DreamSceen Vista News Discuss DreamSceen in the Windows Vista forums; Code: http://www.thehotfix.net/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=113&t=10920 The people who leaked dreamscene, about 10 or so, maybe a few more, have ...

[Snuffy]

http://www.thehotfix.net/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=113&t=10920

The people who leaked dreamscene, about 10 or so, maybe a few more, have all been banned from all Microsoft betas for life, and have been flagged by Microsoft. Microsoft is investigating, and considering jail time for these individuals. Anyone who downloads dreamscene from any of these leaks before it is officially released is strictly warned that Microsoft is tracking every user who downloads the Dreamscene leak, and every user who downloads is being automatically flagged by Microsoft.

WHAT is DreamScene?


Your desktop background comes to life with Windows DreamScene™. When you download this Ultimate Extra, you can select a video for your desktop background the same way you select a stationary picture. You can choose one of the high-quality looping videos that we’ve included, or use a video from a company that produces content for DreamScene. You can even use your own video as a background.

If you’re wondering what effect a video background might have on your battery life, don’t worry. Windows DreamScene respects your power settings and pauses the video to conserve battery power.

Some things that you should know before you start using Windows DreamScene:

Windows DreamScene supports only .mpeg and .wmv video file formats.
Windows DreamScene video support requires a graphics card that supports Windows Aero™.
For computers that do not support the Windows Aero desktop experience, this Extra still has something to offer: Windows DreamScene adds new positioning options for backgrounds, including stationary pictures.
Product Stability
Before you continue, it is important to understand that the beta release of any product will not display the stability of a shipped Microsoft product. We have tested the Windows DreamScene Beta extensively within Microsoft and do not expect major problems; however, use of any pre-release product carries the possibility that you may encounter problems which could potentially result in a loss or destruction of data. Therefore, we suggest that you back up your existing data before you install and run this software.


This release has been tested as working on RTM Ultimate Activated. It is unknown whether it will work on unactivated systems or any other flavors of Vista

IF YOUR THINKING OF PIRATING IT. Please Don't

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Since when is MS cracking down on people? lol!

[ProCookie]

Dam its been removed, anyone got antoher link??

[Snuffy]

I have found more than once, that M.S. has used "Remove or Else" to have links removed or downloads removed... since back in the Pre-XP days...
Almost ever "either remove or" has been later found to be one or more of the best known cracks/hacks/bypasses for what ever... and Some day you should read the "EULA" that you agree to as a BETA TESTER..

[crabby]

It's such a performance ruining extra... I wouldn't bother! And the fact that they use 'video' frankly means that it works like 'desktop' mode in winamp.

crabby

[ProCookie]

it doesn't use that much CPU on my machine, i read a review somewhere that the video card does most of the work so it doesn't hog your CPU power just your GPU witch is unnoticeable unless your playing games but i have a 256mb graphics card so i have plenty to run aero and dreamscene.

[crabby]

How much is 'not that much'?

crabby

[felix8406]

I think dreamscene is cool. You can god here to check it out: http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=122766

It does appear to be ram hungry. This is a comment from the above link: "Unfortunately it is only for Windows Vista Ultimate and the beta is using quite a lot of resources. ~50% CPU usage on a 1GB RAM machine and 15% CPU usage on a ~2GB RAM machine."

[Snuffy]

Microsoft is finalizing testing of Windows DreamScene through a Technical Preview phase. The technology preview bits will be made available very soon. Stay tuned for more updates.


Your desktop background comes to life with Windows DreamScene™. When you download this Ultimate Extra, you can select a video for your desktop background the same way you select a stationary picture. You can choose one of the high-quality looping videos that we’ve included, or use a video from a company that produces content for DreamScene. You can even use your own video as a background.

If you’re wondering what effect a video background might have on your battery life, don’t worry. Windows DreamScene respects your power settings and pauses the video to conserve battery power.

Some things that you should know before you start using Windows DreamScene:

Windows DreamScene supports only .mpeg and .wmv video file formats.
Windows DreamScene video support requires a graphics card that supports Windows Aero™.
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For computers that do not support the Windows Aero desktop experience, this Extra still has something to offer: Windows DreamScene adds new positioning options for backgrounds, including stationary pictures.

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[Seansmit17]

I took a look around the net and got me a copy of dream scene and.. welll.. my cpu usage was 80% or more on BOTH cores.. so.. as said.. it dose use lots of cpu still..