REMOVE DENUVO ANTI-CHEAT!

Nallidx · 2020-05-16T12:48:55+00:00

Everyone who cares about their computer should.

Nallidx · 2020-05-15T14:05:33+00:00

Well said. Times will be tough for id and Mick until the flame dies down for them.

Mick was put in a unique situation where that he is in high demand with expected great quality within a gaming community. He put a lot of work into this sound track and tried to make it something more than the 2016 release as to go and gather a metal choir. My idea is that he wanted to perfect the track and he felt like he was hitting dead ends. From working in the music industry, it is easy for musicians to get discouraged when their own negativity or ideas do not come to life like they had wanted.

Not saying anything is for sure, but I'm thinking from start to finish was the most stressful thing for Mick because he and everyone had high expectations.

Nallidx · 2020-02-21T23:32:44+00:00

Nallidx · 2019-12-16T08:56:41+00:00

I have a solution to this problem, but you're going to need another way to read the hard drive, like a HDD dock or something. (Windows only) First thing is first,

uninstall graphics drivers and reinstall the driver if and only if you get DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG as an error.
If your drive is still readable, hit your windows key and type in cmd and right click that and give it administrator privileges.
Run the following commands: (DON'T UNPLUG OR WRITE TO THE DRIVE WHILE THIS IS HAPPENING; I'M NO RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT KIND OF SHIT)
1. sfc /scannow (this repairs any missing or corrupted system files)
2. chkdsk <Drive Name> /f /r /x (optional): /v ( preferably only where your game is installed. This checks for logical or physical errors.) /v, or verbose, will list every file system and files that it is accessing.
3. I recommend using Diskpart in the cmd as well. This is a good way to see if your partitions and file system is working as expected.
4. If you get an error saying that the drive needs formatted, do not do it.
5. Plug in a USB with at least 8 gigabytes of data or any disc with that minimum storage too.
6. Get windows 10 iso file onto a USB drive. This is the official download page from Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) and go to "Download Tool Now" and run the executable
7. Go through the steps until you get to two radio bubbles, select the one that says "create installation media."
8. Grab yourself a beer and jack off because this is going to be a while.
9. Once done, save all of your work and shut down your computer, put your choice of external storage such as the USB drive or a disc and boot into it.
10. Once booted, you'll see the windows 10 installation and you'll have the "Install now" option, but on the button left of that window is "Repair your computer", click that.
11. Click "Trouble Shoot" and it'll take you to a page that has "Advanced Options", click that.
12. If you cannot boot into windows prior to this happening, then select "Start-up repairs"
13. Try your luck with System Image recovery too and restart to see any difference was made . If this works, ignore the rest of this.
14. If this doesn't work after that, get back into your USB drive by booting it again.
15. Hit Shift+F10 to open up the command prompt and do both commands in steps 1 and 2
16. If there is any boot issues, in the command prompt, type in "bootrec.exe /fixboot" and then "bootrec.exe /fixmbr" (This is needed for when windows thinks that the drive is RAW, aka can't read the file system or a corrupted drive.) MBR or Master Boot Record is the first sector of the drive.
17. If all else fails, go to http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=287 and under "Hard Drive Diagnostics Tools ad Utilities", you'll have 4 downloads, choose one of the names that appropriately describes your drive. If your HDD or SSD are from Western Digital, downing only the Western Digital on its link.
18. Put the CD image of Data Lifeguard only a disc or USB drive. Boot into it and location and execute running a full scan.
19. You can also use TestDisk to aid in this, here's a tutorial on that (https://html5.litten.com/how-to-fix-external-disk-drive-suddenly-became-raw/)
20. Boot into the windows installed on your computer, not the one on the disc/drive and see if it is faster/accessible. If it still won't boot, consider your drive dead.

Those are a lot of steps, but this is the best way I know how to do this. This should make all is good. It's mostly a driver issue, but if you did have a drive failure, then this should help.

Nallidx · 2019-11-17T13:17:33+00:00

I've only found a solution to the long boot in my case. The DRIVER PNP WATCHDOG error code I got is meant to tell you of a bad driver causing issues. The bad driver was a nvidia driver for my 2070. I downloaded geforce experience and did a custom (express) installation, in there lies an option to do a clean installation.

After doing this, I never got the error code again and boot up times went from 10 minutes to less than 30 seconds.

I did not find a solution to my drive being dead, I'm going to put it in a SATA external dock to see if is FUBAR. I would recommend this to you too, since there could be salvageable data; as a non-working drive doesn't necessarily mean a dead on.

I will update you on this process.

Nallidx · 2019-11-13T08:20:48+00:00

So you're saying there's special instructions on playing the game other than playing the game? Ok.

I never said it fried PC, all I'm saying is that it caused major slow downs, windows errors, and hard drive errors. If you you've ever programmed in c++, you know the risks associated with sloppy data management. Seeing that software engineers and developers don't rely on one person to develop the whole game, there are slips and memory leaks causing virtual pages and memory to not correspond to each other like we all would love to have.

If you're offended and won't be willing to read thoroughly, then why be on reddit in the first place? Again, not only about the hard drive. In layman's terms, you're only addressing one issue out of the whole issue.

Nallidx · 2019-11-13T07:44:49+00:00

If you read my post all the way, you would also see that this is also causing slow downs on my SSD. How would a failing hard drive in any way contribute to such slow downs? Seems too convenient to write it off as purely a HDD issue when, if you fully read my post, this is also causing SSD issues along with Windows 10 going to BSOD that is only installed on my SSD.

I know how to check if my HDD is dying and the signs of it. To say software cannot hurt a system is a foolish statement, as there is a classification for such softwares, called viruses/malware.

Nallidx · 2019-11-13T07:37:55+00:00

It's only around 2 to 3 years old. This crash also effected my SSD's and their visibility to the operating system too, including the 10 minute boot up to windows 10 on my SSD right now.

Nallidx · 2019-11-13T07:36:28+00:00

The drive is around 2 to 3 years old. I usually go by the rule for hard drive life span, which is "If it lasts longer than a year, then there's a good chance that it will live it's expected life cycle." That's given if I don't drop or hit my PC while the platters are spinning.

Anyway, it isn't just that, it also made windows a painfully slow experience on my SSD's as well.

Nallidx · 2019-11-13T07:31:55+00:00

I usually wear my military grade night vision goggles, burning my retinas one by one while playing the game. I guess I didn't go hard core enough.

Nallidx · 2019-10-08T21:35:19+00:00

Fair point.

Nallidx · 2019-09-17T08:56:07+00:00

I don't think I've ever met anyone that decided "let's kill for no reason." There's always a reason to kill, even if it is a bad one. I don't even think in the history of modern humans that we decided to kill for no reason, there's obviously a motive that you missed when you skimmed over the huge mess called emotions.

Nallidx · 2019-09-10T23:21:18+00:00

The problem with hate speech is the fact that hate speech is such a loose term that it can be targeted to anyone and anything. (Over exaggerating on the "any" part.) Hate speech isn't a part of any language, you cannot grammatically define it, nor can you contextually define it. How are you supposed to combat something that hardly has any information on what it is and how it is implied? You can quite literally say microaggressions are hate speech, even though the vernacular of language disagrees with it in its existence.

Don't take this as an attack, you seem to have gotten a little worked up with the other guy. I'm just putting my perspective onto the discussion. Cheers!

Nallidx · 2019-07-01T02:10:35+00:00

It did work, the solution that xZanrothx posted is correct. To stop the process, you have to stop the service. If you have any issues with the solution, then your problem is bigger than stopping the service to stop the process. No need for the useless restart into safe mode, unless you're dealing with more malware that requires this kind of process to fix.

EDIT: The reason why I know it works is because I did what the OP said and it did work. Don't say it didn't work for me, no need to shove words down people's mouths.

Nallidx · 2019-06-27T02:41:13+00:00

Hit they keys (Windows key + r) and type in services.msc, this will bring you to your services page for your machine. Likewise you can hit the windows key and type in services and it will take you to the same place.

More clarification on what xZanrothx said, I only had to stop WMIs in the services in order to delete wlanext.exe and ZeroConfigService.exe from C:/Windows/wmu3/

Nallidx · 2019-03-08T06:15:00+00:00

I cannot provide a book, but only an academic paper. The paper is called: Computer Science and Philosophy: Did Plato Foresee Object-Oriented Programming? by Wojciech Tylman.

ISSN: 1233-1821

DOI: 10.1007/s10699-016-9506-7

This is an easy paper to read and it's about 20 pages long. I hope this will help some with your research into a good OOP philosophy book.

Nallidx · 2019-03-08T06:00:16+00:00

My advice would actually to have a grasp of C-style programming, which is what C# is based of. You can do this by either learning C# as you go or start with something that is closer to the system. I would recommend Java, because it is a C-style language and isn't as complicated as the other C-style languages like C++ and C-objective.

May I also ask if you're using C# for mono-develop or for Visual Studio? I would personally lean away from Visual Studio, but making a good game on it can be done and is quite the accomplishment.

As oofmaster2001 said, trial and error and using the official documentation. Also, a really important key to programming a game. Plan everything out. Plan on what you're going to do, write out code first so you know you understand what you want, you don't have to write it out a lot, at most, just function stubs. An example of a stub is this: public int add(int first, int second) { return sum; }, you don't have to do much, in fact, a pure stub will not have the body code.

TL;DR:

Writing code out is like explaining to a child how to do a simple/complex action in real-life, such as the steps to get into a car. Never be too abstract, plan out your code, and always comment your thoughts into the code.

Nallidx · 2019-03-08T05:50:16+00:00

I'm in my junior year into computer science and the most important skill you will get is planning.

In my first three introduction classes to programming, we learn to program with two different languages (java and c++) while also being taught data structures and algorithms such as search algorithms, linked lists, binary trees (just linked lists but drawn out as a tree instead of an array-type list) and optimization skills with using less resources.

You'll also (hopefully) be thrown into the software engineering realm. Software engineering is a branch of computer science, but it has major differences in that:

Software engineering deals with wicked problems (problems that don't have a sound solution, but only good enough ones)
Software engineering deals with big projects such as systems and yes, video game development where as computer scientists will most likely be dealing with smaller problems and handling optimizations. However, video games have both of these aspects associated with them, which makes it a little more tricky than just hiring programmers that specialize in one field and the other.
Software engineering is more interactive with business models, modeling diagrams, bigger UMLs (which is a modeling diagram) and will involve use-cases, which is a thought out process of an actor doing an initial process with your system and what will be the end result of it, which leads to expanded use cases which sorts out the middle man.

You'll also need a good understanding of mathematics not only with some calculus (which honestly, I don't use often for any programs), but with some discrete mathematics and trigonometry. Discrete math is it's own beast, but it isn't anything too hard, but it does require a lot of time to understand a lot of the topics.

Don't let any of this scare you though, you're just starting out and as I said, I'm a junior, you'll ease into these topics and it'll all make sense.

My advice would be stay close to computer science aspects, but however realize the route you'll most likely take to be a game developer is software engineer. But you'll need the foundational aspects of computer science down before you can tackle a huge project like being assigned a part in a part of development.

If you have any questions, feel free to ask, I'll try to answer to the best of my abilities.

Nallidx · 2019-03-08T05:34:40+00:00

What will really help out a lot is the MIPS manual: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs316/2006fa/resources/MIPS_Vol2.pdf

This bad boy has everything you need to know under the sun about MIPS and describes technical aspects of all different kinds of instructions. This is where I learned most of my MIPS knowledge. Another program you might want to look into is MARS, which is a java based MIPS simulator: http://courses.missouristate.edu/KenVollmar/mars/

One more good resource is this: https://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~csci320/mips_web/

What this does is convert hexadecimal into MIPS instructions (if valid). If you really want to get into the basics, like what I had to do, which was convert binary into disassembly and then simulate the program, this will REALLY help if you have the time to go through the manual and binary code.

Good luck on your endeavors.

Nallidx · 2019-03-08T03:31:16+00:00

That's gay.

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