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    Aero and disabling

    No I don't have a problem Vista, its running quite nice After I found a good driver for my graphics card I decided to test them out with a few games. Why does Vista switch out of Aero when running games and switches right back after you close the game? To help with performance?
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    It does it with certain applications, i guess it is because you are running games that were made for earlier OS's (XP) so it has a fit and has to close Aero, it does it when i use Ulead DVD Movie Factory.


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    Ok, its hasn't did it with any of my apps, but that would be annoying with a application. At least I don't have to see it when running a game.
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    It does it with JASC Paintshop Pro...cuts Aero out, then goes back. A minor irritant that I hope JASC will patch eventually. But so far its the only app that does it.
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    I found this interesting reading. One of the things it mentions in passing is that if an app tries to draw into the border area of a window, it falls back to Aero Basic so the layout is compatible with old Windows versions. I assume there are other border- and window-related things which would make it fall back temporarily too.
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    I just found this, which goes into more detail. Looks like full-screen apps are always going to do it.
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    Thanks tuttel explains it very well.
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