supershaft1961

dreamscapes? a nightmare more like

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dreamscapes? a nightmare more like

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i was rather looking forward to my vista upgrade so i could finally use dreamscapes. i wish i hadnt bothered, its all a waste of hard drive space.

my processor runs constantly at between 30 an 60 percent depending on the dream i run, despite reassurances from stardock that dreams use up around 3 percent. even elefun desktops wallpapers run with less processor.

well i wont be running them. anyone else checked the cpu usage recently?

(i wonder if wincustomize have shares in intel or amd)

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I run a nVidia 6150SE and some dreams do run a bit on the high side(25-35% cpu) but no more than a typical WMV or DVD uses,and I have never had any freezes or stutters with the version of DeskScapes that I use. I don't consider that anywhere near an overload of my processor(AMD64)

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thats an ave. of a 8.8% increase in CPU and 4.6% in Memory

Well I've got an Intel E6750 (2.6 GHz duel core @1333MHz) and an 8800 nVidia card with 4GB of Memory.. everything is up-to-date (Drivers, BIOS, Dreamscapes, etc.)

 

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Ok,

I have done some testing with my computer.

Every time I unchecked automatically pause when running on battery. My graphics card or display goes black. I check it and boom its up and running again.

This could be linked to even though I have  checked automatically pause when running on battery. And I unplug my computer. I tells me the dream has paused but screen did not pause.

Anyone else having same problem?

Yrag,  Still no BSoD. Thanks for the help with that.:thumbsup:

Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top

when I pause it seems to take a while to actually pause... lol... seems to go through an entire cycle first... use something with a real short cycle... see if that helps with the not pausing issue... also... I've noticed that when I tell it run for pefromace, as opposed to appearnce, I don't see any dithering or anything... but on the really intense dreams, they do run better.... may be worth a try to lower the quality and see how it works out for you...

 

the one that I am running is called rolling waters... it seems to use very little cpu, and has very short cycles...

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Don't let the door hit you in the ass........

 

 

Personal attacks are not acceptable. Please refrain from further comments such as these or your posting priviledges will be put on hold.

 

while personal attacks are never warranted, one cannot be all that surprised by his attitude, he could have been more polite yes, but when your confronted with silly comments like the first one it's human nature to attack back.

 

 

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

but when your confronted with silly comments like the first one it's human nature to attack back.

 

I agree... the only downside is that Trolls never go away... they always come back....