Rixane Interactive gives us yet another excellent screensaver for your Windows-based machine. This one is sure to get those star watchers fascinated, and anyone else who wants to have such a highly detailed, fully three dimensional screensaver on their PC. The Earth 3D screensaver combines powerful graphical technologies and photorealistic artwork to form an impressively detailed vision of the Earth as seen from an orbital location. A must have for anyone who wants to have such an impressive and awe-inspiring image on their screen.

What's more, unlike many of the free, much cheaper or older screensavers out there, it also takes total advantage of your GPU, though you do not need to have an enormously powerful computer to be able to run it in its full glory. The screensaver is optimized for better resolutions, allowing you to get the most out of your screen whether it is a flat panel or a traditional CRT screen. It has been designed to run on any release of Windows, from Windows 98 and right up to Windows 7. It will work on both 32 bit and 64 bit systems as well.

Amongst its plenitude of features, this delightful new space screensaver not only offers you a great view of the Earth as seen from orbit, but also offers you day and night cycles, with the sun visible in the background. In the areas of the Earth in night, you will be able to see the lights of the big cities. This makes it really look like the same scene you would see from the International Space Station, or indeed, precisely as Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space, would have seen it.

The Earth is a brilliant and colourful object in space and with the weather patterns like clouds and storms all perfectly visible from space, this screensaver also uses these features for greater realism and impressive effect. The background of stars is also impressive, showing you how the night sky looks from beyond the Earth, without the atmospheric and light pollution on Earth to cloud the vision.

The screensaver definitely offers quite a brilliant and inspiring view, bringing to life the endlessness of space. It will work fine on any resolution, though the greater the resolution that your screen supports, the better quality the pictures will appear. It does not have enormous system requirements, but you will need to have a PC that has a video card supporting Pixel Shader 2 and you will need to have DirectX 9 installed on your machine. This should not be an issue for the vast majority of PC users.

To look at some screenshots, make a visit to rixane.com. Here you can also have more information about the other screensavers that this company has on offer. You may also download trial releases if you are not yet convinced. The Earth 3D Screensaver only costs a low sum of $17.95, but it is a small price to pay for something so artistically and professionally rendered. Undoubtedly one of the best and most photogenic screensavers you can find, it is well worth taking a look at it without delay.