Did a HUGE amount of testing with the amazing help of @domenic as part of #41, and we finally got the right configuration sorted out! This update is a reflection of the changes required.
Added empty DisplayConfig dictionary and CustomDisplays list to the Display Profiles JSON format, as I'm going to need it in a while when I add the integer scaling.
This integrates all the library enhancements that I've been working on for the last 2 weeks into DisplayMagician. This fixes $47, #46 and possibly others.
Weird error where having a clone causes an extra 'zeroed out' entry in the Windows Display Modes sequence. This change modifies the Windows mode info checks to allow for this situation.
Brought over all the latest working code from NVIDIAInfo, AMDInfo and CCDInfo. This includes the new split between the NVIDIA and AMD specific layout, and the NVIDIA and AMD specific color application, so that the video application logic goes like this:
1. Apply NVIDIA Surround or AMD Eyefinity and any 'pre' windows settings
2. Apply the Windows Display Layout
3. Apply the NVIDIA or AMD 'post' windows settings e.g. driver specific color overrides
This new process works.
There was a problem with the unused display config containing null values on save, which meant that the JSON would be invalid when loaded in the next time. The fix was to ensure that both NVIDIA and AMD both were filled with a default config when a new profiles was created. This means that the real config would overwrite whichever config was needed, and the JSON file would work as all objects were populated correctly!
This is the first actual working version of the AMDLibrary from AMDInfo v1.0.0. This is the first time that all 3 different video libraries are in DisplayMagician and working (mostly). The AMD Screens structu creation logic in ProfileItem still needs to be updated to cope with the AMD Eyefinity configuration, but it at least defaults to the windows one at the moment so it doesn't crash (whew).
Also managed to bugfix the recent libraryfolder.vdf parsing change that a recent Steam Library change oforced on us. The logic wasn't working, and so the parsing didn't work, which in turn caused an exception when it came time to look up the game shortcut validity.
THere was an unneeded check that prevented the NVIDIA HDR settings being applied when it should have been. This in turn meant that the display profile equality matching wasn't working as the applied display profile was sufficiently different to the one selected and applied that it wouldn't match, and would instead display the brand new profile interface. This has been corrected now.
Windows changes the display source order which mucks up the equality matching in DM. This change attempts to mitigate that fact.
There were also errors in the HDR settings captured, which indicate that the HDR changes weren't finishing before they were being recorded. This change attempts to take care of that too.
All tests so far seem to work, so lets see how things go!
Equality works until we return from a surround profile to a non-surround profile. At this point the displays are reordered by windows, and the windows display configus don't match any more. Addtionally, it looks as though we need a 0.5 second pause between applying the configuration, and reading the new config. There appears to be a difference between HDR before we changed to the surround proile and after we've returned, and that's not a good thing!
The derived ProfilteItem classes were an unnecessary distraction and wasted time I could be spending on other things. This set of changes are the first part of removing those derived classes and moving to a single ProfilItem class again, but with different configuration slots within it. Makes equality comparison SO MUCH EASIER!
I am a lot closer at the moment, but there is some bit of logic matching that is escaping me. I think I'm just too tired at the moment, and I need a sleep. I bet this will seem simple in the morning.
Found an underlying problem of using the OutputID for displayIdentifier matching as the outputID changes after each reboot. CHanged the DisplayIdentifier to record the type of the connection to the display, which stays the same even if the OututID changes. Also made the ProfileItem.Equals look for DisplayIdentifier ids and match them even if they are in a different order. This seems to happen some times, and I'm not sure why the NVIDIA driver does it!
It was set to Error instead of Trace! Corrected now.
Also corrected some incorrect log message descriptions that will mean I look at the right code when I see the errors. There were all the same (as I copied a lot of the code).
Used new derived class equality class from https://codinghelmet.com/articles/equals-override which helped me understand the logic for deriving equality between base classes and derived classes. It has now exposed another error in the way FORCED_VIDEO_MODE is being applied and that is now something else I need to fix!
This feature will allow users to bypass the automatic driver detection functionality so that they can at least force the use of the built-in Windows driver if NVIDIA or AMD ever have an issue with their drivers.
Added in the ability to map the Windows CCD Display name to NVAPI DisplayId, which will make it possible to use that information within DisplayMagician.
Partway through having the Screens properly populated for the NVIDIA surround screen setups, but have struck an issue with the extra non-surround screens in a combined surround and non-surround screen setup. The additional non-surround screens don't have any X & Y positions set within the mosaic config, which means I should really be using the WIndows config details, but there isn't anyway to identify which windows screen path matches which nvidia display ID. THe only way to do this is to start storing the NVIDIA displayconfig too.
Amazing! This is the first working version of DisplayMagician using the new NVIDIA and Windows CCD library. It works properly, and now I can start to tidy up some of the additioanl functionality I need to sort out before a release. I also then need to work on the AMD library as well!
This is the initial version of the spanned screen bitmap drawing. It woks by showing one giant screen, but it currently doesn't insert any information about the individual screens that make up the spanned screen at all. I'm going to add that improvement at a later date, because the main thing is to get the new libraries up and running, and used by people.
Still have an issue where the 'Equals' doesn't detect that there is a different primary screen, so it won't let me save a new profile for the slightly changed display settings.
NVIDIA Profiles can be created, JSON file saved ok, and the bitmaps and icons are drawn correctly and showin in the Display Profile window. The problem comes when the DisplayProfiles_2.0.json file is loaded. JsonConvert causes an exception trying to populate ProfileBitmap, and I can't figure out why!
Have almost integrated the new CCD, AMD and NVIDIA
libraries into DIsplayMagician. The CCD library is working
fine. The AMD library is partially completed, but is awaiting
some help from AMD, as it appears one of their driver functions
is broken (or at least incorrectly documented). The NVIDIA
library is currently still under development, but I've still copied
it across so that I could work on the additional profile objects
that need to be prepared in order for this to work.
As I am waiting on a response from AMD, the plan is now that
I will swap over to an NVIDIA based video card in my test machines
and I will start work on the NVIDIA library. The NVIDIA library seems
straight forward compared to AMD, so that hopefully won't take too
long to do. Once that library is compete, I'll test it within NVIDIAInfo
application until its working, and then I'll port it back over to
DisplayMagician. That will then let me complete the last bits of the
integration so that I can complete the last of the NVIDIA tests.
Hopefully by the time all this happens I will have heard back from
AMD and I will be able to continue work with that section of code.
This is part of the new strategy to split the
ProfileItems into different derived clases with
one per Video card technology. The purpose is
to allow each video card driver to produce a
slightly different profiledata section which is
customised to the needs of that video card.
This will allieviate the need for us to extend
the Path object to support AMD, as we'll be
doing the differentiation at each ProfileItem.
Time will tell if this is a better strategy or not.
This is all to do with my even longer term
strategy of devloping video card driver library
files inhouse. This strategy was directly created
just so that I can make changes in my own code
if I need to support some additional features
such as HDR support within the profiles. It is very
difficult to do this if I'm using another video card
library. Much more simple to update my own code!
Managed to break some logic when trying to
add robustness.... effectively doing the
opposite of what I was trying to do :/. Now
*should* be fixed, but we shall see with more
testing.
