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What makes Plane9 different from most other screensavers/visualizers?

Plane9's major features compared to most other visualizer out there are

Supports multiple monitors
A graphical editor where everything can be adjusted
The scene concept where one scene act as a screensaver/visualizer in itself
It detects when the monitor goes into standby and pauses/shuts down to save power

What are Plane9's minimum system requirements?

A computer that has a OpenGL 2.0 capable graphics card. However this depends on the scenes you select.
.Net 2.0

Is Vista 64 bit supported?

Yes

Does Plane9 support multiple monitors?

Yes, it's also using multiple monitors that it looks the best.

Why do I have to blank a number of my monitors instead of showing the 3d effects?

This is a limitation in Windows OpenGL. You can only get 3d effects from the monitor outputs of a single graphics card any extra physical cards needs to be blanked.

Why does Plane9 try to connect to the internet?

This is just the update checker that tries to see if any new version has been releasd. No information other than your current version number is sent. If you still want to disable it you can do so in Editor->Options or Config->About