Dreamscene anyone?

Snakedoctor · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:08

Does anyone with Vista run this without any problems? When I run it, I will get the odd lock up or BSOD. I thought it might be the new Nvidia drivers, but feel it is me playing with Dreamscene.

Schnippzle · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:15

I get this as well. Occassional "Dreamscene has stopped working" errors. It also does not like some video formats, and it seems temperamental with compressed formats. Im on an ATI graphics card though, not Nvidia.

bledd · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:18

it's a steaming pile of poo

vista ultimate really is pointless

z0mbi3 · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:20

I've not seen a Dreamscene wallpaper worth having tbh.

Slinky1989 · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:27

Ultimately useless. Nice to look at, but then how long are you staring at your desktop for when using your computer?

I tryed it on mine (8800gts 640mb) and it just kept crashing no matter what drivers I used.

Jumping · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:31

U can use it to play porn clips

Seriously though it's not worth using and it does take a bit more system resources for playing something u hardly ever sees.

Schnippzle · 26 Aug 2008 at 16:36

Yea, very true. Nice concept though, I guess only lucky coder got an afternoons worth of easy work laid out for him

AWPC · 26 Aug 2008 at 18:25

Java and other programs can cause it to lock up. Have not had any problems with it for ages now though latest release is pretty stable.

Also loads of great free wallpapers out for it. I have around 3GB worth collected over the past 18 months.

http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.aspx?libid=50&sort=rating

http://www.vistahd.org/

MadMatty · 26 Aug 2008 at 19:50

The ammount of processor time to play the sample mpegs is ridiculous.on my old axp 3200 machine cpu is 100% with dreamscene and cant do anything with it on

On the Amiga you could do things like tv output as background with 0% processor used

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xb8browney · 26 Aug 2008 at 20:03

wincustomize.com Dream is allot better well for me any way. Uses less resources as well

Aod · 26 Aug 2008 at 20:47

i use some of the mpegs generated by electric sheep as dream scenes. they're fantastic!

Final8y · 26 Aug 2008 at 20:49

Dreamscene have never crashed for me & have only seen avg 7% cpu .

Aod · 26 Aug 2008 at 21:25

Final8y said:
Dreamscene have never crashed for me & have only seen avg 7% cpu .

dreamscene just crashed vista now, bluescreen and everything!

anyway, if anyone's interested in some Awesome Scenes which are fairly low resource guzzlers, take your pick from these:

just email me asking for whichever one you want by name, and i'll email them back to you. they're 5mb each (well, 4.7 ish) and all of them loop properly.
email me at:
dandarkangel <AT> yahoo <dot> co <dot> uk

replace everything in the "<>" with what it should be.

londonbairn · 26 Aug 2008 at 21:38

I have Dreamscene enabled on 2 of my Vista machines, don't notice it draining resources, nor has it ever crashed the PC.

If it crashes your PC, it's your hardware/overclock/etc not Vista.

Aod · 27 Aug 2008 at 07:11

rafster said:
I have Dreamscene enabled on 2 of my Vista machines, don't notice it draining resources, nor has it ever crashed the PC.

If it crashes your PC, it's your hardware/overclock/etc not Vista.

want some of my ones?