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Reply to KVM Mode – Display Artifacts in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

That is a complete answer to the static question and it moves things. Present at the first established frame, persisting on a desktop that is not redrawing, and confined to a horizontal band with the top of the image clean. That rules out anything accumulating over a session, and it rules out the motion triggered case I was chasing. Your edition note is the thing to follow up before anything else. Our connection guidance is that both machines run the exact same version and bui

Reply to Seamless Display Failing in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

A Secondary's passcode lives on the Security tab of that Secondary, and you type it into the Primary in the Configure window when you add the connection. That is the pair that has to match. Worth getting one thing straight before you go looking, because they are set in different places and constantly get mixed up. The passcode is not the encryption key. Our documentation says it in those words. There is also a genuinely separate feature called a one-time code,

Reply to KVM Mode – Display Artifacts in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

That settles the version question, and it settles it in the direction that matters. You were clean in 2024 on Multiplicity 3, and the artifacting is on 4, which you came to with the suite in 2025. The boundary is the 3 to 4 jump rather than a Windows or driver change you would otherwise be hunting for months. Two things before you spend another afternoon on it. Nothing in 4.05 or 4.07 touches display corruption; both are connection, hotkey, seamless display and memory work. The displa

Reply to Start 11 Repeatedly Asks for Activation in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Worth separating the two things that produce that prompt, because they need different fixes. A successful activation writes a license.sig file into the product's own folder under %ProgramData%\Stardock, so Start11 puts one in %ProgramData%\Stardock\Start11 and Fences keeps its own alongside it. Next time it asks, look in there before you reactivate. If the file has gone, something on the machine removed it and the only question left is what. If it is still sitting the

Reply to mod request in Galactic Civilizations IV Stardock Forums

The stat you want is MovesCap, and the hull carries it before any engine is fitted. That is the basic movement number you are describing. It lives in the ship hull stat definitions, ShipHullStatDefs, as one entry per hull: Tiny, Small, Medium, Large, Huge and Cargo. The baseline is the same for every size from Tiny through Huge, with Cargo sitting lower. Engines feed that same MovesCap stat as a flat bonus, so a bump on the hull stacks on top of whatever drive you fit rather tha

Reply to Start 11 Repeatedly Asks for Activation in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

An activation prompt means the product genuinely is not activated. There is no half licensed state where some features quietly lapse, so what you are seeing is the activation state being wiped rather than anything wrong with your key or your account. Fences and Start11 both doing it is the useful clue. They share the same activation mechanism, and each product keeps its licence files in its own folder under %ProgramData%\Stardock. Something on the machine is removing them, which is why

Reply to Has Multiplicity 4 fully support for Simplified Chinese? in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

Simplified Chinese has been in the interface since Multiplicity 3.6, which is where Spanish, French, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese Brazil and Japanese all landed together. The 4.01 changelog notes the supported languages are included, with community support for them on GitHub, so a string that reads badly is fixable rather than a dead end. The part a language list does not answer is typing. Multiplicity sends your keystrokes from the primary m

Reply to Unwanted Windows 10 Style Tiles Reappear After Reboot in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

While the sync option is on, Start11 imports whatever the Windows menu has pinned each time you sign in. Removing a tile inside Start11 does not unpin it on the Windows side, so anything still pinned there arrives again on the next boot. Order matters when you try that setting. Turn the sync off, sign out and back in, and clear the three tiles after that. On the Windows 11 and Windows App styles the same option carries a "(sign out required)" note, so give it a sign in cycle to take e

Reply to multiplayer is grayed out in Sins II Support Sins2 Forums

That grey almost always means the game has not completed its online sign-in, and it is not something a reinstall can touch. The Multiplayer button is gated on sign-in state rather than on installed files, so uninstalling and reinstalling leaves it exactly where it was. There is no separate account login to go hunting for. The game signs itself in when it starts, using your Steam session, or your Epic one depending on where you bought it. Hover the Multiplayer button before you t

Reply to 💎 Feature Request: Close a ALT-TAB window with Middle-Mouse-Click (MMB) in AltTabby Stardock Forums

Not there today, but there is a partial already in the product. Right-click any window in the switcher and the menu has "Close window", with Terminate process below it for anything wedged. Slower than a middle-click, faster than hunting the X.

Reply to Win + Space Toggles Taskbar Setting for Maximized and Non-Maximized Windows in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Not a coincidence. Win + Space is Fences Peek's default hotkey and has been since Peek shipped. The Fences 4 Beta 1 changelog reads "Fences Peek enabled by default with hotkey Windows key + space". Your edit had it right. The input language part is a known collision and we handle it conditionally. Changelog 6.2.0.1 added "detection for multiple keyboard layouts, so that the default Peek hotkey (WinKey+Space) does not override Windows switch-keyboard hotkey". With one layout installed,

Reply to Start11 menu background blur and taskbar transparency gone in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

One thing about that transparency test. Our description of "Blur the wallpaper under the taskbar" says it is best used with the transparency effect on, so turning Windows transparency off and then looking for blur does not tell you much. Worth rerunning with transparency back on so the result means something. On previous versions, there is no public archive of older Start11 builds I can point you at. A rollback is not something you can self-serve here.

Reply to The licence is the cheap part of a 200-seat rollout in Business Stardock Forums

Pricing goes through sales. The operational half you are worried about is already settled, which should make that conversation a lot shorter. On key ownership, a rollout your size would be a single key with multiple activations, and the key belongs to the account it is activated under rather than to a person. The thing to get right on day one is the email address, because the first activation ties the key to that address permanently. Use a generic one, [email protected]

Reply to Taking a copy of configuration to put on my other computer in Fences Stardock Forums

The file copy was right, it just needs one more step at the other end. Dropping a backup into the folder does not apply it. Fences only picks it up when you restore it from the configuration app, which is why the target machine looked unchanged. On that machine, right-click an empty part of the desktop and choose "Configure Fences". On Windows 11 you may need "Show more options" first. Then look for "Restore a backup", or "Restore Snapshot" under Layout features and Snapshots

Reply to Strat11 v2 (2.8) On Restart Custom Start Button Images Is Not Set (have to turn off and on again to make it stick for the session) in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

Your manual toggle working is the useful detail, and it narrows this further than my last reply allowed for. If the image applies correctly with enhancement off once you trigger it, the drawing path is fine and enhancement is not a requirement. What is failing is the apply at startup on that path, which is a smaller and more specific thing. That also argues against a purge. The image reapplies on demand, so your stored setting is intact, and resetting stored settings is most of what a

Reply to Strat11 v2 (2.8) On Restart Custom Start Button Images Is Not Set (have to turn off and on again to make it stick for the session) in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

You read it right. The 2.8 changelog does carry "Fix for Start button when Enhanced Taskbar is not enabled", so that path was worked on in this release. What you are hitting is a case that survived the fix rather than something nobody looked at. Worth confirming the build first. 2.8 shipped as UI version 2.8 with file version 2.8.0.2. On your last point, the start button image is not independent of the taskbar work on Windows 11. Our own compatibility switch treats them as one

Reply to Include Windows from an App that has been Excluded in AltTabby Stardock Forums

There is no include entry on that menu, but the exclusion list itself is editable from a different screen. Click the settings cog on the switcher and pick "Manage exclusions and grouping". The app you excluded should be listed in there. That screen is worth knowing about generally. When a window goes missing from the switcher with no obvious cause, an accidental entry in that list turns out to be the reason more often than a bug does.

Reply to Not working when I Alt Tab while in a Steam game in AltTabby Stardock Forums

Yes, that is what that toggle is meant to do. "Replace Alt Tab key combination" is the switch that hands Alt+Tab to AltTabby instead of Windows, so with it off you get the stock Windows switcher and no Carousel, in a game or out of one. Leave it on. That also lines up with what you are seeing in game. The switcher you get on the first press is the Windows one, so the replacement is not taking hold while the game has focus. Nothing is set wrong on your end. Your update to 0.81

Reply to Eidolon multiplayer in Sins of a Solar Empire II Stardock Forums

On a shrouded world, the outward push to your friend's planets is Propagate Mode specifically. Only one shroud mode runs on a planet at a time, so a world set to Exploitation or Summoning is doing its job without projecting at his. Propagate also has tunable radius, speed and strength, so you can keep it running and pull the radius in rather than choosing between spreading corruption and not developing at all. The Planetary Corruption window lists your corrupted planets with the

Reply to [IMPORTANT] Software Updates are Stealing Focus in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

That screenshot settles the open question from earlier in the thread. It is Start11's own update check, not Object Desktop Manager, so the focus grab lives in the product's own updater and ODM can be dropped from the picture. The prompt you just caught will be today's 2.8 release. Installing it stops the prompting for a while, but it will not change what you reported. The 2.8 changelog is Win11 26H2 taskbar position handling, vertical taskbars on secondary displays, blank Edge icons i

Reply to Start11 menu background blur and taskbar transparency gone in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

94% is the default for that slider, so it is worth putting it back where you had it. Our own before and after examples for the menu are both taken at 94%, and what changes between them is the Mica toggle rather than the slider position. Mica is the option in that same section, and it is the one that controls the material effect behind the menu. Turning it on is the quickest way to tell whether the blur you are missing sits on the Mica path or somewhere else. The taskbar is a s

Reply to Everything Search results order in Start Menu Products Stardock Forums

You are not missing a checkbox. There is no registry override for result ordering either: the two search behaviour keys we publish control accent matching and whether the most recently run app gets promoted for a given search term, and neither one sorts file results. It has not quietly changed under you, either. The last release that touched Everything at all was 2.7, which made Everything results respect the search filters built into Start11 search. Today's 2.8 is taskbar and perform

Reply to Unable to download latest version of Start11 in Stardock Software Stardock Forums

Good, and that result is worth keeping, because it tells you where the problem actually sits. The hotspot bypassed your home connection's path to stardock.cachefly.net. Your licence and the file were never involved, and that path is still whatever it was. The next Start11 update will come down from the same host. If you would rather not reach for the hotspot again, try a different DNS resolver on your normal connection while you are not in a hurry to get an installer. A stale record f

Reply to Feature request: Spacebar to select/activate window in pinned mode in AltTabby Stardock Forums

You are probably a build or two behind, which matters here: AltTabby went to 0.8 on 09/02 and 0.81 on 09/03. 0.8 added an option worth testing before the Spacebar request gets weighed. From the changelog: "New option to make sticky semi sticky so it only makes the switcher stay open after the hotkey is held for a certain amount of time." Sticky is the setting that decides whether the switcher pins itself open, so semi sticky ties pinning to how long you hold the hotkey rather

Reply to KVM Mode – Display Artifacts in Multiplicity Stardock Forums

You ruled scaling out properly, restarts between changes included, so it is off the table rather than merely untested. Three resolutions and both 1:1 and shrink-to-fit is more than most people do before reporting. The 2024 detail is the most useful thing in your post, and it may not be the setup that changed. Multiplicity 4.0 went out on 8 October 2024. If your clean stretch was before roughly then, you were on 3.x, and the 3.x KVM display path is not the one you are