If your video card is poor, then Dynamic Dreams will perform poorly too visually. Their performance is tied to your video card. Stardock Cube floats gently around the screen on a reflective surfaceÄynamic Dreams use very little CPU. This way, artists can concentrate on making visually impressive Dynamic Dreams without having to worry about coding or scripting. Stardock's mid-term plan is to also release an editor to make it easier to create Dynamic Dreams that are very easy to create that fall into certain common templates. DeskScapes also provides support for configuration and performance settings. Dynamic Dreams are designed specifically to be animated wallpapers to use as little CPU and resources as possible while delivering stunning visuals. They're not like screen savers which are essentially EXEs renamed. Dynamic Dreams use DeskScapes to do much of the work. This is a sample one that will also be included in the upcoming DreamMaker 1.01 SDK to allow others to create their own Dynamic Dreams. The first Dynamic Dream is a floating, bouncing, rotating cube with the Stardock logo on each side. These dynamic animated wallpapers are called Dynamic Dreams. It includes two dynamic animated wallpapers to show what is possible. In early March 2007, Stardock released DeskScapes 1.01 into beta for Object Desktop users. Without this, the hard work that artists put in creating these wonderful animated wallpapers would done anonymously. DREAM files support author information that is displayed in the Desktop Background dialog (including links to the author's website). DREAM instead of releasing their work at. Ironically, what has probably helped make DeskScapes so popular is that most people creating animated wallpapers choose its format.
The two most anticipated features of Stardock DeskScapes has been the promise of animated wallpapers that can change based on triggered events (time of day, weather, etc.) as well as dynamic animated wallpapers (wallpapers that are generated on the fly as opposed to looping video). It's ones of the new programs that makes up Stardock's popular Object Desktop suite of desktop enhancement utilities. The best known tool is Stardock DeskScapes.
Stardock worked with Microsoft on the DreamScenes projects and is responsible for some of the animated wallpapers that will come with the final release of Windows DreamScene as well as producing tools and enhancements that extend the functionality of the animated wallpaper feature.
The caveat is that the video driver makers need to make sure their drivers are up to snuff which, in some cases, they are not yet.
Windows DreamScenes, available only on Windows Vista Ultimate, makes full use of the new DWM's video acceleration to deliver high definition backgrounds that won't slow your computer to a crawl. Windows DreamScenes enables users to play video as their desktop background which, when done correctly can provide spectacular results. With the release of Windows DreamScenes, Microsoft has made animated wallpapers on Windows a practical reality.