And yes, ***** automatic updates are acceptable for beta releases ONLY. I completely agree with @Wyldanimal here.

I am not so happy to have no control as to whether an update is applied even to a beta.

This latest update caught me by surprise, I was not ready to accept it, so I ***** iStripper as the update was still downloading. I then completed some work that I felt was important was not interrupted. Only then did I manually apply the update when I judged that it was safe to do so. As it happened that was only a few minutes later and the work was not very important, but it could well have been hours or even days and the work could have been very important.

With automatic updates you have no idea what other work may be interrupted if the update has problems. I want to be able to control when such risky (doubly so with betas) processes.

Yes, if you can't stand finding bugs please do not run the beta. I prefer myself to have some input into the design decisions behind the new version. We have seen at least three design changes- not bugs- that have not been universally received with cries of joy. And if not for the people running the beta we wouldn't even know about them.

I wouldn't have myself expected that the carousels were as popular as it seems to have been, especially since the contents of them- and more- are right there on the home page now. But that's why they need feedback.

The dislike with the card size simplification was more predictable, at least when you consider the huge variety of displays that people are using. Two sizes aren't going to do the job.

And the issues you get with deleting cards and playlists when the system no longer keeps track of what you have deleted aren't going to be found with developers and testers that never delete cards. That takes running it past real users that keep their collections pruned down.

And yes, ***** automatic updates are acceptable for beta releases ONLY. I completely agree with @Wyldanimal here.

I should of learned from past betas with this company. and I will leave it for others as the software is rushed out with bugs every time

to all that simply criticize beta software issues... it seems you have no experience of software testing/debugging.
Totem may have 6 or so people available to test software .. so it could take many months to find and resolve any bugs.
Instead, they offer a beta test version to those members that want to help (it is not 'rushed out with bugs').
Now with hundreds of people testing and reporting bugs, the product will mature faster for release.
Please don't just criticize beta software... help if you can ... avoid if you can't

I'm 100% in Support of the BETA version Self updating to the Most current BETA version.

But I would NOT want a Release Version to Self Update, Unless I wanted it to, or
there was a Setting I had to Have Set.
Allow Automatic Updates.
YES
NO

I'm even ok with YES being the default after every install / upgrade
as long as I am still able to set it to No.

You can't IMAGINE how hard bug crushing is when you have dozens of versions in active use!

Yes I can - as a developer I have ***** from being ***** to support multiple versions of software packages. But as a user I ***** having the software change under my feet without having a chance to say that I don't want to update just now. At the very least you should have the opportunity to delay an update until a more convenient moment.

I don't expect the developers to actively support more than the most recent release and being told to update to that if I want bugs being fixed, but I also expect to be able to plan when an update occurs. I also don't mind having an "in your face" nagging pop-up asking if I want to update now or later - just don't assume that I want it done.

I hope lots of people keep running the latest beta code because that's what makes this work.

So do I, but having it ***** automatic updates on me is one way of dissuading me from doing so.

thanks @Calgon for continuing to experiment so well

Thanks @EverthangForever - there's other stuff coming but I'm finding it difficult to find the time at the moment.

Love the ballons, a nice twist for a swing clip scene.

Thanks @Socialhazard. Some folks had said they don't watch swing clips, maybe this will change their minds.

In any kind of software test the software version showing a defect is critical to understanding the defect. I think the automatic updates are a great idea. You can't IMAGINE how hard bug crushing is when you have dozens of versions in active use!

Beta testing is critical because the internal testers can never test everything over all settings and environments and preferences that the users do. I have been impressed just how well Totem has been doing with this process- especially the surveys. I don't think I have ever seen anyone do that better.

I hope lots of people keep running the latest beta code because that's what makes this work.

@ComteDracula & @Socialhazard thanks for the encouragement
& thanks @Calgon for continuing to experiment so well 😊👍

@ComteDracula & @Socialhazard merci pour les encouragements
Merci @Calgon de continuer à expérimenter si bien 😊👍

The point is, when will she update a few more new performances??😫😫

@Calgon

Love the ballons, a nice twist for a swing clip scene. 👍 😎

@EverthangForever

Awesome. Keep 'em coming. 👍 😎

If there are multiple versions, the testers often omit to tell you which version they were running so the developers could waste time looking in the wrong place

That may be so, but it runs the risk of reducing the willingness of some of the volunteers to participate in the testing program.

@pickle1
That makes sense. 👍

We have now an automatic update of the software. The version 1.2.512 has been installed automatically over 1.2.510 without asking me if I wanted to update.I would like to have the choice to do the update or not by just downloading the installer.

@stefnev1 - I am surmising that the reason for the auto update is to have people testing on the latest version at all times - it makes it easier to keep track of where errors occur and to reproduce them.

If there are multiple versions, the testers often omit to tell you which version they were running so the developers could waste time looking in the wrong place 😊

Oh I also love the fact this [beta version] software is tested throughly before ***** me off

Just what did you think a beta version was ?

The reason that they exist is so that they get tested thoroughly by volunteers, more thoroughly and on a greater variety of hardware than can be done otherwise. They are how software gets thoroughly tested.

I would like to have the choice to do the update or not by just downloading the installer.

As would I.

We have now an automatic update of the software. The version 1.2.512 has been installed automatically over 1.2.510 without asking me if I wanted to update.
I would like to have the choice to do the update or not by just downloading the installer.

I have not been reading any of these comments anyways the stripper is now getting a black screen behind her from time to time then crashing. good job I love how when the app is about to crash yeah wonderfull programming!👍Oh I also love the fact this software is tested throughly before ***** me off . lol great stuph! five stars!@PSEUDO6ISME - if you get pissed off because a Beta test version of the program is highlighting issues, then I would suggest you stay on the production version of the software until all the beta testing has been completed and the version gets promoted to production.Leave Beta testing to the people who want to participate.

You are correct I should of learned from past betas with this company. and I will leave it for others as the software is rushed out with bugs every time.

I have not been reading any of these comments anyways the stripper is now getting a black screen behind her from time to time then crashing. good job I love how when the app is about to crash yeah wonderfull programming!👍Oh I also love the fact this software is tested throughly before ***** me off . lol great stuph! five stars!

@PSEUDO6ISME - if you get pissed off because a Beta test version of the program is highlighting issues, then I would suggest you stay on the production version of the software until all the beta testing has been completed and the version gets promoted to production.

Leave Beta testing to the people who want to participate.

I put the Picture on Discord.

Beside that a smaller issue i found, the new Drop down Menu when i click on my Username is in darkmode from Win 10 not or barely readable.

Hi, can you please shared with me a screenshot of that behaviour (through Discord if necessary)? The text color or dropdownmenu color don't seem to change on my end when I change the Windows theme

I'm really liking this new version of iStripper; thanks Totem. I appreciate that 2 of my recent suggestions were incorporated into this version (independent volume controls & larger thumbnails on a model's overview & other shows tab). I'll miss the lovely carousel, but I guess it was causing problems for a lot of people. I haven't tried the "Play All Clips" option of a card, but hopefully it'll work better in this version.

anyways the stripper is now getting a black screen behind her from time to time then crashing

Typically, though not always,such problems have in the past been due to lack of sufficient free resources on the system that you are running on. Try switching between using CPU and GPU rendering.

I have not been reading any of these comments anyways the stripper is now getting a black screen behind her from time to time then crashing. good job I love how when the app is about to crash yeah wonderfull programming!👍

Oh I also love the fact this software is tested throughly before ***** me off . lol great stuph! five stars!

An easy and well deserved win for such a super hottie! Keep her shows cuming! 🐱🔥💖💕😍

@guillaume

Hi, this looks like a firewall/antivirus issue where the program iStripper is being blocked from accessing web pages. The new beta 1.2.512 now has a signed executable file, please let us know if you still encounter the problem with it. If you do, can you try deactivating your antivirus before launching iStripper and tell me if it works without it (just for the sake of testing for now)?

Hi there, new Version did not change anything, deactivating AV did nothing, so i tried run the App as Admin and now everything seems to work like it should be.
I don't know why, this was never an issue before, especially because i could acces the Store and download Cards without a Problem. I also never set any restrictions to iS as an Admin. But now all is good. Thanks.

Beside that a smaller issue i found, the new Drop down Menu when i click on my Username is in darkmode from Win 10 not or barely readable.

Thank you so much @EverthangForever. 😊

Merci beaucoup @EverthangForever. 😊

As was to be expected! Congrats!! Damn, Asian girls are on another level 👍😍🔥

Love the 'coming ones will drive you nuts'-part hehe 😋

yesterday i've downloaded a card and went colored in My Collection.

today this card was greyed out again in My Collection.
the clips are all there in the Models-Folder.

is this a bug?

downloading again went quickly through.
i will see tomorrow if it will be greyd out again.

Ist immer noch sehr nervig dass wenn ich das Programm starte erstmal Gott weis was für ein Model aufgerufen wird und ich nicht einstellen kann dass gleich von Beginn an meine Playlist abgespielt wird.

I probably purchased 85% of my cards based on finding them in the Carousel. Devastated that this is going to be gone.

Moi aussi mais sans être dévasté pour autant 😉

And the new look is so generic/industrial.

Un GUI d'ingénierie 😐

Le seul composant vivant et emblématique de l'interface a été supprimé. 👎

I agree that I really do not appreciate the improvements in this beta.

I probably purchased 85% of my cards based on finding them in the Carousel. Devastated that this is going to be gone.

And the new look is so generic/industrial. Not sure what was wrong with the prior version that this was felt to be an improvement?

I hope that someone will tell me when is safe and without bugs this new version.
I don't want to be laboratory mouse.

Generally, really good job. IMHO an improvement.

That said a few issues:

• Auto start does not seem to work. Most times the application just does not start, no systray icon. One time it half started, was consuming a steady 28% CPU, but nothing on screen and systray icon remained a red exclamation mark and did not respond to clicks.
• Unable to start minimised. Not a big issue in itself.
• Home screen uses too much CPU. Windows shows it using 25 to 35% CPU. Whilst switching to forum and it drops to 4%. Home is pretty, but what is doing to use that much CPU? All I can see is the banners rotating,

Congrats ❤️

I found the registry key that starts istripper/vghd:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\DesktopVideoPlayer

I run a script that removes all of the registry RUN and RUNONCE entries.
that script runs each time I start windows and on a task schedule.

So mine doesn't start from the registry entry.

I tried a bunch of things thismorning and they all work fine. Playlist creation/loading, adjusting numbr of shows, purchases (both VR and regular shows). I am not a fan of NFT so I don't have any of that. The carousel (previews) is empty for me since I purchased just about everything (minus special cards). Filters seem to work okay, my collection si good. Searches worked okay. Forum is okay. Shows are reliable. No crashes. Perfromance has been good. Fullscreen is okay.

TI would say in general this beta is pretty good. Takes a bit of getting used to where things have been moved such as downloads but it's okay.

@Dfner
I don't think the issue is in the sensitivity to taps in this case. It seems to be about moving the cursor on screen.

You are absolutely right. I have a wireless mouse so it's nothing to do with touchpad sensitivity. All I have do is hover my mouse over the model while the GUI is minimized and sure enough it switches modes. That's not right. You should have to click on the model.

I found the registry key that starts istripper/vghd:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\DesktopVideoPlayer

The command line uses switch -fromStartup

Second point. Could someone check if the installer really is creating two methods to startup istripper/vghd? You really don't want that and it will make us remove the shortcut in startup after every installation. Not a big deal to do but it's likely not what you want for less windows savvy users,

@wyldanimal
use -fromSilent

I fiixed it. You don't need to edit the shortcut created by the installation at all. Just remove the one that is in win+R shell:startup named DesktopVideoPlayer There is another way of starting it up also installed that must use -fromStartup.

I upgraded to 512 o that -fromSilent should work as well but I don't istripper from a desktop shortcut so I likely won' need that command line switch to work.

At any rate, for those who really ***** seeing the splash screen when they reboot check to see if your startup folder has a shortcut to start istripper and try removing it.

I'll do a simple experiemnt with my laptop. Upgrade to 512 and then remove the shortcut in shell:startup (which works out to c:\users\userid\appdata\roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\ProgramsStartup.

@wyldanimal
use -fromSilent

I think what is going on is that there are two shortcuts attempting to startup istripper. One is definitely in the startup folder (win+R shell:startup), the other is someplace else. I say that because when I remove the one in startup folder it now starts silently. You can tell from task manager (windows 11) that the shortcut even has a different name now. Instead of DesktopVideoPlayer it is now named vghd. So perhaps it really does start silently with -fromStartup bu it seemed to start with a splash screen ecause it was started twice. I sure don't recall ever making a shortcut for it manually. Maybe the installation process is creating two shortcuts.

@wyldanimal
use -fromSilent

It's definitely starting from "somewhere" other than the the startup folder? Here is the weird part. Now it's starting silently without addint -fromSilent. I have no idea where it is starting from right now/ I really ***** how diifficult windows makes it to find startup program locations. I vaguely recall tools that tell you that but I don't seem to have any installed that tell me where something is started from.

So istripper creates the startup somewhere in it' installation, can the devleoper tell us where it is? Registry perhaps?

@wyldanimal
use -fromSilent

I am doing all of that. It does not work at startup. I suppose I could proof it by removing the shortcut I am modifying and making sure it does not startup.

@Wyldanimal thanks for VFB. Might be easier than using Fraps if
I want to have a go at re-doing another FG066 on " transparent " one day 😊

https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/29408/79?post=764142

FGA034-FGA044
Eleven selected WebGL shaders remixed & converted to OpenGL
to run &/or remix on iStripper's Fullscreen OpenGL platform.
Standing or table work randomly applies to all these scenes
unless otherwise captioned.

https://scenes.virtuastripper.net/ET_FractalGardenA034-A044.zip

zip size = 749 Kb
Extract the zip straight to ../scenes folder. Allow merged folders
and allow to overwrite any existing same name file.
Remixed to Fleetwood Mac & SomaFM various
https://www.istripper.com/forum/thread/27449/151?post=764143

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MacOS Version?

@vg4us

use -fromSilent

Must be lowercase 'f' and Capital 'S'

When windows starts, it may be using a different shortcut
so you'll have to asses which shortcut is being used, and add the command line switch to that one.

I have a shortcut on my taskbar, but it is not the one used by windows at startup.

C:\Users\wyldanimal\AppData\Local\vghd\bin\vghd.exe -fromSilent

My Start with Windows Shortcut is found here

C:\Users\wyldanimal\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

On the Start Menu , iStripper also has it's own Shortcut.
but it is Not the one used with windows startup.

C:\Users\wyldanimal\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\iStripper

I don't see any real improvements in these changes

Sorry to have to say to Totem that I agree, struggling to find a benefit to this version over the last.

Main issues for me are:
No Carousel
"Now Playing" Tab missing in Full Screen Page
"Playlists" Tab missing in Full Screen Page
Navigation icons in top right were "cool" and less clicks to get around

I raised these issues in the closed Beta so if they didn't get changed there I'm not sure they will be here either.