APM Recorder
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| APM Recorder |
APM (Actions Per Minute) is a measurement of how many keyboard keypresses or mouse clicks a player does in one minute in a real time strategy game. This can be used to measure a player's experience level in an RTS game.
If you've ever used a program BWChart for recording APM in Starcraft you probably know what APM is.
Well, there was never such a thing for OP2 -- until now!
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Download
apmrecord.zip (http://www.outpost-universe.net/files/apmrecord.zip) (48KB)
Install
After downloading, unzip the files and run APMSetup.bat before running the EXE! Otherwise you'll get a runtime error!
Runing
This recorder, starting from when you press the Scroll Lock key on your keyboard, will record all your keyboard and mouse button presses into a log and measure how many you do in a minute (your APM).
To use simply run the program, set all the options you would like, and start OP2.
As soon as the game begins in op2 press your Scroll Lock key to begin recording your mouse and keyboard actions. If you have the APM Bar enable just move the bar by dragging it with your mouse to where you want to see it and release. (All settings are saved in an INI file so you only have to set them once).
Play your op2 game as normal. The APM recorder will record what you do.
When you finish playing, press Scroll Lock again to turn off the logging. Go back to the APM recorder window and you can see a log of your actions, including your overall average, max, and min APMs. The log can be saved to a .txt file with the Save button.
To view your APM graph, press Show Graph. You can save a picture of the graph in the menu at the top of this window.
Notes
- Note that you can use this program with any software you want, it should work on all Windows version 95 and above.
- Note that this program is probably still a little buggy. If it crashes for you during play or any other time, give me as much details about the crash that you can. (If you could get the log contents or graph that'd be nice too).
If the program crashes and the active window starts acting funny (eg, flashing, doing stuff you don't want it to) press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and task manager will pop up to let you kill the APM recorder.
Links
Forum Thread (http://forum.outpost-universe.net/index.php?showtopic=1832)
APM Recorder Credits
| Project leader: | op2hacker |
| Programmer: | op2hacker |
| Beta Testers: | op2hacker, Leviathan |
Project updates
01/07/2005
Released APM Recorder V1.00.
Released APM Recorder V1.01. Fixed a couple things:
- The Maximum APM entry in the log would have the wrong game timestamp on it, it now shows the correct timestamp. (Would always say 00:05)
- Added an entry to the log which tells the total time the program has been recording.
- Increased the APM range (Y axis) of the graph to almost 300
- The Clear Log button deletes all data (clears the info below the list, and flushes its internal list of data) instead of just clearing the list.
- The Graph Save function allowed you to select both JPEG and BMP, however a BMP would be saved with a .JPG extension, so .JPG was removed from the list. Also, it will automaticaly put .BMP on the end if you forget (before it saved a file with no extension)
