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Alienware Alien FX message
For the last few days, every time I boot my Airea 51 ALX I get the following message:
"AlienFX will not monitor events and will only desplay the Default event on your system. However AlienFX will display 3rd party lighting effects.
To enable events monitoring click Enable Alienware AlienFX Events".
Other than months ago setting a different colour for the PC and the Mouse, I have never done/programmed anything in AlienFX. Only now have I even opened it again in order to find a solution.
I found on a hidden icon "Alienware AlienFX (Disabled mode)" on the Taskbar. Rightclicking this Icon opens the Alienware AlienFX Editor with the following lines Go Dark - Quick Change - Enable 3rd party Alien FX Access (which has a tickmark).and Exit, but nowhere could I find any help or tutorials for "Enable Alienware Alien FX Events". Advanced Settings have never been used [probably the reason the Icon states (Disabled mode)].
Removing the tickmark from the "Enable 3rd party....." line has no effect, the notification still appears upon reboot, thus I put it back.. Looking into the Event Viewer I couldn't see anything there either. (N.B. On Oct 30 I applied a few Windows updates, but believe this message did not start right after those updates but two days later. Not certain though.)
Rick Dewas in your comment on the update to the latest CC version (I am still using 2.6.1.0 - maybe I need to update now after all) "After boot, I then use the fix I found to get "events" to work." Did you have the same problem I am only now experience? If so what is the fix you found?
Rick can you or anyone put me into the right direction to get rid of this notification?
tigerwolf7
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March 28th, 2013 09:00
Geez, I've only had my M17x-R4 3 days and ran into this. Guess it's not just a Windows 8 thing.
All my lights went out, and I noticed the icon said disabled. Flipping "go dark" and "go light" fixed it (for now).
Unfortunately that's not the only weirdness I've run across...also had my main display (an external monitor) be on, but just display black after getting back to my system after I've been gone a few minutes. Had to disable the external monitor and reenable it for it to work again (or reboot). Also had the thing appear completely locked up, only to come back to life with control alt delete-like the OS wasn't actually crashed at all, but something made it look that way. I'm not sure what to think...mostly the system is great, but...
mcgroarty
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January 16th, 2016 10:00
Thanks for the solution. It's 2016 and this is still an issue.
As best I can tell, the issue is caused when some games play with the case lighting. Bro Force is a good example. Each time one plays, that message will pop up after each restart until toggling to dark and light again.
Alienware's software really ought to revert to the previous setting when the third party app exits, or it should at least revert to the last user choice on next reboot. It makes the third party case light API feature more of a liability than a pleasure.
Siddartha Shafi
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January 23rd, 2016 11:00
Right click on the Alienware AlienFX icon and choose Go Dark. Go back there again and then choose Go Light.
Worked for me; give it a try.