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This is better but still suboptimal. It is about 400 frames slower than my no longer secret WIP halfway through level 5 - 3. I just started an improvement to that WIP, and I am 92 frames ahead of it after level 1 - 3.
That being said, your run contains a handful of great strategies which I shall implement in my run, and I feel that it looks good enough to be publishable, seeing how I most likely will take a long time to finish this run.
Maby you should talk to wwmarx and see if he knows any more tricks?
I recon that each and every time I've made a TAS, I've found more things along the way that could have been implanted, but the lack of motivation some times keeps you from doing so. Maby you could make a TAS together, or at least sync what you know about this game?
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Awesome run. I'll give it 8.5/8.
As maTO suggests you can build up some speeds between the bosses, and the exits, so this run is sad enough not optimal. Yet I still find this very entertaining. Looking forward to an updated version.
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FatRatKnight wrote:
EDIT: I just realized... By holding down any button, time does not pass. As such, even L or R will halt the flow of time. This becomes quite a problem if I want to watch land value change the moment it happens. I can play a movie in read-only and hold L or R without interfering with it and still see the changes happen, so I suppose it's not that big of a deal.
Maby someone should program a toggle function for switching LUA on/off?
Like pressing ctrl+L for turning the script on and off, and thus, you don't interfere the game?
I'm not a programmer, so I don't know.
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Wow.. Nice improvement. I will watch this when I get back home.
Flygon - Why do you "have to use Windows Movie Maker"?
virtualdub and avidemux are two great program, and they are free.
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Personally I think it would get boring to see someone just destroy as much as possible, but doing missions while bringing on some cop action would be awesome.
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When talking about virtual machines then.
What happens when you save a state in VMWare for example?
Is this something virtually near what you (Bisqwit) are describing for states of memory regions and pointers?
Could this be done through a virtual RAM-memory that is recorded to a file of some sort to simulate the states of the memory etc?
I'm just throwing words a bit here to get a better understandment, because to me it doesn't seem all clear to why this could not work on an easier level, even though I understand that it takes a lot of skills and efforts to put this together.
I really find this interesting, but I don't understand the in-depth of it at all. :)
Cheers
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I... Feel speechless somehow. Going to try to write something anyway. :D
WOW!
This was probably the best video I've seen when it comes to TAS.
I have been following the progress now and then, and I didn't think that I was going to see that much of a change when the final product was done.
I got really impressed by how you handled Woodman's stage and the Wily stages, mainly because this was totally new to my eyes. But all in all the new tricks implanted are purely awesomeness.
The down scrolling is truly a cool trick.
When I was a kid I would never even think that this game had this potential. Nor did anyone else I suspect? =)
This is a 10/10 vote directly from my heart.
Again you keep entertaining me to the max.
Well done!
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I have watched the entire speed run now, and I must say it was very cool. Nicely executed with very few misses.
I'm looking forward to see if your (Eratyx) TAS is going to hold the same quality.
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You really need to watch and learn from some other TASes, miker00lz.
Time each fight and try to improve them, even if it's only by a frame or two. In the end, they will add up, hopefully to seconds at least.
Try not to copy large materials from others. The movie will be more interesting if it contains totally new moves, combos, and ways of attack.
TASing is about analyzing and evaluation of each and every spot possible in order to increase speed, and entertainment. It takes A LOT of patience.
Keep on working. Some time you will get there.
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Why didn't you aim for perfection?
I really like how you beat the ice robot though. Didn't know the 3-way shooter was so good against it.
I'd love to see you make a second attempt with perfection. Also make sure to grab some ram-addresses.
Keep us posted. Cheers. :)
Edit:
Forgot to give creds about last boss. Nice strategy.
Edit 2:
Oh, and I also submitted a run of this game back in 2005. Damn sloppy compared to yours though. :)
http://tasvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2893
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Ever been to a noise club?
I went to one when I was in Germany one and a half week ago.
Saw these DJ:s and managed to find them on youtube as well. :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVh7EZGjplY
It was a new experience for me, with a smile from ear to ear.
Thanks for the input. But services should be able to run without the sound going crazy. The CPU is still at a low usage.
The power toys are always fun to use though.
Xkeeper wrote:
What are you using to test?
Winamp? Windows Media? It's odd that you check all of what you did without actually checking the player's configuration.
arflech's suggestion doesn't even make any sense -- even with the most services possible open, audio output wouldn't lag like that, especially if CPU usage is not 100%.
I have tried different players, and it doesn't matter at all. Windows media player, VLC, Winamp, Youtube, and even the log off or login sound in windows it self lags like crazy.
Raiscan wrote:
Have you tried chipset/motherboard drivers?
Yes
moozooh wrote:
Last time I had a problem like this it was due to some hardware conflict initiated by my sound card. Although with some luck, I expect the same problem to be solved by installing proper drivers after uninstalling the not-so-proper.
Did that too. Not any luck though. :(
pirate_sephiroth wrote:
Weird... did yot try booting in safe mode?
If antiviruses aren't finding anything, I'd recommend RegRun Security Suite. It will do a boot time scan listing all the auto-boot services, the registry entry and their
location on the hard drive. It can also warn you about potentialy dangerous stuff. What you remove will go to the blacklist, what you accept will go to the ignore list.
This is it, just try to find some weird service with a file named like a system file,
or a random name or a service running from the TMP folder.
Anyway, this may not work if the thing infected any system file...
But, hey... you seem to be another victim of the HD FORMATTING SYNDROME. That's dangerous, dude. Some people end up thinking they are computers and there are millions of invisible viruses around them and end up formatting themselves (suicide).
I reinstall Windows like this: (I usually take the HD to another PC so I can freely delete stuff. If that's not possible, I use a PE [Pre-installed Enviromment] Windows)
I delete the folders: PROGRAM FILES, WINDOWS and everything inside DOCUMENTS AND SETTINGS backing up the users' DESKTOP and MY DOCUMENTS.
I also delete everything scattered in the C: drive. You need to delete the SYSTEM VOLUME INFORMATION folder, but it has some NTFS PERMISSIONS set, so you'll need to take ownership (in FOLDER OPTIONS, disable SIMPLE FILE SHARING, then go to the properties of the folder, security tab, advanced, ownership.
I did not try to boot it in safe mode, but I did however run some reg scans, and auto starting program check.
Your way of deleting stuff seems very time consuming, and not really a good way either if you ask me. I like to format the HD, and it's not that big of an issue. Just tedious to backup important stuff, such as settings, and various files.
OmnipotentEntity wrote:
Sounds like your disk is in PIO mode. To confirm if it is open up devmgmt.msc, go to IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers and open up the property sheet for Primary IDE Controller and go to advanced, if you see PIO then you have this problem. If you do post back and I'll dig up how to fix it.
EDIT:
from Microsoft KB
Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess, and then press ENTER.
5. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6. Type 1, and then click OK.
Follow these steps, and then quit Registry Editor:
1. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
2. Locate and then click the following key in the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0002
3. On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD Value.
4. Type ResetErrorCountersOnSuccess, and then press ENTER.
5. On the Edit menu, click Modify.
6. Type 1, and then click OK.
You'll need to reboot after this is done, and obviously ensure that the transfer rate is set to "DMA if available"
I did never check the PIO thing. I did however check that DMA thing. I will have to verify this when I'm back in Germany in December. Thanks for this input. Will be cool to see if it works. Wonder though why the this would occur all of a sudden?
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Out of curiousity, would any of these be applicable to Vista as well? I'm not having any resource-hogging problems, but I'd love to prevent them from happening.
My suggestion is to never fix an error that you don't have. ;)
Speed tweaks are never that much improving the system though. Only slightly perhaps? And the fact is that tweaking is so fun that I always tend to break stuff from tweaking until it breaks. ;)
superjupi wrote:
In all honesty, I have never once been able to point the XP installation disc to drive C and tell it to reinstall WITHOUT it wiping the entire partition. This is why I gave Windows its own partition. It still wipes the entire partition on reinstall whether I ask it to or not, to this day. It will simply greet me with, "performing this action will erase all data. Do you wish to continue?" and opting out exits installation.
A CS geek friend said I was full of shit, so I tossed him the CD and directed him to my tower. After messing with every option in the menu, he was unsuccessful at coaxing XP to reinstall without wiping the entire partition.
Hahaha! A "CS geek" tried to fix your computer? No wonder you never saw the option to continue without blasting your files away. The option to just overwrite the system is indeed available. ;)
Sorry for the slight flame there, can't help my self. CS-geeks never made anything good around me. :)
Blublu wrote:
I don't know what's wrong, but here are some things you *could* try. Run a memory test. There's a program called Memtest86 which you burn on a CD and boot from it. (you might even already have it on that Linux liveCD you got)
Try fiddling with the Windows Paging File Size thingamajig. It's supposedly best to set it at 2 times the amount of RAM you have. So if you have 1 GB of RAM, set it to 2 GB (both minimum and maximum size so it doesn't keep changing its size).
Okay, that's all I got. If this doesn't work, and you already ran all the standard adware, spyware and virus scans, then all I can say is nuke the hard drive and re-install the entire OS. If *that* doesn't work, well, see below.
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* Booted linux from a live CD, mounted the same hard drive/partitions, and played music from them without any issues at all.
On the other hand, it seems to me like you already found a solution. :)
I have not scanned the ram with Memtest86, but would that really be the problem then? I mean... The RAM is used when booting the liveCD too.
And of course... How much I desire to install Linux on her computer, there is always the question "Ehh.. What is this, and how do I use it?"
Some times it went totally fine when I did install it on friends computers. Hardly had no problems at all. But then again... She lives 1280Km from my apartment, so it's not just around the corner. Would be worse to go over there in case of the system not booting at all.
Reformat and re-install windows xp is what I am going to do. But first I will test the other suggestions, just for the fun of it.
marzojr wrote:
Just a quick note: being able to boot a Linux Live CD without no problems does not rule out hardware failure. I have fixed one laptop (battery malfunction) and one desktop (harddisk failure) both of which showed problems on XP but worked flawlessly with an Ubuntu Live CD (the latter wouldn't even boot in XP anymore, but lasted until the harddrive died in Linux, which was much more than enough to back up everything without data loss).
With that in mind, I have a few suggestions:
1) If it is a virus, malware or some form of spyware, any testing done while XP is running is compromised and may give false results; it would be ideal to test it with XP offline. One way to do it is to use the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows to boot and scan your computer. It requires a XP CD, which it uses to build a preinstalled environment with a variety of virus/malware scanners which you can boot to. Just to be safe, you will want to make the CD in another computer.
2) Sysinternals has a lot of cool utilities, two of which deserve special mention:
(a) Process Explorer. There are some forms of CPU usage that don't show up in standard Task Manager; in particular, telling Process Explorer to show the "Context Switch Delta" column and watching the "DPCs" metaprocess can give a clue to hardware malfunctions that can slow the computer down without showing up elsewhere (the laptop I mentioned had a problem with the battery that manifested in this way);
(b) Rootkit Revealer. The way it is designed to work makes it virtually impossible for any rootkit to hide/compromise the program -- the rootkit programmers would have to know a lot more about the inner workings of the NT kernel than they care about.
Point taken. Might get around to try this. Cheers.
I would like to take the moment to thank you all for the attention in this thread. Really helpful and nice suggestions.
If you have any more of them, keep em' posted.
Thanks so far.
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OK, so I'm having some computer issues on my girlfriends laptop.
The performance is very bad, and the sound lags as if the CPU load where constantly at 100%. It does NOT make any quirky sounds such as if an MP3 file has encoding errors or what ever. It makes more of a slowdown kind of sound, almost like how robots tend to sound. :D
Windows XP home edition is installed from factory, and by time it has been upgraded with all the hotfixes and service packs (SP3 being the latest) that windows update has to offer.
This issue seems to have come from nowhere all of a sudden. No real changes has been made that we are aware of.
What I have done so far is:
* Running a deep scan including heuristics for viruses with Eset Nod32 (with up to date signatures).
* Running a full scan with Spyware doctor 6 (latest signatures).
* Re-installed graphics driver and audio driver. (haven't tried to uninstall drivers first though).
* Booted linux from a live CD, mounted the same hard drive/partitions, and played music from them without any issues at all.
* Freed a lot of space from hard drive by clearing temp files, and removing unused programs.
* Did NOT defragment the hard drive yet since I don't think it will have that type of impact on this issue.
* Task manager does not show anything strange. CPU usage is normal, a long with RAM-usage.
* Read about people having problems with similar issue when it comes to skype. Those guides did not help.
To me this really seems like a problem in the OS it self some how.
I have ruled out the hardware since it works fine from a different OS.
It is not depending on a bad music application in windows since the problem even occurs when the login sound in windows is played.
Last way out would of course be to format the hard drive and re-install windows again, but where is the fun in that eh? =)
I would be thankful for any answer related to the issues. Cheers.
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Hello people. I was just wondering.. I downloaded and installed the latest livecd of kubuntu today. I rebooted the computer and booted the livecd (which I'm on right now). After a while I decided to paste a thing that I (thought I) had in my clipboard. I was kind of puzzled when the pasted text was something I had in my windows clipboard before burning and rebooting a couple of hours ago. Can anyone try to explain why and how that happend?
As far as I know the clipboard should be flushed after a reboot, and now I'm even in a different OS, so for me it's a double WTF? =)
Cheers for answers and hypotheses. ;)
