfig.exe     2006/03/19 14:33:44
Wbload.exe     2006/03/13 17:54:12
Wbhelp.dll     2004/09/18 16:37:00
Wbui.dll     2005/12/06 21:29:06
Tray.dll     2005/11/02 13:28:26

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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I am guessing your high resolution is stopping the ATI card from reporting HW acceleration. Probably because it lacks the ram to handle it.

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an ATI x600 with 256meg?

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Curently I am running at 3200x1200 on dual 21" monitors.

That is what Neil is referring to..... 3200x1200 which is very high resolution. Why not try reducing it down and see if you still have the problem?

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Lantec

Join Date 07/2003

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Neil, I'm using the same card on my laptop with the 1920x1200 laptop screen and a 21" 1600x1200 dell monitor with no problems. The cards got 128mb dedicated ram and 128 "shared". So it must be something unique to his setup.

Here's mine:
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.

(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600
(Plug and Play Monitor) 2 is attached to ATI MOBILITY RADEON X600

Wblind.dll 2006/03/21 14:33:46
Wbsrv.dll 2006/02/05 13:58:22
Wbconfig.exe 2006/03/19 15:33:44
Wbload.exe 2006/03/13 18:54:12
Wbhelp.dll 2004/09/18 17:37:00
Wbui.dll 2005/12/06 22:29:06
Tray.dll 2005/11/02 14:28:26

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Lantec

Join Date 07/2003

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Hit the submit button too fast...

Mr Corey, try updating your drivers and avoid running Hydra and Cadalyst. Just install the drivers only and see if that doesn't help. Alternately check your refresh rate. Mine runs at 60 hz due to the laptop LCD.

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It is actually a Dell Optiplex Desktop GX280. I am using 2 CRT monitors with a shared desk (not extended) across them both (3200x1200). This is so the task bar goes all the way across both monitors. The "Extended" mode of dual displays limits the task bar to only one monitor. The Catalyst driver was the only one i could find that supports this. Refresh is at 75 on both CRT monitors and the ATI drivers are 6.3. The card is a PCIe 16x ATI x600. On the ATI site even the "driver only" is still listed as a Catalyst driver, so im not sure where to get just the driver.

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Ok, figured it out. Looks like when you extend the desktop onto the second monitor it works fine. When you try and span the desktop (task par goes all the way across both monitors) it doesn’t work. Something about how windows or the ATI driver buffers one continuous desktop as opposed to extending it onto another monitor.

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