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 21)

301

elvee

on Dec 09, 2008

Snowman

reply 10

I've done some testing (together with ZubaZ) regarding the problem I ran into.
Adding the IP manually in the Winstyles.ini worked out fine. (As soon as I finally added the right bits in the right places..... )

Here's how I set up the suite:
CursorFX, Wallpaper and WindowBlind were added with the Theme Manager 'editor'.
No matter what I did I kept getting the error message I mention earlier when trying to add the Iconpackager.
This has to be added manually.

Then everything gets downloaded AND installed properly, but the WB for some reason did not get applied. Everything else did.

Will keep on testing.

I get the same IP error message But it did apply after clicking ok.

I think Zu said it above that Widgets do not download.

302

ImStein

on Dec 10, 2008

Still frustrated with it. I added IP manually, and it still gave me the error message. In fact, I had to add everything manually. It seems that it couldn't find what I was looking for, even if I put in the artists name. Maybe I am doing something wrong, especially since Zu took a look at it, and my suite was just messed up.

303

Zargon

on Dec 10, 2008

ere has been another release since my last post, current version is 1.01.[b].022 which doesnt ask for registration. There is no animation on the bootscreen (using Vista) and the skin only appears for around 5 seconds, there is a period before that of blackness for around 10 seconds and afterwards of around 15 seconds before the login prompt appears. Not great but definitely a step in the right direction.

From your description it sounds like it is working correctly. We currently do not know how to support animations with a custom Bootskin.

304

Zargon

on Dec 10, 2008

No animation though... Which means Stardock straight out lies on the bootskin product screenshots. That's not good PR guys...

We thought it would support animation, we are still working on supporting it.

305

Wizard1956

on Dec 10, 2008

Now for some happier news:

I just want to drop a note of thanks to the devs and all of support.Since getting my rig back online 15 days ago,I've updated everything,including DeskScapes,which had a problem updating previously. I'm beyond happy to report that with the exception of TM not applying WB's correctly absolutely everything else is working great,including CFX .Even my e-mail address change went smoothly.I am very satisfied with OD2009.

In my book you all are the cream of the crop and I look forward to being a Stardock customer for a very long time.

(At the risk of sounding even cheesier to PDJ)

306

Anakey

on Dec 11, 2008

ok having odd problem with bootskin pro, after finally downloading the beta version i now don't get an error when it applies a skin however what does happen is that instead of the dragon bootskin i applied i get the default Hibination screen instead I am running it on a laptop, vista home premium 32 bit and the version of bootskin is 1.01[b].025

307

Aussie007

on Dec 13, 2008

I get the default Hibination screen instead

Same here. Also using home premium

Maca

308

PuterDudeJim

on Dec 14, 2008

I have a question for the wise people here. Which of these would run better with Deskscapes on a Vista rig?

The Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 128MB , PCI,sm4.0 that came with my new PC or

nvidia GeForce 5200 agp 256MB

309

mickeko

on Dec 15, 2008

If it's a new PC you won't be able to use the AGP card. But disregarding from that fact, AGP is limited in bandwidth, so I would think any PCI-E card would be better.

310

Zargon

on Dec 15, 2008

I have a question for the wise people here. Which of these would run better with Deskscapes on a Vista rig?
The Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 128MB , PCI,sm4.0 that came with my new PC or
nvidia GeForce 5200 agp 256MB

I am sorry to say that you will not be happy with the performance of Deskscapes with either of those video cards. The GeForce 5200 (in my experience) is not AGP8x which is required.

PCI (not to be confused with PCIe a.k.a. PCIexpress) does not have fast enough bandwidth.

311

Zargon

on Dec 15, 2008

All,

The ATI drivers that support AGP 8x for Deskscapes are available now.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Let us know how they work for your system! Enjoy!

312

Excalpius

on Dec 15, 2008

I have a question for the wise people here. Which of these would run better with Deskscapes on a Vista rig?

The Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 128MB , PCI,sm4.0 that came with my new PC or

nvidia GeForce 5200 agp 256MB

Both of these are insufficient (re: crap) for your needs. The 6150SE is just an integrated graphics on the motherboard chip and the 5200 is ANCIENT by contemporary standards. Neither of these will be good for games OR deskscapes, etc.

Since you said your PC is new, you can get a very decent PCIx graphics card for $100 or less these days. The ONE nice thing about the 6150SE on board is that it supports hybrid SLI if you add another nVidia card. You can google these terms to find out more.

I hope that helps.

313

PuterDudeJim

on Dec 15, 2008

The GeForce 5200 (in my experience) is not AGP8x

Mine says that it is AGP X8, But with vista, since the drawing engine is better, it wouldn't work? Ok, well, the video card that came with the PC seems to do a so~so job. Asteroids runs fairly well with it. Asteroids is a heavy dream.

314

Excalpius

on Dec 18, 2008

It may also depend on the codec. MPEG2 dreams should play on anything and everything, since the built in hardware acceleration has been around for a long time. MPEG4 is hi-def and takes up a lot more CPU, even on more modern cards. I'm just speculating, though, so I will leave the real answer to the experts.

315

rustysam

on Dec 28, 2008

I just renewed object desktop. Deskscapes crashes my computer and theme manager won't apply any themes.

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