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  1. Posted

    On 8/7/2021 at 1:10 AM, Euxoa said:

    Because Matt Scott realizes he bit off more than he could chew with APB, and is now screwing us all from behind.

    Thanks for contributing to the death of APB Matt!

    Well I'm glad someone at least tried rather than leaving APB for dead until nobody bothered to pay the server costs any more. It makes your last sentence all the more ironic, considering APB likely wouldn't even be around at all now if it weren't for LO and MS.

     

    I swear none of you complainers know the first thing about the complexities of game development, especially ones in such poor technical state as APB.

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  4. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    On 6/3/2018 at 9:55 PM, ElectroStingz said:

    APB can cause temps to run higher, on older boards the VRM area (place on motherboard which supplies power to the CPU) can struggle which causes instability.

    For testing purposes if you can place a big fan at the side of the pc case, with the side panel removed just to see what happens when playing.

     

    Memory is a strange area, swap the memory sticks around to see what happens.

    Why do you believe your RAM isn't faulty? <have you done tests? (I'm asking because details are important 🙂)

     

    Do you know what kind of temperatures your PC runs at?

    https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

    Sorry for the late reply, I've been quite busy.

     

    I play many newer games that strain my PC more than APB does and I never have issues with those. Extra ventilation doesn't seem to make any difference.

     

    I haven't tested my RAM recently, but again, I'm not getting any kind of memory or crashing issues in any other game I regularly play or daily PC use so I have no reason to suspect it.

     

    I just did a test with hwmonitor running. The game started up okay and I joined a Waterfront silver district with 3 empty player slots. I got into a mission, died in a fight and the game crashed again before my body even hit the floor. There was about two minutes between my first in-world spawn and the crash. Here's the average temperature stats hwmonitor recorded:

     

    Idle:

    MB: 56 °C (142 °F)

    CPU: 59 °C (137 °F) (All cores)

    GPU: 40 °C (104 °F)

     

    At crash time:

    MB: 65 °C (149 °F)

    CPU: 73 °C (163 °F) (All cores)

    GPU: 58 °C (136 °F)

  5. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    3 hours ago, ElectroStingz said:

    Hello,

     

    Years ago when I first started playing APB, can't quite remember my PC specs but it was the same. (Was so long ago I can't remember what solved it, driver issue or game needed patching)

     

    What hardware are you using?

    • CPU
    • GFX card
    • RAM

    CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition

    GPU: Radeon R9 380 4GB

    RAM: 8GB

     

    I know my CPU is stable, if a little outdated, graphics drivers are up to date and my RAM isn't faulty. I'm going to test some more as after I made this post, I managed to play again for an hour and a half without issue.

  6. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    As title says, APB keeps crashing infrequently. I've just tried to play 3 times and I can't even complete a mission before I get a CTD or the program becomes non-responsive. However, I played fight club last night for about 3 hours with no problem, but mission districts keep crashing me within minutes.

     

    I have checked the APBGame logs, but I can't see anything useful for telling me what's going on. One of them from today ends with "[APB Catcher] Out of memory!", but I don't understand why as I had at least 2GB RAM not being used. I've had this problem continually and have changed nothing about my PC since before it started happening regularly.

     

    Using the launcher repair option and reinstalling seems to make no difference whatsoever. I've looked around for other solutions but so far nothing helpful. Anyone else had this?

  7. Posted

    42 minutes ago, MitneAlt said:

    Hey crims... you got ability to get money from thin air (ramraiding, mugging etc.)... and we got stabbas.

    I though it was fair deal?

    To be fair, the amount of money you get from criminal activities is pitiful and you need to grind to get a significant amount. LTL is an entirely different method of combat for one faction. I don't think crims should get LTL in the slightest, but I don't think the two features are comparable at all.

  8. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    I think I took a wrong turn a couple of times and ended up skipping parts of the circuit, but I took myself out of the races I realised I had.

     

    Also, I didn't realise people were voice chatting too. Is there a discord or something?

  10. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    It's been a long arse time since I've actually done any artistic stuff and I haven't done much. I was only really just getting into it when I stopped, but here's some stuff I've done while dabbling:

     

    First attempt at drawing on whiteboard. Sort of gave up halfway through because the proportions were off and the board needed to be used again anyway.

     

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    One of my Second Life avatars and was my second attempt at doing anything serious in photoshop with a tablet.

     

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    For a birthday card I made for my mother last year. Was trying out some painting styles in photoshop.

     

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    Some Tribes Vengenace fanart. Literally made in MS Paint and as-of-yet unfinished.

     

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  13. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    A rough-around-the-edges 1995 Nissan Skyline

     

    mwqnX9d.jpg

     

    Not bad for what she is, but I want to do an engine swap and wide body conversion as soon as I get another daily car and somewhere to work.

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  14. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    18 hours ago, BrandonBranderson said:

    Damn, the most honest game reviewer I've ever seen.  I wonder if the Co-optional podcast will go on without him?  He'll be missed that's for sure.

    He and Genna said they had plans to, but with this as well as Dodger being out of the picture for a while with her baby, I'm not sure Genna and Jesse will pick up the momentum again. Can't really blame them if they don't.

  16. Posted

    1 minute ago, Nite said:

    Wait, as in they get banned from the game they're streaming and not just the platform they're streaming on?

     

    That's new, never heard of that before.

    Sorry, no; I mean they get banned from Twitch for looking at/hearing stuff in VRChat. It's made a lot of streamers incredibly jumpy about all sorts of things.

  17. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    11 minutes ago, Nite said:

    I'd assume if anyone gets caught creating unsanctioned content during a live stream the studio is allowed to point to the rules and say "this player created content outside the allowed terms so this isn't something we approve of" or something to that effect.

    Not necessarily. People still get banned using VRChat and accidentally livestreaming all kinds of things created and enacted by others, even if they are against the TOS.

  18. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    24 minutes ago, Chinook said:

    I believe that nudity (were it animu or whatnot) is capable of creating issues on most live streaming platforms and at this day and age you do not want to get blacklisted on those.

    Isn't that a risk you run if you livestream any game with a significant amount of customisation though? I don't see the presence of rules changing that risk.

  20. Posted · Edited by Rhiza

    I kind of agree, but I would've been way more tactful about it.

     

    G1's stance on nudity seemed pretty reasonable to me. The line "This is a game. Nudity doesn't have a place here, and it's not allowed." really irks me because the two aren't mutually exclusive. APBR never had a "nudity problem" and is still a far cry from stuff like Second Life, Saints Row or even the emblems that people make in CoD and Battlefield. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It may have differed between servers, but people cared far, far less about seeing some 2D nipples, vulvas or dicks on outfit designs and symbols than the frequent Nazi cosplayers and shittily designed customisations in general. It was a refreshing change to have a dev's attitude about adult themes more relaxed than most.

     

    I'm also not content with the "use common sense" line. For something that can apparently easily get you banned now, that is faaar too vague for comfort. I'm someone who enjoys putting borderline-to-blatant nsfw stickers on my car IRL, I have Bad Dragon miniatures on my keyring and I'm in Europe, so my idea of "common sense" in regard to bodily exhibition is obviously different to someone else's. Now I'm going to be worried about how far I can go with my designs without risking a ban - something that stifles creativity - hypocritically in opposition to the sentence immediately before it.

     

    Ultimately, I just don't see the reason for this change. It harms no-one and has never been an issue in the game's long lifespan. I guess it's about appealing to a wider audience, but the stifling of creativity on any level that doesn't hurt anyone is disappointing. Some of the best emblem customisations I've seen were "18+" works and did have a level of quality to them that put them far above most in the game.

     

    That said, I'd rather have a better APB with stricter policies on adult themes than lax policies and a dead game.

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