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Ive played an older version of this, Hacker Evolution. Its a pretty watered down version of actual hacking, same principles and theories of hacking, just eased up to make it fun. If any of you know how to do some actual proper hacking you'll find this kinda boring. That's just my opinion though. There's a 30min trial or something like that from trymedia/trygames, only a few meg big so give it a try if you guys want to know what its about.

O.o .... uh none of the games featured in the video are by Ubisoft. If you're talking about the 3 game footage in, that is Star Trek: Elite Force 2 done by Ritual Entertainment and Activision. The hell is a SIM? Since when has videos been using mobile phone technology? :P

Heyoooo Sup guys, I'm here cos I wanted to get some opinions about our trailer. Austfailure is a set of videos that me and a mate of mine have been working on for a bit that focuses on the mayhem that ensue when you have two Australian guys try to play a coop game. So far we have quiet a bit of footage, and we are currently on the editing side of things. So I threw together a quick trailer to give you guys a bit of a taste of what it's about. I'm also posting this because I would like some feedback on what you think. What do you like, what don't you like, what could use some improvements, suggestions etc. The trailer can be viewed here: I look forward to seeing what you all think. Cheers

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Not bad ideas. I wouldn't of minded giving them a go but yet again, its a bit late. Ive already reinstalled. That and I have no money to buy a shuttle anyway XD This time I'm going to document things I install to the time this (if it does) starts flashing again. See what happens.

First thing I did when I thought it was that update, uninstalling didnt help but by then the damage was probably already done?.....probably not. And blender isnt installed, its just a stand alone exe. When I reinstalled Seven I then installed all the necessary apps and such. The only thing that I installed when this all started again was Foxit Reader and that windows update. We can go drastic and reinstall Seven again, then document everything that happens till we have the issue again. Oh and this laptop used to have vista on it, Upgraded to XP then finally Upgraded again to Seven. So having a machine built for Vista; It'll Seven fine.

If I knew I would of told you already. As far as I can tell, all this started happening after a windows update (KB976264) but this could just be coincidental. Any windowed application that requires constant updating will flicker, but enter fullscreen mode and all's fine. Even now, I'm using win VGA drivers atm (working with 800x600 res yay....-,-) and I was just about to start up blender to test once again if its still doing it. I opened up explorer and double clicked on the blender folder and it flashed. Didnt open the folder. Similar thing happens in blender3d 2.5, when I try to click on anything blender will flash. It seems to be more common with applications that use graphics perhaps? Say Chrome playing flash, VBAdvance and Torchlight. Anything in a window, but again, moment I have it fullscreen....No more flashing. (And please dont point out that torchlight and blender use 3d so it "has to be your video card!" not true, right now I have the old skool win 2k theme. You know with the grey start bar? And its still flashing god damn it! </rant>) Already been done dude, like in the first page. Ineffective. Anyway to sum up. I can pretty much GUARANTEE that this is not a video card problem. All the evidence so far says its something else.

Hey I just discovered something reeeally important. It even further confirms my suspicion that this is a windows fault and not a hardware/driver issue. Windows are no longer flashing black, but they do disappear. Long enough for the windows taskbar to register that the app has closed or something so the icon fades out like it does when you close an app. Also this NEVER happens to applications that are fullscreen. Blender3d 2.5 is one of the biggest contributors to flashing, but setting it to fullscreen mode makes it run properly. *shock* can it be..... Have I found a fault with Windows Seven?!?! D= Save the children! Pray to god for forgiveness! Lock your doors! Run for the nuclear shelters! NO ONE IS SAFE! Seriously though, official manufacture drivers for my video card have no effect, and this resent discovery is fairly suspect.

Heat damage.....Could be possible. This machine has a history of overheating quiet easily. Which reminds me, I need to give it another air blast. About...uh..year and a half ago? I had this laptop sent back to the manufacture because it was having serious overheating issues. They replaced the mobo, vid card and cleaned it out. So its possible that it's happened again....

Yeah I get why and im not against it or anything. Though I am skeptical that this will work. If non ati driver (the MS VGA driver ive mentioned like 3 times now :P) yields the same problem, then I doubt that it's a video card issue at all, hardware or driver. But to continue ruling out more and more stuff will eventually narrow down choices.

I fully understand that linux drivers are completely different, on reflection I probably shouldnt of said that it could of been a driver issue for linux. Though! I do believe that if in the case that it is a hardware problem something noticeable would of happened in linux as well. Which we have pretty much ruled out. Finally got a reply on the microsoft website too, and their suggestion is the same: try not rely on MS WU. If this is the case then this would be the only place WU has failed me, but concidering that this is video adapter driver, you can't expect WU to be fully ontop of their game here. However, going back to previously mentioned point. Windows VGA driver has the same problem. I will however humor you guys and try the official vista driver for this machine anyway cos it's the one solution I've neglected to try. Will let you know how that goes shortly Thanks for your input too guys. Much appreciated.

Can't change my refresh to anything other then 60Hz, also Seven found the ATI driver and installed it for me (its always been that way) and it didnt get any control center. So I dont have access to any driver options. Besides, if this were a driver/hardware issue; wouldnt a similar problem be happening on the linux side?

It's a laptop dude. Mobility Radeon 2600HD, and I dont have any visual problems in games or on linux. Actually thinking about this, I've neglected to mention that games and full blown 3d apps (minus blender3d that still flickers on me) never flash.

So guess what..... About 10 days later after I did a fresh install, it started happening again. Can you sense the RAGE in the air? So far the steps I've taking to find what's causing this: event viewer sfc chkdsk clean boot safe mode restore point to time before this started happening Fresh install Nothing stops it or detects what's happening. Also the wonderful people at answers.microsoft.com have....said nothing. Wont help or can't help. Yay go microsoft. blarg

lol too late. Already reinstalled. Took over 4 hours to repartition my drives =O If you read the entirety of this thread you might of seen that its unlikely to be a hardware problem anyway. Linux distro on other partition has no problems so - Hardware issues ruled out. Yeah its a legit copy (for once...<.<..you didnt hear that) So seeing as I'm using it right now and everything is back to normal. One would assume its windows core faults. Well anyway I hate reinstalling to fix problems, but I guess with good old windows its pretty much impossible to avoid. Was a little surprised I had to do it so soon with windows Seven.....the plot thickens dun dun duuuuuun.