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GameDog Chroma Game Integrations



Currently Supports:



  • Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

  • Dota 2



Current Version: 2.4

Download:
HERE



Old Beta Version: 3.7

Download: HERE



New Beta Version: 5.0

Download:
HERE



DOTA2 INFO: With a recent Update Valve disabled the gameintegration per default cause of performance issues for some users who didn't even know about it. This can be reenabled by adding "-gamestateintegration" to the launch settings.



https://i.gyazo.com/56961ea93f61a971ef59e77b12950b86.png





How to Install:



  • Download latest Version from the Razer Workshop or the GameDog Thread.

  • Install GameDog

  • Open Synapse and make sure Chroma Apps are enabled under the "Chroma Apps -> Settings" Tab

  • Start GameDog

  • Make sure your Chroma Devices play a Green Animation and then return back to your default Profile.

  • Make sure under Settings in GameDog the Directory to your Game is set correctly.

  • Minimize GameDog. It will stay open in the Tray Bar.

  • Start your Game and GameDog should receive Data and change the lighting accordingly.

  • After playing GameDog will revert the Keyboard back to your Synapse Profile



FAQ:

https://gitlab.com/Chromatin/GameDog#faq



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Thank you very much!











Changelog:



- 5.0



  • Full rewrite, New UI, improved performance

  • Fixed Bug causing "SDK not found" error on start

  • Fixed Bug with HttpRequestException





- 2.4



  • CS:GO: Fixed Crash





-
2.1



  • Workaround for slow updates caused by Valves broken API





- 2.0 (Just a minor Bugfix release to internal Version 5895)



  • Dota 2: Fix passive items lighting up as a Key





- 2.0



  • Allows staying in the Background

    That means GameDog does NOT turn yellow anymore. Once you start gamedog it plays a starting animation (Green light running along all Devices). After that GameDog returns to your default Synapse profile! This behaviour can be changed in Settings but is activated by default. Make sure to MINIMIZE the Window (it moves to the tray) and do NOT close the Window as that closes GameDog completly.





  • Start with Windows

    Makes the above actually useful. It makes GameDog start with Windows in the Background. You can now also start GameDog with the Parameter "/StartMinimized" which will Minimize gamedog right to the tray. It WON'T play any starting animation in that mode and won't initialize Chroma until you actually start a Game!





  • Import and Export of Assignments to share with Friends!

    With the Export and Import Buttons in the Assignments view you can get a JSON (Text) representation of your Assignments you can save as Textfile if you want to switch between profiles. Just click on Export and then click on "ok" to make GameDog copy everything into your clipboard. Now you can store this in your own Textfile for later use and just copy and paste it into the Box that appears when you click on "Import".



    But that not enough!



    You can also enter URLs to textfiles that are then downloaded so you can host your profile via any text file hosting service.





  • Single-time Key Flash for Game Values

    Allows you to let a Key flash for a moment if a Value changes (for example your HP drops or your Ammo drops)





  • Complete Dota Support

    Support for Ability Cooldowns, Item Cooldowns, Buyback (only if the money is enough...the cooldown isn't checked, sorry), Status Effects, Day- and Nightclock...if there is anything you want, please let me know.





  • New Devices added

    Keypads (tested with Orbweaver) and Headsets (Razer Kraken) are now supported!

    Keys for the Keypad are set similar to the Keyboard Keys and the Headset is a on/off switch as it can only show one state. The Headset is not very fast as it fades from one color to the other so some things might not work as expected!





  • CS:GO Changes

    Bombtimer moved to 40 Seconds. Added grenades as Game Value.





  • Better Game Lookup (Thanks njbmartin!)

    Games are now found even outside of the Steam Folder within a Steam Library.



- 1.2



  • Added better Error Handling for internal Server instead of swallowing Errors. If something doesn't work please send me the Logfile (GameDog.txt) available in: %AppData%\\GameDog\\logs

  • Fixed an issue that caused (caught) Exceptions when wearing a Knife. Preventing spam on the logfile.





-
1.1



  • Fixed an issue where Synapse won't recognize GameDog as a Chroma App if SDK is not enabled. Giving users the posibility to enable the SDK in Synapse if it's the only Chroma App ever.





- 1.0



  • Official Release





- 0.11



  • Fixed Version after SDK update





- 0.10



  • Support for Firefly and Mamba TE! (Thanks Razer for the support!)

  • Removed MANY of the plugins like Health and Armor and replaced it with a single "Two Color" Plugin where you can choose which Game Value to be used. One Plugin for Health, Armor etc.



  • Added a Countdown Plugin which works similar as the above but disables one key after theother (100% means all glowing, 0% means 1 key glowing). That's helpful as the requested Bombcountdown as an example. (See the Bomb Countdown default assignment)



  • Added an "Active Weapon Clip/Max" Game Value.



  • Changed the way Keymappings are done a bit to make it slightly more obvious which Keys are selected.



  • Added ChromaXML for Synapse support.



  • Minimizing to Tray. Even so Colore added support for Uninit the Razer SDK doesn't seem to support apps running in the background and just using the SDK when they need to yet. But it's being looked into.( https://github.com/CoraleStudios/Colore/pull/121 )

  • Added a text to make Doubleclick as well as rearranging Assigments more prominent

  • I probably forgot something...





- 0.5





  • Limited Dota support!

  • Effects are back

  • Stats screen removed for now

  • Assignments work like layers on top of each other and can be rearranged via Drag and Drop. Highest priority is at the bottom.

  • "Fill Color" makes the whole Keyboard light up

  • "Menu and Typing" makes the Keyboard light up completly in menu (Orange by default) and while typing in chat(white)

  • Added a "Flash below" property allowing to define a value below that point when they Key should flash

  • Assignments can be named

  • Colors can be choosen via a Color Picker

  • Bombtime is customizable

  • Better Description for Assignment Properties

  • Keys can be ordered

  • Performance improvments





- 0.4



  • Fixed Steam Search, Added Custom CS:GO Folder in Settings

  • Fixed Crashes

  • Detecting if no SDK is installed

  • Added Custom Colors and Changed how Assignments are made

  • Added new Function: "Kill Counter (Test)"

  • Temporarily Removed Effects Flashed, Smoked and Burning. They will be back again.

  • Introduced Crash and Application Logs





It's using the great Colore C# Chroma SDK Library!



What it is right now (besides Buggy and Ugly (not that much anymore) for now):



  • Using official CS:GO API to read out stats (same API GameSense uses)

  • Following effects can be displayed on the Keyboard





  • Flashed

  • Smoked

  • Burning





  • Keys can be assigned to the following "Functions":





  • Static Color (Displayed in one color all the time)

  • Two Colors (Displays a Game Value in a range from 0 to 100% (or true/false as 0 and 100%) and fades between two Colors. If the percent drops below the "Flash below percent" the Key or Mouse(pad) side will start flashing either in the Color defined via Flash Color or if that one is transparent in the Color defined via Color Start and Color End. Every Game Value that does not include "Percent" is displayed either as 0% or as 100% depending on the true/false state of the Value.)

  • Count Down Colors (Same as Two Colors but makes the Assigned Keys or Mouse(pad) sides light up in the defined order depending on the percentage)

  • Effect: x (Makes the whole Keyboard light up for an Effect, White for flash, Grey for smoke and red for Burning)

  • Kill Counter (Sets Keys one after another for each Kill the player did this round. This means if there are 5 Keys assigned and the player got 2 Headshots and one normal Kill, then 2 of the 5 Keys will light up in the HeadshotColor, one will light up in the KillColor one one will light up in the NoneColor

  • Bomb (Fades Keys from ColorStart to ColorEnd within 35 Seconds. Then switches to ColorDefusable (defusable with Def-Kit) for 5 Seconds before going to ColorNonDefusable)

  • Roundphase (Displays Freezetime (FreezetimeColor), Live (PlayingColor) or unknown (UndefinedColor) state of the current round on Keys)

  • Menu and Typing (Lights up the whole Keyboard depending if the user is Typing or in Menu)





  • If CS:GO or Dota is installed outside of the Steam Folder then go to settings and change the CS:GO Folder or Dota Folder Settings Key.



I really hope to get some feedback and hope people like that.
@WolfspiritM Hey, you gameDog integration is awesome! Thanks for that, but i have a question. How can i create custom effects on another heroes? Now it is available only for razor. E.g.: for Zeus Ult i want to highlight the whole keyboard with blue color
Does this app still supporting or not?
Hey i would love if you could make it possible to get the fire in gamedog to look more like fire like the new fire effect from razer. So when i run in a molotov i know it's fire and not just a red keyboard
Hi everyone!!



I have Windows 10 and a Keyboard Razer Ornata Chroma.





When I start the GameDog program, the following error appears:



- Chroma SDK is not aviable, MAke sure the 'Razer Chroma SDK Service' is runnign.



I have reinstalled the Synapse program 4 times and the GameDog program twice and I still get the same error. I have seen the services of my team and they are all active Razer.



What can happen?



A greeting!
i wonder if gamedog can support games like tf2, the flame in the flood, PD2, and so on in the future
Vachb
Hi everyone!!



I have Windows 10 and a Keyboard Razer Ornata Chroma.





When I start the GameDog program, the following error appears:



- Chroma SDK is not aviable, MAke sure the 'Razer Chroma SDK Service' is runnign.



I have reinstalled the Synapse program 4 times and the GameDog program twice and I still get the same error. I have seen the services of my team and they are all active Razer.



What can happen?



A greeting!


Hey man, do You have actually Chroma module installed? 🙂 Synapse ->Dasboard/Modules (click modules) - > Check if you have chroma module under "Instaled Modules"
https://imgur.com/a/T5bVZRr I can't get GameDog to show up on my Synapse, something wrong with the update?

You'rs Simon
PhysX-
its not opening


same problem
when i start gamedog,it says sdk not available.then i checked the services in the task manager like u said but there was no razer chroma sdk running, but in the synapse chroma app was on. i tried reinstalling synapse but still the same. what should i do?
does gamedog work with the razer cynosa chroma
man wow im still trying to open up gamedog on windows 10 and its not working u said that u someone would reinstall it again it would work probably i unistalled and installed gamedog like 5 times and its not working
man pls gamedog because when im opening the app on my potato pc its not working
I would like to know if cs go and gta v effects work in my razer cynosa chroma
Are you still working on the programm?
GTA V ? it's a pity that it never gets updated until this time
Even though I unchecked both options boxes I still get notified of this thread. 😞
it Works with blackwindow chroma v2 ?
Hey Wolf, when ever i try to open the program it crashes without loading anything and i tried to uninstall and reinstall same thing is going on any tips?
i followed every step and when i open CS:GO it does not respond or do anything, please help!
WolfspiritM
I've not used GameDog with Dota for a while and will give it a try this weekend I think.





Yes 3.6 is the latest one and it does support the HDK via ChromaLink.

A few posts earlier I described how to set up Hue to work with GameDog. The same thing applies to HDK, too :)





There is no "Blackwidow Ultimate Chroma" as far as I know. It works with all Chroma Keyboards but there are a few that might not work very well. I've tested Ornata and Blackwidow V1 and V2 without issues. I'm pretty sure Blackwidow X will work very similar. I wasn't able to test Cynosa yet. What I wouldn't get is a Deathstalker as it only supports different light zones instead of each key being a different color.




Does this mean that I`m effed since I have a Deathstalker? I am trying to use Gamedog with CS:GO but I am having little to no luck - the in game stuff is barely working. WASD keys do not light up correctly (mostly RDFG are lit instead), no kill counter, no countdown, no nothing.
Does this works with razer huntsman?
I have a problem when i open gamedog its says chroma sdk not enabled or available but when i open the task manager its opened what i do?
I have a problem: Whenever I start my computer, I have GameDog start by default as well. However, ever since the new update GameDog has been preventing Chroma from using the lights on my keyboard, even when no games have been opened at all. It's as if GameDog is overriding Chroma. Chroma detects my keyboard, but it just does the default chromatic cycling or even just black sometimes. This persists even when I close GameDog. When I disable GameDog from the connected apps list, everything goes back to normal. Can someone please help me with this?
Does it still work in 2019? Because when i laugh csgo with this it just freezes the color of my keybaord
Draconic30
Does it still work in 2019? Because when i laugh csgo with this it just freezes the color of my keybaord


It works for me

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