Published on February 9, 2012 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

We are excited to announce the release of the first beta for WindowFX 5.  WindowFX 5 lets Windows users add animated effects and advanced window controls to your Windows desktop! 

Features include:

  • Over 30 animated effects for Windows actions
  • Over 20 Start menu animations
  • Customized window sizing options on drag
  • Advanced window controls for visibility, sizing, and process information
  • and more!

Current Object Desktop subscribers can download WindowFX 5 beta 1 now from download.stardock.com.  Customers of WindowFX 4 can check their upgrade eligibility here to determine whether they get a free or discounted upgrade.

For more information visit the WindowFX website.

https://www.stardock.com/products/windowfx/

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on Feb 11, 2012

same here...

BSOD - Unexpected Error in the video manager.....

happened everytime I tried to move a Window after making configuration changes. Set all animations to random, turn off most of the right click items but not all, left resize windows disabled, turned off shake, changed the friction slider, tried to move the config window and BOOM! After reboot disabled the movement and it still happened and with other windows like Dopus and Control Panel.

My video setup is somewhat unusual....
3 monitors 1,2,3 left to right
HD4870 runs monitors 1 & 2 with 2 being the main (taskbar) monitor
HD5450 runs monitor 3

Had to uninstall the software for now....when I first installed it prior to making changes it was fine with moving windows even including inertia.

I can post the memory dump on dropbox if anyone thinks it will help.

Windows 7 x64 up to date - ATI Driver date 11/9/2011, 8.920.0 installed thru Windows Update

on Feb 11, 2012

It is possible your multiple graphics card setup is the issue there as I doubt we have tested with multiple graphics cards.  We may have to indicate such a setup for animations is unsupported as multiple cards can complicate things considerably.

on Feb 11, 2012

Where can we report bugs? I've spotted a few...

on Feb 11, 2012

TwoWolves
Where can we report bugs? I've spotted a few...

 

https://forums.wincustomize.com/417566

on Feb 12, 2012

 

It is possible your multiple graphics card setup is the issue there as I doubt we have tested with multiple graphics cards.  We may have to indicate such a setup for animations is unsupported as multiple cards can complicate things considerably.

 

Understood.   Fortunately, all of your other awesome Stardock widgets and gadgets work great with multiple monitors/display cards these days, so I am grateful for that.  8)

on Feb 12, 2012

It is possible your multiple graphics card setup is the issue there as I doubt we have tested with multiple graphics cards.  We may have to indicate such a setup for animations is unsupported as multiple cards can complicate things considerably.

Understood.  Looks like Lantec and I have very similar setups, although I am running nVidia cards and he is running ATI cards.  So it looks like it is not an OEM driver issue, per se.

Fortunately, all of your other awesome Stardock widgets and gadgets work great with multiple monitors/display cards these days, so I am grateful for that.  8)

on Feb 12, 2012

The momentum effect is awesome, my fav, Also love the new start menu effects

on Feb 12, 2012

Would one be better served to stay with WFX 4 on Vista?

on Feb 12, 2012

All the features of WFX4 are available through WFX5.

and WFX5 is going to get fixes, WFX4 is not.

Good enough reasons?

on Feb 12, 2012

Yes, just asking. Not complaining.

on Feb 13, 2012

RedneckDude
Yes, just asking. Not complaining.
Didn't think you were complaining.  

on Feb 13, 2012

on Feb 14, 2012

I was able to test this beta on another system with an nVidia 295 in use all three monitors mode.  It worked FLAWLESSLY until I installed Windowblinds and Deskscapes.  BSOD.

Testing further, I found that the animations only seem to crash if I am using BOTH Windowsblinds and Deskscapes together (which I always do).

Unloading Windowblinds while running Deskscapes...no WindowFX crash.

Running Windowblinds while Deskscapes is disabled...no WindowFX crash.

My windowblinds enables transparency in everything using the Glass for Vista skin and transparent/glass explorer windows etc.

So it's some conflict between the three programs at the same time.  

I hope this helps.

 

 

 

on Feb 14, 2012

Excalpius
I was able to test this beta on another system with an nVidia 295 in use all three monitors mode.  It worked FLAWLESSLY until I installed Windowblinds and Deskscapes.  BSOD.

Testing further, I found that the animations only seem to crash if I am using BOTH Windowsblinds and Deskscapes together (which I always do).

Unloading Windowblinds while running Deskscapes...no WindowFX crash.

Running Windowblinds while Deskscapes is disabled...no WindowFX crash.

My windowblinds enables transparency in everything using the Glass for Vista skin and transparent/glass explorer windows etc.

So it's some conflict between the three programs at the same time.  

I hope this helps.

 

 

 

A nvidia 295 is a multiple GPU card and as such is likely to end up unsupported when both GPUs are being used (as is the case in three head mode)

on Feb 14, 2012

 

A nvidia 295 is a multiple GPU card and as such is likely to end up unsupported when both GPUs are being used (as is the case in three head mode)

 

Yes, I am aware of that, but I wanted to see if mismatched GPUs made a difference (on my other machine) vs. matching GPUs on this test machine, which would indicate a driver issue.

I realize this is unlikely to be fixed, but I thought I'd at least narrow down the parameters should whatever is causing this turn out to be related to some other bug reports.

Or if find yourself bored one day - yeah I know, fat chance.  8)

I do have to say that the performance of this version is far superior in every way to what I experienced under v4 and I like the new interface a lot.  It's really a great update.

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