Round / Curved Corners Window Themes Don't Line Up

Themes with rounded (or curved) corners look jaggy and don't line up like the example pictures show

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When using themes that do rounded (or curved) corners the images never line up. I've tried multiple styles. The one in this screenshot is Elegance Color HD, but it happens with all of them that have rounded corners. Is there some "secret" setting you have to enable for this to work. I'm on Curtains 1.1 and Win 10 2004 (happens on 20H2 as well).

Rounded Corners don't line up

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. Just try that theme, and I don't see the issue you mentioned here. Please try the purge and reinstall steps as mentioned here : https://forums.stardock.com/500728/curtains-support-faq#CurtainsPurge.  Make sure to re-download the latest version from your account. Reboot after the purge, re-install, reboot again after the installation complete. Retest and report back.

Thanks
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I did a full, clean, re-install of Windows and everything and it still happens. Two machines: Desktop i9-9900K, 64GB, 3TB M2, RTS 2070 Super 8GB; Microsoft Surface Pro 6 i7, 16GB, 1TB model (no dGPU). Same thing happens on both, no matter what settings I have. I had this issue on my desktop when I had a GTX 1660 8GB too and on previous version of Windows as well (1909).

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Please try the cleanboot steps as mentioned here : https://forums.stardock.com/500728/curtains-support-faq#CurtainsServiceStart This will help to see if there is something conflicting with Curtains in your system.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

This is a bug in those styles.  They do not size correctly on anything but 100% scaling.

The fix is to enable show advanced sections in the style editor on the settings page in Curtains.  Then in the editor there is an advanced tab far right. 

Pick this and in the drop down find Shadow.Top and Shadow.Bottom. 

Each one has a line ForceDpiScale = 0.  Change this to ForceDpiScale=1 and apply the style.

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Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

AH! That makes more sense. I don't see what the cleanboot was going to do since I did a re-install of the OS and only had one admin account and no other software installed but Curtains. I changed to 100% scaling on my 28" 4k monitor and voila. It works. (Text is way too small for my middle aged eyes, but the theme did work!

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Oh, and @Neil, I went back to 150% scaling and did the Shadow.Top and Shadow.Bottom hack and indeed it looks awesome in scaled mode too!!! Thanks so much. This opens a whole world of new themes for me!