My Games Desktop...

Share your desktop....:lol:

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skrat_01

Lol awesome background.

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michael098

Lol awesome background.

Skrat, is that ObjectDock?Ein-7919

We don't have many Chinese members here. Such a fantastic place, I just visited Beijing, Xi'an and Luoyang a while ago.

Unused ram is useless ram. Why wouldn't Vista use that if no other program does? When a resource heavy program like a game needs those resources, Vista gives them. After playing a game the memory usage is down to 35-40%.RK-Mara

So that means 800 mb of RAM are used by the Vista while you game? Hmm, XP here and 2 gigs of RAM. 350-400 when I game. I'm not critisizing Vista or your choice of OS, you're probably satisfied with it's performance and resourse-usage, but I think I'll wait a little more with the upgrade.

I only reinstalled Windows a couple days ago, so I only have the essentials installed right now.

I only reinstalled Windows a couple days ago, so I only have the essentials installed right now.

mfsa

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I only reinstalled Windows a couple days ago, so I only have the essentials installed right now.

skrat_01

It's here.

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I only reinstalled Windows a couple days ago, so I only have the essentials installed right now.

mfsa

It's here.

We don't have many Chinese members here. Such a fantastic place, I just visited Beijing, Xi'an and Luoyang a while ago.

RK-Mara

China...fantastic place....I must live in alternate reality China.

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We don't have many Chinese members here. Such a fantastic place, I just visited Beijing, Xi'an and Luoyang a while ago.

Vampyronight

China...fantastic place....I must live in alternate reality China.

Politics aside, you shouldn't forget China's historic and cultural value.

..haven't finished with getting new icons. A couple of them are ugly and aliased.

Politics aside, you shouldn't forget China's historic and cultural value.

RK-Mara

If you don't want the politics (or the expansive countryside), there's always Taiwan. :P

And, to be on topic for once in this thread, here's my desktop:

• my desk

• my desk

- Insert Awesome Desktop Here -
aceruber

Whoa!

I see alot of people having desktops like these .. "modded" so to speak, where the icons, and overall appearance is completely changed. Is this just a theme or do you actually costumize every aspect? How do you do it? :shock:

Also, how much does something like this affect the overall performance of a PC .. especially during gaming :D

Also, how much does something like this affect the overall performance of a PC .. especially during gaming :D

mon_bus

Not sure what all he's using (looks like a uxtheme patch and one or two other things) but such desktop modifications really shouldn't have any effect on system performance.

My desktop (a few posts up, which is Vista by the way) is really heavily modified and all of the programs I utilize (ObjectDock, Rainmeter, Switcher) consume only around 20MB of system memory combined.

Also, despite what some people might recommend, using WindowBlinds isn't a good idea. You can generally achieve the same visual theme changes with a uxtheme patcher and it'll consume far fewer resources..

i use Rocketdock and avedesk , and the theme is area04 , the icons are from difrent web sites , it eats 20 mb of ram ; it dosen't afect the games performance i have a p 2,6 gh, 1 gb ram , ati 9550 256/128 .

i don't use ico files just png files 256x256 format :P

Thank you both for the info!

Time to put google to good use and see what sort of desktop I can come up with.

I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

Here's mine :P

I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

JN_Fenrir

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I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

Same_Jeans_On

It's not that the emulate it but more emulate the desktop...:P

Just a little observation, that's all. Microsoft themselves have been attempting to emulate the Mac OS for years.

I guess what I'm saying is: Can't we all just get along? :lol:

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I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

JN_Fenrir

It's not that the emulate it but more emulate the desktop...:P

Just a little observation, that's all. Microsoft themselves have been attempting to emulate the Mac OS for years.

I guess what I'm saying is: Can't we all just get along? :lol:

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I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

Same_Jeans_On

minimalism, yo

heres mine nice and clean :D

Heavy rain much? xD

Misty from Pokemon

I used to have all sorts of desktop enhancement tools (Windowsblinds, ObjectDock, uxthemes) from Win 98 to XP. With Windows 7, not so much. With Macs, I had Kaleidoscope with OS 9. But once OSX came along, no need for enhancers except to get rid of the candy stripes. At some point, I didn't care anymore.

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I keep all the games hidden in a toolbar within the Taskbar. No need for docks.

I do keep screengrabs of desktops from certain events.

My desktop during 9-11:

W2k, P3-733, 768mb RAM, ATI Radeon (original/7200). This was just before I assembled a new Athlon XP 1700+ PC:

no games -_-

There's a lot going on on my desktop; try not to get overwhelmed by it.

Rather, I keep games (and other categories of applications as well) organized into a Stack Docklet menu in RocketDock. Simple enough.

Had the same desktop for a while now. Can't find anything else I prefer.

I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

JN_Fenrir

Haha, check the post dates..this thread is ancient :P

I ditched the rice a long time ago..the novelty wears off quick. Start menu search really makes desktop icons irrelevant anyway.

Desktop looks more like this these days:

Stacks works good with Object Dock

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I can't help but find it highly amusing that PC gamers dog on the Mac platform, and then go out of their way to emulate it. :P

Velocitas8

Haha, check the post dates..this thread is ancient :P

I ditched the rice a long time ago..the novelty wears off quick. Start menu search really makes desktop icons irrelevant anyway.

Desktop looks more like this these days:

Totally agree with you - docks, icons, sidebars, rainmeter - all that stuff looks nice but practically and functionally is so inefficient that the start menu is your best bet. Win key + few letters = done. Anyway here is my last wallpaper that I made an effort to look pretty:

I have mine set so the desktop background changes every 24 hours though. I got about 400 high def backgrounds so it lasts awhile as it shuffles every day (:

My game icons are in the GAME SHORTCUTS folder. I like to keep things organized :P