https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24 DisplayFusion RSS: Wallpaper gradients on Windows 8.1 look terrible Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:33:29 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#7 Wed, 20 Aug 2014 18:44:41 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#7 DisplayFusion Ok, we've looked into this, and we're just using GDI+ to draw the gradients. There aren't any options for quality or anything like that, so at the moment it's not something we can improve without switching to a third-party image manipulation library. If we end up doing that in the future, we'll post an update

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#6 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:58:59 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#6 DisplayFusion Yeah, so it's not really an OS specific issue then I guess. I'll add it to our list and we'll see what we can do ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#5 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:45:30 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#5 DisplayFusion I think now that you have me comparing them that they are both poor. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#4 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 16:15:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#4 DisplayFusion Those files will actually be the wallpaper image files that DisplayFusion generates. I just want to see if it's an issue with how DisplayFusion is generating the image, or how Windows is reading the image when it sets it as the wallpaper. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#3 Fri, 01 Aug 2014 07:27:09 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#3 DisplayFusion I will do this tomorrow when I have both at my fingertips. I'm guessing these are config files ? I'd be surprised if they are different as I am telling DF the same thing on both but what it displays is much different. ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#2 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 19:04:00 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24#2 DisplayFusion After applying the wallpaper on both your Windows 7 and Windows 8 machines, can you zip up the %appdata%\DisplayFusion\Wallpaper_X files and attach them here? I've tested this on both versions of Windows here and they look exactly the same, so I'd like to compare the output from your machines

Thanks! ]]> https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24 Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:37:44 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/wallpaper-gradients-on-windows-81-look-terrible/?ID=07d2d2d1-90d5-4a3d-be29-bfcb9cdd6e24 DisplayFusion I've been using gradients on wallpaper on both WinXP and Windows 7 happily for quite some time. The colors blend very nicely and you can't see the changes.

On Windows 8, if I set gradient changes on the wallpaper you can see great big bands rather than a smooth color transition. I see this on several Win 8 machines so it is not specific to the machines and the monitors are 1920 x 1200 so quite capable of displaying a nice color transition. Same monitors with DF on Windows 7 look fine with smooth color transitions.

Why ? that is the question ? why is DF displaying so poorly with Windows 8 ? ]]>