nHancer (NVIDIA Advanced Profile Editor) is a replacement for NVIDIA's own Profile Editor, which is integrated in their driver. With nHancer you can also change the global driver settings, but the focus is on creating and manipulating profiles.
Create and manage fully automated profiles for all your games
On-the-fly control of all global settings and all game settings
Very easy to use, explains all options and their effect, like Anti Aliasing, Anisotropic Filtering, etc...
Special options for NVIDIA's SLI feature, allowing you to be able to use almost all games with SLI even if NVIDIA doesn't support them
Offers addional Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering modes, that are not available through NVIDIA's control panel
Flexible user interface: change the size of the window and all sub areas
Use the online profile database to download profiles for your games, to enhance your gaming experience without having to explore the various options yourself
Export and share your profiles with other by uploading them into the profile databse
User interface and help texts available in various languages (right now English, German and Polish)
Consorts perfectly with NVIDIA's own control panel and other tools, like aTuner or RivaTuner, nHancer will immediately detect any changes made by any other tool
Changes in this Version
Spanish translation integrated (thanks to Felipe Sere)
Added a button to select the "AFR2" mode, NVIDIA introduced in driver 71.84
Fixed some minor bugs
Polish translation integrated (thanks to Tymoteusz Kuczyński)
By default, nHancer doesn't show a message during its start if there are conflicting profiles. The profiles will still be listed in red, though. The old behavior can be forced by adding the start option "-check", the option "-nocheck" has been removed
The space for some text labels has been increased. If you increase the "DPI setting" (Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->General) the text in some labels would wrap. If you use unreasonable high values for the DPI setting, this will still happen though, and at some point the UI will become ugly and unusable
Since the drivers don't honor the extended executable path (even though it is being used in some NVIDIA profiles), the corresponding dialog has been removed for the time being
Added a "Duplicate" button for the profiles. If you want to create a new profile based on an existing one, you can use that button
Bugfix: When removing an executable from a profile, the corresponding entries in the registry weren't removed
Bugfix: Enhanced the code to make sure added executables are saved correctly
Bugfix: After removing a profile or adding/removing executables, the red markings in the profile list (for conflicting profiles) were not updated
Bugfix: In some cases, the color markings in the profile list (for conflicting profiles) were removed
About window updated to credit the translators. The beta testers are still missing, though. No worries, they will be added later
Added a description pane, where each profile can be described using RTF
Added a context sensitive description of all options
Added 4 more SLI flags NVIDIA started to use with 75.90
Made all window parts of the main window and the import/export window resizable independently
Added checks for conflicting profiles (profiles using same executables). This check is done on the program start, on importing profiles. It's also indicated in the main window
Replaced backup mechanism with a permanent extended profile in nHancer's own directory, which stores additional data, like the profile description
When adding an executable to a profile, you can now select additional parts of the path to make the executable unique (for cases if the game's exe has a generic name like "game.exe"). This is confirmed to work with NVIDIA ForceWare 71.84, I'm not sure about previous versions
Improved import and export. The selection window now displays the summary and description of the ex/imported profiles. Existing profiles are now replaced based on the executables, not on the profile name. Conflicts are also noted on the import selection window. While importing, you have the choice to remove all existing profiles
Added a new file type (.nhprofile). Clicking on such a file will directly load it and open the import screen
Added new start options: -nocheck, -import, -replace, -quit
Added the new menu option "Restore global settings to default", which restores all global settings to their default values
Added the new menu option "Remove all profiles"
Added menu functions to change the language preference on the fly
Added link to the online documentation in the "Help" menu
Completely reworked the internal management of the various settings to make it much easier to add new settings
Respects the "prevent_cpl_xx" key in NVIDIA profiles, which effectively forbids that option to be set from within the control panel
Reworked the profile summaries, they now include all options
When changing global settings, only the setting actually changed are written to the registry (previously all global settings were written, even if only one option had been changed)
The menu option "Write all profiles to registry" now deletes all old profiles from the registry before writing the current ones. So if there's some bogus old profile in the registry that's no longer listed, it will be wiped out by this function
Bugfix: On some localized Windows installations, the BlackBytes Registry component would fail because of a malfunctioning licence key check. This has been fixed
Bugfix: Portential crash during loading of the driver's color profiles (could happen if nHancer was started before the driver was fully installed)
Added more meaningful message if the profile file couldn't be found
Bugfix: Crash if an SLI flag was changed before any application or global had been selected
Bugfix: If the anti-aliasing category is changed, the first mode of that category is automatically selected
Bugfix: When options were changed rapidly, the registry change handler could interfere with the UI which caused a complete hang of the application
Bugfix: The registry keys for two OpenGL settings had the wrong case, causing system performance and vsync settings not to work for OpenGL games
Remark
You also have to install at least version 1.1 of the .net Framework (see Windows Updates). .NET Framework Version 1.1
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