3.0.14.276 (32-bit): Half-Dead GUI

Actually, using filemon, I found that CPF is constantly querying ultramon’s RTSUltraMonHook.dll (see image).

I am not a specialist, but that may be the reason why everything is so slow when the two are running.

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Alright guys, I’ve just discovered this a coupla days ago while trying to install a new graphics card (which turns out the card needed repair due to molex problems). Put back only Nvidia Geforce 2 MX card into it, and tweaked it.

COMODO FWv3 GUI runs better (for me at least) if:

-Right click your desktop and select Properties (or use Control Panal and click Display). The Display Properties dialog box should pop up. Get to the Settings tab and click Advanced.

-Click the troubleshoot tab and turn Hardware Acceleration one to two levels down. Remember to click apply and OK.

Alright, so it turns out ALL graphics card has this “troubleshoot” option. I do think this is really a flaw in the FW GUI, but I think the team will fix this once they figure out why.

But, for now, check this out. Maybe it’ll help :slight_smile: !!

(EDIT-
Besides, tweaking visual settings increases your system performance. After spending hours tweaking my computer, including visual settings, my PC boots up in less than 1 minute, closer to 30 seconds. The visual settings tweaks improved Comodo GUI A LOT !!!)

Hi Ewen,

I got an ATI card running 6.14.10.6755 drivers version and no issue with CFP GUI. No issue before either with the previous version of the 2D drivers, the one you mentioned. I’ve had bugs, related to CFP functions, but never to the GUI, with all versions since the alpha. I admit that I’ve sometimes had a secondary CFP Window moving a bit slowly, but rarely, and extremely shortly. Oh yes, also I’ve found once, but only once, that I could move away a button from a CFP window, together with its menu (in the log viewer) :SMLR, but unfortunately true.

Thanks, it helps. If one step down (‘disable cursor and bitmap acceleration’) CFP GUI is faster a little bit, but still it’s far from normal. More decreasing acceleration doesn’t make difference (on my Galaxy Nvidia GF6600).
Bitmaps… skins… ;D I remember “apollo” soft/w audioplayer slogan: Sound quality is not skinnable! How about pc security? :wink:

-Right click your desktop and select Properties (or use Control Panal and click Display). The Display Properties dialog box should pop up. Get to the Settings tab and click Advanced.

-Click the troubleshoot tab and turn Hardware Acceleration one to two levels down. Remember to click apply and OK.

Alright, so it turns out ALL graphics card has this “troubleshoot” option. I do think this is really a flaw in the FW GUI, but I think the team will fix this once they figure out why.

I have tried to lower the hardware acceleration but the results have been zero! The interface of firewall remains extremely slow and almost unmanageable! Perhaps it is only an impression, but the new version 3.0.15.277 it seems even a little slower!
I have WinXP SP2 32bit, Avast antivirus and Nvidia GO6600 graphic card!
I hope that the problem is solved in a hurry! (and what is curious is that in 3.0.13 version instead GUI worked perfectly)

The GUI still has issues. I was looking at the active connections list just yesterday and the list was pretty active. I scrolled down to the bottom and then clicked close and it froze. Had to restart. Same thing happened a few weeks ago, and I posted. No response.

And not to mention the buttons which STILL get their colors messed up when closing a window that was overlapping with them.

Same impression here (:AGY)

you’re absolutely right. Graphic issues with the CFP GUI, which I luckily don’t have with my ATI card, won’t disappear with lowering your card hardware acceleration. This setting is mainly and almost exclusively used to resolve issues encountered when running intensive graphic applications like 3D (direct 3D or OpenGL on rendering software and games). 2D rendering never suffers from too much hardware acceleration, and certainly not such a simple GUI as the one from CFP. If you got issues with the way CFP is rendered with your graphic card, it means CFP GUI is bugged, nothing else. I do not think anybody seriously expects NVidia or ATI to modify their drivers for Comodo. When so many people have graphic issues with CFP, then a future release should resolve these issues.

Agree :■■■■

Reagarding this is a Gui topic i use the topic for the following:
Got this strange Gui prob when starting windows. I started a topic earlier, but got the advise to use this topic, https://forums.comodo.com/empty-t17420.0.html

http://aycu17.webshots.com/image/36816/2005226596116324731_fs.jpg

When activitating comodo by clicking the icon in the systray and then minmilizing it again, the artifact disappears.

The bug won’t come up when i shutdown the logitech setpoint
driver.

Elrohir, I can show you a lot such artifacts. e.g. below is piece of art “CFP trying to show us himself :THNK …50% done”.

I just wonder why Comodo don’t want to tell us “We know it. We do work on it.” (as they had done in “Pending files” topic). Why do not open one topic about known issues as e.g. this one + approx time line? Otherwise how to make decision - to wait or to change?

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What OS are you guys running? XP?

I have the impression, Comodo tried so much to deliver a Vista compatible firewall, that they completely forgot that majority of user is still running XP.

Also since trying Comodo, I am quite amazed how how buggy a simple user interface can be. Didn’t see that with any other application before.

I am really starting to wonder whether I should give a progi, that even cannot display its own interface, access to the lowest layers of my OS, as it is necessary for a firewall ???

pitzelberger, me on XP (and I don’t see any reason for Vista cos only Vista’s good thing - audio kernel streaming - I have in XP too). But you’re right about “Vista compatible”: most of 2007 software updates with first line in changelogs “now Vista compatible!!!”, become less or more unusable on XP.
As always there is two questions: 1. Who’s guilty 2. What to do
OK, first answer we know (hallo, Bill :wink: ) I hope Comodo trying to find the second.

found a few other posts on the same topic

GUI redraw issues (3.0.14.276 x32)
https://forums.comodo.com/empty-t17157.0.html
Redrawing of Interface in V3 very slow.
https://forums.comodo.com/empty-t15362.0.html
Slow user interface
https://forums.comodo.com/empty-t18054.0.html

but overall, no reaction from comodo (V)

just a couple of questions guys, because I do not have any redraw issue with CFP on XP; it might have happened once with a beta or an RC, not sure anymore. Anyway the questions are:

are you having any drawing issue with any other application, I mean other than CFP?

are you running anything like Vista Transformation pack or similar?

are you using any multiple-desktop utility?

are you using “not 100% compatible” gadgets on the desktop?

can you run 3D games without any problem?

when was the last time you updated DirectX?

are you 100 % sure your graphic cards are not damaged?
(testing the cards with any demo found on Gamers Hell or anywhere else might be a good idea)

no

no

Yes, as I mentioned earlier in this treat, in my case the problem came from using comodo and ultramon at the same time.
Also switching to the newest version of ultramon, that is Vista compatible, solved the problem with comodo. However the newest ultramon is still a beta, and I had several other display problems with it (not with comodo). So I switched back to the stable version, that I am running for more than one year now on my PC and that never had problems with any other program.

I guess the comodo gui has problems with anything that modifies the native xp desktop. However, I am quite sure it is comodos fault, because it seems to be the only program that has this problems (at least in my case).

no

yes

with each new game that I install, (last week)

yes

  • are you having any drawing issue with any other application, I mean other than CFP? ==> NO (only with Comodo Firewall)

  • are you running anything like Vista Transformation pack or similar? ==> NO

  • are you using any multiple-desktop utility? ==> I have Nvidia GO6600 graphic card but I disabled multi-monitor and multi-desktop utilities

  • are you using “not 100% compatible” gadgets on the desktop? ==> YES/NO - I’ve Rainlendar on the desktop (a calendar program) and effectively if I close this program, the Comodo GUI is more responsiveness (also it isn’t yet “normal”)

  • can you run 3D games without any problem? ==> I don’t use 3D games

  • when was the last time you updated DirectX? ==> All the softwares on this PC as latest updates (driver and DirectX included)

  • are you 100 % sure your graphic cards are not damaged? ==> YES! The best proof is that when I reinstall comodo firewall 3.0.13 the interface works correctly and not appear problems of this kind!

For help to solve this unbearable problem, I’m available for testing or other clarifications!

in response to:
https://forums.comodo.com/bug_reports/3014276_32bit_halfdead_gui-t17314.0.html;msg125599#msg125599

OK the fact that no one from the Comodo development team showed up in this thread is not a bad sign, nothing to worry about guys. They read the posts, I’m 100 % sure about that. I’ve been on this forum for a while now and I never saw any issue being ignored. So be sure they read what you write and I wouldn’t be surprised if your issues were fixed in the next release that should be there soon, before the end of January from what I read.

So you think this deadly silence is not “nothing to say”, just bad manners? This is encouraging ;D

I hope so.
I also posted another prob that I have with CPF + Avira + Firefox in another treat. Someone of the moderators asked me for detailed info on my system, but after posing these he became strangely silent. :-\

So I am just hoping that some of the developers are around here in the forum, and that they notice my post in their own silent way.

If everything will be fixed for the next release, then this is fine for me :BNC