Strange Choppy WPF Animation

Question

I am making an app that scrolls information on the desktop. The window is transparent. I am starting out simple, trying to find the lowest CPU use for animating things and

Answer 1

If you are using the AllowsTransparency property you will have performance and compatibility problems.

The technical explanation is here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dwayneneed/archive/2008/09/08/transparent-windows-in-wpf.aspx

from my personal (and painful) experience some display drivers will crush your program and others will make Windows work erratically when you have a WPF transparent window on screen for a long time, I recommend you try to re-write your GUI to not use transparency.