Seph

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.

Oh boo, truth be told its only the steam content that I'm backing up. Important documents are always saved in multiple places, like the good little sys admin I am. Now as for the card....Bit hard to see if its in properly, this is a laptop ( *gasp* important point) Though through my research I have seen this mentioned before. Surely its not possible for a laptop's device to come loose?....right?...RIGHT?

Well like I said before even with just the vga drivers it does the same thing. You can't use visual effects with just the vga driver because they require hardware acceleration. Too make things even more "wtf?!" the flashes only happen inside the window. So window border remains unaffected. With or without visual effects Weird huh? lol it's all good. I probably should have an auto backup system cos I have a server with a 1TB drive plugged in, but I'm too lazy to even make it automated XD

*3 year old tantrum escalates* Huray....200gig of crap to backup *stats singing* I've got a lovely bunch of backups to do. diddlee dee dee There they are a choking up my drive Big ones, small ones, some as big as Zip disk Sigh I wanted to join todays lan party too. Yay for critical moment failures.

Well I'm too lazy to type everything out so I'm just going to c&p from the post I made in the win seven forums Hey guys, gonna need some real help with this one. Usually OS bugs are pretty easy to swat but this one is a new breed :\ Might as well ask the other problem while I'm here too lol The one that's been really annoying me is a windows manager bug. (at leased I think it is, correct me if im wrong) Annoyingly and uncontrollably any window that im working with - usually ones that have some sort of strong visuals like 3d will blink black. Its reeeeaaally playing havoc with my eyes. Initially I thought it was my ATI drivers playing up again (more on that later) but even with the standard vga driver adapter I will still get these flashes of black. Its only in the window content itself too. Honestly I have no idea where to start looking to repair this - less reinstall is my only option So yeah thats the big one I have to fix soon, so any help will be very thankful! The other problem I have while I'm here. Is that my ATI drivers will break on restart, then I have to keep reinstalling them. Only thing windows will tell me is Error code 37. More research doesnt say much else - Just reinstall drivers to fix problem. Its not very convenient to reinstall drivers every damn time you shutdown. Usually I just have the computer on standby anyway so shutdown doesnt happen that much and I can make do with this if you guys cant help. Thanks for your time. Take it easy - Seph Absolutely no replies to my thread on that forum o.O Is this like....a really impossible to solve bug? I duuuuunnnnnn waaaaanaaaaaaa reinstallllll!!! *3 year old tantrum*

Some awesome progress thar mate. Keep it up, cant wait to see how the finished product looks.

My ip is lol.lol.lol.XD and RDP port is open and forwarded. :P 2003 machine was a vbox testing server so i really didnt care. Like i said i didnt actually run the script on my host, i only check if your syntax was correct. Didnt actually add anything.

whoa whoa whoa man relax. It was just a joke. I'm aussie too man and i was just having a crack at people who ruin the day by doing that shit. Dunno about where you are man, but its pretty common in sydney. Sorry man. Btw, happy australia day.

I'm gonna go off on a limb here, but I suggest that you try a different Virtualisation software. VirtualBox is free and damn fast, plus it would solve your wireless card problem. But....if you want to stick with Virtual Server because you bought it ... then I'm sorry. Can't help you there mate. Good luck

Gonna get pissed on the streets like we usually do mate? For non-australians, its tradition to get pissed to all shit on Australia day, and have a fight on the street for no apparent reason. Gotta love being Aussie

Just to be a tiny bit more descriptive (not that there's anything wrong with Rkiver's) ... Antivirus removes malicious applications on your computer, but others can do other things like scan files your using on the fly. Like downloads. Firewall denies/allows network connections going too, going through, and going out of your computer. A virus usually gets into your computer through user fault. Ways like a dodgy web site, a file you downloaded that has malicious code, an email etc etc. Ways that go through your Firewall because the way they get in is via traffic that's used. Like web surfing I mentioned before. If the virus is still on your machine, it means that AVG's virus database is out of date, either try another antivirus app (google avast, its another free one) or wait until AVG updates the virus database and finally removes it.