Animated wall paper is not working

Hello,
Sorry to hear you are having issues. May I know what changed recently that may or may not causing the issue. New Windows update? New graphics driver update? New software installed. New codec updates? New software installed? Anything that come to mind.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

a few weeks ago all was working fine but when I tried to change the wallpaper 

none worked except for the one that was running currently 

I do regular updates on windows  there was an update 3 days ago 

and since then I totally lost the ability to run an animated wall paper 

Just as a test try download a new dreams from Wincustomize. Does the new one work? https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/dream

Also, check if you have not pause the dreams. Right click on Deskscape icon on your taskbar tray. Click "Resume DeskScapes"

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

i downloaded  2 animated screens to my download folder  and neither worked-   i went to the link in you tube and they work fine on you tube

where does deskscape save its downloads ?

I think it has something to do with the latest Nvidia Driver. I installed 576.02 this morning, and I'm seeing this same problem. Dreams will run for a little while and then stop.

Restarting Explorer seems to fix it. I'll work on this today and try to figure it out.

After spending some time with this, most Dreams run fine. I have one which was downloaded yesterday

https://www.wincustomize.com/explore/dream/15288/

which hangs once applied. If I restart Explorer, it seem to run fine.

Which Dreams are you having trouble with? Please let me know so I can test them.

Try gorgeous lake sunset by cyberslober

Seems to work fine here. Does it run for a few seconds and then hang, or it just won't run. Have you tried restarting Explorer?

Also, what version of Windows (use winver.exe) and DeskScapes are you running? What version of the Nvidia driver are you running?

ok i am back  let me preface that animated worked fine until the windows update

i download any animated   and it just won't run.   i restarted explorer

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Laptop GPU, 8 GB GDDR6, TGP 60W 

Windows 11 Home, 64-bit ver 24h2  build 26100.3915

ok i am back  let me preface that animated worked fine until the windows update

i download any animated   and it just won't run.   i restarted explorer

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Laptop GPU, 8 GB GDDR6, TGP 60W 

Windows 11 Home, 64-bit ver 24h2  build 26100.3915

Hello the current Windows 11 is 24H2 OS Build 2600.4061. Please try to update to this version. Ref: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/windows-11-version-24h2-update-history-0929c747-1815-4543-8461-0160d16f15e5

Also, here few steps you should check. 

1. Update to latest video codec by download and install K-lite codec pack from here https://codecguide.com/download_kl.htm
2. Check your deskscape video support setting. Refer screenshot below. Try those others options.

Try all these and report back.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant

hi and thanks for these suggestions  before i try this i noticed something odd  - after a bit of time the desktop view disappears and a animated screensaver appears - with full motion -  but when i install any  animated screensaver that does not work  -at all - - so i have a static animated screensaver and if i wait for the laptop to sleep or hibernate the pre existing  animated screensaver works fine  . let me know if you can figure out what is happening ?  

Please try purge and reinstall steps as mention here : [Link]. Just make sure to redownload the latest version from your account page. Reboot after the purge. Reinstall and reboot again after the installation. Retest and report back here.

Thank you,
Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant.

problem solved all works fine now 

thank you 

Awesome, really glad to hear that.

Thank you,

Basj,
Stardock Community Assistant