New Version of Powerdesk 5 Resolution Manager

[MarkV]

Hi Everyone,

Version 2.0 of the Powerdesk 5 Resolution Manager is available at my homepage, <a href="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/veneziano/">here</a>.

Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

Ant, feel free to upload this to the MURC downloads section.


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Mark Veneziano

[arbymo]

MarkV : hi Mark .. good job.
The odd thing i found is that it gave me a " registry error " when i launch the program .. then it opens normally and it detects my display at 0000 which is correct .. then when i add a res. or change any registry settings .. it says reigistry error .. but when i look at the registry .. i found that it really add that resolution .. and it changed what i choose to change. weired .
i'm now going to reboot to see if it really works.
i have a G200 8 MB SD , PD 5.25 at 0000.

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Giga Byte 6BXE, celeron300A@450, 128 Ram
G200 8M SD, driver 5.25, Bios 1.6

[arbymo]

Ok .. resolution add works ok for the single res. i tried (960x720) .. also changes made to registry works ok after reboot ..
the only odd thing that it always gives me a msg saying registry error.
G200 and PD 5.25 and bios 1.6
nice program .. hope u can fix that weired msg soon
)


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Giga Byte 6BXE, celeron300A@450, 128 Ram
G200 8M SD, driver 5.25, Bios 1.6

[MarkV]

Hi arbymo,

The only thing I can think of that could be causing the error messages are missing registry keys. Here are the keys the programs excpect to be present:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Versio n5\CurrentSettings
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Versio n5\DesktopIconsFeatures
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Versio n5\WindowsPosition
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Curre nt Settings
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Versi on5\CurrentSettings
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\CPU
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\DirectX
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\Engine
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\Engine\Clocks
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\GDI
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\Monitor
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\VideoParameters

(where XXXX is your Display Number)

If any of these keys is not there, you will get the error. Is that what the problem is?

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Mark Veneziano



[This message has been edited by MarkV (edited 09 November 1999).]

[roverma]

Hi,

I 'm getting a registry error too.

Checked the registry and in my registry the following lines are not present:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Versio n5\WindowsPosition

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Matrox\PowerDesk\Curre nt Settings

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Servic es\Class\Display\XXXX\Settings\Engine\Clocks
I have a G400MAX with PD 5.30
Everything is running well, no problems.

Rob

[MarkV]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for your message. I was pretty sure it was missing registry keys that were causing the problems with this version. The program assumes that all these keys are present. This was probably a bad assumption since it was solely based on what my system's registry looks like. Powerdesk probably does not create every key until you change an option that needs a particular key present.

Anyway, now that I know this is the problem for sure, I should have a fix in hopefully less than an hour.

Sorry about the problems!



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Mark Veneziano

[MarkV]

Version 2.1 is now up. Get it <a href="http://people.ne.mediaone.net/veneziano/">here</a>.

Please keep up the messages if there are any more problems. Good luck!



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Mark Veneziano

[roverma]

Thanks Mark,

That was a quick repair.
Works like a charm now.

Rob

[anid]

Using the "Show All", the option "Use Hi Color Mode" shows up. I assumed this was to enable 15-bit instead of 16-bit color, but it will not stay toggled. There used to be a hack to do this, didn't there? If not, what is this actually supposed to do?
Handy little program, thanks Mark.

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