After more than six months of rigorous beta testing, PowerUp Software is proud to release Pinnacle Game Profiler 5.1.0.  New users should download and install the regular setup package.  Users with existing installations can download the manual update package or wait till it becomes available through PinnacleUpdate.

Note that profiles created with previous versions will be automatically upgraded to the new 5.x format (they'll still work), but they'll no longer be backwards compatible (you won't be able to share 5.x profiles with 4.x users).

We would like to thank our user-community for all of the helpful feedback during each of our beta releases.

New Features in PGP 5

Note that the changes listed in these release notes do not reflect all the changes in PGP 5.

• Support for Windows 7 Operating System
• Complete overhaul of internal structuring for existing and future features
  • Server storage changes made to streamline post v5.x formatting on PinnacleUpdate
  • Command names now stored in central directory for easy updating
  • Unique command id's replace previous command name based system
  • New structuring includes room to store all the new behavior modifications and future planned features
  • Profile compatibility translators from v4.x to v5.x (new profiles will not be backwards compatible)
• New icons designed, created, and added to user interface to represent new and previous features.
• A deadzone can now be applied to triggers by decreasing the axis range of an individual axis
• Option added to export all profiles at once
• Environmental variables like %APPPATH%, %APPDATA%, and %PROGRAMFILES% can now be used in event step paths
• Previously shifted and unshifted commands shared the same "d-pad style" but now you can set different styles for different shift-states
• New quad-shift system added
  • Commands can now be executed along with shifts
  • Symbolically color coded to distinguish states: blue, red, yellow, green
  • Configurations now can have up to four shift states
• New Behavior Modification system added
  • Command-level modifiers that make using some of Pinnacle's features more accessible, quicker, and easier
  • Command-level modifiers are not mutually exclusive!!! ( at least for current feature set)
  • Virtual stickiness feature adds the capability of toggling ON or OFF any digital control by successive activations. Formerly this would have taken two commands and a cycle command.
  • Rapid fire feature adds command-level repetition when digital control is ON.
  • Sniper assistant feature reduces mouse-emulation sensitivity by 50% when digital control is ON.
  • Behavior modifications can be applied to keyboard hotkeys
• Wiimote has 100% new library that improves response time (noticeably better in infrared), is much more efficient (less CPU intensive), and has improved compatibility with bluetooth stacks; infrared support has been enabled, but it's not yet accessible through the GUI
• New location on hard disk and start menu reflecting recent change in company's name
• New, more descriptive and accurate terminology adopted and implemented to make PGP easier to use and more intuitive. These include new dichotomies of standard versus compound commands and activated (ON) versus deactivated (OFF) states of digital controls (formerly pressed and released events).
• You can now change POV-Style when changing to a different shift-state
• Now possible to attach notes to profiles and to individual commands in profiles. Command notes are visible in balloons activated by mouse overs in the Controller Configurations window.
• Controller Configurations enhanced
  • Balloon pop-ups added. These are visibile when you mouse over an icon next to a command. These are displayed for command-level assignments. They do not display event level steps (what commands are composed of)
  • Balloons display the following items:
    • Command notes
    • Cycle command components
    • Double command components and method
    • Force feedback effect and intensity
    • Sticky, rapid fire, and sniper assistant behavior modifications
    • Display shift mode
  • Axis commands enhanced
    • Behavior modifiers added
    • Compound commands now include cycle commands
  • Controller Configurations' popup-menu enhanced
    • New icons added for new features
    • Along with green and blue dots, there are now purple dots to indicate keyboard hotkey assignments (previously they were also blue)
    • Cycle and double commands grouped together under compound commands
    • Command behavior modifiers introduced
      • Force feedback options for ramping and rumbling added (previously accessible via CMD+left mouse click
      • 4-way shifting system: blue, red, green, yellow
      • Sticky control
      • Sniper Assistant
      • Rapid Fire assistant
  • Cosmetic changes
    • Tool icons reordered, repositioned, and labeled as toolbox
    • Config name repositioned to make room for shift-mode combobox
    • New icons added for new features like cycle, double

Change Log for 5.1.0

• Improved support for WinDS3 driver
• Pinnacle's Desktop Gadget fixed for Windows 7
• Fixed bug for regional settings (unicode users)
• Crash fixed for Wiimote Classic Controller
• Mouse acceleration bug fixed for slow speeds
• Hot-swap bug fixed (for low joystick assignments)
• PinnacleUpdate bug for names.dat fixed
• New class identifiers for Alpha and Bravo Class devices
• Added -locktodeviceid command line parameter added
• Launch/detect bug fixed (steam users will be happy)

Change Log for 5.0.9 Beta

• Fixed rare hot-swap issue

Change Log for 5.0.8 Beta

• Fixed some ah hoc issues associated with the 7th build

Change Log for 5.0.7 Beta

• Fixed bug for mouse wheel steps that was causing doubling of the steps (as found by cybmole)
• Numerous minor bugs found and fixed

Change Log for 5.0.6 Beta

• There are now *.pin file associations to make it easier to import profiles
• Data has now been updated, and PinnacleUpdate should work normally again
• Bug always asking for admin permission has been fixed
• A few new controllers were added to the conversion table for config classes
• Minor fixes too numerous to mention

Change Log for 5.0.5 Beta

• Printing has now been updated for v5.x format; print layout button functionality restored
• The wiimote can now be connected after Pinnacle is already running and Pinnacle will find it

Change Log for 5.0.4 Beta

• Fixed some small bugs that weren't quite fixed right in the previous beta

Change Log for 5.0.3 Beta

• Fixed wiimote detection problems (hopefully should work for everyone now)
• Changed around some of the labels and captions on the new profile window
• There is no longer a requirement to have any files associated with a profile
• Tou can now select DetectExe from currently running processes in a dropdown
• Important bug fix for assigning behaviors without commands (as found by hisoka)
• A new ability to change the "working path" as needed for some particular games
• Now added AUTO-RESET setting to the behavior balloon display for Cycle Commands
• Fixed a bug that prevented launching an exe without any configurations
• Bug fixed for axis commands on a joystick command when shifted (as found by Gary)
• Multiple hotkeys seems to cause a crash, so that bug has been fixed (as found by Gary)
• Some problems with command-line launching were fixed (as found by several people)
• Important fix for uninstalling beta 5 setup package (as found by iansays)
• Conversions for pin file import/export has been fixed (as found by xazuki)
• Improved support for alienware and motioninjoy ps3 driver support

Change Log for 5.0.2 Beta

• Windows shutdown/restart interruption fixed (previously known bug)
• Data upgrade problem fixed (as found by Gary and other users)
• Fixed text display in uninstall (as found by webwizzy)
• Text display for events fixed (as found by Xazuki)<;/li>
• Bug causing CPU spikes fixed
• New build no longer has DLL/OCX file loop (as found by shantd)
• Corrected WinProfile auto-creation configs (as found by reeven)
• Registry error fixed that could caused some unexpected problems
• Temp logfiles cleaned up on root of C: drive (as found by jordi)
• Import bug for joystick settings fixed (as found by Xazuki)
• Wireless sleep/wakeup crash fixed
• Game launch error fixed for admin-level users on 64-bit Window

Change Log 5.0.1 Beta

• Fixed process enumeration for x64 operating systems (automatic activation and deactivation of profiles now works properly, multiple instances now fixed)
• Hotswapping with an axis command inside a joystick command has been fixed
• Fixed display for some Windows Themes that didn't look as expected
• Fixed problem that was causing freezes for some users when optical drives were checked during game detection. Optical drives are now excluded.
• Fix to prevent the failure of updates on PinnacleUpdate that some users were seeing
• Fix for wireless controllers on Vista 64 for idle-sleep crash
• Improved form loading speed and efficiency (hopefully improving overall stability)
• Improved map to mouse spring feature to work better in full-screen games
• Improvements to Axis Command handling, ensuring super-fast changes don't cause any unexpected results (particularly relevant when using pause steps in the subcommands)
• Improved keyboard hotkey handling
• Minor tweaks and fixes too numerous to mention