3D Christmas screensaver

vrChristmas

A tree with presents stands in a snowy night. Ornaments, sleighs and strings of lights fly in from every direction and settle onto its branches, a toy train circles below, and the camera swoops in for close-ups while holiday music plays.

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Watch it run

Silent clip recorded from the original screensaver running on Windows 11 at 640×480 with Direct3D software rendering. Colors and speed will differ from a 1990s 3D card.

How vrChristmas worked: what we learned by taking the original apart. Listen to its twenty songs.

"The world famous VRMan Christmas Virtual Reality Screensaver - downloaded over 4 million times!"
TopShareware, on 3DChristmas

vrChristmas 2026 · new · beta

The 2026 rebuild

The original source code was lost, so the Windows screensaver was written from scratch for this archive. The browser version goes further: it reproduces how the original behaves, using VRMan's own models and textures, with ornaments flying on smoke trails, strings of lights, falling snow, a train, and a tree that fills up with ornaments over time. Its music is the original soundtrack: the 20 MIDI arrangements built into VRMan's screensaver, played in random order.

Windows 10 and 11, one small .scr file
No D3DRM.DLL and no installer
Draws in the Screen Saver Settings preview
Music off by default; turn it on in Settings

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vrChristmas 3.0 · original

Fred's original

VRMan's own release, unchanged. It runs on Windows 10 and 11 once D3DRM.DLL sits in the same folder as the screensaver.

Windows 95, 98, ME and XP as released
Windows 10 and 11 with D3DRM.DLL
Optional holiday music

vrxmas30.zip 1.2 MB d3drm.zip 174 KB

Step-by-step setup for the original

Install vrChristmas 2026

Download vrChristmas2026.zip and open it.
Copy vrChristmas2026.scr to a folder that will stay put, such as C:\Screensavers.
Right-click the file and choose Install. On Windows 11 it may be under Show more options. Screen Saver Settings opens with vrChristmas selected.
Click Settings... to turn the music on or off, then OK.

The file isn't code-signed yet, so Windows may say it's from an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway. The 2026 rebuild is new; if anything looks wrong on your PC, tell us what Windows version and graphics card you have.

Versions

2.0Released December 17, 1998, credited to 3D Amigos Inc, VRMan and Fred Cass. Japan's 窓の杜 described ornaments flying through the air, a toy train on the floor and orchestral Christmas music. Article (Japanese). Not yet in this archive.
3.0The version here, vrxmas30.zip. TopShareware listed it as downloaded over 4 million times and one of the very first 3D-accelerated screensavers.
2026vrChristmas 2026, a new program written for this archive.

Video: "VRXMas Screensaver," uploaded to YouTube by DimReturns. Read the full VRMan story.