Vista Dreamscene

[Pwnbroker]

Ok, I was getting constant "display driver has crashed and recovered" errors, 26 in the last 2 weeks. I couldn't get any reason for it from event viewer, but kind of traced it back to putting a Dreamscene on my background. I changed the background to a normal one, and the errors have stopped. Anybody else have any problems with it? Does anybody know if it will cost me to submit a ticket to Microsoft?

 

[fyleow]

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[Griffinhart]

I believe Dreamscene is still considered Beta, so keep that in mind. They released the beta of it early due to the damand from Ultimate owners.

 

[Kappo]

I havent had any problems with it with a 7950GT. The woman's 1900 doesnt seem to have any problems with it either, but my box with a Quattro cheapo card wont even run it for very long before it gets errors (although never quits working). I would probably lean toward application error since I get no other errors and lord knows I have done a ton to it for testing.

 

[Smilin]

Yeah, I've seen this too but not that frequently. More often I'll get a dreamscene has stopped responding error. I mostly get this with the 3rd party dream files from Stardock, which also tend to have some nasty cpu usage. They are just to pimp not to use tho

Some of the MS dreamscenes are using ~5% cpu to run it on dual monitors. The third party ones vary from 15-40%. It's all background though so I don't feel the performance hit at all.

I wouldn't pay to open a case on this unless you see the same problem when the full dreamscene is released. Drivers should be getting some updates by then too.

I'm nVidia too btw.

 

[fierydemise]

I haven't had any problems in my little experiments with it so far.

Running an AMD 9700.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Griffinhart
I believe Dreamscene is still considered Beta, so keep that in mind. They released the beta of it early due to the damand from Ultimate owners.

That is absolutely correct.

 

[Tegeril]

I have only seen reports of the driver restart problem with nVidia drivers. I have tried both 100.65 and 101.41 and get the device driver reset error quite frequently - it's definitely dreamscene/nvidia together.