G15 BF2 LCD applet v1.0.1

[Talus]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Updated to 0.4.7 DOWNLOAD

**PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU UNINSTALL ANY PREVIOUS VERSIONS FIRST**

v0.4.7
Changes
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- Fixed a few bugs with User Design

- Added support to manage multiple User Designs

- Added Load Design / Set Default Design Screen

- Re-did some of the GUI for User Design

- Tweaked some code for Squad Screen

- Re-wrote the Find Player code (Should be faster)

- Removed some dead code, Slightly changed error logging and a General Tidy up

- Added some extra Restrictions to the user input for User Designed LCD

- Added tooltips to provide more info..

- Tried to optimize the Server Query Data Arrival

- Added Time to the User Design LCD Screen Wink

- Overall CPU usage has been reduced...

- Added support for BF2 EXE name (you can change the exe name in Options Screen)

Hopefully I havn't forgotten anything.. Wink

*NOTE: Saved LCD User Designs must now be in the \Designs Directory
ie. C:\Program Files\BF2G15Mod\Designs

[AlphaNut]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Sweet :yay:
Thanks for the update Talus.
And thanks ShadowZ for coding this awsome tool :)

[Talus]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Doesn't work with v1.4 yet though...

[Stonemarket]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Love the applet, Talus. My only problem is every time I reboot, I get a message box asking me if I want to uninstall BF2G15Mod.

[AlphaNut]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Do you have the uninstaller in the startup folder?
check msconfig

[Talus]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Love the applet, Talus. My only problem is every time I reboot, I get a message box asking me if I want to uninstall BF2G15Mod.

Make sure that you do not install the applet into the Logitech subdirectory...uninstall it and install it to its own directory under C:\Program Files

[Stonemarket]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Thanks, Talus. That worked.

[Talus]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

No problem...I had the same problem when I first installed the app

[spyderfenix2006]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

thats awesome I was looking foward in something like this

Thx

[GunHappyBob]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

I've been using this applet for a while now. I have one problem. everytime I reboot the computer I have to go to task manager and end the bf2 applet task and restart it for it to actually work. Why is that?

[Venomous]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

yay i got it working

[Lanserschrek]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

I've been using this applet for a while now. I have one problem. everytime I reboot the computer I have to go to task manager and end the bf2 applet task and restart it for it to actually work. Why is that?

Well I've been using it quiet some time myself, pretty much since it first came out and haven't encountered that particular issue, maybe Talus or some of the other guys might have come across it. However seeing as it works after restarting it maybe you could consider only running it when BF2 is actually running. There are some interesting threads about only having an applet run for a particular application, as yet I don't think there is a satisfactory way to do this although I did see profiles mentioned in relation to the SDK kit.

What I'm doing currently is just killing all the applets unrelated to BF2 and starting the BF2 LCD applet with Autohotkey. This thread on the G15 forums simply suggests starting BF2 via a batch file which kills all the unnecessary applets, starts BF2 LCD and returns things to normal when you exit BF2. Of course I guess you star other things like JoyToKey or whatever else you need whilst Bf2 is running.

Create a batch file called BF2.BAT and past in the following. Edit the path so it points to the correct BF2 directory.

--------------------- COPY BELOW -------------------------


taskkill /F /IM LCDClock.exe
taskkill /F /IM LCDCountdown.exe
taskkill /F /IM LCDMedia.exe
taskkill /F /IM LCDPOP3.exe

start C:\Program Files\BF2G15Mod\BF2 LCD.exe
start /wait C:\...\EA GAMES\Battlefield 2.exe

taskkill /F /IM BF2 LCD.exe
start C:\Program Files\Logitech\G-series Software\Applets\LCDClock.exe
start C:\Program Files\Logitech\G-series Software\Applets\LCDCountdown\LCDCountdown.exe
start C:\Program Files\Logitech\G-series Software\Applets\LCDMedia.exe
start C:\Program Files\Logitech\G-series Software\Applets\LCDPop3\LCDPOP3.exe



---------------------------- COPY ABOVE -----------------------------------

I'd also like to know how you guys are handling this. What ways do you ensure only the BF2 LCD applet is running during your game?.

[RangerXML]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Dosn't it take a couple of cycles to clear the memory after an apps been killed before its clear. This wouldn't clear up any real memory for BF2, your looking at maybe 40MB of RAM, Windows XP uses 256MB alone and most ppl who play BF2 have 2GB. While I don't like the G15 BF2 app to run while I'm not playing BF2, your talking about not even clearing up 5% of your total memory to run BF2, which taking XP memory cycles into account won't be clear for BF2. I still don't like all the Logitech apps I got running in my background, but they serve a purpose and I just have to really get use to the idea, I'm not longer running a 32/64MB RAM system anymore where every K counted. People have alot more problems with thier gaming preformence doing stupit stuff like forgeting to keep Logitechs Game Detect on with there MX engine mice (SetPoint 2.6), that is a suprising preformence killer.

And yes, for those folk with 512MB, Windows XP uses one half your RAM; with 1GB, Windows XP uses one quarter of your RAM; and with 2GB, Windows XP uses one eighth of your total RAM (Home or Pro, I'm actually not to formilure with Media Center Edition other then its a modded version of Pro and might actually take up a bit more RAM to run the media content in the background).

[Lanserschrek]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

Well the above process works, I'm not concerned with clearing any memory, I've got a 2gb machine. It's a personal preference whether you use AutoHotkey, Taskkill or systernals Pskill to kill the process. For me this is purely a matter of context, when BF2 is running I only want the BF2 LCD applet running and the Teamspeak applet to complement it so thats the way I run it, I've no need for any of the other default applets hogging the display whilst I'm BF2ing. As yet I'm unaware of any way in the Logitech software to create context sensitive profiles for the applets, so when it detects BF2 running, it'll run only the applets I want.

Maybe we need some resourceful individual to create some 3rd party addon which allows application specific profiles similar to what UberOptions does for the Logitech mice.

So I'd like to know how the rest of you guys are handling this?. If there's a way to do it with the software I'd be much obliged if you'd let me know or are you just manually using the BF2 LCD applet?.

Dosn't it take a couple of cycles to clear the memory after an apps been killed before its clear. This wouldn't clear up any real memory for BF2, your looking at maybe 40MB of RAM, Windows XP uses 256MB alone and most ppl who play BF2 have 2GB. While I don't like the G15 BF2 app to run while I'm not playing BF2, your talking about not even clearing up 5% of your total memory to run BF2, which taking XP memory cycles into account won't be clear for BF2. I still don't like all the Logitech apps I got running in my background, but they serve a purpose and I just have to really get use to the idea, I'm not longer running a 32/64MB RAM system anymore where every K counted. People have alot more problems with thier gaming preformence doing stupit stuff like forgeting to keep Logitechs Game Detect on with there MX engine mice (SetPoint 2.6), that is a suprising preformence killer.

And yes, for those folk with 512MB, Windows XP uses one half your RAM; with 1GB, Windows XP uses one quarter of your RAM; and with 2GB, Windows XP uses one eighth of your total RAM (Home or Pro, I'm actually not to formilure with Media Center Edition other then its a modded version of Pro and might actually take up a bit more RAM to run the media content in the background).

[MoB|GunnerDoop]

Re: G15 BF2 LCD applet v0.4.7 FIXED for v1.3/AF

I get an error when I try to open it. It says

Runtime error '424729 (42795)

CErr component failure