WindowBlinds and Games

http://articles.filefront.com/76
from WinCustomize 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 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The myth debunked
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Siege of Centauri
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To me that was a totally obvious conclusion.

Too bad most people are going to scream the author is a 'fanboy' now.
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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).
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hey Poo-boy (Scatoligist)

Methinks running wordpad would degrade that system...

"I'm a clincally depressed fecalphiliac on Prozac."
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Scatoligist,

With those specs breathing too close to your monitor is going to degrade performance.
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #12 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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 k6 200mhz or better
Memory32mb ram (64mb recommended)video systemPci local bus video card(8mb 3d accelerator recommended)