-TK421--Bane

Hi everyone! Wow, long time no see. Well my long absence on the FA server is a consequence of having a day job, getting a car and moving houses , the outcome of the latter being no broadband Alas ye olde fashioned modem internet gaming is still way too expensive in Poland. So here I am at work (last day this year, too - I'm on vacation starting tomorrow, yay!) and I see this person of the year thread. I voted for Doc. Anyone who has ever played with this guy will understand me perfectly Oh, and Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2005 to everyone in case I'm offline for months again Peace. Bane

You mean the one with the fish?

http://bathroomgangsta.w.interia.pl/mac/gator_rocks.gif Need I say more? I guess so - thanks Gator! You're our hero. Peace. Bane PS. Thanks Socky for the inspiration.

Ditto.

Yes, I know they are default. I just wanted to do it the easy way, without messing with FA. Now it seems the easiest way is indeed reainstalling it. *Sigh*

Well, I can't download caen, willow, armory or basrah, and those maps just don't work. Can someone host them for a while? I hate to sit on my butt, watching my favorite maps go by... >_<

Some time ago, having problems with tc_basrah, tc_caen and obj_willow, advised by Mac I deleted those maps from my FA folder. I was supposed to download them from the server during the game using the fast map download utility. But now everytime I try to connect while one of those maps is in play, I get an error saying the game cannot continue without the map or some similar message. My question is - is fast map download disabled? And if it is - what now? Peace.Bane

It seems you have exams everyday then, Whippet. I haven't seen you on the server like since winter, up until now Did you pass?

I play FA on a regular basis... on the weekends, since I got work throughout the week.

Come on, he just doesn't have a fly to unzip, give him a break! Wait, is that what you actually had in mind?

Mmm, cheese. Speaking of which last month I started working for a company called Stanley. All of you home improvement kind of guys probably know Stanley Tools and such. Well, they moved their accounting from all over Europe to Poland. That's where I work. Not a dreamjob either, but it's OK for starters I guess, to get some real experience, which is invaluable these days.Before that I worked for an advertising agency, which was much more fun, and the people there were mostly insane in a positive sort of way. Besides I could dress however I wanted and behave real informal. Too bad I had to work 12 hours a day plus the weekends.The choice is yours :lol:Bane

I warned you Ky. I always told you those home made amateur movies of yours would eventually end up on the Internet.

Bigbud, what do you mean by "remove and reload"? Just take the map out of the FA folder and back? That doesn't seem to be a solution, but thanks for your time anyway. If I could download these maps from somewhere, I would try switching them, but alas as they are in the default map pack for 2.9, nobody hosts them :)Any more ideas, anyone?Thanks, Bane

The stopsound command is good when the sound starts looping within the game without actually affecting FPS, only annoying the player (me ). That kind of loop happens a lot on sandblast and omaha - when doors are being opened back and forth again. But everyone gets that from time to time. When you just join the game (connect to the server and load a map for the first time) a similar thing happens - the map sounds start and in the middle they start over and so on for just a moment. So when you join bocage you hear birds chirping over and over for about 3 seconds, or if someone's talking over the mic you will hear like a syllable or two being repeated for a couple of seconds. And that's what usually happens with each connection. The problem I'm talking about is different. It's like I can't quite connect or something. The repeating sounds never cease, I get 4 fps, and even the escape key takes three times longer to get me to the menu, so I can disconnect. It's as if I had a huge lag, but it's not like I freeze and then find myself in a different spot, just the game itself gets very choppy both in sound and FPS. Here's a screenie - maybe the netgaph will give you some more info. I only know the FPS is 20 times less than what I usually get. And as I said - it only happens on those 3 maps (so far). I'm quite sure this also happened on caen and armory before the most recent FA patch/Steam update, but at that time I could play basrah fine, so I really don't know if there's a connection or not. http://bathroomgangsta.w.interia.pl/mac/tc_caen0006.jpg Thanks for your time and help. Bane

That's not a fiish! That's my favorite knife model for Half-life mods