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I was never able to read XPERF traces btw, does it happen with Firefox window or any other window?

I believe that they only disabled accent. But what I totally hate is why the system cannot stay consistent over all of its parts. I'm talking especially about titlebars of modern applications - why don't they respect DWM and render the titlebars on its own?

I believe that his high RAM usage is caused by exhausting VRAM so it would be better to know if there is a way to track all VRAM allocations.

As you can see from the debug.log, Aero Glass does not allocate so many resources - only a few buffer which gives no more than 21 MB VRAM in your case. Also, there is absolutely no reason why should the memory usage go so high. If there is some memory leak, it would grow gradually and only in the case when something more is allocated. Thus I hardly doubt that this problem is caused by Aero Glass.

Could you try testing this debug build? http://glass8.eu/out/DWMGlass.dll (replace old DLL - you will need to stop aerohost first and restart it from Task Scheduler after replacing). When memory usage goes high, hold F11 and ensure screen redraw (e.g. move some window while holding F11). It will generate special minidump. Upload it together with debug.log which I modified to see what buffer sizes are being allocated.

Read the first post of this topic, maybe it helps. I believe that required change is mentioned there

Does it appear since the startup or does it take some time for memory to go high? I found a small memory leak in the code which would appear especially when having more rendering devices, but it would be only a few hundred of kilobytes, not gigabytes.

Do you use any specific settings of Aero Glass? When resizing window, DWM will resize its internal buffers - it has nothing to do with Aero Glass, DWM just needs to put whole window texture into VRAM (and the larger window is, the larger the buffer needs to be).

Just login using your PayPal e-mail and ZIP/postal code stored in your PayPal account.

It has already been answered many times. Open the guide, scroll to bottom and it is written there. You can use this procedure to apply blur effect to almost any window (yeah, it will look horrible on most of them). http://www.glass8.eu/guide.html

This forum serves for discussion about small project called Aero Glass for Win8.1+. The basic rule of this forum: READ FIRST Aero Glass for Win8 does not work on Windows 8.1 Aero Glass for Win8.1 does not work on Windows 8 My PayPal e-mail does NOT serve as technical support and you will not get any answer if you mail to it, because this mailbox is not monitored. This application is free. However, it does not mean that you can use all of this features. It simply means that it is freely available to download, it can be freely used for personal and business use, on unlimited number of computers, by unlimited number of users and for unlimited time, and it provides you promised Aero Glass effect for free. If you want to remove desktop watermark, read this page: http://glass8.eu/donate If you want to report some problem, enable logging (see Guide how to do that), restart dwm.exe and provide debug.log after the problem appears. Do NOT install Aero Glass into non-writable location !!! Aero Glass directory must be accessible by everyone, because DWM runs under different user credentials. Windows with extended glass frame render their captions on their own and thus DWM (and neither my Aero Glass) cannot influence whether the glow effect is rendered behind them. If you don't get glass effect when running on the battery, then read the guide how to change this behaviour. If you get "DWM incompatibility error" message, it is because you have installed Windows update which modified your Desktop Windows Manager. Such situation can be solved by installing public symbols for the new version of DWM. Private/Full/Donated version downloads the symbols automatically, so you don't have to do anything except waiting for a while. Otherwise, you must get them on your own, several ways to get them has been described in this topic. You can also check http://glass8.eu/guide#symbols Aero Glass for Win8.1+ is the extension for rendering engine only! Although it renders glass effect on any area which is marked to be the glass, it does not mark any area by itself! Check guide to get information how to mark any window to be the glass. If you didn't get any e-mail after your donation, check your spam folder. It can be stuck there. Otherwise, you can login on this page using your PayPal e-mail and your postal code/ZIP. .. the other most frequent problems will be pinned here ...

-- 1.3 -- !!! This is recommended update which contains many internal optimizations and security fixes !!! * experimental support for Windows 10 Technical Preview * hardcoded symbol patterns for DWM versions up to 9600.17415 and 9879.0 * fixed atlas reloading after fast startup * fixed glass z-ordering for occlusion * added basic aerohost protection not to load malformed DLL * delay-loaded many dependencies to improve load time * glass effect is enabled by default even when running on the battery * license.key is not loaded anymore - only donation.key is accepted (rename old name if you still have it) * garbage collector for Direct2D resources ... many others will be slowly added here (when I remember all of them ) ... -- 1.3.1 -- * fixed the problem that the key was not accepted under rare circumstances http://www.glass8.eu/ Use this topic for general discussion about version 1.3.x. Create separate topics for specific problems which need deeper discussion.

No, I will not make it.

Minidump of dwm.exe is needed. Aerohost does nothing except of injecting DLL into DWM and reading user's settings from registry. Just ZIP the file to shrink the size.

At such resolution, it should take around 30 MB VRAM, but I'm not sure what nVidia surround is. If it is several displays where each one has 3240x1920 then you need to multiply standard memory usage by the number of displays. EDIT: when the VRAM usage goes high again, could you create minidump and upload it? I will check whether the resource manager does not allocate some unnecessary resources. I already answered that:

I was pretty surprised it does not work so I had to check it more deeply. It works but only on 32-bit system. On 64-bit DWM 9879, the required function is inline thus it is not hooked correctly. I will not update it now, because inlining is the feature of the compiler, so this can change again with any upcoming build. And how to make any window transparent? It has already been described here and info can be found in the guide too: http://glass8.eu/guide.html (at the bottom).

Yeah, it does not look so good on the build 9879. It probably takes inactive frame color.

Any Start menu on my screenshots is probably StartIsBack or ClassicShell. In Win10, it is default Win10's menu.

I am not Start menu developer. No, it is not normal. How did you detect that? How do you know that this memory is allocated by Aero Glass itself?

Please, could you stop discussing that Task Scheduler problem in this topic? It makes it complete mess, especially with all those previous-post quotations.

This is one of the common myths. Yes, SSDs have limited lifetime but even if you write it really heavily, this lifetime will be several tens of years.

RoundRectRadius works correctly and it does exactly what it is intended to do. Aero Glass is not graphics editor, so it is not able to modify your theme textures.

http://glass8.eu/guide.html

This is small bug in my symbol pattern generator which can ignore some DWM versions in rare cases. I recommend either manual symbol downloading or updating your DWM to version 17415 (by installing November 2014 Rollup)

I agree it may be a bit misinterpretation - but it simply means "it depends on user how he injects DLL into DWM, but if he is not able to do it correctly then he should use installer". I will hide Win8 part by default, because it can confuse people.