Deskscapes 3 is hogging my CPU, Please Help.

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I have Vista Ultimate and a few weeks ago, I tried installing Deskscapes 3 beta (not sure what version #). After rebooting explorer was hogging 60-100% of the CPU. I uninstalled and thought it was a bug that would be worked out in the final release. But I installed 3.0 last night and its doing the same thing. Any advice?

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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?

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

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


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Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

No, no previous versions of Deskscapes is installed

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Jeff: Please e-mail support@stardock.com so we can get more specific information on this issue.

Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top

Jeff: If you could also reference this thread when you email support@stardock.com that would be great :)


Mike