Third Party Screensaver

[Nihil Obstat]

I tried using a couple third party screensavers. Followed the instructions by dragging the .saver file into the screensaver folder in my library, but cannot retrieve the screensaver itself in system preferences. Any advice?

 

[robbieduncan]

Are you running Snow Leopard on a 64-bit CPU? I'd so are the .savers 64-bit. If not that's your problem...

 

[Nihil Obstat]

Are you running Snow Leopard on a 64-bit CPU? I'd so are the .savers 64-bit. If not that's your problem...

Haha, which one is the not-new-anymore OS? That's what I'm using.

 

[Nihil Obstat]

You guys aren't as helpful as you look.

 

[mac2x]

I tried using a couple third party screensavers. Followed the instructions by dragging the .saver file into the screensaver folder in my library, but cannot retrieve the screensaver itself in system preferences. Any advice?

Screensaver packages should open and install automatically if you double click on them.

Otherwise, the screensaver framework is 64 bit in SL, so if the developer doesn't offer a specifically "Snow Leopard compatible" version, chances are it won't work.

Additionally, if the saver is open source, and you are handy with Xcode, it's really quite simple to make a 64 bit build yourself.