Awesome!

Astro Gemini screensavers execute in your system as an actual 3D environment with sights and sounds as the scene changes camera angles. Great dynamic worlds and I have enjoyed nearly every one of their great screensaver giveaways.

It does use some resources while the scene is running, and there is always an option to disable the little client program from startup completely. I thought I'd mention it because of the typical complaints about resource usage and the fact we no longer need to "save screens" with the new monitors. These are purely a novelty, and if you like screensavers in general, these are quite enjoyable.

I've been running the "Spooky Holloween" screensaver this year (it was last year's giveaway), and I was expecting them to give it away again. Now I have a great new one I can run in my media computer on our widescreen. My kids are always mesmarized by the design of these wonderful screensavers. I have a bunch of these now thanks do being a long time GAOTD participant - Might just go ahead and buy a couple this time around.

Thanks again Astro Gemini and GAOTD!

Rob  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+36)

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@ Rokktim, currently post #3: Anything can hamper the performance of a PC if it is by nature resource-heavy. But software doesn't land on a computer without the user asking for it. So. . . if you don't want resource-heavy software, don't install it. Simple.

Big thanks to Rob at post #2 for finally nailing what this kind of software truly is: a NOVELTY. An ENTERTAINMENT. It has NO PRACTICAL PURPOSE. It makes NO CLAIM TO BE OF PRACTICAL USE.

I don't have kids of an age who'd perhaps delight in seeing this spooky fun thing on a 'puter screen, but I bet there'll be parents in the GAOTD community who do. And those parents will be just like anyone else trying out a novelty: either they'll like it, or they won't. Simple.

All this harping on about resources -- ye gods, of course it's resource heavy! Isn't there a great big clue in the word "3D"??? -- and, for all I know, future comments about how screensavers-were-only-useful-with-CRT-monitor is irrelevant.

Thanks GAOTD and Astro Gemini; this kind of novelty software isn't for me but that's no reason for it to be down-voted by button-pushing "users" (yeah, right!) in the way it already has.

MikeR  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+16)

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Waiting for the millionth comment about screen savers being unnecessary software. ;)

Astro Gemini are a leader in this field and their screen savers are always great quality, animation is always smooth and best of all, endlessly amuse my little granddaughter :)))

Downloaded and installed flawlessly on my Win7 machine (as they always do!) and had a look at the settings.

These check box settings include:
- Screen size (detected mine automatically);
- Music (spooky) with volume control;
- Enable sound effects;
- Gamma control - default setting perfect for me (110%);
- Miscellaneous options:
- Show FPS (frames per second);
- Exit on mouse move;
- Show time (12hr or 24 hr);

I find showing the FPS or the clock distracting, so do not have them enabled and also the Astro Gemini brand is always jarring against the screen saver, even though it is placed at the bottom.

Astro Gemini - please consider removing the brand, it's ugly against your beautiful screen savers.

Rokktim: If you're that worried about screen savers hampering "the performance of pc...." the Astro Gemini settings have a link to your computer's power settings, which can also be found via the Control Panel.

Thank you Astro Gemini for being a long time guest on GAotD (ever since I can remember) and offering yet another beautiful holiday screen saver.

I give it a rock solid 9/10 and would give the last point if the brand was removed - I'm looking forward to seeing a Thanksgiving one next! (hint, hint) ;) Thank you also to the GAotD team.
~ Swan

Swan  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+13)

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I tried to install this on windows 7, but got an error because i couldn't rewrite some system files under system32 ??

Why do the program have to rewrite system files ?

Fred  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+11)

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@ # 3: "3D screensavers just hampers the performance of pc". Of course, but being what they are, "screensavers", they are supposed to be operational as soon as the elapsed time without touching your mouse, keyboard or any other imput device has been reached, thus you are not using your computer since X minutes. Why would you need performance? If you are a NASA scientist and your PC is doing operations to track something is outer space 24/24, of course you may not want to have a screensaver :p
Havanice weekend!

unpeudepolitessesvp  –  12 years ago  –  A fost util acest comentariu? da | nu (+6)

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