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WindowBlinds 5 BETA released

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WindowBlinds 5 BETA released

Bring Glass to Windows XP

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Stardock has released the first BETA of WindowBlinds 5.  WindowBlinds is a program that can completely alter the look and feel of the Windows GUI.  It does so by applying visual styles (skins) to your title bars, push buttons, Start bar, borders, etc.

The most anticipated new feature of WindowBlinds 5 is its ability to deliver glass effects to Windows XP user.  Technically speaking, WindowBlinds can do full alpha blended user interfaces now, that means that skins can have a variable level of transparency.  Numerous new features have been added to allow skinners to do reflective effects, shadows, smooth edges and more to their WindowBlinds skins.

WindowBlinds 5 also eliminates any dedicated processes to it.  When running WindowBlinds 5, no additional processes are needed anymore, it runs as part of the system.  WindowBlinds 5 BETA currently requires Windows XP (32-bit edition).  A 64-bit edition will be available with beta 2.  It should run on any reasonably modern video card. 

WindowBlinds 5 is currently only available on Object Desktop.  To get Object Desktop visit: www.objectdesktop.com.

Preview Guide

Beta 1 Readme

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Reply #126 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Andy02369: A lot of the more advanced FPS games released in the past year would take advantage of pixel shaders which your card does not support.  They may run in a less graphically advanced mode though depending on the game.  I have a feeling DOOM3 for example would just not run at all as its OpenGL and the early ATI OpenGL drivers were not good.

If you are interested in running WB5 per pixel frames, I would be on the lookout for a dirt cheap 9500 or higher card.  They are 2-3 years old now.

Reply #127 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Well, I'll download that game and see how it runs. I should be upgrading in like 2 months, but I'm going starting from scratch since the computer I have now won't be able to handle the motherboard or anything I want to upgrade to.

Note: My computer now is like a piece of crap, it doesn't even have an AGP slot.
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Reply #128 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just downloaded the game and it runs at like 2 frames per second. Completely unbearable. Well, at least some of totalgaming.net games that I've downloaded run pretty well. My computer's not too much out of date, it can't run some of the new games, but it does other things pretty well.