Windows Dreamscene

[riojin]

i only just downloaded it + the stardock addon. its pretty cool but it uses alot of cpu for my old computer.

http://windowsultimate.com/blogs/extras/ar...dreamscene.aspx (http://windowsultimate.com/blogs/extras/archive/2007/03/14/windows-dreamscene.aspx)

i like it but ill prolly get over it

[Blood Child]

what is it/what does it do?

[Driftspec]

Its an animated background to your desktop, only available in Windows Vista Ultimate. You can use any video file to use as the background. Full keen (when I get a Vista Ultimate PC) to try having porn as the background :lol: Its a great idea, and a real head-turner :)

Its a shame it causes a lot of problems, mainly with video drivers and trying to run DirectX games and programs with it enabled. We tend to turn it off on the machines we build, as there are many bugs with it that can really screw the PC up :wacko:

[riojin]

i disable it if i ever want to play a game (not often) but currently i have initial d battle stage 2 playing as the background. its good because its just racing and no bs. only takes up a good 23mb of ram. it pauses if im not looking at the desktop so i dont miss bits either

[ke70dave]

^^ i didnt realise it paused when you werent watching it..thats pretty cool..

i had vista running on my box for a while, got sick of it though, was tooo slooww, and too many bugs.

its very pretty though, and once they get a service pack for it, it shall be worthwhile i think

[Driftspec]

If vista runs slow on your current rig, expect it to perform worse with a service pack applied...

Thats not just speculation either, it will perform like a bucket-o with SP1 if it already runs dodgy.

Also note that there is a memory management update available for Vista which can improve performance in some cases, don't have the KB number handy atm but it would be easy to track down. And it is an optional update, not a required one :(

[ke70dave]

it wasn't so much vista that was slow

the actual operating system was awesome, i could run the full aero thing, and had no dramas navigating around.

but when i ran games or graphics programs they were noticeably slower on vista than on XP...

[riojin]

ive run xp, vista 32 and vista 64 on my rig. currently running 64bit.

speed wise for games and everything else it went like this

vista 64 < xp < vista 32

least time for everything was 64 vista. 32 was just a hunk of crap. i cannot see how anyone could stand to use it.

[Driftspec]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ke70dave @ Nov 3 2007, 05:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=430668)</div>
it wasn't so much vista that was slow

the actual operating system was awesome, i could run the full aero thing, and had no dramas navigating around.

but when i ran games or graphics programs they were noticeably slower on vista than on XP...[/b]

Aaah true. Glad to hear you like the operating system though. Working in IT retail, every person that walks in says "I've heard that Vista sucks/is crap/should not ever have existed", so it's good to hear a change from the norm :) And yeah, games need a pretty heavy system to run all that with the game as well.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (riojin @ Nov 4 2007, 01:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> (index.php?act=findpost&pid=431049)</div>
ive run xp, vista 32 and vista 64 on my rig. currently running 64bit.

speed wise for games and everything else it went like this

vista 64 < xp < vista 32

least time for everything was 64 vista. 32 was just a hunk of crap. i cannot see how anyone could stand to use it.[/b]


I couldn't agree more with that. 32-bit is fine for a Home PC (especially as some peripherals and their drivers can have heart attacks once they realise they are in a 64-bit environment), and generally home users won't see a difference in performance in 64-bit OSes. Enthusiast PCs should have 64-bit running on them, from everything I have seen it works really well as a gaming/performance platform. Plus, its always nice to know you can address many terabytes worth of RAM, if you really wanted to :D

My next rig will have 64-bit OS running on it, Vista Ultimate. But not Dreamscene, not until they fix it.

[ke70dave]

ahh so i might have to give vista 64bit a go

Yer i enjoyed using vista, a little hard to find things sometimes, but i guess thats to be expected with new OS

[Driftspec]

^^Need a 64-bit capable CPU to run it, such as AMD Athlon 64 models, as well as later Pentium 4 / Celeron D / Core 2 Duo models (with EMT 64)

But I will say, in an older system, going 64-bit won't make a great deal of difference. Plenty of other variables affect performance, driver versions/settings, graphics settings in game. If the machine runs fine while in Vista, I'd say that would be the problem there. You would be amazed how much small changes in driver settings affect performance for the worst.

Let us know if you want more info dude :2thumbs: