WindowFX 6.0 graphics slow down

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Hi - I have WindowFX 6.0 installed on my Win7x64 PC. I have a powerful GPU (Nvidia GTX 770) and powerful CPU (Core i7 3770)

While WinFX6 runs OK at first after rebooting, However, I am seeing the WinFX6 effects start to get slow and choppy a day or two after my system was last booted. I never saw this problem with WindowFX 5 on the same PC. It doesn't look like there is a memory leak occurring.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

AzJazz

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Do you have 6.0 or 6.01?

As 6.01 resolved a problem with a GPU leak.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi, Neil - I just checked, and my WindowFX Version is 6.02

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

I think that one of the WindowFX6 settings was causing my issues (not sure which one, yet). I trimmed back on the various effects to see if the problem went away, and it did.

However, I did a "sledge-hammer" approach at first, and turned off a ton of stuff. I'm turning features back on a little more controlled now, but haven't isolated the thing that messed it up.

I'll post again when/if I can find it.

AzJazz

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

hey, same issue here, latest version from yesterday, especially in VMWARE it stalls before acting. ALSO, I tried to exclude VMWARE.EXE and it never works. Seems exclusions might be broken...

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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I am still having this problem. Has anybody found a solution?

 

AzJazz

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

I as well am having this issue. The animations are choppy and the wobble effect when moving the window around is choppy as well. My video card is a GTX 1060 6GB and my processor is an i7-6700HQ, therefore, I know there is no way it can be my specs. I love this software and the animations would be amazing if I could get them to be smooth. Any suggestions would be great...

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting C5VetteGuy, reply 6

I as well am having this issue. The animations are choppy and the wobble effect when moving the window around is choppy as well. My video card is a GTX 1060 6GB and my processor is an i7-6700HQ, therefore, I know there is no way it can be my specs. I love this software and the animations would be amazing if I could get them to be smooth. Any suggestions would be great...

Typically this would mean your resolution is extremely high or your graphics card is intentionally downclocking itself when on the desktop to save power.  Are you able to adjust the graphics card idle speed?  Games etc would usually trigger this to be faster, but animations are so short it doesn't always pickup on this.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

My resolution is 3200x1800 so that may be the issue... I'm not sure how to raise the idle speed on my GPU but I will research it to see if I can... The only problem with raising the GPU idle would probably cause a big battery loss since I am on a laptop. Thanks for the help!