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© Copyright 2007
I was updating my Vista OS via the update site and noticed they added Dream Scenes to the optional enhancements. I’ve seen this demonstrated a while back under an NDA agreeement, so finally I can say…hey here it is! It lets you embed a movie into your background or wallpaper (for those old school window users).
Pluses-there are some nice movies out there already designed to work as a dream scene, and Stardock.com is releasing free software to let you make your own, etc.
Minus-Load a large mpeg file as your background and suffer the lag of a lifetime.
Use common sesne, if the video is uber large, its going to eat up ram and CPU cycles, so try to find one that has a small footprint but has a nice appeal. Microsoft includes one in the download and it isn’t too imposing at all.
I did have a bit of trouble with the system returning from screen saver, so there may be a bug or hardware glitch in there somewhere. That aside…Dream Scenes are great for giving the once static background some graceful movement.
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5:53 am - March 5th, 2007
Which version of Vista do you have? In the business version, I can only update via the Update program in the control panel, and I can’t seem to make it find or install dream scenes.
8:19 am - March 5th, 2007
I have the Ultimate (32bit) edition. I went through the updates feature in control panel as well. I had to first tell it to check for updates, then went to the optional items where it listed dream scenes, bitlocker and a poker game.
7:27 am - May 5th, 2007
First, you must have Vista Ultimate 32 or 64, to get the “DreamScenes” unless you subscribe to the Stardock Suite.
Business Vista, Home Premium and Basic to not have this feature.
9:43 am - May 22nd, 2007
DreamScenes does not use CPU OR RAM….
It only uses resources from your VGA-card, and will not lag your machine…
Unless your running a game that need all the power it can get from the VGA, like BF2142…
5:17 am - June 2nd, 2007
this function isn’t finished yet, it suffers from multiple crashes using the report problems and solutions page it tells me microsoft is investigating and i should check back for a solution,
having said that it looks great and i can’t wait for them to fix it, just a shame its so buggy
2:17 pm - August 4th, 2007
Actually Dream Scene does use a little bit of CPU % to keep the process running, other than that you are correct, it uses very little system resources while running. It can be a little slow on boot up, and screensaver startup, but that’s normal for any application. It will not lag your games, when DirectX is initialized by a game, or a full screen window opens, it will suspend the animation (since you dont see it anyway) and will stop running until you return from your game or maximized screen, neat eh?
4:02 am - February 18th, 2008
damn Microsoft why it’s only for ultimate
9:20 pm - September 2nd, 2008
Dream Scene is vista Ultimate only option ,Google (non ultimate dream scene)
6:46 pm - October 8th, 2008
found another cool site outthere http://www.dreamscene.org
hq dreamscene´s, completly free, fast downloads, no registration,
and they have a tool called xpscene wich allows you tun run dreamscene´s
on your xp system. all files are in .wmv (files can also be used as motion loops for dvd menu´s and other applications)