Stardock’s WindowFX 2 Released

A few months ago we were discussing the upcoming release of WindowFX2 from Stardock, which was to utilize the graphics 3D hardware to render cool animations and transitions on your Windows. WindowFX2 is now out, there is a demo, and a very cool video where you can see the new, very cool transitions in action.We tried the full version of WindowFX2 and it includes a number of additional goodies, like advanced transparency usage, true alpha blending shadows, integration with WindowBlinds, Animations, ability to apply light sources to different coordinates on the desktop and more. We spoted out a few bugs (in some cases the restored window would render off-screen or with the smallest application body size allowed), but performance is pretty good if you own a GeForce (especially with Detonator 40 drivers), ATi Radeon, Matrox Gxxx, while there is special support for older graphics cards (by trading speed for eye candy).

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