Wallpaper cannot be applied

[StripeyButt]

Lately when I wake back up from Sleep mode or if booting my computer up from being off, Wallpaper Engine doesn't apply any of my wallpapers. When I go in to change wallpaper and Load Profile, I get the following error:

"Wallpaper cannot be applied

It looks like Wallpaper Engine cannot apply the wallpaper because it cannot properly identify your monitors.

Try restarting Wallpaper Engine completely. If you frequently have this issue, try disabling the high priority auto start option and use the normal auto start instead.

Additionally, try setting the monitor identification option to Layout in the General tab of the settings to avoid this issue. "


Well I tried all of that and I'm still having the same issue.
Any thoughts?

[StripeyButt]

Publicado originalmente por Biohazard:

Could you disable your second monitor and restart Wallpaper Engine, then try applying it?

Unfortunately your issue seems different from anything we've come across so far so the best I can think of right now would be to try narrowing it down. It might also be related to your particular image files, but I would be surprised since I've tested it with a lot of different ones.

I don't think re-installing will change anything. You could use the reset button in the general settings though to reset your config, it's not deleted by uninstalling the program.

Okay so I tried that with no success.

HOWEVER, being the genius I am, I realized that Steam was not set to run on Startup. Now that Steam is set to run on Startup, I don't seem to be having any issues (crossing my fingers of course). I guess that should have been obvious on my end, huh?

My images are loading as wallpapers even from their original folders and not from the steam folder as you originally suggested. However, I am still set to the "Layout" option.

Why would the stock wallpaper still work even without Steam running on startup, but my custom ones would not work?

[Biohazard]

Publicado originalmente por StripeyButt:

Why would the stock wallpaper still work even without Steam running on startup, but my custom ones would not work?

I'm not sure, the background application that is displaying the wallpapers doesn't even know about Steam. Only the wallpaper selection/editor windows have the Steam integration.

Could it be related to Wallpaper Engine starting slower when Steam is also starting? Or is it starting similarly fast?

[StripeyButt]

Publicado originalmente por Biohazard:

Publicado originalmente por StripeyButt:

Why would the stock wallpaper still work even without Steam running on startup, but my custom ones would not work?

I'm not sure, the background application that is displaying the wallpapers doesn't even know about Steam. Only the wallpaper selection/editor windows have the Steam integration.

Could it be related to Wallpaper Engine starting slower when Steam is also starting? Or is it starting similarly fast?

They appear to start similarly fast. And now I just don't know what is going on cause this most recent time I restarted, only one of my monitors (secondary) loaded a wallpaper while my primary monitory didn't load anything.

[Biohazard]

Thanks. I think I managed to solve the issues, looks like there was really just something wrong with static image wallpapers alone, please try the beta here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/350544272219415004/

[StripeyButt]

Publicado originalmente por Biohazard:

Thanks. I think I managed to solve the issues, looks like there was really just something wrong with static image wallpapers alone, please try the beta here: http://steamcommunity.com/app/431960/discussions/2/350544272219415004/

I did this but I wanted to give it some time to make sure everything was working alright.
This was the solution! Haven't had a single issue with loading static wallpapers since using the beta.

Thank you for the help!

[Drabincze]

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