[Island Dog]

Stardock is pleased to announce that the DeskScapes 2.0 preview version is now available. DeskScapes allows users of Windows Vista to have animated wallpapers on their desktop. It runs the Stardock created .DREAM format which can contain videos as animated wallpapers or dynamically generated content.

The goal of the preview version is to evaluate the variety of hardware configurations out there running Windows Vista in order to see how well different types of Dreams run. The three included Dreams were especially chosen to check out 3 very different types of capabilities.

Stardock expects to release DeskScapes 2.0 later this month in time for Object Desktop 2008.

Get DeskScapes 2.0 Preview

[Burned Phoenix]

Finally it's here! Big thanks to Stardock from all the Vista Home Premium and Home Basic users!

[Johnnyboy]

Thanks for the release.

[pm_41]

Cool! I'll download this...

(...as soon as I get my computer privilages back... )

[BinaryChaos]

What a load of crap. Deskscape sucks!!! You install the program and you are given 4 animated wallpaper in which 3 contain stupid box logo of self promotion of stardock and the other is a field of grass with the sun shining across. The field of grass is the only thing that is nice but get ready for this folks if you want to have addition wallpaper separated from the four that you get you have to BUY the full version of deskscape!!! That is so lame and extremely stupid given the fact they throw three garbage animated wallpaper. I don't know about you guys but if you already have your dreamscene patch already installed stick to it because its not worth installing deskscape unless you are going to buy it.

yours truly,

One hell of a disappointed deskscape user

[Fraxtil]

BinaryChaos, on Mar 13 2008, 01:19 PM, said:

What a load of crap. Deskscape sucks!!! You install the program and you are given 4 animated wallpaper in which 3 contain stupid box logo of self promotion of stardock and the other is a field of grass with the sun shining across. The field of grass is the only thing that is nice but get ready for this folks if you want to have addition wallpaper separated from the four that you get you have to BUY the full version of deskscape!!! That is so lame and extremely stupid given the fact they throw three garbage animated wallpaper. I don't know about you guys but if you already have your dreamscene patch already installed stick to it because its not worth installing deskscape unless you are going to buy it.

yours truly,

One hell of a disappointed deskscape user

I could not agree more.

[Brendo]

Well it is a preview...

[Island Dog]

From the original news article....

'The goal of the preview version is to evaluate the variety of hardware configurations out there running Windows Vista in order to see how well different types of Dreams run. The three included Dreams were especially chosen to check out 3 very different types of capabilities.'

[Rich246]

Gforce20, on Mar 13 2008, 06:55 PM, said:

BinaryChaos, on Mar 13 2008, 01:19 PM, said:

What a load of crap. Deskscape sucks!!! You install the program and you are given 4 animated wallpaper in which 3 contain stupid box logo of self promotion of stardock and the other is a field of grass with the sun shining across. The field of grass is the only thing that is nice but get ready for this folks if you want to have addition wallpaper separated from the four that you get you have to BUY the full version of deskscape!!! That is so lame and extremely stupid given the fact they throw three garbage animated wallpaper. I don't know about you guys but if you already have your dreamscene patch already installed stick to it because its not worth installing deskscape unless you are going to buy it.

yours truly,

One hell of a disappointed deskscape user

I could not agree more.

I totally Agree also, this is a complete rip off, it also puts my explorer.exe at 150mb... I think I can live without thank you very much

[Fraxtil]

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From the original news article....

'The goal of the preview version is to evaluate the variety of hardware configurations out there running Windows Vista in order to see how well different types of Dreams run. The three included Dreams were especially chosen to check out 3 very different types of capabilities.'

Well, if the final product removes this limitation, then why does it say "buy this product" rather than "this is only a preview"?

[Villain]

sucks.
i made a app in VB that will slap a movie as your wallpaper, it you can even choose a movie to be looped infinite, and it never even took up more than a few megs of memory.

i actually dont like how stardock feet the need to wrap a movie in to it's own .dream format, it is like they made a special kind of zip file container for the movie, and wont tell anyone about how to unzip the movie and access it with out them having tthe app installed anyway.

[Island Dog]

Solo, on Mar 13 2008, 09:12 PM, said:

i actually dont like how stardock feet the need to wrap a movie in to it's own .dream format, it is like they made a special kind of zip file container for the movie, and wont tell anyone about how to unzip the movie and access it with out them having tthe app installed anyway.

The .dream format has several advantages. One of them being the author gets credit for their work, and support for dynamic .dreams which aren't possible with simple .wmv files.

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Well, if the final product removes this limitation, then why does it say "buy this product" rather than "this is only a preview"?

The decision on what the final free product will include, or not include, hasn't been made yet. There will be a free limited version, and the premium version which is included with Object Desktop.

[BinaryChaos]

Why do I have a feeling Island dog works for stardocks? So many answers to questions and yet no source to back it up...Doesn't matter what you say Island Dog the dream scene patch is out there and stardock would be smart to just let deskscape free for users to use instead of slapping on a senseless limitation and trust me when I say this it is a lot less trouble to edit/make .wmv and .mpeg file than a .dream file.

No offense to you Island Dog I'm sure you are well informed on the matter but its obvious to see which outweighs the other.

[Fraxtil]

Island Dog, on Mar 13 2008, 06:34 PM, said:

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Well, if the final product removes this limitation, then why does it say "buy this product" rather than "this is only a preview"?

The decision on what the final free product will include, or not include, hasn't been made yet. There will be a free limited version, and the premium version which is included with Object Desktop.

The IRC staff seemed to know what they were talking about when I asked them, but I'll take your word for it.

[Island Dog]

BinaryChaos, on Mar 13 2008, 10:48 PM, said:

Why do I have a feeling Island dog works for stardocks? So many answers to questions and yet no source to back it up...Doesn't matter what you say Island Dog the dream scene patch is out there and stardock would be smart to just let deskscape free for users to use instead of slapping on a senseless limitation and trust me when I say this it is a lot less trouble to edit/make .wmv and .mpeg file than a .dream file.

No offense to you Island Dog I'm sure you are well informed on the matter but its obvious to see which outweighs the other.

I do work for Stardock, and that is not a secret.

The DreamScene hack is not even comparable to DeskScapes, as it's a hack and with every Windows Update (the same with Vista .msstyles) you risk running into problems. A simple .wmv file will not get you dynamic functions, and the other abilities DeskScapes has.