THE RAGE TOPIC

#2641

Okay, so the ink cartridges that I bought for this ancient fucking Dell 720 Printer arrived today… Half full. (leave it to Office Max to Half-ass ink cartridge refilling)
I go to print out a part for my Re-build of the M41A Pulse Rifle and the Dinosaur Piece of shit screws up printing out the same page THREE MOTHER FUCKING TIMES!!!
Out of Five pages, only four printed out right
First time, It only printed part of the page (printer feed error)
Second time, the page got misaligned and printed the damn page
Cock-eyed.
Third time, the laptop accidentally disconnected from the printer and resetting the damned thing made it just spit out what had already been printed, fuck the rest of the page.
Nets not forget the fucking thing takes five minutes to print each page.
Close to sixty fucking dollars for an pair of ink cartridges and this Dinosaur Piece of shit says: Fuck you, I’m a six-year-old printer!!:rage::rage:

That’s the last goddamn time I buy ink online

#2642

Told you it was a shit printer :stuck_out_tongue: .

#2643

Printers haven’t been good since the mid 1990’s.

#2644

People still use those things?!

#2645

Hammer killed my map. (unexpected end of file)
FFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU…

#2646

Got a bluescreen just a moment ago, funny since Windows updated yesterday. This better not happen again I’m really not in the fucking mood of troubleshooting and finding out where this shits coming from, I just hope it isn’t corrupted memory because I fucking hate memory problems. Now I gotta run benchmarks all night to test stability (yeah pretty much everything in my PC is overclocked to the max)

@ King_Kaddo

I never opened Sources map files, but isn’t it possible to open it in a text editor and remove the corrupt part? That’s how I used to solve corrupted map files from other games.

#2647

You need to know which part is corrupt, though…

#2648

If it’s corrupt, for example when the PC crashed when it was saving the file, you simply have to look for the gibberish and remove it - then restore the syntax. Otherwise just remove the recently added stuff to your map (I’m just guessing here, I have no idea how the structure is behind Source maps, but this is how we did it in Call of Duty maps).

edit:

“Unexpected end of file” is actually quite common, and is most likely a simple syntax error.

#2649

If you’re running Windows Vista or 7, it should actually say what caused the BSOD on the blue screen, itself (if you set it to NOT instantly reset when it encounters a BSOD), usually written as “BCCode” or something. Look that code up on the googles (ALL THE GOOGLES), and you should get a pretty good idea of where your problem lies. Just keep in mind that an NTFS error can be a RAM problem, it was for me.

If you want to test your memory, instead of wasting power and shit running benchmarks and waiting for it to crash which the benchmarks may not end up causing due to quirkiness, download the latest Ubuntu image, burn it to a disk, and boot off the disk. When it loads the language menu, select your language and it’ll show another short menu. There should be a memory test option on the bottom, which will thoroughly (and I mean THOROUGHLY) test your RAM. If that doesn’t find any problems after a full pass, then you KNOW it’s not the RAM.

Lastly, don’t “overclock to the max”, because really, is 0.5fps more really worth the massive system instability? I know you wanna be 1337 H@x0rz, but sometimes you just gotta be happy with a little bit slower specs.

#2650

Meh, I tried that on a map file of mine, but it didn’t work.

Then again, that map file was converted from DOOM to Quake to HL1 to source, so you can understand that problems could arise.

#2651

This system was custom built specifically for overclocking… Whatever…

As for the BSOD, it came totally unexpected, so I didn’t get to see what it said. I just turned off auto-restart so next time I’ll be able to spot the problem. It could possibly just be a clock interrupt not received as I’m trying to keep the voltage as low as possible to avoid overheating the voltage regulators. But I’m guessing it’s the good old driver problem.

In Call of Duty the map files used in the editor are written in simple C-style format, thus any problems can easily be solved. They can be tricky to find though, unless you enjoy sniffing through tens of thousands of entities and brushes.

#2652

Hammer ruins everything, including the will to live and play video games.

#2653

So how much do over-clock parts cost compared to a non-overlocking part of equal default speed that you’ll eventually run at?

#2654

What do you mean by ‘overclock’ parts? They are just normal computer components like any other, I simply overclock them by increasing clock frequencies, voltages etc. Where needed I install custom cooling. Total increase in performance is usually around 20%, extreme overclocking can go way higher even over 100% but that’s usually just to break records not for daily use.

A lot of companies support overclocking by either trying to break records themselves to show what their stuff can do, or include stuff like overclocking menus and safety features into the BIOS. Most graphics card, memory and motherboard manufacteres have this including several monitoring programs and such.

#2655

SCHOOL STARTS TOMORROW
FUCK

#2656

sux2bu

#2657

And all you’ll get is a shitty boring job with shitty payments that everyone has, just where they want you.

sux2bu indeed.

#2658

SCHOOL starts tomorrow NOOO!
Only two years of school left.

#2659

Haha! School here starts on 1st September.

Not that I’m going to school anymore.

#2660

School starts September 22! I’m looking forward to it!

College ftw.

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