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1. Since we are using an entirely new launcher to play the game, does this screw up our 4gb patched DAOrigins.exe file? We aren't using that anymore to launch the game and I need that 4gb patched .exe file since I use *a lot* of mods.
2. There was another mod that came out in late 2009 called "Auto Highlight". Comments say it doesn't work anymore so I didn't even try to use it but it does mention a config file and one of the options was to turn off creature highlighting. Since no such config file is mentioned here and since this mod is a decade old, I'm assuming we can't somehow turn off creature highlights? I want to have Interactables to be always highlighted so I don't miss items or quest things but I don't want my character and party to always be glowing too lol.
2. The other mod not working isn't strictly true. It does work, but it doesn't play well with other fix pack mods, that some people consider mandatory nowadays, as it utilises the same mod override files. Either way, there are no configurations for this mod, as mentioned in point #1, this is a Windows based solution, and so isn't technically anything to do with the game's executable at all. It doesn't technically know anything about the game, it's just telling windows that when the game is open, you're always holding down the tab key.
Here is what I am using as my launchaffinity.bat in the bin_ship folder to combine this with Automatically set CPU Affinity - CPU Core Crash Fix for Dragon Age Origins:
@echo off
REM Step 1: Start autorun_tab_toggle.exe
start autorun_tab_toggle.exe
REM Step 2: Start daorigins.exe with CPU affinity and enable console
start /affinity 1f /wait daorigins.exe -enabledeveloperconsole
REM Step 3: After daorigins.exe closes, kill autorun_tab_toggle.exe
taskkill /IM autorun_tab_toggle.exe /F
Mine is currently restricted to 4 cores. Change the 1f if you want to use a different amount. It also enables the developer console. Lastly, it will clean-up the auto-run process when you close Dragon Age like with HikariWS's post below.
In GOG Galaxy I did the following to make it my default executable:
Run the game in windowed mode, the go to the bin-ship and run the toggle application manually. It seems to work just fine, although a little slow to start up properly. It also un-toggles itself if you click away from the window, but you can just re-toggle it.
I haven't confirmed whether it works in borderless or fullscreen.
This doesn't appear to work with the Steam version of the game. It launches the autokey program, then the steam launcher runs, and the autokey program exits.
state:=0
$Tab::
state:= !state
if state
Send {TAB down}
else
Send {TAB Up}
return
Just paste that into notepad, save it as whatever.ahk and you can run it with autohotkey to hold down tab for you.
The original mod has the ahk source code, there we can change the shortcodes if we wanna bind other buttons. It works for both Origins and 2.
Some more detailed explanation of how it works:
- AutoHotKey is a gret app that makes easier to bind shortcuts to other keys and make macros, it's also good because it allows us to use its own language to do simple custom stuff instead of having to develop apps in C++.
- This "mod" is based on ahk. When we press the defined key, it sends the keystroke of a key bing hold down. When the key is pressed again, it sends it being freed up.
- The key that's hold down and the key that triggers the action mustn't be the same.
Your DAO Special Launcher.exe didn't work properly for me. It creates 2 files on temp folder every time it's run. That makes Comodo not recognize them and ask permission for them to run every time, very annoying.
So, instead of using it, I used its batch with the simple code:
@echo off
start DAO_autoruntabtoggle.exe
start /W daorigins.exe
taskkill /im DAO_autoruntabtoggle.exe
It runs the macro, starts DAO and waits for it to close, then closes the macro.
Then I used Hstart to run this batch, without opening the console.