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[Brick777]

Hello. I see my assassins have failed.

[Aklyon]

You had assasins?

[Furtuka]

Brick!

[Projeck37]

Random Post is indeed Random!

[Brick777]

Surprise.

[Projeck37]

So I assume server is dead for awhile till mods update?

[Aklyon]

Quite obviously.

[Aklyon]

A Valley Without Wind server is up at the moment, make sure your name isn't default in the setting and currently updated to .905, and you're good to join. Demo should work fine as well, I'm pretty sure.

[Darvi]

Damn you I have a presentation to make for tomorrow.

I'll blame any bad ratings on you.

[Aklyon]

Don't blame me, blame hugehead for reminding me I had a server of it.

[Aklyon]

So, first of all, that rescue a person, get red text thing will be fixed in the next AVWW version. Secondly, woo!

Spoiler: Woo! (click to show/hide)

Fourth from the top of that part of the list~

Lastly, the AVWW server is up again, since the first continent still hasn't been cleared yet, so theres still plenty to do whether or not ye be demo or not. Check the Solifuge stream thread for the IP if you haven't, and whoever the derp was that was default yesterday needs to change their name.

[Aklyon]

Potato.

[Furtuka]

http://www.mediafire.com/?z7my8fmoj8hfh5b

just realized I never bothered to update the nordic pack

[Aklyon]

You know whats ridiculous? This is ridiculous. But also awesome for the people who have that kind of lazy GPU. Arcen, being awesome, mentioned it in the patch notes as well.

Put in a new setting in the Graphics tab of the game: Extra GPU Load (FPS Boost On Some ATI Cards). Valid values are from 0 to 5000.

    Due to a bug in either the drivers or the firmware of certain ATI cards (most specifically ATI Mobility cards, but it may not be limited to just them), if a game gives too low of a load on the graphics card then the card will not fully engage. If you listen to the card, you will literally not hear the fan spin up, and your framerate in the game will be abysmal because the card "isn't even trying," so to speak. However, with a game that is higher-load, the fan would spin up and your card would perform great, and you'd wonder what sort of bad code these lower-load games must have to run so slowly.
    Since we can't fix the problem in the drivers and/or firmware for these ATI cards, we've provided a handy way for you to increase the load the game puts on your card. Increasing this slider just wastes GPU cycles, but by doing so it can actually trigger your card to wake up and start doing its job. Running two "My Little Ponies" videos on loop in the background is also reputed to work just as well for doubling or even quadrupling your framerate. But when you use an external program like a video player to accomplish this, that program and AVWW wind up having to compete for the bus to the GPU and thus you get worse performance than what you could if you use this slider in AVWW itself.
    And of course, if later ATI gets their drivers fixed then you'd want to turn this setting back down to 0 in the first place because that's how you'd get the absolute maximum performance out of the game. Most cards that are affected by this bug should be easily getting 80-90 fps and are instead getting 15-30 when the card doesn't turn on.
    Thanks to Castruccio for reporting the issue (more details for the morbidly curious).

So, because of silly, the AVWW server is up again before 1.0.

[Aklyon]

Going to be putting up ze A Valley Without Wind server on monday, probably 2pm-ish EST. Or earlier or later depending on what you guys want, I don't have class that day since the 23rd is an odd day instead of even, but you guys might have stuff before then, etc.
Monday is Release day for AVWW, and thats as good a reason as any to put up the server.

Fresh continent so even the demo-users can play a decent bit (Not that I've ever managed to get past continent 1 anyway through all of beta, I've been deleting worlds because excitedness over new features. A dubious achievement, I suppose.)