By the way, I don’t like at all the VERY arrogant way that Fubar, #78 (is he maybe a member of “Opus Dei”, for being so mean and arrogant with others?), has on commenting on everyone else, quoting negatively 15 people at once, and giving non-requested computer lessons to everybody.

Thanks
Kris :)

Seriously you have to be kidding. I have a nice 24″ monitor but the fish look like cartoons, in fact the whole scene looks like it should go on maybe a screensaver for maybe 1 to 7 yrs olds. I don’t think it looks very adult looking. It would be sort of embarassing to keep this. Thanks anyway and I wonder if all there screesavers look …well, cartoonish?….

#6, MichaelSF, this isn’t a time-limited trial, it’s a fully functioning, registered program.

#15, Whiterabbit-uk, I don’t know why there was a problem writing to your registry, but it won’t affect anything. The Aquazone series is very expensive, and I would never buy it without a trial. However, their trial requires a credit card, and automatically charges you at the end of the trial.

#20, #21, ArriRC, all 3D screensavers consume substantial CPU. Unless you have a multi-core CPU, they’re likely to use all idle CPU when running. Normally, this won’t matter. I only use screensavers as standalone animations, my screensaver is Blank, with power management. As for your comments about McAfee Site Advisor, there is no shame in ignorance, but a complete lack of common sense is another matter. On the links page of the website is a link to a site which McAfee doesn’t like. The Astro Gemini website is perfectly safe. Sometimes, I think people should be required to get a license in order to operate a computer.

#36, Tammy Benson, there are bubbles everywhere in this screensaver–either your display resolution is extremely low, or there are problems with your graphics driver. Astro Gemini screensavers frequently have details that only those running at very high resolutions will ever see. While the larger bubbles should be visible on anyone’s display, there are extremely minute bubbles which come and go all over the screen; even at 1856×1392, they are barely visible.

#37, Priapus, #41, Gary, #49, NannySamdi, #60, Ernie LaVallee, yet again the endless complaints about the completely harmless and very small screensaver manager. I’ll bet you don’t complain about the hundreds of megabytes of bloatware that get installed by your typical Microsoft application. I’ll bet you don’t complain about the considerable amount of registry, common file, and system file damage that most applications do. Astro Gemini and 3Planesoft install screensaver managers which you can use, or not. They can be used to cycle through each manufacturer’s screensavers, or change their settings without running them (unlike the Windows screensaver manager, which always run the screensavers in order to generate the preview window). They show you which screensavers you have from that manufacturer, and which others are available. Gary, Astro Gemini doesn’t install “loads of other programs”, and if I were the moderator, I would strike your comment.

#39, Laura, see the preceding paragraph. The idle time before a screensavers starts isn’t specific to individual screensavers, it’s a global Windows setting which applies to all screensavers. Right-click on an empty area of your Windows desktop, select Properties (Display Properties). Click on the Screen Saver tab. The Wait value is how long your computer needs to be idle (no user input) before the screensaver starts. Screensavers have so few options, they’re self-explanatory and harmless, so to be honest, I don’t see why you would need help. Just try an option and see what it does. Some screensavers let you select the level of anti-aliasing. This improves visual quality, at the expense of frame rate. That’s generally true for most of the visual-effects related options. If the screensaver is running too slowly, use fewer visual effects and/or a lower display resolution (uncheck “use desktop settings” and select a lower resolution than your desktop resolution). If it has a VSync or vertical sync option, that will eliminate visual “tearing”, but may slightly reduce frame rate. Screensavers aren’t games, VSync is generally recommended. Gamma is essentially brightness, use it to make the screensaver lighter or darker.

#42, Joe Momma, SereneScreen has been around a long time. It was written by an artist who wasn’t trained as a programmer, and has always had an annoying jitter to its motion. It won’t run at all with ATI’s ultra-buggy HD 2600 drivers. It’s an aquarium screensaver and uses photo-realistic backgrounds and high-quality fish and movement models. Marine Life 3D is clearly a fantasy screensaver, and uses faster, less boring, although much less realistic, motion, as well as very colorful and less realistic backgrounds. Years ago, I liked SereneScreen because of its quality, but I don’t personally care for any screensavers which have static backqrounds. Of the Astro Gemini aquatic screensavers, I like Atlantis 3D because of its full 3D environment (and yes, I’m well aware it’s another fantasy screensaver). SereneScreen doesn’t install a screensaver manager because they only have the one screensaver. If you find it such a pain to uninstall screensaver managers, don’t. They’re completely harmless, don’t do anything at all if you don’t use them, and take up a completely trivial amount of disk space. Just about any screensaver installation will change your default screensaver, just change it back.

#54, BryceT, yeah, people are always claiming that the world is filled with free screensavers. So, do tell us where we can find free 3D screensavers which aren’t filled with every kind of spyware and adware imaginable.

#72, slgraycols, all screensavers are listed in the Windows screensaver manager. Astro Gemini screensavers are also listed in the Astro Gemini screensaver manager. 3Planesoft screensavers are also listed in the 3Planesoft screensaver manager. The Windows screensaver manager can either be set to run a particular screensaver, or one of the other screensaver managers. To change the Prime Selection in the Astro Gemini manager, disable the current prime selection until the one you want is selected. You can then re-enable any screensavers which you disabled. You can also use disable/enable to change the order of the screensavers.

To everyone experiencing problems running this, see
http://forum.bladedthoth.com/viewtopic.php?t=56
If none of the suggestions helps, your video driver is defective, and if you’re running the latest version, you’re out of luck.