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[CORTEX] Cortex 10 PC Beta

dekades
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LONG-AWAITED RAZER CORTEX PC 10. NOW AVAILABLE FOR BETA TESTING.

Hey Insiders,

We are pleased to announce the new and improved version of Razer Cortex PC, and we want you to be the first to take part in our beta program!



Razer Cortex PC 10 will feature a fresh new UI as well as even more features to enhance your gaming experience.

How to get Razer Cortex PC 10 on your Windows PC 10 & 11:


*Get Cortex PC 10 beta access from your existing installation of Razer Cortex PC 9.18.

What's new?

Besides the revamped UI, we have some new exciting features that will level up your game.

  • Updated look with easy to access tabs

    • Unified Game Library – Quickly launch your favorite games in one place

  • Connect to your favorite platforms to connect to your game library, track all your games and achievements

    • Game Platform Integrations – Connect to your favorite platforms like Steam, GOG, Origin, Ubisoft and Humble Bundle to view all your games and profiles on Cortex PC
    • View and Manage Game Data – View your game data from achievements, recent gameplay, game recommendations that matches your game type
    • In-Game Details – View and track FPS throughout your gameplay, with or without game boost enabled
    • Find Other Players – View other Cortex PC user's games and achievements who are playing the same games as you, join similar discord groups and play together

  • Enhanced PC information

    • My Rig – Now with even more details covering your rig’s individual components
    • FPS Overlay – Manage your FPS overlay with even more customizable options

  • Boosters

    • System and Game Booster – Both boosters have been redesigned and provide more content to be scanned, allowing you to have more control over what you to be enable or disable



Beta Feedback

We want you to have an enjoyable experience with Cortex PC 10 and would love your feedback on it!

We want to know what you think of the latest version of Cortex PC, do let us know if there are:

  • What you love and what you don’t about the new Cortex PC
  • Stuff that's not working or any bugs
  • Stuff that could be done better (don't forget to suggest how)
  • Stuff that looks odd or doesn't make sense to you
  • Crashes (try to explain what happened up to the moment the app crashed)


How to submit feedback:

Option 1 – On the Cortex PC app



If you’re reporting bugs, it would be great to include your log file for our team to investigate:



Option 2 – On Razer insider

Alternatively, you can also give us feedback on Razer Insider by posting your comment in this thread. Do check to see if a similar report to yours has been posted. If it has, reply to that thread instead. Let’s keep the thread tidy! The Cortex PC team will be keeping a watchful eye on your submissions and work on your feedback where possible.

Note:

Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress early beta build that we’ll continue to improve before the public launch of the software based off your feedback.

We at Razer appreciate your support and participation in this beta. Your feedback is important to us as with your help, we believe that this update will provide a much-improved user experience for all users.

We look forward to your feedback!

The Razer Cortex PC team
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dekades
Userlevel 7
If you don't have Razer Cortex already installed, download it here!
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vaskivskyi
Userlevel 7
Will beta-testers get any rewards? :rolleyes:
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very nice, i hope there wont any bugs
S
when i use the "speed up" optimizer in the new cortex beta my ctrl+shift+p shortcut in vscode stops working.
double checked by returning to windows default and it worked again.
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sergedawg
when i use the "speed up" optimizer in the new cortex beta my ctrl+shift+p shortcut in vscode stops working.
double checked by returning to windows default and it worked again.

turning off "adjust the keyboard's delayed response time" did not solve issue.

turns out that the FPS TIMER Reset 'hotkey' binding was also ctrl+shift+p.
changing that to a different hot key fixed the issue
FiszPL
Rank
Userlevel 7
vaskivskyi
Will beta-testers get any rewards? :rolleyes:

Min's handshake 😃
J
i cant see the fps overlay idk if its a hotkey or something but i already tried a lot of things
T
Not support Windows 10 Xbox game bar

In Xbox game bar, Razer cortex always connecting
V
I like the new design - it's AMAZING. But (there's always a but) there are a few bugs:
1. For some reason the launcher doesn't want to launch Forza Horizon 5
2. The Chroma connect breaks my peripherals' RGB (it's stuck on one phase - look at the photo I've attached)
there are probably many more that I'll find but I just installed the launcher
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Wonderful new design. However, it does not open the FPS overlay in some games like Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead 2 (Online) And kaspersky antivirus reported an adware and uninstalled
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Arthurmaced0
Wonderful new design. However, it does not open the FPS overlay in some games like Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead 2 (Online) And kaspersky antivirus reported an adware and uninstalled

What Kaspersky are you using? I use Kaspersky too and it hasn't made any problems with the Cortex Beta so far...
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Viperinka
What Kaspersky are you using? I use Kaspersky too and it hasn't made any problems with the Cortex Beta so far...
Kaspersky Security Cloud Personal
AlphaTay
Userlevel 7
Download Link

https://razerdrivers.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/drivers/GameBooster/RazerCortex10beta.exe
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I just noticed that the FPS is showing duplicate in some games like GTA V
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This is a good update, but yeah i found some bugs
on this tab there was supposed to be games that is supported, but none of them are here. Help me
Michelle-RazerCortexPC
Userlevel 7
Infernos_7
This is a good update, but yeah i found some bugs
on this tab there was supposed to be games that is supported, but none of them are here. Help me

Hey there!

Thank you very much for bringing this issue to us here. My name is Michelle from the Razer Cortex PC technical support team. I will be very happy to assist you with your issue.

Here could you please provide us with your Cortex logs for us to further investigate this issue? Here is a simple guide for you to collect and upload your logs: https://mysupport.razer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1685

To protect your privacy, please feel free to PM me your logs.

We look forward to your reply!

Michelle
Michelle-RazerCortexPC
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JeremiasVA
i cant see the fps overlay idk if its a hotkey or something but i already tried a lot of things

Viperinka
I like the new design - it's AMAZING. But (there's always a but) there are a few bugs:
1. For some reason the launcher doesn't want to launch Forza Horizon 5
2. The Chroma connect breaks my peripherals' RGB (it's stuck on one phase - look at the photo I've attached)
there are probably many more that I'll find but I just installed the launcher

Arthurmaced0
Wonderful new design. However, it does not open the FPS overlay in some games like Forza Horizon 5, and Red Dead 2 (Online) And kaspersky antivirus reported an adware and uninstalled


Hey @JeremiasVA @Viperinka @Arthurmaced0 ,

Thank you very much for taking part in our beta program and thank you for bringing this issue to us. My name is Michelle from the Razer Cortex PC technical support team. I will be delighted to assist you with your issue.

Before we start, could you please PM us your Cortex logs for us to further investigate this issue?

Here is a guide for collecting and uploading your Cortex logs:
https://mysupport.razer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1685

We apologize for any inconvenience this issue has caused you. Thank you again for helping us resolve these issues.

We look forward to your reply.

Best regards,
Michelle
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Great update! Only exception that the software itself is eating up too much of my CPU when playing a game :slightly_sad:
Michelle-RazerCortexPC
Userlevel 7
OopsWeegeepie
Great update! Only exception that the software itself is eating up too much of my CPU when playing a game :slightly_sad:

Hey there!

We appreciate your participation in our beta program and thank you for bringing your feedback to us. My name is Michelle from the Razer Cortex technical support team. I will be very happy to help you with your issue.

Here could you please kindly provide us with the information below?

  • Could you please screenshot your task manager and let us know more details on how much CPU Razer Cortex is used on your PC?
  • Could you please let us know more details on your rig? To do so, please go to SYSTEM BOOSTER > MY RIG > OVERVIEW, and screenshot the page.
  • Could you please provide us with your Cortex logs for us to further investigate this issue? Here is a simple guide https://mysupport.razer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1685. To protect your privacy, please PM me your logs.
  • Could you please let us know which game you were playing?

Thank you again for your assistance. We look forward to your reply soon.

Best regards,
Michelle
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It didn't have turn on/of fps counter's hotkey.
W
This update is really cool. I always thought not having some sort of universal library in cortex was a missed opportunity. But it is missing some imo important features that make it less appealing then for example gog galaxy.


  • Some non-platform games can be manually added but their titles are always fixed to the title header in the executable:
    Here, "Anomaly Launcher" is the launcher for STALKER Anomaly, "d1x-rebirth" is Descent 1 rebirth and "Zandronum" is in my particular case the launcher for Doom 64. Please allow us to actually edit the titles.
  • Unlike other platforms, no game stats can be displayed in grid mode (see screenshot above). It would be cool if I could choose to display my game time or achievement completion below each game. Under the game images, there's still plenty of space to display such an information.
  • Apparently I have no option to hide certain games.

    This screenshot shows a demo and a joke game that I own automatically for owning the actual full games on steam. I want to hide them such that they are also not counted in my library, but there is no option to do that.

  • This one is not a game but some sort of movie on steam that every account gets for free:
    It counts towards my games but I do not want a movie to be counted as a game.
  • Some games have no image:

    In my library, games without image are:
    Final Doom, Agony UNRATED, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus (on GOG you get two versions, this is the uncensored one), Ultima Underworld I, The Elder Scrolls: Chapter II - Daggerfall, Portal Reloaded.
    All of these titles are either on Steam or GOG and should hence also have an image in Cortex.
  • I like this list on the side of my library.

    But there should be some option to custimise it. For example, I do not need the information of how many games I have on Steam/GOG. I'd rather have my tags listed here.
  • The summary windows is awesome so far but it seems that the statistics from gog galaxy are not carried over. It would be nice to have the option to display how many achievements I earned last week and how much time I spent yesterday on a game and so on.
    EDIT: I just noticed that some stats are only recorded when starting the game from Cortex. If I do, it will actually display my progress. Still it is a bit lame to loose my stats from gog galaxy as they are not carried over.

I hope my points don't come over as nitpicking, I honestly like the new update and want it to become superior than other alternatives. I will still use gog galaxy but I'll keep an eye on the development of Cortex ^.~
B
thats cool great update thanks for every things
W
There're two more things I just noticed:

  • Games that are not installed cannot be edited in any way or form. It would be great if the edit menu would be allowed regardless of the installed status, especially since it allows us to add tags or nicknames for easier search.
  • There is no option to add a sorting title in the options. Some games' sequels have titles that cause any alphabetical sorting to list them badly, for example Borderlands 1, 2 & 3 and The Prequel. In this particular case, the latter should be first but due to the sorting rules numbers go first. Similarly for Doom, where Final Doom is the 3rd installment, and Doom 3 is the 5ths, etc. Cortex however will list Doom 2016 first, before Doom 2 and Final Doom is listed somewhere around the letter F.
R
I have an issue with the hotkeys, auto adding ctrl+shift and having no way to just have a key is very annoying as i can't have a function fey for boosting etc
J
Surf Shark VPN will not function after cortex has been used and goes back to normal PC mode after using cortex, forcing a restart of my PC to make my VPN work again.
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