Slackering off
by Chris on November 26th, 2007 @ 1:11 pm - Tag (Games, Life) 2 Comments. 0 Views
So I’ve been slacking off recently with updating my blog. Most of my evenings have been taken up with building my new computer, which i might add is now complete. It’s a beast that I’ve fittingly named ‘Hellish Moose’, specs below.
Case - Zalman GT1000
Cool - Zalman Reserator XT (D-Tek Block)
PSU – Galaxy 850W
Screen - Dell 2407WFP-HC
Mobo - Evga A1
CPU - QX6850
GPU - Evga 8800GTX BP
RAM - Quad2X4096-8500C5DF
HDD - 2xRaptorX 150gb (in Raid0)
SPU - X-Fi Xtreme Gamer
3DMark06 – 13,350 (no oc)
So naturally with a spanking new computer i bought a load of new system demanding PC games. Of course Crysis was first on my list to see how badly it would bring my computer to it’s knees, also UT3 for some chaotic fun and then CoD4…and here the problems start.
Steam as of late has done a fantastic job of impressing me. The launch of Orange box was smooth, the addition of community features was fantastic. So with that in mind i purchased CoD4 over steam. It download an ran perfectly…for the first two days, then i was hit with the most informative error message…EVER. “This game is currently unavailable”, sorry come again?! This isn’t a MMO, nore does CoD4 have an online profile, so why can’t i play a game that sitting on my hard drive.
There were many solutions going around to fix the problem but nothing definitive. In the end changing the language to french then back to English worked for me, can’t tell you why but it did. So it ran once again, then Punk Buster updated and now see’s Steam’s overlay as a hack, Punk Busters advice…Turn it off. Awesome integration there guys. Then Punk Buster moaned about Kaspersky blocking one or more of it’s connections. Again Punk Busters advice…turn it off. Yes I’m really going to do that.
I finally figured out that the only thing interfering with Punk Busters was the Proactive Defense program for the registry. So i just have to remember to disable that when playing CoD4, or not play on Punk Buster enabled servers which are few and far between. Not ideal but it’s a quick fix to play such an awesome game.
I just hope Punk Buster and Steam communicate a bit more with each other to solve this problem quickly and create a system of testing for future updates.
There are 2 Responses to “Slackering off”
#2 Chris 
- 09 March, 2:46 PM
Yep that picture did originally come here. 
Guess i should start watermarking my images now. 
#3 윈앤위™ | 블로그 사이트 최근 엔트리 
- 05 June, 7:08 AM
이미지 클릭시 확대 웹 서핑중에 우연히 발견Chris의 블로그를 방문했는데, 2007년 11월이라 대략 6개월전의 웹로그이지만 블로깅까지 팽개치고 저녁마다 시간을 내어 조립한 자신의 PC를 공개한 웹로그를 보았다. 잘만(Zalman)이 만든 수냉식 쿨러를
#1 GT1000 QuadGT [jokeri71] - Hardware.Info Forum
- 09 March, 4:02 AM