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| − | + | Retired moderator. | |
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| − | + | If it's crazy voodoo, I have probably seen it already. | |
| − | + | After a decade spent 10x as much time fixing games, Windows or Linux™ than actually playing them, real life called. | |
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'''My PC specs:''' | '''My PC specs:''' | ||
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* Asus Xonar DX | * Asus Xonar DX | ||
| − | * Intel Core | + | * Corsair HX1000i |
| − | * | + | * Creative SBS 260 |
| − | * | + | * DeepCool Assassin III |
| − | * | + | * Intel Core i5 9600K |
| + | * Gigabyte Z390 GAMING X | ||
| + | * EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER | ||
| + | * LG 27GN850 | ||
| + | * Logitech G413 | ||
| + | * Patriot Viper Steel RGB PC4-28800 C20 | ||
| + | * Philips Fidelio X2HR | ||
| + | * Razer Imperator 3.5G | ||
| + | * Sahara Gaming C500B-TS | ||
| − | == | + | ==Games fixer toolkit== |
| − | + | [https://msi.com/Landing/afterburner MSI Afterburner] for benchmarking and recording <br> | |
| − | + | [https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidia-profile-inspector-2-4-0-3.425787/ Nvidia Profile Inspector]/[https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/radeonmod-tweak-utility.403389/ RadeonMod] to play with graphics quirks <br> | |
| − | + | [https://github.com/GameTechDev/PresentMon PresentMon] to track the mysteries of the DWM (and input lag)<br> | |
| − | + | [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx Process Monitor] to log game I/O calls <br> | |
| − | + | [http://www.rohitab.com/apimonitor API Monitor] and [https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/ Process Hacker] for when you are truly banging your head <br> | |
| − | </div><div style="float:right;width: | + | [https://kiwidog.me/2021/07/analysis-of-large-binaries-and-games-in-ghidra-sre/ Ghidra] (you can discover a lot even just by dumbly searching for strings) <br> |
| + | [[Special K]], the Swiss army knife of smoothing out any game <br> | ||
| + | [https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-throttlestop/ ThrottleStop] for when (especially) laptops are too hot or too crippled <br> | ||
| + | [http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/174957-new-unofficial-version-200/ Universal Extractor] for those archives where 7-zip just isn't enough <br> | ||
| + | [https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/debugger-download-tools WinDbg] to read dumps and debugging messages <br> | ||
| + | [https://winmerge.org/ WinMerge] to compare files and folder | ||
| + | </div><div style="float:right;width:58%"> | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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| − | ! My | + | ! My wish list !! Comments: !! Links |
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| − | | Disable MassEffect1 mouse smoothing || | + | | Disable MassEffect1 mouse smoothing from UnrealScript || Even if something is likely amiss in native code, certainly with the right reciprocal operations it should be possible to patch? || [http://me3explorer.freeforums.net/me1-engine-playerinput-mouse-smoothing-and-so-on-t795.html] [http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/938178-Does-The-Unreal-Engine-3-Have-Rounding-Errors-For-Low-In-Game-Mouse-Sensitivity] [http://www.unknowncheats.me/forum/unreal-3-engine/68931-find-needed-offsets.html] [https://web.archive.org/web/20150913021839/http://forum.bioware.com/topic/481534-me1-mouse-accelerationdeclerationsmoothingdampening/] |
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| − | | MassEffect1 AMD cpu bug || || [ | + | | MassEffect1 AMD FX cpu bug || What's the specific broken shader? Why is Bulldozer still off? || [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect#Characters_become_black_blobs_on_AMD_.3EK10_CPUs] [https://github.com/CookiePLMonster/SilentPatchME/issues/3] |
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| − | | | + | | MassEffect2 Cerberus autologin || Cerberus Daily News may be no more, but at least having the terminal display to open OOTB would be a nice touch || [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Mass_Effect_2#Cerberus_Network_autologin_failure] |
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| − | | | + | | Decode Steam cdkey hashes || For when they are assholes over at EA || [https://github.com/tralph3/Steam-Metadata-Editor/issues/28] |
| + | |- | ||
| + | | Complete the ''sound'' tales saga || Half a lifetime of research still wasn't enough to note down everything and clarify what happened after XP || [https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/topic/980-audio-apis-and-eax/] [https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Glossary:Sound_card] | ||
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| − | </div><div style="float: | + | </div> |
| + | <div style="float:right;width:50%"> | ||
| + | <br> | ||
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==Contacts== | ==Contacts== | ||
| − | + | Find me somewhere, and just ask. | |
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</div> | </div> | ||
Latest revision as of 13:09, 24 March 2023
Retired moderator.
If it's crazy voodoo, I have probably seen it already.
After a decade spent 10x as much time fixing games, Windows or Linux™ than actually playing them, real life called.
My PC specs:
- Asus Xonar DX
- Corsair HX1000i
- Creative SBS 260
- DeepCool Assassin III
- Intel Core i5 9600K
- Gigabyte Z390 GAMING X
- EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER
- LG 27GN850
- Logitech G413
- Patriot Viper Steel RGB PC4-28800 C20
- Philips Fidelio X2HR
- Razer Imperator 3.5G
- Sahara Gaming C500B-TS
Games fixer toolkit
MSI Afterburner for benchmarking and recording
Nvidia Profile Inspector/RadeonMod to play with graphics quirks
PresentMon to track the mysteries of the DWM (and input lag)
Process Monitor to log game I/O calls
API Monitor and Process Hacker for when you are truly banging your head
Ghidra (you can discover a lot even just by dumbly searching for strings)
Special K, the Swiss army knife of smoothing out any game
ThrottleStop for when (especially) laptops are too hot or too crippled
Universal Extractor for those archives where 7-zip just isn't enough
WinDbg to read dumps and debugging messages
WinMerge to compare files and folder
| My wish list | Comments: | Links |
|---|---|---|
| Disable MassEffect1 mouse smoothing from UnrealScript | Even if something is likely amiss in native code, certainly with the right reciprocal operations it should be possible to patch? | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| MassEffect1 AMD FX cpu bug | What's the specific broken shader? Why is Bulldozer still off? | [5] [6] |
| MassEffect2 Cerberus autologin | Cerberus Daily News may be no more, but at least having the terminal display to open OOTB would be a nice touch | [7] |
| Decode Steam cdkey hashes | For when they are assholes over at EA | [8] |
| Complete the sound tales saga | Half a lifetime of research still wasn't enough to note down everything and clarify what happened after XP | [9] [10] |
Contacts
Find me somewhere, and just ask.