black screen, no saver

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. copy .scr to C:\windows
2. desktop settings -> screen saver
3. preview

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Instead of the screen saver, I just get a black screen.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

XP SP2

Please provide any additional information below.

The in-screen preview shows a loading screen and then a so-small-you-can't-
see-it version of the saver. The full screen version seems to be blank, 
though.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by wcol...@gmail.com on 5 May 2009 at 5:36

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Same issue.  Here are my specs:

XP SP2
P4 3gh
Intel 82945G Express Chipset (built-in chip)

Original comment by oneh...@gmail.com on 5 May 2009 at 7:28

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Ah. It's just REALLY slow. I just walked away for some time (on the order of 
ten 
minutes) and came back to find it displaying the indicator at 8% or so.

Original comment by wcol...@gmail.com on 5 May 2009 at 7:51

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Same problem here. No surprise with my hardware.

XP SP3
Mobile Celeron 1.5 GHz
Intel 915/910 graphics

Original comment by JPositr...@gmail.com on 5 May 2009 at 8:12

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I updated to Version 1.0.010...

New timeline when running the screen saver preview:

0s - black
3s - progress meter appears, goes to about 85%
23s - first frame appears

Then I get a new frame about every 12 seconds or so, so about 0.083fps. The 
frames 
are not sequential, so there are huge jumps between displayed frames.

This machine has 2G of memory, and the Intel Q35 Express chipset.

Original comment by wcol...@gmail.com on 8 May 2009 at 3:42

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Tried again with 1.0.011 ; pretty much same the same timing results.

Any chance you could release a build that was not in screensaver mode to test? 
Based 
on comments on the blog, it would be interesting to compare the two versions.

Original comment by wcol...@gmail.com on 11 May 2009 at 6:51

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On an acer netbook (atom 1.6, crappy video card, XP SP3), The screen saver 
(version :
1.0.011) just quit after a random amount of time, mostly after 20-30 seconds. 
In that
time, I only get the timer... I know it might a setup below minimum 
requirement... 

The soft seem to be able to work because in the small preview (when we select 
the
screen saver), I see the city flying by....

The NotScreenSaver version would be great to test if it's not a system event 
that
make it getout of the SSmode...

By the way, it works great on my 4 year old desktop setup...

Original comment by mbew...@gmail.com on 11 May 2009 at 8:56

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On a laptop with Intel X3100 graphics & Vista32 SP1, I resolved this issue by 
editing
the ini file with Effect=0 and ShowFog=0.  Anyone here try that?
Ran slow as heck, but it ran.

Original comment by rwur...@gmail.com on 16 May 2009 at 9:33