Some people are having Dream Problems

Some Dreams working for some but not others - WHY ???

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 by AzDude | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers

IN RESPONSE TO A FEW PEOPLE WHO POSTED THAT A FEW OF THE DREAMS DON'T WORK FOR THEM , I WROTE THIS - BUT AFTER I WROTE THIS I HAD ONE MORE THOUGHT - COULD IT BE THE PROGRAMS WE USE TO MAKE THE MPG2 FILES BE DIFFERENT IN THEIR CODING OF MPG2 ??? POSSIBLY CAUSING THE PROBLEM ?? I'M STUMPED ???? I KNOW ALOT HAS TO DO WITH THE VARIOUS COMPUTER MAKE-UP'S I.E. RAM - VID CARD ETC. BUT FOR THE FEW WHO CLAIM TO HAVE ENOUGH COMPUTER - I MAKE THIS POST >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> THIS WAS MY RESPONSE POST ..............................." I don't understand this either why some Dreams work for most people and a select few have a problem with a few Dreams - plain and simple the Dreams are made in the MPG2 format and then converted to the .dream file for download - 1 format for all ( unless you go .wmv but then CPU usage goes up ) - You would think if 1 MPG2 file and 1.dream file works for you they should all work - but they don't.-could it be maybe in the coding of the Mother Programs ( Dream Scene and/or DeskScapes ) were the problem lies ??? - Like I said before all my Dreams are fully tested to work flawlessly on my machine before submission - so I'm stumped why you chosen few have the problems when 100's of others don't . Enough has been mentioned about this in various Dream posts that I would expect WC to address the problem sooner or later - they made the program and it will probably be one of their techs who will fiqure it out - hopefully soon - 'cause some people are getting upset . This Dream thing is a whole new Concept and as such it would be very un likely for it not to have a few flaws ( bugs ) out the gate . Hopefully in time this will work itself out - but I would like to see this issued addressed by WC as to what they think is going on ????? ....... I FILL BAD FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING PROBLEMS - HOPING OF COURSE IT'S NOT SOMETHING I'M DOING WRONG ??? ----- PLEASE HELP WC IF YOU CAN - to shed some light on this issue - Thank You ...." ...... This is the Link to the posts i'm referring to here WWW Link
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bistro
Reply #21 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:51 AM
 
You know whats hilarious.. The whole time you have been on the site I thought you were azNDude.. ur not asian r ya?   


\needs a nap.


No, no, no....he's Aztec....not Asian.

xgman
Reply #22 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:33 AM
Make sure that everyone updates to the latest codecs package 4.3.1:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Advanced-Vista-Codec-Package.shtml

vStyler
Reply #23 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:48 AM
No, no, no....he's Aztec....not Asian.


oh.. lol..well thats Ironic, lightstar and myself just threw together this...

WWW Link

  

AzDude
Reply #24 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:48 AM
AzDude = Arizona Dude !!!   

AzDude
Reply #25 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:49 AM
oh.. lol..well thats Ironic, lightstar and myself just threw together this...


actually very nice job   

AzDude
Reply #26 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:50 AM
Make sure that everyone updates to the latest codecs package 4.3.1:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Advanced-Vista-Codec-Package.shtml


very good and quite helpful , thanks ~~  

vStyler
Reply #27 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:51 AM
lol... I thought maybe it was Arizona   

xgman
Reply #28 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 11:58 AM
http://www.free-codecs.com/Vista_Codec_Package_download.htmhttp://www.free-codecs.com/Vista_Codec_Package_download.htm

AzDude
Reply #29 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:02 PM
http://www.free-codecs.com/Vista_Codec_Package_download.htmhttp://www.free-codecs.com/Vista_Codec_Package_download.htm


Excellent !

Dist
Reply #30 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:24 PM
Careful, the codec pack can wreck havoc if you use Media Center on Vista.

Hippie
Reply #31 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 1:56 PM
My computer is pretty clean, no so called third party junk file, in fact, mostly just music. I have DLed the Vista pack mentioned above, but still only about two thirds of the dreams work. Oh yea, I do have an nVidia card, but I have the latest drivers for it. My computer is probably more up to date than anyones, cause all I do is check for updates and DL Dreams, and WB's, but I'm not even using the WB's. I figure it's like XP, it'll just take about a year before everything halfass works.

AzDude
Reply #32 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:11 PM
Careful, the codec pack can wreck havoc if you use Media Center on Vista


more good and important info

Hippie
Reply #33 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:25 PM
I've got a ? Where do you put the Dreams. For example, I just leave mine in the Download folder. I've tried Dreamscapes, but did'nt make any difference. Oh, and I have never even turn the Media Center on.

boss0190
Reply #34 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 2:56 PM
I just open Deskscapes, click "Add/Remove Animated Desktops", and drag them there from my download folder.

AzDude
Reply #35 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 3:42 PM
i made a dream folder and put them in , but when on desktop backgrounds they are there or also in the downloded folder so i can click from either place and they start up ..

Hippie
Reply #36 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:03 PM
OK. I just moved them, the way boss0190 said. Didn't make any difference. I have also made a Dream folder, and tried that way. No difference. I have, however, looked at the ext., and, the ones in mpg or wmv, seem to actually work better than the ones with the dream ext. I tried changing the ext., with shelltoys, and it didn't make any difference. So, I give up. I'll just use the one's that work, and hope that some day they will all work. An example is BallImpactRow. It worked for about 30 seconds, then froze. Now it doesn't work at all. All the one's AzDude have made, don't work, and that's a shame because they all look so good. I'm not judging, I wish I could get them to work, because, most of them look pretty cool. Also, not trying to piss anyone off, just trying to figure out the problem. So, PEACE, OK?

Norred1432
Reply #37 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:06 PM
you know, about the dreamscene problems with nvidia..

Nvidia has beta drivers for vista.... i moved to those drivers after i was having problems with dreamscene crashing my feb 20, 2007 nvidia drivers. Since then, everything has been running perfectly.

Hippie
Reply #38 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 5:05 PM
I have the vista drivers from nvidia. no difference. Ver., 100.something.

Nicholas Livingston
Reply #39 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 9:34 PM
i have had problems with a few of the dreams just freezing and going
to a really bad blocked up picture. my system is clean, pentium d, 2 gb ram.
but i dont have nvidia. i have an ati 512mb...

AzDude
Reply #40 Tuesday, March 13, 2007 10:28 PM
Sorry Hippie your having the problem , hopefully you get a fix soon because you will be missing some cool stuff ... GL

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