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[Tellemurius]

Uh, I didn't have trouble modding DA:O on steam, found it pretty easy to be honest.  And using the developer console was merely changing one of the configuration files thrown into your Documents folder.  The only problem is that DA:O has an invisible Command Console during game.  Normally anyway.  You can make it to where it has a physical appearance later.

I have no idea what you guys are on about.   

EDIT:  GameFAQs actually has a tutorial on how to do it, just follow that and you'll be able to use the developer console in game.  Most of the modding, in my experience, was just unzipping files into the correct data folders.  Didn't have to do anything to change the EXE at all.

one of my mods required to patch the exe for UI changes, Steam DRM would flag it as some violation error and would automatically do a repair install.

[Karkov]

Huh, never had that problem myself.  Then again I'm pretty sure I stayed away from UI changes.  What exactly were they changing on the UI, out of curiosity?  It doesn't sounds like something you'd need to change the EXE for.

[Tellemurius]

Huh, never had that problem myself.  Then again I'm pretty sure I stayed away from UI changes.  What exactly were they changing on the UI, out of curiosity?  It doesn't sounds like something you'd need to change the EXE for.

I can't remember exactly the mod but added in a crafting UI to make your own weapons.

[Karkov]

Huh, never had that problem myself.  Then again I'm pretty sure I stayed away from UI changes.  What exactly were they changing on the UI, out of curiosity?  It doesn't sounds like something you'd need to change the EXE for.

I can't remember exactly the mod but added in a crafting UI to make your own weapons.

Weird that it changed the EXE then, that'd make it incompatible to any other mods that tried that, or certain versions of DA itself.

Yeah, most mods don't do that so it should be fine for modding for 99% of the time (I'm trying to figure out why they didn't just change one of the skills or something to create your own weapons, and then just find recipes around.  Not really understanding why they went out of their way to change an EXE.  Huh)

[Jopax]

So I went and fucked something up somehow.

Basically, the RAM on my desktop has gone to shit, memtest has told me that. And it kept crashing whenever anything memory intensive happened. Now, there are two 2 gig chips and I had no idea wether both of them were gone or just one. So  I randomly took one out and it worked, it worked for several hours while downloading some big things (something that would crash it earlier) and didn't crash a single time. Great, problem fixed, atleast temporarily before I get replacements. It worked this morning too, quite nicely. Then I went out for several hours and my dad used the computer and it didn't work anymore. In fact, it crashed several times within several minutes. I shuffled the chips a bit, putting in the one I took out, putting them both in and now it seems to be fucked completely beacuse windows won't even start it just revs the fans several times before throwing out a corrupt file warning and just standing like that until I shut it down.

Now, I'll be getting replacement RAM in the next few days but I'm wondering wether or not this will keep happening, or heck, I'll even have to reinstall windows again it seems :C

[Lord Shonus]

Sounds to me like your system saved corrupt data from RAM to your hard drive. If new RAM doesn't fix it, you may need to reinstall. Try burning a linux livecd on another PC and booting from that to see if you can read the HDD.

[Jopax]

Ok, so the OS is indeed fucked. Luckily the RAM seems to be working fine since it gets to the startup repair part before bluescreening because the data is corrupt.

Any reccomendations for the livecd thing? I've never used anything like that so I have no idea what goes. Also if it's possible to get one that's compatible with USB booting that'd be great.

[Aklyon]

USB booting is simple, you get unetbootin and the iso of linux you want. (Mint is simple enough for most things and I like it) You also need a usb drive of sufficient size, empty.

[miauw62]

Hiren's Boot CD is a pretty good livecd, comes with a bunch of utilities, miniXP and Parted Magic.

It's more of a rescue CD than something to use as an actual OS, though, and I had issues with getting internet connection on miniXP.

[Jopax]

Oh I've used Hirens before. But as you said that's purely salvage and total repair. What I need is to get this one folder that has all the stuff the familiy has done and used from the desktop to the second partition. Then I'll just wipe the Windows one and do a clean uninstall.

Which is rather simple, I have no idea why I'm doing Linux (for the first time ever) to accomplish this :S

[gimlet]

The nice thing about booting a LiveCD is that you can conveniently run diagnostics that would be a bit tricky if you were booted from the disk drive.  I always run the long SMART drive tests, but especially a full badblocks (unix disk test utility, checks every block on the drive.  I think it takes about 36 hours on a 2T drive).  And memtest at least overnight.

[gigaraptor487]

Hello, A while ago I bought a small Trust Mini tablet and I decided to used it on my Windows 8.1 computer. However, the drivers seem to be obsolete and causing problems(at one point I got a blue screen equivalent). I have stopped using the device however the driver still runs in the background, which slows down my system significantly. Unfortunately there is no uninstall program and now I have a serious problem. I have found driver sys files related to the program in the drivers folder but I am hesitant to delete them in case it damages the system. It is very important these are removed but I am not sure how to do this safely.

Can you help me?

[PyroDesu]

So I think I'm mostly done picking out parts for this thing, anyone care to say what they think of it (or what I'm missing, which is probably a good bit, or any noticeable problems, of which there's also probably quite a bit)?
   

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Intel Core i5-2550K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Pro 81.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3P-B3 ATX LGA1155 Motherboard
Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
Seagate 600 Series 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Thermaltake Versa H21 Window ATX Mid Tower Case
Thermaltake TR2 600W ATX Power Supply
Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (OEM) (64-bit)
Asus VX228H 60Hz 21.5" Monitor   
Netgear GA311 10/100/1000 Mbps PCI Network Adapter
ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti Video Card

Total cost: $1147.11

Also, would it be worth swapping the CPU up to an i7 (Intel Core i7-4820K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor, Asus P9X79 LE ATX LGA2011 Motherboard), which would cost an additional $200, or going with a video card upgrade, which would cost an additional $150 (Asus GeForce GTX 750 Ti 2GB Video Card), or even both?

[crazysheep]

@gigaraptor: Have you tried going into Device Manager to disable the device and/or roll back the drivers?

@pyro: I don't see any glaring problems with that setup (although liquid cooling sounds like overkill if you're not overclocking), but regarding your upgrade questions: what are you planning to do with your rig?

[PyroDesu]

College use (Engineering major - mechanical and nuclear) with some gaming (not particularly intense gaming, mind - I'm a strategy person), but I want this to be something that can last, preferably at least 8 years with minor upgrades (unless something breaks, that is).

That second part would have been an absurd thing to say at one point.

And the liquid cooler is from when I was planning for an AMD chip. If it's too much overkill, I can get rid of that (or, swap it out with something, or whatever).