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Reply to Static wallpapers being displayed with a weird white effect by Deskscapes 10.02 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Good news is that after reinstalling DS10 a second time this issue is no longer occurring. How bizarre. I guess that's me sorted for now...

Reply to Static wallpapers being displayed with a weird white effect by Deskscapes 10.02 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="sdRohan" reply="4" id="3762778"] Sorry to hear you are having trouble. [/quote] Thanks for your attention. [quote who="sdRohan" reply="4" id="3762778"] If you uninstall DS, reboot, do you still see the issue? [/quote] OK the 'bloom' issue is definitely not happening after uninstalling DS. The wallpaper transition and incorrect stretching were Windows' fault. I didn't know W7 did transitions :D

Reply to Static wallpapers being displayed with a weird white effect by Deskscapes 10.02 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Yup I definitely clicked that button and as I said applying a wallpaper from within Deskscapes works as expected. I've since also tested setting a picture as a backdrop via the Windows context (right click) menu, which behaves a little differently - it does a fade between the old desktop and the new desktop, then when the fade should be completed it turns the bloom/gamma/something to the new picture up by about 25%. So the problem I initially reported

Static wallpapers being displayed with a weird white effect by Deskscapes 10.02 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Hi I have this problem whenever I try to set a wallpaper outside of Deskscapes. Vids/dreams work fine, but whenever I try to set a .jpg wallpaper this strange white/contrast? effect is applied. The wallpaper displays fine if assigned to show within Deskscapes itself. Any tips?

Reply to MP4 not visible in folder in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Fun tip : DeskScapes uses codecs to display AVI files (AVI being a container for any number of formats) and as such, renaming your mp4 to avi or mpg works just fine with DeskScapes (assuming you have a compatible mp4 codec installed).

Reply to Problem with latest update on Windows 10 in DeskScapes WinCustomize Forums

[quote who="tzuyd" reply="8" id="3533174"] My build 10041 has developed an odd problem (compared to previous builds) whereby playing a mpeg1 stream .mpg file with DeskScapes 8.x will result in the Desktop animating correctly, but an 'ActiveMovie Window' pops up with the same video. In previous versions of Windows (Win7) this only happened when DeskScapes or appropriate video codecs weren't installed correctly, but on this particular build a fresh install of LAV Filters

Reply to Windows 10 Support? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="27" id="3580144"] Quoting tzuyd, reply 26 LAVfilters are pretty well regarded and don't have any problems with any other software on Windows 10, nor did they have problems with Deskscapes prior to Windows 10 up until the first build I noted in t

Reply to Windows 10 Support? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="7" id="3576667"] A media player window opening indicates you have less capable (AKA rubbish) video codecs which do not support windowless mode. [/quote] LAVfilters are pretty well regarded and don't have any problems with any other software on Windows 10, nor did they have problems with Deskscapes prior to Windows 10 up until the first build I noted in that other thread. Seems like a bit of a stretch to be blaming them.

Reply to Problem with latest update on Windows 10 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I wouldn't know how/where*. It's not a problem that affects any other program and I've had this problem with DeskScapes in the past (it's just always been able to be remedied before now). Any bug report I file will be pretty vague. *how as in what to say, where as in what section of the Feedback App to file it under

Reply to Problem with latest update on Windows 10 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Annnd after a *fresh* install of of 10071, latest nVidia drivers, DeskScapes 8.21, LAV Filters 0.65 this still happens. Since this is now a fresh installation I won't report back about future builds unless the problem has gone away.

Reply to Deskscapes 8 MPEG2 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="llennellV3" reply="8" id="3315564"] Here's the results. I highlighted the obvious. Is this the problem? How do I fix this? Thanks! Reduced 60% Original 996 x 330 [/quote] Not su

Reply to Problem with latest update on Windows 10 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

And now 10061 :)

Reply to Problem with latest update on Windows 10 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="tzuyd" reply="8" id="3533174"] Could just as easily be this build and go away in the next, though. [/quote] Still exhibiting the same behaviour for me in build 100049, fyi.

Reply to Problem with latest update on Windows 10 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="5" id="3532862"] Obviously Windows 10 is currently in beta and thus unsupported, but in our tests DeskScapes is working just fine.[/quote] My build 10041 has developed an odd problem (compared to previous builds) whereby playing a mpeg1 stream .mpg file with DeskScapes 8.x will result in the Desktop animating correctly, but an 'ActiveMovie Window' pops up with the same video. In previous versions of Windows (Win7) this only happened

Reply to Dream Manager 1.3.0 for DeskScapes 3 in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

Hey TMB. A weird bug has popped up with the latest Deskscapes update (6th Jan as far as I can tell, the actual version number didn't change though) where when DreamManager starts it kind of just hangs... when you bring up the window, its fully functional, but the status line says 'Starting...' and no dream is ever selected. Easily remedied by forcing it to 'Switch Now' and then the program starts up and loads the thumbnails etc and starts doing its thing.

Reply to Black snow?! in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Still black snow. snowxx.dlls are dated 3/3/10. Windows 7, Geforce 9600GT, 196.21. Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9 Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 6.7 DeskScapes appears to be activated on this PC DeskScapes engine appears to be running (Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT (Generic PnP Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT<

Reply to Dynamic Dreams in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

The plan to release the SDK has been announced over a year ago. Keep twiddling your thumbs.

Reply to Dynamic Dreams Information in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

It's been years! It's a bit slack really.

Reply to Black snow?! in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Humph. I just assumed it was supposed to be black. :)

Reply to Download bigger than expected?? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

OK I have the last beta installed and the option to 'Upgrade' has appeared for me and gives me the 'smaller than expected' error when I try to do so. I do not fit into any of the categories above, so I assume I should not be seeing the upgrade option. I assumed I would have to update and then during/after installation it would prompt me to purchase it. I assumed this because I can't find the option to purchase the upgrade at a discount anywhere, only the ful

Reply to Issues with explore.exe running at 100% Windows 7. in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

By 'disable' I think he means just displaying a wallpaper, instead of a video or dream.

Reply to Can't download DeskScapes 3.... in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I get the same, but I didn't care enough to look into it further. Good luck, guys.

What is it with the Watercolour Dream? in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

I've always assumed it was supposed to do something but never cared enough about it until now... I've tried it on DS2.0, 2.5 and 3.0beta, tried it on different machines with different OSs (XP, Vista and 7) - the only common factor between these machines that I can tell is that they all use nVidia gfx cards of one sort or another (GeForce 3, 6600, 9300 and 9600). I've only ever gotten the static blue background. It's not a particularly ugly static blue backgr

Reply to Installing Deskscapes 3 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Thanks Neil. Guess I'll take the cheap option and stick with the beta now until I upgrade to Win7 retail :)

Installing Deskscapes 3 in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Howdy ho peoples. A couple of questions now that apparently DS3 has been released. I previously bought DS2 back in Oct '08 (for Vista Home Premium). Do I get an upgrade to DS3? I've read Neil saying elsewhere that I should, but it was (just) over 12 months ago, so... Now I'm running Win7RC, so yesterday I installed the beta 2.92 or whatever. There doesn't seem to be an upgrade path to v3 available anywhere. Do I need