Are you reapplying after changing those settings?

Makes me miss my dual monitors!! 

Yes. I can change the overall opacity, just the mouseover isn't changing.

I would try a reboot.

Something else you may not have noticed in the UI is you can now right click dreams and apply, delete or open the folder the dream is in.

The previews on the far right, do they only show up if you have multiple monitors? Because I'm not seeing them.

YEEHAW!

 

I created a second PhotoDream by renaming it, then dropping into the dreams directory.  And now I can have TWO photodreams playing, one per monitor, each with different random image sequences.  8)))))))))

 

CPU usage is nada, so I will be doing the acid test on the triple display tonight...

UPDATE! The new beta solved these issues for me completely on my uber 3 monitors, 2 GPU system. As long as I create three versions of Photodream (just by copying and renaming), and then assigning each one to a different monitor, there is no explorer.exe performance hit, etc. etc. My dwm.exe use is 10%-ish with THREE complete dreams playing on 30", 30", and 24" monitors. 8))))))

Yes.  There was no point making them show on a single monitor system as there is nothing to change.

Why does the watercolor dream not work on my system? anyone else able to get it to work, all i get is a blue watercolor screen, no animated effects at all?

System Details: Your computer has a Windows Experience Index base score of 5.9
Your Windows Graphics Experience score is 6.9
DeskScapes appears to be activated on this PC
DeskScapes engine appears to be running
(Generic PnP Monitor) 1 is attached to NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250

Deskscape.dll 2010/01/15 11:19:01
Deskscapes.dll 2009/11/02 07:01:35
DreamControl32.dll 2009/11/09 06:43:17
DeskscapesConfig.exe 2010/01/15 11:19:50
UI\Deskscape.dll 2010/01/11 17:27:33
UI\DeskscapesVideo.dll 2009/11/02 07:01:54
DreamTasks.exe 2009/11/09 09:51:57
DeskscapesVideo.dll 2010/01/11 17:27:22

I checked and it's not just you...doesn't work for me either.

 

Did anyone else have trouble with fences when they loaded this update? It stopped working for me altogether.

Yes with this update Fences does not work properly

Debug new Dream notes: Watercolor and Water Dream doesn't work on any of three monitors, as mentioned above. Copper Pool, Winter Snow, Desktop Earth, Desktop Slideshow seem to work but there if you try too many combinations under multiGPU you can cause the second and third monitors to start flashing. 8) Logging off then on again to reset things seems to do the trick in fixing such confusion. PhotoDream works fabulously, even keeping separate settings for each instance copied into the dreams directory. So you can have different photo directories, backgrounds, etc. on each monitor. DesktopCollage works but even separate running instances share one settings file between them, so you can't have one collage of landscapes on one monitor, another of celebrities on another, for example. Video dreams work flawlessly for me, mixing and matching with full acceleration. Again, if you want the same video dream playing on all monitors, it's best to create duplicate instances of it in your dreams directory. The act of "cloning" any dream from one GPU to another GPU can cause the 100% explorer.exe behavior. I hope these notes help! This is the best thing to happen to Deskscapes ever, IMHO.

The watercolour dream is a very slow moving dream which can sometimes look like nothing is happening (We also don't include it with Deskscapes due to some odd incompatibility issues with that one - especially on XP)

The water dream seems to be working fine here though.

Regarding duplicating dreams, if you only have a single GPU but multiple monitors attached (such as the example in the screenshots where there are 3 monitors but only one graphics card), you would be better off just setting it on the all monitors' monitor.

If you have multiple gpus then you only need to set a copy on the non primary adapter.  If the primary is running two screens then setting both to the same dream would be more efficient than setting a copy to each.

 I rebooted and now fences is working along with the new Deskscapes beta.  Maybe if you hold hour mouth just so and concentrate hard, all these toys will play together nicely.  I like the new effects