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BobaFettm   02-11-2007 at 08:16:32 PM

Did anyone else see the microsoft videos of the waterfall moving on the desktop background? I've been searching and searching and I cant find this anywhere...

anyone had any better luck?

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jayrm14   02-11-2007 at 10:39:54 PM
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its part of the dreamscene addon for Vista Ultimate which hasnt been release yet.

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BobaFettm   02-12-2007 at 01:15:55 AM
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thanks guys!! Anyone know when this might be coming out for vista ultimate?

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Nonymous   02-12-2007 at 05:17:43 PM
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Microsoft hasn't given out any dates; they probably don't know themselves. I have seen a few Microsoft statements saying they *might* release some sort of beta version of the waterfall in February sometime as a "technology preview".

I'm betting there's been behind scenes talks resulting in Microsoft not releasing any of the fancy stuff until nVidia and ATI finally get their Vista WHQL drivers released for *all* their Aero-compatible cards. If Microsoft released now and people still stuck on beta video drivers had problems with it, then everybody'd be whining and blaming everybody else. Microsoft surely wants to prevent bad buzz.

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MowTin   02-12-2007 at 07:20:33 PM
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you can find DreamScene beta on bittorent.

It worked for me but with the Forceware 100.54 I'm getting issues on reboot. I have to turn it off if I'm going to shutdown or reboot because my boot may hang.

Another thing is the videos that come with the beta totally suck. The bliss (wavy grass) looks terrrible because it's low res. What I did is downloaded some HD wmv from MS site and edited them with movie maker. It looked great after that.

I can't find the waterfall either. Search bittorrents (sp).

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BobaFettm   02-13-2007 at 02:04:33 AM
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again thank you for the fast responses! :D

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MowTin   02-13-2007 at 07:06:25 PM
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I downloaded the beta from here

http://keznews.com/download.php?title=download

but remember the dreamscenes that come packaged suck.

Try this link for some content:

http://ipfreaks.com/dreamscene/?cat=1

Also somewhere on microsoft's site there are some sample hd videos that you can edit and use.

You can also rip a dvd and make your own dreamscene. Star Wars dream scene anyone? :) I can't wait to make one.

Sadly, for us 8800 users dreamscene beta crashes on reboots and some issues. I turn it off if I'm going to shutdown or I'll have to go in from safe mode to get back in to vista.

HTH

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Alpha_Magnum   02-13-2007 at 08:56:53 PM
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Should you revert back to or stick with XP for a while longer and require your own little slice of the Dreamscene old news; here is a link to a long list of companies that got video desktop on the money and out of beta long before MS did...

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com [...] paper.html

Should you want to have a 3D Flip there are links on this site...

http://bloggerdigest.blogspot.com/ [...] wx-xp.html

Madotate 2.02.02 happens to work on Vista as well as XP

There are a million and one themes and transformation packs out there to morph your XP system into just about anything you can imagine...

What at this moment makes moving to Vista necessary?

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jayrm14   02-13-2007 at 09:02:01 PM
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Maybe because we want to? Theres plenty of Anti-Vista threads in here, go complain there.

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MowTin   02-15-2007 at 02:44:49 AM
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MS just released an update called "DreamScene Preview." It only has one very boring background.

I found something called DreamScape for vista. You install it after you install DreamScene. It's free. The videos they use are better the MS although they only have 3 right now.

www.dreamscape.com

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islanddog   02-15-2007 at 06:24:23 PM
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Stardock has released DeskScapes which enhances DreamScene with features such as dynamic/live content, triggers, and more.

We have also launched Dream.Wincustomize.Com where you can download the software, and more .dreams.

Stardock DeskScapes Guided Tour

Dream.Wincustomize.Com

:)

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The_Abyss   02-16-2007 at 10:10:07 AM
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Quote :

MS just released an update called "DreamScene Preview." It only has one very boring background.

I found something called DreamScape for vista. You install it after you install DreamScene. It's free. The videos they use are better the MS although they only have 3 right now.

www.dreamscape.com



Any mpg file works.

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growing-infinity   06-01-2009 at 12:06:06 PM
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If you want HD dreamscenes go to www.vistahd.org and download like Satan's prodigy cuz most of them are for $= 0.00 ...
:>

There real good!

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