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Sounds like possibly a bad install. Did you read the Installation section of readme.txt? Also be sure you have the latest version of BF1942 installed. While it may or may not work on older versions, I have not tested WWII Reality on previous versions and do not support it. The latest version is 1.61...

Sorry, no. I never got the help I needed from anyone affected and have since moved on to other things.

Hi Ategrent. Thanks for the suggestion! By looking at the to-do list I had no plans to add it. Unfortunately I have no intention to return to working on WWII Reality any time in the near future. I would like to, but BF1942 modding was just a hobby and my focus has switched to projects that give me r...

Oh hi! Sorry about the late response, I sort of left my forum for dead, but I guess I need to check it more often now that I'm making apps that get attention and point people to my site. It may help if you get the stacktrace of the error using an app such as CatLog and send it to me. In CatLog, sear...

This thread is to help Thereians keep in touch after the closing of the world. Sites These sites are specifically There related. http://karille.com http://profilesgonewild.org http://therefriends.com http://thumdar.com Groups & Lists Life After There (Facebook) Pilot_51's There list (Twitter) Ka...

Post your screenshots here. Preferably they should be cool or funny or weird, but anything goes.

I'll start off with this chaotic screenshot of C&C3: Tiberium Wars:

It took me awhile, but as of March 25 I got it from eBay for a total of $4.04, plus I was able to register it on Steam so I have the best of both worlds (DVD and Steam).

I responded to your email about the lag problem. As for the lack of blur, thank you. I'd say it was actually easier for me to use the unblurred 3D model than a blurred overlay image as some games or BF1942 mods do it. I just tweaked some values, while the other option would've been to get permission...

I've decided to get the Wikimedia software installed on the web server. The primary reason I wanted to do this was to help me organize information and research for my new BF1942 mod and so other people can better help with the research. Eventually it might even come in handy for hard-to-find informa...

It was canceled, the ratings for the first episode went through the floor. It's a shame really, I wanted to find out what happened.

Ok, I've been reluctant to do anything about this, but it needs to be put on the table. Episode 5 has been in editing stages since it was recorded nearly 4 months ago. It only takes about a day to edit it, but my lack of motivation has caused me to not pick it back up after taking a break in the mid...

No alpha or beta stuff, just release numbers. That way it's much easier for me to handle versioning and I don't need to deal with deciding when to take it out of beta. All of my releases, even to one person, get a release number and will be publicly available right here in this thread. That easily p...

Thanks, I bookmarked it. If I decide I want any of those skins I'll be sure to ask the creator or see if it comes with an agreement that lets me use it.

This thread is primarily for small bits of information, links, and the download. For a full description of this mod as well as media and download mirrors, check out the ModDB page . The changes list has been moved to the Wiki at http://pilot51.com/wiki/BF1942:_WWII_Reality Pick from any one of these...

I don't know of any major bugs other than replays still sucking (no controls like rewind or fast-forward). I do know however that I get slaughtered every time I go online against real people, I'm always rushed within 5 minutes before I can do anything. I put building, research, and defense before an...

I randomly decided to compare all the compression formats and methods and all the other technical stuff that 7-Zip supports compressing into, as well as the Windows Compressed Folder. Keep in mind that while 7-Zip doesn't support compressing into any other formats than the ones I compared with, it d...

I've just created a homebrew database (HBDB) to be used in DSOrganize. It doesn't have much now, I'm still learning how to set everything up, but I'll add to it over time with some of my favorite homebrew and any that people request. All homebrew in this database is tested on my R4DS. I probably won...

In this post I have all the details of all my gaming servers, even the ones I rarely put up. This is done with the help of http://game-monitor.com . 68.40.243.145:14567&style=3&text=FFFFFF&link=00EEEE&back=003333&border=000000&body=000000 68.40.243.145:7777&style=3&te...

Release 3 is out and the bug is fixed! Give it a try! Link and info is in the first post.

Additional details can be found at http://pilot51.com/wiki/Stunting_Grounds_(BF1942_map) . Here are all the available downloads of my Stunting Grounds map for Battlefield 1942. Latest version: Stunting Grounds v0.32 (SkyDrive, Zip, 8.11MB) Stunting Grounds v0.32 (SkyDrive, 7-Zip , 4.38MB) Old versio...

I actually posted these on DCEmu a couple days ago. Games (not including ports, includes clones): AmplituDS (my second and current homebrew addiction) Warcraft: Tower Defense (my first homebrew addiction) Meteora Blubb 3D Worms War Online Dice Soldiers (DiceWars needs to fix online before I consider...

A simple question that might not be so simple to answer.
Vote for what is more contagious for you. If you don't know, vote for what you think is more contagious for the majority of people.

The screenshots were impressive, and now here's a video of it in action. It doesn't appear as impressive as it did in the screenshots, especially when looking at the helicopters, but the framerate is smooth and it still looks like fun. As long as there's online multiplayer and the reviews don't suck...

I thought it would be handy to create a list of downloadable free and open source software, particularly software that has a productive purpose and replaces the more popular paid software. I will not include any software that has paid licenses or paid versions which add features that personal users ...

That sounds about right.

It's been a month since Episode 3 and finally Episode 4 of Gamers' Consideration Initiative is done! Sorry about the echo you might hear during some of Jason's talking, it was a hardware loopback issue on my end that I failed to fix before recording, fortunately it wasn't too serious. At least it gi...

I didn't ban you, and since I agree with the ban I'm leaving it up to the admins and whoever banned you to decide whether you're unbanned. Since you created another account both avoiding your 5 day ban and impersonating me, I'm going to suggest that you remain banned and agree with the decision made...

Yeah, but most crashes are caused by something which can be prevented, such as switching between specific levels or something. If you notice what you think is a crash, where the server doesn't come back up, let me know if you see anything which could possibly be the cause. I'll forward any details t...

I've been slowly working on new themes, but it's a lot more complicated than phpBB2 was, so it'll be awhile. I'll see if I can get something worked out by the end of the week. I'll also look into adding other skins which I could do as soon as today.
As for ranks, I'll throw something together.

Done. I noticed the lag issue and I was just waiting for the server to go empty before I lowered it to 4, but it crashed instead. Hopefully that'll fix the major lag, but as far as the crashing I'm not sure. Unfortunately there's no automatic crash recovery, so once it crashes it stays down until I ...

That's good to hear, I was wondering if this upgrade would fix your problem. I had no doubts, phpBB3 is way too different to retain that kind of problem.

We need an image for GCI which will help us stand out. Here are the guidelines. Follow these guidelines as closely as possible and the chances of it being accepted will be very high. The image must be 300x300 resolution and look good at 75x75 resolution. Main subjects: Gaming and technology Deeper s...

This is a rather simple question with a simple poll. You can just vote, as I expect most people would be doing, but I encourage you to post a more detailed opinion about why you like or dislike them. It would also be interesting to hear how you found out about them or got interested in them. Me? I f...

I've added Gamers Consideration Initiative to the podcasts section of Digg.
You can digg GCI in general or you can digg any of the available episodes.

Also new is Digg BBcode!

I've created a spreadsheet comparing many applications which support voice chat. Anyone looking into options for voice chat should take a look at it to find which application best meets their needs. If anyone notices anything incorrect or could be described clearer (especially blank areas), I want t...

It's just over a week late, but Episode 3 of Gamers' Consideration Initiative is done! New to this episode is a new co-host, another new feature, and we're using a different voice chat application! Shownotes Recorded June 9th, 2007 Size: 16.4MB Runtime: 0:35:55 Hosts: Pilot_51 and theONE Software us...

DragonMinded suggested that I take questions from the listeners for developer interviews, so here I am with a thread for you to post your questions to developers. You can suggest developers to be interviewed, or if you are a developer you can ask to be interviewed. Target developers are those who ma...

Episode 2 of Gamers' Consideration Initiative is done, and this time with music! Shownotes Recorded May 19th, 2007 Size: 31.2MB Runtime: 1:08:14 Hosted by Pilot_51 with Jason9811. Software used: Skype and Audacity Intro music: Rakion "BG_GoldSwordMode" Topics Final Fantasy IV coming to DS ...

The basic definition is obviously someone who plays games. There's different kinds of gamers such as hardcore gamers and casual gamers, but that's not the question here... I think a slightly more specific definition of a gamer is someone who plays games regularly, any more specific would probably be...

Just check out http://battlefield2.filefront.com for all Battlefield mods.

That's my favorite BFV mod too, although one of very few I've played.

I've had the same problem but it always worked when I resubmitted it. It's probably something to do with a mod I installed, but I already uninstalled it. It will probably need to wait until I install phpBB3 unless it proves to be a serious problem.

I also have the Secret Weapons expansion, but I rarely ever play it.
For UT2004, I get Deathball from http://deathball.net and anything else from http://ut2004files.com.

I don't know what the problem was, I never had problems posting. I'm still not sure if that was the problem why nobody posted since I added a couple mods a week ago or if they simply stopped coming. As long as the forums prove to be in working condition, I guess I should leave it untouched until I'm...

I've started using Ustream.tv , which is a free service for streaming live video with audio. It's better than Shoutcast in the way that it distributes the stream to the listeners, because instead of the streamer taking all the load of the listeners, the Ustream.tv servers take all that load and the ...

Are you frustrated with the quality, latency, or licensing of TeamSpeak or Ventrilo? Today I found an open source voice chat program called Mumble (Murmer is the name of the server app) that I find to be better than both. The quality and latency are comparable to Skype if not better and the channels...

I'm considering making the raw and uncut version of future episodes of Gamers' Consideration Initiative available to anyone who pays for it. That means you could have it sent directly to you just minutes after recording in all its messed up glory, including any additional recordings (there were 3 pa...

Episode 1 of Gamers' Consideration Initiative is finally completed! Shownotes Recorded May 6th, 2007 Size: 49.6MB Runtime: 1:48:29 Hosted by Pilot_51 with Jason9811. Software used: Skype and Audacity Topics E3 2007 PS3 price drop? Microsoft channel stuffing Sony falling back on the 6-Axis? Throwing ...

Idiotic... I see. Well, as long as it's not very distasteful (as in racial remarks or swearing) I'll pretend it's all a joke.

Eh... Let it go LN, it's not nearly as bad as many threads I've seen.

I never knew Quake, CS, and Doom made it to consoles. Well, maybe I knew about Doom being ported to SNES or something... I know Quake and Doom was ported to DS, but DS isn't a console.

i just wanna know if yur going to let the site go or keep updating the site Somewhere between that. I'll update as I see necessary, but most of the time I'll probably just let it go. ps is thre a place whre yu an suggest things to change in the site or will yu create one Anything about the site, in...

If someone keeps posting new threads for the same topic, I'll probably warn him once and ban him if he continues. I'll probably do the same for people that post new threads about the same thing as another active thread. The forum is supposed to sort the threads with the most recent reply at top, and...

It cost me about $70 for the case and fans and another some $10 for the cold cathodes with the fan controller. That was a good 3 years ago.

Most forums I go to never delete inactive threads and they don't have much of a problem with duplicate threads. There's an amazing feature called "search" which I'll encourage people to use before making a new post. I'm the kind of guy that doesn't like getting rid of stuff because I see t...

I think I can top it...

Jason has a lot of skill in graphics, as you can tell from the link he gave to his site. He'll probably do a banner, I'm sure he said he would.

Here's a list of the installed forum mods, the mods I'm planning or considering, and wanted mods. For some of the ones that I'm planning or considering, I might wait until they're needed or people request it. Installed: 4/28/07: Bot Indexing Mod 1.3.1 by Raimon and addit 5/08/07: Ajax ShoutBox 0.1.5...

The developers can't do everything themselves, there is always the need for people that know a lot about business and law and that's what the publishers do, it would be too hard to have many people both making games and publishing them and protecting their works from being stolen by other companies....

I definitely plan to. It'll take a very serious drawback to stop me from getting it.

Remember that larger map I mentioned that I said was far too big? Well, it turns out it's perfect when I increase the fog distance from 400 to 2000, which stretches about half the map or if you're in the middle you can see nearly the entire map. Now you can actually see ships far beyond the shooting...

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Epic would have to be my current favorite because of how much they've done for gaming as a whole, I'm sure you saw that coming. I've only played UT2003/2004 and that's enough to give me a good idea of how great they really are as a gaming business, the content and modding flexibility makes it by far...

UT2004 beats Halo hands down, there's even a Halo mod for UT2004. I wonder what the best mod for Halo is... Probably not that great.

From what I gather, the law at least used to be that you needed to wait some 90 years after the author died for software to be free in the public domain, but I think that was reduced to 15 years recently. The publisher could also release it at any time, but most of them don't do that for a long time...

http://files.filefront.com/Battlefield+1942+v1619+Patch/;3927326;/fileinfo.html http://files.filefront.com/Battlefield+1942+v1619+to+v161b+Patch/;3753283;/fileinfo.html You need both of those. The first is a full 1.6 patch and the other is a 1.61b incremental patch. Don't ask me why they didn't make...

I understand the difference between publisher and developer, although for certain aspects I'm unsure which has the role, so I usually mention both (as I did in my last post about Epic/Atari). EA is much better handling original EA titles and they care considerably less about sequels, only continuing...

Some of you probably know my first map, Stunting Grounds, which I've put a lot of time into over the years. Well, I've made another map, this time much simpler and I doubt it can ever get very complicated since it's pretty much just water and ships. The compressed file size is very small, so dial-up...

We're more worried about Vista games not working on XP, such as Halo 2.

If the games I want are too expensive for me, there's plenty of free games and demos that satisfy my gaming needs. I also have a wish list that sometimes works for getting retail games without me dumping out cash, it's actually how I got most of my games. I don't need to break any laws or even go ne...

BF1942 happens to be my favorite game of all time, and BF2 is pretty good too. I agree EA is juicing it too far (as with all the games they own) with so many sequels and expansion packs that do less than typical mods and cost money. BF2142 is going too far with the BF sequels, I liked BF for the his...

I figured that the best way to stay synchronized is to have meetings, and they would be especially important in pivotal moments. I'm going to schedule the first meeting in TeamSpeak, open to anyone who comes, for April 30th unless I hear that it's a bad day for other people and a better day can be d...

Critical updates will be the last thing to go, and considering how long they supported critical updates for 98 and 2000 (until last year), I doubt they would cut critical support for XP so soon considering how incredibly popular it has been. The only reason they would cut critical support this year ...

That sounds like themes instead of effects. Isn't Aero the glass effect? I'm sure it can be disabled without losing the Vista theme, sorta like what the pirates get with illegal copies.

How difficult is it to disable Aero? I don't think it would be much harder than disabling XP effects, which involves no effort at all, just maybe 20 seconds of time.

Microsoft will support XP at least a few more years. It took them about 5 years after XP released to drop support for 98 and 2000, there's no way they'll drop support for XP within a year of the Vista release, especially with the current condition of Vista drivers and various bugs.

Thanks! I'll try to keep it going at least as long as I have this hosting. No worries about the domain, I have another 7 or 8 years on it. Starting a forum takes almost no effort compared to starting a podcast. I actually started this forum for the purpose of the podcast, mostly for promotion and in...

Sounds good. Be thorough about it and it'll probably be discussed in the podcast. Don't forget to try different Vista visual effects settings to see how much of an impact it causes.
It would be funny if the results show Vista to be better, but I have my doubts.

I have a few old Win95/98 games that don't work on XP even with compatibility, one of them is because it calls for a swap file or something that only exists in 95 or 98. I saw Vista Home Basic in the store for $100 for the upgrade and $200 for the full. I also found on Newegg that there's a "Sy...

For those of you curious about what I use or interested on getting into webcasting, here's some details about the hardware and software that I use for this webcast. Many things are not final and will probably change over time, especially in the early beginnings. Audio file Format: MP3 Default: Mono,...

I need to lay out my webcast plans for you guys so you have an idea what's going on. Some of my goals might be a little far-fetched, but it's certainly possible and it gives you an insight on some things I want to get into. Regular schedule: Episodes should average bi-weekly, sometimes weekly or mon...

Just as Allen started making a comeback and really improving things, TDS hits a pothole and Allen is nowhere to be found. Could this be the end of TDS? Find out in next weeks' episode of TDS Files!

Yeah, MPH takes just about every game mode from UT2004.

It's probably as close to free as a retail game gets, not so much for price but for content. The demo is very well made and compatible with the full version and they constantly release free content. The CD isn't required to play (unlike literally every single other modern game out there) and they pr...

I never did any formal tests, I'm just going by memory. All I can remember testing for sure was UT2004 and I'm sure I tried a few others but don't remember which ones.

Actually I put up this forum because I noticed TDS was down. It's probably been down all day.

According to my tests with the Vista Beta 2, that's not true. I tried a few games without problems, one of them I remember being UT2004.

Very funny... How about your real specs?

P.S. You ruined it with 64KB RAM being in a 200MHz PC.

Here's my specs... Main system OS: Linux Mint 17 "Qiana" 64-bit Motherboard: Foxconn C51XEM2AA-8EKRS2H [socket AM2] CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (Windsor core) @ 2.2GHz RAM: 7GB DDR2 800 [set timing: 5-5-5-12] 4GB DDR2 800 (PC-6400) Kingston ValueRAM KVR800D2N6/4G [rated timing: CL6] G.Skil...

All recent and future plans for the web server will be listed here. 6/19/07: Enabled email activation to avoid users using fake addresses and to reduce spammers. June: Hosting will be upgraded and moved to a new server. The forums will be temporarily disabled and backed up before the transfer to ens...

Can you specify which applications you'll provide?

If you have any questions about anything in my site that isn't very time sensitive ("when will you update this?" is time sensitive), ask them here and I'll keep a list of my answers in this post. Q1: How can I become a mod? A1: Most of the time I would only be open for a new mod when there...

I was planning on that, but it doesn't belong with the rules.

Follow these rules if you want to stay on these forums. No illegal activity such as providing or asking for pirated software No adult content No evading word censors No threats, unless it's clearly a joke or not a serious matter such as "I'm going to kill you in BF2" No creating multiple a...

I only used it for my name, that's not the title of some project, and the town name was Area 51. I use the same name literally everywhere I go online, which makes it easier for my friends to find me or so they know if it was me that they saw somewhere. It actually happened on TechTV when an episode ...

I never name something after me except for placeholder names. Although "Pilot_51's site" is an exception because of how personal it is, like a blog. I dislike using my name for titles and I usually have trouble coming up with something unique that I like, which is a big reason I'm asking f...

I think I'll let popularity of topics determine that, I wouldn't want to create a bunch of forums that end up going unused.

I've already done the brainstorming with Jason9811 and narrowed down to our favorite, but we want to see what names you can come up with. The goal for a name is to be interesting and unique, and of course related to what's discussed (gaming and technology). The uniqueness of the name is determined b...

Want to help out with the webcast? Post with what you're willing to help with. Positions are listed below. Not all positions need to be filled and don't hesitate to sign up for a position that already meets the requirement. Some positions can be temporary for as little as one episode, but they will ...

If anyone has any suggestions for styles, post them here. It would be especially helpful if they were pre-made, nothing that I would need to customize myself, but I also want them to be generalized or related to the main topics covered. If my opinion on it is neutral or better, I'll add it. Availabl...