Flurry screensaver for windows

Bemind

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What the heck? Mie goes so slow! My nose runs faster!

Nobel Prize!!! good job!

Damn

it is slow for me too. and tweakin config shows no thing at all.. maybe it requires too much machine or something.. or a fancy video card
thanx anyway

Yeah. what the hell? mine runs like a snail on 512mb 1.5ghz etc acer aspire 1680 laptop. tried everything. no problem with itunes visualizer, pipes screensaver, etc.

Hey,
hell with this, it is terribly slow on a 2 Gb 2 Ghz Core 2 Duo.
some glitches.
better fix ‘em.

You guys need a pretty powerful video card to run this.

My Radeon X1300 Pro has no problem rendering it at all, but on my integrated Intel GMA945 and 950 systems it looked like a slideshow instead of a dynamic screensaver.

Why do other “complicated” screensavers and visualizers work on my (very fast intel core 2 duo) machine without videocard?
Is there any chance that somebody makes flurry work also for me..?

I found one that, among the many I´ve tried, is not slow, but does not look the same. For those interested, dl it at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/flurry32
In my laptop runs slow on Windows but not on Linux!

[...] I have been following this project for a bit now, and it seems that this project is mature enough to spread the word, like so much crunchy peanut butter on warm toast. I have personally tested this out on my laptop (rez 1920×1200) and it has worked awesome. It handles Actionscript & whatever else you throw at it (just don’t move your mouse or hit any keys, because like most screensavers, it will cause it to close). Seems like a great way to create Flash based Flurry type objects or whatever! Put it to good use, and if you use it to make money, please give back a bit! [...]

[...]     Personalmente no tengo una Mac (preferiblemente macbook) simplemente porque me falta para llegar a los $7000 que sale comprarse una acá en Buenos Aires. Es por eso que trato de "simular el entorno Mac" en lo que a apariencia y (como vimos hace un tiempo) funcionalidades del Mac OS se refiere.   Al que le interese hacer la cosa bien completa, puede ver éste artículo (en inglés: "Turn your PC into a Mac") de engadget, o mismo instalar el Flyakite (un soft que se encarga de instalar algunos programitas que ayudan en ésto de mejorar la apariencia), la idea de éste post es simular la apariencia con pocos extras y sin consumir mucha memoria (lo que termina haciendo que nuestro windows se vea barbaro pero termine siendo más problemático de lo que es)   Para los que no queremos ocupar mucho pero si lograr un escritorio más agradable, tengo dos puntos que pueden llegar a interesar:   1) Milk Theme para Windows XP     Un theme que conocí hace un tiempo en un post de Alan. La imagen lo muestra todo. Adapta tanto las ventanas, barras (de inicio, de herramientas, etc) y el fondo como las barras de scroll del navegador y los botones ("enviar" y demas botones "de internet"). Descargar theme.    2) Aqua Blue Wallpaper     El ya clásico wallpaper Mac por defecto se puede bajar (en diferentes versiones y colores) desde acá.  Descargar Wallpaper.   3) Flurry Screensaver para Windows      Este ya es un detalle "menor", pero al consumir poco y nada de recursos, se presenta como un buen agregado. Se trata de "Flurry Screensaver", el "Protector de pantalla" de Mac. En sí es una especie de "fluído" yendo campante por el monitor, pero tiene un efecto que me gusta. Descargar Screensaver.   Nota 1: Alguien sabe como instalar Tiger en una PC? Nos ahorraríamos varios pasos con eso…   Nota 2: No sé por qué la imagen de arriba tiene el dock sobre la barra de inicio…   [...]

This is a wonderful screensaver. I had seen it several times on Macs, but I only recently found out what it was called. As soon as I did, I downloaded this screensaver. It is great. Some people mentioned that it runs slowly on their systems, but it runs just fine on my Pentium 3 1gHz system with a Radeon 9200 AGP videocard. (No kidding!)

Flurry does not work on my brand new 2 GB computer. All you can see is a FAINT light, barerly visible, fading in and out.

And I’m running Windows Vista Home Premium.

yeah well I don’t get it it worked perfectly on my 256 MB of ramDell Optiplex Gx240 and on my dell latitude d600 fine in xp but its fuxed up in vista tears and its really slow

The slowness is down to the intel graphics chipset. Just change the extension from .scr to .sCr

I changed this extension from .scr to .sCr and it STILL runs slow and choppy, but that fix did work for the sourceforge version mentioned several comments up. My computer isn’t beastly, but I’m sure this can run faster. (Yes, I do have an intel graphic chipset.)

It looks fine in the little preview window, too. I’m bummed out about this, does anyone have any other idea regarding fixing this?

Is there any way to convert .scr files into avi or wmv files since that would be brilliant when using XPScene…

@VJ, you can find Screen2Dream on the same website then XPScene. The Sreen2Dream tool (also freeware) runs any screensaver as wallpaper, this works also with the flurry screensaver. So, no avi conversion is required

I’ve spent the last two days searching forums on a solution to this lag/choppy display problem. Indeed, the flurry screensaver works in preview mode, but it does not work in test or after my 15 minute idle time.
I’ve tried three different types of the screensaver; I have tried several ways of renaming .sCr; and several ways of installing through the /Windows/System 32 folder and right-click>install
I have also tried updating my driver. Nothing has worked and I’m so hopeless on this screen saver.

Here is my system info:
Vista Home Premium SP1
Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz
3 GB RAM
32-bit OS
x3100 Intel Graphics Media Accelerator
Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset

Thank you.