DeskScapes in XP ......Again!
Wednesday, January 14, 2009 by peejay00 | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
Getting a bit of a tired subject now, but I have new information that may help someone.
My sytem is a 3.2 Ghz Pentium 4, running Windows XP with 2 Gbyte ram and an ATI X800XT graphics Card.
I reported recently that when I installed the latest ATI drivers, everything was running very sluggish and the processor was running constant at 50%. I believe other people were having the same problem.
I have now found that by unloading objectdock plus before running dreams the system runs perfectly smoothly with dynamic dreams, although the processor is varying between 20% and 35%. I have not tried it with video dreams yet though.
I think that all things considered I prefer to have objectdock plus and not bother with DeskScapes at the moment, but would like to make anyone with a similar set-up to mine who wishes to purchase DeskScapes, that providing they are not running objectdock, it should work fine.
Although I am sure that I will now be shot down in flames 
Reply #2 Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:56 AM
Antimated wallpapers sounds really good. I waited for it to come out for XP, tried running it and I guess my video/graphics card is not new enough to handle it. Then did some thinking about it and decided that if I had Vista, I probably woundn't run it.
That's my opinion and I'm sticking with it. 
Reply #3 Wednesday, January 14, 2009 12:18 PM
Would that be an AGP 4x motherboard by any chance?
Reply #5 Wednesday, January 14, 2009 4:33 PM
Are you 100% certain it is running full AGP 8x mode?
The symptoms are identical to my AGP 4x motherboard (Pentium 4). If you disable antialiasing then the cpu usage will drop.
Reply #6 Wednesday, January 14, 2009 5:30 PM
The symptoms are identical to my AGP 4x motherboard (Pentium 4). If you disable antialiasing then the cpu usage will drop.
Yes it is definately set to 8x and I dont have much else taking resources. Bit of a strange one. As I said though, it only becomes a real problem when I try to run deskScapes with objectdock running, it then becomes unusable.
The new ATI drivers should be out soon, so when I install those I will do a complete clean out of the old drivers to see if that makes any difference.
Any other suggestions are welcome though.
Reply #7 Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:01 PM
Hey Man thanks a lot for the info! I am running a similar setup and I have object bar and Love It! I have been wanting the deskscapes forever but wondered how it would do with xp. For me if it means having to choose between object bar and animated backgrounds I choose object bar hands down! Thanks so much for you input I really appriciate it!
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Reply #1 Wednesday, January 14, 2009 11:20 AM