Fair point about memory, but there are some games that get interrupted by notification of an incoming EMail, for instance. In my case I am working with a laptop so installing additional memory is neither cheap nor easy!
Depends what you use your computer for. For example, I play games from time to time and have one screen that I always use for that purpose. Dexpot is set so that when I enter that desktop all extraneous apps running in the systray that I don't need at that time (mail checkers, memory optimisers, download managers etc) are shut down to recover memory for the game and these are then reloaded automatically when I revert to one of the other desktops. The potential, as they say, is
Stardock's offering isn't bad, but it doesn't have anything like the flexibility of Dexpot (suh as the ability to run specific apps on entry and/or exit to/from particular desktops for instance)
Currently using version 2.01.014 of CursorFX Plus and have just started usinng virtual desktops (currently Dexpot 1.4, but have also tried several others). The problem I am facing is that as soon as I switch from the primary desktop, the screen cursor disappears completely. The only way to get it back is to navigate (with the keyboard) to the mouse applet in Control panel and select a Windows scheme, at which point the cursor springs back into existence. This has forced to me
Rex Guess I'll just have to live without WindowFX for the time being. I suspect that suitable drivers for my laptop are unlikely to emerge as the company that produced the machine has been taken over and probably won't be actively developing for older machines. Thanks for your help. Steve
I have tried the new drivers, with mixed results. The new drivers do allow me to run games with WindowsFX also loaded, but the WFX transitions are too jerky to be usable. More importantly are problems restoring screen resolution after exiting a game. The laptop has a 17 inch widescreen panel built-in that I run at maximum resolution of 1680x1050 32bit. When exiting a game resolution is reset to only 1400x1050. Looking at display properties the 1400x1050 is the maxiumu available under th
I have always been under the impression that video drivers, at least as far as laptop machines are concerned, are very specific to the particular machine and are, therefore, normally produced by the computer manufacturer rather than the video card producer. Is this understanding incorrect? I have tried so-called mobility driver updates before with no success, but I will give it another try - I can always roll back to the current versions I guess. Thanks for the link.
OK. Spec as follows .. OS: WIndows XP Professional SP2 fully patched Machine: AJP Laptop with 3.4GHz Pentium 4 Processor and 1GB RAM. ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 graphics card with 256 MB on-board RAM. Soundblaster-compatible soundcard.
Using a laptop fitted with an ATI mobility Radeon 9700 - the drivers are the originals, but I don't think that updates have ever been released. Drivers have never given a problem before - even on the most demanding of visual apps.
I have just started using WindowFX and have noticed that none of the games I use that require Directx will run any more. DxDiag indicates that they are several problems with the video graphics functions. If I unload WindowFX before running, say, Tomb Raider Anniversary, everything is fine. Reload WindowFX and it stops again. Anyone else have this problem? :SNIFF!: :SNIFF!:
Windows XP Professional SP2 with all subsequent fixes/patches Trojan reported as: Trojan.Win32.Agent.es (aka Vernet by McAfee)
Looks like it already is! I have managed to connect my Newsreader to it. Looks like Neil is right - there aren't many recent posts on it. I was hoping that it would be kept synchronised with the forums so it wouldn't matter which way users wanted the system to work.
ON the web I am accessing the forums on the STARDOCK site (not Wincustomize) and I am attempting to use the same username/password when connecting to the Stardock news server via the external client. I am not using Wincustomize credentials at all on this.
I am having difficulties in gaining access to the Forums through an external Newsreader client. I can get in through the web to forums.stardock.com but, when I try with my newsreader program to connect to news.stardock.com I get an error claiming that the connection has failed as login required. My client is passing the same credentials as are successfully used on the web connection, but they don't appear to be recognised. Can anyone suggest where I am going wrong? Thanks
I'm having exactly the same problem on my machine which has an ATI Mobility Radeon 9700 video card with 256MN RAM and the latest drivers. None of the games I run will operate if WindowsFX is either running, or has been running, since the machine was rebooted (ie unloading the program is NOT enough). Adding application to the exclusion list does not work either. Games that are failing include: Tomb Raider Legend, Nexus The Jupiter Incident, Star Trek Bridge Commander, Halo, World Champio