Deskscapes 3 is hogging my CPU, Please Help.

Published on November 13, 2009 By Jeff Gamble In Stardock Support General

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?

Comments

Neil Banfield

on Nov 13, 2009

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?

Jeff Gamble

on Nov 13, 2009

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

Neil Banfield

on Nov 13, 2009

Do you have Deskscapes 1.x also installed?

Jeff Gamble

on Nov 15, 2009

No, no previous versions of Deskscapes is installed

Shirley

on Nov 16, 2009

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

milksama

on Nov 17, 2009

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

Mike

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