Desktop Collage is a dynamic dream, and is unlikely to rely on any third party codec. This is a problem that has always been around though. Some games/software doesn't do a clean exit, so deskscapes doesn't detect the shift from fullscreen.

How do I get the 2.91 beta? Impulse says it need to run as administrator. The only user account I use is admin. I also tried setting the compatibility to run as admin, same error. Is it possible to just download updates and beta without Impulse? I really hate this program. It is always something.

Win 7 64

Once in a while the dream turns black, well the screen turns black but the Fences work. Then I try to use

the program to apply it again or a different dream but doesn't come back..BTW my DXDIAG program detects the Directx Version as 10 

Otherwise it works fine most of the time.

I'm getting some really choppy playback on some of the "Video Dreams" (not all of them). The ones that are running choppy are causing Explorer to use 100% of one of the CPU cores.

I disabled all non Microsoft video codecs with the utility "InstalledCodec" but it made no difference.

Video drivers (Legacy Cat 9.8) and DirectX (updated today) are current and up-to-date.

Not sure what else to try, any ideas ?

..........BTW, the Dymanic Dreams seem to be running fine

Windows 7 RTM x64 biuld 7600

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ @ 2.2Ghz.

GPU - ATI Radeon Sapphire X1900XT 512Mb

4gig dual channel ram

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 4.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 6

Deskscapes appears to be activated on this PC
Deskscapes engine appears to be running
(ACR X223W) 1 is attached to Radeon X1900 Series

Deskscape.dll                  2009/09/23 16:37:27
Deskscapes.dll                   2009/09/23 16:37:35
DreamControl32.dll                 2009/09/23 16:36:28
DeskscapesConfig.exe                  2009/09/23 16:36:49
UI\Deskscape.dll                2009/09/23 16:36:40
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll         2009/09/23 16:36:54
Activate.exe                     2009/09/23 16:36:32
DreamTasks.exe                   2009/09/23 16:36:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll              2009/09/23 16:37:44

Could be the bit rate or the format of the dream. Mine are fairly low bit rate and are mpeg2, which should not run choppy.

Are you having issues with any of mine?

Only one of yours, Spectral, the others seem fine.

Some of the ones that are using 100% of one of the cores are:

Patrick Mathews - Clear Blue, Embers, Hyphae, NegativeGravitySnow and RainbowStrings.

muckyman - venus

and a couple of Master Baron's.

Also, while typing this earlier, I was playing around with Deskscapes 3 Configuration to figure out the choppy ones and got a Bluescreen restart from Windows, Ouch!!!! THAT has never happend before

---Edit---

I can paste the minidump text of the crash report if anyone wants to see it...

Works great on Vista 32 but on both my XP machines Every time I preview more than 3 dreams dreamscapes freezes up and I have to close it through taskmanager

Any particular three dreams?

Neil,

I get the following error from DreamMaker 3 when trying to add additional content files on Hybrid Dreams.

I found a way around it by doing the following...

1) Click on the Hybrid Content button and choose the .hybrid file
2) Click on the Dynamic Content button and choose the .hybrid file
3) Click on the Hybrid Content button
4) At this point Dream Maker will allow you to add files in the Additional files box without the error

Neil, It dosn't make a difference. It's not always three. If i view enough previews it eventualy freezes.

funny but for the past year I could make dreams but couldn't play them back

on my own computer without problems , now with the new version and updates

dreams work again as they should - just fine with No problems -using Vista

ummmmmmmm

wonder what the problem was and what fixed it ? ........ have not tried

them yet with windows 7 ........

Deskscapes appears to be activated on this PC
Deskscapes engine appears to be running
(Plug and Play Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX/9800 GTX+

Deskscape.dll                  2009/08/25 18:53:28
Deskscapes.dll                   2009/09/21 15:21:06
DreamControl32.dll                 2009/09/21 15:22:28
DeskscapesConfig.exe                  2009/09/21 15:22:49
UI\Deskscape.dll                2009/08/27 18:19:40
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll         2009/08/25 18:54:54
Activate.exe                     2009/08/25 18:54:32
DreamTasks.exe                   2009/08/25 18:54:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll              2009/08/25 18:53:54

I think I have found a bug or shall we say more of a conflict with another popular program - Yahoo Widgets running under Windows XP.

I am using the latest deskscapes 3 beta, latest yahoo widgets engine (4.5.2) and running Windows XP Professional SP3 (fully updated).

The conflict is that to start the first dream after reboot, or with each change of dream file - if yahoo widgets is already running you have to close down YW, change and apply the dream file - then restart yahoo widgets. Abit annoying as you have to do it every time

Other than that Deskscapes 3 beta runs fine. I also dual boot onto Win 7 RTM and deskcapes runs like a dream on there too (see what I did there? runs like a... oh nevermind )

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What happens if you do not restart yahoo widgets after a dream change?

Neil, this is the windows error under events viewer,

Deskscapes appears to be activated on this PC
Deskscapes engine appears to be running
(Dell 2408WFP(Digital)) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275

Deskscape.dll               2009/08/25 13:53:28
Deskscapes.dll                2009/09/21 15:21:06
DreamControl32.dll              2009/09/21 15:22:28
DeskscapesConfig.exe               2009/09/21 15:22:49
UI\Deskscape.dll             2009/08/27 13:19:40
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll      2009/08/25 13:54:54
Activate.exe                  2009/09/23 16:36:32
DreamTasks.exe                2009/08/25 13:54:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll           2009/08/25 13:53:54

hope this helps

Then deskscapes seems to work just fine, I can switch between dreams quite easily.

On an unrelated note - the cpu usage for every dream in XP is much less than Windows 7 - why is that?

ps. Deskscapes 3 is a great product guys, if I could have one wish for a feature in v3 it would be a random dream changer - either every hour, two hours, six hours, once per day etc etc.