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RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:40:58 GMT

My variant of the issue hasn't come back since the 2.55 beta of Start11... but it sounded like my variant wasn't as crazy as some reports here nor as frequent. I've been using it for a little less than a week. Stardock didn't mention anything relevant in the changelog like they have previously... so I was a little cautious to say that it is fixed.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:56:28 GMT

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Stardock released beta 2.55 recently. I haven't had the time to test if it resolved the problem for me.

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Stardock feels it's DisplayFusion's fault.

Sure closing DisplayFusion solves the issue... but the issue was originally caused by a Start11 update when DisplayFusion was doing fine previously. When did Stardock say this?

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The last we heard from Stardock was that they had identified the issue and were planning to fix it in a beta. Hopefully the Start11 2.55 beta has the fix in it

I've been using Stardock's Start11 2.55 Beta build since September 15th (for over two weeks now) and it's literally solved ALL of the conflict issues with DisplayFusion, including with Start11's enhanced taskbar enabled!!

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:57:03 GMT

The last we heard from Stardock was that they had identified the issue and were planning to fix it in a beta. Hopefully the Start11 2.55 beta has the fix in it

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:02:16 GMT

Stardock released beta 2.55 recently. I haven't had the time to test if it resolved the problem for me.

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Stardock feels it's DisplayFusion's fault.

Sure closing DisplayFusion solves the issue... but the issue was originally caused by a Start11 update when DisplayFusion was doing fine previously. When did Stardock say this?

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:35:01 GMT

Has anyone heard of any progress on this front?

Stardock feels it's DisplayFusion's fault.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:43:40 GMT

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Any update on a Start11 fix yet?

You're better off going to Stardock's forums and asking.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:06:53 GMT

Any update on a Start11 fix yet?

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:55:10 GMT

This is a vague answer, but I somehow overcame my Start11 taskbar flashing issue. In the Start11 Configuration > Taskbar settings, I turned off the Let Start11 enhance the taskbar option. Later, I turned that setting back on. I haven't had the flashing issue since then, even when reconfiguring Start11, DF's, or Windows taskbar. Hopefully someone can replicate the situation, if only to alleviate the flashing and be able to work normally until we find a fix.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:54:25 GMT

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We took a look into this, unfortunately it's not something we can fix from our end. We contacted the developers at Start11 and they said they're working on a beta to fix this up.

Thank you so much, Owen!

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:48:51 GMT

Hello,

We took a look into this, unfortunately it's not something we can fix from our end. We contacted the developers at Start11 and they said they're working on a beta to fix this up.

Thanks!

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:06:10 GMT

Thanks! We'll keep you posted when we have more news.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:17:21 GMT

Here's the log

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:07:54 GMT

We've added more logging in 11.2 Beta 4. After updating, could you reproduce the issue again and reply with a new debug log attached?

Thanks!

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 00:12:34 GMT

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Screen lock/monitor power off might be enough to trigger it as well. Sleep/resume was the easiest way for me to reproduce it, and it's definitely possibly the scaling level was a red herring.

I'm able to get my taskbar to stablize by clicking on the screen repeatedly, which causes the main taskbar to reset, and opening programs at the same time. This seems to force everything coexist until the next time I restart.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:50:07 GMT

Also having conflicts with Start11.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:02:05 GMT

Screen lock/monitor power off might be enough to trigger it as well. Sleep/resume was the easiest way for me to reproduce it, and it's definitely possibly the scaling level was a red herring.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 23:58:10 GMT

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I think I've finally been able to reproduce this issue here. It seems to only occur if the primary monitor has a different scaling level from the second monitor, and only after sleeping and resuming the machine. Thanks for your help tracking this down, we've put it on our list to fix up.

That's odd—while I didn't send you my Start11 settings, I don't believe that my two monitors are set to different scaling levels. I say that because my primary monitor runs

2560x1440 @ 165Hz

and my secondary monitor runs

2560x1440 @ 75Hz

. Not only that, but I NEVER sleep/resume my machine—I only ever reboot it—and even then, I only do that like once every few days at most. At all other times, the most I do is lock the machine and turn off the monitors.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:41:47 GMT

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:17:10 GMT

I'm having the same problem and it's driving me nuts. Unfortunately I did not save the old version of Start11.

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Found the version from May 2025, installed it over the current new version and the problem is gone.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:50:25 GMT

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Could you guys backup your Start11 settings and reply with them attached? I still can't reproduce this here but hoping I'll be able to with your settings.

I sent my settings, any progress with finding a solution? Still having this issue.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:49:20 GMT

I feel like I had a similar problem with Start11v2 after a certain point a few months ago... but it only really came up when waking my system from being locked with the screens off.

I ended up fixing it by writing a trigger to "Toggle Multi-Monitor Taskbar" when locking/unlocking the desktop. I completely forgot about the issue until now.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:13:59 GMT

Here are my current settings.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:06:22 GMT

Could you guys backup your Start11 settings and reply with them attached? I still can't reproduce this here but hoping I'll be able to with your settings.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 05:35:02 GMT

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After an update for Start11, DF started acting weird on my next boot-up. My main taskbar is loading weirdly and flickering. My PC starts lagging and every time I click on the desktop, it's like DF crashes and reloads. This lasts for a bit of time before it seems like DF finds some sort of harmony with Start11. Just trying to figure out what I can do to fix this problem. I have video of the phenomonon but it's 111 MB if anyone needs to see it.

I'm having the exact same issue

Edit: I downgraded to a version of Start11 from February (I still had the .exe installer from then) and now I'm not having the issue.

RE: Seems to be a conflict with Start11

Binary Fortress Software — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 04:00:42 GMT

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Had another customer report something similar, also running Start11. We're doing some testing here to try and reproduce this issue to see what's up.

Great, it's become seriously annoying and I have no idea what the issue is.