Excalpius

Excalpius

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Reply to Issues with explore.exe running at 100% Windows 7. in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

Fascinating development. I did a test where I disabled my third monitor, which was on the second card of a nvidia 295. So now, one card serving two 30" monitors...other card doing nothing. And lo and behold the CPU% went down to 8% and it is tagged as dwm.exe again...like it used to be. I suspect that something about the new Deskscapes multimonitor/scaling code is causing a huge hiccup that exists whether or not those options are turned on in the settings. An

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Reply to Issues with explore.exe running at 100% Windows 7. in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

CarGuy, good notes... Mine is Quad Core Intel, 8gb ram, nvidia 295 (non SLI), W7ultimate64. The only real difference between us is that my machine is Multi-Monitor...and the new code was added for Multi-Monitor configurations. I just checked this on other single monitor systems and both Vista 64 ultimate and Windows 7 64 Ultimate are running at like 3% CPU (so total 12% ish) with PhotoDream or Video, etc. Is anyone else running multiple monitors? Is that th

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Reply to Issues with explore.exe running at 100% Windows 7. in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

I can confirm that for some reason dreams now take 60-70% explorer.exe CPU (I'm using PhotoDream) when they used to take only 30% or so and I believe it used to show up in task manager as using dwm.exe. I'm on Windows 7 64 as well. I noticed this happening when I turned on the multiple GPUs and scaling advanced options. Explorer was hitting 120% CPU (I'm on a quad core so that's 30% of each). So I turned it off to test and it went down to 60%. I don't

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Reply to SLOW in HUGE resolutions - ANY SOLUTION? in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Tristatos,you might want to look at upgrading your OS as well. I have found the Vista and now Windows 7 to handle my ultra large resolutions (3-4x as large as yours) MUCH faster and smoother (since I run about a million aps modifying the desktop, etc.) than ever under XP. I know that is of little comfort to you, but seriously, it's really night and day.

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Reply to DeskScapes in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

You need to let people know what the specifications of your computer are (CPU, Ram, Display card, etc.) and the Operating System you are using. For example, Vista and/or Windows 7 will ALWAYS take 50%+ of your RAM in order to cache frequently used programs, thus speeding up your day to day operating usage. [e digicons]:D[/e]

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Reply to Deskscapes 3 GUI freezes in Stardock Support General WinCustomize Forums

My Deskscapes is running fine, but now the config program won't open under Windows 7 x64 now. It tries to open then crashes out. It opens just fine on my Vista 32 test machine. Only change recently is the upgrade to the release version (and so I see the fix in the multi GPU configuration scaling in portrait mode, for example).

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Reply to Gone back to Rocketdock. in ObjectDock WinCustomize Forums

Do you know how long it's been since Rocketdock had an update? While it's not approaching the 2-3 years since ObjectDock has had any new features, it's starting to get up there too. [e digicons]:([/e]

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Reply to Deskscapes 3 BETA - Release Notes and Issues List in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

CPU - dwm.exe is at 11-12% (via task manager) on a Quad Core 6600 (only 2.4 ghz!) so that's going to be using just under 1/2 of one core to maintain. Video - all options work as expected, nice! dwm.exe is taking 8% on the same setup, so roughly 35% of one core in all video modes. Effects - Any effects used on any dynamic dream sends all three screen backgrounds to black. This is on Windows 7 64. It look

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Reply to Deskscapes 3 BETA - Release Notes and Issues List in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

Hey, I just wanted to bump this thread to say I found the new "Enable support for additional graphics cards (may increase CPU)" in the Deskscapes/Settings/Advanced panel and all of a sudden my third monitor (Geforce 295) started playing the Photo Dream! 8) I have one bug though...don't shoot me! In my case, monitor 3 is rotated 90 degrees (1050x1680), so while the photodream plays orientated correctly, it is scaled too narrow/too tall. The gradients and background im

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Reply to Latest WB7 Beta (build 211) cause Live Messenger to crash in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Well Enable Transparency is selected on in the Personalize/Window Color option, and I get transparency in all parts of WindowBlinds skins when I use them. Is there some way that Aero can be disabled yet WindowBlinds works or somesuch? I'd be happy to try changing/checking something if you have an idea. But you are correct, it's like Aero is flat out off for the window frames if I use that option. Weird, huh? If this helps, I don't think the preview window in

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Reply to Latest WB7 Beta (build 211) cause Live Messenger to crash in WindowBlinds WinCustomize Forums

Note: Current bugs on build 214. Windows 7 x64 - In Settings/Advanced user settings (old and new interface), the "I want to use Aero window frames but keep the rest of the skin" option does not work. It turns the frames opaque and ugly/broken. It does work as expected under Vista 32. Windows 7 x64 - Explorer Background subheading does not appear under the Look & Feel tab on the old-style interface. Functionality is fine now under the New Interface s

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Reply to Check Out the New DeskScapes Effect Feature! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Zubaz, The Vista 32 machine is a dual core Intel Sony laptop with 8400M nvidia onboard graphics (w/101.28 drivers), 3 gb ram, etc. The Windows 7 64 machine is a quad core Intel with 8 gb ram and one Nvidia 295 card (three monitor outs, w/190.62 drivers). Both machines are running the latest Deskscapes beta as well as the latest WindowBlinds 7 beta. The Windows 7 machine is also running the latest Fences beta. I think that's the only useful/

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Reply to Check Out the New DeskScapes Effect Feature! in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

Neilio, that's a negatory, good buddy! [e digicons]:P[/e] In the first iterations of Deskscapes 3, turning on any effect with any dynamic .dream (ovals, photodream, etc.) would break the preview window and not work at all with your real desktop .dream. In the latest iteration, effects work as expected in the preview, but the dynamic dreams still fail to work with the desktop. Currently, they play for second or so and then pause/fail/erase/ot

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