WindowBlinds 5 Not working!

It lies! I support acceleration of per pixel alpha

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WindowBlinds 5 RC1 Troubleshooting Report:


STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+ TRAY+


WindowBlinds is installed correctly on this PC.


WindowBlinds appears to be activated on this PC


Your machine does not support per pixel borders on WindowBlinds skins.


This is because :


Your computer graphics hardware does not support acceleration of per pixel alpha.  WindowBlinds requires this for per pixel alphablended borders as without it performance would be poor.  Please see if you can obtain new drivers for your graphics hardware.  Recent ATI & NVIDIA boards should support this feature.  Onboard graphics tend not to.


You have one monitor in total.


(Dell 1703FP (Digital)) 1 is attached to 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9800


Wblind.dll      2005/11/23 19:49:32
Wbsrv.dll      2005/11/23 15:10:46
Wbconfig.exe      2005/11/23 19:48:32

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
I give up! I have un and reinstalled WB5 15 times. WB4 is
EDIT: Disableing perpixel, applying it, and reenableing it fixes.
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

If WB says it is not supported then thats what the drivers are reporting to WB.

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