I don't run Dreams. Correct me If I'm wrong but I think you need deskscapes to run the dreams. Probably should wait for someone who's more in the know.

I mainly referred to the premium skins. Currently there are a total of 20 premium dreams. When you click the box to only show win 8 ready dreams in the library, you end up with 4. So one of the best seem to not work on windows 8 anymore.

I would like to try it for myself, but due to some server problems I have not recieved the download link for the demo yet.

Edit: I do own the media center, just for desk scapes, lol. It was once free anyway. So hearing that it helps sounds good! It's time to buy the upgrade I guess.

Edit2: Thanks for the info GigaByte69!

I have bought it now. Some dreams really do work (so far I only tested moving wallpaper and collage succesfully). But the premium videos by TheMasterBaron dont seem to. I always get a message, which tells me that there was not a decoder found, even though I have installed some mpeg 2. But the message also says it may be the resolution of the dream and I do know that those videos do have an odd resolution. If really that is the case, it will probably never work? Why is something like the resolution a problem now? On windows 7 they were working perfectly. Is it actually still a decoder issue? I tested "Asteroids", I guess the other ones are not working either then.

One of the included video dreams, planktonic, is working. Is this one using a different video format?

At least the most very important ones, are working!

At the time those dreams were made MB and I were creating dreams for 16.10 resolution widescreen monitors. That was the aspect ratio for widescreen monitors back then. Now, 16.9 aspect ratio monitors have become the norm and 16.10 were fazed out.

The ones you are referring to are encoded at 1792x1120 which for some reason Windows 8 does not seem to support no matter if you have a MPEG2 codec or not. I've found that Windows 8 doesn't like anything over 1080 so 1120 no longer works.

Unless MB re-uploads his at a standard resolution like 1920x1080, they will not work in Windows 8.

For the record, the reason why 1792x1120 resolution was used was that it was the only high resolution that TMPGEnc Express would allow for 16.10. Since that was our encoder of choice, it was the best resolution to use.

I've been working on re-encoding my most popular dreams to work for Windows 8 although I would prefer to stick with MPEG2 due to the higher CPU requirements of AVI and WMV.

As for MPEG2 support, most versions of Windows prior to 8 didn't support it natively anyway. It has always been required to supply your own MPEG2 codec so it makes no sense to me that it's being made out to be a big deal now. Also, MPEG2 was recommended to use over WMV to keep CPU usage to a minimum.

Edit: When I first installed DeskScapes 8 in Windows 7, the dreams encoded at 1792x1120 worked fine. With the version I'm using now on Windows 7, they don't work at all. Looks like I'm going to have to reinstall 3.5 on my Windows 7 machine..

Wiz...I don't think it's Stardock.

These were working for me yesterday on my Win 7 machine before I installed the IE10 update. Today they wouldn't work. I did a system restore to before I installed IE10 and now those dreams work fine again.

Did you by chance install the IE10 update? If so, try a system restore to before you updated.

I downloaded and installed ZOOM Player (free) along with the extra codecs that instal automatically. It completely solved my problems running  all of the dreams I have tried including STARS and DESKTOP COLLAGE. I am running Win8 64bt.

I see. So I have to figure out, how to rollback IE, I'am not using it anyway. Thanks for the tip!

I have already been there, only found an security update for ie10. Deleted that with window update. Killed my system, lol.

Thankfully a system restore point has been set. I have to look more into it.

Edit: Win 8 seems to only be able to use ie 10

I'am able to fully delete it tough. Which I will try. But isnt other software like steam using it? Let's see how I end up now.

Edit: It did not crash. No negative effect on other software, but neither did it help with those "problem" dreams. Stupid restrictions.

Ah, cool, glad to see you're already aware of this CarGuy1.  I posted a comment for your Snowy Day dream a few days ago about it no longer working once I installed IE10 on 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate.  I wonder if all of the dreams you created using that particular codec or resolution might have issues once IE10 is installed.

- Troy

I downloaded the free Zoom Player also and now some older dreams work. I also run win8-64.. Just my 2cents...