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Olivier, We will try to help you solve this problem. If bug in PTE, we will quickly fix it. I would like to clear moment with old version 4.31. In another topic you wrote different results for v4.31's slide shows: I'm sure it definitely points that problem in drivers of Intel video card. We have one PC with Intel 865 integrated graphics and all is OK, because of this I think that updating of video drivers should help. Most likely you will find similar problem with 3D games with these current drivers.For lucky_frogger Olivier, If all is OK with v4.31 or v4.48 and this problem happens only in new version 5.0 please perform several tests which will help us to exactly determine a reason of the problem. 1) How this slideshow plays on your PC? http://wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip (8 MB) 2) Create simple slide show with Fade effects only and DON'T add any music files. How it will play without music? 3) Create simple slide show with Fade effects only, go to Project options window, Screen tab. Uncheck "Hardware acceleration" option and click "Preview" button in the main window of PicturesToExe. Or create EXE file. How it will play now? 4) Again open Project options, Screen tab. Change back again and set checked "Hardware acceleration" option and choose "Windowed mode" instead of "Fullscreen mode". How it plays now? I didn't recieve any bug-reports on created in version 5.0 slideshows in our technical support for past 2 weeks. No problems. We very carefully developed slideshow engine and, I hope, well tested it. Because of this I suspect that this particular problem can be in Intel video card or drivers or combination of other factors. However a very strange problem. I would like to solve this problem, of course.

I just fixed this visual bug. Please download newest build 5.02

Build 5.02 + Updated Polish language file. * Duration value didn't show on the status bar when you visually changed duration of a transition effect on the timeline. * Fixed rare bug of previous versions when "Select all images" action in popup menu not always worked for the File list.

It should works with default settings. "Pause when window of slideshow becomes inactive" option should be enabled in your project.

Thanks, I'm already thinking about next version 5.1, I plan to begin the work soon.

Across The Stars I watched thunderstorm today and I've did several photos. Then I decided to combine clouds with cosmic photography I've found on Hubble Space Telescope website. Just an experiment, a short slideshow. http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/Across_The_Stars.zip (4 MB) And infinite screensaver on this theme: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/Across_The...Screensaver.zip (900 KB)

I will be on vacation next two weeks or so. Probably I will respond only on highy important problems.

This problem may occurs only with main program of PicturesToExe 4 or 5 (not with slide shows). It's a conflict of reg. keys protection in PicturesToExe and Vista. But this problem may happens only if you enabled "DEP" option for all programs in Windows Vista. When you install PicturesToExe 5 it should warns you about this problem. Please read it to solve this problem: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/windows-vista.html

Keith, Please remind me what video card you have in your PC and version of Windows. Please send me source files of this project. Do you can reproduce this problem when re-build EXE file, or it's necessary to restart Windows?

Press-release. WnSoft Announces PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0 http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/press-release/pte-50.html

Al, Thank you for your PTE-5 Adjustor!

PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0 requires DirectX 8.1 or higher to use hardware accelerated graphics. But it should work even with DirectX 6.1 (without hardware acceleration of graphics). Music player in PTE 5.0 requires DirectX 6.1 or higher. I tested on newly installed Windows 98 without updates and PTE worked. Maybe it's local conflict with particular sound card. I'm glad that updating of DirectX helped. Windows XP ships with embedded DirectX 8.1 and it's quite enough for PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0

The benefits of version 5.0 in comparison with old versions even if you don't use Pan/Zoom effects. 1) On PC with modern video card you get: - Ideally smooth Fade in/out effect. 60-100 frames per seconds according refresh rate of your display. Old version even on modern PCs couldn't show more than 40-60 frames per second. And difference will be more noticeable on high resolution displays (1920x1200, for example). - You can set wide smoothing line (50% of slide width, for example) for Circle, Slide, Gates, Hour Hand effects. Old version can't manage these effects with smooth playback on values more than 200 pixels. - Curling of page effect works ideally smooth now. - Show of transition effects exactly synchronized with display (so called Vsync mode). It gives ideally smooth playback even for simple transition effects. 2) Benefits for your slideshows available for any PC: - Powerful text captions and objects with drop shadow or glow. - Proportionally scalable objects of a slide (independent from screen resolution) - PNG images support. - Better quality of music, especially under Windows Vista. - New cool Navigation bar in slide shows. - Seven skins for buttons for your slide shows. 3) Benefits in main program of PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0: - Burning of DVD-Video discs with your slide shows right in PicturesToExe. - New vastly improved editor of objects and animation. - File tree in the main window of PicturesToExe will help to find images for your slide shows. - Ability to quickly create backup of your project (Main menu | File | Create backup in ZIP) - Undo/Redo - Better support of Windows Vista. - HD presets in AVI video output. - Base version of PicturesToExe 5.0 is free for all existing users of PicturesToExe (excluding VideoBuilder for burning DVD-Video discs). - The program still starts very quickly, fast work of the program and very small size of created slide show (270 KB for slide show engine). And additionally you can use Pan/Zoom effects with ideally smooth playback and sharpness of picture as no other product can't.

Don, I'm sorry about this problem! We tested on Windows 98 and slide show worked on our PCs. Please download these two EXE files I just created, how they will play under your PC with Windows 98: http://www.wnsoft.com/test/Win98_test1.zip (1.7 MB) p.s. Try to uncheck "Pause when window of slideshow becomes inactive" in Main tab of Project options. Will it help? Thanks in advance,

Fred, You don't see Fade effect when hardware acceleration enabled in beta 13. Because of this we disable hardware acceleration on G550 card with this version of drivers. Keith, Use "Hardware acceleration" option for all projects except of menu slide show to run other slide shows (as Lin Evans described in another topic).

Thank you! I confirm this bug and will fix it later. We attentively tested very complex engine (8 parallel threads/processes which manage graphics and audio in a slide show), but skipped such simple bugs!

This "% of the screen to show slideshow" option a little modified, but exists:

Moelwyn, Thank you, we fixed this bug with shadow you wrote about: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) It could happens with shadow for JPEG images in slide show when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled and there were portrait and landscape images with similar size (800x600 and 600x800) and same shadow parameters. I'm guessing, speaking synchronize slides to music you mean ending of a last slide with end of a music? if yes, just set checked "Auto spread slides along music" option in Customize synchronization window (by "Timeline" button). Patrick, Try final release, transition effects much speeded up (except of Mosaic) in comparison with latest Beta 19.

I just uploaded updated build 5.01 http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/apr-deluxe.zip (4 MB) * Fixed bug with incorrect size of shadow for JPEG images in slide show when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled. * Fixed bug when Distance of shadow for a button object changes according length of caption. * Fixed bug with earlier appearing of a next slide where set "Quick transition" when "Hardware acceleration" option disabled. I apologize that we missed these moments in final release.

Fred, Do you see transition effects between slides? Fade effect, for example.

Fred, If you want, I can give you URL on old Matrox drivers (issued in 2002 for Windows XP) for G550 where all worked fine. I don't know why after 2003 year they disabled some important features of Direct 3D. We have G550 card at our office and I only can wonder. Matrox didn't reply on our request about this problem.

New versions of drivers for Matrox G550 don't support import kind of textures for slide show. So in earlier betas transition effects didn't work (worked as quick transition). Now we read capabilities of video card and if it doesn't support such textures, we sets second CPU based graphical engine. In fact Matrox G550 doesn't correctly support DirectX and Direct 3D. We can't allow partial work of Matrox G550 in hardware accelerated mode when some things work and some don't work. I'm sorry.

Thank you! p.s. I unpined old "Bug-reports 5.0 beta" topic not because version 5.0 doesn't contain possible bugs But as I hope we could miss small number of bugs after beta-testing and no need in special topic. Let put bug-reports in individual topics.

Since final release of version 5.0 all future versions will install separately. Like "PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.0", "PicturesToExe Deluxe 5.1", and etc. You can uninstall all previous versions/betas. If uninstaller will ask "Keep personal files (templates)..." click YES button.

Ken, They already bought Deluxe version in beta state and can use final version!