WIP: SS Fan Site HELP

feldon34 · 04-09-2003, 09:08 PM

Thought I'd open this brainstorming thread to work on the future Help section on the Fan Site.

Here's the new layout I am planning and will flesh out over the next few weeks hopefully.

Frequently Asked Questions
<ul><li>Updates/Latest Version Info
<ul><li>Marine Aquarium 1.1 (Lionfish)
<li>Marine Aquarium 2
<li>Marine Aquarium Time
<li>Marine Aquarium Crystal
<li>Marine Aquarium (International)
<li>Microsoft XP Plus</ul>
<li>Registration / Keycodes
<ul><li>How do I backup my keycode(s)?</li></ul>
<li>Customizing the Aquarium
<li>The Future
<ul><li>Fish & Feature Wishlist
<li>Freshwater Aquarium
<li>Butterfly Garden
<li>Prolific</ul>
<li>Miscellaneous</ul>

Troubleshooting
<ul><li>Aquarium Settings
<ul><li>White Fish (3dfx/Matrox)
<li>VSync explained
<li>Optimal Video Settings
<li>CPU Usage explained</ul>
<li>Windows Settings
<ul><li>Resolution/Depth
<li>Registry Cleaner*
<li>Windows XP settings Restorer
<li>AutoCAD .scr Restorer</ul>
<li>Background Tasks
<ul><li>View Database
<li>NetMeeting
<li>Direct3D Apps
<li>Spyware</ul>
<li>DirectX
<ul><li>DirectX philosophy (why use 6?)
<li>DirectX 8.0 (why recommended + download link for 2K and 98 versions)
<li>DirectX 8.1 (what to do if DX8.1 install renders your PC unusable, specifically NetMeeting conflict)
<li>DirectX 9.0 (monitor sleep for 2K/XP)</ul>
<li>Drivers
<ul><li>Our philosophy on 'latest' drivers
<li>nVidia Drivers
<ul><li>'Detonator' philosophy
<li>Removing old drivers
<li>TnT Riva/Vanta/GeForce 1 Line/Diamond Viper 550/770
<ul><li>Compatibility Driver
<li>Performance Driver</ul>
<li>GeForce Line
<ul><li>Compatibility Driver
<li>Performance Driver</ul>
<li>3dfx Drivers
<ul><li>Cairey's Drivers</ul>
<li>Matrox Drivers
<li>ATI Drivers
<ul><li>Compatibility
<li>Performance</ul>
<li>Trident CyberBlade Drivers (laptop-specific)
<li>ViRGE, Savage, ProSavage, Trio (S3 Graphics)</ul></ul>
<li>Hardware
<ul><li>Notebooks/Laptops
<li>Recommended Hardware
<li>Aquarium & Video Card Bundles</ul></ul>

{*Unfortunately, Prolific has followed Microsoft's recommendations about the Registry and is now putting a copy of the settings into \HKEY_USERS\ which has a randomly generated UID, which means I cannot write an effective Registry Cleaner for MA2!!!}

...Might be wrong on that one

Tiny Turtle · 04-10-2003, 12:34 AM

Looks nice. Really nice. May I suggest combining Aquarium and Windows settings as I don't believe people automatically would know under which of the two they would find a specific answer out of the ones you've listed? (Ok, that was a long sentence.

)

Sad about the Reg-cleaner. Does anybody know someone at Prolific and could ask them to change this?

/Calle

Mountainmaster · 04-10-2003, 11:54 AM

*Unfortunately, Prolific has followed Microsoft's recommendations about the Registry and is now putting a copy of the settings into \HKEY_USERS\ which has a randomly generated UID, which means I cannot write an effective Registry Cleaner for MA2!!!

On my Windows ME system anything that goes into \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ is automatically copied to \HKEY_USERS\. Even Fish Picker does that somehow, although I only instruct it to write in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.
So if you point your regcleaner to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ it cleans \HKEY_USERS\ as well. Not sure how that works on Windows 2000 or XP, but I imagine it would at least work for the user running the regcleaner.

feldon34 · 04-10-2003, 11:57 AM

MM, Thanks for that info!

04-09-2003, 09:08 PM	#1
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,947	WIP: SS Fan Site HELP Thought I'd open this brainstorming thread to work on the future Help section on the Fan Site. Here's the new layout I am planning and will flesh out over the next few weeks hopefully. <b>Frequently Asked Questions</b> <ul><li><b>Updates/Latest Version Info</b> <ul><li>Marine Aquarium 1.1 (Lionfish) <li>Marine Aquarium 2 <li>Marine Aquarium Time <li>Marine Aquarium Crystal <li>Marine Aquarium (International) <li>Microsoft XP Plus</ul> <li><b>Registration / Keycodes</b> <ul><li><b>How do I backup my keycode(s)?</b></li></ul> <li><b>Customizing the Aquarium</b> <li><b>The Future</b> <ul><li>Fish & Feature Wishlist <li>Freshwater Aquarium <li>Butterfly Garden <li>Prolific</ul> <li><b>Miscellaneous</b></ul> <b>Troubleshooting</b> <ul><li><b>Aquarium Settings</b> <ul><li>White Fish (3dfx/Matrox) <li>VSync explained <li>Optimal Video Settings <li>CPU Usage explained</ul> <li><b>Windows Settings</b> <ul><li>Resolution/Depth <li>Registry Cleaner* <li>Windows XP settings Restorer <li>AutoCAD .scr Restorer</ul> <li><b>Background Tasks</b> <ul><li>View Database <li>NetMeeting <li>Direct3D Apps <li>Spyware</ul> <li><b>DirectX</b> <ul><li>DirectX philosophy (why use 6?) <li>DirectX 8.0 (why recommended + download link for 2K and 98 versions) <li>DirectX 8.1 (what to do if DX8.1 install renders your PC unusable, specifically NetMeeting conflict) <li>DirectX 9.0 (monitor sleep for 2K/XP)</ul> <li><b>Drivers</b> <ul><li>Our philosophy on 'latest' drivers <li>nVidia Drivers <ul><li>'Detonator' philosophy <li>Removing old drivers <li>TnT Riva/Vanta/GeForce 1 Line/Diamond Viper 550/770 <ul><li>Compatibility Driver <li>Performance Driver</ul> <li>GeForce Line <ul><li>Compatibility Driver <li>Performance Driver</ul> <li>3dfx Drivers <ul><li>Cairey's Drivers</ul> <li>Matrox Drivers <li>ATI Drivers <ul><li>Compatibility <li>Performance</ul> <li>Trident CyberBlade Drivers (laptop-specific) <li>ViRGE, Savage, ProSavage, Trio (S3 Graphics)</ul></ul> <li><b>Hardware</b> <ul><li>Notebooks/Laptops <li>Recommended Hardware <li>Aquarium & Video Card Bundles</ul></ul> {Unfortunately, Prolific has followed Microsoft's recommendations about the Registry and is now putting a copy of the settings into \HKEY_USERS\ which has a randomly generated UID, which means I cannot write an effective Registry Cleaner for MA2!!!} ...Might be wrong on that one* "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman Last edited by feldon34; 04-10-2003 at 02:29 PM.

04-10-2003, 12:34 AM	#2
Tiny Turtle is pleased Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Stockholm, Sweden Posts: 7,365	Looks nice. Really nice. May I suggest combining Aquarium and Windows settings as I don't believe people automatically would know under which of the two they would find a specific answer out of the ones you've listed? (Ok, that was a long sentence. ) Sad about the Reg-cleaner. Does anybody know someone at Prolific and could ask them to change this? /Calle Thanks to Morgan, Tiny Snapshots is up and running again with "Tiny Järvafält" as the latest addition – Go have a look and tell me what you think. "We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another." /Robert Oppenheimer on witnessing the first thermonuclear detonation in history.

04-10-2003, 11:57 AM	#4
feldon34 Forum Administrator Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Rock Hill, SC Posts: 10,947	MM, Thanks for that info! "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations." - George Orwell "If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal." - Emma Goldman

04-10-2003, 11:54 AM	#3
Mountainmaster Liopleurodon Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: 3rd planet Posts: 314	*Unfortunately, Prolific has followed Microsoft's recommendations about the Registry and is now putting a copy of the settings into \HKEY_USERS\ which has a randomly generated UID, which means I cannot write an effective Registry Cleaner for MA2!!! On my Windows ME system anything that goes into \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ is automatically copied to \HKEY_USERS\. Even Fish Picker does that somehow, although I only instruct it to write in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\. So if you point your regcleaner to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ it cleans \HKEY_USERS\ as well. Not sure how that works on Windows 2000 or XP, but I imagine it would at least work for the user running the regcleaner.