The mod doesn't work on Windows 10

[blryface]

According to the Modrinth description, it should work on either windows 10 or 11. I've installed the mod and it doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm using the Additive modpack, but I'll test this in a "vanilla" install to see if it works.

[blryface]

It does not work on a fresh install of Fabric 1.20.6, with only Fabric and the mod loaded either.

[PSJahn]

Could you tell me your Windows build version?

[blryface]

Sure! Here's Winver and neofetch.

[blryface]

Maybe windows update is just borked, so i'll try installing this supposedly optional update

[blryface]

I forgot to test again that day, but testing again today shows it hasn't fixed my issue. Before clicking the window the title bar also has some weird glitch, but I think this is windows' fault

[EnderKill98]

This is an odd problem. I think there are a few troubleshooting steps that can get us closer to what is the issue here.

1. Check if Windows "Fluent Acrylic" works in general.

Your version seems to be the most recent Windows version. That version being officially released in Q2 of 2022 isn't telling much though. Windows fluent design stuff is pretty new and I'd assume it wasn't full ready then. So it might have only shipped in updates.

Can you try to check if any other app can use the Acrylic Background? This would be a good indicator, whether your Windows installation in general has the ability or not. For me, the new Windows Terminal comes to mind. But feel free to test other apps, that should have the background.

2. Does the mod output any error to the console, when trying to enable Acrylic Background?

I'm not familiar with the new Minecraft Launcher. But there should probably be some way to access the game logs through it. Worst case you need to go to your .minecraft folder in %APPDATA% and check the contents of logs\latest.log (text file).

There might be some error related to the mod. If you could find any, this would be a huge help.

3. Is this a regression of checking for the platform?

This is a far fetch, but I recently contributed adding blur to Linux (KDE) as well. With that I made the Windows calls only happen, if GLFW determines the Platform to be Win32. Afaik this is the only platform corresponding to windows. But I might be wrong.

Can you try out, if this version (before these changes), behaves any differently? https://modrinth.com/mod/blurred-window/version/1.0.1

4. Are any other mods causing this perhaps?

I doubt this will be the case, since your instance seems pretty lightly modded, but this could also maybe the culprit.

It might be possible, that some other mod is preventing this mod from running the code, which instructs Windows to use the acrylic background (but doesn't interfere with the transparency otherwise)

Can you try out, if the mod works, when all/most other mods are disabled?

[blryface]

1. Yes, other native apps use similar functions
2. I don't see any errors from anything, I'm also using the modrinth app, so the instructions are kind of irrelevant in this case.
3. That.. shouldn't cause any issues? It probably doesn't just not see I'm running Win32
4. I've showed in 2 of the screenshots a completely vanilla game, apart from the fabric loader and Blurred Window

[EnderKill98]

1. Yes, other native apps use similar functions

That indicates that it should indeed work then. Then it's probably some weird case of, it being implemented the wrong way. I recently saw some blog posts over it. There are a lot of ways to get the "Acrylic" effect. It can be super detailed or not, and there are multiple other versions such "Mica" that look similar to acrylic, but are something else entirely.

2. I don't see any errors from anything, I'm also using the modrinth app, so the instructions are kind of irrelevant in this case.

I wouldn't have known, how to get the logs on the official launcher anyway. I think I launched it once on linux and that was it. I used to love the old Java-based launcher. But nowadays I stick to MultiMC or it's derivatives.

3. That.. shouldn't cause any issues? It probably doesn't just not see I'm running Win32

It is a possibility. Unlikely, but the window being transparent it done always. Reuqesting that transparent background to become acrylic is a different check where there was no platform check, but now it is.

4. I've showed in 2 of the screenshots a completely vanilla game, apart from the fabric loader and Blurred Window

Ah nice. It's hard to tell from these if there are any mods to me. That's why I asked.

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So in summary, it should work. I don't know then why this wouldn't be the case. I'm not deep into windows myself. I mainly use it for work occasionally and haven't gamed on it in almost 10 years.

But thanks for providing the information. I'd assume there needs to be more testing to see if this is actually on every Windows 10 Installation, or just some subset and why.

[blryface]

I'm gonna check on my laptop soon, if it works i'll tell yall

[blryface]

It doesn't work there either

[blryface]

Hey it's been a month. Do y'all have any updates on this?

[PSJahn]

nope absolutely clueless