Dreamscene - is this a broken feature?

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Hey gang,

It has been a while since I gave this a try, this afternoon decided to load
up the waterfall dreamscene as my desktop background.
I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit, SP1, with all updates.
I have an Nvidia 8800 640 mb video card, with the latest drivers.
I also have the latest Direct X run time update.

So I set the dreamscene as my background, and immediately, upon open or
closing windows, started getting a blank screen, then it would restore, with
a message the display driver stopped working but has been restored.
I had media player playing, and it stopped, with a message I had run out of
memory ( I have 4gb of ram ).

Is this typical, for trying to run a Dreamscene background? I do not have
any issues like this with the std vista background, system is rock solid.

Thanks for any tips here,
 
Sorry I can't offer any help but I have a similar problem with Vista
Ultimate 32 bit, each time I set one of the dreamscene programs as
background before I end the day my screen goes black and I get a message
that dreamscene has had a problem and needs to close. I have had this
problem for about a year now. So to answer your question I would say "yes,
this is a broken feature".
 
sounds like a video driver problem.

does not happen with my ati card and drivers.


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Hey gang,

It has been a while since I gave this a try, this afternoon decided to load
up the waterfall dreamscene as my desktop background.
I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit, SP1, with all updates.
I have an Nvidia 8800 640 mb video card, with the latest drivers.
I also have the latest Direct X run time update.

So I set the dreamscene as my background, and immediately, upon open or
closing windows, started getting a blank screen, then it would restore, with
a message the display driver stopped working but has been restored.
I had media player playing, and it stopped, with a message I had run out of
memory ( I have 4gb of ram ).

Is this typical, for trying to run a Dreamscene background? I do not have
any issues like this with the std vista background, system is rock solid.

Thanks for any tips here,
 
I also had problems running Dream Scene on my computer - until I upgraded to
a different M/B and a more powerful CPU. I guess the 4 gig of RAM helps
also.

It is not for the marginally equipped computers.
 
Don said:
Hey gang,

It has been a while since I gave this a try, this afternoon decided to
load up the waterfall dreamscene as my desktop background.
I run Vista Ultimate 64 bit, SP1, with all updates.
I have an Nvidia 8800 640 mb video card, with the latest drivers.
I also have the latest Direct X run time update.

So I set the dreamscene as my background, and immediately, upon open or
closing windows, started getting a blank screen, then it would restore,
with a message the display driver stopped working but has been restored.
I had media player playing, and it stopped, with a message I had run out
of memory ( I have 4gb of ram ).

Is this typical, for trying to run a Dreamscene background? I do not have
any issues like this with the std vista background, system is rock solid.

Thanks for any tips here,
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I have Vista Ultimate 32 bit, an ATI graphics card and 4MB of RAM. I've
never had any problems running any of the DreamScenes, including the ones I
downloaded from WinCustomize.

C.B.
 
I run an Intel Core2 Quad 45nm chip at 3.6 ghz, on a 780i mb, with 4gb of
ram, and a Nvidia 8800 GTS 640 mb graphics card.
 
Now using a Pentium 4 hyper threading processor (3.2 gig), 4 gig RAM and a
6800GT video card.

Dream Scene works fine at this point. Sorry you are having problems.
 
Hey gang,

Thought I would report back. Apparently, it was a video driver related issue
causing my troubles.

I was running the Nvidia 178.13 drivers for Vista 64, I downloaded and
installed the new 178.24 drivers yesterday, so far all seems well now
running Dreamscene background, at least with the waterfall .

Thought I might mention in case anyone else runs across this issue.
 
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