DreamScene Arrives on Vista Ultimate Desktops
Posted 09/26/07 at 12:58:38 PM by Mark Soper
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DreamScene, the newest Windows Vista Ultimate Extra, finally made its appearance yesterday. DreamScene's been available in beta since February 2007, but it's now available in its production form. Windows Vista Ultimate users can download it via Windows Update.
What Is DreamScene?
DreamScene enables you to place full-motion video as wallpaper on your Windows Vista Ultimate desktop. After installing DreamScene, access it via the Desktop Background section of Control Panel's Personalization menu. Initial DreamScene videos include vid1337 (an animated version of the default Windows Vista Ultimate wallpaper), vid8897 (thistles blowing in a field), vid8899 (water rushing over rocks), and vid9899 (a computer-generated wall of fire). If your graphics adapter is capable of running Windows Aero comfortably (a Windows Experience Index of 3.0 or greater), DreamScene will work very nicely for you.
Getting More Out of DreamScene
Stardock Corporation's Dream WinCustomize website offers user-created Dreams and free addons for DreamScene:
- Deskscapes adds support for dynamically generated 3D wallpapers and changes based on triggers.
- Dream Maker is a DreamScene content creation program.
DX10?
Submitted by UnlnvlslblE on Thu, 09/27/2007 - 5:19am
Any word on DX10 content? It would be cool to put the 8800s to work.
Been using it since day one and damn has it been buggy and crashy. I hope this update fixes it.
Submitted by dcrail on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 7:57pm
What!?!? A Microsoft product that has bugs? Right out of Beta? That's never happened!
Help for DreamScene with MPEGs
Submitted by Marcus_Soperus on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 12:25pm
To fix problems with MPEGs and DreamScene, try the free Dream Maker program. It looks as if you can use it to reprocess an MPEG to make it work better with DreamScene.
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It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be.
Its the same thing i've been using for months
Submitted by Sonickid101 on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 11:31am
On the bright side it does'nt crash as much as it used to. I.E. all the time.
Submitted by Drunken Hero on Wed, 09/26/2007 - 11:30am
Everytime I select a mpeg trough dreamscene, I get a "Windows host process (Rundll32) has stopped working" does Microsoft intentionally put out software before its ready?
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