Start Bar and Window Border Transparency
Thursday, November 10, 2005 by bigdog5142 | Discussion: WindowBlinds
I'm using the most current beta out for WB5 and am having some issues with some skins. I am including the troubleshooting report from WB5 so you know what's up. Most of it works, but transparencies don't work on the start bar (the transparency is using the internal background as the transparency, not my wallpaper) and on the window borders. I'm using Arrow from wincustomize. Any help you can give on updated drivers or the like would help me out (that is if you know of any). Thanks so much in advance!
Josh Yates
Youth Pastor
412 Youth Ministry
WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+
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.
(Sony Notebook LCD (1280x800)) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 345M
'RADEON IGP 345M' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAY2', but is not attached to the desktop.
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
Josh Yates
Youth Pastor
412 Youth Ministry
WindowBlinds 5 BETA Troubleshooting Report:
STATUS : WB+ SRV+ HLP+ UI+
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.
(Sony Notebook LCD (1280x800)) 1 is attached to RADEON IGP 345M
'RADEON IGP 345M' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAY2', but is not attached to the desktop.
'NetMeeting driver' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV1', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
'RDPDD Chained DD' also exists as device '\\.\DISPLAYV2', but is not attached to the desktop and is a mirror driver.
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Reply #1 Thursday, November 10, 2005 1:17 PM
I would think that the information displayed in the "Troubleshooting" section would be obvious enough.
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 could either try and find updated drivers for your video card or buy a new one that supports accleration of per pixel apha. Perhaps someone from Stardock can inform you if your present card is even capable of doing this with updated drivers.