Searched and didn't see a topic for this, so figured I'd share.
Up until recently my desktop wallpaper has mainly just been a static image, I thought it was "hip" having a slideshow for my wallpaper with windows 10.
Recently I came across an animated wallpaper I liked and I went searching for how to use it and that's when I was opened up to the world of not only animated wallpapers, but wallpapers that can have sounds, react to noises/music, be interactable, etc thanks to a program on steam called "wallpaper engine."
https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/
It's not free (it's 3.99) which isn't much at all and easily worth it for the sheer amount of wallpapers there are and all the options. (reading that line I know this sounds like an advertisement but I swear I've got 0 to do with this program or anything lol, just thought it was cool). Once you install it you basically just search through the program for wallpapers and can sort by genres, ratings, most viewed, etc to find them and click "subscribe" to install that wallpaper.
Ended up settling on these for now:
My main concern when I did this was performance and how much of a hit it'd take (I'm still on a 2600k). It ends up eating up just around 2-3% cpu power and around 30'ish MB of memory (at least for the ones I've checked when using it). On top of that you can set it to pause or turn off when you have a window active/using something in fullscreen/borderless, etc, so it uses 0 resources when you aren't looking at your desktop.
Options wise you can adjust things like how slow/fast things play, some you can change colors, the sound (if it has any), and set up playlist (so it switches between different wallpapers have so long).
Anyone else use this and have some wallpaper suggestions? So far I've mainly liked the cyberpunk ones (as you can probably tell).
Up until recently my desktop wallpaper has mainly just been a static image, I thought it was "hip" having a slideshow for my wallpaper with windows 10.
Recently I came across an animated wallpaper I liked and I went searching for how to use it and that's when I was opened up to the world of not only animated wallpapers, but wallpapers that can have sounds, react to noises/music, be interactable, etc thanks to a program on steam called "wallpaper engine."
https://store.steampowered.com/app/431960/Wallpaper_Engine/
It's not free (it's 3.99) which isn't much at all and easily worth it for the sheer amount of wallpapers there are and all the options. (reading that line I know this sounds like an advertisement but I swear I've got 0 to do with this program or anything lol, just thought it was cool). Once you install it you basically just search through the program for wallpapers and can sort by genres, ratings, most viewed, etc to find them and click "subscribe" to install that wallpaper.
Ended up settling on these for now:
My main concern when I did this was performance and how much of a hit it'd take (I'm still on a 2600k). It ends up eating up just around 2-3% cpu power and around 30'ish MB of memory (at least for the ones I've checked when using it). On top of that you can set it to pause or turn off when you have a window active/using something in fullscreen/borderless, etc, so it uses 0 resources when you aren't looking at your desktop.
Options wise you can adjust things like how slow/fast things play, some you can change colors, the sound (if it has any), and set up playlist (so it switches between different wallpapers have so long).
Anyone else use this and have some wallpaper suggestions? So far I've mainly liked the cyberpunk ones (as you can probably tell).
