Yea, I downloaded it through Steam and I would get the same error message, so I waited in line and downloaded it at File front. The graphics didn't impress me, and the game felt like battlefield 2.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Riven on Wed Sep 26th at 1:59pm 2007
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by fishy on Wed Sep 26th at 4:11pm 2007
Posted by fishy on Wed Sep 26th at 4:11pm 2007
I had a quick look through the steam forums, and found this thread. Apparently it's something to do with different versions of something called Microsoft.VC80.CRT, which is part of microsoft's visual c++ redistributable package.
If you constantly get the "game not currently available" message, then it seems that installing this will fix it. It did for me and everyone else in the other thread that was having problems.
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x86)
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64)
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Naklajat on Fri Sep 28th at 7:30pm 2007
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Posted by Naklajat on Fri Sep 28th at 7:30pm 2007
The "greys" supposedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, specifically the fourth planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli (this is according to a star map drawn by an "abductee" under hypnosis). Some ufologists claim the greys use "gravity amplification" devices for propulsion, and because gravity propagates through space 10 billion times faster than light it allows them to traverse the 40 light years between our stars much faster than would be possible by conventional propulsion, riding on a wave of gravity.
Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination?![<img src=]()
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 28th at 7:36pm 2007
Well at least somebody has found the graviton particle and began manipulating it.
It still wouldn't excuse you from how everything else works ... unless you did some trickery.
Posted by Crono on Fri Sep 28th at 7:36pm 2007
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The "greys" supposedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, specifically the fourth planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli (this is according to a star map drawn by an "abductee" under hypnosis). Some ufologists claim the greys use "gravity amplification" devices for propulsion, and because gravity propagates through space 10 billion times faster than light it allows them to traverse the 40 light years between our stars much faster than would be possible by conventional propulsion, riding on a wave of gravity.
Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination?
Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination?
Well at least somebody has found the graviton particle and began manipulating it.
It still wouldn't excuse you from how everything else works ... unless you did some trickery.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by RedWood on Fri Sep 28th at 9:01pm 2007
Posted by RedWood on Fri Sep 28th at 9:01pm 2007
Too bad gravity only moves at the speed of light. (they think)
If that were true it be easer to conceive how we could some day we could travel star to star. Our fastest moving probe wont reach the closest star to us (only 1 light year away) for another 75000 years.![<img src=]()
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If that were true it be easer to conceive how we could some day we could travel star to star. Our fastest moving probe wont reach the closest star to us (only 1 light year away) for another 75000 years.
Reality has become a commodity.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by reaper47 on Sat Sep 29th at 12:08am 2007
Posted by reaper47 on Sat Sep 29th at 12:08am 2007
Kikizo interview with Gabe:
Kikizo: Have you considered introducing a four dimensional time element in Portal? Well I guess portals themselves as a concept are four dimensional if you look at the math.
Gabe: Sure, just in general you can think of it as applying a transformation; like you can have two spaces that are connected by portals, but they're reverse with respect to each other, or there's some temporal shift, or use your mouse wheel to expand or contract the size of the portal which determines your size when you exit. I don't know if you remember the fixed version of that in Mario 64 where as you go through space through the tubes that change your size, except for making it dynamic. So I think you're on to something as to the direction to go with moving that gameplay forward.
Kikizo: Have you considered introducing a four dimensional time element in Portal? Well I guess portals themselves as a concept are four dimensional if you look at the math.
Gabe: Sure, just in general you can think of it as applying a transformation; like you can have two spaces that are connected by portals, but they're reverse with respect to each other, or there's some temporal shift, or use your mouse wheel to expand or contract the size of the portal which determines your size when you exit. I don't know if you remember the fixed version of that in Mario 64 where as you go through space through the tubes that change your size, except for making it dynamic. So I think you're on to something as to the direction to go with moving that gameplay forward.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Sat Sep 29th at 6:02am 2007
Posted by Crono on Sat Sep 29th at 6:02am 2007
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by RedWood on Sat Sep 29th at 6:22am 2007
Posted by RedWood on Sat Sep 29th at 6:22am 2007
Half way through i started laughing and didn't stop until it was over.
WOW! The way things are marketed compared to only 15 years ago is baffling. If you replaced that windows with visa and aired it, i imagine you would get the same reaction if u tried to sell baby otter burgers to vegans.
Thanks Crono. That was good.
WOW! The way things are marketed compared to only 15 years ago is baffling. If you replaced that windows with visa and aired it, i imagine you would get the same reaction if u tried to sell baby otter burgers to vegans.
Thanks Crono. That was good.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Sep 29th at 8:42am 2007
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Posted by Cash Car Star on Sat Sep 29th at 8:42am 2007
Hah! It's from the early 90's, but it wants to be 1986.
Listen up you stinking maggots
It seems you just don't get it
Well, I've been appointed to inform ya
Your days are numbered
You would cry, you would scream
If you knew half the things I'd seen
Please, please just do as I say
Repent and leave your evil ways
..Meanwhile, planes drop from the sky
People disappear and bullets fly
Little grey men are coming our way
"Tastes just like chicken" they say
Actually they're all around
Secret bunkers underground
Round em up, skin em alive
Rollin' rollin' rollin' rawhide
Couldn't give a damn about JFK
Everything's conspiracy
Wouldn't be surprised if they have their way
"Tastes just like chicken" they say
I know it's hard to swallow
It must sound too far fetched
But you can bet your bottom dollar
I ain't going with the rest!
? quote:
The "greys" supposedly come from the binary star system Zeta Reticuli, specifically the fourth planet of Zeta 2 Reticuli (this is according to a star map drawn by an "abductee" under hypnosis). Some ufologists claim the greys use "gravity amplification" devices for propulsion, and because gravity propagates through space 10 billion times faster than light it allows them to traverse the 40 light years between our stars much faster than would be possible by conventional propulsion, riding on a wave of gravity.
Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination?
Sounds like a load of bunk, but doesn't that stir the imagination?
Listen up you stinking maggots
It seems you just don't get it
Well, I've been appointed to inform ya
Your days are numbered
You would cry, you would scream
If you knew half the things I'd seen
Please, please just do as I say
Repent and leave your evil ways
..Meanwhile, planes drop from the sky
People disappear and bullets fly
Little grey men are coming our way
"Tastes just like chicken" they say
Actually they're all around
Secret bunkers underground
Round em up, skin em alive
Rollin' rollin' rollin' rawhide
Couldn't give a damn about JFK
Everything's conspiracy
Wouldn't be surprised if they have their way
"Tastes just like chicken" they say
I know it's hard to swallow
It must sound too far fetched
But you can bet your bottom dollar
I ain't going with the rest!
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by reaper47 on Sun Sep 30th at 4:25pm 2007
Posted by reaper47 on Sun Sep 30th at 4:25pm 2007
On the nytimes page, when reading an article, double-clicking a marked word leads to a detailed word definition. It doesn't work on the front page, though.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Mon Oct 1st at 8:32am 2007
Posted by Crono on Mon Oct 1st at 8:32am 2007
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Tue Oct 2nd at 2:08am 2007
Posted by Crono on Tue Oct 2nd at 2:08am 2007
The Crysis Beta has been opened to all FilePlanet members.
Go here.
Tell them you have pretty nice specs (otherwise they wont let you in the Beta)
Give you email address and birth date (only pieces of information required)
Download the client and get a nice beta key![<img src=]()
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There's currently a 40 minute wait for the client to download, though. But it'll be awesome.
Go here.
Tell them you have pretty nice specs (otherwise they wont let you in the Beta)
Give you email address and birth date (only pieces of information required)
Download the client and get a nice beta key
There's currently a 40 minute wait for the client to download, though. But it'll be awesome.
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by fishy on Tue Oct 2nd at 12:19pm 2007
Posted by fishy on Tue Oct 2nd at 12:19pm 2007
? quoting Crono
The Crysis Beta has been opened to all FilePlanet members.
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by reaper47 on Tue Oct 2nd at 6:58pm 2007
Posted by reaper47 on Tue Oct 2nd at 6:58pm 2007
Some of the reviews aren't so enthusiastic. Farcry-like bugs and physics errors, 8800 graphics card can't handle the high settings (with "very high" not even being available). They say we should wait for the SP and there's a lot of optimization being done. But I'm skeptical.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Riven on Wed Oct 3rd at 3:22am 2007
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Posted by Riven on Wed Oct 3rd at 3:22am 2007
Well, I was able to get in, and got it and installed it. -Yes, even played it (briefly)
I have an 8800, and the "very high" settings are blocked off, and I also hear even though that anti-Aliasing is available, it doesn't enable in this beta.
Actually, in all honesty, it looks pretty good, but nothing to run home screaming about, at least not in my opinion. It is cool however to blow trees up and stuff, and I believe that they threw the motion blur WAY out of proportion. You simply walk, and the effect occurs. So much so, that it annoyed me. I had to play an online match in order to check out a level, so while everyone else was sending radio messages across and blowing their heads off, I was standing in the stream looking at trees.
They do have some really cool effects though, but the "feel" just "felt" real jumpy. Like BF2 or something. As if you weren't solidly on the ground, though that may have been just my latency. I think It will be a good game, it has a lot of features in it, but I agree, people can wait. -or at least I can.
-In other news, if you have bought the orange box already, Portal is ready for pre-loading! I am soo checking out the GCF for that!!!
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Naklajat on Wed Oct 3rd at 6:04am 2007
It's encrypted, looks like we're just gonna have to wait another week to fiddle with the portal maps. =/
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Posted by Naklajat on Wed Oct 3rd at 6:04am 2007
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Portal is ready for pre-loading! I am soo checking out the GCF for that
It's encrypted, looks like we're just gonna have to wait another week to fiddle with the portal maps. =/
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Riven on Mon Oct 8th at 1:56am 2007
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Posted by Riven on Mon Oct 8th at 1:56am 2007
Ah man, I found this awesome free tool for those texture maniacs out there. It's called CrazyBump and it's better than the Nvidia normal map filter plugin for Photoshop. It will read .psd files, so if you wish to take the control in Photoshop first you can, and then open it up in CrazyBump, and it will give you more "down-to-earth" options. And it can make some extreme normal maps, almost as good as some parallax maps I've seen. So give it a try, it's totally free, and no sign-up!
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Re: Recently Found
Posted by Crono on Mon Oct 8th at 5:14am 2007
Until you get close to it or look at it in any sort of angle.
(chances are, most implementations of Parallax mapping do regular bump mapping at far distances for efficiency purposes)
Posted by Crono on Mon Oct 8th at 5:14am 2007
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And it can make some extreme normal maps, almost as good as some parallax maps I've seen.
Until you get close to it or look at it in any sort of angle.
(chances are, most implementations of Parallax mapping do regular bump mapping at far distances for efficiency purposes)
Blame it on Microsoft, God does.
Re: Recently Found
Posted by Naklajat on Mon Oct 8th at 12:51pm 2007
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Posted by Naklajat on Mon Oct 8th at 12:51pm 2007
Crazybump is a sweet program, very little hassle to get some fairly high quality normal maps. Looks like the preview and adjustment controls have been improved since I last used it as well.
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