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@terrymacdonald terrymacdonald released this 20 Apr 08:50
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v2.3.1
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WINDOWS 11: DisplayMagician v2.3 works with Windows 11. Just remember that you will need to recreate your Display Profiles when you move from Windows 10 to Windows 11! This is REALLY important, as Windows 11 has different display settings to Windows 10, and your old Windows 10 Display Profiles won't work. You must delete the old Display Profiles and create new ones for DisplayMagician to run properly.

DisplayMagician v2.3 tracks a lot more settings for NVIDIA cards, so we can now store things like image scaling, and some of the advanced NVIDIA settings. It is also now a 'single instance' program, to help speed it up. DisplayMagician is now designed to be started when the computer starts, and it does all it's scanning and loading at that point, before sitting and waiting for you to use it. When you run a Desktop Shortcut (or do any other tasks) it will perform those tasks in the single instance that is already loaded. This speeds DisplayMagician up immensely - but it works best if you set DisplayMagician to start when your computer starts.

If you're upgrading from DisplayMagician an earlier version of DisplayMagician

Display Profiles from earlier versions of DisplayMagician will not work with DisplayMagician v2.3. The new Display Profiles use an new extended format that isn't compatible with previous formats. This means you will have to do two things before you can use DisplayMagician v2.3:

1. You will need to create new Display Profiles
2. You will need to update your existing Game Shortcuts to use one of the new Display Profiles

Once you do the two tasks listed above, DisplayMagician will work as it always has, but now it will allow you to get your Displays exactly as you want them!

Thank you for using DisplayMagician

I've been working on DisplayMagician for the last 3 year solidly. I really do love adding features and hearing about how the software has helped you, so feel free to post messages in the RaceDepartment Forum Thread. And if you feel like DisplayMagician is worth it, I’d always appreciate a donation!

Credits

I’m so very thankful for the help of the following people, who made DisplayMagician v2.3 possible:

  • Sean at SimCraft (Thank you so much for your generous donation!)
  • Domenic (Thanks for the solid month of troubleshooting help and the sponsorship!)
  • RBZL (thanks for the monthly donation)
  • Frcooper (thanks for the monthly donation)
  • Bjorg (Thank you for your donation)
  • MichaelDWheeler (Thank you for your donation)
  • Frank (Thank you for your donation)
  • Dan Clark (Thank you for your donation)
  • Fonzmonster (Thank you for your donation)
  • Logozo (Thank you for your donation)
  • 5th (Thank you for your donation)
  • Patrickdiezi (Thank you for your donation)
  • Fifowole (Thank you for your donation)
  • Brett Horton (Thank you for your donation)
  • JabberJon (Thank you for your donation)
  • Sikhalv (Thank you for your donation)
  • Friedobaer (Thank you for your donation)
  • PanthaRhei (Thank you for your donation)
  • Bobby Mann (Thank you for your donation)
  • S4botage (Thank you for your donation)
  • Matthex (Great help testing multiple display adapter bugs and 7 different screens! And for your donation!)
  • NudeNull (Thank you for your donation)
  • 20vmki (Thank you for your donation)
  • Lazerwolf22 (Thank you for your donation)
  • Spmac (Thank you for your donation)
  • Mcdbergh (thanks for the bug report)
  • JSchoonbrood (Great help testing multiple display adapter bugs and SuperDisplay Android Tablet support)
  • Outerspacejunky16 (Thanks for testing AMD support)
  • Dev1981 (Great help testing multiple display adapter bugs and DisplayLink USB)
  • Gretzer (thanks for the cool idea)
  • Erbkaiser (One of the most impressive testers with an amazing eye for detail)
  • SneakingJ (Major props for the help getting cloned display profiles to work)
  • Scowling (Again, without you, AMD support wouldn’t exist AT ALL! )
  • Slippery-silvia (Again, thanks for the testing help for Mosaic cards with v2.1)
  • Mobeeuz (Your thorough testing logs really helped!)
  • S4b0tage (Thanks for the testing help and the donation!)
  • Gpo123 (thanks for the bug report)
  • Whitestar127 (thanks for the bug report)
  • Stringfieldmark (thanks for continued sponsoring and the testing help)
  • Bossebossebosse (thanks for the donation)
  • Sk666 (thanks for the donation)
  • FormelLMS (thanks for the continued sponsoring and the testing help)
  • Neilperson (thanks for the cool idea)
  • DragRedSim (thanks for the bug report)

There have been some absolute rock stars who have helped do a lot of troubleshooting for me in order to iron out a large collection of bugs with the new video libraries, and I’m forever indebted to you. DisplayMagician is only as good as it is thanks to your help!

Terry

Changelog

DisplayMagician v2.3.1

  • Converted DisplayMagician to single instance model to speed up loading. Makes DisplayMagician incredibly fast in comparison to 2.1.5 (as long as you select to load on computer start).
  • Many more NVIDIA Settings tracked
  • NVIDIALibrary bugfixes
  • Bugfixes that improve support for older hardware (e.g. DVI-D, component connections)
  • Improved start program process monitoring and stopping
  • Improved single instance command parameter handling
  • Added ability to get name of current display profile from command line with DisplayMagician CurrentProfile command
  • Fixed issues with drawing tricky display layouts
  • Works with USB and Wireless displays
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