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Dreamscene Final - Rubbish?

Stonedofmoo

Stonedofmoo

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Well I waited all this time for Dreamscene and now the final is released I've downloaded and installed it. I never bothered with the pre-release so I don't know what it's like

I seem to have 4 MS video's with it all of which are rubbish. However heres the thing.

It seems to use loads of CPU time, can't it use my Geforce 7900 to help with the graphics? The video loops with a black screen appearing at the end so it looks cr@p and is blatently a video

Is this the best they can do after all that time :confused:

Are there any options for Dreamscene anywhere. It took me ages to even figure out where you played a video!
 
Ah and even better for the first time in 9 months of using Vista 64bit it blue screened. Upon a reboot Vista indentified Dreamscene as the App and says my Nvidia drivers are the problem

Shame then my Nvidia drivers are the latest version. Guess I won't be able to use Dreamscene at all.
 
seems a lot more stable than the preview version, but just like the preview ive tried them and gone back to a flat wallpaper, dont see the appeal of this
 
imagine this. it works perfectly, barely registers any cpu usage, perfectly loops? now what? what is it's purpose? are you just going to sit there and look at it? :confused:
 
marc2003 said:
imagine this. it works perfectly, barely registers any cpu usage, perfectly loops? now what? what is it's purpose? are you just going to sit there and look at it? :confused:
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yeah, in the next dreamscene update, ms are gonna introduce subliminal messages into the videos persuading us that ultimate was worth the cash, :D
 
Well I've upgraded the BIOS to the latest version, got the latest beta nvidia drivers on my PC which were released on the 21st, installed the latest Intel INF's and after all that it's running better

I can't say I'm very impressed with it though...
 
Mines going well too so far. I have tried shifting resolution and enabling/disabling TV output and it seems stable thus far. Will have to see have it interacts with games and paintshop pro. These caused me issues before.
 
Mine runs totally sweet - it shudders every now and then when the machine is under load and on a 22" at 1680x1050 you need some really decent resolution videos but all in all I'm pretty happy with it. I have Downloaded the Stardock Dreamscene addon (DeskScapes) and also purchased their Blissful Dream .dream scene. Love it - a wallpaper full of grass waving in the breeze. The screen changes as the time of the day changes so at night there is a moon and in the morning and evening you get sunrise and sunset. Uses sod all processor as well. Much better than the stock Dreamscenes from MS.

I'm thinking that I might covert some of the Baraka footage into some backdrops: http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/baraka.aspx
 
Stonedofmoo said:
Well I waited all this time for Dreamscene and now the final is released I've downloaded and installed it. I never bothered with the pre-release so I don't know what it's like

I seem to have 4 MS video's with it all of which are rubbish. However heres the thing.

It seems to use loads of CPU time, can't it use my Geforce 7900 to help with the graphics? The video loops with a black screen appearing at the end so it looks cr@p and is blatently a video

Is this the best they can do after all that time :confused:

Are there any options for Dreamscene anywhere. It took me ages to even figure out where you played a video!
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Right click on screen go to personalise>click on Desktop background>at "Location" click on arrow and choose Windows Dreamscene and then click on what you want and it will then set as your desktop background!

you dont need a player to preview dreamscene......
 
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