Wallpaper Engine Won 39;t Work
Iraida
If some or all of your wallpapers do not show up, it's often caused by an antivirus application blocking Wallpaper Engine by mistake. If you are using an antivirus application, please make sure to configure it so that it ignores the wallpaper_engine installation directory and all important Wallpaper Engine executables:
If you have an anti-virus application installed (except Windows Defender), it's very likely that this is the cause of your problems. Take some time to investigate this further if your first attempts do not fix this issue.
If you have enabled high-contrast mode in your Windows 10 theme settings with the High Contrast White theme selected, Windows will forcibly turn off Wallpaper Engine wallpapers. Try changing the high-contrast theme you are using in the high-contrast settings of Windows or turn high-contrast mode off entirely and the issue will disappear.
If your wallpapers keep disappearing for a brief moment, you likely have a slideshow configured as your Windows wallpaper. Open the Windows wallpaper settings and set a solid color or a static image as your regular Windows wallpaper, this will fix this problem.
Wallpaper Engine works well with most desktop-modification applications. However, some applications such as StarDock DeskScapes also modify the Windows wallpaper and it is not possible to run both applications at the same time. If you use a similar application to Wallpaper Engine, you will need to decide on one which you want to continue to use.
Generally, Wallpaper Engine works fine with Fences. However, if you have Fences installed but have disabled it, it will hide the wallpaper from Wallpaper Engine. You need to either enable or uninstall it completely.
If you are using Fences and your Wallpaper Engine wallpapers are not visible, ensure that you are using Fences 3.13 or newer to avoid these compatibility issues with Wallpaper Engine. Fences 3.13 and newer versions contain important compatibility fixes with Wallpaper Engine, so it is important that you ensure your Fences is up-to-date.
Make sure that the Windows 7 update KB2533623 is installed. Either install it manually with that link or ensure that your Windows Update is working right and installing it by itself. You can download it manually from the Microsoft website, restart your system afterwards and the problem should go away:
For most people, this means that the Wallpaper Engine user interface is being blocked by an antivirus application by mistake. Make sure to set up an exception in your antivirus application so that it ignores Wallpaper Engine, specifically all executables in the wallpaper_engine installation directory and especially wallpaper_engine/bin/ui32.exe.
In some cases, it is necessary to verify the Wallpaper Engine files afterwards or even to re-install Wallpaper Engine if your antivirus application has placed a permanent lock on some important Wallpaper Engine files:
If the verification through Steam does not fix this issue after you have configured your antivirus application, try to re-install Wallpaper Engine through Steam. If your antivirus has gone berserk, it might even have permanently blocked the filepaths used by Wallpaper Engine. In that case make sure to uninstall the antivirus first and then install Wallpaper Engine into a different directory, you can choose to create a new Steam games library in Steam for this.
Your graphics card drivers are broken or misconfigured. Download the latest drivers for your graphics cards (even if you already have the latest drivers) and perform a clean re-installation of the drivers. Is is important that you first uninstall your current drivers and then install the latest drivers to ensure any broken files or settings are removed.
If the Wallpaper Engine user interface has white lines: You have Nvidia Image Sharpening turned on for all applications. Turn it off in your Nvidia drivers or do a clean reinstallation of your Nvidia drivers by uninstalling your current ones first.
Turn off Wallpaper Engine completely (right-click on the tray icon and then select "Quit"). Afterwards, open up Steam, right-click on Wallpaper Engine, select "Properties" and then disable the "Enable Steam Overlay while in-game" option. After disabling the option, try to restart Wallpaper Engine via Steam.
It works much better with ICUE 3.38.61. The only exception is the RAM sticks which are both lit but stay at their default color. Everything else lights up and works as expected with the intended effects.
I added a second LED strip to my Commander Pro and the original problem as described in the first post reoccurred. It took a complete uninstall to fix. I then added a LS100 Starter Kit and again got the original problem. Complete uninstall fixed again.
I used to have a similar problem where my entire case and headset would light up but my k55 would be entirely dark. i raised it with WP engine via the steam discussion section and it now works without issue.
My only issue with WPE atm but a workaround has resolved it would be if i put the pc into sleep / windows key + l (lock) no rgb would turn back on until i restarted WPE. The workaround i found was to add a delay timer to the plugin starting (30seconds) in settings and ticking the option for safe start after hibernation in settings and it works perfectly fine now.
Hi, I have the same issue, but I can 100 percent confirm that this is an issue problem. I had to jump back to Verison 4.9.8.338 just for the wallpaper engine to work. The Developer said that he has reached out to you but you wont respond. So it functions fine with the old version, so something changed on yall end to not light up all the RGB device.
Just did this check, and yes, the Dark Core RGB Pro SE dongle does cause this issue. As soon as I pulled the dongle, the lights started working between iCUE and Wallpaper Engine. I plugged the mouse in wired via USB (no dongle), and the lights stayed on, full functionality of the mouse. Toggled the LED effects on and off in Wallpaper Engine for multiple wallpapers, and everything worked as it should. I popped the dongle back in and connected mouse via Slipstream, USB cable unplugged, and everything remained working as it should, with iCUE providing lighting when LED effects off in Wallpaper Engine and vice versa.
Now that all being said, my mouse never lit up when Wallpaper Engine LED effects were working. Everything else lit up (light strips via Lighting Node Pro, H100i RGB Platinum AIO w/ ML120 Pro RGB fans), but the mouse did not, even when wired via USB.
EDIT: The mouse wired via USB is causing the same problem, so it's not just the dongle. If I close and reopen iCUE with the mouse wired via USB, no dongle, it causes the lights to stop working with Wallpaper Engine. Unplug the mouse, and the lights come back on, just like the dongle. Once you unplug and re-seat the cable or dongle for the mouse, everything remains working between iCUE and Wallpaper Engine, either wired USB or dongle, as long as you don't close/reopen iCUE and Wallpaper Engine or reboot.
Also it seems to not be possible to configure my fan setup in any way atm. I did read you guys are redesigning it and that I should wait till half September to correctly configure my fan setup and directions. Which I will be awaiting in anticipation! ?
I am running both Fences and Wallpaper Engine but I am encountering a problem. The programs are mostly compatable with one exception, Interactive Wallpappers (named Web Wallpapers in Wallpaper Engine). I want to be able to use my keyboard with an interactive wallpaper but Fences is overrinding my keyboard focus. I have tred two things to get the keyboard to work, Fences feture, Quick-Hide, but it turns out that that just hides the visuals and turns off buttons, the keyboard is still focused on Fences and Wallpaper Engine's "Hide Desktop Icons" Feature. When I try using that feature, Fences will override and it will just reload Fences, leaving the keyboard focas on Fences. Is there a way to fix this?
Hi, it has been a little while since your last reply. I was wondering if you have any update. Is the Dev Team taking the task? I understand if the answer is no or if you don't know. I am just asking because I am thinking of making something using off wallpaper engine but it will not work without this bug being fixed and I don't want to start a project that is not going to end up working out.
It was working fine for me, and now seems to have stopped working after a Windows update. Fences show the actual desktop background behind the Wallpaper Engine one, on all backgrounds.
Update:
Turning OFF "Translucent Fence Backgrounds" worked for me, and it's still translucent and shows the Wallpaper Engine background through it. Solved.
Unluckily, this started happening to me too. Not sure when, it's been a while because my Wallpaper Engine background is not there since a while already.
I think I have the beta version of Fences, but it's definitely fences. Once I stop it, I can see my Wallpaper Engine background.
The suggestion from punkodillon doesn't work for me toggling the translucent fence backgrounds doesn't cause any change whatsoever.