[Game] Anti splash screen/nag program (work in progress)

[Lonyo]

On another forum I frequent, someone is putting together a program which will automatically block intro movies/splash screes/etc from various games.

It's a work in progress, so it only has a few games supported at the moment, but it still has the potential to be a great time and patience saver.

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=80&threadid=2307091&enterthread=y

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnag/ for a direct link to the app.

Basically (as explained in the forum link), the more people who offer up definitions, the better the app will get, so if you like the idea feel free to use it and/or contribute.

Hopefully some people might be interested or find it useful.

 

[mistk�fer]

I don't really see how this proggie could be useful. Ok, intro videos can be annoying sometimes, but splash screens? they aren't even a little bit of annoying since I got to wait anyway, no matter if they are there or not

 

[Lt_Kettch]

Did you play GTA 4? Which leads to my next question does this support GTA4?

 

[Murphy]

*Avira AntiVir Personal Edition Classic
*Battlefield 2
*Special Forces
*Battlefield Vietnam
*Bioshock
*Call of Duty 4
*Company of Heroes (Community - Amberclad)
*Crysis
*Dawn of War (Community - Amberclad)
*Dawn of War - Dark Crusade (Community - Amberclad)
*Dawn of War - Soulstorm (Community - Amberclad)
*Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Testing)
*Fable
*Farcry (Testing)
*Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Community - Amberclad)
*Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 (Community - Amberclad)
*H.A.W.X. (Community - Amberclad)
*Jade Empire
*Left 4 Dead
*Need for Speed: Most Wanted (Testing)
*Neverwinter Nights
*Shadows of Undertide
*Neverwinter Nights 2
*Mask of the Betrayer
*Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2 (Testing)
*Oblivion
*Unreal Tournament 3 (Community - Amberclad)

No GTA4.
It shouldn't remove the nag-screens on AntiVir, imo. Doesn't seem right to me. Other than that, why not. I usually don't care, but if they are either excessive (UT3) or unskippable I usually remove them myself so I can see how people who don't want to do it manually could find use for an app like that.

 

[Ralfst3r]

Some games INSIST on showing you 10 million times who made it. Ok, we get it! Best intro ever? Red Orchestra. 1 Second and you're in the menu. Go TWI!

 

[worluk]

No GTA4.
It shouldn't remove the nag-screens on AntiVir, imo. Doesn't seem right to me. Other than that, why not. I usually don't care, but if they are either excessive (UT3) or unskippable I usually remove them myself so I can see how people who don't want to do it manually could find use for an app like that.

for UT3 there is a commandline switch you can add to prevent the startup clips. Something like -nostartupmovies.

 

[UncleDrax]

Ya, on BF2, I just renamed the .bik's (which works for most games that use .bik intro movies, since the game itself is smart enough to continue on)