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TB303
10-07-05, 07:28 PM
Hi People,
I'm looking fo ra proper 3D screen saver or an equivilant I have a 6800GT and I hate to think it just idles all this time when I'm away from my computer.

What do you know/like?

Thanks!

sytaylor
10-07-05, 07:42 PM
If you dont mind your electricity bill going up a bit, then there are tonnes. Personally I just let the monitor turn off after 5 mins of inactivity (except when a progam is using the fullscreen).

With that said, I saw one from AMD that wasn't bad. The whole screen saver thing seems to have died a death though.

Rakeesh
10-07-05, 10:18 PM
A lot of people seem to like those aquarium ones.

http://www.fish-byte.com/

supra
10-08-05, 12:13 AM
I use rss

www.reallyslick.com

awesome openGL screensavers.

OWA
10-08-05, 12:25 AM
I like the Nvidia orb screensaver. It use to be available on their website but I haven't checked recently. It would probably be on the nzone site. Actually, just checked and it is still there.

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nvidia.html

Direct link: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_orbscreensaver_home.html

http://img70.imageshack.us/img70/6306/nv26mt.th.jpg (http://img70.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nv26mt.jpg)

Edit: I also own this one (you can download a demo to try). http://www.serenescreen.com/

It's another aquarium one. I use to keep it updated but these days I don't really use a screensaver anymore or if I do, it's just blanking the screen. I usually just have the monitor turn off though.

Subtestube
10-08-05, 05:07 PM
I tend to go blank screen as well (there're practically no screenies that work properly in dualview mode anyhow, and it's frustrating to actually have to turn off my second monitor), but, the ATi ones are actually very good, and as I recall, they work nicely too.

The caves one from here is nice: http://ati.com/developer/demos/r9800.html
And there are a couple more here: http://ati.com/developer/demos/r9700.html