naniasbr Posted July 3, 2013 Share Posted July 3, 2013 I have been a beta tester since the beginning and I can say this work is awesome! They have been improving it and great things are to still come. I just can't say enough thanks to this community. I am glad I invested on this machine and you guys are that talentous. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trailblazer101 Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 Alright, I can test now, awesome!First, specs: P150EM/NP9150, with AMD 7970M and Intel HD 4000 Graphics... Now, thoughts... Pros: I like the replacement of the old version, very nice... The graphical interface is easy to follow, after a slight learning curve... Much better than a dialog box. All of the basic, and sound, effects work out of the box...Not Pros: Maybe it's the high resolution of the screen, but the screen, especially the bottom left, is very cramped. So much so, it overlaps some of the interface (pic included). This only happened once, but the on-screen keyboard colors didn't match the actual backlit keyboard ones. Not a big deal, but I'll try to reproduce and report more on that after some more time with it! Admin Privileges are still needed for a lot of the functions, which launching through the built in "start with windows" setting doesn't provide. Of course you can change the program itself to always run as admin through the control dialog, but that's slightly a pain/nuisance... I don't know if there is anything to do about that, though, I did find a workaround temporarily, which launches the program through Task Scheduler, instead of the built in screen... My 7970M information is loaded once initialized (started a game, etc), in GPU 1, but my Intel card doesn't show anything ever, in the GPU 2 option... Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know...Personal Suggestions: Although I understand why the 'side' would be black when the 7970M isn't active, for utilization %, (aka it being '0'/the iGPU), but could there be a way to set it do be either blue, like 1-whatever percent, or one of our choosing?! That would be really awesome...This is just my initial finds, I'll email/PM you guys other thoughts/impressions/bugs that I find as they come up! Thanks again for coming up with, and working on, this! We are all very appreciative... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Hello Nanias, nice to see you here too dude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PropsAndMayhem Posted July 4, 2013 Share Posted July 4, 2013 I have only come to this site to download the file, I have obviously made and account but it says I do not have access to the file. Do I need a certain number of posts in order to download? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 Alright, I can test now, awesome!First, specs: P150EM/NP9150, with AMD 7970M and Intel HD 4000 Graphics... Now, thoughts... Pros: I like the replacement of the old version, very nice... The graphical interface is easy to follow, after a slight learning curve... Much better than a dialog box. All of the basic, and sound, effects work out of the box...Not Pros: Maybe it's the high resolution of the screen, but the screen, especially the bottom left, is very cramped. So much so, it overlaps some of the interface (pic included). This only happened once, but the on-screen keyboard colors didn't match the actual backlit keyboard ones. Not a big deal, but I'll try to reproduce and report more on that after some more time with it! Admin Privileges are still needed for a lot of the functions, which launching through the built in "start with windows" setting doesn't provide. Of course you can change the program itself to always run as admin through the control dialog, but that's slightly a pain/nuisance... I don't know if there is anything to do about that, though, I did find a workaround temporarily, which launches the program through Task Scheduler, instead of the built in screen... My 7970M information is loaded once initialized (started a game, etc), in GPU 1, but my Intel card doesn't show anything ever, in the GPU 2 option... Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I don't know...Personal Suggestions: Although I understand why the 'side' would be black when the 7970M isn't active, for utilization %, (aka it being '0'/the iGPU), but could there be a way to set it do be either blue, like 1-whatever percent, or one of our choosing?! That would be really awesome...This is just my initial finds, I'll email/PM you guys other thoughts/impressions/bugs that I find as they come up! Thanks again for coming up with, and working on, this! We are all very appreciative...thank you for your input. we are discussing the changes for the next version and your input is valuable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 4, 2013 Author Share Posted July 4, 2013 I have only come to this site to download the file, I have obviously made and account but it says I do not have access to the file. Do I need a certain number of posts in order to download? yeah you need 5 posts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBug Posted July 5, 2013 Share Posted July 5, 2013 First - thanks for working on this app. I love the functionality it provides with respect to temperature and gpu utilization. So here is my feedback and items that I noticed: 1. During the first wave of the keyboard modification app, pizzadude had a function that would change the center color of the keyboard based on whether the igp or gpu was operating. This was nice vs the gpu utilization feature but this is a small thing. 2. On the utilization feature, it would be nice if the gpu is at 0% the color was something other than black. Having some back light is better than none. 3. On occasion in Win 8, the minimize function would not minimize to tray but to a small rectangle (title only) in the lower left hand corner. Not reliably reproducable.. I am working on seeing what conditions would cause this. 4. A big one for myself - Haswell support for IGP and CPU temp polling. 5. Polling would cause 3dmark 11 to crash on an unspecified error with stock Sager Nvidia drivers 311.27. This happened about 30 - 40% of the time with no specific conditions besides both programs running. - this issue was resolved with the new WHQL drivers just released. 6. Is it possible to open the configuration screen in a window vice going full screen or is that pretty much hardcoded with the hotkey app? Just curious. 7. If possible, could the app be set up to automatically disable polling with an "exit" color choice when the laptop is removed to battery and then resume when plugged in? Might be difficult to program that all in and the return might not be worth it. i.e - if going on battery - shut the program down lazy person Most of the above are minor things. I think the Haswell detection is the biggest thing I noted. It cuts the functionality pretty much by 2/3rds for those with the newer models. I want to reiterate this is an awesome start and I appreciate this a lot. I will make this post in the notebook review forums so you all can get more feedback. Thanks again for this app and for your time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectroplasm Posted July 6, 2013 Share Posted July 6, 2013 This is a very good app, I can't wait to test it out, especially that new heartbeat profile for CPU usage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Joe Posted July 8, 2013 Share Posted July 8, 2013 Is it compatible with P150EM?cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sekence Posted July 9, 2013 Share Posted July 9, 2013 Great work.In my opinion, It would be great to choose the color linked to the temperature. It's red for 80 degrees... but i would have prefere 85 ... how can we change it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forest Posted July 10, 2013 Share Posted July 10, 2013 Will be testing on my np9390 later this week, after I get everything all set up first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 10, 2013 Author Share Posted July 10, 2013 it should be compatible with every backlit keyboard that Clevos use.We're progressing on the new version and it will include alot of your requests.In the meantime, have a look at what i've been working on:http://forum.techinferno.com/clevo-sager/4089-light-fx-dynamic-link-library.html 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 11, 2013 Author Share Posted July 11, 2013 new version is out, check first post 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 11, 2013 Author Share Posted July 11, 2013 also, i'll need a volunteer with a Haswell to try out something Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altec Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Just found this, so am asking; can this replace the original light controller completely? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBug Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 I'd be willing to help.. within reason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shellux Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Thanks for this amazing mods! Works fine with my P150EM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frédéric Gilson Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 So, I like this software and the way it work. I noticed on the audio effect, when there is no sound : the color and the luminosity stay like it was at "the last beat". Sometimes it turn off the backlight and I have to put another effect or wait for another sound. If you can, it will be nice when there is no sound that the color and the luminosity revert back to something that we have chosen before (like the settings for the custom effect for example). But it's great, nice work ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OMAs Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 Hey, what a smart tool. thx for share. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobBug Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 New options are great! I noticed CPU utilization is now working for haswells. Ran a benchmark just to test things out. Had CPU utilization on the left side, GPU utilization in the middle, and GPU temp on the right. The keyboard lit up like a disco ball during the bench. The UI looks much more clean and intuitive. Setting temp colors is perfect - lets me know if I am really really pushing the computer by making red actually showing "red-line". I am not a huge fan for bling just for blings sake but you turned a fairly meh feature of "look at me!" into a very useful tool. I can see using this under normal circumstances as being important as I use my computer in a fairly "dusty" environment (pets) and this could help day to day monitoring of potential clogging of the heatsinks over time. I had overtemp issues on my macbook pro and it turned out dust bunnies moved in. This app could assist in monitoring for cooling degradation over time without having to watch past graphs from previous months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 Just found this, so am asking; can this replace the original light controller completely? yes. it's a complete replacement. - - - Updated - - - I'd be willing to help.. within reason you got a PM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 we might have a solution for Haswell pretty soon... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
savvas Posted July 12, 2013 Author Share Posted July 12, 2013 new version out.-Fixed Haswell CPUs temperature monitoring -Added windowed mode with floating resizable windows 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolPrizes Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Hmmm, I can't access the images on the OP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Postulho Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Hmmm, I can't access the images on the OP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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