Couple of Bounty Hunters walking around doing there thing

[Lyonheart]

It's not as bad as you're thinking. The trick is that you just don't use a style of Window Layout that would make swapping slow. My suggested method is to use a Full Screen Stacked layout (meaning they are all the size of the full screen, and you don't actually see the other windows unless you swap to them, which will be instant) and then use Video FX either as Picture-in-Picture, or using dxNothing as a blank window to put them in.

I am working on new features for ISBoxer 40 to simplify this even further and make Video FX even easier to use. Anyone using Windows Vista or later with Aero enabled will probably just forget about that limitation because this should be just as easy to configure and I think it'll be much cooler.


Sure

VOTE: Lax for President!

The stacked method worked like a champ for me!

[Altsoba]

VOTE: Lax for President!

The stacked method worked like a champ for me!

You have my vote too!

Thank you so much Lax. I finally understood the concept of the dxNothing. I'm aware of the post on your forum about this but I never really understood what the hell was happening on the second screen ... untill now. What we see there are selected live feeds from the stacked windows behind the main window.

I had never used it before (neither the stacked windows nor the live feed on the dxnothing) so that'll be my first goal as soon as I can get my hands on the game .

Anyhow, if we just play it stacked without minding about watching what the slaves are doing, swap is ok (performant), right?

In terms of performance, playing this way (stacked+dxnothing feed), is it a gain or a loss?

Cheers,
A.