version 6 issues - rollback

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I was until now on Fences 5, and today I got informed that I could install version 6. I did. And now, it's terribly sluggish. However, when I look at my product page, I can't see 5... and I've always been a legit user.
I currently have a valid license key for V6.
Can you help me revert to 5? Or give me a solution for my sluggishness problem? I already tried to change the rendering to fixed in Nvidia Control Panel. I also tried a purge/reinstall.

Stardock Software Fences Type: Question
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi HomeCallPC. Can you share more? What actions in particular feel sluggish. Thank you

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Well... it will sound vague, but about everything. Resizing a fence, moving it around on screen, all of this lags terribly in version 6.x for me.
Deleting a file in a fence, same. Renaming it, same.
In the end, I looked into my older email notfications for messages from Stardock and found my old licence for version 5.89 along wiht the licence code. I uninstalled 6 and put that instead. The sluggishness is gone. So it's definitely something in 6 not agreeing with my system.
If it's any use I am on W11, with the latest nvidia graphics driver, and a rtx 3090.

Additional:
I tried updating again to 6. The only version I could get my hands on is the latest, 6.52. Worth noting, I used to do just fine with a prior version of 6, but I can't get my hands on that to experiment. Can I get some links please?

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

After the latest update to 6.52, I also have experienced sluggishness.

When I want to unhide the fences/icons (double-click desktop) there is little to no response for several seconds.
Also resizing/moving fences are sluggish

Win11 25H2 (build 26200.8973)

GeForce game ready drivers 610.88 RTX 2017 Super

Intel i7-9700kf

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Are you guys both using the same Nvidia driver version?

Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top

Thanks for the report, noted. Yikes.

If you'd like to use the functionality About → Troubleshooting → Create troubleshooting report, we can take a look at your settings just in case anything jumps out.

We're going to look to see if there are any conditions that might cause this. Please hold!

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

Hi cag_dk, if you still have your F6 license and/or wish to start a trial, I think we may have fixed this. There was a pretty clear "two systems fighting eachother" issue that found its way into the last release. Feel free to try the beta at this link

https://stardockcorporation.sharepoint.com/:u:/s/software/IQC6v4VusCvVTYVKBNfWZqyDAbkG_KTrb6DEN33aindl67c?e=cia2A1

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

I downloaded the beta from that link, installed and then rebooted. It works now flawlessly. 
Should we expect a later update on the non-beta? :)

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Hello,

Sorry to hear you ran into issues earlier, but I’m really glad to know the new beta build resolved them. A non‑beta release will follow once we’ve had a few days to confirm stability and address any remaining concerns.

Thank you,

Basj,

Stardock Community  Assistant.

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

w00t! thank you for the response!

We'll be getting this out pretty quick as it's a quick patch to the current release. Unless we find anything else we want to adjust, will be same version number so no additional update.

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