Fade and TRect and windowed mode

[User137]

... there is now an ugly transition from full screen to windowed mode before the app starts :twisted:

Sounds like badly initialized video, or it is done twice. Have you tried putting off Autoinitialize and then manually call DXDraw.Initialize in formCreate?

Edit: Also you should check if resize events (form or DXDraw) do something undesired when app starts.