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  1. Upgrade questions

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    I have a question regarding my Pictures To Exe key.

    I was an early purchaser & understood that my key would work on all new versions.

    I have not used PTE much in the past few years but am getting back into using it.

    The newest version I have that my key is 7.5.10.

    Info says: Standard features: Free lifetime upgrades

    My key does not work with version 8.

    Inbfo says: Evaluation copy.

    Do I need a new key for version 8?

  3. Monitor colour balance

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    Thanks, I think it will be useful to remind ATI every month about this problem.

    On this page ATI asked to report about problems in drivers and we can follow by their request :)

    I found out about this problem through you in one of the earlier PTE beta versions. I have not had much time to work on shows for a while and have only been monitoring the forum without inputting any further beta test info..

    I just finished building a new computer system & did the best possible protest to ATI. I rembered your statement that NVIDIA cards/drivers do not have this problem so I put an NVIDIA evga 7950 GT KO video card into the new system.

    If enough people switched to other video systems then ATI would have to correct this problem.

  5. PTE 5 beta 3 & monitor profile (ATI video card)

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    I am curious now because I do fully understand what the problem is here. Can you explain exactly what you are experiencing please.

    Ron

    In some cases the color correction profile stops being used by the system after a DirectX application exits. Also if the DirectX application ran immediately again, in some cases the system will spontaneously restart using the color correction profile when the program exits, without having to reload the color correction profile with the gamma program.

    David,

    I think there will be no problem. The only temporal problem if you will run slide-shows created before beta #3

    The solution for ATI cards I found should works now.

    You did so large experiment with so many checkings.

    Thank you for the help and testing!

    p.s. in this question NVIDIA video cards are better - they even use same adjusted gamma during slide-shows. Opposite, ATI always unloads gamma for all fullscreen DirectX applications.

    This NVIDIA information is very interesting to know, especially since I will soon be starting to aquire parts for building my next computer.

  6. PTE 5 beta 3 & monitor profile (ATI video card)

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    Beta_3___Project1.zip

    David,

    I just tested on ATI Radeon 9600Pro and Windows 2000 with exactly same drivers v6.3 you wrote.

    Beta #3 works fine there and restore gamma after closing slide-show.

    Please try again, restart Windows and don't run old slide-shows created before beta #3 run only new projects created in beta #3 and let me know about result.

    I created a 1 image EXE file with a zoom animation with beta 3.

    Rebooted

    Ran EXE 15 times ok

    Opened & closed PTE 5 beta 3

    Ran EXE 10 times ok

    Opened & closed Word (Office 2003 SP2)

    Ran EXE 4 times ok

    Ran EXE, profile toggled off

    Ran EXE, profile toggled on

    Rebooted

    Ran EXE about 60 times with a few other apps opened & closed periodically without problems.

    I do not know if this is good or bad news. I also attached the file I used for testing.

  7. PTE 5 beta 3 & monitor profile (ATI video card)

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    Ok I lied in my other post when I said I would try beta 3 tomorrow. I couldn't wait and tried it today.

    There is still a problem with the program created with beta 3 unloading the monitor profile. My test program unloaded it at least 4 times during my testing.

    The program would run 4 or 5 times ok, toggle the profile off, toggle it back on, then run numerous times ok.

    I havn't quite determined the pattern or what other variables affect it to enable me to create and predict it

    I also did not previously say which driver version I am running.

    Catalyst 6.3 Windows 2000 filename 6-3_xp-2k_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_30895.exe.

    I reinstall my system clean periodically, this driver was not installed over a previous version.

  11. PTE 5.0 projects unload my monitor profile.

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    David,

    Please try these two tests with Gamma:

    http://www.wnsoft.com/test/Gamma.zip (350 KB)

    How these two variants - "Gamma" and "NoGamma" work?

    Running NoGamma.cmd multiple times in succession toggles monitor profile usage Off/On the first 6 times it is ran, after that profile usage remains on after running NoGamma.cmd.

    Gamma.exe always leaves monitor profile usage off.

    So far GammaTest2.exe worked best as far as the monitor profile is concerned.

  13. PTE 5.0 projects unload my monitor profile.

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    We found solution for this problem, but we need to test it a little.

    http://www.wnsoft.com/test/Gamma.exe (150 KB)

    Please download this test, run it and after several seconds press Esc button. If colors will be OK, it's good.

    DirectX doesn't care about of gamma and it's not descibed in documentation...

    I appreciate the hard work you do and rapid attention to this problem.

    Both GammaTest.exe & Gamma.exe still cause the profile to be unloaded.

    I ran GammaTest2.exe numerous times in succession and it would not cause the profile to unload, however it had 2 other things to note.

    1. It consistently has patterned "garbage" displayed in the black band below the image. This "garbage" is displayed while the image is fading in and disappears as soon as the image has finished fading in.

    2. One time GammaTest2.exe would not quit when I (repeatidly) pressed the ESC key. It would also not let the Task Manager display properly to shut the program down. The first screen with the "Lock Computer", "Log Off", "Shut Down", "Change Password", "Task Manager" and "Cancel" would display properly. If I pressed the "Task Manager" button, the Task Manager window would display very briefly and then the GammaTest2.exe display would come back on. I was able to shut the system down after my second attempt with the "Shut Down" button. This problem also occured with another program created with PTE 5.

  14. PTE 5.0 projects unload my monitor profile.

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    Please try my example: http://www.wnsoft.com/apr/show/PteShow.zip

    Will it unload color profile?

    If yes, I think the most likely problem in MonacoGamma program. And any DirectX application or game will cause same problem.

    I'll try to find and install this MonacoGamma, probably I can do something with this problem.

    Your program does affect the profile. Other DirectX applications I have do not cause the same problem.

    I have done some more testing. The profile does not seen to be permantly unloaded from the system and I can restore it without reloading it through MonacoGamma. I can restore the colors by running the "Funkitron" Poker Superstars Invitational Tournament game, which I believe also used DirectX. The game by itself does not affect a correct monitor display.

    I can also affect the behaviour through the ATI Catalyst Control Center. If the "3D Refresh Rate Override" is set to "Disabled" then the profile is affected after a PTE 5 program is run the first time. If the "3D Refresh Rate Override" is set to "Same as desktop" or my LCD monitor refresh rate of "60 Hz" then the first time a PTE 5 program is run and exited the colors are correct, and consistently after the second time a PTE 5 program is run and exited the colors are incorrect.

    If the colors have been made incorrect by a PTE 5 program I can restore then by changing the "3D Refresh Rate Override" from "Same as desktop" to "60 Hz" or "60 Hz" to "Same as desktop", whichever is applicable.

  15. PTE 5.0 projects unload my monitor profile.

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    My monitor is profiled with MonacoEZcolor and the profile is loaded with MonacoGamma. Projects previewed from within PTE 5 Beta 2 (I didn't test Beta 1) and shows created with PTE 5 Beta 2 cause the monitor profile to unload and colors to be displayed incorrectly.

    This problem did not occur with previous versions of PTE. I this is not corrected then I will have to stick with PTE 4.48 or move on to a different slide show program.

    I am running:

    Windows 2000

    ASUS P4S533 motherboard

    1.5 GB RAM

    ATI All In Wonder Radeon 8500DV video card

  17. New member

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    Hello, I just purchased Pictures To Exe and jioned this forum.

    I have used Proshow Gold and tried Pictures To Exe. I like Pictures To Exe better, especially the way it gives you control of variations within transition types and change transition timings on the screen with a graphical audio waveform display.

    I have made multi image shows with projectors snd slides but have permantly switched to digital multi image shows even though I still use slide film. My switch to digital SLR is still some time in the future.

    My main photographic interests are wildlife and mountain scenery.

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