Island Dog

Join Date 06/2003

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Multiple Monitor Wallpapers with DeskScapes

One of my favorite features of DeskScapes 3 is its support for multi-monitor setups. With monitors becoming so cheap to buy now, it’s pretty common for people to have two or more monitors connected to their PC. I enjoy having different wallpapers on each monitor, and applying and managing those wallpapers on different monitors is much easier thanks to DeskScapes. If you need wallpapers for your desktop, don’t forget to check out WinCustomize for plenty of great ones.

The best part, is you can apply either animated wallpapers (.dreams) or static wallpapers, or a mix of them. Just open the DeskScapes interface, and select a wallpaper, and you will see the interface configured for multi-monitors.

Just select which monitor you want to configure, and select the wallpaper you want to use with each. After that, just hit ‘apply changes’ and your wallpapers will be set.

The interface is DeskScapes is easy to use. You can filter through the types of wallpapers you want displayed, and you can include specific folders for inclusion also. Of course this is just one feature of DeskScapes, lets not forget that DeskScapes is the the way to get animated wallpapers on your Windows desktop.

More info and a free trial download is available here.

https://www.stardock.com/products/DeskScapes/

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Does this work on XP? I just took a look at Deskscapes and can't see the option.

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Neil Banfield

Join Date 04/2001

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Sorry this option is only Vista / 7.

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Sorry this option is only Vista / 7.

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Thought that would be the case. 1 more reason to upgrade I guess.

Thanks for the help.

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Call me overkill, but I run 5 monitors! Putting 5 seperate static or motion images on each is nifty, however, I use a program called UltraMon to manage my collective monitors and get Hi-Res single image wallpapers from 9X Media. UltraMon is able to use my 9X Media wallpapers as one continuous, not strecthed, image left to right spanned over all 5 monitors, which is AWSOME looking. So my questions to the pros out here are:

Can Deskscapes do this? Can it do this with animated wallpapers? Does anyone even create 3 to 5 monitor wide single imaged, animated wallpaers to use with DeskScapes? I REALLY, REALLY hope so!

Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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TheDarkKnight2008

Join Date 04/2007

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I tried running deskscapes 3, but it doesn't even support more then 3 for seperate monitors... I have 5 monitors as well.

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Hy,

Beautiful wallpaprers dualmonitor you can find here http://owall.net/.

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ARRGGG Island. Went and looked at it, thought it was some nice stuff. So decided to give the trial a whirl. currently have the globe spinning and I like it enough to buy...except

No MPEG-2 on Vista Home Basic >.< And while there are 3rd party workarounds. I have a serious issue with 3rd party software. If I could get the Codec's from a microsoft site I would be all over it and you would have made a sale lol.

But I don't trrust 3rd party sites enough with either my CC number or access to my hard drive. Sorry

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Doesn't work on 3 monitor setup on Win 7 x64.

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Well I was able to make a triple monitor dreamscene but I had to run eyefinity and fraps just to make the video the right resolution so that it would not stretch and distort. I'm still having issues transcoding into .wmv if the video is too long there's always some form of distortion so the video must be short like 10-20 seconds which isn't really that short at all.

This is my desktop note that the jumpiness from the video is not the fault of my computer, but the Droid X I'm recording with in low light:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5G5rlXHFEo&hd=1

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CarGuy1

Join Date 03/2007

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How are you getting past the 2560x1600 limitation of Fraps and what are you using to encode to MPEG or WMV that will allow a higher output than 1920x1080?

Your video shows a 3 monitor setup with a dream running but that can be done with a Triple Head to Go.

I'm running a dual monitor Eyefinity setup and am unable to produce 3840x1080 dreams although I can create dreams to stretch properly.

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I don't know how triple head to go works but this is an eyefinity setup trying to make a video at normal resolutions will make it stretch and distort. I'm sure the same works on triple head to go if it does the same thing eyefinity does in terms of making 3 monitors act as one (not extended or duplicated) This is ONE really long dream.

I don't know what version of Frapps I have but it allows me to record at 4800x900. if you want you can do the half pixel sizing too to 2400x450.

Lastly the program I used to encode the video and force it to maintain the same aspect ratio was Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate 6. took me a while to figure out how to make it keep the same aspect ratio.

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You can get away with stretching an HD dream to a dual screen but not on a triple. I first had a dual then added the third screen to finish the eyefinity set-up and it didn't work out, video was fuzzy. Also there's an extreme amount of clipping where it clips off the top and bottom to crop to 3 monitors. Basically you lose a lot of the actual video stretching it. See this other video where I was in the process of figuring out how to create long aspect ratio dreams. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F1YuIGZShw

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Here's the problem I'm getting with Vista+DeskScapes+Dual Monitors...

Initially, I choose the same desktop for both monitors, in this case, Desktop Earth.

It only pops up on monitor one, and it's animated.

I right click on my desktop, click personalize, and click desktop background.

Just bringing up the desktop background menu gets the 2nd monitor to show Desktop Earth. However, now neither monitor is animated.

What do I do now?

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