Gotten thus far that it's now playable for about 2 hours. Then memory usage tops 1.7Gb and the game starts to stutter. Doesn't matter if I put things on Ultra, Very High or just High. But at least, then a quick save & quit & restart fixes that.

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Uh, haven't managed to play FC4 online yet. The server seems to be missing. The FC forums are now constantly showing error 503. Looks like they got problems.

Nah, for my online gaming I do Elderscrolls Online or ESO for short. Which reminds me, I shouldn't forget to activate one of my game cards.

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Well, there's a new experience for me. For reasons unknown to me, after 4 posts on the Far Cry 4 forums, I have been IP banned there. Can't go anywhere near the forums. Thus far -- as far as I can see, but fingers crossed for we don't know how long this is gonna take -- I can still log in to the game itself.

Sigh.

Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click there

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Well, there's a new experience for me. For reasons unknown to me, after 4 posts on the Far Cry 4 forums, I have been IP banned there. Can't go anywhere near the forums. Thus far -- as far as I can see, but fingers crossed for we don't know how long this is gonna take -- I can still log in to the game itself.

Sigh.

Sorry. The administrator has banned your IP address. To contact the administrator click there

Whoa...banned? *huge eyes* YOU!? Do they know who they're dealing with?! :)

Must be because you know too much about how they've stuffed up the game. You've not been banned you've been silenced :/ Of this I approve NOT :( or they've stuffed up their forums... been a real blast this game for you hasn't it :) My commiserations - long may you NOT be cast out!

Speaking of banned......

I just would like to repost something that I shared with my teammates at Einstein.
Just so a few of you know where I am at with things at present.

"Even though I am currently at odds with my treatment at Seti, it does make sad to see the troubles they are currently dealing with.
Seti has always been my favorite project, and I wish it no ill will whatsoever.

I hope the winds of change blow favorably on Eric and the project recovery happens sooner rather than later. It is difficult for me to see the benchmark Boinc project struggling so hard to get back on it's feet. I do know that it is certainly not due to lack of effort or determination on their part.

I also know that if funding were not a problem, the Seti project would be running more robust hardware than they are able to muster at present. It is at times a miracle that they are able to sustain the level of performance that the project demands on the hardware they have on hand.

How ironic that my current split with the project came about during a fundraising effort by myself for Seti....."

Meow for now,
Mark

And this is how I have been responded to...............
Meooooooooooooooooooooooow......

Chris.............
You and I had been friends for a long time.
You sent treats to my kitties.

It seems to me that, just from looking inward from without, that you have been, as of late, rather a judegemental old fart.

I have seen your posts to more than a few, and you seem to be getting rather crusty. And angry, and judgemental.
My problems are not your own.
You are getting rather accusational in your posts.

Please deter./

I have a few deterrents in my kitty cache.

I rather think that my review, if done by a few more than adorational friends, would bring me back to my past stature.

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI]Meow..........[/meow]

Whoa...banned? *huge eyes* YOU!? Do they know who they're dealing with?! :)

LOL.

Must be because you know too much about how they've stuffed up the game. You've not been banned you've been silenced :/ Of this I approve NOT :( or they've stuffed up their forums... been a real blast this game for you hasn't it :) My commiserations - long may you NOT be cast out!

Nah, I only complained about the annoying radio that you can't turn off in vehicles. Hadn't even posted the memory leak post yet as I am still collecting data on that.

But today I go there and I am again magically unbanned. Again no communications in my direction, also no answer to my inquiry. What I read about it is this though, when someone is being annoying on the forums, Ubisoft tends to block a whole range of IP addresses, e.g. only the first one or two digits and then damned anyone who's being caught behind that.

So here they probably banned 84.000.000.000 or 84.105.000.000 and caught me along with it. But then also just about anyone with a Ziggo ISP account. Not really nicely done. I wonder if I complain at Ziggo about it, that they can complain in official capacity at Ubisoft.

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I am quite sure that this does not apply to anyone here :-)

No, I have the limited edition.

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It seems to me that, just from looking inward from without, that you have been, as of late, rather a judegemental old fart.

I have seen your posts to more than a few, and you seem to be getting rather crusty. And angry, and judgemental.
You are getting rather accusational in your posts.

Yep, especially after this: -

Well Jord, it looks like the wolf pack have followed me over to here.

...Up periscope.....

...Supertroll in sight.....

...fire one...

...fire two...

The same applies to Oscar and Carolyn...

Psst, Oscar is named after one of Mark's cats. Should be a clue.
Oscar and 'the new monk' were bought from the donation drive of August 2010 that got started by Mark.

'The new monk' got renamed to Carolyn, because the old database server was called Jocelyn and Joe Segur called for a continuation of the feminine name set. Carolyn got chosen because the guys at Seti liked it the most. It also resembles Carl Sagan's name in feminine form.

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Oh btw, are the bouncers on their teabreak at the door? It seems that the riff raff have sneaked in ...

So how did you slip in?

Oh btw, are the bouncers on their teabreak at the door? It seems that the riff raff have sneaked in ...

So how did you slip in?

OH, he supposes he is above us all...........LOL.
Chris is a fine fellow. I know that from experience. He once slipped the kitties some fine treats.
Yes, Oscar was named for a fine Maine Coon cat, lost way too early in life due to a cancer we could not cure. And in that name, he lives on.
I surely would not in any way harm his namesake even if I could.

So, no. I have had no hand in the current server malaise.

What I can do, and am able to do, is best left unsaid.
This is all on simple hardware gremlins, not my doing.

Just consider me Oddball......
And get me sixty feet of bridge.
Woof woof.
Meow.

Just consider me Oddball......
And get me sixty feet of bridge.
Woof woof.
Meow.

LOL, don't you mean 60 feet of Server kit?

Just consider me Oddball......
And get me sixty feet of bridge.
Woof woof.
Meow.

LOL, don't you mean 60 feet of Server kit?

Hey, I just work 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.
Just catching some rays, eating some cheese, ya know?
Einstein's kit seems to be having it's own malaise right now.....

Hey, I just work 'em, I don't know what makes 'em work.

I did a L2 course at the OU some years ago on microprocessors, which was pretty much at my max level of ability. I know what makes them work, just not sure I fully understand it as I would really want to. I also did Pascal programming at L2 and that was a bit easier, but it's so old hat these days. I keep thinking about looking at C++ which could be useful. Maybe one day.

My bit in programming was with Basic 4 on a business mainframe many years ago.
Twiddled the databases and got them to spit out the reports that I needed in the manner I wished them to. The consultants managed to muck up the works once in a while. I never did...LOL.

I can manage pretty well to get MS Access to produce what I want in formatted reports using Macros where needed, but haven't looked into VBA. But that is kiddies stuff compared to Informix or DB2, way above my league, although I understand the basic principles behind relational databases.

Not me.
I'll stick with trying to understand the basic principles behind kitties.
And I do rather well with that...LOL.
Petting = luv returned squared.

People,

Mark and I have had a little chat through private message. I am sorry if you feel threatened by him, but really, the constant reports on anything Mark writes are getting old. If you then feel he's so insulting in his answers, then do read the posts done by others in his direction as well and report those as well.

As long as the only reports we get are "Mark's done this" and "Mark's done that", we're going to ignore the reports. Well, I am. And as far as I know I seem to be the only moderator around here, I think Kath is snowed in, while Chris B is busy elsewhere. In any case, they also haven't signed up to hold your hand in case you find that a couple of posts are getting hot. That's what happens in discussions.

Of course, if you feel that can't be, you can always go over my head and email Dr. Anderson or Mr. Walton and complain. But they'll also tell you that these aren't the Seti forums and as long as the expletives are kept to a bare minimum (rather not have them at all), a good heated discussion between two people should be possible, even if one of them is Mark.

Now, behave. All of you.
Or I'll use one of Chris S's brooms on ya.

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Looks like Carolyn playing up again...

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare boinc_real_escape_string() (previously declared in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/db.inc:177) in /disks/carolyn/b/home/boincadm/projects/sah/html/inc/boinc_db.inc on line 710