Hi Neil Banfield and all other developers,
Deskcapes is an awesome product and I liked it (even purchased it) right of the bat.
What are Deskcapes resource usage of GPU, CPU and RAM resources when playing a game full screen?
I tested playing a full online game (roughly lasted 45 mins full screen of course) of StarCraft2 in high/ultra high combo setting having Deskcapes "solar flare" running. NO noticeable degradation of frame rate. Then I tried to play a second match/game.. in the first 5 mins that's when I noticed an extreme degradation in frame rate from +100fps to 14fps. I left the game thinking the other guys computer was slowing things down. I did a third test online match/game, same thing 12-14fps right at the very start of the game.
I checked - Win 7 View Performance Details in Event Log
This is what was logged after the tests.
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The Desktop Window Manager is experiencing heavy resource contention.
Scenario : Video memory resources are over-utilized and there is thrashing happening as a result. Reducing number of running programs and open windows may help resolve this condition.
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Is Deskcapes 3 OK to use when you play resource demanding games?? Isn't Deskcapes 3.0 suppose to Not use resources such as RAM, GPU, CPU when a window is full screen??
My setup:
CPU - Intel mobile core i7 Q820
GPU's - ATI Radeon mobility 5870 in crossfire
RAM - 8gb
OS - Win 7
I really like Deskcapes 3. It would be a shame if I will have to unistall it because I Primarily use this laptop for games. I'd really appreciate some help.
-Franc
