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Unwashed Village / Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Testing out a new server

« on: March 03, 2008, 12:22:58 PM »

Solwyn had it right, the cookie issue should be resolved now.

All issues like that will be resolved once we get to the permanent server, but the most important thing to notice is if the load times are acceptable for you - the rest will be worked out.

So far, Silver Dragon loads a lot faster, which is a good thing. Where are you located SD?

  I'm in Washington State, USA.  *nods*  I don't know where the last server was, but where-ever it was, it must have been maintained by blind fingerless monkeys.

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Unwashed Village / Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: Testing out a new server

« on: March 03, 2008, 07:12:04 AM »

Great news!  Finally I can load the board without it taking (literally) two minutes to load.  Ever since we moved to the last place, I'd had horrendously slow load times, which is part of the reason I never really posted all that much; I didn't like sitting and waiting for the page to load whenever it felt like it.  This loads much faster for me now, thanks Chucara!  Someone give that man some toast!

Brugdor:  I initially bookmarked http://www.chucara.dk/forum/ before I logged in, and every time I opened the page it would act as if I weren't logged in, but if I open a sub-forum I was logged in, so I re-bookmarked http://chucara.dk/forum/index.php after logging in and it works normally (also make sure to add the new URL to your Exceptions list in your cookies settings if you have Firefox set to not allow cookies from all sites)

~Narf~

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Unwashed Village / Re: Video Card recommendations for WoW?

« on: November 19, 2007, 04:30:25 AM »

I've run 'dxdiag' and it will randomly tell me that my 3D bits of the card are working or not working.  As dxdiag has zippo to do with WoW, I'm pretty sure it's my card and not WoW.

I bought a Geforce but am returning it.  It's AGP and I'm planning to buy a new motherboard with PCI-express.  More (and better) cards to choose from.

Actually, after a little more research trying to discover why my old AGP Radeon X850XT started acting up, I've discovered that apparently the last three releases of the Catalyst drivers from ATI have totally hosed Direct3D for AGP cards (and seeing as its been 5-6 months ATI's known about this issue and it hasn't been resolved, or from what I can tell, even acknowledged, that's probably a bad sign) which sort of explains why my X850XT went wonky after reinstalling windows the other day.  Not totally, mind you, because I could have sworn I had Catalyst 7.9 or 7.10 running on their just fine before I rebooted, but I didn't check before I wiped the drive...  Anyway, its now doing one of the things you mentioned, though not randomly:  When I run dxdiag's Direct3D test it reports three errors, all 'Failure at step 8...' for DIrect3D 7, 8, & 9.  (That's with both Catalyst 7.9 and 7.10)

So if you're running your X1300 with Catalyst 7.10, 7.9, and possibly 7.8, that might be causing or contributing to your troubles, or you might be right and your card is toast  *shrug*

I'm about to try the Omega Radeon drivers, which according to the website actually allow AGP cards to still work properly, so I'll update that a bit later.


And on a side note, this is actually the first major problem I've had with any ATI Radeon video cards.

~SD

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Unwashed Village / Re: Video Card recommendations for WoW?

« on: November 17, 2007, 12:49:59 PM »

My video card (Radeon X1300) is almost certainly overheating.  Can't tell for sure as this is one of them that doesn't have a temperature monitor.  But the symptoms are classic.  Random types of errors at random times, occurring more frequently over time.  Only in WoW (the only graphics intensive game I am playing right now), and if I turn my PC off for about an hour, it extends the time I can play before crashing again.  (and yes, latest drivers, latest Directx, tried numerous graphic settings, etc etc etc)

Anyway, what card(s) are you guys using, and do  you like it?  And what would you recommend?  Has to be AGP as I don't yet want to spend the bucks for a m/b with PCI Express (although that does seem to be the future, and the future is damn near now).

Hey, hold up a minute.  Is this pre-WoW 2.3 patch, or post-WoW 2.3 patch?  A lot of people have been having weird issues since the 2.3 patch (myself included), so it may be more patch related than video card related.  How long have you been playing WoW with your Radeon X1300 card?

I just built a new system recently and played WoW fine on my new Radeon HD 2600XT when I tested it a week or so ago to compare it with my old system, but after the 2.3 patch the thing went apeshit on me.   I only played for a short while and it would lock up the whole system, then after an uninstall/reinstall I could play for a while but when I logged out it would freeze up on me while still logged in, or would log out but freeze up when retrieving my character list.

To top that off, I had to reformat my old system and when I went to play WoW after reinstalling everything it told me it couldn't initialize 3D something something blah blah and wouldn't even load the game.  Told me to make sure everything was up to date (after a fresh reinstall?  Up to date?  Naaahhh, I used files from three years ago to reinstall Windows    )

Anyway, you might want to browse through the WoW tech support forum and see if anyone else if having similar symptoms as you're experiencing, as it might be patch related.  (From what I've read people are experiencing freezes, lockups, extreme latency, drops, kicks, murphies, all sorts of things!)

On a side note, anyone else having trouble with WoW after the 2.3 patch?  Anyone..?  Anyone...?  Bueller...? 


~SD

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Unwashed Village / Re: Dead ant... dead ant... deadant... deadant... deadant... deadant... DEADANT!

« on: August 22, 2007, 10:42:58 AM »

They sell a sort of sand that kills ants by cutting them up (it's like pool filter sand), and should be safe for your dog

  You mean this stuff?  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

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Unwashed Village / Re: Will it work this time?

« on: August 08, 2007, 02:05:38 AM »

I have noticed slowdowns on this board, but it has nothing to do with the board, but rather our host. (again)

Time to take care of QA!  *kicks BC in the Qs and As*  There, that should fix things. 

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Unwashed Village / Re: Will it work this time?

« on: August 07, 2007, 09:01:51 AM »

I dunno, but if the horridly slow load times don't improve, I'm gonna complain to the QA department.   

Anyone else suffering from the new board loading slowly or is it just me?  Its not a problem on my end, everything else loads just fine, its only here that's having issues...(anywhere from ~20 seconds to ~1 min 30 seconds so far)

Otherwise, I like it!