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<title><![CDATA[By: Peter B]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140154</link>
<description><![CDATA[Many thanks to Glen for your solutions  in post 30.

Those comments should be incorporated in the progs help file and on their web page]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 05:42:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Rick S.]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140153</link>
<description><![CDATA[Well, I checked and this is version 2.4.9, and to me it seems a definite improvement over the last version offered here,  which was 2.3.2. 

It seems to have more effects and also some cool 3D monarch butterflies which I don't recall from the earlier version. 

Not sure I'd want to pay that much for it, but as a giveaway I think it's great.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 00:46:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Glen]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140152</link>
<description><![CDATA[@#3 Eddy

You're right, as its name suggests, this one's limited to making screensavers.  IMO its sibling DP Animation Maker (offered by GOTD in May) is much more useful as it allows the creation of GIFs, AVIs and EXEs. 


@#16 Peter B

Some suggestions to eliminate the "render-wnd. Switching to the reference rasterizer, a software device that implements the entire Direct3D feature set, but runs very slowly." message and the following error messages:

1. Ensure that you have the hardware acceleration set to a setting greater than "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations...".  "Full" would be best:  Right click on Desktop &gt; Properties &gt; Settings &gt; Advanced &gt; Troubleshoot.

2. Try a lower screen resolution.

3. Get and install the latest graphics driver for your video card.

4. Get and install the latest version of Direct X from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;id=35]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:40:23 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Helen]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140151</link>
<description><![CDATA[I am always amazed at the intricate problems people seem to have here.  This is a simple program, extremely simple to install and to use intuitively.  I couldn't care less if there is a help file, it doesn't get more simplistic than this, and I am no computer expert.  The program is mildly entertaining and yes some of the offerings are silly such as the ghosts, and quite limited, but it is free and it is what it is.

Only word to developers from me is, you'd have to offer hundreds of animation choices for it to be worth your asking price of $25.  Still, nothing wrong with it as a free item, and thanks GAOTD.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 22:47:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Joe McMahon]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140150</link>
<description><![CDATA[I've never been a great fan of Screen-savers, but this one is great! Loaded into Vista 32 bit and went in without any problems. Activation likewise. Usually all you have to do is read instructions.

Thanks GOTD!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 21:15:06 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: kathy]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140149</link>
<description><![CDATA[Had this from the last Giveaway and enjoyed it tremendously then lost it with a drive wipe; glad to see it back. it's a lot of fun, and am also glad to see it has some more effects etc than the past version making it even more versitile. The spinning globe is excellent!!! Thank you for returning my program to me in an improved form!!! CHEERS!!!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:28:22 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: fredward]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140148</link>
<description><![CDATA[Works great on win 7 64 bit as well here on one of those eMachines with an upgraded video card and 750watt psu.

Same as XP basically.  I'm thinking alphabet of casino slot machine tga files replacement for the matrix english characters!!!  heheheh yeah this is a rocking gem of a program. it's on the right track, or I am one of the two!!!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:54:26 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: harpo2448]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140147</link>
<description><![CDATA[Last year (see above link) commenter #12 "Ben" pointed out a few things that could use "improvement" -- I agreed with him on most points.  

But, for instance, my firewall did NOT popped up with detected objections (probably because I'm using the less-discriminatory built-in Windows firewall!), and my screensavers did NOT "stuttered" like his did -- he probably had another program that periodically takes over his system resources for a fraction of a second.

Anyway, it seems that you can now contrain certain "sprite" type effects to selected areas of the overall screen.  Butterflies, lightning, and sparkles you CAN constrain, but NOT fog, leaves, snow, bubbles, fish, rays of light, rain, magic dust or ghosts.  (Typically there are several varieties of each type effect.)

Pretty nice, but I don't understand why they don't simply allow ALL the built-in animated objects to have their boundaries constrainable and share the same consistent set of "edit" modifiers (no matter how nonsensical for that object) so that, for example, I could have an above-and-below the waterline population of animated fish, or have fog hanging only just above the surface of a lake shot without the entire mountain scene in the background looking "spooky", or animated rain only under a cloud on the left side of a scene, etc.  It would permit a user to create much more realistic and/or surrealistic artistic effects.

Also, you can add your own animated objects (I added some GIF files that were saved in the "My Pictures" folder) and send one or more "sailing" across your screen, alter their direction and "sailing" and animation speed, constrain their boundaries, "disorder" (if more than one) so they're not all moving together like a naval fleet of ships, etc.

Still, it's a fun and easy product to use and worth a download.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 16:32:36 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Bern-dog]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140145</link>
<description><![CDATA[Easy installation and activation on Windows XP SP3.  The aquarium screensaver is nice except for the frozen fish (no movement as with other SCRs).  The Matrix screensaver as with everyone else crashed with the dpas.exe error.  They offered this program back in October 2010 (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensaver-maker/) and the complaints back then were about a potential virus.  Virus might not be a problem this time but the program definitely has issues.  However, Google "dpas.exe" and you might be surprised (suspicious) after seeing the results.  After seeing Google's results I imediately uninstalled the program and ran a full virus scan.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:23:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: GeekGurl]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/animated-screensavermaker/#comment-140144</link>
<description><![CDATA[This is a pretty good program for those who like screensavers. You CAN add your own animations and objects as well as background (although some other included or packaged, professional animations/effects would be nice). (Would like to see more animated fish objects like the goldfish which looks better than the other ones.) Don't understand the suggestion up top to "add your own MP3 collection." You CAN. Just click on the music icon and it goes to your "My Documents" folder. Also you can redo any of the example screensavers before exporting it. 

Also regarding the suggestion to export to animated .gifs. Good suggestion, but they already have another program that does this, so it's unlikely they would combine the two without raising the price.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:01:03 -0400</pubDate>
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