Giveaway of the Day - Pirate Ship 3D Screensaver
November 18, 2007
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Just a few centuries ago the seas were ruled by bloodthirsty and greedy pirates. They not only robbed the civilian fleet but also battled each other for the stolen loot.A lot of their ships sank in the Caribbean and still remain their. In this screensaver we get an awesome opportunity to dive into the depths and take a closer look at one of these pirate ships. Feel the glorious history of the pirates!
Features
- Photo-realistic 3D graphics;
- View of a real submerged pirate ship;
- Numerous mysterious creatures of the deep sea;
- Enchanting beauty of the underwater world;
- Full 3D environment;
- Relaxing enigmatic music;
- FPS counter;
- True spirit of the glorious history of the pirates of the Caribbean!
- Password protection.
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| System Requirements: | Windows 9x/2000/XP/Vista; Pentium III or higher; 32 MB Video Memory; DirectX 8.0 or higher; DirectX-compatible sound card |
| Publisher: | Astro Gemini Software |
| Homepage: | http://www.astrogemini.com/pir... |
| File Size: | 6.27 MB |
| Price: | $15.96 |
This software was available as a giveaway on November 18, 2007, this giveaway is not available any more. You can download the trial version of this software at http://www.astrogemini.com/pir....
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If this is photorealistic, then I have some crayon drawings that my 5 yo made that look just like Cezanne oil paintings you’ll be interested in buying.
No matter what resolution, no matter turning on or off additional texturing, etc. the scene looked pretty much the same. Everything undulates like looking through water from above. Anyone who’s been diving will tell you that, unless there are temperature layers, one’s vision underwater does not undulate. And, even then it is far more subtle than in this “realistic” screensaver.
Also, again no matter the resolution, there is a not so subtle jerkiness to the animation. A “real” “pirate ship”, eh? I also have a bridge you’ll be interested in buying.
I have two, dual head video cards with linked GPU’s with a combined 1 GB of video RAM. Is that insufficient to display this without the jerkiness? And, how come it only displays on one of several monitors?
The music is cloying, not relaxing. To top it off, that ridiculous “screensaver manager” is installed without asking. Bad form installing software without asking permission. It just gets jambed in there.
Uninstall is flawed, too. I always use the Windows uninstaller. But on invoking it for the Pirate Screensaver, I had to try several times. The first few times it refused to be removed, claiming to have already been uninstalled.
Also, something else is going on. Where my idle system rarely got over 5% CPU usage, even typing in here, now it does not get below 8%, with an average of around 10% and many peaks of 20% or higher. Exactly what trash has this crap left behind? Why are services running that were not running before? Why does this want to attach itself to the logon processes? Why is IExplorer demanding 17 - 20% (up to 30%!) of the CPU when it never asked for more than 2% before installing this crap?
Return to a Restore Point, and everything returns to normal.
There are always the cheerleaders and pom pom boys who must be neck deep in crap, because crap comes for free and that seems to be thier only measure of whether they like something.
First, screensavers are an anomoly. VGA monitors are way different than either a CRT or TV. The phosphors are different than what is in a CRT or TV picture tube, and the voltage is a fraction of what older CRT’s use. VGA monitors do not get burn in.
This screensaver is crap. Besides the graphics limitations already mentioned, and whatever it is leaving behind that cranks up the CPU usage even after uninstalling it, it eat’s resources.
Worst of all, it has the potential to be a CPU/GPU/motherboard cooker. Get a temperature monitor, leave this running for half and hour, then check your temperature sensors. Even a few degrees over temp will eventually destroy your computer.
I am an unheard advocate of your site and have sent many friends here. I really appreciate your site and hope the moaners here don’t get to ya’.
Yesterdays give away of Safe’n’Sec Pro (rerun) must have been hidden as I missed it (again) and sure hope you can arrange to run it again as it is something I have been looking for.
Thanks and keep up the great work.
Tony
The activate.exe isn’t working here. I’m running Vista Home Premium and when I run it, it seems to be contacting the activation server and then it is reported as none-responsive and is terminated.