Bonsoir

Beta 2 fonctionne trés bien pour  moi, à part explorer exe juste aprés l'installation de la béta 2 , j'ai redémaré internet explorer , et tout est rentré dans l'ordre

Yes.

I access a remote app by way of Citrix Receiver.  Initial login is via a web page (using PaleMoon, FWIW).  Enter credentials & another web page opens (in same tab) requiring one additional set of credentials and then (again in the same tab) the remote app 'home page' opens.  Clicking on a link on that page launches a Citrix Receiver window (remote desktop) which previously popped to the front (seized focus) but now opens in the background with the browser window retaining focus.  When I log off the Citrix Receiver window & it closes, no window has focus - all open windows remain darkened/transparent.

Windows losing focus for no apparent reason is more random/spontaneous & I can't 'reproduce' that, though on occasion it may be another window grabbing focus but not coming to the front in z-order.

If I see other repeating patterns, I'll post again.

Just now -

Had PaleMoon, Word 2010 and two remote desktop (Citrix) windows open.  Closed Word and no window had/took focus.

Edit:  If you'd like this discussion moved over to the beta feedback thread, no problem.  Should've posted there, anyway.  Thx.

I'm having issues with menus in Dopus v10. I can see the menu shadow but the menu itself is completely transparent, text included. Disabling WFX5 fixes the problem,

W7 x64

Dopus.  Grrrrrr.

Noticed something else. On my Desktop with the 2 video cards. It works now but Rainmeter shows Explorer banging my Quad core for about 220% usage constantly until I disable it. Note that the invisible Dopus menus are on both my Desktop and Laptop so it's not restricted to the Dual card system.

ASUS F8Va Laptop
2.53 Ghz Intel Core Duo T9400
4 Gb DDR2 800
ATI Radeon HD 3650 – 1GB
320 GB SATA HDD
400 GB WD My Passport Ext HDD
640 GB Toshiba Ext HDD
Logitech G9x Laser
Windows 7 x64 Pro



Cooler Master HAF 932
Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Rev. 1.6
Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83Ghz E0 3.40Ghz OC'ed
w/ Cooler Master V-8
XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB DDR5
HIS Radeon HD 5450 1GB DDR3
(8GB) 4x2GB G. Skill DDR2 1066
Corsair 750W PSU Single Rail
(3) WD 640GB Caviar Black HDD
(1) Hitachi 1 Terabyte HDD
Samsung 22X DVD Burner SATA
Saitek Eclipse II
Logitech G9 Laser
Logitech M570 Trackball
Logitech HD Pro C-910 WebcCam
(3) Dell 2001 FP Flat Panels (4800x1200)
Logitech Z-5500 Digital Sounds System
Windows 7 x64 Home Premium

I would imagine there would be higher cpu usage during animations on multiple graphics cards as data sometimes has to be sent between cards, but without any animations going on the cpu usage should be basically 0.

I've noticed on my quad core system, that explorer runs at 25% cpu useage with this version over the prior one that ran at 3% useage.

I've had the same problem. You do not have to disabling WFX5 - in my case switching off animatad menu in Dopus fixes th problem.

br Darek

Agreed, this means that one of your cores is being hit at 100% by Explorer (which is not multithreaded in this case).  And the system is just reporting it spread over four CPUs (e.g. 100%/4=25%) by default.

My 8 core shows the same situation as yours in that it pegs one of the CPUs just by running...at 12.5%.  I am indeed running Deskscapes but even when I pause it, nothing changes with explorer, e.g. 100% used.

It appears as though something in the program is constantly driving explorer.exe at 100% no matter what processes are running or even whether any windows are being dragged, etc.  As soon as WindowFX is turned on, boom, 100% CPU in one core.  When turned off, explorer crashes and then goes back to normal.

Note that I saw identical behavior with Deskscapes when I chose to use the "same animation on 3 monitors" option.   To get around that, all I had to do was duplicate the same Deskscape 2 more times in the deskscapes directory (e.g. PhotoDreamA, PhotoDream B, and PhotodreamC) and then run each of these as if they were unique animations, one per monitor, per the normal Deskscapes interface.  CPU usage dropped to normal levels, with negligible explorer.exe use and everything is now handled by the DSHost and DWM processes (as they should be).

This may mean that the issue lies at a core OS level (i.e. hardware accelleration is disabled and forcing explorer.exe to emulate in software, perhaps?) and that the only way to work around it is to run more than one WindowFX process (e.g. one per display card), the way Deskscapes does with individual animations.

Intriguing?

I'll try that. Thanks

edit: added a couple SShots to show the Explorer issue on dual card systems

A new WindowFX Beta 2 Update 1 build is available from the store downloads page or Stardock Central that should address the cpu spiking and staying high.

Kris

Kris, it doesn't show in SDC.

It will.  Had a 'back end' issue with the last update, probably same with this one.  Kris'll fix it.

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle, THIS WORKS!!!  

I'll try it all day, but so far, no explorer crashes or maxed CPU.

Kris, you might want to pass a note on whatever had to be changed to whoever is the Deskscapes Codemaster on duty these days.   As I mentioned in my post before, this behavior was identical to a longstanding problem there, and if this fixxed it here, it might fix it there.  Just a thought.

Bravo Team Stardock!