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Video driver updates
As WindowBlinds tends to stress the video card more than displaying standard windows, it generally is important to ensure that your video card drivers are updated if you are having difficulties. Driver difficulties are particularly acute on Windows 9x/ME (NT/2000 drivers are generally more well-behaved). 

The latest reference drivers for many different cards/chipsets can be found linked from http://www.voodooextreme.com/hw/Binaries/drivers.html.

NVIDIA chipsets/cards (128/TNT/TNT2/GeForce/GeForce2)
Very old NVIDIA drivers had a bug which corrupted the display of text in dialogs on Windows 9x. Updating to the latest Detonator reference drivers (or drivers from your card manufacturer) will correct the problem.

NVIDIA reference drivers: www.nvidia.com

ATI Rage Pro / II / II+ / LT / 128

ATI's currently released drivers for the above cards on Windows 9x contain some bugs which may cause video corruption or lockups. ATI has beta level drivers available which correct this issue. Visit http://www.ati.com/na/pages/spdrivers/index.html to download these drivers. ATI users with these chipsets on NT4 should download these drivers as well if you experience window borders being misaligned. If your buttons on NT4 seem a little odd looking, see the Tips and Tricks section of the WB help file for information on using the GoodStretch WB.INI setting. 

 

SiS/Neomagic integrated video chipsets

Very common on laptops, the SiS and Neomagic chipsets generally work fine with WindowBlinds when using the latest drivers. It may be advisable to use the System object in the Control Panel to reduce hardware acceleration by a notch if you are experiencing problems. This should not impact the speed of your video, just how agressively Windows tries to use the video memory for additional information.

Banshee cards
Banshee drivers have a bug where the right portion of buttons would sometimes be corrupted. WindowBlinds 1.31z and later incorporate a workaround to eliminate this issue.

Chipsets with hardware acceleration
On Windows 2000 only, the 5.10 or later G400 beta drivers from Matrox and the Permedia2 drivers support the optional driver calls of drvAlphaBlend and drvTransparentBlt. This dramatically accelerates alpha-blending and transparent blitting. These driver calls are optional parts of DDK for Windows, so we aren't aware of any drivers other than Matrox/Permedia2 which have implemented them yet. To enable HW acceleration on Windows 2000, add the following to the [GLOBAL] section of WB.INI (located in \windows or \winnt, create the file if necessary):

UseHWAcc=1