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May 27, 2004 7:29:58 PM from WinCustomize ForumsWinCustomize Forums
FileFront has conducted a battery of tests to determine the effects that WindowBlinds has on the performance of PC games. The results are pretty interesting and you can see them for yourselves at the FileFront site.

Definitely worth checking out.
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Reply #1 May 27, 2004 9:03:13 PM
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The myth debunked
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Reply #2 May 27, 2004 9:12:12 PM
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WOW... I would love to know what in the standard Windows themes that pulling down the system.. It seems Windows Blinds has yet another leg on all the so called competition.

I have been using it for a full two years now and never have seen any games degrade from it (little did I know that it may have been making them better)

Thanks Stardock
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Reply #3 May 27, 2004 11:02:31 PM
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I knew this all the time, didn't need a test to tell me WB performs great and doesn't hurt my gaming.
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Reply #4 May 28, 2004 12:04:34 AM
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To me that was a totally obvious conclusion.

Too bad most people are going to scream the author is a 'fanboy' now.
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Reply #5 May 28, 2004 1:01:20 AM
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I never get issues playing games with WB

(Changing side i have problems playing first person games when using ObjectDock, if the cursor hit the top of screen (in my case) the ObjectDock minimize the game, then i need to quit it to play).
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Reply #6 May 28, 2004 2:46:01 AM
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yap!

WB never gave me a problem but I regulary quit Object Dock before taking my AK47
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Reply #7 May 28, 2004 6:25:15 AM
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Not very conclusive tests, whats spec was the test machines, gfx cards used, operating systems?.

Bah, i can tell you now that running wb on a intel celeron 400 on a win98 machine with 128mb ram and 16mb voodo3 gfx,playing games like unreal tournament at even just 800x600 performance is degraded
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Reply #8 May 28, 2004 7:43:21 AM
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Hey Poo-boy (Scatoligist)

Methinks running wordpad would degrade that system...

"I'm a clincally depressed fecalphiliac on Prozac."
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Reply #9 May 28, 2004 10:00:14 AM
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Personal experience: WB is fast. It's stable. It's beautiful. I've been using it since pre-1.0 days and loved it more and more with every release. WB is what many other programs are not: Very stable, very usable, very cool.

Congrats, Stardock, and especially congrats on a well deserved positive review.
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Reply #10 May 28, 2004 10:50:47 AM
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Scatoligist,

With those specs breathing too close to your monitor is going to degrade performance.
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Reply #11 May 28, 2004 10:45:23 PM
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Scatoligist, yes your system would really be run down. For starters, I'm surprised Unreal Tournament would run fine on that at all, and secondly, you said "Windows 98". The new versions of Windowblinds that use little to no system resources are for XP only.
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Reply #12 May 29, 2004 5:31:55 AM
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Hitchhiker for compatibility read this page..
https://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/wb4/

As for unreal tournament, the miminum desired specs

CPUintel pentium 200mhz or AMD 200mhz or better
Memory32mb ram (64mb recommended)video systemPci local bus video card(8mb 3d accelerator recommended)

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