Quick Change Performance Profiles. 4 out of 8 so far.

Laffs · #1 02-22-2005, 10:35 AM

Yeh I know that, Just wanted to see what the "mods" recation would be in a different location thats all...

I managed to get all the buttons working as well, And put my own settings into button 2 it all runs well untill you load up a profile that changes screen rez then you get prompts and stuff... anyway that much you know

It would be interesting to see what you changed to get it working lol or is top secret info untill its released now hehe (j/k)

Do you want me to send you the code for the button I made ? the profile is based loosely between Balanced and High with a few Vhigh settings in there (I think, they are the settings that I personaly use)

Just a thought as it would save you 20 mins of typeing lol the extra stuff in there is to reset the effects of pressing your button 1

Do you need me to help with anything more? Or have I got you confused enough already hehe

Kosmos · #2 02-22-2005, 11:37 AM

Glad you have been able to get it working the way I had hoped.
It's quiet nifty. I've got a few ideas in mind once i finnish this one to make things easier on people. But for now, this is alot more than we had.
I've pretty much got things covered.

It appears that the errors i was getting in the chat window was from editing I did up at work. The notepad was setup wrong, and I didn't double check the encoding. I think it was saving carriage returns or tabs or something.
Because once i got home I just removed all the extra spaces, and properly formated things and it worked like a charm. I also changed the values to 1.0 and 2.0 and 3.0 might have done the trick.
I'm still working on the issue of why the command has to be put in twice, but I think I'm going in another direction than using the OnPress key.
It's too soon to tell on that though.
I don't want to push out something sloppy.

Kosmos · #3 02-22-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Laffs

Yeh I know that, Just wanted to see what the "mods" recation would be in a different location thats all...

I managed to get all the buttons working as well, And put my own settings into button 2 it all runs well untill you load up a profile that changes screen rez then you get prompts and stuff... anyway that much you know

It would be interesting to see what you changed to get it working lol or is top secret info untill its released now hehe (j/k)

Do you want me to send you the code for the button I made ? the profile is based loosely between Balanced and High with a few Vhigh settings in there (I think, they are the settings that I personaly use)

Just a thought as it would save you 20 mins of typeing lol the extra stuff in there is to reset the effects of pressing your button 1

Do you need me to help with anything more? Or have I got you confused enough already hehe

Also if you check the file I posted this morning. I figured out the problem witih the number variabls. You can use 1.000 etc.. or 0.500 or 500.0
You just have to have the decimal in there.
I was putting in 1000 and it wouldn't work. but 999.99998 would work.
But now I've discoverd that 1.000 works.
Check the updated file.
Anyway, this just the beginning that file probably won't look anything like that once I'm finnished.

Laffs · #4 02-22-2005, 12:49 PM

Kool I will look forward to the finished version

To add to what you were saying about the default settings not being added to the recent ini , untill they have been changed,
Yes this is true, So if one button changes a default value it adds it to the recent ini .. Oks ... so you choose another button that does not change that last value you are stuck with that value in the recent ini , even though the new profile may require this to be set at the default value..

(Hope this makes sense)

So may I surgest that in the custom buttons you should add every possible setting and value, That way you get no unwanted settings left from the last profile change and vice versa.

Selae · #5 02-22-2005, 01:04 PM

You are doing great work here

There are TONS that will enjoy this

-Selae

Kosmos · #6 02-22-2005, 03:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Laffs

Kool I will look forward to the finished version

To add to what you were saying about the default settings not being added to the recent ini , untill they have been changed,
Yes this is true, So if one button changes a default value it adds it to the recent ini .. Oks ... so you choose another button that does not change that last value you are stuck with that value in the recent ini , even though the new profile may require this to be set at the default value..

(Hope this makes sense)

So may I surgest that in the custom buttons you should add every possible setting and value, That way you get no unwanted settings left from the last profile change and vice versa.

I didn't follow you at first, but the lats sentence was crystal clear and I have already come to that conclusion. I think its funny that SOE Devs didn't see that problem?
There are some major holes there. I'f you have tweaked one of the sliders, and then go back to a predefined profile, it still leaves the slider as it was before. Very Strange that they would have coded that this way.

I do not plan to have those mistakes in mine.

Laffs · #7 02-22-2005, 03:36 PM

Yes it does make you wonder why / how they missed it..

I been asking friends in game about there settings and most seem to use the defaults set at either balanced or high and dont want to mess with the other settings..

I wonder if sombody here could make a utility that would read all display settings in your recent.ini file and add the default ones that are missing and alow you to tweek them a bit then if it could paste the new infomation into one of your buttons? That would save people having to change the button code manualy?

Just another thought