hello again, neil. that file you asked about is in the deskscapes folder. the app crashes instantly. there is less than 2 seconds after i try to open the control dialog before it crashes. the only dreams installed are the ones that come with deskscapes.  i've uninstalled the app, rebooted, and installed it again. same resullt.

Way to go CarGuy1.  Good of you to catch that and alert the folks.

where is dream folder?

I actually had it running for a while.  I didn't actually run any dreams, but I clicked on all the different dreams that came with it and watched the previews.  I went in to add my dream directories and it crashed right after.  I re-booted and it was crashing on start up.  I uninstalled, re-booted and re-installed - re-booted but it still crashes on start up.

Vista 32

AMD 9600 quad core 2.30 Ghz

3 Gb ram

ATI Radeon 4650 video card with 512 Mb

What is in the folder you added?

update: i just installed the small (9 megs or so) update to Deskscapes. after rebooting, same undesired result. sorry, neil

Edit: Problem solved with the newest update.

Rebooted after install and dx is updated in win7 rtm ultimate - here we go - works like a new one - Thank you Stardock!

PianoArt: On my Vista 32 machine it's under: C:\Users\Your User Name\Documents\Stardock\Dreams

(Substitute your user name here)

I took a bunch of dreams out of my dream folder and it's working now, except,

when I run a dream now, my icons in Fences all show on the desktop (not the fences, just the icons).

they disappear when I right click and the menu shows, but when I close the menu, the icons

all appear again!

I'm gonna boot into Win 7 and try it there!

(betas are SO much fun!)

Which dreams did you remove?

I removed 38 dreams

I will add them one at a time to see which are problems.

So far:

• 2D3DCubic
• 3Molecules
• Alternate_Reality
• BlueHank
• WelcometotheMachine
• AUBars
• AuroraBurn
• AustraliaSquare
• BlueRing
• BlueTechWall
• Cascades
• ChromeGlobe
  

All work, in that they don't crash the interface.

On an XP SP3 Athlon64 3G RAM ATI Radeon 3600 1G system update to 2.9 fails and crashes system. Even error reflected in Safe Mode. Error : unable to find d3dx9_40.dll. Real concern if able to have successful System Restore session.

Addendum: I have been able to Restore to 2.5 Deskscapes and system working ok.

After downloading DirectX update from the link, update took smoothly-

Very nice layout - wish I had a laptop to show others what has been achieved so far . . .

Thanks Neil

It looks nice. But:

When I try to select the "Stars" dynamic dream, it instacrashes.

"Desktop Collage" preview is all buggered up.

(Vista Home Premium x64 swedish)

On a sidenote:

Pick a picture of a nice landscape and load it as background on the water dream, set drops to occur with a minimum time between drops and put drop size to 75% or so. Finally, switch on extreme motion blur effect... That's really eerie

neil, if it matters, i'm using an ati 4870 with the newest cat drivers, win 7 ultimate 64.