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Help: Rainmeter Skins • Re: Terrible lag while using transition effects in an image meter slideshow with large images

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I have a slideshow skin I'm working on that has transition effects by using a shape meter and setting it as the image meter's container and updating the shape meter using the ActionTimer plugin. It looks and works fine, but whenever it encounters a large image in my gallery (something like 4000x4000 pixels) it spikes my GPU usage and lags the entire OS. When I turn off the transition effects, there's no lag from what I can tell since it's an instant transition.
Most probably there is not too much to do, because Rainmeter hardly handles such large images, especially when you try to manipulate it. Even just using a Shape meter as container for an Image meter showing a such large image, can create problems. Not sure if you can do something to avoid it.
I also tried a while ago creating such a Slideshow skin, with more transition effects. While used lower resolution images, everything worked fine, however larger images gave lags there as well. Couldn't find a solution, other than using lower resolution images. Sorry...
If this is simply a limitation with Rainmeter then I'll just have to move on, maybe find a way to have it skip transition effects if an image surpasses a size value.
This can easily be done using the ImageSize plugin, however is not a real solution.

Statistics: Posted by balala — Yesterday, 8:26 pm



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