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Your PC not acting well?Is your PC Making you pull out your hair? Do you want to learn more about computers? Well have no Fear! Welcome to the Offical, yes thats Right I said Offical Orion PC Help Desk! Ask any question you wish! Noo question will be ignored! No question is to "dumb." (trust me I've heard them all) If your having PC troubles ask away, please note I need as much info as possible to help diagonose or solve the issue. Want to learn some PC tips? Go and ask away! I will try to respond to your problems and questions as soon as possble. Sorry I cannot answer any Mac question I haven't touched a Mac in years.. Edit: I have now expanded into helping with programming issues too  (C++ stuff only though) (This has been a Paid Service Annoucment.) (Please Note any "dumb" question from Jello and Jacen Aratan will NOT be answered in a timley manner :p .) _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This post was edited by cHoSeN oNe on Oct 27 2003 12:31am. |
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Orion - Retired 
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Ok Here's a post with some usefull links. I will keep updating this as needed. If you don't know about this site and you are a Windows User you need to know about this. This site will patch your os with any of the bugs in any Windows OS. http://www.windowsupdate.com A good piece of software to have. This will scan your computer for any kind of spyware that any freeware or shareware program that you download and install. http://www.lavasoftusa.com or you can try spybot http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html *NOTE* Don't have both installed or they will say each other is spyware. I like spybot better. A good free anti-virus program.. If you don't have a anti-virus I recommend you do. http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php This site is good for information on ISP's(Internet Service Providers). It alos has a great little toolset for testing your internet connection and the forums are helpful for tweaking your pc to get the most out of your connection. http://www.broadbandreports.com Do you have windows XP or 2000 and a great video card? Seem to be stuck at about 60FPS, even though you say like com_maxfps 120? Simple fix http://www.ryanmh.com/files/reforce.zip is a fix for a Windows Bug that locks your frame rate at 60 fps when you can get higher. All you do is unzip that run it, click auto populate, hit Apply and reboot and boom FPS allover the place _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Sep 25 2004 01:44am. |
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Orion - Retired
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Nope, windows2k has no emuation support like XP, Windows2k was ment for servers and workstations, not home PC's like XP _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Is there someway to get windows 2000 to emulate windows 98? I'm askin 'cause i have a game (OLD  ) and its build for windows 98when i had windows 98, it worked fine, now i dug up the game,and it wont work! I think its because of the OS change. I searched High and low for updates and pachtes for the game. Cheked out ALL the tech support, Nothing. THe game is called "Rock Raiders" its made by the "Lego Interactive" (Yeah i know, its a childish, 5-year-old kinda thing. But its mighty fun  Edit: THanks in advance _______________ Quote: Fizz: Omg, one of aratans paddies Bro to: Jacen Aratan, D@RtHM@UL, Sednox And Bail *w00t* !Quote: Darkwood: There is no luck in JK2, only when Jacen wins a duel
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Orion - Retired
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Lerp: Quasi-acronym for Linear Interpolation, used as a verb or noun for the operation. "Bresenham's algorithm lerps incrementally between the two endpoints of the line." Its also probably used in the BSP Tree generated for a level, to tell which node a player is in, or is about to be in for rendering pruposes. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Apr 24 2004 05:59am. |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger 
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I've run into it twice so far: once in the JKA source code: "[stuff] // to prevent client from lerping", and something about it in a description of the BSP format. _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. |
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Orion - Retired
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Never heard of lerp cVar i assume stands for Client Variable, or C(something)Variable _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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tarpman - The Tarped Avenger
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What's "lerp", or possibly "lerping"? What about "slerp"? EDIT: if they're acronyms, more than just the words that make them up please And as a follow-up to cHoSeN-oNe's post: what does cVar stand for? _______________ Saving the world, one kilobyte at a time. This comment was edited by tarpman on Apr 22 2004 12:14am. |
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Fate - Student 
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You could also try the card in an alternate PCI slot. Though rare, ports do occassionally go bad. That or you might not have completely gotten the card into the slot. Or... you know.... 56k could just SUCK!!! I'm such a lucky boy... _______________ I must not fear . Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear . I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Gom gom gom gom gom! |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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No workie! I'll return the modem for a different one next time I go to the shop... _______________ Website |
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JamesF1 - Student 
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Quote: HELP oh knowledgeable Orion! My modem got fried (or so I think it did). So I went out and bought the cheapest 56k PCI Internal Modem I could find. I asked the shop assistant if it was adequate, and he said it was. OK, so I got home and stuck the card in, installed the drivers, et al and connected. The modem dialed, etc and connected (which is much further than my previous modem got) and then it just stopped after sending like 300 bytes and recieving 1500. Nothing happens, nothing works - although it is still connected. Any ideas? Your problem is you bought the cheapest modem you could find. Send it back. Don't listen to the sales people. All they know is Grunt grunt. Scratch scratch. 56k is good. Your phone lines weren't built for 56k data connection. The best modem out there is one of the external serial based modems. Those things are solid as rocks. Its all hardware based. None of this software based PCI crap crap. You should pay at the very least $50 for a modem. Anything less is asking to get a bad connection, period. I'm not saying that you can't work at all with a cheap ass modem. Hey you can technically drive a car with 4 flat tires, right? If you decide to keep you modem there are a few things you can do to fix this. Lower your com port speed to 38400baud. It's probably somewhere around 128kbaud or something. Disable error correction. Make sure there's no conflict form you modem with another device. Delete and re-create your dialup networking connection. How to do all this is dependent on your OS. Call your ISP as well. They may have something fancy set on their modem that messes with yours. Tried the baud to no effect. I'll try the error control thing... Oh, BTW, I wanted to get something cheap as I've just spend a large amount of money (for me) on getting the PC actually working. Thanks for the advice, if it doesn't work I'll take it back and change it. _______________ Website |
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Quote: HELP oh knowledgeable Orion! My modem got fried (or so I think it did). So I went out and bought the cheapest 56k PCI Internal Modem I could find. I asked the shop assistant if it was adequate, and he said it was. OK, so I got home and stuck the card in, installed the drivers, et al and connected. The modem dialed, etc and connected (which is much further than my previous modem got) and then it just stopped after sending like 300 bytes and recieving 1500. Nothing happens, nothing works - although it is still connected. Any ideas? Your problem is you bought the cheapest modem you could find. Send it back. Don't listen to the sales people. All they know is Grunt grunt. Scratch scratch. 56k is good. Your phone lines weren't built for 56k data connection. The best modem out there is one of the external serial based modems. Those things are solid as rocks. Its all hardware based. None of this software based PCI crap crap. You should pay at the very least $50 for a modem. Anything less is asking to get a bad connection, period. I'm not saying that you can't work at all with a cheap ass modem. Hey you can technically drive a car with 4 flat tires, right? If you decide to keep you modem there are a few things you can do to fix this. Lower your com port speed to 38400baud. It's probably somewhere around 128kbaud or something. Disable error correction. Make sure there's no conflict form you modem with another device. Delete and re-create your dialup networking connection. How to do all this is dependent on your OS. Call your ISP as well. They may have something fancy set on their modem that messes with yours. _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Battlin' Billy - Student 
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Orion! I just wanted your opinion on this. I was reading PC World magazine, and I came across an article telling you about something you could install between your MB and processor that allows you to use a faster processor than your MB supports. They recommended it for P4 systems that came out in like 2001 or so (like mine). Dell's site says that my MB will support up to a 1.8Ghz, yet this place says they can boost it up to 2.6Ghz. Is this something you recommend? Here's the link to the site. I posted this here so others could benefit from this info. Thanx man! I promise I won't play Hacky Sack with your head on IRC anymore. _______________ Midbie Council Member #2 - Profile ID 2073 | Member of B@rtM@ulS@ar | Owner of Monty's 2000th comment & D@RtHM@UL's 8100th comment | Former Padawan of SilkMonkey & Arcuss JA Goaltender & NHL Fan | Fellow Rush fan to Axion|Plo Koon is my oldest JA friend Post your RL pics HERE! | Post you JK2/JK3 screenies HERE! |
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JamesF1 - Student
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HELP oh knowledgeable Orion! My modem got fried (or so I think it did). So I went out and bought the cheapest 56k PCI Internal Modem I could find. I asked the shop assistant if it was adequate, and he said it was. OK, so I got home and stuck the card in, installed the drivers, et al and connected. The modem dialed, etc and connected (which is much further than my previous modem got) and then it just stopped after sending like 300 bytes and recieving 1500. Nothing happens, nothing works - although it is still connected. Any ideas? _______________ Website |
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cHoSeN oNe - Retired 
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_______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
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/me throws a brick with cVar written on it at chosen one.. thats what a cVar is Cvars are registered variables, which gives the ability to Game/mod creators to allow the public to change current settings to almost anything. However, the mod creators needs to create each cvar and where to place them. For example in the JAR mod there is the cVar g_mEnforceDuel, This cVar if Set to a value of 1, will allow for as many Private duels as you want on a server. If it is set to 0, it will be like basejk, only one private duel at a time. _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u This comment was edited by Orion on Apr 16 2004 09:27pm. |
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cHoSeN oNe - Retired
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What's a cVar? _______________ Get busy living, or get busy dying. |
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Orion - Retired
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Its probably a bug, that needs fixing, along with serveral other things in teh game.... _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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DJ Sith - Jedi Council
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That's caused by the "pure server" option being set on the server. It runs an MD5 of it's pk3 files (it generates a number based on the file size of the pk3 files) and runs an MD3 of your matching pk3 files. If the MD5's dont's match the server thinks you're using a hacked pk3 and kicks you out. Why does it do this after getting disconnected? Beats me. Maybe it writes somethign to the pk3 on the fly... _______________ My car is made of Nerf. |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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isn't that just a bug in the game itself? (not sure though) _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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R!øT - Student 
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Hey Orion, This has to do with a gameplay problem Im having This is the message I get EVERYTIME I disconnect from one server then try to reconnect right after to the same srv. Unpure client detected. PK3 file unreferrenced.... Why does this happends? And its not only to me I see this hapenning to a lot of ppl all the time. What I usually do is simply close the game and restart it, that fix it. But its kindda annoyin to restart the game all the time. Is there another way to fix this? Also why does that happends?  thx |
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Orion - Retired
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run defrag every few months, defrag is a drive killer if u run it like every night _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Bail Hope of Belouve - Student 
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It's me I'm back with a new HD yaay!! I was just wondering, should I do something specifically on a daily, weekly or monthly basis to keep my HD healthy? Like 'Defragment' or 'Surface Scanning' or 'Bug Scanning' or something like that? Thanks in advance -- Bail -- _______________ Visit the Belouve Family Website! Quote: I try to have fun with my friends and try to make a difference as best I can. What does making a difference mean? Well, it can be as simple as saying hello, answering a question that seems obvious or heck, just talking. -- Vladarion
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Steinin - Student 
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Does it have a proper ogg vorbis codec? _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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Orion - Retired 
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possibly, i use the kazaa lite codec pack _______________ When a Man lies he murder's some part of the world. These are the pale deaths which men misscall there lives. All this I cannot bear to witness any longer. Cannot the kingdom of salvation take me home? -Cliff Burton Owner of Smily's 1900th comment | <Lady_Catherine> i love your sexy white socks! | (Lady_Catherine) i adore u! | (Lady_Catherine) onion (Lady_Catherine) i lub u |
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Steinin - Student
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Could it be codec related? As I recently installed the Ace mega codec pack? _______________ 362 Ohi on! |
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