Mnemonicman

Reply to XGL in Poweruser Stardock Forums

I've found that XGL has been quite useful. The transparancy is great when you have to view two overlapping windows and only have one monitor. My only gripe with it is the darkening of idle windows by default and accidentally spinning around the cube with the mouse wheel.

Reply to x64 OS Debate in OS Wars Stardock Forums

Exactly. 64bit does help greatly in media encoding tasks. One example using 32bit VirtualDub on my Athlon64 3000+ at 2.5GHz got around 30fps. Doesn't sound to great for a A64 but oh well. Using the 64bit build of VirtualDub and a 64bit build of xvid I got 50-60fps. That's not bad IMO.