AllowTransparency=Sucks(No More!) Part II
In my previous post about WPF Performance, I blasted the poor performance associated with transparency being enabled. The ‘solution’ was to force software mode, although there were statements suggesting this would be fixed in .NET 3.0 SP1, .NET 3.5, or Vista SP1.
The first two I’d tried to no avail, and only recently have I tried the third (Vista SP1)…and the results are very promising. The animations speeds are ‘back to normal’, with little to no noticeable difference between transparency being enabled or disabled (in terms of performance, obviously I’m noticing the transparency). Firing up WPFPerf shows that it never fell below 40FPS, a huge improvement!
Kudos on the performance increase, hopefully when Vista SP1 becomes mainstream WPF will no longer be overlooked because of performance issues!
