Wow, all that for a game. Useful, but not exactly for this situation. I've heard that the language Aprone programs in is a bit old, and that causes problems with newer systems.
Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 1, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Shaun Everiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well yeah if you do have a powercut most likely you may have fried something. > if things do not work maybe a good reformat will work. > Seriously if you can afford it especially if you have a desktop get a ups. > I have a couple. > if you are a laptop user try to cycle your battery every couple months and > buy an extra. > To be honest, having a ups even though that cost me 70 bucks each has saved > my ass many times. > Another thing I'd get is a serge board that can fit 6 units in, and get as > many as there are electronic devices in them. > Yes they are 30 bucks or so, yes they cost but again they will save your ass > and I can vouch for both bits of kit. > Remember to change your ups battery every couple years or so and to have a > spare just in case you forget else things will not work well for you. > I had a cheap powerstrip bust on me all of a sudden once. > and I have friends in lightning strike zones. > If the power goes off, if the thing powers up it may be corrupted and we > would reformat, works every time. > However more than not, you wouldn't get anything and have to replace the > power supply and ram chips or worse. > This would probably be a good time to tell all well remind all to have good > serge protection tech. > An ups or 2 a serge box and a power board or 2 would be ideal. > Failing that, at minimum, a serge board that allows 2 plugs for the power > strips and or plugs with auto powercut offs for each unit. > And if not, make sure you have 2 backup hdds at least and make sure one of > them is always as updated as it can be and keep it offline maybe stored away > but close enough for you to get it. > > > >> On 2/10/2015 2:44 a.m., john wrote: >> If the problem is occurring only after you killed power to the machine (I'm >> presuming you didn't go through windows to shut down) then the power loss >> may have corrupted files, in which case just replacing them will do the >> trick. >> In future, if your screen reader starts misbehaving, try the following: >> press windows r, type cmd, and hit enter. >> type: >> taskkill /f /im jfw.exe >> or >> taskkill /f /im nvda.exe >> and then reload the screen reader as normal. >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "loriduncan" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 9:16 >> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me >> >> Hi yes, I've tried all the obvious stuff to fix the problem, and am actually >> wondering if something is wrong at Aprone's end, as it was the online game >> I'd been playing, and my jaws had frozen so I had to exit the game and shut >> down my laptop them re-boot it, and that's when I started getting that >> error. >> >> I'll give the installer another shot though. >>> From Lori. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: john >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 1:26 PM >> To: Gamers Discussion list >> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] games turning against me >> >> In homage to IT people all around the world... have you rebooted? >> Other possibilities: >> If you can, try castaways on another machine? >> Either that, or just redownload it and see if that fixes the issue; >> something may have been corrupted or missing. >> I've got nothing for swamp, sorry. >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------- >> From: "loriduncan" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 4:54 >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: [Audyssey] games turning against me >> >> Hi everyone, it seems Aprone's games have turned against me. I tried to log >> into Swamp, but was told it had failled because my account needed renewing, >> despite the fact that I'd renewed it a few months a go. I then tried to >> load up castaways, but got the following error: >> --------------------------- >> Castaways >> --------------------------- >> Run-time error '52': >> >> Bad file name or number >> --------------------------- >> OK >> --------------------------- >> I've ran the checkup.exe file in the castaways folder, but it's not done >> anything. It's really frustrating having Swamp so laggy, then castaways not >> responding suddenly. >> I'm not sure what to do about that runtime error and would be glad of any >> help. 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