=BDC=Empfys!

I was there too, all of the above is true.

Hehehe I knew this would spark up some people to prove me wrong. I just thought it was strange to see them disappear overnight without any talk or news of it at the time.

Just logged on and noticed, status bars have disappeared for 0.5.5 and Blue. Maybe it's all over for these two releases, I hope not though.

I don't bother using the client ASE, I just use the main separate ASE Scanner for all games.

Well this is how I see it. Let's face it, we all know how long it takes for a team to create/release a whole new core, (MTASA), and at the moment all we have is 0.5 to play while we're waiting which is just heaps too buggy. At least maybe release a patched version of 0.5 I reckon that fixes the crusader crap, suspected trainer usage, all that. Newbies still often play MTA over here in Australia, spawn as crusader, then die and spawn again and wonder what the hell is going on because they get disconnected every time they spawn as it. To me that would be enough to put any newbe off the release, which ain't good at all, just losing people really. But we all know that it is gonna take a fair while yet to release a whole new version of MTA, of course I'm referring to MTASA, in my opinion I just reckon a patched up 0.5 would be enough while we wait for mtasa. Just my thoughts. Also good to see some aussies back in the 0.3/4 days back yesturday, good stuff.

Lol yeah funny shit mate, funniest thing on there is this line here: [15/05/2005 05:30] Kicking 'Vicer:VCK' for talking while on the "stfu" list **edited it**

This error is really starting to p*ss me off, every time I try to connect to one particular server it times out straight away. I tried a bunch of other servers then tried connecting again but still no go. Turned firewall off, no difference. Tried reinstalling, resetting config file, reseting router, jeez what else is there..

I've had a few friends with this problem, and it seems it can also be caused by if your sound doesn't work. May seem strange, I know, but it happens. Does your sound work fine for Vice?

Yeah good idea Talidan, we've had heaps and heaps of newbies come into the servers in Australia, most of them don't have a clue what is going on when they see that error or their game crashes just after it plays the VC movie. It would be a lot easier if they knew from scratch what is going on instead of having to ask everyone first, so maybe a link to the working exe or something would be handy in a place everyone can see before they bother starting the game instead of having to search up on why it won't work.

Good to see another Aussie wanting to get started on some MTA, welcome! The pass thing is only required if you are connecting to a server that has a password lock on it. Example, I make a server, and set a password. Then what you'd have to do is know the password I set for my server to enter it. Most of the time you won't need to fill that in anyway, because I'm guessing you will mainly be playing on public servers. So basically what I'm saying is don't bother filling that in at all unless you are trying to connect to a server that needs a password. Hope this helps!

Just thought I'd let you know, we've got a Capture the Flag script currently running in Ozforces, one of our Aussies servers at the moment. Anybody is welcome to come and check it out if they want.

Not sure what's going on with this now, doesn't look like anything will happen as quite a lot of our older regulars in Australia have just stopped playing since 0.5 was released. It's slowly making a comeback over here now though in my opinion, but I don't know how we'll get it back to what it used to be like.

Could somebody please tell me what's happened to the MTA Blue website? For a few weeks now, mine has been coming up with "The page cannot be found". What's up with that?

Hey guys, thanks for all your help. I ended up fixing the problem. I realised the only video driver I had not tried was my very oldest one, the one originally came with my PC. So I installed that, and perfect, frame rate problem is all fixed.

Ok Mike I even tried your suggestion, and it is a little faster, but it still is quite choppy. It's fine on both resolutions if there's only a few people in the server, but once about 12 or more have entered, the framerate drops quite a bit. Still can't figure it out. Maybe my video card has had it, because even though it is an older card, it should be able to run mta fine, even if there's quite a few people in a server.

Thanks for the reply guys. Quiky, I'm running the game in 1024 by 768, 32 bit colour. I've tried lowering it down to 16 bit, but still no difference. Funny you mention the anti-aliasing settings too, because I was going through the Nvidia control panel a while ago, and noticed it is set to "Application controlled". It's just when there's about more than say 12 or 13 people in the server/game, it runs quite choppy, and it shouldn't. Oh and also I forgot to mention that I did try to reinstall MTA and Vice City, still no go..In fact, I only formatted about a month or two ago so I'm just confused as to why it runs like this.

Hey all. Recently I've been noticing huge slowdowns on MTA and I'm really starting to get quite annoyed with it. The problem is every time the server becomes quite packed, say 13 or more people in game playing, my game just runs so slow. FPS drops dramatically, and it's just so damn slow. I know it can't be lag, because I'm on a 512K connection over here in Australia, playing on the Aussie server, with a ping of around 45. I have been thinking it could be my video card, which is only a GeForce 4 MX 420, (yes i know it's a terrible card), but after asking people in the server I play with, some have worse cards than mine and their game runs fine even if the server is full. I've also tried older Nvidia drivers (40's, 50's), but nothing seems to work. I've tried mucking around with the frame limiter, but it still slows down if it's on or off. But the thing is it seems more like it's having trouble with all of the people on the server or something, but the thing is, nobody I've asked on the server has the same problem. I've tried the search option for the forums, (downloaded coolbits while I was at it ) but no solutions that worked. Can somebody please help me out? Oh and I've also tried running it in single player, and it runs as smooth as ever. I don't know what is causing the slowdowns! I have a Intel Pentium 4 2.2Ghz 768mb DDR RAM Geforce 4 MX 420 SoundMax Integrated Digital Audio Thanks in advance.

Come on guys, just because they have a few mods and ways to cheat on their website doesn't mean they cheat. I've played MTA for a long time now and have gotten to know the DruG members better, and they don't really "cheat", they are more of a modding clan. And bendog, I think that what you did, (emailing intercode to get them to ban them) is a totally ridiculous thing to do. You can't ban a whole bloody clan because of a possible few members that cheat in a clan. To tell you the truth, I have seen them mod, quite a lot, but cheating, never. In my opinion some of you are just getting a bit paranoid now about the cheating thing, get over it . The whole clan DOES NOT CHEAT! Oh thats right, you guys classify "modding" as "cheating".

I totally agree with SexyB's post. I mean, if you have people using helis just to chop other people, get over it! Either learn how to dodge the heli, join a different server or play another game! It's that simple. Also, about the glitches in the game, I reckon they can be quite funny in some cases, but the thing that really annoys me the most is that you have newbies on MTA that come into a server, immediately think that you have to hit the body of a person to kill them. Then, when they run out of bullets, they whine and complain like "oh he cheats, i hit him 200 times with my shotty!". After your first 5min of playing MTA, you cannot possibly tell if somebody is cheating because of all of the bugs. I just wish the newbies would read the forums before accusing people of cheating just because they hit them 1000 times and they don't die. On lag issues, I don't know what to think because if someone with about 500 ping is playing, they could be slowing the server down, but kicking them out can sometimes be kind of harsh in my opinion so yeah. Anyway thats just my whinge for the night.

I have a different sort of problem that I thought I'd mention. Ever since a couple of days ago, if i got the message "Connection timed out", id try to join the server again and it would automatically say "You have been banned from this server". I asked the admin if he banned me, and he said he never banned anyone at the time. Then I decided to see what would happen in the stunt server, so I went there, got timed out, then tried connecting again and bang, "You have been banned from this server". It does this to all of the servers now. I don't know why it is doing this all of a sudden, as it never used to happen. Any suggestions? Thanks

Ah hell sorry mate, I'll search next time and all the time from now on. Lock Plz.... By the way, thanks for pointen that link out.

Hello all. Well it's been a long time since I've posted in the MTA Forum so I thought I'd just bring up this issue. As you know, if you connect to a server, reach the score of around 50 or any great score, the client may say "connection timed out", due to various reasons. Now, a question that I would like to ask is not to do with how to stop timing out...because I know that it is not always your internet connection causing this, it can be the server's fault. So is there any way you guys or is it existent in any online games for the server to somehow store your current score on their server for a while incase you connect back into the game after you do get timed out. That might sound a little confusing or stupid, but I'm just really curious because here in Australia some of the servers aren't too great and can drop out on you at any random time. Oh and also, if you are going to just say "use search!" or something like that, I think it would be a waste of time because surely there wouldn't be any suggestions for the problem. Thanks Empfys

Hey thanks for the reply Kent. I'll try that now.

Hello again all. I'm just wondering if anybody knows if there are any servers running that are located around this area of the globe (Australia). Just like to know because it's quite frustrating playing with lag because the server you are connected to is on the other side of the world. Hope somebody can help me out. Adam

Hello. I thought I may as well post on the boards rather than just play MTA now that I've been familiar with it for months. I totally agree with you on that one. I get accused of cheating quite often. Quite obviously, I think the newbies are the ones that don't seem to know what is going on. "Cheating" to them USUALLY on MTA is: Lag Coding Other stuff. What I mean by this is that if you were on a PCG and you were going at full speed along the main road of starfish island and hit a pole, the bike is unlikely to take the EXACT same path on both screens. For example, I was playing my friend on LAN and he was near the small wall near the beach. He was chasing me on his bike and ran into it. I looked back and the bike landed over the fence, although on his screen, the bike hadn't even crossed the fence. I picked up the bike first, and I suddenly appeared on a bike in a different position on his screen. This is what people on the servers sometimes accuse me of doing, somehow "spawning" cars in the middle of nowhere. I can understand them thinking this though as newbies, because I noticed something the other day. No matter where the cars are when you restart the actual game, if nobody is in that particular car, it will be at its original spawn point, therefore on somebody elses screen if they've been playing for sometime without any game crashes, it might be taken out of its original spawn point. Overall, I just reckon somehow the newbies could at least take a closer look at the program than just immediately accuse somebody of cheating on it. Cya