Fluid Engine PC Live Wallpaper Reviews

I would've given a more in-depth interface for music interaction, and the beats seem to be a little off when the program "hears" it (i.e: miss-timed rhythm or extra notes), but overall i'm pleased with it for the low price. I'll probably use it for awhile until a cooler wallpaper option comes along. Read some of the negative reviews but they were just complaints for the sake of complaining, it's cheap enough to buy yourself and make your own mind up. Cheers!

There is an app on my android phone called Fluid by Pavel Dobryokov that I bought. The developer needs to check it out and make this program more like that app. This needs more work. Try the android app and you will agree. I am not affiliated with that android app or the developer. I just would like this to work better than it does, But it is interesting.

This wallpaper app is trash. It doesn't open half the time, the other half the time the settings you have saved change themselves and make the visuals not work. I wouldn't buy this again and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone because there is no support for when the overwhelmingly unstable app fails to perform correctly.

I havent seen anything else like it. Unique. And it's at a cheap price! give it a try! my 65' 4k tv looks like a big lava lamp / acid trip great for ambient music, or loud af. Or no music at all. Really does a great light show. For the price is great. I use it alot. the updates have really made it alot better.

This a wonderful master piece at it's finest. A must have for any fan of PC Live Wallpaper. Beautiful to watch on your screen. Simple to understand and use. It's less than £3.00 on Steam. So go on give it a try.

Beautiful colors, great animations, works without a problem, and most importantly, it doesn't overload the computer and you can play games.

This... is immediately the greatest thing ever. 8/10. Would be 10/10 if you could select the color palette for the clicks and have a little more options. Another idea would be to allow the color changes to match up to peoples RGB software. That would be a 15/10 experience.

Awesome! 10/10 The sliders for High Gate and Bass Gate will probably need to be slid to the left a bit to detect most songs' sounds. I chose Cold for the High Gate, Full for Mid Gate, and Hot for Bass Gate. It is great with most songs that I've tried.

I really want to recommend this software as it can create some amazing visuals however there are several issues that make it less than ideal for use as a permanent wallpaper. The main issue is that as long as it is running, Steam will pick it up as an active game which it definitely isn't. This is a background application (literally) that shouldn't alert anyone that it is running as it is almost never going to be the application the user is actively interacting with. I'd rather have friends know what game I'm playing instead of what wallpaper I have set. My other main complaint is how janky this software is when starting up or transitioning state from active to inactive. The application should start up in the background with the window hidden and the desktop background should then transition to the fluid simulation rather than whatever you have set in the Windows settings. The on screen items should fade in gently to make this even less jarring and this application could even use the wallpaper set in Windows as the background for the simulation. I don't want to see windows pop up all over the place with the software's logo as it sorts out the correct resolution. When suspending the simulation to allow games to play smoothly the current simulation should fade out and leave either the blank scene or the default Windows wallpaper. Currently it shows a logo with text stating that the application is pausing which doesn't look great at all as it often isn't even centered properly and isn't something anyone wants as a desktop wallpaper. Overall, if this application truly ran in the background and seamlessly enabled itself and seamlessly transitioned from enabled to disabled I would 100% recommend this to anyone looking for a cool animated wallpaper. As it stands, this is more of a sandbox toy than an actual usable product which is unfortunate as it is clear a lot of effort has gone into the development of the actual simulation. I just wish for more polish from the user experience aspect of this product.

I bought this after reading the other positive reviews; unfortunately, I've had to give it the thumbs down for 2 main reasons. Firstly, the black background isn't at all black, it's a really grainy dark grey (looks like colour palette has been reduced to 256 colours and badly dithered). But the 2nd issue is the fact that upon exit, Kaspersky went crazy, saying that malware was on my computer (it detected fw.exe, which is the executable for this software) contained a trojan, and promptly deleted it. The fact that this hasn't even been out for a week, and it's being flagged as dangerous by antivirus an program means that this hasn't been tested by enough people on enough platforms to confirm if it's a false detection by my security software. But I'd rather not take any chances.