RadeonPro BETA: Automating 3D settings

[japamd]

Latest Updates

07/11/2010 - New build 1.0.7.42

- Changed: RadeonPro won't use JumpLists anymore when the option is disabled in Windows start menu configuration
- New: New Profile Wizard can now choose games from user's Steam games

07/09/2010 - New build 1.0.7.41

- Fixed: deleted profiles were not removed from Favorites lists
- Changed: Recently played list is now reorganized when a game already on list is played again
- Changed: profiles list's context menus now show an option to remove a item that's currently on Favorites list
- Changed: Games Explorer items are now sorted by game title
- New: added options to set maximum items to show on JumpLists and maximum items to show on Recently played games, look for them at program Settings
- Enhanced: when selecting a game from Games Explorer, the New Profile Wizard now detects multiple executables on game directory and displays a list so the user can pick the right one. May be handy when the Games Explore's item points to the launcher instead of the game executable.

07/08/2010 - New build 1.0.7.40

- Fixed: error validating steam path

07/08/2010 - New build 1.0.7.39

- Fixed: error on right-click RadeonPro tray icon when executables that don't have a default icon on executable image exists in launch items (fixed both in Launch and Favorites this time)

07/08/2010 - New build 1.0.7.38

- New: New Profile Wizard now can choose games from Games Explorer (Windows Vista or newer only)
- Fixed: error on right-click RadeonPro tray icon when executables that don't have a default icon on executable image exists in launch items
- Fixed: triggers not loading the main profile in some cases (i.e. Adapter Spoofing is configured on main profile but not being activated when the alias is executed)
-- Skin updates
--- Verde
---- Added: Wizard toolbar button


07/07/2010 - New build 1.0.7.37

- New: Option in Settings to choose either Recently Played games are listed or not on Windows 7 JumpLists
- New: Favorites can be accessed throught the tray icon. Right-click it and look for Favorites
- New: Tray icon Launch and Favorites now show game icon
- Fixed: Screenshot function stops working after ALT+TAB or other events

07/07/2010 - New build 1.0.7.36

- Changed: small update to JumpList

[japamd]

New Choose from Steam feature screenshots

[SoulsCollective]

Nice that the games explorer now supports Steam, although it'd be even better if Steam games supported forcing profiles. However, two issues - firstly, scanning the Steam Store every time the games explorer is launched is not ideal for if you don't have an always-on internet connection, and takes quite a long time, making adding multiple games at a time fairly irritating. An option to store the previous retrieved list, with a manual refresh button for if the user has acquired a new Steam game, would be much more user-friendly.

Secondly, every time I launch the Steam games explorer I get this error message after it finishes scanning -



Edit: Also, appears that less than half of my Steam games are actually showing up in the games explorer list - for example, Deus Ex GOTY does not appear, whereas Deus Ex: Invisible War does, neither Oblivion or Morrowind appear, Titan Quest appears whereas TQ: Immortal Throne does not, etc etc - however these game names show up above the "scanning for app ID" progress bar when the games explorer is building the list.

[japamd]

Nice that the games explorer now supports Steam, although it'd be even better if Steam games supported forcing profiles. However, two issues - firstly, scanning the Steam Store every time the games explorer is launched is not ideal for if you don't have an always-on internet connection, and takes quite a long time, making adding multiple games at a time fairly irritating. An option to store the previous retrieved list, with a manual refresh button for if the user has acquired a new Steam game, would be much more user-friendly.

Secondly, every time I launch the Steam games explorer I get this error message after it finishes scanning -

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Edit: Also, appears that less than half of my Steam games are actually showing up in the games explorer list - for example, Deus Ex GOTY does not appear, whereas Deus Ex: Invisible War does, neither Oblivion or Morrowind appear, Titan Quest appears whereas TQ: Immortal Throne does not, etc etc - however these game names show up above the "scanning for app ID" progress bar when the games explorer is building the list.

Thanks you for posting your thoughts about the new feature, it obviously needs improvement and there's where you all play a very important hole

The connection is needed because Steam doesn't stores all games information locally, the process first reads local directories looking for Application IDs, then scan the Applications IDs not found in first step looking at Steam store. The list is saved, but looks like some games (mods and others) aren't saved so they get scanned again when you open the wizard next time, time to find out why they are not being saved. The executables list is not saved and get scanned every time, I'll change that with an option to refresh the files list, thanks for suggesting it

About the error, I'll investigate it. Thanks again.

The games that don't appear on list have names different on disk, for example, "grand theft auto iv episodes from liberty city" is "Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City" at steam store, I've made a list for those exceptions but I need to update for such cases but I still don't know how is the best way to get know which games are "misspelled".

[Ket]

With a little more work, this can entirely replace CCC. To do this, I think all that needs doing is;

- Enhance the overclocking feature a bit. Make it so users of cards that support voltage adjustment can do so. As well as adding a small artifact tester like furmark.
- Add some kind of graphic like nVidia use so when users set various levels of AA / AF they can see the benefits without having to launch a game. A little FPS counter in the graphic window could be useful too.

[Particle]

Very cool. I'll be playing with this soon for crossfire rendering mode settings.

[Gaul]

it's AA works on BATMAN AA ?

[japamd]

With a little more work, this can entirely replace CCC. To do this, I think all that needs doing is;

- Enhance the overclocking feature a bit. Make it so users of cards that support voltage adjustment can do so. As well as adding a small artifact tester like furmark.
- Add some kind of graphic like nVidia use so when users set various levels of AA / AF they can see the benefits without having to launch a game. A little FPS counter in the graphic window could be useful too.

Well, we have MSI Afterburner that does exactly what you want for item 1

For item 2, it may be possible.

NV control panel now displays a preview of AA/AF settings?

Very cool. I'll be playing with this soon for crossfire rendering mode settings.

Cool, don't forget to post your thoughts and bug reports.

it's AA works on BATMAN AA ?

Yes, for Batman AA you can use the Video Spoof option and select a video card from NVIDIA to enjoy in-game AA processing.

I have it set like this


Video spoof is set as below


You need to add the Launcher to the triggers as shown below

[japamd]

Updates

07/12/2010 - New build 1.0.7.45

- Fixed: several errors when Jump Lists are disabled in Settings
- Fixed: program don't close to tray when Jump Lists option is disabled
- Fixed: critical error in build 1.0.7.42 that prevents skins downloads and program updates. For users that have build 1.0.7.42 installed, please reinstall using latest full installer
- Changed: New Profile Wizard Choose from Steam feature don't need to get installed games' information from internet anymore
- New: shortcut in JumpList tasks to select a skin while starting RadeonPro
-- Skin updates
--- Verde
---- Fixed: Global settings not refreshing issue

[SoulsCollective]

New build has an improved detection rate - more games are now listed, although still not all - but the same mysterious object reference error I posted above still crops up.

[Gaul]

Yes, for Batman AA you can use the Video Spoof option and select a video card from NVIDIA to enjoy in-game AA processing.

I have it set like this


Video spoof is set as below


You need to add the Launcher to the triggers as shown below

i had create a batman TASK, but i don't got any OPTION like yours
i meant : File, View, Help





did i miss something ?

[FDisk80]

i had create a batman TASK, but i don't got any OPTION like yours
i meant : File, View, Help





did i miss something ?

Change the skin to Verde

[Ket]

Well, we have MSI Afterburner that does exactly what you want for item 1

For item 2, it may be possible.

NV control panel now displays a preview of AA/AF settings?

My point in those suggestions was so RadeonPro becomes everybodys one stop - no more having to fiddle around in various software because its all under one roof And yes, NV have had a little graphic for ages which spins around showing different AA / AF settings whn you apply them

[Gaul]

Change the skin to Verde

ic, but i did not find any option to change skin on RADEON Pro SETTING ?

[Ket]

^ That seems to get everyone. You need to click to check for updates, then the skins will be listed to DL and automatically install

[FDisk80]

ic, but i did not find any option to change skin on RADEON Pro SETTING ?

Click on the eye on the bottom right

[japamd]

Updates

07/13/2010 - New build 1.0.7.47

- Fixed: null reference in New Profile Wizard/Choose from Steam feature
- Fixed: program failing to start minimized when Jump Lists are disabled in Settings
- Changed: Choose from Steam shall find more games now

New build has an improved detection rate - more games are now listed, although still not all - but the same mysterious object reference error I posted above still crops up.

Thanks! The new build shall find more games as I'm using the directory in appinfo.vdf as a hint, using it RadeonPro can find GTA IV EFLC and other games it couldn't find before.

My point in those suggestions was so RadeonPro becomes everybodys one stop - no more having to fiddle around in various software because its all under one roof And yes, NV have had a little graphic for ages which spins around showing different AA / AF settings whn you apply them

I understand, but adding a full blown overclocking feature like we can find in MSI Afterburner can't be done without a lot of effort, and TBH I don't have the know how to do it as Unwinder does.

Ah, I remember it, but the graphic only shows on screen where you select Performance/Quality/Custom settings, right? That would be easy but I don't know where to put such graphic in RadeonPro interface as we don't have a presets selection screen.

^ That seems to get everyone. You need to click to check for updates, then the skins will be listed to DL and automatically install

Time to change this, huh?

[SoulsCollective]

New build has fixed error message on scanning for Steam games. I've compiled a list of games that the Games Explorer can't find on my system using latest build:

Blue Shift: Unlocked
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition
Dragon Age: Awakening
Doom 3
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil
DOOM II: Hell on Earth
Master Levels for DOOM II
Quake II
QUake II: Ground Zero
Quake II: The Reckoning
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars Jedi Knigh: Dark Forces II

There's about another 50 titles I own on Steam that I don't have the HDD space to install at the moment, so I'll try and post back if I have any issues when I get around to playing them all

[japamd]

New build has fixed error message on scanning for Steam games. I've compiled a list of games that the Games Explorer can't find on my system using latest build:

Thanks! That's what I found searching appinfo.vdf file

Blue Shift: Unlocked (not found)
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition (not found)
Dragon Age: Awakening (not found)
Doom 3 (found, should be installed at %steamdir%\steamapps\common\Doom 3)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (not found)
DOOM II: Hell on Earth (not found)
Master Levels for DOOM II (not found)
Quake II (not found)
QUake II: Ground Zero (not found)
Quake II: The Reckoning (not found)
Star Wars: Dark Forces (not found)
Star Wars Jedi Knigh: Dark Forces II (not found)

There's about another 50 titles I own on Steam that I don't have the HDD space to install at the moment, so I'll try and post back if I have any issues when I get around to playing them all

Thanks

[Ket]

Updates
I understand, but adding a full blown overclocking feature like we can find in MSI Afterburner can't be done without a lot of effort, and TBH I don't have the know how to do it as Unwinder does.

Ah, I remember it, but the graphic only shows on screen where you select Performance/Quality/Custom settings, right? That would be easy but I don't know where to put such graphic in RadeonPro interface as we don't have a presets selection screen.



Time to change this, huh?

Ah well, we have most things under one roof its a lot better than before RadeonPro came along As for the other suggestions, I'll leave it up to your good judgement what you think is best for RadeonPro

[SoulsCollective]

Thanks! That's what I found searching appinfo.vdf

Blue Shift: Unlocked (Mod - not entirely sure how Steam handles mods)
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition (steamapps\common\deus ex)
Dragon Age: Awakening (Expansion for Origins, presumably located in same folder)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (steamapps\common\doom 3\d3xp)
DOOM II: Hell on Earth (Expansion for Doom II, presumably located in same folder)
Master Levels for DOOM II (Expansion for Doom II, presumably located in same folder)
Quake II (steamapps\common\quake 2)
QUake II: Ground Zero (Expansion for Quake II, presumably located in same folder)
Quake II: The Reckoning (Expansion for Quake II, presumably located in same folder)
Star Wars: Dark Forces (steamapps\common\dark forces)
Star Wars Jedi Knigh: Dark Forces II (steamapps\common\star wars jedi knight)

Hope that helps.

[Gaul]

^ That seems to get everyone. You need to click to check for updates, then the skins will be listed to DL and automatically install

Click on the eye on the bottom right

YES it's work BATMAN AA with AA

Thanx mate

BATMAN AA with NO AA






BATMAN AA with 8xAA

[japamd]

Blue Shift: Unlocked (Mod - not entirely sure how Steam handles mods)
Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition (steamapps\common\deus ex)
Dragon Age: Awakening (Expansion for Origins, presumably located in same folder)
Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil (steamapps\common\doom 3\d3xp)
DOOM II: Hell on Earth (Expansion for Doom II, presumably located in same folder)
Master Levels for DOOM II (Expansion for Doom II, presumably located in same folder)
Quake II (steamapps\common\quake 2)
QUake II: Ground Zero (Expansion for Quake II, presumably located in same folder)
Quake II: The Reckoning (Expansion for Quake II, presumably located in same folder)
Star Wars: Dark Forces (steamapps\common\dark forces)
Star Wars Jedi Knigh: Dark Forces II (steamapps\common\star wars jedi knight)

Hope that helps.

Thank you, helped me a lot !!!

Please wait for a new version that will find almost all games from the list above

YES it's work BATMAN AA with AA

Thanx mate

BATMAN AA with NO AA

[IM]http://a.imageshack.us/img411/2124/noaa.jpg[/IMG]

BATMAN AA with 8xAA

[IM]http://a.imageshack.us/img203/654/8xaa.jpg[/IMG]

Cool !!!

Now try to close RadeonPro and simply try to force AA through CCC and run the benchmark again, you'll be amused by how worse it will perform using the driver AA insted of in-game AA processing

[Gaul]

Cool !!!

Now try to close RadeonPro and simply try to force AA through CCC and run the benchmark again, you'll be amused by how worse it will perform using the driver AA insted of in-game AA processing

this from CCC force 8xAA

[japamd]

this from CCC force 8xAA


[IM]http://a.imageshack.us/img3/3671/ccclet.jpg[/IMG]

Was RadeonPro running on background?