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Vista Screen Dismay
-a- XPDM There should be no difference between Vista and WinXp -b- WDDM Do you have desktop composition ON of OFF? -b.1- Desktop Composition OFF. -b.2- Desktop Composition ON. The GDI drawing is done in software by Eng. The GDI drawing happens of a redirection surface. At selected syncronization points,

Vista Screen Dismay
Anyway, thanks for your detailed response, E-Jo "Ivan Brugiolo [MSFT]" wrote: Can you try to repro the behavior without Desktop Composition Enabled ? Assuming it repros only with Desktop Composition active, then, there's a long explanation for that. In Vista with DWM-ON, there is no concept of `Screen DC`.

Longhorn Screenshots
If the game takes too long to start up, try disabling Aero Glass (or under compatability disable desktop composition). Doom 2(Doom95) (Requires DPlay.dll in the game’s directory for doom95 to work properly) Doom 3 (Requires working OpenGL support) Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (Requires working OpenGL support)

Vista: Consistent in its ability to disappoint
The second entry didn't exist; there was no value set at "Desktop". When I rebooted, IE opened in a normal window rather than its usual maximized state. The composition box that I'm typing this post in is truncated on the = right side! The "Browse" button is cut off at the "w" and I have to use the "end" = and

Flip 3D -> Cube 3D ? (Desktop Composition Engine)
Am I correct that, with desktop composition, win32k remembers the bitmap for each window (kinda like CS_SAVEBITS), that GetDC and BeginPaint return a DC which references this internal bitmap (and not the screen DC with customized CLIPOBJ and coordinate origin, as it was in pre-Vista Windows since 16-bit 3.0),

Vista Compatible Games List So Far
Fact is that the new window manager and graphics engine in Longhorn, Desktop Composition Engine, will be using Direct X 9 as it's underlying API (but that's not of so much interest for end users, or even application programmers). The difference will be for end users (running new or old applications -- DCE is

Display Device Mirror Driver - Build or Buy?
Linda Liu [MSFT] v-l...@online.microsoft.com microsoft public dotnet framework windowsforms Hi Al, The new Microsoft Windows Vista desktop composition When desktop composition is enabled, individual windows no longer draw directly to the screen or primary display device as they did in previous versions of

Vista Screen Dismay
I was kind of pissed about that... after all, why does Movie Maker need desktop composition? Other than that, it runs like a champ using an XDDM driver. What is "desktop composition"? Are you implying that if a system can not run Aero it also can't run other applications, which I don't believe is true?

New window opening
Avalon, the DCE (desktop composition engine), looks to be ahead of Quartz Extreme -- it can handle dynamically-scaling UI, which is [...] We haven't seen Aero yet, but I expect it to be an Aqua-killer when it [...] The only problem with citing these technologies as Apple-killers is that they are not here yet nor

How to start driver development work for Vista?
And this is using things that are part of "Avalon," just like Bill talked about -- including things like pixel shaders, the desktop composition -- all this advanced graphics functionality that to date has been typically the domain of game developers, now available to actually render you either on the desktop and,

Flip 3D -> Cube 3D ? (Desktop Composition Engine)
After installing, I right-clicked the program, and set the compatibility back to "Windows 95", Disabled visual themes, and disabled desktop composition, and selected "Run as administrator". The program worked perfectly for me after this. Hope this helps the other people who I know are struggling with this same

Question about Longhorn
If so ... you know my salary ... sign me up. ;-) Allan Peter Hancik wrote: Desktop Composition Specialist Osborne/McGraw-Hill, a rapidly expanding East Bay computer book publisher, is seeking a creative desktop publishing composition specialists for its dynamic production group. In this fast-paced environment,

I'd like to see kde, gnome, fux or any other wm on linu
Rick Raisley heavymetal-AT-bellsouth-DOT-net microsoft public vb general discussion Kevin, what, in general, does "disable desktop composition" do to the VB6 program being run under Vista? Access the Properties for your VB6.exe, select the Compatibility tab and make sure "disable desktop composition" is ticked.

Desktop Capture (Vista)
Norman Diamond ndiam...@community.nospam microsoft public win32 programmer gdi microsoft public dotnet framework drawing In System properties in Vista x86 and Vista x64, I found Desktop Composition and it is on (checkmark present). Of course in XP and 2000 there is no such thing. I think that the failure to pad

Vista 5308 Desktop Composition
When there are full screen hardware render target, or, when certain applications that locks the primary in Vista, then Desktop Composition silently turns off till the application Thanks for the reply Ivan, And thanks for clarifying the impact (or rather non impact) of desktop composition switching on BitBlt.

Wronghorn
I checked for updated drivers, but when the problem started appearing on systems other than my own, and on desktop systems and laptop systems, I was pretty sure I was doing something wrong. Added to that was the discovery that turning off desktop composition in Vista made the problem go away.

MDI child not working VISTA
The older card is on an XP-only machine, so I think that Desktop Composition doesn't exist. If I'm mistaken, please say how to check. Anyway, that's where the program is working. On the Vista machine with the newer chip, Aero is working, and I think that means that Desktop Composition is working.

Vista Screen Dismay
Alan Burns abu...@nelson.com comp text sgml Do you use (or plan to use) SGML, but your design/composition people use QuarkXPress? Quark is the tool of choice for most designers and desktop composition people because of its tremendous flexibility, and its industrial-strength full colour separation capabilities.

Vista Screen Dismay
It does have nothing to do with desktop composition. You can test it yourself with the Side-Bar Gadgets, to see the effect in isolation from desktop composition. That said, why do you need to disable desktop composition before you capture the screen ? Screen capture is painfully expensive with desktop composition

Wronghorn
reza r...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windows terminal_services Thanks "TP" wrote: Hi Reza, Desktop Composition is a new feature of Windows Vista and Window Server 2008. It has to do with how application painting occurs. See here for more information: Under the Hood of the Desktop Window Manager