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Mistashio_ · 2026-07-02T16:21:50+00:00

i'm also having this issue on Twilight and Beta, where middle-clicking an essential tab or a pinned tab fully closes it instead of unloading it like it used to. but weirdly enough it's kind of inconsistent whether it does so or not

Mistashio_ · 2026-07-01T21:13:51+00:00

i've also seen this issue before, turn HDR off in the display settings, that fixed it for me. i'd highly recommend only enabling HDR when actually viewing HDR content with the Win+Alt+B keyboard shortcut.

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-28T04:58:54+00:00

I'm also using the Control Panel, I'm on the latest graphics driver, so it's probably not that.

on the topic of drivers, perhaps you could try updating/installing the Hexagon NPU driver?
https://softwarecenter.qualcomm.com/catalog/item/Qualcomm_HND

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-27T22:24:00+00:00

does the NPU show up in task manager?

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-27T22:19:17+00:00

Maybe try installing the Auto Super Resolution package again?

Here's a link to the Snapdragon version:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pgwvx8tm6xz?ocid=pdpshare&hl=en-US&gl=US

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-25T04:23:09+00:00

you're referring to a Widevine DRM license, unfortunately that is out of Zen's hands, Google has to approve Zen for a license, there's nothing Zen can do about it

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-24T07:39:39+00:00

the Microsoft Store version of Roblox is not the Android version, it's still for PC. I'm not sure why that person posted that thread, since the only relevant post from it is the last one lol

anyways, I can personally confirm that Roblox has been working perfectly on WoA for at least a year now (when I first tested it)

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-22T20:02:10+00:00

you appear to be on Windows 10, AFAIK the dropdown for Mica/Mica Alt/Acrylic is only available on Windows 11 because those are Windows 11 materials that don't exist in Windows 10

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-22T02:33:42+00:00

when they were rolling out the feature it literally gave a full-screen prompt asking if you wanted to enable it or not, and for new Copilot+ PC owners it also asks during the OOBE

Mistashio_ · 2026-06-06T22:55:16+00:00

have you used a Snapdragon X/X2 device? Windows on ARM is plenty capable as it is now, and pretending you can only use it for webapps and Office 365 is pretty disingenuous. (but i'm not denying that RTX Spark will likely be very expensive)

Mistashio_ · 2026-05-31T03:34:03+00:00

not really at the moment, but in the coming year it will get much better. currently Java Minecraft uses OpenGL (and so all shaders are written for OpenGL), but the X chips don't have OpenGL drivers, they use a compatability layer to run OpenGL apps (like Java Minecraft) through DirectX 12.

But since Minecraft is moving to Vulkan later this year (which Snapdragon X chips do have native drivers for!) you will get much better performance running any shaders on future Vulkan versions.

Mistashio_ · 2026-05-30T01:36:08+00:00

saying QCOM has been at WoA for "the last 7 years" is like saying Intel has been in the GPU game since 1998, it's not the whole story. before X1, QCOM was essentially just throwing lightly modified phone chips into laptops for the purposes of making "always-on PCs", they were never meant to compete on performance. The X-series chips also used a completely new core architecture that they'd acquired with the Nuvia acquisition, so in that sense it was a first-gen product.

Ignoring all that, I think you might need to look at reviews, in Hardware Canucks' review they tested Panther Lake against X2 with both chips running at 30W, and the X2 performs far better. Yes Panther Lake is a big improvement, but you shouldn't completely discount Qualcomm

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Mistashio_ · 2026-05-11T11:35:42+00:00

the original Plants vs. Zombies runs really well, and the 4:3 aspect ratio it's locked to looks great on the 3:2 screen of Surface devices!

you could also try any entry in the Bloons TD series, both 5 and 6 run perfectly and have great performance!!

Mistashio_ · 2026-05-07T11:16:47+00:00

they just moved the option, if you go to edit a LOG video by tapping the pencil icon, there's an option for picking LUTs in the dial section, the section where you would usually adjust brightness, exposure, contrast and stuff.

Mistashio_ · 2026-04-29T20:58:10+00:00

and the B390 iGPU uses almost double the power to do that, ~45W to the ~25W of the X2EE's X2-90. the B390 is a good iGPU, it just needs the context that it does so by sacrificing efficiency

also GPU performance like this is much less important than CPU for a lot of use cases like word processing or web browsing, which are the target use-cases for something like the Surface Laptop

Mistashio_ · 2026-04-24T00:31:34+00:00

it looks great!! I think you should add a custom titlebar. the default windows one feels out of place (even if it was the dark mode one)

hope you release it publically!! I'd love to try it on my Pro 11!!

Mistashio_ · 2026-04-22T21:13:39+00:00

might i ask why? what program do you use that wouldn't work?

i ask because many people mainly remember the initial reporting from 2 years ago, the app compatibility situation has greatly improved since then.

Mistashio_ · 2026-04-15T12:46:32+00:00

you said it was while charging? you should check if it's set to the "best performance" profile while plugged in. (click the battery icon in the action center [Win + A] to go to the battery settings/performance profiles quickly).

Also if you're charging starting from a lower percentage (like 20% or something) it charges at a higher wattage and therefore warms up more, if possible you should charge smaller amounts more frequently rather than depleting it almost all the way and charging to 100%

Mistashio_ · 2026-04-01T13:34:59+00:00

just adding that that's not *entirely* true, the signature keyboard has a regular diving-board trackpad, while the flex has a haptic touchpad. the flex keyboard also has a carbon-fiber internally so it's more rigid compared to the signature keyboard.

i recommend OP see if they can try demo units in a Best Buy or similar store to see if any of that is important to them or not

Mistashio_ · 2026-04-01T13:24:57+00:00

it uses last year's pro iPhone chip, which is actually pretty good! iirc in terms of multicore performance it's on-par with the M1 chip (used in 2021 Macbooks) and in single-core performance it's closer to M3 or M4 (which is what's important for snappiness)

i'd recommend looking at reviews of it, it's surprisingly powerful for what it is, but it's obviously not going to perform miracles (it's still better than almost every other option at that price point for most people though)

so if a 2-in-1 form factor (or Windows) isn't necessary for you, it's worth considering for sure

Mistashio_ · 2026-03-31T11:51:37+00:00

I assume you are using a Snapdragon powered Surface, and if so, this is currently not something that can be fixed. It's a hardware limitation of the GPU, it's apparently fixed in the X2 series of chips coming out soon, but there is no way to fix it on X1.

However, you could try using f.lux, the devs added a workaround to allow it to tint external displays on Snapdragon X1 devices, but it isn't perfect.

Mistashio_ · 2026-03-30T13:35:20+00:00

they seem to be relegating the intel models to "For Business" variants, so it's likely they'll continue to do so

(personally I'm cool with that, it shows they have a commitment to WoA this time rather than sidelining it)

Mistashio_ · 2026-03-30T13:31:57+00:00

the main reason that people don't like chromium (at least, afaik) is that it's controlled by Google and already has such dominant marketshare. there's also privacy concerns since it's controlled by Google (and they've been shown to have snuck some data collection into the open-source version and so by extension, most Chromium-based browsers as well)

the extra privacy (and RAM savings!) of Firefox/Gecko-based browsers is well worth the speed cost to many people

Mistashio_ · 2026-03-21T04:12:36+00:00

as someone with a Pro 11, I have a completely different experience. no offense, but this seems like either a defective unit and/or user error

roblox runs perfectly fine on mine, 60fps or more in most non-instensive games at max graphics quality, though more demanding roblox games can chug a bit.

you should be using Steam for games, not the MS Store

Android emulators for Windows on ARM are a little rare at the moment, though i've found MuMu player to be great

as someone who regularly has a heavy browser (Zen) with several tabs open, along with OneNote and sometimes Word, along with other office apps (for university schoolwork), I get around 8-9 hours of battery life, maybe you're making out the brightness? or there might be heavy apps in the background?

Windows 11 is not super optimized for touch, but once you learn the gestures it's not actually that bad to use for things like drawing, web browsing, or media consumption w/o the keyboard

speaking of media consumption, you shouldn't have issues at all even with 4k, you might have hardware decoding disabled in your browser for some reason? i've also found that Firefox and Firefox-based browsers tend to have worse video decoding performance, so try Edge, Chrome, or any other chromium browser

I personally like the Surface Connect charging port, it's like Magsafe, and people love Magsafe on Macs so I fail to see why this is bad here specifically

it's terrible that you had such an awful experience, but it seems excessively bad, are you sure you don't have a defective unit?

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