WindowFX 2 Sneak Preview!

Ae all these cool features available on WinXP or do they also work on Win2K?

I see 1.90e (Alpha) came out tonight. How far off to the full release?

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?

*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?

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!

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)

WOW!
Win2k loves WinFX 2 (and it shadows the Start Menu and Favorites Menus too!!) Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

Hmm.. I'll download it tonight.. I MUST have a look

I need better driver support from nvidia now!!!

The New Catalyst Drivers from ATI work very well.

(Radeon 8500)

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!

If I recall before the light effects wasn't accelerated. they may be here.

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?

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.

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!

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.

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

paxx: What graphics cards do your machines have?

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.

You're not using the included XP Matrox drivers are you? They're EVIL. Make sure you get the ones from Matrox's site.

Yeah, I think I'm using XP's drivers.
I'll follow your advice and dl it from Matrox.

Done. Don't see any difference for now, but better be safe.

were can i get the skin shown?

A-on3: it's Universe from Pixtudio.
You can buy the whole suite for only 8$ on their web site: http://www.pixtudio.com/

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