Supreme Cmdr

Every Fall, those wankers at the various networks get new shows. And just when we're getting used to them, they get yanked. So, vote for the shows you think are most likely to be cancelled by the networks before the end of the year or by the middle of next year. If you know of a show that has already been cancelled (e.g. Smith), please post about it in this thread.

It has? Where'd you read that? Well time to go and delete those unwatched Tivo recordings then.

How sad. I hope its not true. I never could understand how people can get so emotional about relationships to the extent that they are willing to end their careers, lives etc.

His family is not fake actually. They're just faking their past, who they are etc. quote: Originally posted by Scrivener: Bump up the danger and the chaos, already... and please, for the love of god, stop teasing us with the mysterious black guy subplot. I think they're trying to show how a small town would cope with such a catastrophe. So, stuff like escaped cons, gas, electricty, frazzled nerves, mysterious strangers etc are all par for the course because most are things we take for granted. I suppose the folks in Jericho never came to Florida, where preparing for hurricanes is a way of life. Yes, it could get boring really quickly, but we'll have to wait and see.

Well, I can certainly see why his post was deleted. He posted with an incorrect subject and in the wrong thread. There are tons of posts here about other space games. They each have a specific subject which identifies the product. Adding that link to an unrelated thread is definitely grounds for its deletion because it added nothing to the threads discussion. Thats like walking into a restaurant where they only allow dress pants. Then you saunter in with jeans and plonk yourself down at a table when the hostess wasn't looking. Of course, once she notices, you get tossed out by big burly men.

When its ready. And right now its not ready.

LOL!! You guys are whacked. Seriously. Stingray, the guys are pretty harmless. They're all bark with absolutely NO bite...only when fed raw meat of course. Seriously though, we only delete threads/posts if they don't pass the criteria already discussed. In fact, in the welcome post and in the tech support forum it clearly indicates why posts may be deleted. The rules are pretty straightforward. The rule of thumb is that if you suspect that what you're about to post can and may be deleted, you're probably right. In which case, you have two options. (A) Don't post it ( post it and don't cry foul when it gets deleted. Our search works wonders. Thats because we don't allow extraneous posts and because one a week I rebuild the search cache. There is NOTHING on this forum that you can't find with a two minute search. And thats because of the rules we have here. In saying that however, the lawless frontier (aka The politics & religion forum section) is in a class all by itself. Its a kind of no man's land and even I tend not to go in there. If any areas needs to have the majority of its posts deleted, its there. But guess what? They're all there and simply because - once again - we have specific rules and guidelines for posting heated material. So, just go with the flow and have fun. EVERYONE is welcome here, as long you are willing to play by the rules.

I took it down in order to fix a file. It will be back up when the next upcoming patch is released.

hehe, just sharing the love

Good for him. I always like him.

Which server are you guys playing on? Since the official servers have been offline for two weeks while Hypernia was moving, upgrading etc.

http://www.eff.org/IP/pnp/cablewp.php

LOL!!! That analogy is actually funny.

All UCAWA/UCSE game servers are back online.

aramike had originally closed this thread. I have reopened in order to give everyone the opportunity to say goodbye to horsey here who will soon be leaving us for greener pastures. As to Nomad, I have no clue what happened there. In fact, I didn't even know he was gone.

quote: Originally posted by Cruis.In: my wife gave birth by C-section to Joshua Justin Tyler Sampson today, thanks giving. 11 pounds. cute too

I have the last two episodes on Tivo. I'm going to catch them tonight, though not in HD.

"...I'll be back" he said, muttering under his breath

Yeah, right [ 10-10-2006, 12:25 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

Straight from the wtf? department

heh

For those of you setting up leased remote servers, here are a few tips to bear in mind. Most ISPs use stock OEM servers with on-board audio and graphics chips. The problem with this is that the on-board graphics chips are woefully inadequate and do not have pixel and vertex shader 1.1. This is why most games have [dumb] remote servers which do not do any graphics processing. Our games on the hand require this due to the fact that a graphics display is required when not running the server in console mode. There are a variety of these boards and 99% of them feature Intel chips. The most adequate is the 82865G graphics chip found on Intel 865G boards manufactured since late 2004. While inadequate, this chipset features Intel's so-called Intel Extreme Graphics 2 (yeah, I'm laughing too) chipset for video. The most popular boards using this 865G chipset are Intel's D865GBF board and the Asus P4P800-VM, P4P800-MX and similar variants from Intel, Asus and other OEM vendors. The 82865G graphics drivers will not run on Windows Server 2003. Installing the latest 14.17 (6.14.0010.4396) video driver for that board will prevent it from initializing. Yes, thats odd; considering that the OS is a variant of Windows XP Pro. So, your OS choices are limited to Windows 2000, Windows 2000 Server or Windows XP Pro. You will need to install all service packs, updates, a firewall etc. When leasing a server, make sure that you get a minimum P4 2.8 Ghz, 1GB RAM and an on-board graphics chip (Intel 865G or better). Naturally if you are getting a server that does not have on-board graphics or if you can opt for an add-in AGP graphics board, then you'd want to get one with pixel & vertex shader 1.1 or higher. After installing the server OS, service packs & updates, chipset drivers, audio/video drivers etc. You also need to install the latest DirectX 9.0c runtime. If you download the smaller web installer and run it, then it will only download the components required for your current OS. Since the 82865G graphics chip only has a reference video driver, our [updated] CardTester utility will report that pixel & vertex shader 1.1 was not detected, so the game won't run. Ignore it. That utility does not take the reference (software) drivers into account and only checks for hardware PS/VS shader support which most on-board (e.g. this Intel 82865G chipset) graphics do not have. After installing DirectX 9 (or higher), you can check if your hardware has software or hardware 3D support by running DXDIAG which comes with DirectX 9 runtime. Just go to Start/Run and type dxdiag, then go to the Display tab. The DirectDraw and Direct3D acceleration should say enabled. If they don't, then the detected graphics driver either does not do any hardware 2D/3D acceleration or those components of the driver are not enabled (which is what happens if you install the 82865G drivers on Windows Server 2003). Ensure that the desktop resolution for your remote server is set to 32-Bit color and at a minimum resolution of 800x600 with 1024x768 being the optimal. Before running the game, you need to remember that the server does not require any shader or audio processing. So, you should first run the single player game at 800x600 and disable sound, music, chatter as well as setting all graphics options to their lowest values. Then save and exit the game. Now when the mp server is started, it will use the minimal ucconfig.ini file. If you don't need to monitor your game world when the server is running, then you should run the server in console mode. Doing this on a powerful 3Ghz, 1GB server will also allow you to run two console servers (e.g. for either the same game or two different games i.e. UCAWA and UCSE). If you do this, make sure that each one has a different port number (ucsetupmp.ini). Naturally you already used the UCServerConfig tool to setup your server options, as well using one of several tools (e.g. ServerDoc) to ensure that your server is restarted if it crashes. If using a server monitoring utility, you might want to have it stop and start the server every 24hrs as this will reset the world and whatnot. [ 10-10-2006, 07:50 PM: Message edited by: Supreme Cmdr ]

The master server is back online. The game servers will be coming online during the week. Two of them are already back online.

When did this game come out? Because I just saw that an expansion pack just went Gold and is due out on Oct. 24th.