Posts by jackophant

Is it just me or does anyone else absolutely love the Phoenix Compound coop mission?

I love this type of thing! Reminds me of trying to complete mercenaries in Resident Evil

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1. It does BSOD'S like unexpected_store_exception or critical_process_died. It then reboot, but cannot do it because it doesn't find any boot device. It starts working again like 15-30min later and begins by being really slow.
2. it can last about 2 years or more?
3. Will do! But 500€ doesn't seem much to buy a computer and a monitor though?

1. Googling unexpected_store_exception seems to suggest reinstalling windows will fix it.
2. It will easily last more than 2 years. They can last up to 10 years depending on usage.
3. €500 is good for a PC build excluding monitor.

Quote from laminutederire

1. after BSOD'S it doesn't restart right away because it doesn't recognize the HDD anymore (no boot device found).
2. I have 6GB of ram available (8 in total, windows reserving 2GB apparently).
3. I heard SSD had a very limited lifetime, is that true?
4. The upgrade would be to go from the laptop to the desktop PC.

1. Is "no boot device found" the boot error you get? I find it strange that it then suddenly recognises it. Sudden loss of power can be pretty bad for Windows. What is the BSOD error code you get? That is the best place to start any BSOD investigation.
2. Yeah that's fine, don't worry about upgrading that then, but you do need to check to make sure it's sitting properly in the slots. You may have to screw the bottom panel off, RAM is usually easy to reach. If you're uncomfortable doing it, maybe try finding a YouTube tutorial for someone changing RAM in your specific device, but anything will do. It's pretty straight forward, just don't get it wet, drop it, or rub your fingers all over it and make sure you're grounded before touching it.
3. When SSDs first came out they had shorter life spans than their spinning relatives. But their MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) has increased as well as the number of read/write cycles it can make before dying, meaning only a server operator might have to worry if at all.
4. Ah, I misunderstood. So you want a new desktop PC for about €500. I'll happily throw something together for you when you know you've got the money

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Hambhurghers

Thought this was a Pink Panther quote at first glance:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6oeAdemFZw (why isn't this embedding? :()

@Wrakk Mid's looking great, but I still think you need to shorten it and then you might not feel like the trees would be necessary (at least centrally). Obscuring a player's vision like that, even with these narrow trees can throw people off, especially as they don't serve a functional purpose.

Similarly to the lampost at the bottom of mid on inferno, you'd want people cursing their own lack of aim rather than a model/prop that is stopping them from making a kill.

I'm kind of having same problem as @MaanMan, but my shadows cast on the floor are solid black. If they carry on over to a wall, that shadow is fine. I also have odd light reflections on walls and anywhere a light source is, the weird, black, inky shadow disappears.

This has been replicated on @Vaya's machine as well, using his originally non-problematic compile settings:

http://imgur.com/a/dahc0

Quote from laminutederire

My issue is either that my HDD is failing or there is a weird contact at the HDD port, since it randomly crashes after I move my laptop, but almost never crashes when I leave it in a state where it doesn't move. I'll have someone come over to help the diagnosis, especially to test the HDD more thoroughly. (When it is recognized by my laptop, standard HDD test are passed successfully).

I have a 2 and half year old HP laptop, and i5 (I'll have to recheck which one) and an AMD 7600M series (which are now unsupported for new Amd driver because they are changing their gpu architecture). I will hopefully end up with a 500€ budget this summer and I have already everything for a desktop computer except the monitor.

You say almost never crashes when left stationary... Hardrives are pretty robust so unless it's a faulty unit, a drop hard enough to break a hard drive would probably do a lot more obvious damage to other components. RAM can come unseated pretty easily, especially in laptops, so if that's wobbling around in a slot it could definitely cause crashing issues.

Speaking of which, has the laptop been dropped? Provided the laptop can be fixed, purchasing an SSD would be a good way to make it feel more modern and fast, and squeeze a few more years out of it. Maybe change your RAM to allow for more if it's an area your PC lacks. I would guess it's 4GB now? Upgrading to 8GB could be worthwhile and is relatively inexpensive.

So what does that leave you upgrading? You have a desktop computer, but no monitor? So would you be spending 500€ on a screen?

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I have a few problems with my current computer. For instance it fails to do some common things without underclocking by about 75%. Its an AMD A8 6600k and I encountered the same error over the past month. Pretty much I use both shut down & sleep mode for alot of things. When I turn my computer on sometimes it get a black screen and nothing happens. I have to force-restart my computer many times before it actually gets working. Im not sure if its to do with the CPU or not, but otherwise I would like to upgrade my current CPU. Current computer: AMD A8-6600K Geforce GTX 960. I have somewhat budget of around £200 to upgrade and im not sure what to get

Hiya, how do you mean it fails to do common things? When you say you get a black screen, does the monitor register that it's connected or does it time-out and go into standby?

i'm not sure what you want to upgrade, but £200 isn't much. Your CPU is only a couple of years old and seems more than adequate for today's titles. Your graphics card can only be a few months old, but isn't particularly powerful, but again, more than adequate for most things as long as the graphics are low enough.

How old is the rest of your system? I would guess it's a similar age to the CPU which puts it at around 3 years old. Not much should go wrong in 3 years, but often the first part to go is the power supply (PSU) which could explain your difficulty to turn the computer on. It can also flake out and cause a crash if your CPU ramps up and draws too much power than it is able to handle.

With £200 and the current state and age of your machine I would look at replacing your PSU and maybe purchasing an SSD hard drive which breaths life into the oldest most decrepit computers (a lot of what "slows computers down" is cruddy old slow spinning hard drives).

If you could get back to me with some more specifically described behaviours we can progress from there

did a compile last night. My props were OK, but all my shadows were a weird harsh inky black.

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map is progressing steadily; I have also implemented many Half-Life Easter eggs across the map with more to come (looking at you @jackophant :D)

Oooooh, do we get a list?

I was thinking you could have a bombtrigger as well: after the bomb explosion you could have the typical klaxon sound they use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAqnrpDwaCM

When can we play this?

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Trumbo

Bryan Cranston is just brilliant

That looks really good! Not something I'd typically pursue, but I want to see this. Fantastic cast as well.

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Hi, thanks for that, i will improve the light.

Edit: Anyway how im improve it while if its near wall? The light just looks too bright.

By the look of it you are just use "light" entities. Try mixing them with "light_spot" entities which project light in a direction and not in an area around them.

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1 to 16 seems to make the most sense to me, since you can prioritise all of them in order.

Pretty late to dig this up but seeing as this the thread has already been revived maybe someone down the line will benefit:

An element of some maps is to have "random spawns" like Dust2 which give different weighted timings to each site for variety. You can assign multiple spawns the same value so they are equally weighted. Set a basic group of spawns at value 1 for up to 10v10 and any spawns beyond that as 2 so some spawns are only activated when there are a large number of people on the server and still don't get cluttered.

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Yeah but some of us toasters dropped from 120+ fps on old nuke to 40-60 fps on newke, either way it's a really beautiful map.

that's where Source 2 should help. Right now source doesn't utilise multiple cores properly, if at all (I'm not sure what the support is). However, Source 2 will utilise all cores you throw at it so the days of Intel's superior "per core performance" gaming CPUs would be numbered and a lot of the cheaper multi-core AMD CPUs will handle games much better.

Quote from laminutederire

amd hardware isn't supported apparently

It's specifically the shader setting. Don't go above medium and you should be fine.

We're already talking about this in the CSGO topic

But regarding your question, it literally just means that the grass is now easier for your computer to render, so you can now have more of them without hindering your performance.

@Sprony could we please merge this into the CSGO topic?

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Mikla may seem weird when you're running around it but I think it's super intuitive in a match. I'm enjoying all the maps just now (even nuke which has had all it's edges smoothed.

my problem with this is now ANY T team can roll right over yard like a tidal wave. What does a CT hold when the terrorists can come from like 2-3 different levels? The map may well go from super CT sided to super T sided.

It wasn't that hard for Ts to access yard with a couple of smokes, and that wont change. A lot of people opted for boosting on to container anyway.

The only issue I see is the ease of being able to get to heaven as a T, but heaven has always been a very powerful position so I think it should help, as by the look of it, Ts can boost up outside mini to gain access to that if they didn't use the container and don't want to expose themselves by running towards hell to get up to heaven.

#STRATSYO

Anyway, congratulations to all the mapcorians in the operation!

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to be fair the girl stresses because she wants a future with me and I'm not ready. And she is supportive for my career aspirations…

May I ask what you aren't ready for? Or is it more your financial situation than mindset? From what's been discussed it sounds like you've been stuck in a pretty sucky job.

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Crimson Peak - Standard story but beautiful cinematography

I was really underwhelmed by crimson peak. I felt the setting of the building had so much to give, of this giant mansion we saw 3-4 rooms?

But typically Hollywood: looooooong build up, action over in 5 minutes then film over.

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Great episode, was nice to see some action!

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I was so hoping for the RPG, but when they led Daryl off and they disarmed them I started to count it out. So glad to see them rain down in a red shower though!

So glad to see that lady's eldest shitty son run through by Michonne though, the number of times he tried to kill Carl...

Really interested to see where it goes from here. My money is on Negan not even letting them breath and will find them while investigating the loss of his biker gang, probably from the huge inferno they ignited in the pond.

There I was thinking Metallica made that song, although it makes a lot of sense now...

Have to say I prefer their version, pls no hate.

I've been listening to Electro Swing group Caravan Palace's latest album "Robot Face", it

Lone Digger, first track on the album to set the mood: