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Longhorn Window Animation
Now, i dont know how many of you have messed with longhorn or not...but how would you activate those animations in longhorn? Is there some sort of option to get it working or does it automatically work when you install it? It looks really cool..
Its either a very funky and CPU-intensive animation, or its a side effect of using an LCD projector? :confused:
Probably just another useless 'animated' feature like the ones we're currently experiencing with Windows XP...
It'll be a feature that's already there when you install it, and which you have to turn off to save on RAM and CPU cycles.
It's called DCE or Desktop Composition Engine or something. The animations are crazy because the windows constantly refresh theirselves. They have their own surface. The desktop constantly refreshes itself, too. When the windows are inactive, they become transparent, and when you move them they do that weird swaying back and forth like a flag. When all of this is happening, though, the CPU doesnt really recognize it.
I heard that Longhorn 4015 doesn't come with this animation, but in that picture i see a DCE.bat file on the desktop. I'm wondering if that activates the animation...
they used a different build. the build that was leaked (4015) was the MAIN build, whereas the fancy shmancy window build was from LAB06.
also they had a Radeon 9800 powering all that stuff :)
Actually..it was a 1.5GHz processor with 256MB of RAM with an ATi Radeon 9700 Pro..so it wasnt top of the line...although 9700 is still fairly new...
will those fancy window animations be released in the final build of longhorn?
(Have they even come up with a name for this OS?)
I believe DCE is pushing pretty much all graphics to the video card, whereas GDI/GDI+ did it on the CPU.
Those of you with laptops will not like it, so you can scale things back to the Win2K days.
However, I believe it does still do the graphics on the video card rather than the CPU...
EDIT: Would this not make 2D rendering quality a very, very important thing? Can't exactly cut corners on these sorts of things.....*cough*
Hmm..do you have this build of Longhorn? Also, can you activate DCE in 4015.main?Quote:
I believe DCE is pushing pretty much all graphics to the video card, whereas GDI/GDI+ did it on the CPU.
Those of you with laptops will not like it, so you can scale things back to the Win2K days.
However, I believe it does still do the graphics on the video card rather than the CPU...
Nope, and no clue. Sorry.Quote:
Originally posted by SomethinCool
Hmm..do you have this build of Longhorn? Also, can you activate DCE in 4015.main?
When is Longhorn RC1 supposed to be released? Do we have to wait till 2004?