DanielYetman

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Okay, I figured it out. Strangely enough, it was a driver issue. BUT it wasn't due to a WRONG driver - it turns out that NVIDIA's latest driver for my series of GPU (the GeForce 8800 GTS 320) is buggered up. I actually found the answer when playing NeverWinter Nights 2 gave me bad textures/textures not loading/geometry issues. The 196.75, 197.13, and 197.45 drivers all have texture-mapping bugs. So I rolled back to the 196.21 and that fixed NWN2,

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[quote who="Neil Banfield" reply="7" id="2498757"]From the symptoms it sounds like you have either a defective video card or defective video drivers. Deskscapes is a 3D rendered app unlike a flat wallpaper and so will be making the video card do more than it would usually be doing while sitting at the desktop. This can expose previously hidden issues.[/quote] That strikes me as somewhat odd, as I update my hardware only through the Device Manager - I admit to having s

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[quote who="Philly0381" reply="4" id="2498700"]Might be the video card letting you know that it's about to die. Not sure how you test that without just having another one to put in. Wonder if it might be memory that could be bad? If you don't run Perfect World does it still happen?[/quote] No, the Card is healthy. Runs full-tilt DOOM3 and UNREAL TOURNAMENT 3 without a hiccough. If I don't run PW, it still happens, just not as quic

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This is a 1-week old Win7 FRESH install, with all updates and all drivers current. The 3D app I used when it occurred was the free MMO "Perfect World". It is not new to my system - all errors occurred AFTER Deskscapes was installed and initialized. I only installed it last night, so it's clearly an issue with DeskScapes. Haven't used Deskscapes since before it was XP compatible, so my miserable flirtation with Vista put the kibosh on it's use for a while, and now that

DeskScape Massive Crash! in DeskScapes Stardock Forums

Okay, so I run Win7 x64 on an nVidia 8800GTS with 320Mb and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor running at 5600+. I love DeskScapes - I have for years. But my issue is pretty lethal: When DeskScapes is running, there is a 100% chance of it suddenly going absolutely Bat-****-crazy and completely buggering up my display within an hour, typically less. When running 3D applications, the errors seemed to occur very quickly, and were always the massive crashes. </