Posts Tagged ‘crash’

The best game yet: Fallout 3

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I’ve been playing lots of Fallout 3 lately (sorry Far Cry 2), and it’s one of the best goddamn games I’ve ever laid my greasy little fingers on.

fallout 3

The graphics are great, the locations and atmosphere are brilliant, the stories are excellent, humor and gameplay are both godly, and the music is the best video game music ever (right up there with eve online).

The game itself takes place in a post apocalyptic Washington DC, where you survived in a underground vault before finally going outside on a epic quest with your pockets full of weapons and ant meat.

Troubles in paradise
I had some problems with the game crashing to desktop quite often, and it grew worse the more I played. I tried a suggested remedy in making some codecs (fddshow I think it was) ignore the game. This only made it worse as it turned the “crash to desktop” into “crash the graphics driver and require a hard reboot”.

I turned off AA (Antialiasing) and HDR (cant say I noticed much difference really:)) and now it seems to be working fine.. Hope there will be a patch to fix it soon, as the 1.0.15 patch did not do much about this problem.

Rating: 10 / 10

In Soviet Trondheim, road hits YOU!

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Hehe, I was just on my way to my first hour of motorcycle driving practice. I was driving my scooter, and I was driving reasonably slow, maybe  around 20-25 km/h (although, in hindsight.. I should PERHAPS have driven even slower) :)

Anyway, as I’m about to exit a roundabout, the rear wheel looses it’s grip and the scooter starts sliding sideways. oh, did I mention it was raining? well, it was and that roundabout was unbelievably slippery.

So there I was, sliding sideways knowing all to well what was about to happen, and as the crablike movement of the scooter slowed it down, the rear tire finally got a hold of the road again. This of course made the scooter throw me off like the angry little plastic pony it is.

Terrible traffic accident
“Artist” rendering of the accident.

So I flew trough the air about a meter or two, hit the road elbow first.  Luckily the Road broke my fall, and seeing that I was wearing a full motorcycle dress, I could just get up and drive on.

I actually seem to recall a tiny voice inside my head going “Wheeeee!” in mid air,

The results of this interesting experience is:

  • A small scratch on the helmet
  • A bruised elbow
  • A little less paint and plastic on the scooter
  • The deformation of the forward brake handle.

I feel a bit soar on the right elbow, hip, and upper chest, but otherwise I’m fine.. Sitting in the couch watching Macgyver like I’m supposed to, Just 2 more episodes left and I can start on season 4 :)

I hate computers

Friday, June 13th, 2008

Goddamn screen, or graphics card.. or both..

I had to connect my Samsung Syncmaster 225bw to the server so that I could change the ssh port back to normal (had changed ssh port, but did not change the firewall, so I was locked out from connecting to it).

The monitor has been connected to my desktop computer using DVI, but I had to connect it to the server using VGA. However when connecting the screen back to the desktop the screen would NOT work using DVI, it only worked in safemode.. I tried lots of crap, searched lots of forums but nothing there worked. In the end I had to boot in VGA mode (640×480) and remove and reinstall the nvidia drivers..

Now everything seems to work fine again, except I lost 1-2 hours of my life (and maybe a week indirectly by the stress, anguish and hatred towards monitors the event caused me).

SERENITY NOW!!!!

Crysis scare!

Friday, November 16th, 2007

I got my new computer set up now, with two XFX 8800GTS in SLI, and imagine my horror when Crysis refused to install:

Error 1335. The cabinet file ‘Object~1.cab’ required for
this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This
could indicate a network error, an error reading from
the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package

I tried installing it 3 times and then I gave up, asuming the DVD was damaged. I played Call of Duty 4 for a few hours (pretty neat campaign so far).
Then I tried googleling the error message and found out I’m not the only one who had this problem.

I tried the simplest of the solution first (disabling my AVG antivirus software) and hey presto, Crysis installed without problems :)

Supreme Commander

Monday, February 19th, 2007

I downloaded the demo and gave it a go, even tough I’ve never been much of the Total Annihilation series.

After turning the graphics to low and playing after around 30 minutes, the damned thing froze, jumped to windows with some weird message about a problem with the video driver. The screen changed to 640×480 and 16 colors.. I try to kill off the game still running in the background only to see the monitor going into power save mode.

Right now I’m pretty pissed as I was downloading a couple of files at the time, and had to reboot :(

In conclusion, since I’m not a big fan of this particular type of RTS games, don’t have the computer to run the game, don’t want to risk having to reboot again, I uninstalled the game and am now waiting for C&C 3 :)