WindowsBlinds + Graal = Sucks

[Infernix]

JESUS WTF IS WITH THIS GAME AND MY FAVORITE WINDOWS SKINNING UTILITY.

I cant seem to use 1 decent complex transparent skin without graal lagging its ****ing ass off....infact it doesnt even seem like lag it just seem as if everything slows the **** down.

Even 3D games run faster than graal with windows blinds on.

Anyone else around here use Windows Blinds and experience these problems?

[k0rupt_ed]

yeh graals rediculously sensitive to everything

[Draenin]

Making your windows transparent and running most games windowed will do that.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Draenin

Making your windows transparent and running most games windowed will do that.

Making them transparent sucks up enough resources in itself.

[Infernix]

rofl I can play Battle Field 2 and not have a slow down. Its Graal and not windows blinds.

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Infernix

rofl I can play Battle Field 2 and not have a slow down. Its Graal and not windows blinds.

I don't tout being a expert on this stuff, but it may be the way which Graal draws the canvas vs. the way "windows blinds" (such a respectable piece of software ) draws it's transparencies.

[dNeonb]

Originally Posted by Infernix

rofl I can play Battle Field 2 and not have a slow down. Its Graal and not windows blinds.

Don't play it in fullscreen mode, play battlefield in window mode and it will lag like hell. I play quite a few games in window mode and I had the problem with the transparence, too. I just removed the transparence to play in window mode or played fullscreen.

Or switch Graal to full screen mode

[Mafukie]

Window blinds = resource hog. I don't see where people need to make their desktop look fancy or cool when it functions all the same.

[Draenin]

Originally Posted by D-to-the-B-jorn

Don't play it in fullscreen mode, play battlefield in window mode and it will lag like hell.

We should get some Battlefield action going on.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by dNeonb

Don't play it in fullscreen mode, play battlefield in window mode and it will lag like hell. I play quite a few games in window mode and I had the problem with the transparence, too. I just removed the transparence to play in window mode or played fullscreen.

Or switch Graal to full screen mode

I can play another MMORPG in window mode and it doesn't "lag' (low FPS) at all.

[Demisis_P2P]

Hmmmmmm. This is a tricky 1

I wonder what could ever possibly be happening. Hmmmmmmmmmm

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Mafukie

Window blinds = resource hog. I don't see where people need to make their desktop look fancy or cool when it functions all the same.

Aesthetics.

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Chris

Aesthetics.

Then they can use a more aesthetically pleasing operating system. Even Linux desktop environments these days can be taken to the level of hardware acceleration. Windows isn't built for it yet.

[Crono]

Originally Posted by Skyld

Then they can use a more aesthetically pleasing operating system.

...why the **** would a gamer want to switch to mac or linux?

[Skyld]

Originally Posted by Gerami

...why the **** would a gamer want to switch to mac or linux?

I guess it depends if they want a hardware accelerated desktop or not! If a gamer is playing games fullscreen, it makes no difference what their desktops look like anyway.