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Inu May 16, 2018 @ 5:27pm
Wallpapers keeps resetting themselves
Not sure what is causing this and would appreciate anyone who might be able to help with this. Any wallpaper that I set keeps resetting itself, i.e., the wallpaper seems "crash" and then goes to the desktop wallpaper. It immediately starts the wallpaper engine wallpaper again. This process keeps looping and it is really annoying.

However, the weird thing is it does not happen all the time (frequency is higher recently though) and I am not what triggers this behavior. Closing the application and restarting used to fix this problem but as of late restarting the application is of no help either. Please help :(

I am running a system with
i7 7700k, 32 GB ram, GTX 1080 Ti.
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Biohazard  [developer] May 16, 2018 @ 5:40pm 
Is there an actual crash (with an error dialog) or was it just an analogy? Does it happen with the stock wallpapers like the 3D car?

If you have any playback option set to 'stop', perhaps there is something registered as maximized/fullscreen. Any kind of desktop overlay window could do that, unless it's set up to be handled as a transparent window in Windows.

Also, the Windows slide show has a blend effect that interferes. The slide show should ideally be disabled so it doesn't overlap Wallpaper Engine.
Inu May 23, 2018 @ 8:26am 
Thanks for the reply and sorry about my delayed response.

The crash is an anology. This is merely a restart of the wallpaper. I made a screen recording showing the problem. This occurs on all wallpapers- stock and others. None of my playback settings are set to 'stop'. All are on pause or keep running.
My windows slideshow is disabled and is on picture desktop. If that's what you meant.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sH2Cf49WqqJ-eIbY6zHswmMfhbLN0NL9?usp=sharing

Side note: wallpaper64 application does crash time to time with an error message, however a restart usually fixes it.

nuro May 30, 2020 @ 1:38am 
The same thing happens to me, not sure why, no error messages just like it does a reset or restarts the wallpaper. The videos you posted are very similar except your restart seems faster I guess because of your CPU and GPU being better too.

My specs: i7-6700, 32GB RAM, GTX 1080
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