Stretched Wallpaper - Haig / Others?

[Questor]

Any idea why when I stretch desktop wallpaper beyond its initial size, window movement comes to a crawl? This used to happen on my old G200 and also happens on my G400Max. Drivers are 5.30

[Zwisch]

how big is your picture? If it's like over 1 or 2 megs... no wonder it does that...

[Wombat]

Yes,
I am sometimes guilty of using very large wallpapers. It's considerably faster if you tile a smaller picture. That's a video fact of life, not Matrox's fault.
However, if you definitely want to use this image, either tile it, center it, or use an image editor to make a copy, and rescale the picture to exactly your resolution. This will give you a good speed boost.

-Wombat

[Questor]

The wallpaper is a 283K Jpeg image. I have done this with a TNT card without this effect.

[Rags]

questor,

Open the wallpaper picture file in an editor, and change it's physical dimensions to what your screen resolution is and save it, this will eliminate that.

Rags



[This message has been edited by Rags (edited 15 November 1999).]

[Wombat]

Convert it to (the admittedly large) BMP file at your screen's resolution. If you're using a JPEG, it might very well be decompressing, changing color depth, and resizing for every refresh. Ick.