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Black snow?!

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Deskscapes 3 is great, I'm running it on Windows 7 Professional 64 bit final release version and an NVidia G-Force 9600GT

I'm having trouble with the "Snow" effect though, my snow is black! (not the snow backdrop that seems to work fine, just the effect that let's you put snow on any background) Shouldn't snow be white? It looks more like ash?!

It also gets stuck when the snow reaches the bottom of the screen and sometimes crashes explorer. Any ideas?

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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 25
I notice you both have recent nvidia cards so I am wondering if there is a bug with the drivers.
End of Neil's quote

It probably is. I have the 196.21 drivers from Nvidia loaded. 

I see they released 196.34 beta drivers yesterday so I'll try them when I get off work later today.

 

Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 25
I notice you both have recent nvidia cards so I am wondering if there is a bug with the drivers.
End of Neil's quote

I used Impulse to check for driver updates for my card, NVIDIA GeForce GT 120, there was one, 196.21.  I updated and rebooted and the snow is still black.  I'm using the snow effect on the Creek Side in Winter Dream in case someone wants to check it out.  :sun:

EDIT:  What, he got a newer version then me? :S

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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 8



Quoting Lantec,
reply 7
that looks cool....how can I get black snow?Move to Pittsburgh? 

End of Zubaz's quote

Here in Greeneville it's yellow snow...:grin:

Reply #29 from Stardock Forums Top

Still black snow.  snowxx.dlls are dated 3/3/10.  Windows 7, Geforce 9600GT, 196.21.

 

Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9

Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 6.7

 

DeskScapes appears to be activated on this PC

DeskScapes engine appears to be running

(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

(Generic PnP Monitor) 2 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

 

Deskscape.dll               2010/01/20 04:21:01

Deskscapes.dll               2009/11/03 01:31:35

DreamControl32.dll             2009/11/10 01:13:17

DeskscapesConfig.exe               2010/01/20 04:21:50

UI\Deskscape.dll             2010/01/20 04:21:33

UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll     2009/11/03 01:31:54

DreamTasks.exe               2009/11/10 04:21:57

DeskscapesVideo.dll           2010/01/20 04:21:22

 

Any more info I'm happy to provide.

Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Yeah....the latest Nvidia drivers were causing a lag on my pc....reverted back to the previous ones and everything was working fine again.

Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting WebGizmos, reply 30
Yeah....the latest Nvidia drivers were causing a lag on my pc....reverted back to the previous ones and everything was working fine again.
End of WebGizmos's quote

Didn't you see the warnings about not installing the latest nvidia drivers due to fan problems with them?

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Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Didn't you see the warnings about not installing the latest nvidia drivers due to fan problems with them?
End of quote

Actually I did not,but I did notice that on wake up from sleep with that driver the fan on my 8800GT wasn't running. (temp was over 100C before I noticed it) I had to reset EVGA Precision to get it restarted. Thanks for letting me know the driver was the cause.