Computer games bugs and conflicts

Conflicts

• Terraria and Mumble (creative sound card bug?)
• Grand Theft Auto IV and Mumble (same as Terraria?)
• Grand Theft Auto IV and Process Explorer (securom restriction)
• Battlefield 3 and Process Explorer (punkbuster bug)

Bugs

• Singularity has no sound on my Audigy 1. Tried installing OpenAL but didn't help. Works with another sound card.
• Screen in BattleField Bad Company 2 sometimes flashes black frames. Sometimes screen becomes black for several seconds. This is on my GTX 275. Tried several different NVidia drivers versions (even betas) with no success. Very annoying bug.
• I couldn't play Battlefield 3 CO-OP mode unless I forward port 3659 from the router to my computer. I can then host the game and invite another player. I didn't have to make a rule in Windows Firewall. It probably already works if UPnP-style NAT traversal is enabled on your router, but I highly discourage its use due to potential security problems.

Terraria vs Mumble Conflict

There is currently a problem starting Terraria when you also have Mumble running.

Apparently that a lot of people have problems starting the game, but no one seems to be sure of the issue. Some say it's because of the .NET or XNA framework and others say it could be a conflict with creative sound cards.

Of course, you should check if you have the latest .NET and XNA framework installed. Be sure to have the latest Creative drivers for your card (mine installed automagically with Windows Update optional updates). You could try verifying Terraria game cache integrity under Steam.

I was getting a "Terraria stopped working" window with the follwing details:
Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    Terraria.exe
  Application Version:    1.0.4.0
  Application Timestamp:    4eea0a07
  Fault Module Name:    RTSSHooks.dll
  Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0
  Fault Module Timestamp:    4d4fb7eb
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    0000a5f2
  OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:    3084
  Additional Information 1:    0a9e
  Additional Information 2:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
  Additional Information 3:    0a9e
  Additional Information 4:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

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A workaround is to stop Mumble, start Terraria, then restart Mumble. This conflict could very well happen with something else than Mumble. I have a Creative sound card (good old Audigy 1), but I don't know how to fix this issue so I am unsure if it's related.

What kind of sound card do you have? Did you have the same issue using another sound-related software?

EDIT: Not just Terraria! Grand Theft Auto 4 also crashes on start if Mumble is open.

aptitude settings

It is important to have a valid and updated sources.list to be able to search in the repos.

cygwin packages and binairies search

For example, searching for strings utility:
cygcheck -p strings.exe

Best to add .exe if you know it's an executable --- it will narrow the search.

ref: http://www.trueblade.com/knowledge/finding-which-cygwin-package-contains-a-particular-file

sylpheed > thunderbird

Thunderbird a des problèmes (ou du moins j'ai des problèmes avec):
  Malgré plusieurs minutes de navigation entre une vingtaine de folders différents, je n'ai pas trouvé pourquoi une icône de nouveau message s'affiche quelquefois à tort. Ce n'est pas à cause du spam. Très énervant.
  En plus, je me retrouve quelques autres fois avec des messages de 1969 contenant des conversations récentes. Je n'aime pas cette corruption de données!


Sylpheed à rescousse

auto fetch mail
Préférences générales
  Onglet Réception

• Relève automatique
• Relève au démarrage

minimize to tray, ne pas afficher d'erreur
Préférences générales
  Onglet Détails

• Minimiser dans la zone de notification
• Afficher ou minimiser en cliquant sur l'icône dans la zone de notification (la minimisation en cliquant ne semble pas fonctionner mais cela est peut-être dû au focus-follows-mouse.)

  Onglet Détails
     Onglet Autres

• Ne pas afficher de fenêtre d'erreur lors d'une erreur de réception

ne vérifier que les nouveaux messages dans les INBOX
Configuration
Édition des comptes...
  Pour chaque compte,
    Édition
    Onglet Réception

•     Vérifier seulement INBOX lors de la réception

filtres
...


EDIT 2010-03-01: Sylpheed fait chier quand on veut deleter des messages sur un account gmail; ça donne une erreur. Je ne sais pas encore ce qu'est le problème. Est-ce que ça existe un mail client qui suck pas?

mp

For Win7x64: foobar2000 http://www.foobar2000.org
For Linux: mplayer, for a lack of anything better (rythmbox and the one from KDE never impressed me)
For both: vlc for video

openvpn

great doc on how to configure a bridged openvpn server on ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OpenVPN

pmp

Got a Cowon D2+ 16GB. It seems picky about mp3 tags and "bad" tags make it show up Unknown for everything under the Music Library even if only some of them are bad. Sometimes though, like 1 in 10 tries, it showed most of them correctly. This is a real pita and I though the thing was broken at first.

Using foobar2000 or mp3tag we can retag mp3 files correctly. Using only APEv2 seems fine.

I did not have any problem with flac files.

I should soon upload some ogg files in it and see if there's any problem.

audio ripz and burnz

For Win7x64;
Exact Audio Copy.
Configure to detect drive feature, offset.
Alt-G for freedb download.
F4 to detect pretrack gaps.
Make cue sheet with one FLAC file for entire album (action -> cue sheet... -> compressed)
Verify AccurateRip results.

Open cue sheet file with Foobar2000.
Right-click Convert... to convert to multiple ogg files. (how to normalize?)

Now we can use cue/flac to play at home or make copies and ogg to put on portable media player.

Sadly, foobar2000 doesn't seem to have a decent writer component (it lacks CD-TEXT support). To make gapless audio copies of cue/flac, use maybe burrrn.net or cdrtools. Infrarecorder gives errors about last track length (?). cdrtfe is a nice frontend and the setup file includes common decoders (but can't make Data DVDs AFAIK).

EAC does not produce a correct cue sheet file when using compressed image (says type is WAVE). Foobar2000 doesn't seem to mind but ironically, EAC's write feature can't deal with it.

vi

Ça vaut la peine d'apprendre à utiliser vim.

Et si c'est rendu vraiment amusant, on peut même le faire sous Firefox:

http://www.vimperator.org/vimperator 

La souris est souvent plus rapide pour cliquer sur les liens voulus versus la numération que nous offre la touche "f" dans vimperator, mais le tab management est bien plus rapide.

Si on s'ennuie tout de même de l'address bar et des menus, on peut faire:

:set guioptions=mT

Il faut écrire cette dernière ligne dans ~/.vimperatorrc pour s'assurer de sauvegarder la configuration.

Je vais peut-être essayer muttator bientôt, le plugin pour Thunderbird.

Update: voir ~/.vimrc pour config.