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BuckoA51

Join Date 03/2007

Black snow?!

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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CarGuy1

Join Date 03/2007

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Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 25

I notice you both have recent nvidia cards so I am wondering if there is a bug with the drivers.

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.

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Philly0381

Join Date 11/2004

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Quoting Neil Banfield,

reply 25

I notice you both have recent nvidia cards so I am wondering if there is a bug with the drivers.

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.

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

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RedneckDude

Join Date 04/2009

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Quoting Zubaz,

reply 8

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

Here in Greeneville it's yellow snow...

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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.

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WebGizmos

Join Date 09/2003

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

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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.

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

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

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.

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