ForceWare help please.

[Synomenon]

Ok, I made a new application profile for World of Warcraft and changed the settings to what I want for that game. So when I launch World of Warcraft, will ForceWare automatically change my profile to the World of Warcraft application profile that I made?

Also, is there any way to have Color Corrections such as Digital Vibrance and brightness to change as well when I switch to my World of Warcraft application profile? I find World of Warcraft too dark sometimes even with my monitor's brightness all the way up and I have to change the brightness and digital vibrance in Forceware to get World of Warcraft bright enough.

I'm using a 7800GT with ForceWare v78.01. Thanks for any help.

 

[BFG10K]

So when I launch World of Warcraft, will ForceWare automatically change my profile to the World of Warcraft application profile that I made?

Yes, assuming you've picked up the correct executable in the profile.

lso, is there any way to have Color Corrections such as Digital Vibrance and brightness to change as well when I switch to my World of Warcraft application profile?

Yes, the profiles can store a colour one as well.

 

[Synomenon]

Ok. I made my custom color profiles for WoW and for the desktop. I've set my WoW application profile to use the WoW custom color profile I made and the global application profile to the desktop custom color profile I made.

However, when I click on WoW to start it up, the application profile doesn't change to the WoW application profile I made AND it doesn't change the color settings to the WoW custom color profile I made. And I don't know if the global application profile (when closing WoW) is actually switching the color profile back to the desktop custom color profile I made because the application profile doesn't change to the WoW application profile when I launch WoW in the first place.

I hope the problems I've explained here aren't confusing to read, but it's getting very frustrating trying to get these profiles to work.

 

[BFG10K]

The first thing to check is that the executable name in your profile actually matches game's one. A lot of games use a laucher executable which later calls another executable when the game actually starts.

 

[Synomenon]

Yup, it's pointing to the right exe in the profile.

 

[Gstanfor]

Grab a copy of nHancer - www.nhancer.com - it has a far superior interface to what nVidia provide in the control panel and is capable of doing more as well, such as allowing you to choose custom AA modes normally hidden from the end-user and allowing you to specify custom texture LOD values per application.

 

[Synomenon]

Originally posted by: Gstanfor
Grab a copy of nHancer - www.nhancer.com - it has a far superior interface to what nVidia provide in the control panel and is capable of doing more as well, such as allowing you to choose custom AA modes normally hidden from the end-user and allowing you to specify custom texture LOD values per application.

Well I don't need those extra features. I just want the automatic profile switching to work. Right now my monitor's brightness is set all the way up and WoW is still pretty dark. I want the automatic application profile and color settings (brightness and digital vibrance) to work. I have it properly setup, but when I launch WoW, it doesn't change application profiles to the one I made for WoW and the color settings don't change either.

 

[Gstanfor]

I haven't personally used the 78.01 drivers, but I know there was at least 1 7x series driver that had a bug with the profiles (basically only the global profile worked).

Try 81.84 or 77.76 or 78.11 - I've tried the Exreme-G (www.tweaksrus.com) versions of all these drivers and know they work well.

Even if you don't want nHancer's extra features (and I'm sure you would appreciate them if you take time to try them) it still has a superior interface and a fantastic tutorial/help section on profiles at the website.

 

[Synomenon]

Thanks Gstanfor. I'm trying out nhancer now.

 

[Synomenon]

Well I tried nhancer and it didn't work either. I had two color profile already (one for WoW and the other for regular desktop / internet / word processing) and when I launched WoW, the profile still didn't change and neither did the color settings. nhancer was on the whole time too.

 

[Gstanfor]

That's weird. at this point I'm suspecting the driver you are using is the one with broken profiling (but I'm not certain).

You can try applying the WOW changes to the global profile and see if that works or not as a troubleshooting tool.

You can also use nHancer to export the WOW profile you created, rename it to a .txt file, and post the contents here - I'll have a quick look, but, I don't have WOW.

 

[nitromullet]

Your problem might be the fact that NVIDIA already has a profile for WoW in the driver... You indicated that you made a new one, the driver might not know which one to use.

 

[Synomenon]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
Your problem might be the fact that NVIDIA already has a profile for WoW in the driver... You indicated that you made a new one, the driver might not know which one to use.

I know there wasn't a profile already for WoW. My brother is using a slightly older version of ForceWare and it had a WoW profile built in. When I installed ForceWare, I did not have a WoW profile.

I've also tried applying the settings I want for WoW to the global profile and of course it works, but that's what the picture stays at. After I exit WoW, all the settings will still be WoW's settings.

 

[nitromullet]

It sounds like you are suffering from an issue that was present in a previous driver set... The app profiles didn't work properly, so you had to apply everything you wanted in the global profile. I would suggest trying a different driver version. Currently, I'm using the 81.84 version driver which you can get straight from NV by clicking the "BETA drivers" link on their page. They are stable, and I haven't had any issues with them, you might want to give them a try to see if they fix your issue.

 

[BFG10K]

Yes, you could have one of the drivers where the global version always overrides the application version. If you change the global values does it changed WoW?

 

[Synomenon]

Whatever application profile is active when I start WoW is the one that runs when WoW is running. For some reason, even though I pointed my custom WoW profile to the WoW exe, it doesn't change to my custom WoW profile when I launch WoW (and yes this is happening even with the beta v81.84 ForceWare). The way I'm checking if the application profile has change is this, When I launch WoW, I use alt+tab to switch to the desktop, then I right click on the desktop, choose properties and navigate my way to the ForceWare box that shows what application profile is currently active.