Fences 6.0 Release Feedback

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Fences 6.0 Release Feedback

With the Fences 6.0 release today, we are creating this thread so that users can report any observed issues.

Obtaining the product

Object Desktop members can get the release from within Object Desktop Manager

Individual purchases (as well as Object Desktop Members) can also be obtained from your account page: https://store.stardock.com/myaccount/products

For guest check-out purchase (no account), from this link: http://www.stardock.com/support/productkeyretrieval

Reporting an issue

Please include the following for anything found:

Exact Windows version \ build (winver.exe)
Detailed steps to recreate the issue seen
Screenshots and videos are very helpful. Videos can be uploaded to a cloud drive service (GoogleDrive, DropBox, OneDrive, YouTube), with a shared link included in your post. Images can be copied and pasted directly into a post.
If there are specific apps that the app does not work (well) with, please note what apps and their exact versions. If any app is not common, a link to a trial version would be appreciated.

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Quoting timurborn,

reply 50

The CPU never gets to 100% neither inside nor outside the sandbox. Instead it runs 1 thread/core (out of 32) up to 100% plus some extra load.

100/32 = 3.125% = 1 core fully loaded (at 100% for that one core)

Keep in mind that this load is shared between two virtual cores as Windows keeps shifting the thread back and forth.

*Inside* Sandbox, moving mouse on/off Fence area:

Curiously the WUDFHost is involved inside the Sandbox?!

*Outside* Sandbox, moving mouse over (supposedly) empty desktop:

Look like your issue is unique to your system. Please start a new thread on your issue and we will try to help you from that new thread.

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Completely different PC, different CPU, chipset, GPU, software and Windows 10 instead of 11.

Moving mouse on/off Fences:

Moving mouse over empty desktop:

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@timurborn, the CPU - does it spike upon mouseover and then go back down? Or does it remain elevated after you've moused away from the Fence group?

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For on/off movement on Fences CPU load spikes shortly the very moment the mouse moves on to a Fence of off a Fence. This could either be from empty desktop to Fence, or from Fence to Fence.

In order to produce the pseudo-constant high load I demonstrate in the screenshot you have to keep moving the mouse-pointer on/off the Fences, aka move the mouse in circles.

For movement over the empty desktop the load happens for as long as you move the mouse and then drops back down. On the other PC (via Teamviewer) this load is considerably lower than the Fences on/off load, same for the VM. But on my own non VM PC it's just as high as the Fences on/off load, even more so when a higher mouse-polling rate is used (125 vs. 1000 Hz).

Looks to me like Fences is bombarding Explorer exe with some kind of initialization routine (WinMainCRTStartup)!?

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Why isn't Fences 6 offered as a standalone instead of subscription?

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Quoting maarkr,

reply 55

Why isn't Fences 6 offered as a standalone instead of subscription?

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. But there is a permanent license offer for Fences. Refer to my screenshot below.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

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