The Composition APIs come with a robust animation engine that provides quick and fluid motion running in a separate process from your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app. This ensures a consistent 60 frames per second when running your app on an IoT device as well as on a screaming gaming...
The Composition APIs allow you to enhance the appeal of your Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app with a wide range of beautiful and interesting visual effects. Because they are applied at a low level, these effects are highly efficient. They run at 60 frames per second, providing smooth visuals...
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Buildbox—which allows users to create games without needing to code or program—has been used to create a number of Top 100 games. Developers like David Riechelt who created the hit game Color Switch with Buildbox, have been using the software to build chart topping games across multiple...
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Hello all,
I recently got a new Lenovo Y50-70 for Visual Effects and animation with Windows 10 as OS.
I never used Windows 10. As far as I know, all the software I installed are windows 10 compatible. However everything that isn't "windows" is facing scaling issues within the application that...
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I've received a number of emails and comments about Unity, mostly "How do I get started..."
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i installed and played a game...
sometime therein, it threw an error that the game wan't compatible with my theme or whatever and reset it.
now i'm done with the game.
and no matter how many times i go in and specify the "Windows 7" Aero theme, i no get any Aero. =(
i really got used to...
Hi, I have an odd issue: my system recognizes a hidden, secondary monitor though I only use a single one.
My monitor has the resolution of 1980 x 1200 px, and there is an additional area which I can't see next to it. When I accidentally move a window into the additional area, that's a...
I've just begun using Win 7 and notice all dialog boxes, program windows, etc, open and close like a Mac with an animated action, not like older windows when they'd just appear on the screen. Is there any way to change this animated movement in Win 7?
UPDATE: I just figured it out by going into...
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I just wanted to relay my experience with nVidia 3D vision.
I got my new computer specifically set up to use with the 3D setup With an nVida GTX 680 video card.
I purchased an Asus monitor that supports a 144hz refresh rate.
I was worried that I was making this investment for...
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After having installed a new WIn7 around all menu and dialog textes there is a "white shadow".
See attached sample snapshots:
How can I permanently disable these white shadows?
Thank you
Peter
Hello.
I'm completely new to this forum.
I have a stupid annoying problem with the windows seven taskbar. I don't know how to call it but his is what is happening:
* Normally, when you hover the start orb it gives you a sunrise (i mean the lights from the bulb light up slowly).
Right...
Hello everybody, i've been having some problems with my aero animations. All my animations will just randomly turn themselves off, and they only restart when I go into the adjust performance and appearance of windows dialog and adjust set to best appearance. The animations will come back for a...
i keep being told "visual effects settings aren't optimized for best appearance" and the aero theme reverts to basic
given i have an hd5770 and an e8400 plus 4gb of 1066 ram i am a little fussed that windoze 7 64bit seems unhappy with my resources being adequate
it was fine until quite...
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Shortly it will be exactly three years since the release of what I consider to be the last great PC exclusive - Crysis. Recently reinstalling Crysis, I expected to see that it had dated, but this wasn't the...
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