I'm sure that many people will miss the point of this screensaver. It isn't intended to be realistic; it's a whimsical, colorful, busy screensaver. There are 3 aquariums, similar in style, some of the fish are the same and some are different, all with different background music. It's more 2D than 3D. I found the different music tracks to be reasonably pleasant. There are a few unique little touches in each aquarium. I waited a while, and it doesn't appear to switch aquariums automatically, you randomly get one of the three when the screensaver starts.

The install was clean. I noticed that Astro Gemini is offering their entire collection of 3D screensavers for $50, which is a major price reduction.

People always post lots of nonsense when screensavers are offered. If you have some kind of moral objection, keep it to yourself and skip the offering. Screensavers are fully compatible with Windows power management. Personally, I don't use screensavers as such, but as on-demand relaxing animations. People will claim that modern displays don't burn. That's absolutely false. All display technologies, whether phosphor-based, LED, OLED, etc., will get dimmer with use. LCD's have a backlight. LCD's themselves can retain images due to charge buildup across the LCD cells, although the phenomenon isn't permanent. LCD"s require more power to display black, as it takes current to activate the LCD cells, and the backlight remains on (an all-black "on" display may be an exception if you have a variable backlight, which is common for LED backlights). This Astro Gemini screensaver isn't great for preventing image retention, because portions are static, it has a static border, and some display aspect ratios will result in black bounding columns.

People have all sorts of different display hardware and drivers. Using the latest nVidia drivers with a 9800 GT running at 1920x1200, this rendered easily on my PC. As a whimsical and fun screensaver, I think this is OK.

Fubar  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+40)

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As you can tell by the screenshots it's a silly cartoon-like aquarium. The music is good and tropical (steel drums, etc.) I like that you have the option to turn the music off or down. As far as the water sound, it sounds more like a strong wind blowing on a microphone. My toddler will probably get a kick out of it. It's been around a decade since I have really been into screen savers. If I were to purchase an aquarium screen saver I would get Dream Aquarium. It's like having a real aquarium, you can add fish, remove them, even feed them and the water sound is as real as it gets but it's $20 USD.

Damon  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+28)

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Lovely screensaver. Not your typical "aquarium" on a screen. Instead of trying to be the same, this one is a little more "cartoony" and the fish have wonderful expressions in a "finding nemo" kind of way. My 3 yr old hasn't stopped staring at it...he's mesmerised.

Chris  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+17)

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Cute, but a little too cartoonish for my taste. I get a similar screensaver from the "Fishdom" game.

Daniel Lovejoy  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+13)

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#10: "... But I cant get rid of the sounds at all..."

Start up Regedit, look for "[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Astro Gemini Software\Fishdom H2O - Screensaver]", and make sure "EnableMusic"=dword:00000000

mike  –  14 years ago  –  このコメントは役に立ちましたか？ はい | いいえ (+13)

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