Why AERO is really important?

[Onur]

Hi guys,

 

I wonder why Aero is really important as a performance factor? I am sure there many people out there who uses win7 disable aero feature BECAUSE of performance.

 

It increases the RAM usage of OS.

 

However you guys are saying you really really really really need our system is using aero theme. It makes me confused.

 

Can you please give us more details if it's not kind of secret?

 

I am using AffDes without aero and still did not face any problems yet. (May be i will)

[MEB]

Hi Onur,

Welcome to Affinity Forums :)

Check TonyB's post here. When you disable Aero it also disables hardware graphics composition. Affinity use hardware acceleration to achieve smooth panning/zooming and rendering.

[tomzorz]

I wonder why Aero is really important as a performance factor? I am sure there many people out there who uses win7 disable aero feature BECAUSE of performance.

 

I have to ask: really? Maybe this was true when updating a WinXP era machine to Vista. I'm 99.999% sure that it has zero effect on performance unless one's running on a toaster ;)

[Mark Ingram]

When you disable Aero it uses a different graphics driver, not the normal one from Nvidea or AMD. In internal testing we discovered rendering problems and performance issues. If you choose to ignore the warning, that is fine, the app will still run, but you will get a much poorer experience.

[alanlacey]

How do you install it and choose to ignore the Aero warning?  Mine just doesn't start.

[lowmoor]

Alan:  I switched to Aero, started Affinity Photo, then switched desktop back to non-Aero "classic" windows theme, and Affinity Photo seem to run the same as if I use the Aero theme.  I am using Win 7/64 with Firepro display card, and most recent AMD drivers.