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Arg ’tis Monday
Posted November 14th, 2005 at 10:02pm by Electronic Punk
I generally ****ing hate mondays and this one is no exception. Woke up this morning feeling like **** and after a cocktail of redbull, coffee, pepsi and lucozade I still feel horrible. An interesting weekend though.
My car was and still remains screwed and is currently sat in the garage. The rear brake cylinder got fried and decided to fuse itself to the drum, I am very much not car-savvy so that could well have made sense to both people who know about cars and those who don't. Either way its going to hae cost meo over a total of £200 to get sorted, really nice as I just spent £70 getting the front brakes sorted.
Firstly I got an e-mail from Jed at Microsoft on Saturday morning and I have been invited to CES2006 in early January which is awesome. Had I been flying out this year the amount of holiday or leave I would have had left might have put me in a tough position. Now I will actually get 3 days off without having to travel over to the other side of the world! So not only will I course get to see the Microsoft gang, mates from other sites, but Blight (author of Zoom Player from www.inmatrix.com ) will be there too, haven't seen him for a few years.
There are going to be so many stands there I am really looking forward to it.
At around the same time on Saturday my new TFT monitor arrived along with a Zalman HDD cooling cage. Upgrading one of my TFTs from a DSUB 17" to a 19" DVI. My dual display is looking very unbalanced now so I will most likely get another one ordered, makes sense really? The other part will obviously reduce vibration noise and keep my hard drive cooler in my Praetorian-based Iguana system which is currently testing Vista - more importantly it is allowing me to install the hard drive in a 5.25" drive slot so I can do a little magic with the cable and completes my management efforts.
I always said that as soon as Creative released drivers for the X-Fi for Windows x64 I would go back. The bastards did it on Saturday evening - well in some form anyway. They released both 32bit and 64bit drivers for Windows Vista, the latter work in x64, so I formatted and went back - they work perfectly. I will get the applications installed later as I have also heard that those work. I am still pushing for a better x64 driver release as I really don't think this should count.
I was about to play Splinter Cell: Chaos theory before that happened, a game made famous in the community by the fact it won't play on Windows x64 and Ubisoft's pathetic failure to support it even though they were quite willing to go the distance with FarCry as I am sure AMD were compensating them accordingly. I decided I would install it and see if I could get it working for myself.
The game installed fine and I decided to get the game patched up before even attempting to play it. Ran it and the game can't activate because Starforce won't recognise the operating system. This is not Starforce's fault either - they have released an updated protection system that will quite happily recognise Windows x64 - Ubisoft simply refuse to implement it.
I tried everything I could both legal and illegal and no luck, but you can follow progress here as we continue to try: http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=8978. I don't know what other games are effected and don't really care as I am pretty sure the only one I own is Splinter Cell 3, perhaps I will mail Ubisoft myself as a member of the press and ask and see if I can get a response that hasn't been drilled into a 16 year old on the help desk. Might be entertaining.
My car was and still remains screwed and is currently sat in the garage. The rear brake cylinder got fried and decided to fuse itself to the drum, I am very much not car-savvy so that could well have made sense to both people who know about cars and those who don't. Either way its going to hae cost meo over a total of £200 to get sorted, really nice as I just spent £70 getting the front brakes sorted.
Firstly I got an e-mail from Jed at Microsoft on Saturday morning and I have been invited to CES2006 in early January which is awesome. Had I been flying out this year the amount of holiday or leave I would have had left might have put me in a tough position. Now I will actually get 3 days off without having to travel over to the other side of the world! So not only will I course get to see the Microsoft gang, mates from other sites, but Blight (author of Zoom Player from www.inmatrix.com ) will be there too, haven't seen him for a few years.
There are going to be so many stands there I am really looking forward to it.
At around the same time on Saturday my new TFT monitor arrived along with a Zalman HDD cooling cage. Upgrading one of my TFTs from a DSUB 17" to a 19" DVI. My dual display is looking very unbalanced now so I will most likely get another one ordered, makes sense really? The other part will obviously reduce vibration noise and keep my hard drive cooler in my Praetorian-based Iguana system which is currently testing Vista - more importantly it is allowing me to install the hard drive in a 5.25" drive slot so I can do a little magic with the cable and completes my management efforts.
I always said that as soon as Creative released drivers for the X-Fi for Windows x64 I would go back. The bastards did it on Saturday evening - well in some form anyway. They released both 32bit and 64bit drivers for Windows Vista, the latter work in x64, so I formatted and went back - they work perfectly. I will get the applications installed later as I have also heard that those work. I am still pushing for a better x64 driver release as I really don't think this should count.
I was about to play Splinter Cell: Chaos theory before that happened, a game made famous in the community by the fact it won't play on Windows x64 and Ubisoft's pathetic failure to support it even though they were quite willing to go the distance with FarCry as I am sure AMD were compensating them accordingly. I decided I would install it and see if I could get it working for myself.
The game installed fine and I decided to get the game patched up before even attempting to play it. Ran it and the game can't activate because Starforce won't recognise the operating system. This is not Starforce's fault either - they have released an updated protection system that will quite happily recognise Windows x64 - Ubisoft simply refuse to implement it.
I tried everything I could both legal and illegal and no luck, but you can follow progress here as we continue to try: http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showtopic=8978. I don't know what other games are effected and don't really care as I am pretty sure the only one I own is Splinter Cell 3, perhaps I will mail Ubisoft myself as a member of the press and ask and see if I can get a response that hasn't been drilled into a 16 year old on the help desk. Might be entertaining.
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