Dreamscene - is this a broken feature?

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,







--
Don

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".

"Don" <> wrote in message
news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
> 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,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>
>

sounds like a video driver problem.

does not happen with my ati card and drivers.






"Don" <> wrote in message news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
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,







--
Don

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.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"William" <> wrote in message
news:47E71BD8-D805-4851-99C8-...
> 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".
>
> "Don" <> wrote in message
> news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
>> 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,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Don
>>
>>
>>
>

"Don" <> wrote in message
news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
> 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,
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>
>

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.


--
It is the responsibility and duty of everyone to help the underprivileged
and unfortunate among us.

^^

It sounds like you're in the lucky minority then :

Some themes work better than others. Better in the fact that they tak
longer to crash. I gave up on Dreamscenes ages ago because it was s
unstable

--
smarteyebal

*T*his is not much of a *S*ignature

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.




--
Don


"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "William" <> wrote in message
> news:47E71BD8-D805-4851-99C8-...
>> 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".
>>
>> "Don" <> wrote in message
>> news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
>>> 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,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Don
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>

They all work fine on my system, you can also try DeskScapes and see if
you have more luck, they have some cool backgrounds there and most of
them are free.


--
Mr GRiM

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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.

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"Don" <> wrote in message
news:C3055BC0-129B-4157-AC99-...
>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.
>
>
>
>
> --
> Don
>
>
> "Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP
>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>
>>
>> "William" <> wrote in message
>> news:47E71BD8-D805-4851-99C8-...
>>> 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".
>>>
>>> "Don" <> wrote in message
>>> news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
>>>> 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,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Don
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>

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.


--
Don



"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:...
> 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.
>
> --
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Desktop Experience
>
>
> "Don" <> wrote in message
> news:C3055BC0-129B-4157-AC99-...
>>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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Don
>>
>>
>> "Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Richard Urban
>>> Microsoft MVP
>>> Windows Desktop Experience
>>>
>>>
>>> "William" <> wrote in message
>>> news:47E71BD8-D805-4851-99C8-...
>>>> 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".
>>>>
>>>> "Don" <> wrote in message
>>>> news:4C8001FC-F3ED-49BD-9F55-...
>>>>> 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,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Don
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>