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Holy crap, that was great!!!!! The end punchline totally makes the video.

if Acer didn't even give you a disc for that monstrously overpriced thing, someone should be sacked, or shot, or something. check the Acer website for support for your model PC and look for corresponding drivers for audio.

if you have another soundcard installed, make sure you've disabled the on-board one in the bios. if you have been uninstalling things and are not sure if you may have screwed something up, refer to the driver installation disc / factory restore disc / whatever it was disc that came with that computer. somewhere on there is going to be all the necessary drivers for all the onboard stuff on the motherboard, including the onboard sound drivers. Check the Device Manager for anything related to sound, if it has a yellow exclamation mark thing next to it, it may tell you what hardware specifically is malfunctioning or is not playing well with its drivers.

Officially CompTIA certified. Passed with a 788/1000. @ST that sounds like an overheating issue(?). I assume when you get all the freaky colors are just related to the actual lockup freeze/crashing. Does the Hard Drive light still flicker on and off when this happens? Also, on your Win8 did you fresh install, or did you upgrade? (could be a driver corruption issue, since you said it worked in safe mode)

I can totally see a potential for a "I am now a fully qualified computer engineer" meme evolving out of this, lol! on a related note, wish me luck on a similar endeavor. I'm taking my 220-702 exam towards A+ certification in like 3 hours! I passed the 701 with a 900/900 but I'm still worried bout this one.

maybe you'll like Thi4f after all. hah!

For whatever reason, i've decided to put together an LP of ironman impossible, and started recording. I'm 2 missions in, lost a rookie in mission 1, and my assault squaddie in mission 2. It's been 8 days game-time after the last mission, and africa + south america are already well and truly fucked, and i haven't even lost a mission.

Whoa. Hi there, SH. Yes, this game would kick ass without any prior xcom knowledge. If you've ever played and enjoyed Final Fantasy Tactics, or any sort of turn-based tactical game, this one is a show-stopper.

I'm surprised nobody has brought up this game yet. I was a pretty big fan of the original, back in the day, and with all the good gaming IP's being totally destroyed by profiteering douchefags in the past couple years, I had a pretty sour feeling about what Firaxis was going to do to this game. But... it turned out to be freakin' awesome. There's some issues with cutscene shenanigans with groups of aliens literally announcing their presence with a short cutscene, artificial difficulty enhancers, and the god-awful panic mechanic, but almost everything else about this game is phenomenal. If you've been on the fence about this game, or even if you've played and enjoyed it, I highly recommend this very well-edited, informative, and hilarious Xcom Ironman Impossible difficulty LP series: http://youtu.be/z9zJE9GodMQ

I don't understand some of the viewpoints in this thread at all. It's like saying "I should be able to navigate through this solid rock wall, but I understand if you don't have the time to implement a shovel and the mechanics to dig through it". We take almost every other barrier for granted as boundaries that cannot be crossed, without hesitation or second thought. If a mapper makes it clear that a similar boundary is imposed by gravity, why not just leave it at that? Would you prefer to climb into and explore the buildings that make up the skybox as well? I dunno, my personal 2 cents i guess.

If you don't want players on the street, fog the street level out to barely visible. Otherwise, do it up proper. LotP never intended street-level play, I didn't even know you could get there.

cryin shame theres no discreet gpu in that laptop, it would wreck some shit. The RAM is left to attempt to bridge the gap, and is found wanting.

@tels - one thing: are you sure this also plays during the opening? that could be... problematic. I assumed snd_open had the whole thing covered, since it can play from the time the door starts opening until it finishes opening. Is it possible that snd_move can be used only during the close process??

well if you can't disable "would you like to" from UAC or anywhere else, i'm not touching win8 with a 10 foot pole, lol

Was messing around with in the north in DR, and noticed the use of "snd_move" spawnarg on doors. This spawnarg is not listed on the default spawnarg list for adding properties, and the bloodgate documentation states its use for moving elevators. 1-2 years ago i spent about 6 hours of my life writing a custom script to accomplish what this spawnarg does by itself, because I didn't know it could be used for doors, or in what context. The only documentation i was able to find afterwards (when i knew what to look for), was here: http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Doors. Just this one place. This is such a useful tool, I really think that mover_doors, and sliding doors, should inherit this spawnarg by default, (with a proper description, not: for use with elevators), to save people like me that don't know any better a lot of trouble. Oh right, before i forget to metion, the actual function of this spawnarg with doors is to play a sound when a door *starts* closing, and can still be augmented with a sound *on* close when it snaps shut, snd_close

That sounds more like a Dunmer ritual than Halloween, lol

Glad someone is finally drawing the same conclusion I did. Fixing that has been SOP since at least Windows 7. (i skipped over vista, so dunno). If it's anything like previous versions, a quick trip to "change UAC settings", ratcheting down that slider, and then Folder Options solves both those issues. I suspect the true issue here was that M$ got sick of providing tech support to people who had no business running an Administrator acct, so they started putting up prompts to protect people from themselves.

just started playing this today. playing around with the interface options makes me happy. lots of minimalist options. i'm kind of torn between allowing the game to 'guide' me for the first level or 2 just to get the hang of things, and be directed towards the things that can/cannot be picked up or stolen, things that can/cannot be used, doors, ladders, trapdoors, anything of that nature, or just go straight hardcore, disable all overlays and highlights and GUI, and find my own way. Might even be good for a laugh if I did an LP of groping in the dark without any help.

New video! Closemouthed Shadows. This is a shorty. Brightness should be better in this video, but I'm having some terrible issues with WMM putting garbage artifacts in certain parts of the video, and it doesn't seem to matter if i switch the encode settings around at all. Maybe time to invest in some new software.

Yea I replayed it in my head, and that would of worked. Also from replaying scene, I think that a wall-bound lamp was preventing my escape, and possibly could of got away if i crouched. My MO in the reality-version was to cycle to gas arrows, and take them both out. Didn't work out so good, lol.

Abraham Lincoln pretty much sums up my thoughts in the latest 'presidential debate'

Thanks, SH! If you mean microphone volume, thats not the issue. It seems I like to mutter to myself unintelligibly sometimes. With regards to gamma, I'll have to work something out, because TDM's brightness/contrast settings don't seem to have any influence on the captured video.

lol, well you made it about 10 minutes further than I did before getting busted the first time. I had a very near encounter in that area as well. I'm starting to think that the best idea you can have in this FM is to:

Ladro, that's pretty much my exact list, with the numbers re-arranged a little bit. I'd love to put AStS and StAC in mine, but I really can't substitute anything for them based on <3 level (except possibly st lucia). top 10..?

Glad you liked it. I'm giving serious consideration to not adding any narrative to subsequent videos, more to showcase the FM/mod, and less to provide novelty entertainment.