SuperF4 conflicts with Nvidia GeForce Experience optimal settings for Heroes of the Storm

[Dyras]

Hi! Love the program, it's one of the hidden golden corns in this world!

However, one thing that annoys the hell out of me is this: I have a GTX 1070, and when I play Heroes of the Storm with the optimal settings the keyboard stops working all of a sudden. There is a craaaaazy delay, similar to what is described in another issue here.

Here's how to reproduce. You need an Nvidia GPU, preferably of the newer variety. Download Nvidia GeForce Experience. Not the new crap that barely works, but the old GFE 2. Under the settings for Heroes of the Storm, pick something under Dynamic Super Resolution. https://i1.someimage.com/9tXjYu6.png <--- That right there Now start the game while running SuperF4 in the background and you will notice you can't do shit with the keyboard. The mouse on the other hand works fine. Exit the game and well, still no keyboard for you!

To bring your keyboard back to life you have to right click the start menu, open the task manager and kill superf4.exe. Also note that your desktop shortcuts have been re-arranged.

I hope you can fix this, because I really can't live without SuperF4 and I would hate not to use... Uh... Dynamic Super Resolution, whatever the hell that is!

Tried with, and without TimerCheck enabled.

[Dyras]

Oh, and I start SuperF4 through a shortcut in the Autostart-folder if that matters.

[stefansundin]

Hmm.. One thing I could try is compile a new binary that has a new setting that would disable the keyboard hook and that way you would be able to use the program with only TimerCheck enabled. Without a keyboard hook, I don't think there would be any way SuperF4 would be able to break in this manner.

I'll try to get it done later tonight.

Unfortunately I don't think I will be able to test your specific use case, though.

Thanks for reporting!

[stefansundin]

Okay, I have created a custom version for you to test. This version does not use a keyboard hook at all, it only uses "TimerCheck". To make it simpler for me to produce this version, it's not even possible to disable SuperF4 now, you have to exit it completely. The "xkill" or Win+F4 feature has also been removed.

Anyway, test it out and let me know how it works.

SuperF4 v1.3 NoHook.zip

[Dyras]

Yeah so, with the new version this happened I pasted the new version on top of the version I had already installed, then I started SuperF4.exe and ran Heroes of the Storm. In game the keyboard works, great! But wait! The mouse isn't working (AHAHAHAH!) and so I kill the game with SuperF4. After that the SuperF4 icon at the bottom right corner is completely "dead", regardless of what mouse button I click nothing happens. In the task manager I kill SuperF4 and then I restart the .exe, and lo and behold, everything now works just fine!

[stefansundin]

Hi @Dyras.

I have made a new build that includes the fix by vmrob in #5. Can you try it and see if it fixes the problem?

File: SuperF4-no-block.zip

Sorry for the long delay in looking into this. All credit goes to vmrob for finding the problem.

Thank you!

[Dyras]

@stefansundin This new version works wonders, thanks! I'd suggest you make it the new standard in the next version!

[stefansundin]

Great! I definitely will. I'm going to leave this issue open until I get the chance to do so. Thanks for testing!

[pix0wl]

I can also confirm that it's working now. I had the issue with high resolution downsampling (DSR via Nvidia driver) in games on Windows 10. The Keyboard wasn't reacting at all.

@vmrob & @stefansundin Thank you guys for fixing it.

[stefansundin]

New version is out, so closing this.