Re: x264 HD Benchmark

[Dashken]

Oooo... ok, will try when I'm back tomorrow.

[Mac Daddy]

Originally Posted by Dashken

Ok, I think I got it. You guys mentioned that if running the batch file (x264_benchmark-720p.bat) straightaway with UAC turned on, when it reach the line below, it won't run and just skip it right?

No thats what happens when you right click and run as admin. When you run the test normally with UAC enabled it prompts to allow or disallow CPUID after the first run and if your not there to accept it stalls the test and doesn't write the results.

Graysky I went in and saved the admin account pw and account enabled again and this time it worked so maybe I missed something the other day. Dashken your results look correct

[Dashken]

Yeah... then just warn them that they have to be there!

Coz running with runas with empty Administrator password, it won't work. And too messy to give Administrator a password. Haha...

I think the best thing is to..

- Use script to check whether UAC is on or off
- If off, prompt user whether want to disable UAC to continue (if not, exit)
- If yes, disable UAC and auto restart
- Then maybe add the batch file into run once or something (but that'll require approval as well)

LMAO! Fail...

LOL! I give up...

[graysky]

Originally Posted by Dashken

Yeah... then just warn them that they have to be there!

Coz running with runas with empty Administrator password, it won't work. And too messy to give Administrator a password. Haha...

Yeah, that's cuz the environment doesn't get passed to the cmd (it defaults to I think c:\windows\something or c:\users\something when it needs to be the drive and folder where the batch file resides).

Vista sucks

Originally Posted by Dashken

I think the best thing is to..

- Use script to check whether UAC is on or off
- If off, prompt user whether want to disable UAC to continue (if not, exit)
- If yes, disable UAC and auto restart
- Then maybe add the batch file into run once or something (but that'll require approval as well)

LMAO! Fail...

LOL! I give up...

Any ideas how to have the batch file do the follow:

Detect if Vista is running or XP/Server etc. If it's Vista, then do a UAC check and prompt users for options.

[Dashken]

Yup. That's possible..

But I'll have to use the batch file to run vb script to detect the string in the registry, which as always will prompt UAC message.

And I guess that defeats the purpose eh?

Tell me if you want it, I can code one up... and how you want it.

Edit: Maybe it's possible...

- Run batch file to detect if Vista and if UAC ON, then prompt to disable UAC, then restart. If user doesn't want to disable UAC, then QUIT.
- After restart, rerun batch file (manually), or I can straightaway add in the batch file at runonce and it will run after system restarts.

- If not Vista, then run benchmark straightaway.

[Mac Daddy]

That sounds good Dash and good work guys keep us posted

[graysky]

Originally Posted by Dashken

Yup. That's possible..

But I'll have to use the batch file to run vb script to detect the string in the registry, which as always will prompt UAC message.

And I guess that defeats the purpose eh?

Tell me if you want it, I can code one up... and how you want it.

Edit: Maybe it's possible...

- Run batch file to detect if Vista and if UAC ON, then prompt to disable UAC, then restart. If user doesn't want to disable UAC, then QUIT.
- After restart, rerun batch file (manually), or I can straightaway add in the batch file at runonce and it will run after system restarts.

- If not Vista, then run benchmark straightaway.

Sounds like a plan dude. I dunno what to use to test if vista exists though... I looked through the environment variables but didn't see anything.... wait a sec %LOCALAPPDATA% is unique to vista so we could have it look to see that something exists there... dunno about UAC though.

Maybe we're making too much out of this. Maybe it's best to leave it as is?

Oh hey, thanks for fixing up the html on the main page. I like the predictor.

[Mac Daddy]

I thought so at first Graysky but you and Dash are working on this and be nice to see it sweet. Disabling UAC is easy to do but admire both of your efforts on this one

[Dashken]

Originally Posted by graysky

Sounds like a plan dude. I dunno what to use to test if vista exists though... I looked through the environment variables but didn't see anything.... wait a sec %LOCALAPPDATA% is unique to vista so we could have it look to see that something exists there... dunno about UAC though.

Well, I may use WMI query to check the operatingsystem's OperatingSystemSKU and detect whether it's Vista or not. Or I can just dive into the registry and find the windows current version and also at the same time whether UAC is enabled or not.

Maybe we're making too much out of this. Maybe it's best to leave it as is?

Ohh... I'm just suggesting, it's really up to you whether you think we need it or not. But I think I'll try it anyway this weekend, most probably on Saturday. Just to keep my mind fresh. I like simple coding like this... haha.

Oh hey, thanks for fixing up the html on the main page. I like the predictor.

Hey, no problem.

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

I thought so at first Graysky but you and Dash are working on this and be nice to see it sweet. Disabling UAC is easy to do but admire both of your efforts on this one

yeah, disabling UAC, restart, run benchmark, then allow to reenable UAC and restart after benchmark is finished. I like everything automated.

[Adrian Wong]

Okay, once we settle this, we should call it.. Version 2.0? And send out news so that everyone can download and give the new version a try.