Yes! you are right. Not all preview-enable screensavers can work with Moderndesktop well. Some screensavers can be previewed well in small window, but not in large window. In fact all the screensavers included in Windows work with Moderndesktop very well(but they are ugly). So I think the issue is caused by screensaver side. I will provide a Moderndesktop-compatible screensaver list in my website. For Dolphin animation, it's a
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Hello, Tarkus: Thank you for your review. It seems lots of work need to be done to improve Moderndesktop. It's very strange that Dolphin animation uses too much CPU. The Dolphin animation is shifted in DirectX SDK and run very well in some poor computers. For example Celeron 1.7G ,256M RAM , an very old ATI video card. The usage is less than 4%. I will try to find the reason. Because only preview-enabled screensaver can
It seems Moderndesktop can work with Object and Widgets in DesktopX well.
.gif is a simple way to construct animated wallpaper, but this way has some limitations, For example It's impossible to implement real 3D scene or complicated 2d animation(Beizer)with .gif It's impossible to reuse existed screensaver and flash with .gif Do you agree with me?
I release a software named Moderndesktop(shareware). It provides animated wallpaper and help you set screensaver,flash(*.swf) as animated wallpaper. Would you like give me some suggestion? http://www.greenfoxsoft.com