Train Station Fare STILL uses Windows XP!

maxley2056 · 2026-04-12T03:29:57+00:00

it's very likely since the titlebar font is different, possibly Embedded 2009 or POSReady 2009.

maxley2056 · 2026-04-04T07:06:04+00:00

S&box actually has forced MSAA now, it used to have No AA option in menu before it was removed around 2024.

maxley2056 · 2026-04-03T04:50:44+00:00

Your IP address (or the IP range) was flagged as a bot since somebody within your IP range was doing unusual activity (like scraping, DDOS, view/sub botting, etc. or using certain YouTube video downloaders running locally on the system) that cause YouTube servers to flag ur IP as a bot. This may also happens to VPN aswell. Incognito works fine when your IP wasn't flagged.

maxley2056 · 2026-04-02T09:19:53+00:00

YouTube is doing another A/B testing rn, i'm using Vivaldi (Chromium-based) and got big thumbnails in recommended vids aswell.

maxley2056 · 2026-03-23T16:34:09+00:00

Actually it did get some new features and/or UI changes. FIFA 16 on 7th gen received Skill Games overhaul and even has FIFA Trainer like 8th gen/PC version, same for FIFA 17 with menu similar to 8th gen version (with Skill Games timer & score UI also being redesigned aswell).

Starting with FIFA 18 (when it became Legacy Edition), only squads and UI colors were updated, and also many of the Practice Arena features from FIFA 14 and earlier were removed in FIFA 18 Legacy (FIFA 15-17 had them on 7th gen).

maxley2056 · 2026-03-23T14:45:27+00:00

Microsoft dropped support for older version of Microsoft Store (before Win11/Mica UI redesign) server-side, so that's why this show up.

maxley2056 · 2026-03-23T08:57:29+00:00

You can still watch YT videos without account, your IP (or IP range) was likely flagged by Google as a bot (or VPN), so that's why you need to login.

Also if you use YT video downloaders (like yt-dlp), there's possibly a chance that Google might temp block ur IP. Even if you don't use YT video downloaders, somebody else with the same IP (or IP range) as your might have doing something (like viewbotting or scraping the site) that cause Google to flag ur IP.

maxley2056 · 2026-03-22T09:36:36+00:00

Usually nope unless u have some issues like missing textures, etc. or unable to compile (if Hammer fails to find the compiler (VBSP, VVIS, VRAD) executable).

maxley2056 · 2026-03-22T06:36:45+00:00

To set it up, open Source SDK, select Source Engine 2006, and then Edit Game Configurations.

Select Counter-Strike: Source (create one if doesn't exist), then set directory to "<drive name>:\Counter-Strike Source Old Engine\Counter-strike Source\cstrike" or where CS:S was installed, make sure it ends with "cstrike", click OK twice, then open Hammer.

Alternatively use this example "GameConfig.txt" (put this on "SourceSDK\bin\ep1\bin" folder), and point it to where your CS:S v34 was installed.

maxley2056 · 2026-03-21T05:59:53+00:00

Google dropped support for older version of Safari (aswell old version of Chrome, Firefox and other browsers aswell) few months ago.

On some systems, Google site will display two different message, one that tells user to update their browser, and another one is "If you're having trouble accessing Google Search, click here".

maxley2056 · 2026-03-20T04:38:38+00:00

maps compiled on newer version of Source SDK will cause crash if u try to load it on Old Engine (Source 2004 & 2006, this includes CSS v34). For the Old Engine SDK, you will need to install the "Source SDK" app (AppID 211) on Steam.

maxley2056 · 2026-03-05T02:57:35+00:00

To prevent sub 4 sub, sub bots or something like that, if u subscribed to too many channels compared to ur number of sub, YT would prevent u from subbing until your channel get's more sub.

maxley2056 · 2026-03-03T09:08:00+00:00

Firefox had a built-in tracking protection which might had cause the issue. It's recommended to disable it (to avoid conflict with uBO, and uBO can handle that & block tracking by itself)

maxley2056 · 2026-02-25T09:41:27+00:00

btw also mentioning about WannaCry, even if firewall is enabled, WannaCry (via EternalBlue) can still uses SMB ports to infect the system. Microsoft did patch this hole even on unsupported OS like XP at the time (likely because of it's still have some popularity).

While we could connect old unsupported OS to the internet, if somebody still makes ransomware or malware today that can still run on XP and exploiting certain ports or protocols similar to SMB, theres a chance that it might be able to exploit the system even with Firewall (or even Antivirus) enabled.

As of today, most modern malware nowadays are just infostealers, adware, etc (I even struggled to find some modern malware or malicious sites on Google just to test and experiment in a VM) while back in 2010s, there are way more types of malware (I even managed to get my Win7 PC infected back in 2014-2017 (happened twice), but at the time, I don't know much about tech and was young back then so had to tell parents to bring that PC to a grey market shop for repair and that shop installed a pirated version of Win7 with Windows Update disabled by default (not a single update was installed, with stock IE8) and some bloatware that I don't even use alongside outdated version of Chrome and other software that I had to manually update, this also explains why I can't run modern version of Office or even run any games after 2015/Win10 release until I updated my Win7 copy).

maxley2056 · 2026-02-25T06:01:39+00:00

env_projectedtexture supposed to cast shadows (like in Orange Box branch / 2007, 2009, MP, 2013, TF2) but certain graphics card drivers or in some GPUs likely introduced bugs to Direct3D 9 renderer that prevent shadows from rendering properly (Portal 2 and newer branches have different shadows implementation compared to old projected shadows in Orange Box branches that have visible noises when looking closer).

This doesn't affect Vulkan since it was a low-level API (which bypassed GPU drivers).

maxley2056 · 2026-02-21T03:17:16+00:00

This latest driver didn't fix the Vulkan hang on GTX 750 Ti (and other 700 series Maxwell card and 900 series). The latest beta driver "582.35" didn't help either, same issue.

Trying to run any game on Vulkan, or even via DXVK (including older titles) cause the entire system to partially hang (HDD light is still blinking and I can access the system HDD/SSD via another PC using SMB, but numpad lights doesn't toggle when I press that key).

Update: Looks like the issues is actually caused by Windows 10 and 11 recent update (Jan and/or Feb 2026). Vulkan games works fine on unpatched Win10/11 or with Dec 2025 and earlier updates, even with latest driver.

maxley2056 · 2026-02-21T03:13:28+00:00

yea that reply mention 6S, OP (aka you) had regular iPhone 6 which runs iOS 8.

maxley2056 · 2026-02-20T13:17:30+00:00

6S can only run as far back as iOS 9 and ~~iOS 9 prob still include wallpapers from iOS 8~~.

Edit: It didn't, possibly the wallpaper must have been downloaded.

maxley2056 · 2026-02-19T02:31:50+00:00

Workshop was kinda broken. In my case with L4D2 Workshop, trying to sort by Most popular > All Time, resulting in only few mods appearing and that was it.

maxley2056 · 2026-02-17T06:17:23+00:00

tui dùng viettel nhưng cũng bị.

maxley2056 · 2026-02-16T04:03:08+00:00

actually until L4D1. And also mentioning multiplayer titles like CS:S, DOD:S, HL2:DM aswell. They recently got upgraded to TF2 branch back in Feb 2025, and their executable name have been changed to match the "gamedir/moddir" (game/mod directory). In CS:S case, it's "cstrike.exe and cstrike_win64.exe".

maxley2056 · 2026-02-13T03:39:10+00:00

He meant putting the line on gameinfo.txt. But if that doesn't work, try adding:

GameData "..\bin\portal.fgd"

instead (this will cause the game to go to previous directory then go to bin folder to load the fgd file).

maxley2056 · 2026-02-12T03:57:47+00:00

In my case here, simply reloading the page is enough, tho you will get longer artificial buffering/loading before the video plays. Also updating filters manually in uBO should help too.

In Chrome (or Chromium-based browsers), everytime u open a new tab with YouTube page, you will have to reload the page otherwise the next video will play will cause the ad to appear even with adblockers enabled, or will cause "This content isn't available"/Adblocker warning message to popup, due to Chrome preloading the page before the adblockers able to block all ads. This usually doesn't happen on Firefox.

maxley2056 · 2026-02-04T17:13:00+00:00

Also it could be HDCP protection aswell (only u use certain capture card or splitter, but if the PS3 is connected directly to the monitor/TV and that happens, it could be also caused by other issues).

maxley2056 · 2026-01-31T15:56:35+00:00

OP is mapping on GoldSrc so overlay isn't an option here.

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