Guide to Wallpaper Engine: How to Install and Configure the Program

Wallpaper Engine is a popular software that allows you to create and set an animated image or video file as your desktop wallpaper instead of the usual backgrounds. In this guide, we will answer the most common questions about using this program.

To install the Wallpaper Engine program, you first need to purchase it from one of the digital stores. For example, you can use the Steam version of the software. After purchasing, simply perform the standard Wallpaper Engine installation procedure.

After purchasing and installing Wallpaper Engine, select Launch in the launcher. A window will appear asking you to specify the type of launch:

Tips for the type of Wallpaper Engine launch:

After launching the program, open the Settings menu and perform the quality presets for image processing. If Wallpaper Engine starts to lag or produce errors during the wallpaper processing and creation process, try to lower the performance quality in this menu. First, we recommend paying attention to Fullscreen smoothing. If you experience significant lags, try reducing this parameter from MSAA x8 to MSAA x4 and so on until this feature is completely turned off.

In the wallpaper playback settings, decide on the following parameters:

Tip: To automatically start live wallpapers, go to the General tab in the program settings and check the box next to the Launch with Windows parameter.

In the Wallpaper Engine program, select the Create Wallpaper option in the bottom right corner of the screen and choose a suitable picture of your own. After uploading the image to the program, give it any name and press OK. To animate the uploaded image, click Add Preset in the bottom left corner and select one or several effects.

You can also change the speed, size of the animation, add shake, and other special effects in the Settings menu. To save the finished wallpapers, select the Steam tab — Prepare for Publication. Be sure to set an age rating if the image contains undesirable content or adult content.

Let's start with the fact that you can add music not only to your own project but also to another user's project that has allowed the ability to play tracks. In the case where wallpapers have such a feature, simply replace the track in the Wallpaper Engine workshop editor. To do this, select a finished image and click on the button Add or Add Preset (depends on the version of the program) in the bottom left corner. In addition to various effects, in the window that opens, you can select the Sound tab and upload your own sound track.

In some cases, ready-made live wallpapers are an mp4 video file. In this case, you need to use special software for editing, such as Sony Vegas Pro or Adobe Premiere Pro.

Live wallpapers on the desktop look very effective and modern. However, many users wonder if it's possible to set such a feature on the Windows lock screen. Unfortunately, this is not possible due to the internal protection of the Windows operating system, which prohibits third-party programs from changing the image on the lock screen. As the developers of Wallpaper Engine assure, this feature will also be unavailable in the future.

Creating a working graphic equalizer in Wallpaper Engine on your own is quite problematic. But there are quite a lot of already made and most importantly working themes with an equalizer on the internet. Here is one of the examples in the Steam digital store workshop.

Self-created and downloaded wallpapers from other users can be found in the Steam file library on your drive:

If your software was purchased from one of the official digital stores, then use the corresponding launcher to uninstall it. If you encounter a problem with uninstalling the Steam version of Wallpaper Engine, follow these steps:

Keep in mind that this way you will remove not only the program itself but also all projects, as well as previously created live wallpapers for Wallpaper Engine.