The WPF UI is blurring and broken while the Alienware NahimicOSD.dll injects

I know this is not the right place to post this issue but there is nowhere else to post ever. I’ve tried to communicate with DELL but failed, again and again, and elapsed two weeks. So I’m writing this issue here to apply for your help to give stress to DELL Alienware to solve this issue.

As we know, the DELL Alienware pushed a new Alienware Command Center update and breaks all WPF apps rendering. The critical file is the NahimicOSD.dll which is injected into any process and adds some post rendering to the UI which breaks all WPF apps.

Someone else discussed this problem in the DELL community and I joined them too, but no DELL software developer answered the topics. The topics are:

• Area-51m R2, blurred text and images in some apps - Dell Community
• m17 R2, WPF apps distorted, disappearing window contents - Dell Community

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To the WPF repository owners:

We can set the RenderOptions.ProcessRenderMode to RenderMode.SoftwareOnly to solve this issue temporarily, but I think you could do more such as contact DELL or keep a place here to let others contact DELL. I’m one of the WPF repo contributors, and this voice on this page is one of what I’m doing to make WPF better, not only contributing to the code.

[walterlv]

Ralated files:

• C:\ProgramData\A-Volute\DellInc.AlienwareSoundCenter\Modules\ScheduledModules\NahimicOSD.dll
• C:\ProgramData\AWHeadset\DellInc.AlienwareSoundCenter\Modules\ScheduledModules\NahimicOSD.dll

Related links:

• https://github.com/dotnet/wpf/issues/707
• Area-51m R2, blurred text and images in some apps - Dell Community
• m17 R2, WPF apps distorted, disappearing window contents - Dell Community
• WHAT DID DELL DO? All WPF apps are rendered in a mess! - walterlv

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[dejudicibus]

No, sorry.

On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 at 01:58 lindexi @.***> wrote:

Thank you, @dejudicibus https://github.com/dejudicibus

But can DELL add my application to the list by default?

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