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  1. It has absolutely come to my attention, but I don't complain about it. Just like I don't complain to Rockstar to hurry up with GTA4 and just drop 360 support because it's only holding them back and I'm not going to play it on 360 anyway. Also, the feature freeze was done in June, not a year ago. It seems plausible to me. This is complex software being developed here.
  2. So, if it's that way, why are you waiting for MTA instead of GTA IV? I mean, it's GTA with multiplayer and you say it will come out earlier than MTA. It will be pretty much bug free too (that's what one would expect at least). It seems to me you're expressing your impatience on the wrong forum. Just forget about MTA and start waiting for GTA IV instead, as you're guaranteed that that will come out (since some of you apparently believe that MTA won't).
  3. Ah, I had indeed read too quickly over the "*possibly* better solution". My apologies about calling it a contradiction then. Faking hardware serial numbers without touching the client or Windows system files would indeed be difficult, if not impossible.
  4. I meant that htiarw contradicted himself, not you. That's why I quoted him, your name just happens to be in that quote
  5. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\InstallDate It's stored in Unix epoch time = number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970. I could add 5 to this number and be seen as a new user by the server. I don't think it would be legal for them to harvest Windows CD keys. They could of course send a hash of the CD key instead, but that could again be countered by a modified client or proxy server. Finding a good protection is difficult
  6. Ravenheart: as with most data the client sends to the server, the server has no means to verify that the information is correct... You wouldn't need to reinstall Windows at all - you'd have three easier possibilities: - Change the Windows installation date in the registry (easier than spoofing an IP actually). - Use a modified client that sends a different installation date to the server. As said, the server has to means to prove that what you tell it is true. - If the client is so strongly protected that modifying it is difficult (which I hope will be the case), there's still the option of making a proxy server that does nothing but forward all traffic to the real server, but modifies the installation date if it is encountered. This is a sort of man-in-the-middle attack and is rather difficult to detect... You can argue that the latter two points take work, but all it takes is 1 dedicated cracker really. Just look at sa-mp. (And the above three points don't just apply to the Windows installation date but to any identifying information that can't be verified by the server. The forum account idea sounds better to me. Creating a new account is more hassle than setting a new installation date)
  7. arc_

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    Most probably a graphics card issue. If your card has a fan, open your computer to see if it's dusty and clean it if so (q-tips are handy for this). Even a little dust can cause these black screens (read it on a WoW forum and experienced it myself also). Also make sure you're not pulling out the monitor cable by stepping on it
  8. Heh, that's another way to solve it . Nice idea, thanks.
  9. Good tutorial What would be Very nice is if functions like addEventHandler would also take an actual function reference as an argument, instead of a string with the name of the function. That way you'd be able to write compact code like: addEventHandler("onPlayerJoin", root, function() outputChatBox(getClientName(source) .. " has joined the game.") end) Just a suggestion of course, not a disaster if it isn't going to be included. (used code tags because [lua][/lua] doesn't work for some reason)
  10. VirtualPC wouldn't work out anyway. - VirtualPC doesn't do 3D acceleration, so you can't run *any* 3D games on it! (unless it's an ancient game that uses software rendering) - You could make the GTA within the VirtualPC use a software renderer like SwiftShader. It would probably run then, but at such a horrible framerate it'd be unplayable. So, your only option is to dual boot I'm afraid.
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