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HW Acceleration of Layered Windows - Good news!

Good news! A QFE has been released to enable WPF HW acceleration on layered windows on XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937106/en-us enjoy!
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Layered windows...SW is sometimes faster than HW

Previously, I had posted that Avalon’s layered windows on XP will be rendered via the software pipeline. One can create a layered window by setting Window.AllowsTransparency="true". I’ve seen a few forum posts about performance issues, and the key takeaway
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Avalon Hardware Acceleration & Video Driver Compat

Hello. Seema Ramchandani here, PM of the Avalon 2d & 3D graphics team. Many people have asked me about what is this celebrated feature called “Hardware Acceleration”. In this post, “hardware acceleration” refers to harnessing the GPU to render, leaving
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