WindowFX 6.04 impacts gaming performance

Hello,

I have forwarded your report to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations.

Please keep an eye on this thread for any updates.

We really do appreciate your feedback, thanks.

AzDude
Stardock Community Assistant

Hello,

Sorry to hear you are having trouble.

There is no know reason why (or what) would be impacted on any particular game and this is the first of any such report I can recall.

What you can experiment is excluding any game / app for certain functions, example:

If these do not help, you may wan to set everything to their default settings to see what you may have edited / changed that is impacting performance - something we would like to know if found.

At the very least, I can look into scripting turning off WinFX so you could batch file turning it of when you run the game.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Thanks!

Excluding Overwatch.exe doesn't seem to resolve the issue.  I tested it on the training map and it's far less noticeable, but still there.  Framerates were pretty much the same with WindowFX on or off, but when moving and tracking with it off it was much smoother and easier to target focus.  Maybe it's FreeSync related?  This decline in severity is likely because yesterday first map I played was in a competitive match on King's Row.

I tested lastest DOOM (max settings) and didn't get notice the issue.  Maybe due to motion blur?

Both were in fullscreen exclusive mode.  Maybe it's something about Overwatch's game engine?  Maybe it's something about FreeSync or AMD driver?

In any case, a means of disabling WindowFX on exclusive/borderless fullscreen detection, or game detection/blacklist would be great!

Sans that, right clicking system tray icon for menu item to tick Enable (or alt+click or something) and tray icon indicating disabled mode would be cool, too.

I love the features of WindowFX and while having it handle everything would be great, a little user intervention isn't much to ask for when it comes to games that might not play nice with it for whatever reason.

slaithe,

Ok, I wrote this batch file to help with turning ON / OFF WinFX easily:

https://cdn.stardock.us/support/uploads/WinFXStartStop.zip

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Cool, but how about a right-click menu with item to toggle enable WindowFX on its tray icon?

I have logged the request internally.

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Sean Drohan
Stardock Customer Service Manager

Thanks!