WindowFX 5 - Beta 2 Released

Add Animated effects and advanced window controls to your Windows desktop

Published on March 15, 2012 By Island Dog In WinCustomize News

We have released Beta 2 for the upcoming WindowFX 5 today. WindowFX 5 lets Windows users add animated effects and advanced window controls to your Windows desktop!

New in this update:

Added new UI for animations to handle presets
Added new blend options to darken inactive windows feature for colors, desktop, and custom image
Added modifier for holding Ctrl when dragging to screen edge to stop using edge window resizing
Updated wobbly windows to complete animation rather than stopping instantly
Updated performance for multiple monitor setups
Updated high DPI support
Updated UI on Windows XP to hide animations tab
Possibly fix for configurations with multiple discrete graphics cards
Fix for darken inactive windows displaying a bad animation
Fix for third party animation script crashing

Current Object Desktop subscribers can download WindowFX 5 beta 2 now from download.stardock.com.

For more information visit the WindowFX website.

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

Comments (Page 3)

Neil Banfield

on Mar 20, 2012

Excalpius

reply 30

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!

The cpu issue was unrelated to GPUs, though it was linked to having multiple monitors I think.

Lantec

on Mar 20, 2012

Looks like it's fixed on my end as well. Thanks Neil

Excalpius

on Mar 20, 2012

The cpu issue was unrelated to GPUs, though it was linked to having multiple monitors I think.

Ahhh, then it definitely could be the same thing happening within the Deskscapes engine, because muliple monitors/multi-GPU cause the same consequences there.

Amazingly good catch, Stardock elite.

Daiwa

on Mar 21, 2012

Very frequently, but not 100% of the time, when I save a document in Word 2010 the window will dim/trans & stay that way until clicked. Happens with Excel, too.

Burntcrispy

on Mar 25, 2012

I am having problems displaying the shutdown menu in the windows 7 start menu, only the shadow is visible. If i disable Windows FX It displays fine, I didn't have the problem in beta 1.

Windows FX 5 beta 2 (4.97 According to SDC)
WindowsBlinds 7.31
Windows 7 Pro x64
ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series

Skarny

on May 20, 2012

Neil: I have a tra and ttt using the particle engines. I have set 4, and defined 4 ParticleEngine1,2,4 sections in the tra and 4 EMITT opcodes in the ttt, one each for 0,1,2 and 3.

Engines 2 and 3 don't seem to render.

RedneckDude

on May 20, 2012

What language was that? Must be genius talk.....us rednecks don't get that.

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