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From the site:

Pictomio is Freeware and sets new standards for 3D accelerated browsing of your photo and video collection.

Pictomio requires a graphics card with ShaderModel 2.0 and a minimum of 128 MB video RAM.

http://www.pictomio.com/Default.aspx

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Installed and opened fine.

I clicked on the maximize button and the friggin program crashed on first run!

Sadly for them it will not get a second try as I uninstall all programs that don't work on the first attempt.

So much for Vista compatibility.

Next! :sleep:

I usually just go to my Pictures folder, and then double click on a photo file to open it (default Windows Photo viewed) and then use left-right arrow to view my album.. why bother with programs like Picasa or this? ^^

I haven't tried this particular app out yet, but Picassa has built in tools that allow you to make minor adjustments to the picture as well. You can also tag the photo with meta data so that you can search for it later. The interface is a bit faster than the Windows Explorer interface too.

You can get through minor edits on 100's of photos much quicker with a program like Picassa than you can with Explorer + some editing program (at least in my experience).

Didn't crash for me, but it's got a ugly UI.

What may make it better is that it is GPU driven by Directx API so that may be what sells it while Picsa is driven mostly by the CPU

We should judge photo editing/display software based on how well it displays/edits photos, not the technological way it draws the preview.

I haven't tried this particular app out yet, but Picassa has built in tools that allow you to make minor adjustments to the picture as well. You can also tag the photo with meta data so that you can search for it later. The interface is a bit faster than the Windows Explorer interface too.

You can get through minor edits on 100's of photos much quicker with a program like Picassa than you can with Explorer + some editing program (at least in my experience).

That's great, but maybe you should give this software a chance before trumpeting Picasa. Pictomia is worthy of installation before posting. It's obvious the developers have put a lot of work into this. It's one of the best programs I've seen thus far to be written with WPF and free.

That's great, but maybe you should give this software a chance before trumpeting Picasa. Pictomia is worthy of installation before posting. It's obvious the developers have put a lot of work into this. It's one of the best programs I've seen thus far to be written with WPF and free.

It's not written with WPF.

Unless they packaged it and made it work with .NET 2.0

I just installed this program, and I'm fairly impressed with it. I'm running it in XP with a Radeon x300/550 series card. It's not completely smooth, but it does run pretty well. I'm anxious to try it in Vista with an 8800GT tonight when I get home. I didn't hae any stability issues whatsoever, but it might be a different story in Vista, since it sounds like the majority of you guys that are experiencing crashes are using Vista.

It's not written with WPF.

Unless they packaged it and made it work with .NET 2.0

*blink* In that case, they really went to a lot of trouble. I assumed it was written with WPF! That's almost like reinventing the wheel, but WPF has some major hardware acceleration limitations in XP, so maybe that's the reason it's not a WPF app.

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