Archive for September, 2008
Folding@Home hits 4 petaflops
by Craig Mayhew on Sep.28, 2008, under News
The official Folding@Home stats page is now reporting a total of 4021 teraflops. This has seen a big increase recently after Sony released the life with playstaion.
PS3 Freezing/Crashing Constantly (Fixed!)
by Craig Mayhew on Sep.09, 2008, under Guides/Fixes
A friend’s PS3 was crashing on opening pretty much any game or program. It showed what appeared to be dead pixels before doing any number of weird things before crashing altogether. We tried formatting the hard disk, but it crashed while formatting. We tried taking the PS3 apart and cleaning out all the dust from the heat sink. As it turned out there wasn’t much dust. We even tried formatting a few more times just to see if it would make it to 100%, it didn’t.
The fix was to take the hard drive out, carefully brush the dust off of it and reseat it back in the ps3. It’s been working fine since.
You wouldn’t steal a movie?
by Craig Mayhew on Sep.07, 2008, under Annoyances
So your the movie industry and piracy is damaging your profits. Do you:
A) Let people know that piracy means you don’t make as much money and therefore can’t throw such large budgets at films
B) Find some way to thank people that buy legal copies of music and films
C) Force everyone that buys a legal copy of a film to watch a ~40 second advert that can’t be skipped. A ~40 second advert that implies the audience might steal things. Oh and the advert plays not just once but every time they watch the film.
Believe it or not, they chose the unskippable advert! So if you watch two movies a week then you can kiss goodbye to over an hour of you life each year to watching this advert! For PC users there are two ways around this. If you play the movie in media player then the advert starts playing but you can skip it by clicking on the next chapter. If you play the movie in VLC (I recommend VLC instead of media player) then the advert never even plays and is skipped entirely.
Freelancer High Resolution Hack
by Craig Mayhew on Sep.07, 2008, under Guides/Fixes
To get freelancer working in widescreen in this case 1920×1080 do the following. If you want this to work with a different wide screen resolution then simply substitute 1920×1080 for whatever you want.
1) Go to My Documents\My Games\Freelancer and open prefoptions in notepad. At the bottom it will say [Display] and underneath size= change it to 1920, 1080. Note the space in between the 1920, 1080. Now save and exit.
2) Now go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\DATA . Once there open cameras in notepad
Delete whats there and paste the following.
[WinCamera] fovx = 63.504809977813375 [CockpitCamera] fovx = 90 znear = 2.000000 [ChaseCamera] fovx = 90 [DeathCamera] fovx = 90
Now save and exit.
3) Now go to C:\program files\microsoft games\freelancer\EXE . Once there open freelancer in notepad.
At about the 9th line down it says size change it to size = 1920,1080 ,or what ever resolution you are using.
Now save and exit.
4) Now go C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Freelancer\DATA\FONTS .Once there open fonts in to notepad. Now delete all whats there and paste the following.
[trueType] nickname = ButtonText font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.038500 [trueType] nickname = PageHeader font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.041000 [trueType] nickname = SubHeader font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.034500 [trueType] nickname = ItemName font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.021000 [trueType] nickname = ListText font = Arial Unicode MS fixed_height = 0.026000 [trueType] nickname = ToolTip font = Arial Unicode MS fixed_height = 0.026000 [trueType] nickname = Rollover font = Arial Unicode MS fixed_height = 0.022000 [trueType] nickname = HudSmall font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.026000 [trueType] nickname = MissionObjective font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.056000 [trueType] nickname = Normal font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.031000 [trueType] nickname = NewsMission font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.026000 [trueType] nickname = NewsTicker font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.041000 [trueType] nickname = PlayerName font = Arial Unicode MS fixed_height = 0.021000 [trueType] nickname = TradePlayerName font = Arial Unicode MS fixed_height = 0.021000 [trueType] nickname = DebugText font = FixedSys fixed_height = 0.026000 [trueType] nickname = ConfirmPlayerText font = Arial Unicode MS fixed_height = 0.036000 [trueType] nickname = ConfirmText font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.036000 [trueType] nickname = NavMap1600 font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.015000 [trueType] nickname = NavMap1024 font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.020000 [trueType] nickname = NavMap1280 font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.01900 [trueType] nickname = NavMap800 font = Agency FB fixed_height = 0.02300
Now save and exit.
Now in the same folder open rich_fonts in to notepad and delete and paste the following.
[trueType] font = 0, Arial Unicode MS, 18 font = 1, Agency FB, 26 font = 2, Arial Unicode MS, 22 font = 3, Agency FB, 24 font = 4, Agency FB, 96 font = 5, Agency FB, 20 font = 6, Agency FB, 30 font = 7, Agency FB, 18 [Style] name = STYLE_CONSOLE font = 0 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 255, 255, 255 [Style] name = STYLE_DIALOG font = 1 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_DIALOG_SMALL font = 5 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_BUTTON font = 6 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_LOCTABLE font = 0 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_LOCTABLE_SELECT font = 0 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 245, 234, 82 [Style] name = STYLE_LOCTABLE_INACTIVE font = 0 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 182, 182, 182 [Style] name = STYLE_SMALL_HEADER font = 5 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_SMALL_HEADER_ACTIVE font = 5 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 245, 234, 82 [Style] name = STYLE_SUBSUBTITLE font = 1 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_TITLE font = 3 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 justify = center [Style] name = STYLE_ERROR font = 0 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 191, 29, 29 [Style] name = STYLE_NN_AGENCY font = 5 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 135, 195, 224 [Style] name = STYLE_PRIVATE font = 0 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 59, 191, 29 [Style] name = STYLE_CONSOLE_SENDER font = 2 bold = false italic = false underline = false color = 0, 255, 0
Now save and exit.
Now you are all done any ready to play in 1920×1080. Note the in game options will state the wrong resolution but it will be in 1920×1080. Also, for this to work you must enter in to space (lift off) once for the new resolution to take effect.
