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AxelR:
- I tried the new Fast Picture Viewer today, and it really is fast, but there were far too many JPG images that were not being displayed correctly, so I removed it again. Is it working all right on your machines?
-Curt (August 08, 2008, 05:02 PM)
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Hello Curt,

The #1 cause is likely to be your display driver, some drivers/GPUs have trouble scaling huge bitmaps but don't report errors, the display is scrambled but the program has no way to find out. I've seen this on laptops and some integrated graphic cards. Please turn off the GPU acceleration in the program options to see if the problem goes away. If it does, you may want to check if an updated driver exists for your card. If the issue persists, I'd be interested in seeing one of the files, you can send it to support [at] fast picture viewer [dot] com

Thanks,
Axel

cmpm:
Welcome to DC Axel.

I suspect you are a part of the team behind fastpictureviewer.
Congratulations on a fine program.
I use quite a few viewers and like fpv very much.

Thanks.

PhilB66:
Axel Rietschin is the developer of FastPictureViewer. Btw, Free registration keys for the pro version were offered through gHacks Website.

Curt:
@ AxelR - Welcome to DC, and of course also Thanks a lot for your advises!

- I tried the new Fast Picture Viewer today, and it really is fast, but there were far too many JPG images that were not being displayed correctly, -Curt (August 08, 2008, 05:02 PM)
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Please turn off the GPU acceleration in the program options -AxelR (August 08, 2008, 06:51 PM)
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Yes, the blame was entirely on the graphics' acceleration. But now Fast Picture Viewer isn't really any faster than the next fast guy. It is possible (= "feature request") to add quick-button for "Close image, and minimize viewer to tray", please?

Another question, if you will forgive me: Why must I click Ctrl+Del in order to move a file to the bin/basket, instead of merely using Delete? I really don't like that feature when I have bulk-downloaded several hundred images and am to sort them one by one.

AxelR:
Hello all, thanks for the warm welcome :-)

Yes, the blame was entirely on the graphics' acceleration. But now Fast Picture Viewer isn't really any faster than the next fast guy.-Curt (August 09, 2008, 02:01 PM)
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The viewer uses the video RAM to preload and cache images. When operating in "classic" mode it uses the computer's main RAM instead, provided that enough of it is free. The program also attempts to adapts itself while it runs according to the memory pressure on the system but this is not an exact science. Try freeing up some RAM and see how it goes after using the program for a little while.

It is possible (= "feature request") to add quick-button for "Close image, and minimize viewer to tray", please?
-Curt (August 09, 2008, 02:01 PM)
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I never thought about this. Did you notice that you can exit instantly by pressing [Esc] - there is an option to enable this. You can also associate the program with jpeg files (from "Open With...", "Choose Default Program..." etc in Explorer) after which it's rather quick to open a different file by double-clicking it. I'll give some toughts to the tray icon idea, though.

Another question, if you will forgive me: Why must I click Ctrl+Del in order to move a file to the bin/basket, instead of merely using Delete? I really don't like that feature when I have bulk-downloaded several hundred images and am to sort them one by one.
-Curt (August 09, 2008, 02:01 PM)
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This also bugs me a little sometimes :-) There is a rationale behind this safety lock, though. On full-size keyboards, you can use the (*), (-), (+) and (Enter) key at the far right to copy/prev/next/100%, and it's all too easy to slip and hit the delete key unwillingly. Also I've talked to a number of photographers and they hated the idea of deleting something, they told me that the original images are like negatives: you keep them all, so I made the delete optional and added this Ctrl thing. I'll consider making it optional in a future version.

Thanks for the feedback,
Cheers,
Axel

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