Vista taskbar preview shows games in realtime :D

[OldPueblo]

This is a pretty sweet little Vista thingie. I was playing EVE on my Vista beta system when I minimized it to check something. When I moused over EVE in the taskbar it actually showed what was happening in EVE in realtime in the little mini-window! No stuttering or anything either. Now I knew the preview thing was there, but I assumed it was more like a screenshot image. I mean sure EVE is more processor bound then most games, but I still thought thats pretty damn cool. I can autopilot to places and not have to switch back to EVE to see if I arrived yet. :D I actually switched EVE to windowed mode and then moused over the taskbar and they were completely in sync, no lag-time even.

Has anyone else noticed this with any FPS or other types of games? Is it this fluid with more graphics-bound games as wel?

[evs]

i'd think that it's deigned to be that way, but i guess that it wud be related to your setup more so

[OldPueblo]

Oh I know its designed that way, I just think thats pretty amazing. They ain't kidding about that whole "3D desktop" dealio. :p Maybe I'm easily amused...

[evs]

haha its k man...i'm a sucker for stuff like that aswell

[Darundal]

Yeah, the previews are cool...don't like most of the other little pieces of "flair" they add, but the previews are really useful.

[evs]

truely, the most useless, not say unappealing, feature is the flip 3d feature...i mean there's already alt+tab which does the job and the previews now add on. but the 3d feature is really just a gimmick to make ppl go 'woah'