Drempels 1.5

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (37 votes)

(February 6, 2005)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Open Source / 6,556 downloads

Drempels makes colorful, swirling, hallucinogenic patterns that resemble a hurricane or tornado. It normally runs in your Windows background or "desktop", replacing your old still-image wallpaper with gently-animating visuals, and meanwhile, you can use your computer just like you normally would. Drempels can also be used as a screensaver; in this mode, it goes fullscreen (like a normal screensaver) instead of rendering to the desktop/background.

  • Publisher

    Ryan M. Geiss

  • Homepage

    Drempels

  • Latest Changes

    - Added 'm' key to toggle global suppression of all text messages on/off

    - Added ability to cycle through random subdirectories under the main folder that has been selected

    - Cranked motion vector gridsize up from 18x14 to 36x28

    - Enabled higher resolutions (1280xYYY, 1600xYYY)

    - Screensaver mode now runs in high quality (1X zoom) be default, rather than medium quality (2X zoom)

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  1. 1 out of 5 stars
    bigsexy022870

    Reviewing 1.5 (Sep 9, 2007)

    Great idea, we all want a cool active desktop. But low quality took up 50% cpu usage. High quality went to 100%. All on a gaming rig, with a ton of power. So bad execution guys. Nice idea someday when we all have 16 core cpu's and can spare one core just for the cool desktop.

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    aszure

    Reviewing 1.5 (Mar 6, 2007)

    Redeyes_Gambit:

    350mhz? Time to upgrade.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    citizen420

    Reviewing 1.5 (Feb 6, 2006)

    THIS THING IS AMAZING!
    usualy im a performance freak and i like a slim os, but this thing is soooo worth 30% of mu CPU! im loving it! i cant imagine anything being trippier, more relaxing or pleasant, Perfect contrast to my dull optimized system. May-B something i totally dont need due to performance loss, but its just too beautiful, and i want it.

  4. 4 out of 5 stars
    Redeyes_Gambit

    Reviewing 1.5 (Oct 20, 2005)

    WOW! It realy works!

    Man this thing is awsome! Runs fast on my 350 mghz machine too! If you want to know what it looks like just imagine a Windows Media Player visualization times ten. Really pretty. I would give it a 5 star but there is this one drawback: It only works on certain graphics cards. I'm not sure why it works on some GCs and not on others. But, it will not hurt anyhting on yor sytem to download it and try it out :D .

  5. 5 out of 5 stars
    Kylde

    Reviewing 1.5 (Feb 8, 2005)

    awesome, simply awesome, now how do I lock a particular colour down :) ?

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