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System Settings

The plumbing: startup behaviour, monitors, audio, the built-in browser, and where the app keeps your files. The panic key lives here too. Learn that one before you need it.

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System Settings

System settings window with the Multi Mon, Win Start, Vid Launch, Auto Run, Start Hidden, No Panic and Offline Mode toggles
The System window - startup behaviour, monitors, offline mode, and the Pick Folder / Assets shortcuts.

Open the System card on the Dashboard. Everything here is a switch, and every switch explains itself in the window.

Screens and video

Setting What it does
Multi Mon Use all your connected monitors, not just the main one. Off means everything stays on the primary screen
Fill all monitors with video Only matters with three or more screens. Gives every screen its own video, which costs a lot of performance. Off by default on big setups; one and two monitor setups always fill
Force video GPU decode Plays videos on the graphics card instead of the processor. Off by default, because it causes a white-screen bug on some PCs. Turn it on if video only appears on one screen, keeps hopping screens, or freezes when it starts
Blurred video background Fills the empty bars around a video that does not match your screen shape with a blurred copy of itself, the way phone apps do. Turn it off if you would rather have plain black bars
Browser video engine (beta) Plays videos through the built-in browser instead of the older player. More stable. Anything the browser cannot handle falls back to the old player automatically

Startup and safety

Setting What it does
Win Start Opens the app automatically when Windows starts
Vid Launch Plays a mandatory video the moment the app opens. Pick which one, or leave it random, in the Startup Video box just below
Auto Run Starts the engine on launch, without you pressing START
Start Hidden Opens minimised to the system tray
No Panic Turns the panic key off entirely. See the warning below before you touch this
Offline Mode Switches off every network feature: updates, AI, leaderboard, cloud sync, downloads. The app runs with no outside connections at all
Two things about Offline Mode

Before it will switch on, the app asks you for an offline name to use in place of your account. And it covers the app's own connections, not the built-in browser: if you browse the web in the browser pane, that is still you on the internet.

Your leaderboard name is not set here. It comes from your account, and you change it from the Profile side of the app.

The two buttons at the bottom

Pick Folder lets you point the app at a different folder for your content, if you would rather not keep it in the default place. Assets opens the assets folder in Windows Explorer.

Panic Key

System settings window scrolled down to the Escape button that rebinds the panic key
Scroll the System window to the bottom - the Escape button is where you change the panic key.

The panic key is your emergency stop. It is Escape until you change it, and it works even when the app is not the window you are looking at.

Action Result
Press once Stops the engine and silences everything
Press again within 2 seconds Closes the app

The second press only closes the app if the engine is already stopped, so in practice it is stop, then exit. Wait longer than two seconds between presses and the count resets, and you just get the stop.

Sometimes it takes one extra tap

A few things on screen catch the first press for themselves rather than passing it along: a mandatory video (the press pauses it), an open lock card, the settings palette, and a couple of the full-screen web experiences. If the first press did not do what you expected, press again. Nothing is swallowing it permanently.

Changing it

  1. Scroll to the bottom of the System window and click the key button, which shows whatever your panic key currently is
  2. Press the key you want. The button confirms with a tick
  3. That is it. The new key is saved straight away
No Panic turns off your emergency stop

With it on, the panic key does nothing at all. The only ways out are the Exit button and Task Manager (Ctrl+Shift+Esc). The app's own warning adds that combining this with Strict Lock is "VERY restrictive", and it makes you confirm twice before it will switch on. Do not use it until you have used the app enough to know exactly what you are agreeing to, and never leave it on going into something you might need to leave.

Audio Settings

These live on the Audio card on the Dashboard.

Setting Default What it does
Master 32% Overall volume for everything the app plays
Video 50% Volume for mandatory videos specifically
Duck (switch) On Turns other apps down while a video is playing
Duck (slider) 80% How far down. At 80%, other apps drop to a fifth of their volume
Don't duck browser On Leaves the app's own browser at full volume when ducking kicks in
Output System default Which speakers or headphones the app uses

How ducking works

  1. A video starts
  2. Windows turns every other app down by the Duck amount
  3. The video plays at its own volume
  4. When the video finishes, everything else goes back to where it was
Your volumes are not at risk

Ducking writes down what your other apps were set to before it touches anything, and puts them back afterwards. If the app is killed mid-video, the next launch reads that record and restores them. There is also a watchdog that undoes any ducking left hanging for more than five minutes.

Embedded Browser

There is a real browser inside the app, on the right of the Dashboard. It is Microsoft's WebView2, which is the same engine as Edge, so sites behave normally. It exists so the app can watch what you are doing and react to it without you having to leave.

Getting around

Control Action
URL bar Type an address, or a search
Back / Forward The usual
Home Back to the start page
Refresh Reload the page
Zoom

The pane is narrow, so pages open zoomed out to 50% to fit more in. Ctrl+scroll changes it, same as any browser.

Browser data

Cookies, cache and history go in a browser_data folder under your user data folder. Delete that folder while the app is closed to wipe everything the browser remembers, including any sites you are signed in to. Some features keep their own separate browser profiles alongside it, so you will see several folders with similar names.

Multi-Monitor Setup

Turn on Multi Mon in System settings and the app spreads itself across every screen you have. What that means depends on the feature:

  • Flash images pick a screen at random each time, so they move around rather than appearing everywhere at once
  • Videos fill every screen if you have one or two monitors. With three or more, they stay on the main screen unless you also switch on "Fill all monitors with video"
  • Overlays like the spiral and the pink filter cover all screens. Each of those can also be pinned to one specific screen in its own settings
  • Your companion avatar, once you drag her out of the main window, can sit on any screen you like. The app remembers where you left her
Gaming setup

Keep the game on one screen and the avatar and overlays on another. Run the game in borderless windowed mode, otherwise a true fullscreen game will sit on top of everything the app tries to draw.

Presets

A preset is a saved bundle of feature settings, so you can jump between moods without rebuilding everything by hand. They live on the Presets tab as a row of cards, five of which come with the app.

Using them

  1. Set everything up the way you want it
  2. Click the New Preset card at the end of the row and give it a name
  3. To use one later, click its card and then Load Preset
  4. Save writes your current settings over the selected preset. Delete removes it, and Export Preset saves it to a file you can share

The five presets that ship with the app cannot be deleted, but you can load one, adjust it, and save the result as your own.

Some ideas

Morning Light

Low intensity, occasional flashes, nothing that needs your attention

Gaming Mode

Background only, nothing that steals focus or covers the screen

Intense Session

High frequency, everything you have unlocked switched on

What a preset actually stores

The settings for the conditioning features: flash images, video, attention checks, subliminals, audio, and the unlockable features you have earned, plus your monitor and panic key choices. It does not store your XP, your level, or anything else about your progress, so loading a preset can never cost you progression.

Files & Data

Your files

Everything personal lives under %LOCALAPPDATA%\ConditioningControlPanel\. Paste that into File Explorer to get there.

File or folder What it is
settings.json All your preferences and your XP and level
settings.bak-1.json to bak-3.json Automatic daily backups of the above, up to three days back
assets\ Your images, videos and wallpapers
Spirals\ Your spiral overlay files
logs\ Diagnostic logs. Useful when reporting a bug
browser_data\ The built-in browser's cache and cookies

Sessions you build are the exception - those go to %APPDATA%\ConditioningControlPanel\CustomSessions\, in Roaming rather than Local.

Files that came with the app

The bundled audio and art sit in a Resources folder inside the install directory, not with your data. That includes Resources\sub_audio\ (the subliminal whispers) and Resources\sounds\ (several thousand bundled sound files: bubbles, companion voice lines, flash sounds and more). Leave these alone unless you are modding - see advanced_faq.txt.

Starting over

  1. Close the app
  2. Delete settings.json
  3. Delete the browser_data folder to clear the browser as well
  4. Start the app again
This resets your progress too

Your XP, your level and your unlocks are all stored in settings.json. Deleting it puts you back at Level 1 with 0 XP and everything relocked. If you only want to fix a bad setting, change that setting instead. If you do it by accident, one of the settings.bak-*.json files next to it is probably yesterday's copy - close the app, rename it over settings.json, and reopen.