PRE-Flight Startup Batch

[DemonHunter]

So I had a real FPS issue the last 2 weeks. Did lots of research and one of the things that helped was some tweaking on my ATI cards, but specifcally killing the Catalyst crap from running before flying.

 

So I started thinking how cool it would be to use a batch file to kill stuff and start stuff up. Basically open up notepad and write your code, than save it as a .bat

 

Here is how I wrote mine for now. Sure to change as I move along:

 

 

:: Kill Catalyst Control Center

 

taskkill /F /IM CCC.exe

 

:: Kill Catalys Control Center Monitor

 

taskkill /F /IM MOM.exe

 

:: Start TrackIR

 

start /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5" TrackIR5.exe

 

:: Start Helios

 

start /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gadrocs Workshop\Helios" HeliosControlCenter.exe

 

:: Pause for 15 Sec to give time to start Helios profile

 

timeout /t 15

 

:: Start DCS World

 

start /d "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\" DCS_updater.exe

[Spetz]

Good idea!

[Tetra]

Its definitely the best way. Did something similar myself, also have a second bat file launch at the end of the launch bat which monitors if the DCS launcher is still running (ie. you are still playing) and if you aren't it quits all the of the processes you launched in the first one, or you could use it to re-launch the processes you killed when you finish playing if you liked in the :Kill block.

 

DCSLAUNCH.bat

@echo off
Echo DCS LAUNCHER
ECHO.
timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK > nul
Start "AutoHotKey" "C:\AutoHotKey_VoiceAttack\WH_DCS_A-10_VAC_PTA.exe"
Echo AUTOHOTKEY RUNNING...
timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK > nul
Start "Voice Attack" "C:\Program Files (x86)\VoiceAttack\VoiceAttack.exe"
Echo VOICE ATTACK RUNNING...
timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK > nul
Start "Helio" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Gadrocs Workshop\Helios\HCS.lnk"
Echo HELIOS STARTED (BEGIN PROFILE!)
timeout /T 5 /NOBREAK > nul
Echo STARTING FACE TRACKING SIT BACK...
timeout /T 5 /NOBREAK 
Start "FaceTrackNoIR" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Abbequerque Inc\FaceTrackNoIR\FaceTrackNoIR.exe"
Echo FACETRACKNOIR RUNNING...
timeout /T 3 /NOBREAK > nul
Start "DCS World" "E:\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\Launcher.exe"
cls
timeout /T 1 /NOBREAK > nul
Start /min "BAT CHECK" "E:\DCSBAT\DCSCHECK.bat"

DCSCHECK.bat

@echo off
Echo DCS IS RUNNING...

:WAIT
timeout /T 8 /NOBREAK > nul
tasklist /fi "imagename eq Launcher.exe" | find /i "Launcher.exe" > nul
if errorlevel 1 (GOTO KILL) else (
 GOTO WAIT
)

:KILL
taskkill /F /im FaceTrackNoIR.exe >nul
taskkill /F /im VoiceAttack.exe >nul
taskkill /F /im WH_DCS_A-10_VAC_PTA.exe >nul 
taskkill /F /im HeliosControlCenter.exe >nul 
exit

Edited September 11, 2013 by Tetra

[DemonHunter]

Nice Tetra! I like the monitor to kill part. I was think about a post flight shutdown batch put that is a better idea:thumbup: Thanks!

[toby23]

:: Start TrackIR

start /d "C:\Program Files (x86)\NaturalPoint\TrackIR5" TrackIR5.exe

 

If you add this text to the Target section of the shortcut to TrackIR, it will start TrackIR with a high priority and for me, this makes a huge difference to the smoothness:

 

C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start/high TrackIR5.exe