WINDOWS 11: DisplayMagician v2.1 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 v2.1 is a new major release. It brings about three completely new, scratch-built video manipulation libraries, over 5 months in the making. These new video libraries are designed to record ALL of the display settings available within NVIDIA, AMD and Windows setups, fixing a whole slew of issues that earlier versions of DisplayMagician had.
DisplayMagician v2.1 has a lot of improvements:
- It changes Display Profiles MUCH faster (in some cases under 5 seconds)
- You can choose the image your shortcut uses
- You can run a program after closing your game
- It works with multiple display adapters
- It works with PCI and USB display adapters
- It works with AMD Eyefinity
- It works with NVIDIA Surround/Mosaic
- It works with SuperDisplay (Android Tablets as a display)
- It saves NVIDIA and Windows HDR settings
- It stores screen refresh rates and bezel settings
- It can apply a Windows background when it changes profiles
- Many, many other tweaks and fixes.
If you're upgrading from DisplayMagician v1.1.4
Display Profiles from DisplayMagician v1.1.4 will not work with DisplayMagician v2.1. The new Display Profiles record about 10x the amount of information as the old Display Profiles, and use a completely new format. This unfortunately also means that you have two tasks you’ll have to do before this version of DisplayMagician v2.1 will work:
1. You will need to create new Display Profiles
2. You will need to update your 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
DisplayMagician v2.1 has been about 6 months solid work, and that’s why it’s taken a while to get it out the door. 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 v2.1 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 v2.1 possible:
- Sean at SimCraft (Thank you so much for your generous 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)
- 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)
- Domenic (Thanks for the solid month of troubleshooting help and the sponsorship!)
- 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)
- Frcooper (thanks for the sponsoring)
- 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)
- RBZL (thanks for the donation)
- 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 v2.1.5
- Can run Applications as an administrator (UAC)
- Can run Start Programs as an administrator (UAC)
- Can run a program afterwards as administrator (UAC)
- UI Bugfix for Start Programs
- Improved Shortcut Repository initialisation code robustness