I need a utility, but I don't know what to call it

I've been dreaming of a utility that detects game-launch and does stuff like setting desktop colour depth, refresh rates, FSAA-settings, relocate joystick IDs, and maybe even run other programs. has anyone seen such a beast? -- Gunnar #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 "a poster is a human being or the software equivalent"

Creative provides something like this for their Sound/Video cards. The only problem is, you have to have a Creative product to get/use it :) -Larry "Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> > I've been dreaming of a utility that detects game-launch and does > stuff like setting desktop colour depth, refresh rates, FSAA-settings, > relocate joystick IDs, and maybe even run other programs. > > has anyone seen such a beast? > -- > Gunnar > #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 > "a poster is a human being or the software equivalent"

"Larry \(The Other Larry\)" <[email hidden]> writes: > Creative provides something like this for their Sound/Video cards. > > The only problem is, you have to have a Creative product to get/use > it :) that's okay. I have a SB Live. are you saying I already have this utility? -- Gunnar #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 FJ�SE!

"Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > > I've been dreaming of a utility that detects game-launch and does > stuff like setting desktop colour depth, refresh rates, FSAA-settings, > relocate joystick IDs, and maybe even run other programs. > > has anyone seen such a beast? Powerstrip does just that (apart from the joystick ID). You can setup and save different video profiles for resolution, refresh rate, color settings, FSAA, and even videocard clockrates and gamma-levels. You can apply those settings in a desktop-environment, but you can also combine and bind them in a single application profile. The idea is that your chosen settings will apply when a particular application is started. In the profile itself you can also add settings, like disable screensaver, disable power-management, and a bunch of other stuff. So this means you can run a game with all the settings you prefer, each time it's run. I use it with my Radeon 8500. I had to use something, because the card would run games at 60hz refresh rate. You can download Powerstrip here (shareware): http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm As for the joystick ID, I've 'fixed' that by setting up different hardware profiles in Windows XP Pro: wheel, joystick, gamepad. In each of those, the other two are disabled. Works alright. Ice D

Yeah. I believe it's called "Creative Launcher" or something like that. -Larry "Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "Larry \(The Other Larry\)" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > Creative provides something like this for their Sound/Video cards. > > > > The only problem is, you have to have a Creative product to get/use > > it :) > > that's okay. I have a SB Live. are you saying I already have this

utility? > > -- > Gunnar > #31 SUCKS#015 Tupperware MC#002 DoD#0x1B DoDRT#003 DoD:CT#4,8 Kibo�: 2 > FJ�SE!

Oh, yeah. Joystick ID. That's a sticky one... If you are running Win9x, you can use QuickJoy to change the controllers. I don't know of one program that does EVERYTHING you want, but Creative Launcher is close. This would be a good project for a good shareware author. Big Corp would never waste the time on it. -Larry "Ice D" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:yeKW7.163$[email hidden]...

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> > "Gunnar Horrigmo" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > > > I've been dreaming of a utility that detects game-launch and does > > stuff like setting desktop colour depth, refresh rates, FSAA-settings, > > relocate joystick IDs, and maybe even run other programs. > > > > has anyone seen such a beast? > > Powerstrip does just that (apart from the joystick ID). You can setup and > save different video profiles for resolution, refresh rate, color

settings, > FSAA, and even videocard clockrates and gamma-levels. You can apply those > settings in a desktop-environment, but you can also combine and bind themin > a single application profile. The idea is that your chosen settings will > apply when a particular application is started. In the profile itself you > can also add settings, like disable screensaver, disable power-management, > and a bunch of other stuff. So this means you can run a game with all the > settings you prefer, each time it's run. I use it with my Radeon 8500. Ihad > to use something, because the card would run games at 60hz refresh rate.You > can download Powerstrip here (shareware): > > http://www.entechtaiwan.com/ps.htm > > As for the joystick ID, I've 'fixed' that by setting up different hardware > profiles in Windows XP Pro: wheel, joystick, gamepad. In each of those,the > other two are disabled. Works alright. > > Ice D > > >