windows dreamscene released

[DavidGP]

Much better now Dreamscene now works of on my 8800gts with the new 100.64 beta drivers, doesnt fix the Texas Hold'em issue of flashing text tho.

[Nicholas-c Veteran]

sounds like the only good thing in vista

[SkillsToShow]

Where can I download more dreamscene backrounds? The one that came with the preview doesent work for me. It gives me a error saying that the format is not supported or there was a error decoding this file but my other music video .mpg's, wma's, and movie clips work fine.

[Linkinfamous]

What about the .dream maker? When do we get our grubby little hands on that?

[digitalsoft]

hmm its taking allot of my cpu... shame but it is old so its understandable... anyways its damn great.. especially with hd vids :D

[JustinTime]

I'm so happy it's available, downloading now. I noticed people have been asking for more downloads, anyone know where are the extra packs of different themes? I really liked that bird theme and the one with the Vista beams.

[Island Dog]

Not trying to rant and rave here, but honestly, this is really irritating.

* Extends Windows DreamScene to support Dynamic/Live content ~ Doesn't look like it, not a single option for that anywhere.

* Adds support for the .Dream format ~ Does that, however, it appears crippled at best, showing no preview of the movie file. It appears to just be the video file, and a file to display data about said video, in a locked propritary format.

* Supports triggers (change videos based on time, weather, etc.) ~ Where? That'd be nice. It doesn't even look capable of doing such a thing..

(Talking about Deskscape, not to be confuse with Dreamscene.)

DeskScapes will have dynamic content available in the very near future. There are a lot of very cool things in the works for dynamic/live content, and I know many of you will be pleased when it arrives.

[Island Dog]

This article gives a "guided tour" of DeskScapes and explains about the dynamic content, triggers, and other features of DeskScape.

http://www.wincustomize.com/articles.aspx?aid=144014

[PhiJey]

Can someone with vista rc2 install this extras?

[Jeex]

I might be missing the point here, and the risk sounding a bit old-fashioned, but why not just use an Active Desktop item to your desktop with a Flash file in it? I just tested with a full size (1280x1024) looping Flash animation and I didn't notice any slow down on my PC (fairly standard config PC at work...). :rolleyes:

[Gio Takahashi]

Installed it and now running it. This thing is taking up quite a bit of CPU.

30% - 40% at the most.

Edited February 14, 2007 by Gio Takahashi

[Mugwump00]

Installed it and now running it. This thing is taking up quite a bit of CPU.

30% - 40% at the most.

Same here. I expected DWM to sing on my nVidia Go 6800 ULTRA, but everything that is animated in Aero (DS, the old desktop-wallpaper trick, MyExpose etc.) consumes 20-60% CPU.

<15% I could except. My proc is a 2.26 Dothan. Even if I switch down to 1200x800 it is getting ragged.

How do others post that they see 2-8% CPU hit with DS? Is it related to the number of cores, or a true (non Laptop) PCI-Express interface? Is it speed-step skewing things? I've set min-CPU speed to 100% and set DS to Power-save mode and still it runs Explorer at 30%.

Anyone how to tune DWM on a Dell XPS-2/6800 ULTRA?

[guarana0324]

Still, it's amazing!

[nautiqueskier]

Theres nothing "untrue" about a laptop PCI-E interface. A standard graphics card cannot maximize the bandwidth PCI-E provides anyways.

As for the CPU hit, a graphics card can accelerate video but it is still up to the CPU to decode it (which is why with HD movies you neet a top of the line CPU just to be able to decode the stuff, ignoring video acceleration)

That being said, some formats are better than others for dreamscene. WMV is a smaller file than MPEG but it requires more decoding work (its actually based on MPEG4). Therefore, for a short looped dreamscene, its better to use the MPEG format, even though the file itself is bigger.

An extreme example is uncompressed AVI which requires practically no decoding (CPU processing), but is a huge file

[tdrock]

Can dreamscene play .dream format, or i have to get deskscapes

and the grass moving thingy that microsoft showed lunch day, y would stradock release it, is ms ..

[Morpheus Phreak]

I might be missing the point here, and the risk sounding a bit old-fashioned, but why not just use an Active Desktop item to your desktop with a Flash file in it? I just tested with a full size (1280x1024) looping Flash animation and I didn't notice any slow down on my PC (fairly standard config PC at work...). :rolleyes:

1 task for you then.

Show me how you can get icons to work properly on that desktop while still retaining their proper appearance or even showing up at all.

Web content breaks proper desktop support for transparencies This is designed to be used as Wallpaper from the word go, what you are proposing is not so it will have disadvantages that this does not.