JonnyBCookin

17th January 2004 23:52 UTC

after spending an hour searching:
I have failed to find an all inclusive help section that discribes each setting's option in detail. In fact what's annoying is that even the FAQ says:

"Question #2: How can I configure AVS?

...From the menu's available, you can access all the options that AVS provides. These are mostly self-explanatory, but the difficult ones are covered in specific questions.

Self explanatory? For a newbie such as myself I disagree. I have failed to find out what "Reuse image on window resize" does or "wait for retrace" does or "page flipping". Granted I have not searched for an answer for each indivual setting but I feel I shouldn't have to.

MilkDrop is very user friendly, why can't AVS be? Please someone, make an all inclusive help section or web page discribing all of the features available in AVS. THANK YOU!

PS. If there is one all ready, I obviously didn't find it. Please shoot me a URL if there is one.

Nic01

18th January 2004 00:15 UTC

They don't give too major of a result except for Wait for Retrace - It pretty much slows down AVS, which you don't need for most cases...

As for user-friendliness, pir and Atero are writing tutorials and guides. There's also a tutorial thread in the main AVS forums.

UnConeD

18th January 2004 11:45 UTC

People don't have an obligation to write excessive tutorials and documentation for free software. The FAQ is unofficial and it doesn't pretend to answer every question that will ever pop-up here.

"Wait for retrace" is the opposite of Milkdrop's "Allow page tearing".
"Page flipping" determines the mechanism of updating the image, either by using a back/frontbuffer pair (with page flipping), or just one frontbuffer (no page flipping).
"Reuse image on window resize": pretty darn obvious, but this doesn't make the image go blank when you resize or go fullscreen.