Deskscapes 3 is hogging my CPU, Please Help.
Friday, November 13, 2009 by Jeff Gamble | Discussion: Stardock Support General
Reply #2 Friday, November 13, 2009 1:43 PM
Not using any dream, just having Deskscapes installed causes it.
I have Vista Ultimate, so I can still use Dreams with DreamScene. And I know certain dreams are somewhat CPU taxing. But not like the problem I have with Deskscapes 3.
I wanted to install Deskscapes 3 because it has more advanced features that DreamScene.
At first I wasn't sure what was causing it, so I installed MS Process Explorer to find out. PE said it was explorer.exe bogging down the CPU and that was because of an underlying .dll file: "deskscapes.dll"
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Deskscapes, but had the same problem. It slowed the performance so much, I had no choice but to remove it.
Again, no real problem with DreamScene, just Deskscapes 3.0
Processor & Video Card:
PentiumD 3.0GHz
Nvidia 8600GT 512Mb
Reply #4 Sunday, November 15, 2009 3:41 AM
No, no previous versions of Deskscapes is installed
Reply #5 Monday, November 16, 2009 6:59 PM
Jeff: Please e-mail [email protected] so we can get more specific information on this issue.
Reply #6 Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:09 PM
Jeff: If you could also reference this thread when you email [email protected] that would be great 
Mike
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Reply #1 Friday, November 13, 2009 12:58 PM
Which dream are you using?
Some dreams use more than others. This is especially true of some WMV based video dreams.
Also what video card & cpu do you have?