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#61
Requests / Re: BF2 Kashyyyk
September 08, 2009, 12:23:40 PM
yeah the snails are a hover type vehicle and in water hover floats

#62
what's R do?

also, on my scroll wheel it's wide enough that I just slide my finger to the side to spin it
#63
I keep my index and ring finger on D and A respectively, with my middle switching between W and S, so standard WSAD for me
Scroll up for primary weap change
Scroll down for secondary weapon change
Thumb on space for jump
pinkey on zoom and tab when needed
and of course mouse for trigger

Whenever I need to execute an XFire command I usually use pinkey-thumb since I do stuff like Shift-P on the opposite shift than I usually use
#64
SWBF 1 and 2 Tournaments / Re: Platform Wars Redux- War 2
September 07, 2009, 08:39:42 PM
lol this time you forgot Jedikiller
#65
Tech Support / Re: Civ3
September 07, 2009, 05:51:45 PM
Basically with computer numbers when it gets to some really big number (65535 or 4294967295 or something else depending on the computer), the next time it increases it rolls back to 0 and starts counting up again (or worse it goes negative). Now, when a program checks that there is enough memory, it requests the amount of RAM from the OS, which is returned in (I believe) Kilobytes. If the number returned by the OS is too big but within a certain amount too big, the amount of RAM the program thinks is there will be very small (or negative if the programmer is an idiot), and the program will fail

The swapfile is a special file on the computer where the OS pulls stuff out of RAM and stores there to conserve RAM space. That is factored into the RAM number returned from the system, so changing the swapfile size can fix the problem

Go google "Change swapfile size mac" to find out what to do
#66
Tech Support / Re: Civ3
September 07, 2009, 05:39:25 PM
Is this mac or win?

This sounds like a ram calculation error. A few older games have a problem where the amount of ram in the computer is so big that the size counter rolls back to 0 (unsigned ints for you programmers). Basically if you adjust the swapfile size a few megs it should fix itself. If it's windows I can give you exact instructions
#67
SWBF 1 and 2 Tournaments / Re: Platform Wars Redux- War 2
September 06, 2009, 10:06:42 AM
Rex, I'm fine with keeping the teams normal but not even if they are a reasonable size, but the number right now is outrageous. 4v10 is not happening for me
#68
Other Games / Re: SWBF IV Concept Art?
September 05, 2009, 05:28:15 PM
Interesting...but it is concept art so what the game actually renders would be very different
#69
Tech Support / Re: Disk
August 25, 2009, 07:20:35 AM
that article is useless since he can't boot the computer. Is this a MacBook or a iMac or a Mac Pro or mini or what?

One of the main things to look for is a small hole near the CD/DVD drive. If you insert a paper clip into that the disk will be manually ejected (no power required). If you don't have that hole (most macs don't), try to find a screwdriver that works with the screws on the mac. This will, of course, void your warranty. If you look around for the drive internals (I don't know what the inside of a mac is like), you might be able to open up the drive and pull the disk out.

If you can't do that, best bet is to take it to an apple store
#70
Tech Support / Re: Potential virus in system (Solved)
August 25, 2009, 07:14:23 AM
Yeah I got a similar thing. I was checking e-mail and a box popped up when I closed saying a virus was detected and I need a free scan, and all options led to scan. It was, however, obviously fake when it listed only one hard drive on a 4-disk computer :P

Safest thing to do is just terminate your browser straight-away and not even use the close button. I've seen web viruses that simulate a real window but the entire top bar is a link. What you need to know is that although it may look like a program launching windows, it is only a JavaScript that pops up the new window on close, and unless you download anything or install plugins, there is no real virus on your computer
#71
Tech Support / Re: Broken laptop
August 22, 2009, 08:50:05 PM
lol that kind of thing happens all the time to me :P. It's like electronics work when I touch them :rofl:
#72
SWBF1 Modding / SWBF hashes
August 22, 2009, 12:30:53 PM
I've been looking at the format of post-munge files in SWBF in the hope of eventually building a true decompiler. The one thing I can't figure out, though, is how SWBF encodes property names. In all of the formats I've looked at, I find the same thing. 4-byte codes of what the property is, but no dictionary for what each code stands for. I know they can't be hard-coded because 1) after hex-searching the munge executables I find no trace of a dictionary, and 2) on some of these, the codes can't be pre-set (like on localization files where anybody can set the names to anything)

So, that means there must be some sort of code that defines this hash (it must be that since it is always 4 bytes). What I need now is help to figure out how these hashes are generated.
#73
Tech Support / Re: Broken laptop
August 22, 2009, 11:38:26 AM
does the keyboard work?
#74
100% joke for me, but

Jet trooper with:
Missle rifle
Auto-regen health
Force choke
Single-pixel body (yes it is possible)
#75
Pff, you macs can't even tell what side of the missle launcher points at the enemy

PCs FOREVER!!!!!!!