Dreamscene error

'ATI driver has stopped responding and recovered'. I get this everytime I try to set video as background in dreamscene. just loops error and freezes screen until I pause the video. Noticed it after a game crashed and left aspect ratio @ 4:3 on desktop. Changed it with screen resolution and went back to normal..Now I get the error... Restarted several times to no avail. I have the latest video drivers & I have radeon xpress 1100. Running fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Never had this problem before.. Any thoughts?

 

windows 7 does not support dreamscene

the only way to get it to work is to hack windows 7 with non windows 7 files--and you are wondering why you get errors?

 

Uh it supports it (as in it run fine).... Its a conflict with something.... It was working flawlessly earlier....

Dreamscene is installed by a simple copying of the files from vista and adding registry info. The 2 operating systems are very similar which leads me to believe its a not dreamscene

 

It does not "support it."

It may have "run fine" but there is no guarantee it will always "run fine".

In addition to the marketing ploy to get people to stop bashing the OS as "Vista", Windows 7 developers made a number of minor but still significant changes to make Windows 7

Perhaps the most singificant of these things is they significantly tweaked Desktop Windows Manager, which is at the core of how images are displayed on your screen and allows your gui to utilize neat things like 3d acceleration.

So, when you take a feature of Windows Vista like Dreamscene that absolutely, utterly depends on DWM features from Vista and ask that feature to operate in Windows 7 where a rewritten version of DWM operates, you are lucky to get it to run at all.

Wanting it to run and believing it "ran fine" doesn't make it run.

 

I agree with you, But I'm even more positive that its the driver b/c if I let it cycle long enough then I get a BSOD from and ATI DLL so im going to look into it.

 

Did you recently upgrade to the latest drivers? It may be that the newer drivers introduced a compatibility problem, and that you'll need to downgrade your drivers to get DreamScene working again. I'm sure ATI doesn't make DreamScene support in Win7 a priority when working on Win7 drivers.

If there were any other hardware changes recently, consider that as a possibility, too.

Finally, you could try installing Vista video drivers. They should generally be compatible with Win7 - not ideal perhaps, but it might get you DreamScene back.

 

Originally, It just had a generic driver and only allowed 1024X768 reso. Which was annoying, so I installed the driver directly from the ATI site.. A while later I put dreamscene on and it was fine and I had several start up, shutdown cycles and putting it to sleep and hibernate.. Then after a game crashed it started have the driver error. I just got to this post, but last night, I downloaded the "official" drivers for Windows Vista x86 from the official acer site. I also installed ATI catalyst Control Center and It wont work correctly.. I have an image attached of what it looks like.. This may be an intertwined problem.. If I dont hear from you I may reinstall the original drivers from ATI website W / CCC, b/c I didnt have that until the ones from acer.. Thanks for your input.

P.S. I have already had Windows 7 Beta & then RC Installed last year, and never had this problem....

 

Quick Update, I got Dream scene to work again by installing ATI Xpress 200 drivers instead of the Xpress 1100 as device manager and online spec claim it to be.