WIP: SS Fan Site HELP

[feldon34]

Thought I'd open this brainstorming thread to work on the future Help section on the Fan Site.

Here's the new layout I am planning and will flesh out over the next few weeks hopefully.

<b>Frequently Asked Questions</b>
<ul><li><b>Updates/Latest Version Info</b>
<ul><li>Marine Aquarium 1.1 (Lionfish)
<li>Marine Aquarium 2
<li>Marine Aquarium Time
<li>Marine Aquarium Crystal
<li>Marine Aquarium (International)
<li>Microsoft XP Plus</ul>
<li><b>Registration / Keycodes</b>
<ul><li><b>How do I backup my keycode(s)?</b></li></ul>
<li><b>Customizing the Aquarium</b>
<li><b>The Future</b>
<ul><li>Fish & Feature Wishlist
<li>Freshwater Aquarium
<li>Butterfly Garden
<li>Prolific</ul>
<li><b>Miscellaneous</b></ul>

<b>Troubleshooting</b>
<ul><li><b>Aquarium Settings</b>
<ul><li>White Fish (3dfx/Matrox)
<li>VSync explained
<li>Optimal Video Settings
<li>CPU Usage explained</ul>
<li><b>Windows Settings</b>
<ul><li>Resolution/Depth
<li>Registry Cleaner*
<li>Windows XP settings Restorer
<li>AutoCAD .scr Restorer</ul>
<li><b>Background Tasks</b>
<ul><li>View Database
<li>NetMeeting
<li>Direct3D Apps
<li>Spyware</ul>
<li><b>DirectX</b>
<ul><li>DirectX philosophy (why use 6?)
<li>DirectX 8.0 (why recommended + download link for 2K and 98 versions)
<li>DirectX 8.1 (what to do if DX8.1 install renders your PC unusable, specifically NetMeeting conflict)
<li>DirectX 9.0 (monitor sleep for 2K/XP)</ul>
<li><b>Drivers</b>
<ul><li>Our philosophy on 'latest' drivers
<li>nVidia Drivers
<ul><li>'Detonator' philosophy
<li>Removing old drivers
<li>TnT Riva/Vanta/GeForce 1 Line/Diamond Viper 550/770
<ul><li>Compatibility Driver
<li>Performance Driver</ul>
<li>GeForce Line
<ul><li>Compatibility Driver
<li>Performance Driver</ul>
<li>3dfx Drivers
<ul><li>Cairey's Drivers</ul>
<li>Matrox Drivers
<li>ATI Drivers
<ul><li>Compatibility
<li>Performance</ul>
<li>Trident CyberBlade Drivers (laptop-specific)
<li>ViRGE, Savage, ProSavage, Trio (S3 Graphics)</ul></ul>
<li><b>Hardware</b>
<ul><li>Notebooks/Laptops
<li>Recommended Hardware
<li>Aquarium & Video Card Bundles</ul></ul>

{*Unfortunately, Prolific has followed Microsoft's recommendations about the Registry and is now putting a copy of the settings into \HKEY_USERS\ which has a randomly generated UID, which means I cannot write an effective Registry Cleaner for MA2!!!}

...Might be wrong on that one

[Tiny Turtle]

Looks nice. Really nice. May I suggest combining Aquarium and Windows settings as I don't believe people automatically would know under which of the two they would find a specific answer out of the ones you've listed? (Ok, that was a long sentence. )

Sad about the Reg-cleaner. Does anybody know someone at Prolific and could ask them to change this?

/Calle

[Mountainmaster]

*Unfortunately, Prolific has followed Microsoft's recommendations about the Registry and is now putting a copy of the settings into \HKEY_USERS\ which has a randomly generated UID, which means I cannot write an effective Registry Cleaner for MA2!!!

On my Windows ME system anything that goes into \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ is automatically copied to \HKEY_USERS\. Even Fish Picker does that somehow, although I only instruct it to write in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\.
So if you point your regcleaner to \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ it cleans \HKEY_USERS\ as well. Not sure how that works on Windows 2000 or XP, but I imagine it would at least work for the user running the regcleaner.

[feldon34]

MM, Thanks for that info!