Vista - Dreamscape hangs Vista Ult x64

When Dreamscape is running, Vista will periodically hard hang (will not respond to any input except hardware reset).

On reboot all desktop dispay setting are trashed.

Vista is UFAPP
(Useless For Any Practical Purpose)

Not really, vista really likes lots of hardware, once it has that it runs nicely. Can you give us a list of your hardware please, in particular what graphics card you use.

Shouldn't that be more Deskscapes is UFAPP?

ASUS Striker Extreme - ACPI BIOS Revision 1504, 2/25/2008
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU @ 2.66GHz (2667 MHz)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate, 64-bit (Service Pack 1) Version 6.0.6001 Service Pack 1 Build 6001
GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB PCI Express 16 x2 in SLI - Driver:178.13
4094MB RAM DDR2 Corsair XMS2 Xtreme Performance TwinX Matched (4x1GB)
DirectX 10
HP LP3065 LCD Monitor
WD 150GB 10k Raptors SATA x2
WD 250GB SATA
Samsung 500GB SATA x3

No overclocking.

hmm that spec is broadly similar to mine. Have you checked Event Viewer?

Booted Vista, turned on Dreamscape, after a few minutes Vista hung.

Restarted in Safe mode, received message that "Dreamscape has been disabled because explorer unexpectedly shut down..."

Restarted normally, checked Event Viewer for all events prior to Safe Boot restart and found no error events. I am in no way qualified to interpret any events that are not glaring errors.

During reboot the event viewer reports this error:
Log Name: Application
Source: Microsoft-Windows-EventSystem
Date: 10/21/2008 10:20:06 AM
Event ID: 4609
Task Category: Event System
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: KISE-005
Description:
The COM+ Event System detected a bad return code during its internal processing. HRESULT was 8007043c from line 45 of d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp. Please contact Microsoft Product Support Services to report this error.

There seems to be quite a bit of internet bug chatter about eventsystemobj.cpp, and system hangs, but I found nothing useful. The error asks you to contact Microsoft Product Support Services, but the only contacts I found require you to pay. The only time I ever called MS for Vista support, they told me my allotted "free" time had already been used, so I'm not exactly inclined to deal them, or spend more money after the hundreds of dollars and many hours of time trying to get a stable Vista running.


+System
-Provider[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-EventSystem[ Guid] {899daace-4868-4295-afcd-9eb8fb497561}[ EventSourceName] EventSystem
-EventID4609[ Qualifiers] 49152
Version0Level2Task16Opcode0Keywords0x80000000000000-TimeCreated[ SystemTime] 2008-10-21T17:20:06.000Z
EventRecordID4232Correlation-Execution[ ProcessID] 0[ ThreadID] 0
ChannelApplicationComputerKISE-005Security
-EventData
param1d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cppparam245param38007043c


Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
<SysVersion>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>16</Task>
<Opcodetem>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-EventSystem" Guid="{899daace-4868-4295-afcd-9eb8fb497561}" EventSourceName="EventSystem" />
<EventID Qualifiers="49152">4609</EventID>
<>0</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2008-10-21T17:20:06.000Z" />
<EventRecordID>4232</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" />
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>KISE-005</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
<EventData>
<Data Name="param1">d:\vistasp1_gdr\com\complus\src\events\tier1\eventsystemobj.cpp</Data>
<Data Name="param2">45</Data>
<Data Name="param3">8007043c</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>

An hour after the first hang, Vista hung again witht the same error on reboot.

UFAPP

I checked nvidia and found a newer driver than the one I recently installed (178.13 WHQL released 25-SEP-08 installed on 05-OCT-08).

178.24_geforce_winvista_64bit_english_whql

I have installed it and been doing things on Vista, and so far after a few hours running Dreamscape it seems to work.

May have to cancel the UFAPP.

I've been having video issues too. Re-installed Vista several times and tried several graphics drivers but computer keeps locking up when I play a video. I also have sli 8800gtx's and if I turn off Vista's Aero theme then video plays fine, same if i turn off SLI and drop to single GPU the video plays fine. Before the re-install of Vista I was running Vista and sli 8800gtx's fine without issues but since the new install I can't get it running stable. I have the same hardware and the same software as before, the only reason I re-installed was because things were slowing down due to the fact that Vista x64 was my test rig and I was dual booting with XP, but i like Vista 64 so much that I dumped XP and took back some hard drive space.

Maybe the next Nvidia driver release will fix things, I'm on 178.24 and i've tried 178.15, 178.13 and 177.92.

Again, at least rectify it to Dreamscene / Deskscape is UFAPP....

Bagging a whole OS because one app is buggy...logic like that sounds like it's UFAPP

I hope it stays stable for you