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- Price: Free to try (Some features disabled); $19.95 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: August 10, 2005
- Total Downloads: 208,770
- Downloads last week: 228
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A newer version of 3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver is available.
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 18 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This unique screensaver lives up to its promise by transforming your monitor into a genuine-looking fireplace. Once you launch 3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver, your screen will display a close-up view of a brick fireplace with flickering flames in the foreground. The crackling, popping sounds help the program realistically mimic a real fireplace, and the flames appear lifelike in both their appearance and movement. The demo version disables a few of the more advanced features, but you'll still find several customization options, including the ability to view a blue fire, disable the sound effects, and set the width and decay of the flames. Although it makes a nice pick year-round, 3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver will be especially useful for those who want to set the holiday mood.Publisher's description
From Gelios Software :3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver brings the irresistible charm of an open wood-burning fire to your Windows desktop instantly. You now can have the warmth, ambiance, and romance of a fireplace--wherever and whenever you want. This is not animated fireplace pictures or fireplace videotape. Instead, the 3D-accelerated graphics deliver genuine flame realism and bring the beauty of a wood-burning fire onto the monitor of your computer or widescreen TV. You will hear sounds of the snap, crackle, and pop of a roaring fire and in the warm glow of the firelight, recreate the atmosphere of those memorable gatherings around the campfire. The screensaver comes with controls that allow you to adjust the flame ambiance and the type of fireplace to suit any mood.
Version 1.6 includes a new uninstall and monitor-off options.
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3 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: 3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver 1.6
"This is one awesome screen saver!"
Pros: I have never seen such an impressive and totally real effort. Would recommend to anyone who loves a burning fire. Beautiful!
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: 3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver 1.6
"The fire seemed fake and the sound was irritating"
Pros: The fireplace theme had a mild soothing effect. Installation and setup were very easy and included a few options that you can tinker with.
Cons: One problem with this screensaver and all of the others by Gelios is the size of the nagging reminder to register. We get the idea that we're supposed to eventually buy this product, but the reminder takes up the entire screen. The second problem is the looping fire sound effect. After listening to it a few times I had to shut it off because I heard the same snaps and pops in the same repeating interval. The sound is not reflecting what the flames are doing. There should have been 2 or three audio choices. The third thing that detracted from my enjoyment of this themed screensaver was that the fire didn't seem very real. A real fire in a fireplace sends up tiny burning embers and sparks. With all the activity in the looping soundtrak, the fire seemed like it was missing something. In another themed screensaver that Gelios has, the 3D Fish School, they went so far as to add plankton which were barely noticable. I felt there should have been more visual detail concerning the flames. When it comes to this fireplace, there are no floating embers, no relief from the looping soundtrack and no good reason to download this screensaver.
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: 3D Realistic Fireplace Screen Saver 1.6
"the reminder to big and takes up most of the screen"
Pros: nice if the reminder wasn't to big
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