Windows 7... anyone?
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 by Smaky | Discussion: DeskScapes
I have just tried Deskapes under Windows 7 (64 bits) unfortunately all I got was a dialog stating that Desktop Windows Manager is not running.... tried to find it in Administrative Tools->Services but it seems the process was renamed or otherwise replaced by something else in Windows 7... so, no Dreams... snif... snif.
Is this only me?
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Reply #62 Tuesday, August 18, 2009 3:22 PM
There will be a version of DeskScapes for Windows 7, eventually.
Reply #63 Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:36 AM
Reply #65 Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:31 PM
As I understand it, if you have purchased Deskscapes you should be able to download the beta using Impulse. Just make sure you tick Show Prereleases from the orb menu. It will show up as Deskscapes 2.90
Reply #66 Tuesday, August 25, 2009 9:54 AM
will deskscapes 3 be a paid product or free product when released?
Reply #67 Wednesday, August 26, 2009 2:08 PM
This will depend on when you purchased your copy of DeskScapes. Usually we'll upgrade purchases that have been made recently before the upgrade releases. If you buy between now and the release, you will more than likely be updated at no cost.
Reply #68 Friday, October 30, 2009 8:43 PM
So I just got the paid for version deskscapes and Windows 7 (64 bit) and it won't load. Is there a fix yet?
Reply #69 Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:59 PM
Requiring people to repurchase software strictly for compatibility reasons is absolutely absurd. Everyone who purchased this software should be allowed a free upgrade to a version compatible with the most up to date operating system at no cost to the customer. Please do not defend this scam with the inclusion of new features as every new feature that I saw was laughably dismissible.
My Purchase Date: 8/5/08
Reply #70 Monday, November 2, 2009 5:11 PM
aside from Windows 7 compatibility, we are adding several new things to DeskScapes 3, like Hybrid dreams and Dream effects. This constitutes the upgrade price. In other cases, such as TweakVista to Tweak7, the featureset was not chnaged as much, so no upgrade price is charged.
Reply #71 Monday, November 2, 2009 6:42 PM
I think it would be entirely reasonable to expect that your purchase of a program would remain compatible with whatever OS for which it was purchased. I certainly would expect updates, etc to maintain function/compatibility with each OS Service Pack release, etc.
But with a new Operating System?
No.
Yes, Vista and Windows 7 look similar, and they are definitely 'related', but under the hood they are different, requiring program rewrites, etc. for functional compatibility..
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Reply #61 Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:49 AM
Right now I've got DeskScapes Free working on Windows 7. I presume that despite MS's dropping support for DreamScene (heck there never was DreamScene in XP), Stardock will bring "official" Deskscapse back to 7 so that I no longer have to rely on a half-baked hack? It's just a matter of waiting, right? Which I am perfectly content to do as my Dreams sorta work right now.
The only thing I'd like to see is for Stardock to untangle that stupid "multiple GPUs = no DeskScapes" stuff that was going on back in Vista. I have a 9800GX2 and a 7900GTX in the same system. This is because the 9800GX2 is a single-card SLI solution (Deskscapes/Dreamscene will run on this). But when the 7900GTX is added, Deskscapes and Dreamscene are MIA, this despite the fact that I've spanned fully 3D apps across both cards, Windows works on both cards and I can have a DX10 game going on Monitor #1 (9800GX2) and DX9 stuff going on (b/c the 7900GTX is DX9) on Monitors 2 and 3.