Object Desktop 2009 Official Support Thread

Post your thoughts, questions, issues with Object Desktop 2009 here.

Published on November 18, 2008 By Zargon In Object Desktop

When Object Desktop 2009 is released, this is where the known issues will be posted. Please post your findings here as well. Thank you!

Notes and Known Issues: (all issues are being worked on at this time)

Theme Manager 3.0 (Published at 11am)

Aero Midnight theme included as a .suite file for Object Desktop customers.
My Desktop / Save My Desktop: Dreams, skins and cursors sometimes do apply when saved as part of a suite. Please apply through the Applications tab as a workaround at this time.
Applications / Cursors: Sometimes cursors take two applies before applying.
My Desktop / Create New Theme: The Download URL function is not working at this time.
Please update SoundPackager before applying sounds through Theme Manager 3.0.
Users will need to open SoundPackager one time to have sound packages show up in Theme Manager 3.0.
Fixed - On systems that do not have MyColors installed, an error about the StardockWeather.ocx file not being registered will display when applying weather gadgets.
The Aero Midnight skin does not extract and apply 100% of the time on faster hardware.

Deskscapes 2.5 (with XP support published at 1pm)

With a Dream file applied dragging and dropping icons from the desktop to a folder does not work at this time.
Please visit this web site to review video card requirement details. In short, AGP Video cards are not supported at this time. Future driver updates from NVIDIA/ATI will add support later this year. At that time only AGP 8x will be supported (4x/2x/1x bus speeds are not adequate to support dream functionality at low CPU).
The Watercolor Dream may exhibit some distortion on Windows XP.

Bootskin Pro 1.0 (published at 6:30pm)

There is a new WinCustomize gallery for Windows Vista bootskins. Boot skins created for XP will not work with Bootskin Pro.
Bootskin Pro allows users to create boot skins for Windows Vista, so boot skins created for XP can be re-generated and uploaded to WinCustomize.
Bootskin Pro Create boot skin tab will attempt to read your Object Desktop Ultimate serial from the registry. If the serial number field is blank, paste in your Object Desktop Ultimate serial number to create a boot skin.
There may be an issue with .bootskin file associations on some systems.

WindowBlinds 6.3 (published on 11/18/2008)

Windows Vista 64-bit users may need to reboot after install if skins do not apply correctly.

Comments (Page 2)

angus1949

on Nov 19, 2008

I also just read a post in DeskScapes for XP that suppoet for AGP video cards isn't yet available. Is this true?

Gambit75

on Nov 19, 2008

thats great thanks!!!!

Philly0381

on Nov 19, 2008

Zargon0225

reply 10

After the upadate to Sound Packager it won't open. It starts, gets part way thought loading sounds and stops. You get the message that it has encountered a problem and has to shut down.

What sound package? All of them?

Sound Packager program itself won't load completely

Zargon

on Nov 19, 2008

I also just read a post in DeskScapes for XP that suppoet for AGP video cards isn't yet available. Is this true?

Correct, here is the long answer. We have been working with the video card manufacturers to improve performance running dreams with low CPU utilization on AGP cards.

At this time we have had success obtaining driver updates that perform very well on AGP 8x. These driver updates have not been released by the manufaturer at this time. Until these updated drivers have been installed, dreams running on AGP cards utilize 100% of the CPU.

We expect the video card manufacturers to release the updated drivers to support AGP later this year. With that said, we have tested these new drivers on AGP 8x and 4x. Only AGP 8x provides the necessary bandwidth to run a dream. AGP 4x will not be supported.

Diamond12a

on Nov 19, 2008

Hi - I have loaded today's version of Theme Manager 3. I am running Vista 32 bit Home Premium. I currently have a windowsblind skin active. In Theme manager, I have "advanced settings" active. I usually pick just the Windowsblind to update (Aero Midnight in this case). The issue is that the blind never changes from my original. Icons will change or anything else if I select. But not the blind. Explorer will stop, then restart, and my old blind will still be sitting there.

Any suggestions? PS- My Windowsblinds is the most recent version as well. I am running AVG 8.

JoDa

on Nov 19, 2008

Am I right in assuming that Fences doesn"t like Dreamscapes or vice versa?

Other than that works perfecly on my XP machine

angus1949

on Nov 19, 2008

I have an Nvidia GeForce 7300GT 512Mb 8x AGP card with the latest drivers from Nvidia and Direct x 9 installed and there are still additonal drivers needed?

Zargon

on Nov 19, 2008

I have an Nvidia GeForce 7300GT 512Mb 8x AGP card with the latest drivers from Nvidia and Direct x 9 installed and there are still additonal drivers needed?

Give it a shot on that card with that configuration. You may see acceptable results. Please let us know what CPU utilization you observe.

kaftw

on Nov 19, 2008

JoDa

reply 21

Am I right in assuming that Fences doesn"t like Dreamscapes or vice versa?

Other than that works perfecly on my XP machine

That is correct - there are some issues with Fences and DeskScapes on Windows XP. Hopefully, these will be resolved in the future, but for now, they do not play perfectly together.

angus1949

on Nov 19, 2008

DeskScape 2.5 icon is still transparent in My Destop tab of Impulse. It downloaded 43.6Mb and installed. The icon says installed however DeskScapes does not show up on the Object Desktp tab of Impule at all. Do I need to double click the activate file in Program Files/Stardock/Object Desktop/Deskscapes?

Zargon

on Nov 19, 2008

The icon says installed however DeskScapes does not show up on the Object Desktp tab of Impule at all. Do I need to double click the activate file in Program Files/Stardock/Object Desktop/Deskscapes?

To apply a dream after installing Deskscapes on XP. Right click on the desktop and choose properties. From the Display Properties menu Deskscapes now has a tab.

Deskscapes XP

Zargon

on Nov 19, 2008

however DeskScapes does not show up on the Object Desktp tab of Impule at all.

You say it shows up on the My Desktop tab, but not on the Object Desktop tab. There is no Object Desktop tab. Can you please post a screen shot?

magus

on Nov 19, 2008

I just went to the Explore tab in the latest Impulse beta and selected the Free programs. There lies LogonStudio Vista. I hit the "Add to account" button and it asked for my e-mail address. Then I hit the "Register" button. The response was a screen informing me that "The product you are requesting is not available for free registration." Something seems amiss. Magus

k10w3

on Nov 19, 2008

I'm having a problem with Theme Manager not loading Windowblinds. The Aero Midnight Windowblind doesn't show up in Windowblinds stand alone, either. ANY windowblind with a them will not install. I'm on Windows XP, service pack 3.

scott57

on Nov 19, 2008

Where do I go to download OD 2009. Thank you in advance. I am an Ultimate OD subscriber

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