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WindowFX 2 Sneak Preview!

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June 16, 2002 7:38:16 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
A few people in the media who have seen WindowFX 2 in action have commented that this might be Stardock's Killer App of 2002. WindowFX 2 integrates Direct3D into the Windows desktop seamlessly to give users special effects that make what's on MacOS X look easy.

Check out the rough draft of the media guide.
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Reply #1 June 16, 2002 8:46:48 PM
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Ae all these cool features available on WinXP or do they also work on Win2K?
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Reply #2 June 16, 2002 10:52:40 PM
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I see 1.90e (Alpha) came out tonight. How far off to the full release?
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Reply #3 June 17, 2002 12:53:04 AM
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What an improvement! The only letdown is that I'm running a T-Bird 1.4 with a Ti4400, and the close/start and state transition animations are a fps killer. The Performance advice screen tells me that my drivers have issue with these anims (although I have the latest). Are there any updated drivers out yet?
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Reply #4 June 17, 2002 3:39:03 AM
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*drool*

Bytheway, I can recall that the last build of Windowblinds I used (years ago) also had this spotlight thing (be it rather undocumented). Is this the same thing?
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Reply #5 June 17, 2002 3:44:58 AM
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when is it coming out? this is like the best addition to everything else in Object Desktop. With windowFX 2, this program will have no limits (other than making newer versions of programs)

ha ha ha haha!!!!
no one can stop me now!
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Reply #6 June 17, 2002 6:00:47 AM
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craeonics: An early WB had a similar effect, but the WindowFX 2 effect is going to look nicer (thanks to most people having better cpus)
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Reply #7 June 17, 2002 8:22:18 AM
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WOW!
Win2k loves WinFX 2 (and it shadows the Start Menu and Favorites Menus too!!) Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
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Reply #8 June 17, 2002 1:08:35 PM
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Hmm.. I'll download it tonight.. I MUST have a look
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Reply #9 June 17, 2002 1:34:22 PM
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I need better driver support from nvidia now!!!
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Reply #10 June 17, 2002 4:09:53 PM
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The New Catalyst Drivers from ATI work very well.

(Radeon 8500)

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Reply #11 June 17, 2002 10:16:31 PM
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I must ask, what skin is used on those images on the media guide?
As for WindowFX, it persuaded me to buy a new video card so I could experience how truly great it is! Kudos!
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Reply #12 June 17, 2002 11:10:12 PM
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If I recall before the light effects wasn't accelerated. they may be here.
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Reply #13 June 18, 2002 6:45:33 AM
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So, how much slower does it make your computer with a normal video card?
I never used WinFX 1 more than a few hours since I couldn't stand the performance hit. Is this version faster?
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Reply #14 June 18, 2002 7:24:32 AM
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It all depends on your graphics card. If it supports the right apis when it will work fine, but if it has no support then your CPU is used and thats many times slower.

There is a performance advice page in WindowFX 2 which tells you if your card supports the apis or not.
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Reply #15 June 18, 2002 10:42:46 AM
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OK, just installed 1.90 alpha available on ODN on my super computer at work. It's only a few months old and the performance advice tell me "The lack of per pixel alpha blending will decrease the performance of shadows skins and some open/close animations".
Bummer. And this is my good computer! What is it going to tell me at home (3 year old computer)! Piew!
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Reply #16 June 18, 2002 10:50:00 AM
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OK, gave it a try...
I had to disable everything except the shadows and fade effect for open/close. Even the latter is slow a little but I'll keep it for now. State transition is really cool, but totally unusable on my computer.
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Reply #17 June 18, 2002 11:12:10 AM
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Bah, I'm getting emails asking me to send ppl WindowsFX 2.

Anyone got a standard replay other than telling them to **** off
Time to hide my email
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Reply #18 June 18, 2002 11:33:21 AM
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paxx: What graphics cards do your machines have?
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Reply #19 June 18, 2002 12:20:27 PM
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Neil: at work (here) I have a Matrox Marvel G450 on a Pentium 4 1.5 GHz and 512 Megs of RAM running Win XP Pro.

At home I didn't try Win FX yet but I'm scared. Hehehe! I got a 3DFX Voodoo 3 on a Celeron 333 Mhz, 256 Megs of RAM.
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Reply #20 June 18, 2002 12:24:17 PM
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You're not using the included XP Matrox drivers are you? They're EVIL. Make sure you get the ones from Matrox's site.
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Reply #21 June 18, 2002 2:19:34 PM
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Yeah, I think I'm using XP's drivers.
I'll follow your advice and dl it from Matrox.
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Reply #22 June 18, 2002 2:43:03 PM
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Done. Don't see any difference for now, but better be safe.
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Reply #23 June 19, 2002 5:00:58 PM
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were can i get the skin shown?
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Reply #24 June 19, 2002 7:44:23 PM
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A-on3: it's Universe from Pixtudio.
You can buy the whole suite for only 8$ on their web site: http://www.pixtudio.com/
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Reply #25 June 20, 2002 12:08:03 AM
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i'm using 1.90g, and it seems quite fun
the state transitions are unusable though, and for some odd reason, it says that my Geforce 3 has a problem wiht its drivers that will significantly slow down transition effects.... i'm using detonators (28.32). if anyone has the new ones, tell me if it still says the same thing
other than that, this program rocks! almost no other slowdowns at all.. quite fun
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