Frequently Asked Questions
Q : "The screen saver is too slow. What can I do?"
Try one or more of the following...
- Try a lower resolution 640x480 with at least 16
bit color depth (thousands ore more colors). You can to this in the
savers settings dialog in the general tab.
- Make the drawing area smaller. The drawing area has a significant
effect on the speed. Choose a 60% height for example to create a letter-box
effect and increase the speed.
- Decrease the number of particles. Most systems do use around 4000
particles. The more you choose the slower the speed. Try to use a higher
"motion blur" value to virtually simulate more particles.
- The "use smoothing" checkbox enables a very nice but also
CPU intense display filter. Try to deactivate to gain more speed
- Image transformation is also very CPU intense but cool :) . Make
sure that you deactivate image transformation (Transform tab in the
Wave settings) if you have a value of zero in all of the transformation
parameters.
- Last but not least! Watch for background applications! If they work
the safer stops. This is a feature not a bug :) . So if you render some
ray tracing pics in the background the saver will not prevent them of
beeing finished as like many other screen savers do.
- You can also set a higher process priority for the saver (the saver
consumes more CPU time). Do this within the general tab of the configuration
dialog.
Q : "Why does PSSS not use the whole screen?"
Each saved wave preset in the gallery has its own defined drawing area.
If the screen saver is in random mode the saver chooses always a different
wave system and also a different drawing area.
The version 1.2 allows no to set the drawing area for all presets. Go
to the General Tab within the screen saver confguration and activate "Override
preset size". Enter the desired "Width" and "Height"
in percent. The new option "Stretch to fullscreen"effect that
the whole screen is used even if the drawing area is smaller. But in this
case the effective resolution will be reduced.
Q : "Why does the animation stop after
a while and I only see a black screen?"
Look at your power safe configuration. Some computers are configured
to turn off unused hardware after a certain period when the computer is
not used. Also the display will be turned off after a certain period.
Go to Sart Menu->Settings->Control Panel->Energy Options (hope
this is right for a english Windows) and check your configuration. But
it is a very resonable setting to allow your computer to safe energy,
so please don't take this screensaver as a reason to change this behaviour.
Q : "Why is it not possible to change
the color of the text in the text system?"
This is a strange issue with the color dialog. If you choose one of the
predefined colors to the left - it should work. If you choose a color
"created" by your own, you have to press the button "add
color" (hope this is the right caption in english) and you will see
your color on the left in the boxes of "custom colors" (or similar
caption) - if the color is there you can choose it and it should work
after pressing the ok-button.
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