Condensation 0.1 - Automatically turns off Aero when in a Steam game/shortcut

Condensation 0.1 - Automatically turns off Aero when in a Steam game/shortcut

Turns out the input lag and microstutters despite constant high FPS were caused by Aero on my PC, and I'm sure as hell not going to disable it manually every time I want to play a game, or permanently, so I made this:

http://darkimmortal.com/condensation.rar

It uses Open Steamworks to poll Steam for in-game status, and works with shortcuts and mods, not just proper Steam games. You'll need .NET 3.5.


Readme:

Code:

  Condensation
 by Darkimmortal
 ===============

To 'install', extract this archive to somewhere and add a startup entry.
(Make a shortcut to it in Start > All Programs > Startup if you're lazy).

To manually turn Aero on/off, use ALT+F3.

There is no GUI; you must end process to exit.
(Using a windows service broke Open Steamworks.)


 Enjoy :>

 

tl;dr: I can't run aero on my pc, and I'm too much of a bitch to turn it off because it looks pretty.

 

Even with two monitors, running Aero is a cakewalk for a GTX 275

 

The only aero feature I can't live without is being able to hover over grouped windows on the 7 taskbar and see mini previews, otherwise I probably wouldn't be using it

 

I'd be very surprised if it did.

 

It might be because of the logging code from RUM (which Mist also had), but I don't see how that would make requests come from Steam.