New Windows vista dreamscene site, www.vistahd.org


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Really well done on the site aeroaddict! I love it, and am have downloaded a fair few dreams from it. They all look great, work great, and hardly use any memory, so well done again!

Keep up the excellent work ;)

i love the bubbles one... wait.. so these only work with the stardock app.. not the reg dreamscene that comes with vista ultimate?

stardock deskscape is freeware, moreover it has some performance gains over the normal dreamscene app that comes with vista ultimate....its apretty light wt app and is the only one that allows dreamscene authors to keep their signature alongwith the dream files :)

okey guys here is todays dreamscene update at vistahd.org

Longhorn Bliss & Candle light dream

so how can another program that uses memory use less memory that just having them in wmv files? :s im lost.

With just wmv files its just dreamscene using the memory, but with a 3rd party app, you using memory to run both dreamscene and the 3rd party program.. am i wrong here or have i just confused people?

EDIT:

my stock memory being used is 733mb with hardly no activity from the cores (maybe 1 or 2% here and there)

i tested a stock dreamscene and my memory being used when upto 861-ish with both cores doing around 6-12% AFTER is had settled down after a few seconds of running

i cant see how another app will get lower results than that, ok i'll take a punt and say my results aint great, but thats what my system decided to do LOL

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Hum, how do I use those .dream files, extract or?

you have to install a freeware stardock application for vista ultimate that is DESKSCAPE

thanx for all ur inspirational posts guys :blush:

dunt forget to check back the regular site updates, i may not be able to update the forums everyday of my new submissions ......my seamesters are coming :cry: .....but not to worry i ll keep updating dreamscenes daily at my site :D

meanwhile here are some new dreamscene submissions at vistahd.org

Voyage & Greenblobs

Very Very Beautiful site you have there Addict I have not seen such an "easy-on-the-eyes" site in a long long time my only suggestion is that you make the scrolling somehow smoother cos at the moment it kinda stutters if you get my drift..

As for the Dreams they are very beautiful and admirable I would use them but its gonna chomp on my ram and theres not much ram to chomp on :laugh:

Very Very Beautiful site you have there Addict I have not seen such an "easy-on-the-eyes" site in a long long time my only suggestion is

that you make the scrolling somehow smoother cos at the moment it kinda stutters if you get my drift..

As for the Dreams they are very beautiful and admirable I would use them but its gonna chomp on my ram and theres not much ram to chomp

on :laugh:

I will be workin on makin the scrolling smoother :)

Will it make a difference if we use 720p rather than 1080p on a 19" WS LCD?

yep running 720p wud use less system resources if u do not hav a hi end grafix card

make some in wmv or mpeg and i think more people will use it, i know i would

sorry man, if i giv away the dreams in mpg or wmv there is no way to giv credit to the original author, moreover they can be used by anyone as any stock vdo resulting in the dream vdos not solving its tru purpose...but still ill see what i can do :)

HD rez dreams, nice.

Can you setup a RSS feed of the dreams for your site?

hey doli i m not very good at web stuffs so if u hav any suggestions that will be helpful to me ill higly appreciate that

In the meantime more dreamscene updates at vistahd.org

Lighthouse and sunset dreamscene

HAPPY NEW YEAR guys :p

sorry for the site downtime, but my server was hit by unexpected traffic :blink: resulting in the cheap server crashing, so i had to build and

upload everythng from scratch again in a new more efficient server :o wish me luck this time :lol:

meantime some more HD dreamscene updates are here too at vistahd.org so dunt forget to check them out B)

Christmas stars

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Green mountain falls

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i would really think about getting these on wmv or mpeg files as your loosing out on people using this, personally i see deskscape as bloatware and as Pupik said im not willing to to install software just to read a extention that stardock decided to create so that they could get some extra $$$ of daft people, esp when Vista does it for free

i would really think about getting these on wmv or mpeg files as your loosing out on people using this, personally i see deskscape as bloatware and as Pupik said im not willing to to install software just to read a extention that stardock decided to create so that they could get some extra $$$ of daft people, esp when Vista does it for free

vistahd.org hav now given the mpg's and wmv's for download...check them out

I also do not like the .dream extension, because this is not a standard file format like .mpg or .wmv. So the .dream format will only slow down the creating of new DreamScenes. I found some free WMV DreamScenes on dreamscene.org but there are a lot other free DreamScenes you can find with google (often posted as filehoster links in forums or geustbooks)

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