The most amazing screensaver you ever had ?

RejZoR · Jan 8, 2016

I really liked Aquarium screensaver in Windows 98. It is crap for today, but it had cute little fishes and it made underwatery noises. I liked that. Of the modern ones, the Bubbles from Windows Vista I think. Colorful bubbles bouncing around while desktop is still visible.

Btw, anyone remembers the VirtualGirl thingie? Those dancing girls above taskbar? I think it was a screensaver function with those. Lol, those were the times

Disparia · Jan 8, 2016

RejZoR said:
I really liked Aquarium screensaver in Windows 98. It is crap for today, but it had cute little fishes and it made underwatery noises. I liked that. Of the modern ones, the Bubbles from Windows Vista I think. Colorful bubbles bouncing around while desktop is still visible.

Btw, anyone remembers the VirtualGirl thingie? Those dancing girls above taskbar? I think it was a screensaver function with those. Lol, those were the times

That's one still being updated today, 1000's of dancers now and new features such as multiple dancers at once.

SnakeDoctor · Jan 8, 2016

no need these days , prefer turn off after ...

But who remembers this one -Stress relief screensaver
Yea remember that virtual girl screen savers

AlienIsGOD · Jan 8, 2016

I voted no, whenever I go out I turn my screen off. I leave it on when home to see FB notifications from my couch (if i dont have my phone handy) and go check them

RejZoR · Jan 8, 2016

SnakeDoctor said:
no need these days , prefer turn off after ...

But who remembers this one -Stress relief screensaver
Yea remember that virtual girl screen savers

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Oh, the memories of massacring ants with a hammer and blowtorch

Frick · Jan 9, 2016

I had one where Obi-Wan and Darth Vader slowly walked across the monitor, fighting. It messed up the colors of the background though, for some reason.

Protagonist · Jan 9, 2016

Haven't used screen saver since Windows Xp MC though i use desktop background the default ones

Windows 10 backgrounds and lock screen are good, just my opinion

FordGT90Concept · Jan 9, 2016

Do I use a screensaver? No, because my monitors get turned off between 1-5 minutes of idle time.

What's the best screensaver ever? The BSOD imitation screensaver. :roll:

I haven't ever really used a screensaver because I'd rather save power and the screen rather than just the screen.

Frick · Jan 9, 2016

Photo screensavers are nice. Mom and dad has an endless shuffling of all the pictures they've ever taken digitally, and it's rather a lot of them. I really should look into getting those .. diapositves google tells me they're called in english on there as well.

FordGT90Concept · Jan 9, 2016

Windows has supported that feature since...a long time ago. On Windows 10:
Screen Saver Settings -> Screen saver: Photos

xvi · Jan 9, 2016

FordGT90Concept said:
What's the best screensaver ever? The BSOD imitation screensaver.

I only tried to trick someone with that screensaver once and it worked flawlessly. I had to jump to stop the guy from immediately reaching for the power button.
It's really the best screensaver of them all... to install on other people's computers.

Luke Whitton said:
I've always had a Screen Saver! I found the best were
@: http://www.reallyslick.com/

Huge +1!
Every PC I'd get, I'd put rssavers on it. Flocks (increase followers tenfold), Field Lines (turn speed way down), or Lattice ("Doughnut" preset) are my favorites. Skyrocket usually takes over around the 4th of July too.

Luke Whitton · Jan 9, 2016

xvi said:
Huge +1!
Every PC I'd get, I'd put rssavers on it. Flocks (increase followers tenfold), Field Lines (turn speed way down), or Lattice ("Doughnut" preset) are my favorites. Skyrocket usually takes over around the 4th of July too.

My same favourites! I've had a go at tweaking most of them. You can get some really nice effects! My daughter loves the Skyrocket Saver. She sometimes asks for it to watch while she sleeps!

Countryside · Jan 9, 2016

Last time i used a screensaver was in 2003.

64K · Jan 9, 2016

I guess my favorite was a screensaver with roaches crawling all over the desktop and eating the screen. It's been about 10 or 15 years ago that I used a screensaver so I don't know if it's still around.

hat · Jan 10, 2016

My favorite screensaver is either

A) Turning the monitor off!
B) Black screen screensaver

Though, I admit to recently installing the BOINC screensaver, for once. Kinda neat...

Liquid Cool · Jan 10, 2016

I never really use them...but I have always liked nVidia's "Lost Watch 2" screen saver.

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Best,

Liquid Cool

Countryside · Jan 10, 2016

I was quite surprised that Microsoft didn't add animated wallpaper feature in win10, still have to use 3rd party software.

PLAfiller · Jan 10, 2016

Countryside said:
I was quite surprised that Microsoft didn't add animated wallpaper feature in win10, still have to use 3rd party software.

You blew my mind. I had live wallpapers on phone, didn't think to check out on Windows. I installed Deskscapes + inspected the Reaper of soul's page and ripped the looping background. Now I have Malthiel floating on the two monitors...that is some sick stuff

Sadly Deskscapes has 30 day trial, so I enjoy it while I can

Malthiel here.

Mussels · Jan 10, 2016

screensavers have been a bad thing for a long time now. far better to have the monitor power down and save runtime, than to rotate through random images.

VulkanBros · Jan 10, 2016

Mussels said:
screensavers have been a bad thing for a long time now. far better to have the monitor power down and save runtime, than to rotate through random images.

Yeah...remembering Windows Server NT 3.5/3.51 .... many customers complained that the server went slow after some time - turned out that the screensaver tuck up 99% of the CPU power....

xvi · Jan 10, 2016

Edit: Forgot about these before. BreveCreatures and SETI@Home's screensaver are both pretty cool. Here's a video from a YouTube channel I really like, Vsauce, that includes both.

Luke Whitton said:
My daughter loves the Skyrocket Saver.

Do you know about being able to control the launching of fireworks? Keys 1 through 0 and Q through P (top two rows on the keyboard).

Red_Machine · Jan 10, 2016

I used to use this back in the day. It uses the Far Gate game engine. Screensaver is pretty sweet, game is absolute shit though.

qubit · Jan 11, 2016

I use the Windows one and it couldn't be more basic: the PC simply cuts the video signal after an hour of inactivity.

Luke Whitton · Jan 11, 2016

xvi said:
Do you know about being able to control the launching of fireworks? Keys 1 through 0 and Q through P (top two rows on the keyboard).

I didn't have a clue! Amazing! Thanks alot! :toast:

mortazaeek · Jan 17, 2016

I think screensavers was interesting part of CRT monitors.
however in office still use 3D TEXT; whenever during playing game must answer phone calls !

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The most amazing screensaver you ever had ?

Do you use a screensaver in year 2016 ?

Yes

No

I don't think it actually helps

I don't really care about it

I swap my monitors so often, I don't bother with screensavers

Sometimes I try out of curiosity

My PC is up all day, I go in I go out, so yeah I've set it up

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