Starfield
Starfield is an improved replica of the original Starfield Simulation screensaver that Microsoft shipped with earlier versions of the Windows operating system. It comes with modern accelerated graphics rendering and positioning, and a large number of options allowing you to adjust the number of stars, their speed, color and size, and adjust the FPS limit. Lowering the numer of frames per second can reduce the strain on your computer to run the screensaver. It also supports negative speed, making the stars move backwards.
Free 
0.14 MB 
for Windows 
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| Subject | Replies | Last post |
| Any plans to make it open source and release the source code? | 1 | 4 weeks ago |
| Starfield Screen saver stops after a few minutes | 6 | 2 months ago |
| Turns off HDR? | 1 | 3 years ago |
Anti-virus report for Starfield
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| Last scanned | 2 weeks ago |
We have 1 file for "Starfield"
- Starfield-1.1.exe (Windows)
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| File name | Starfield-1.1.exe |
| Target system | Microsoft Windows |
| File size | 142.13 kB (145,537 bytes) |
| File type | Portable Executable (EXE) |
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| Detection ratio | 0/14 (0%) View report |
| Popularity | |
| Total downloads | 10,772 |
| Last downloaded | 1 hour ago |
| File verification | |
| MD5 | 3f01274f9e5f3c4443e901027e0bc409 |
| SHA1 | 3f71725f0d3115a62e08399f4927c2f8fd28c970 |
| SHA256 | 8d52b0816f30bcf619b7a9fac3a7172936e1f44ef7db75c5dfd8118ada34f0bc |
User reviews (20)
Used this for years and loved it immensely but after switching to AMD graphics on my desktop and laptop, the stars are always black no matter what color they're set to. Really wish the creator would update it for modern graphics or at least upload the source code somewhere.
Beautiful, please share the code on github, leave it "perpetually working" for posterity!
This screensaver used to be perfect until one day the screen would simply go to black. After tinkering with the settings I discovered that the stars just won't appear on a dark (black) background; whenever I change the background to a light background the stars appear as black. I really want this screensaver to work because it used to be perfect. Hopefully it can be fixed.
doesn't work
Looks so good! So much better than the default screensaver options.
Very nice - brings me back to the early days and looks great on my 60" Samsung.
love this old starfield screensaver. Only thing I would love to evolve it further, would be to have an option to show stars with random colors (yellow stars, red stars, blue stars, orange, white, etc), all at once at the same time.
Like a random multicolor option where you could select a main color (ex: white for most stars) and a ratio to show xx% of stars with any other random color.
best all time from win 9x days
Great screensaver, I love watching it!!
Thank you! Super screensaver :)
Perfect smooth stars, a lot of settings and very good multimonitor options. 👍
Kudos to the designers. Great screen saver. It looks amazing on my 49 inch curved monitor. Thank you!
yea this screensaver is too old too from 1992
Brilliant! The screensaver I always went back to is back! Easy on the eyes but not too distracting. Hard not to rate 5 stars when it is what I will always use.
Maybe some time staring at it remembering looking up watching snowfall. A bit distracting.
Had a stroke leaving me with cortical blindness. Aware of movement in my left field of view, but unable to see what is moving in the left half of my field of view.
By changing background/foreground colors theory says with practice I may be able to 'see' shapes and colors meaning moving around, crossing roads, moving through groups of people, will be safer for them and myself.
Maybe being able to read normally again, not relying on audio books or family to read documents.
Turns off HDR immediately when it goes on screen. Exactly what I was looking for, but I can't have it turning off something in display settings without asking. Would also have appreciated a 120 and 144 Hz option for frame rate, as these are much more common native refresh rates than 100 or 80 Hz. Disappointed.
Awesome!!
Can you add a setting to make the star screensaver only for 1 screen? and other screens black image?
This is just the PERFECT Starfield screensaver. Look no further. Great graphics. At slow speeds it just looks amazing, and with multi monitor support.
THANKS!
It doesn't work for me. The default screensaver settings don't detect this screensaver, and when you want to edit how this screensaver works, it seems to open a fake/unreal screensaver settings (I don't mean the Starfield settings here). It looks very cool, and wish it would've worked, but if it's not working at all, I can't really rate this good.
EDIT:
Ok, I found a solution.
The installer just didn't install it properly.
I put the installed .scr file in my System32 folder, and it all works now.
