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Rd_Falcon

I just did an update check in vista, and it now has the dream scene preview available for download, along with 2 other updates. Though it seems to be crashing my video drivers at the moment, so Im still trying to figure out what is causing that.

Update: I found that if I right click on the desktop and then click pause, and then wait for it to update the screen, then I can click resume and it actually works. My guess is the problem is due to the nvidia driver.

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

I like it so far, save for the fact the movie is such a small resoloution and doesnt scale well on a 1280x1024 or 1440x900 display. But thats why it's a preview I guess. 5 stars though.

HellSnoopy

Not working here ... After installing and restarting the "play DreamScene (preview)" on right-click desktop is greye out.

Gfx card is a geforce 7900 gt using 100.59

brian.shapiro
things go on as always

The best thing about DreamScene is that it gives you new options for positioning any wallpaper.

Maintain aspect ratio, or Crop to fit screen.

Massif
aim stupidly high, expect to fail often.

Ooohh... Pretty, but why only one packaged dream? And dream.wincustomise.com (or dreams.wincustomize.com not too sure on spelling now the links' gone.) only has two more!

Still, pretty...

PetKnep
IE7 RTM'd yay!

Which video comes with the preview?

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

Stardock already have free additions

http://dream.wincustomize.com/index.aspx?c=1

Rd_Falcon

its not much, but it looks nice.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

I've seen no Vista Extra's yet am I missing something?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

HellSnoopy wrote:

Not working here ... After installing and restarting the "play DreamScene (preview)" on right-click desktop is greye out.

Gfx card is a geforce 7900 gt using 100.59

That option can be used to pause/play the dreamscene video only after you've selected one. You have to go to personalize, desktop background first to select a video as your background.

My reaction: it looks neat. Not something I'll keep using long term (I find the whole concept of desktop background fairly pointless to begin with, and I'll always pick one that's as unobtrusive as possible. This doesn't qualify.)

harumscarum
out of memory

pretty cool. Yet another reason to always lock your pc when you step away.

Jason Cox
Longtime C9 Lurker

Sven Groot wrote:
Not something I'll keep using long term (I find the whole concept of desktop background fairly pointless to begin with, and I'll always pick one that's as unobtrusive as possible. This doesn't qualify.)

You have to admit though, if you have an auxillary display or just more than one display it's nice to have.

Kryptos
Backup People!

I didn't think I would like it, but I do. It's really nice. Where can you download more scenes from?

Island Dog

You can get more Dreams from Dreams.Wincustomize.Com. There you can also download DeskScapes and Dream Maker.

http://dream.wincustomize.com

Smiley

PetKnep
IE7 RTM'd yay!

Sylock Red is so much better than the one that comes with DS. I wish they would release some more specs on the .dream format. They are claiming you can make your own 3d and set triggers. I want to make dynamic content for the wallpaper Smiley

Island Dog

Dynamic content should be showing up in the next week or so. One it's ready we will update Dream Maker to include creating triggers and such.

Smiley

PetKnep
IE7 RTM'd yay!

Island Dog wrote:
Dynamic content should be showing up in the next week or so. One it's ready we will update Dream Maker to include creating triggers and such.

Stardock is lurking...[6]

Island Dog

Just keeping you updated.

Wink

dotcomslashnet

First off, I have to say Dream Scene is cool. Very cool. But...

I thought the idea here was that the video hardware would take on most of the work... this preview seems eat processor time. Will this be improved with future releases? Do the hardware vendors need to update their drivers for Dream Scene?

irascian
Irascible Ian

PetKnep wrote:
Sylock Red is so much better than the one that comes with DS. I wish they would release some more specs on the .dream format. They are claiming you can make your own 3d and set triggers. I want to make dynamic content for the wallpaper

What do you need to be able to use .dream files? The DreamScene that Microsoft supply is an .mpg file but the Sylock Red is a .dream vile and Vista doesn't recognise the file type as being suitable for DreamScene.

Is there a third-party add-in I have to download to play .dream files?

irascian
Irascible Ian

PetKnep wrote:
Sylock Red is so much better than the one that comes with DS. I wish they would release some more specs on the .dream format. They are claiming you can make your own 3d and set triggers. I want to make dynamic content for the wallpaper

What do you need to be able to use .dream files? The DreamScene that Microsoft supply is an .mpg file but the Sylock Red is a .dream file and Vista doesn't recognise the file type as being suitable for DreamScene.

Is there a third-party add-in I have to download to play .dream files?

Sven Groot
My name has 9 letters. Coincidence? I think not...

irascian wrote:

PetKnep wrote: Sylock Red is so much better than the one that comes with DS. I wish they would release some more specs on the .dream format. They are claiming you can make your own 3d and set triggers. I want to make dynamic content for the wallpaper

What do you need to be able to use .dream files? The DreamScene that Microsoft supply is an .mpg file but the Sylock Red is a .dream file and Vista doesn't recognise the file type as being suitable for DreamScene.

Is there a third-party add-in I have to download to play .dream files?

You need Stardock's DeskScapes, available on the same page.

irascian
Irascible Ian

Sven Groot wrote:

You need Stardock's DeskScapes, available on the same page.

Thanks Sven. There's a lot of stuff they try and get you to download and I've got enough crap on my PC already so was trying to download as little as possible.

Island Dog

dotcomslashnet wrote:
First off, I have to say Dream Scene is cool. Very cool. But...

I thought the idea here was that the video hardware would take on most of the work... this preview seems eat processor time. Will this be improved with future releases? Do the hardware vendors need to update their drivers for Dream Scene?

Once more stables drivers are available, I think you will see performance increase.

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