Program Run Through:

Now that Game Jackal in installed you should see the following icon on your desktop.

Running the program for the first time will bring up the Tutorial Wizard.

The following warning message will then come up if you have a multi cored computer.

By going into the options later on the processor options can be changed. You can set the program up to use only one processor, both for different tasks or both together. Also you can specify programs to use both processors if supported by the game.

Now that Game Jackal has been launched you should see a new additional to your taskbar. This blue icon lets you know that Game Jackal is activated but minimised. When you run a game profile later on the black M in the box will fade and return letting you know that the program is active and running.

This is the main window of Game Jackal. Once you have created a game profile it will be found here so that you can launch your games.

The first thing to do is to check out the options from the Tools menu. Here you will be able to customise your experience.

The first screen is the General Settings one. Here you can change things such as saving your profiles to the My Documents folder for easy backup and to have your profiles quickly available to you via the taskbar menu amongst a few other things.

The second screen is the Interface Settings one. Here you can change how Game Jackal looks and helps you out.

To reduce CPU time you can turn off animations. For more experienced users you can turn off the balloon and dynamic hints windows.

Here you can also setup the display order for your profiles in the main window.

The other helpful tab is the Plug-ins one. Here you can add plug-ins that do certain things to games. As you can see the program comes with the Battlefield Performance Plug-in as standard.

Now to the important part of the program, the building of your profile. This can be done from the Tools menu and then Create a Profile.

The first screen you will see will ask you to pick your main CD or DVD drive. This should be the one that you use to play your games from.

To begin with make sure that there isn’t a disc in the drive.

If there was you will see the following message until you take it and continue.

Next you will be asked to pick a Profile Map. If your game is listed then use the Premade Profile as they should have been checked to work. All that you will need to do is to follow the one screen guide to build your profile.

If you game isn’t listed then you will need to select No Profile Map Selected from the menu. This will launch the program to build a new Profile Map.

Next you will be asked to name your profile. Once done you will be able to continue.

Here you will need to locate your games executable file. This is the file that launches the game. This isn’t the shortcut on your desktop or in your Start Menu.

The last screen should now come up asking you to insert your disk into the drive. Once you do this the program will automatically launch the game and start to build your profile.

Here the developers say that you should just play the game for as long as you can so that the program can gather everything that it needs to run the game next time without the disc in the drive.

You might see the following screen pop up. This is just letting you know that the program is active and that it has assumed control over your disc drive so that nothing can interfere with the profile building process.

Once you are done playing your game you can just exit normally from the game. The following screen will come up letting you know that Game Jackal has stopped building the profile from your game. Before this message comes up Game Jackal may do a quick read of your drive if it needs to gather some more information.

Lastly you should see the following message come up. This is just to let you know that Game Jackal has been deactivated and that it has returned access to your drives back to you.

If you now go back to your main menu you should see the profile that you have just created.

That’s about it for the program. There are quite a few other options that you can play with to get things working or to improve your experience but on the whole you shouldn’t need to use them as Game Jackal tries very hard to make the games work first time.

Multi Processor Support

You can use quite a few advanced options on your game by right clicking on your profile in the main window.

These include renaming your profile, removing it and starting the Guardian Control feature on it. 

Most of the useable options are under the Edit Profile menu.

Here you can change its name, icon, directory and also change the Advanced Options.

The Advanced Options menu is where you can tell the profile amongst other things to let the program use both processors if you want it to. This is only useful if the game can actually use them and if setup correctly.

The way to set it up is to setup a delay before letting the game use the second processor. This delay needs to be a few seconds longer than the start-up time of the game whist Game Jackal takes over the disc operations. Once everything is loaded then you can let the game have both processors. This will take a little bit of trial and error to get right.

That’s it for Multi Processors.

Installation

Guardian Control