Turn off Hardware Acceleration Automatically?

[ever]

You know going into your display properties there is a "troubleshoot" tab where you can turn hardware acceleration down via a slider in winxp?

Well what I wanna know is there anyway I can make it so when I run a game this slider automatically turns itself down and then turns itself up when I exit?

I expected something like that to be in the compatibility options when I make a shortcut but no.

 

[Frau Bishop]

I expected something like that to be in the compatibility options when I make a shortcut but no.

It's not there. I would have expected the same thing, but no. Darn computers in 2009.

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

what games do you do this with?

 

[Andhaira]

Did you remember to equip the ring?

 

[ever]

I'm doing it with IWD2 as the game doesn't support opengl and doesn't seem to like how my graphics card (4850) handles old school D3D and DDraw and stuff, so it stutters with hardware acceleration on.

With hardware acceleration turned down to one away from bottom the game runs fine though. But its kinda annoying doing that manually and reverting manually every time I start up and exit the game

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

You might be able to do it in something like AutoIt or AutoHotkey.

Also:
http://www.myitforum.com/forums/m_13882 ... htm#138820
http://www.motherboards.org/forums/view ... p?p=713896
http://ask-mark.com/2006/04/03/setting- ... n-windows/
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread68077.html

Apparently the hardware accel option is stored as a registry key in windows, and you can save some regkey files to set it to different levels.

 

[ever]

Thanks for those links!

I created a batch file that does the work for me, based on the stuff some other guys did in those links. Its ugly seeing command prompt pop up like that but w/e it was uglier doing it manually.

:: Disable Video Acceleration (4=one from bottom)
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{1BAC3F99-29A8-4566-B2CC-2E7F6E1F4726}\0000" /v Acceleration.Level /t REG_DWORD /d 4 /f

start /wait "" "IWD2.exe"

:: Enable Video Acceleration (0=full acceleration)
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Video\{1BAC3F99-29A8-4566-B2CC-2E7F6E1F4726}\0000" /v Acceleration.Level /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

There it is, the key might be different on different machines tho. Hopefully someone with a similar problem will stumble upon this.

Now if I could only get someone to do a widescreen UI mod for this game like Ghostdog did with Planescape torment

 

[Occasionally Fatal]

You can run it minimized, so the window doesn't pop up but it will still show up in the task bar. Create a shortcut to the batch file, then right click it and go to properties. In the Run box, change it from Normal Window to Minimized. I assume you've set the batch file to exit as the last command.

If you want it completely hidden you might try:
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/Hide-com ... 56092.html

 

[ever]

Done with VB script!

thank you!