I recently bought a new PC, with some reasonable specs, and a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit OEM to compliment it (for reference, when buying Vista OEM, you are licensed for either 64-bit or 32-bit - you are not licensed for either as you are with retail versions of Vista).

I won't lie, in addition to support for more RAM, my main interest in Vista was an OS that had fresh new feeling with lots of eye-candy.  And with that in mind I promptly downloaded the Vista Ultimate exclusive, Dreamscene - which, for those who don't know, allows you to use high-resolution videos as a wallpaper.

Now first off, this feature really isn't that sweet.  It looks nice, but it's hardly a programming marvel worthy of exclusive availability to Vista Ultimate users only.  It's really not worth a pinch of crap so I don't see why Microsoft can give it to all Vista users.  Windows users can already get the effect now with the free, and highly recommended, VLC media player.

But that's not why I'm posting this blog.  I'm posting this blog because my PC is too good, too powerful, too ULTIMATE, for this Vista Ultimate only feature.  You see, I have two video cards in my PC so I can run three monitors.  When I attempt to run Dreamscene, Windows get on its hands and knees in front of me and chants, "I'm not worthy.  I'm not worthy"--the application won't work on a PC with more than one video card.

Ultimate version of Windows, my arse.  An Ultimate operating system would have descent support for multiple monitors.  I was running dual monitors on Windows 95 and from a users perspective nothing has changed between now and then.  You still need to use something like UltraMon to really enjoy a multiple monitor set-up.

For reference there is nothing that I know of that can make Dreamscene work with multiple video cards.