Bargeld

Scores are reset every other Wednesday (today).

Yes, usually it's something running in the background like iTunes, Instant Messengers (yahoo, msn, etc.), anti-virus/anti-spyware, etc...

change the PLAYER NAME (it sounds like you are changing the PROFILE NAME... which is only for you to separate the profiles in the list)

awesome, have fun! [closed]

http://www.ssforum.net/c/index.php?showtopic=6912

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Make sure your name starts with a letter or number ONLY. Do not start your name with special characters such as _-$%&& etc.

not a solution to the prob, but a couple comments/suggestions: 1) I've never heard of or seen a PC list CPU usage above 100%. If it is doing that for you, it is definately fishy. If you are referring to the PID (1680 in your screenshot) that is the 'Process ID'. 2) Sort the process list by "image name" in order to select a process easily. Do this by clicking the !@#$%^&*le bar for "image name", above the process list. 3) Uninstalling may not have been completely successful if continuum.exe was running during the time of uninstall. You can't delete an .exe or .dll etc if it is in use. Next time you want to do a full uninstall/reinstall, make sure you delete/move the entire Continuum directory, and then reinstall in a different directory.

my bad... styleXP, not windows themes http://www.ssforum.net/c/index.php?showtopic=7442

windows themes

Agreed, try plugging in and see what happens... I've been playing wirelessly for over a year now, on a laptop, with < 0.3% Ploss and 110-120 ave pings from FL to SSCX (Seattle, WA). To address SOS's comment... negative packetloss CAN be very bad. What it means is that your packets are being received out of order (out of time) and so the server must interpolate (fake) the packets that it decides to throw away. Example: If you have -100% packetloss, that means that it is throwing away 50% of your packets. (for each 1 it sends, there is one that doesn't make it properly... so you are 50/50). This mean that the server is receiving 50% less usable data OVERALL, compared to the average player.

3d sound is buggy, I've only heard (and experienced) bad things. Turn off 3d sound!

it's definately a permissions problem. The zone files aren't able to be downloaded and stored in the Continuum/Zones directory. Can you log into windows as an administrator (or an account with admin priveledges)?

yes, add yourself to the sysop.txt file OR, in your profile password, add *sysopp!@#$%^&*word (using the sysop password that you set in the server.ini) to the end of your normal password. i.e. - Name: Bargeld password: gamep!@#$%^&**sysopp!@#$%^&*word Set the userID to -1 in the zone files.

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if you download at 800 Mbits per sec for 10 secs, then download 0 bits for the next ten secs... you have a speed of 400 Mbits/sec. !@#$%^&* yeah, you download fast as !@#$%^&*... but it would suck for gaming. Just an extreme example to prove a point... High thoroughput != rock solid connection.

sigh, i answered that on another post within the last month... Basically continuum sits in the background starting and shuttin down over and over again. When you go to shut down windows, it evenually is "shutting down" while continuum is "trying to load" and thus it throws an error. Please be aware that using the "run as" is not a 100% solution, it is a workaround which has KNOWN failings. Remove your ad-blockers and anti-spyware and the other useless crap that no one with any common sense needs. Browsing a web site can ONLY leave cookies behind. Cookies can be used to track your breadcrumbs from site to site, but is otherwise harmless. The only way you get pop-ups and other odd behavior in windows is by installing ad-ware laden (free) software. You get what you pay for.

Since we are on the topic of frame rate and human vision, I will share what I know. 1) The human eye interprets constant motion down to 12 fps. Anything lower than that stands out as 'odd' 2) It's not the low frame rate (at 25 or 30 fps) that the brain has problems interpreting. It's the inconsistancy of it. It's the fact that games are rendered in real time, and the frame rates are constantly changing based on what is on screen. Basically you will have the same problem if your frame rate is jumping from 90 to 45 as you would if you were jumping from 45 to 30. 3) The basis of the above statement comes from the fact that film (in the theater) is at 24 fps. Television is broadcast at 29.97 fps (in the US) and at 25 fps in Europe. There are no problems with the brain interpreting it because it is a constant frame rate... there are no fluctuations, and therefore your brain never has a problem with it. I don't want to get into interlacing and frame doubling, so lets just leave it at that. As far as the problem which began this post... there IS a solution. Try older drivers. Try control-alt-del and kill every process that is not a critical system process. Check check check. There is a culprit somewhere, and I seriously doubt it is the fault of that specific card or the game or SP2. References: http://amo.net/NT/02-21-01FPS.html http://www.macintouch.com/framerates.html

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this is not firewall related... maybe this helps: http://www.ssforum.net/c/index.php?showtopic=7442

Are you using a skin or theme for windows? I've seen that cause this problem. Remove the windows XP theme/skin.

Make sure your name starts with a letter or number... no special charactes like: &^#$%

sigh, that is covered elswhere, and the .dll isnt the problem... what is happening, is that continuum is continually opening and shutting down, that's why it bounces in task manager. Then, you decide to shutdown (while continuum continues to open and close) and eventually the system WILL be attempting to shutdown when continuum is trying to open. So windows whines that the .dll !@#$%^&*ociated with continuum won't run because windows is shutting down. General forum hint: beware information from 'unregistered' users. 100% of the time, it has been some "anti" spyware or "anti" virus app that doesn't like continuum, or vice versa. Disable/uninstall/allow continuum in each of those types of programs that you run. Eventually it will run, when you figure out which app is the offender.

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you will find, by searching the forum, that this issue is a common, recurring error. The culprit, many times, is an antivirus or anti-spyware app that needs to have continuum added to it's 'allowed programs' list.