I receive Aero Lag when opening and closing windows in Windows 7

Happy new year by the way.

i don't have those display issues when putting windows into basic mode. Also, just by turning off the window animation properties and keeping aero runnin also corrects the problem.

I did end up going to Best Buy, all the computers i tried there had exactly the same issue.

We might as well assume and hope this will be corrected in the next service pack.

I guess someone with an old vga-card (>3-4 years) should check there, but then Aero wouldn't work anyway, right?

This issue is also visible with Aero OFF, at least for me. I don't think this has anything to do with Aero. Try it yourself and post back.

I also discovered the not-so-smooth animation problem when opening and closing new program windows. On every computer I could check I verified this nuisance. But I don't think, that the drivers are to blame here...

Win7 is said to rely on hardware 2d-funcitons for zooming and displaying its windows. If this wouldn't work properly, the whole desktop should be a mess... I rather seems to me, that since the animations are calculated in realtime (think about all the possible windowsizes!), this calculation isn't right.

Namely, the zooming decelerates too quickly for the amount of time the animation is supposed to take, resulting in never reaching the final size its supposed to. And since after the animation finished, the program window is redrawn in its original size, the gap between these two size looks like the window is finally "popping up".  The magnifying tool strangely seems to reset parameters used for these calculations... I don't know - it's a mistery! :)

You could actually test the slowlyness of Aero by opening the task manager, maximizing its windows, switch to services and playing around with the columnsizes. At leat on all of the computers I checked, well, that was slow!

Maybe the rumors are right, and ATI as well as Nvidea has stripped their chips from all 2d-hardware-acceleration. Then Direct2D wouldn't be of any help here and rather slows everything down! I guess someone with an old vga-card (>3-4 years) should check there, but then Aero wouldn't work anyway, right?

Hello, i've just upgraded my laptop from vista 64 bit to 7 64 bit and i too see the defect that people are talking about. Only when opening windows and closing windows, the snap of opening or de-snap of closing windows gives it a cheap feel. Its easier to see when opening a window that is not maximized to the screen when it opens and when closing a none maximized window. I think the average computer user would never even notice because it happens very quick. Of course turning off window animation fixes the problem permanently.....even using the magnifier program as a user stated above does correct the problem till the next reboot. I'm gonna go to Best Buy to check out some deals, while i am there i am going to check and see with my eyes as other people here have just to see if this happens on those computers in store.

Its only a minor thing but i hope it gets fixed. Other than that i'm enjoying 7 over Vista.