Deskscapes refuse to work, need help please!

June 2, 2007 10:27 PM from

I just stumbled upon this DeskScape program last night and I've installed it but I noticed a problem. I have no problem getting DeskScapes to work, unless they are large in size (15-30mb), ie: DeepOcean, SharkPit, ExoticPlasma. Any dreamscene thats 1-10mb seem to work fine, I don't think its a problem with my system however as I have a computer more than capable of handling all this. Here are a few specs: AMD64 3200+ (2.0ghz), ATI Radeon X850XT PE 256mb, 2gb DDR RAM. Any help would be appriciated.

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Reply #1 June 3, 2007 5:54 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

How many monitors do you have?

Reply #2 June 3, 2007 11:37 AM from

Stardock Forums Top

is it a problem? with more than one monitor? because im getting 3, and im buying the suite

Reply #3 June 4, 2007 4:11 AM from

WinCustomize Forums Top

Microsoft Dreamscenes has a problem with older ATI graphics cards and multiple monitor setups. It cannot support a combined width of more than 2048 pixels. If it exceeds this then it is unable to play video.

Stardock Deskscapes supports those setups for dynamic content, but not for video content as it uses the Microsoft Dreamscenes engine for video.

In general having 3 monitors will slow down both as data has to be copied between video cards.

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