Was very interested in this software until other reviewers pointed out that the giveaway version only makes screen saver animations. So, did not download it.

Christopher Deakin  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (-25)

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Christopher Deakin, what did you expect from a program called "Animated Screensaver Maker"???

Christopher Deakin, what did you expect from a program called "Animated Screensaver Maker"???
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Michael  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+24)

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Important information from developer.

1. You can safely update Animated Screensaver Maker to version 4.3.3. Your giveaway license will be valid for this todays update too.

2. If the program does not accept the code, please check your antivirus settings, it may block the Internet connection for the program.

3. If you see "the program can not start because d3dx9_43.dll is missing from your computer." error, please update your DirextX. Visit the Microsoft download center to do this.

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=35

DesktopPaints Support  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+17)

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Installed quick and easy on Win 8. Looks like we had this before, but it's not installed on my PC so maybe it was a while ago.

Works fine, has some nice effects and the usual array of boring ones. Looks to be a bit more customizable than I recall the old one being, so will play for a bit.

Having trouble adding my suggestion on the IdeaInformer page! No "submit" button shows and pressing enter just clears the field - I suggest that page get updated first. I think I got it to work, but just in case it failed...

My suggestion is more export options. Video files or image sequences would allow us to use the animations for many things other than screen savers and make this a much more versatile and useful program. It's too limited as it is.

A fun distraction, but screen savers are just not a thing that I care about these days. If one starts up it means I should either get back to work or shut down my computer! They don't get much attention from me except to turn them off.

Noah Body  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+14)

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It works in the background even if not used and take 5-10% of the CPU time slices and 100-200MB of DRAM, no thanks.

mosley  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+14)

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After installation, it checked for update and said that the new version is available, so i suppose it'll show this message everytime you run it, I didn't find an option to switch off update checking , you can't activate it if you're blocking it in firewall or don't have an internet access.
Looking at their example projects, I wish they could be saved as a video, which I can then use for the intros, but the only output format is the windows screensaver file, that's not surprising, but it kind of making it useless for me, cause I don't remember last time I was seeing screensaver on my laptop, I just don't use them, screensavers are for dinosaur monitors, I don't know who uses them now.
They're 2 options when exporting a project, "Install a new screensaver" and "Build and save a Windows screensaver file (.scr)", the later will let you choose location where you want to save the screensaver, and you can then share that file with other Windows users.
Another option could be to save them as live wallpapers, it's not a native Windows thing though, but that would be cool, however it's not the specialty of this software.
it's possible to use a screen recording software to record the animation and then use it as a video but that's kind of inconvenient.
So if you're interested in making Windows screensavers then this software is for you.

Evgeny  –  8 years ago  –  Vond je deze reactie nuttig? ja | nee (+12)

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