Mannlich Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 This thing is full of bugs. I am amazed they hyped this up as much as they did. The title bars are full of bugs. The program almost never draws them correctly. Once they go inactive, they seem to freeze in the inactive state, and never return. Also there is a huge difference in the title bar, the side panes, and the bottom caption of the window. Maybe it is just the skin, but it seems like it is full of bugs. Changing themes causes it to lock up most of the time which requires a hard boot. I am not impressed. Edit: just read some previous posts, seems as though it is a problem with geforce cards. I have 2 7800GTX and there are loads of problems. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623185 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaker Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 If you have an older GForce card you may want to hold off until the WB team gets the driver bug fixed. No dragging windows with this beta and an older card. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshuggah Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 glad i have an ati card.....but too bad i dont have an OD subscription :/ Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 This thing is full of bugs. I am amazed they hyped this up as much as they did. The title bars are full of bugs. The program almost never draws them correctly. Once they go inactive, they seem to freeze in the inactive state, and never return. Also there is a huge difference in the title bar, the side panes, and the bottom caption of the window. Maybe it is just the skin, but it seems like it is full of bugs. Changing themes causes it to lock up most of the time which requires a hard boot. I am not impressed.Edit: just read some previous posts, seems as though it is a problem with geforce cards. I have 2 7800GTX and there are loads of problems. 586623185[/snapback] Ouch, glad you shared your opinion of it, your card falls into the problems they were talking about.. lets hope its fixed in the final. Lets also hope their subscribers drive wasnt supposed to be backboned by this release :no: Stardock is a good company, lets hope they can put their heads together and come up with something. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623211 Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hiroshi- Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 If you have an older GForce card you may want to hold off until the WB team gets the driver bug fixed. No dragging windows with this beta and an older card. 586623218[/snapback] Thank GOD I have a decent card... :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623225 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted October 4, 2005 Veteran Share Posted October 4, 2005 Man, Windowsblinds and Messenger:Mate for AIM don't get along and I have to add M:M to the ignore list which makes it very ugly. This sucks, because WB5 is amazing. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623241 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannlich Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 It appears that wb5 does not function correctly on almost any nvidia card. I can't believe this was not mentioned prior to release. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
srizo Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Trying it out now. It has 3 new themes that look pretty nice. WB no longer loads in the system tray and it seems pretty buggy at this point. Of course it's only a Beta so we probably should expect that. At this point sometimes you can drag window sometimes you can't. It has great potential though. 586623100[/snapback] ALPHA! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623286 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaker Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Too buggy for me at this point. I wasn't expecting to have to go out a buy a new video card to run WB5. Back to 4 for now. Too bad!!! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623290 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakor Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 We've been working hard to try and find a workaround for the nvidia problem tonight, as it wasn't showing up in all cards we tested with. But, thanks in part to the feedback here and on IRC (when someone wasn't demanding a free copy in private messages), it appears other more recent cards are sometimes impacted as well. It's being worked on. The build's been available a whole 90 minutes at this point. Do something else for the evening and we'll see where things stand tomorrow. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenreaper Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Too buggy for me at this point. I wasn't expecting to have to go out a buy a new video card to run WB5. Back to 4 for now. Too bad!!! 586623290[/snapback] Stardock developers may have found a workaround for the bug. We are putting it through testing right now. Stay tuned! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623367 Share on other sites More sharing options...
d3nuo Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 there seems to be a weird ghosting problem on the taskbar.. when you close a given program, it's ghost remains in the taskbar.. suckz i have an nvidia 6600gt.. the titlebars definitely aren't right.. oh well i'll look forward to further fixes :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623368 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakor Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 I should also mention that this build is 32-bit only. We'll have an x64 beta available eventually, but one thing at a time. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623357 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 glad that they're working fast ... show's dedication ... also could a mod change the topic to Windowblinds Beta 5 Released ??? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623458 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannlich Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Stardock developers may have found a workaround for the bug. We are putting it through testing right now. Stay tuned! 586623367[/snapback] That is great news. Hopefully it will be released this evening. I am very anxious to get this working. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
icecaveman Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 You get bugs in a BETA? What's the world coming to? At least they didn't go EA on US and claim it was final Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tweaker Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Stardock developers may have found a workaround for the bug. We are putting it through testing right now. Stay tuned! 586623367[/snapback] Great News!!! We're waiting! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623462 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo11883 Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Man, I want to try this... :p Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623481 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenreaper Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 WindowBlinds 4.90a now up. Updated drawing code for affected NVIDIA cards, updated Arrow skin with glowier buttons. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623517 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_I am Reptar Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 I wish i was subscribed... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623519 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ev0| Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 Well that was quick. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623529 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 that was amazingly fast! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623533 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakor Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 There is a 4.90a build up now with a refresh to work around the nvidia problem and an updated substyle for the Arrow skin. Please make sure you reboot after updating to let Windows replace the locked files. There may also be an issue with RunDLL32.exe if you don't have SP2 or later, we're looking into it, but it's not something that'll be sorted tonight. WB 4.90a beta ------------- -Added a workaround for problems reported with NVIDIA cards. We were able to reproduce a new test case by toggling dual-head mode where the NVIDIA drivers that had previously been working started failing due to issues with the alpha channel during GDI operations. -Refreshed Arrow skin/substyles. -There are some reports of a problem with Winzip extraction with the main Winzip interface, we'll be looking into those. The context menu options may be happy still. (thank you ByronT) -The systray icon not being visible is a "feature" of this build. It'll be coming back in later releases in a different way. Please make sure your dll is updated after updating, a reboot should do it. Again, you must reboot after the initial beta install to enable skinning. 10/04/05 23:20 500,818 wblind.dll Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mannlich Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 great, everything works perfectly now. It is awesome. Thanks for the hard work. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenreaper Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 To top that, Nakor is working on getting a new SkinStudio up for those of you not content with just looking at those beautiful skins. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/377607-windowblinds-5-beta-coming/page/7/#findComment-586623611 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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