TOOL: 3Booter, the Incooperative Game Kicker
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Scroll on 2009 July 08, 11:30:25
What exactly does "kick it in the taco" mean? What happens when it's kicked?
It's a Buttism. Figure it out.
Quote from: Scroll on 2009 July 08, 11:30:25
When its kicked, is it kicked only once? Also does it load correctly or will it start to iterate UNTIL it loads?
It is booted repeatedly until it loads, if it manages to crash within 30 seconds of loading.
Quote from: Scroll on 2009 July 08, 11:30:25
I think I will need this. Yesterday I could not get my game to load. I tried 15+ times and then finally gave up. I have been crying on the shoulder of the "chief of development" all morning here at work, but he (as all dev guys) can only talk zeros and ones. I think he said something like this:
"When the Sims is loading it is threaded and depending (random) what manages to load first it will crash if other stuff isn't in place yet. It will not wait for the goods to load if they come in the wrong order for the mod, but it should. Because of the random order of loading (due to the threading) it's like a lottery if you manage to load or not. Only way around this is the source code to the Sims 3".
I would love to give him the source code, he would have a blast during his vacation. Can he be correct? Its EA's fault! ;D
Yeah, that seems to pretty much cover it, although there remain some unanswered questions, like why it still does it even when you replace the entire gameplay package...
Scroll:
Great! The repeat boot sounds like my kind of stuff, I am lazy. Just wanted to make sure, some people make strange stuff that doesn't really do what you expect them to do (like EA and The Sims 3). I do trust you though for good or for bad.
J. M. Pescado:
It's good to be bad.
Luisa:
Running TS3 with AwesomeMod on a PowerColor HD 4670 PCS Edition 512MB GDDR3, and on a 28 inch LCD at 1920x1200 native.
I get 90-100 FPS max (like staring at a very simple shape like a flat wall), about 50fps when playing normally looking at my sims, and about 30-40fps when zoomed right out and spinning around the neighbourhood.
The room the rig is in is air conditioned so I generally see CPU (Athlon X2 4850e) at about 29C with the stock cooler and Hard Drive (WD VelociRaptor) at 19C. Case is cooled by six silent 120mm fans and graphics card gets up to about 56 C when playing, which if I remember from my OC'ing days doesn't sound like much of a temp to worry about, but then it is a pretty midrange GFX card and that temp is the highest thing in my system by far.
So, given that data, in your opinion would I get much benefit (from running the fpslimiter, or is that nothing to worry about?
I ask because I can get AwesomeMod to run fine on second boot every time (since it always does the strange loading screen crash first time) and I love AwesomeMod. I tried 3booter and the game still boots second time, but it doesn't automatically do the second boot - I still have to do it manually, not sure why. Maybe my game takes too long (over 30S) to get to the crash point? Is there a way to automatically kill the unnecessary loading screens/vids other than hitting ESC as the vid starts, which would bring the first time TS3 booting crash to within the 30second window so that 3booter can do it's job?
Thanks,
Lu.
edalbformat:
I don't really have crashes to desktop too often, just ocasionally. I also don't use the top graphic card available but I had a problem with overheat and my GC almost burned. I was luck that I have a very sensible nose and noticed that something was not smelling well and switched off the computer before everything went on fire. Sent the computer for repair cause I was afraid that something really got burnt and no one noticed anything, just because the guys at the computer shop simply left the computer on for 3 days without any operation. To say the truth if you are not playing games you don't need even to know that you have a graphic card. Lost time.
Back to the problem I installed 4 fans inside the computer and now it blows my ears when working, but I got rid of the heat partially.
It is not sure that I need a 3booter once I'm only afraid of the gc heat. Unfortunately I'm very late reading threads and maybe the other tool could also help me.
Another thing, as you informed about the bug, isn't it possible that EA will also get aware of it and correct it self? Or should we just cross fingers - and stick them in the ears?
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