Object Desktop 2009 Official Support Thread
Post your thoughts, questions, issues with Object Desktop 2009 here.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 by Zargon | Discussion: Object Desktop
When Object Desktop 2009 is released, this is where the known issues will be posted. Please post your findings here as well. Thank you!
Notes and Known Issues: (all issues are being worked on at this time)
Theme Manager 3.0 (Published at 11am)
- Aero Midnight theme included as a .suite file for Object Desktop customers.
- My Desktop / Save My Desktop: Dreams, skins and cursors sometimes do apply when saved as part of a suite. Please apply through the Applications tab as a workaround at this time.
- Applications / Cursors: Sometimes cursors take two applies before applying.
- My Desktop / Create New Theme: The Download URL function is not working at this time.
- Please update SoundPackager before applying sounds through Theme Manager 3.0.
- Users will need to open SoundPackager one time to have sound packages show up in Theme Manager 3.0.
- Fixed - On systems that do not have MyColors installed, an error about the StardockWeather.ocx file not being registered will display when applying weather gadgets.
- The Aero Midnight skin does not extract and apply 100% of the time on faster hardware.
Deskscapes 2.5 (with XP support published at 1pm)
- With a Dream file applied dragging and dropping icons from the desktop to a folder does not work at this time.
- Please visit this web site to review video card requirement details. In short, AGP Video cards are not supported at this time. Future driver updates from NVIDIA/ATI will add support later this year. At that time only AGP 8x will be supported (4x/2x/1x bus speeds are not adequate to support dream functionality at low CPU).
- The Watercolor Dream may exhibit some distortion on Windows XP.
Bootskin Pro 1.0 (published at 6:30pm)
- There is a new WinCustomize gallery for Windows Vista bootskins. Boot skins created for XP will not work with Bootskin Pro.
- Bootskin Pro allows users to create boot skins for Windows Vista, so boot skins created for XP can be re-generated and uploaded to WinCustomize.
- Bootskin Pro Create boot skin tab will attempt to read your Object Desktop Ultimate serial from the registry. If the serial number field is blank, paste in your Object Desktop Ultimate serial number to create a boot skin.
- There may be an issue with .bootskin file associations on some systems.
WindowBlinds 6.3 (published on 11/18/2008)
- Windows Vista 64-bit users may need to reboot after install if skins do not apply correctly.
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Reply #22 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:37 PM
I have an Nvidia GeForce 7300GT 512Mb 8x AGP card with the latest drivers from Nvidia and Direct x 9 installed and there are still additonal drivers needed?
Reply #23 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:45 PM
Give it a shot on that card with that configuration. You may see acceptable results. Please let us know what CPU utilization you observe.
Reply #24 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:54 PM
Other than that works perfecly on my XP machine
That is correct - there are some issues with Fences and DeskScapes on Windows XP. Hopefully, these will be resolved in the future, but for now, they do not play perfectly together.
Reply #25 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:11 PM
DeskScape 2.5 icon is still transparent in My Destop tab of Impulse. It downloaded 43.6Mb and installed. The icon says installed however DeskScapes does not show up on the Object Desktp tab of Impule at all. Do I need to double click the activate file in Program Files/Stardock/Object Desktop/Deskscapes?
Reply #26 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:27 PM
To apply a dream after installing Deskscapes on XP. Right click on the desktop and choose properties. From the Display Properties menu Deskscapes now has a tab.
Reply #27 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:29 PM
You say it shows up on the My Desktop tab, but not on the Object Desktop tab. There is no Object Desktop tab. Can you please post a screen shot?
Reply #28 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:36 PM
Reply #29 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:38 PM
I'm having a problem with Theme Manager not loading Windowblinds. The Aero Midnight Windowblind doesn't show up in Windowblinds stand alone, either. ANY windowblind with a them will not install. I'm on Windows XP, service pack 3.
Reply #30 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 2:59 PM
Where do I go to download OD 2009. Thank you in advance. I am an Ultimate OD subscriber
Reply #31 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:02 PM
Sure does have OD tab, Desktp Extras and My Colors tabs. Also when Theme manager installed a bit later a sys tray icon for SDC popped into my sys tray. Where did that come from? It shows in sreenshot.
Reply #32 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:05 PM
Theme manager not load aero windowblind theme
My OS is windows xp service pack3
Reply #33 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:05 PM
Object Desktop 2009 is available through Impulse. Download and install Impulse to manage your software.
http://www.impulsedriven.com/about.asp
Use the full installer for best results.
Reply #34 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:06 PM
You have to apply Aero Midnight before the skin will show up in WindowBlinds.
What happens when you try to apply Aero Midnight?
Reply #35 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:07 PM
My OS is windows xp service pack3
You need to apply the suite once before the skin will show up under the skin tab or under WindowBlinds.
Reply #36 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:07 PM
Download and install Impulse from here: http://www.impulsedriven.com/impulse_setup.exe
Then use the Desktop tab in Impulse to install
Reply #37 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:10 PM
The Object Desktop tab in that screen shot is a custom tab you created. What did you select to create it? It shows up when we create a "category" tab for Object Desktop.
Reply #38 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:17 PM
zargon, when attempting to apply aero midnight via theme manger, everything is applied except for the windowblinds skin. well, let me put it this way: the wallpaper and the icons changed. the windowblinds skin was not applied and the desktop gadgets failed to appear.
Reply #39 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:19 PM
I try to apply aero midnight with theme manager but not load the windowblind skin except icon packager , wallpaper .
I dont Know about weather , clock etc because i have them uncheck
Reply #40 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:19 PM
Zargon did you see the screenies above that show tabs in the Impulse beta? With AGP card, when tried to launch a dream from Theme manager nothing happened. When tried to launch theme from desktop properties/deskscapes, I got an error messag about the AGP card and redirected to a page that explained the issue.
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Reply #21 Wednesday, November 19, 2008 1:36 PM
Am I right in assuming that Fences doesn"t like Dreamscapes or vice versa?
Other than that works perfecly on my XP machine