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Did you guys break something?  I am on windows 11 and I have had this running for awhile.  I got a notification that there was an updated so I tried through Object Desktop and I got a red error.  So I removed the product and tried to install it again, but got an error and it won't install now.

Has Stardock ever thought of adding Sun or Moon in DreamMaker Pro?

It's utterly long overdue, just by a very simple fact that, NextScapes being almost perfect in its own right, but yet, simply missing the quench essential, Sun and Moon in the DreamMaker Pro.

Of course, I'm talking about something like, Interchangeable, Time-based Sun or Moon or just option to add such object.

It's been like, 10+ years overdue. It's insane.

Downloaded the thirty day trial to check this app out. This is what I am looking for as I just want to play videos in the background of my desktop. 

First issue is my computer appears to be fairly taxed running this app, 50% gpu/50% cpu. Files are located on a separate drive from  main hard drive. Ok computer, with 2070gpu/Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-9900KF CPU @ 3.60GHz   3.60 GHz/32ram. 

Second issue is it plays the entire video even though I selected the change file every 30 seconds. I tried 1 minute as well, no change. 

Files are .mp4 files taken with various gopros, ones currently playing were taken with the gopro 11 if it matters. 

Any suggestions on the first issue would be great... I intend to purchase this program if I can figure this issue out as this appears to be the only program with a playlist feature allowing me to play an entire years worth of videos. 

I've encountered an ongoing problem with my system that I have narrowed down to the Deskscapes host service. I think there may be a memory leak or some process that is infinitely looping and eating up RAM. 

• Windows Build: 22631.4317 - Win 11 23H2.
• Deskscapes Build: 11.02

There is a deskscape.dll thread that runs and continuously cycles without finishing. The Paged and NonPaged RAM pool for Explorer.exe continues to increase over time until all available RAM (64GB) is consumed and my computer becomes unresponsive. This can be seen running Sysinternals Process Explorer and exposing the Paged/NonPaged Pool columns, as seen below:

While troubleshooting this issue today, my system reached a point where there was less than 8GB of RAM available before I killed the DSHost and Deskscapes related processes. The RAM that was being claimed was released immediately. 

Not sure whether this is relevant or not, but I run a triple-monitor system with a separate image on each monitor, refreshed hourly from a playlist. I did test changing to a static background for each monitor without any playlist selected, and the same symptom persists.

Not a complaint, but more a suggestion/request.  I have three monitors set up on my PC.  I have two playlists with the same content in them and I applied one to the main screen and the other to the other two screens at separate times so they have all got different rotating backgrounds.

The suggestions I have are twofold.

1. Make it possible to apply to all monitors with different random starts so I don't have to maintain multiple playlists.  I would like the option to not have the same background on all three while still preserving the option to apply it to all 3 if I wanted to.

2. Make the info box a playlist only setting at least.  If you implemented the one above, then I should be able to apply the info box to 1 of the three screens.  I expected that since the setting was on a playlist, if I turned it on for the main screen and applied it, it would apply to only that screen.  It didn't.  It applied to all three.  Please make it playlist specific if you don't implement request #1.

Thanks!

Rob Edwards

Has anyone encountered problems with Windows 11 feature update 24H2?

One possible problem I've noticed is with Deskscape's randomization function. It doesn't seem as random as it was. It might be just my perception, as well.

Another observation that has nothing to do with Deskscape per se is with the standard Windows 11 wallpaper feature to choose a random background from the designated folder. Whatever process drives this feature seems to ignore one random wallpaper by presenting a blank desktop coloured by your designated solid background colour. I've had to change a couple of wallpapers from .png to .jpeg files to get Windows to display them. These wallpapers worked before the update.

Otherwise, Deskscapes seem to be working albeit a tad slower than usual.

Cheers.

I don't think it is due to Deskscape since, from what I know, Windows spotlight only show on lock screen, yes? And I believe, Windows lock screen is not control by Deskscape.

Have you try checking this?