MXOWinterMute

Thank you so much for sharing the fun! =) Nice work, very nice.

I couldn't wait 'til my birthday in 2005 (it was the end of June), because that's when I told myself I'd get into the MMO world, and there was only one choice for me. Weeks later, we were still dealing with the handoff to SOE, and I felt l...

Nope, those aren't Quicksilver Gloves... Shortly after joining HAL: First time seeing the Sati sky... Weird bug leaving me off the map--had to be Recalled to get back into the "real" Matrix... My first Crew, which was in HAL First time int...

Words fail me.

Yay! You're one of the best, Jean: I knew it was only a matter of time before you got noticed. GREAT job, and really well written to boot!

I just love when a great person gets talked out of leaving. Still glad to have ya back!

So just how Epic is this thread? Worth reading through 37 screens of?

Happy (belated) Birthday! Hope you had lots of fun and games and good times and things we don't talk about in polite conversation (but you brag about to your friends who missed it).

well, lookie what I found: http://mxovault.ign.com/View.php?vi...ry_select_id=13 Hope this helps!

Sin wrote: I heard that there used to be radio stations, can I still set one up of my own? If so, how would i go about doing it? My understanding is that the /radio command will launch the in-game radio engine, and that it will connect to...

One simple thing to try, that won't do you any harm but does often clear up screwy browser behavior: Empty your Temporary Internet Files folder. In IE, this is a matter of choosing Tools-->Internet Options, and then looking for the "Tempor...

Well the good news is, at the end of this long, sloppy road, The Matrix Online appears to work rather well with Windows 7. I have been testing it since before update 66, when for the umpteenth time I turned on my Vista machine and it decid...

azarazamataz wrote: Im sorry i didnt trail through all six pages but im not exactly a computer wiz lol, ive started building my own comp and im worried about gettin vista, i was thinking of getting vista 64 bit but i heard that has some ma...

Feh. Silly thing...you need a Game Boy! Or even a Nintendo DS--those look more like a PDA, so people will think you're working! Or, since you're babysitting servers, they'll think you're fiddling with a Smart Phone. See? I thought the whol...

I'm still new to HDTV-land: Given that The Matrix trilogy were not shot in HD, what's the gain here? If anyone's found "before/after" pictues of what the improvement is, I'd love to see it.

You crazy kids, with your XBoxes and your eXperiences... Christmas is gonna be late, but you will get your GTA 4 downloadable content (I thought I'd heard it was already available, but maybe that's only in the US?). http://www.telegraph.co...

shearman wrote: George Carlin forever. Jeff used to be ok, but fame has made him worse. George Carlin for a while. <3 to Carlin, may he rest in peace...but those last few years were a bad cup of coffee: dark, bitter and cold. On a differen...

I have no idea how things work under the hood, but I bet it would be simpler if SOE offered the ability to transfer a character. Let everyone have more slots on either server, but then be able to choose to move their RSI to the other box....

mennis wrote: Thanks for the response, but the severity of this issue, and the fact that it is so widespread is a really bad indicator for me. The fact that it is still, after all this time, an issue without fix, just makes me think moving...

Yay! Congrats Asna! We always knew you were cool--now the whole Matrix thingy knows too!

Incidentally, two other things about the 3GB threshold: 1) Your motherboard may have a setting for "Software Over 3GB Remapping". You can try enabling that to see if there is a difference. All it will do is try to shift the registers aroun...

I'm not sure what this is...would you mind telling us more about what you mean by "shift out my green screen thingy"? I've been having many a Vista problem, and would try anything just to see if it helps. Thanks.

Some of these people reported the problem in May. So the other suggestions here are useful. And also...if you go into the advanced options for the game and try using the different overlay filters (or turning them all off), that might help...

If you are using Vista, be sure you run MXO as Administrator (right-click the icon and choose "Run As Administrator"). If you are using XP, and are logged on to a Limited user account, try logging on as an Administrative user and running t...

For the record, I have two Vista machines. The good machine is quad-core, blah blah, hardware, and runs MxO pretty much as-is. I occasionally get the shadowed face bug, and if I open my inv or put on the wrong item, I get that blank screen...

phi wrote: Tip one: don't raise the priority of any process above "Normal" unless you really know what you're doing. putting it at "High" will actually stop stuff that needs to run from working on your PC. Tip two: if you have windows Vist...

LtCmdr_Tsusai wrote: Sotirios wrote: MXOWinterMute wrote: Update: After a couple of days of crash-free stability, Vista fell right back into its old tricks. So. Quickest, easiest fix for crash-to-desktop has been to simply disable the dumb...

Mindsweep wrote: Now, the sky will not become so black we can't play right Virrago? Or else you just have to give us all permant blue headlights I vote for blue headlights! Something HID with lots of blue glowy-ness!

Hey, thanks for posting about Fan Faire...I don't get out much, so I'm glad to hear there's plenty of us out there showing support. In the meantime, if you're thinking about updates...it might be nice if we could get the same kind of syste...

This can be fun! Looking forward to grabbing several of these. Plus it makes an added bonus for those of us who help other players farm keys. Thanks!

With what you've said here about how it works, I'm going to take two tacks then--try running in compatibility mode for XP SP2, and also make sure my Firewall has an exception set up for the program. I didn't get any "Allow/Deny" prompts, s...

Well, that was pretty cool! Look how it adds itself to the taskbar in Vista Ultimate: (the l'il green box) Oh, by the way, I'm using the blue-lit keyboard--like Asna posted. The good news is, it behaved normally, display and all. The bad n...

Just had my first session with it - nicely done! I like how you have a tic at the far right to show the top of the IS/Health bars, and I'm impressed with how smoothly it updates in realtime. MegaCity time is a nice bonus, because I'm somet...

Cool - thanks for the info. I will try your Beta 2 in the next day or two, then. Looking forward to it, and thanks for the hard work.

The kayaking pics are stunning--looks like some gorgeous scenery. And I had to ask..is that actually a snake that climbed up on your boat?

I would love to give this a try! I have a Logitech G15 and really enjoy running across programs that make use of the screen to display stuff like the clock, health stats, etc. Am I correct at the time of this post that the last link you po...

Having a small one has made me not very movie-savvy. So....I'm kind of puzzled. Why all the hate for this guy "Shia LeBoeuf"? (pardon if I misspell)

ArchDuke wrote: That's very interesting, I really hope this will lead somewhere. More surface area = more absorption of solar energy = more useable energy. Efficiency of solar cells have been a thorn in the technology's side for years. Loo...

Well, I tried all of the above except disabling BitLocker. The good news is, I solved my problem! The bad news is, it was an ugly solution and I'm not proud of it. I started turning off things that check files, cache, or otherwise throttle...

Hrm...the Full System Check bombed, so I'll post again when I have a chance to copy/paste. But I wonder...I can't recall if BitLocker Drive Encryption is enabled in Ultimate by default, but given that it encrypts files, I'm wondering if th...

Yep, I did. Ticked Full System Check to make it confirm the Launcher, then did it after launch to have it check the full set of game files (vis a vis your nifty post on how to run the Full System Check ). I also tried replacing the file(s)...

Okay, I learned a little more, so I'm going to pass it on. I don't know if this becomes a Vista issue (because it can happen in other OSes but is more common in Vista), a Network issue (because it has to do with file transfer) or a patchin...

Definitely something wrong that I can't nail down... Overwriting all files with known good files didn't change the error message. Installing on C:\ didn't change the message. Using Station Launcher to install from the web (on C:\) gave me...

Of course, the fun comes when you're in a mission and the NPCs that weren't hostile turn on you, such as the statue mission where the person "helping" you suddenly attacks you and your goal switches from "don't let him die" to "die! Yew go...

The Prima Strategy guide had a lot of character profiles and such, so if you want to add a bit of depth to the gangs, you might find some useful info there. It gives stories about the gang bosses and contacts who give you side missions...

Criingey wrote: The only advice / pointer i could give you here is: Watch out where the huskies go and dont you eat that yellow snow! No but seriously.. Hee - Criinge, you never cease to amuse me. And here I never took you for a Zappa fan!...

*Sigh* After a nice format and reinstall of Vista (version Ultimate 64-bit, SP1), I installed MXO from the CDs. Everything goes smoothly until it tries to update the game. Then it runs forever, takes hours in which the green download bar g...

Rats. *shrugs* I'm kinda out of ideas at this point. Except that you might want to call SOE and see if they can manually fix things for you from their side...

I think I'm keeping that one for the greater good and for general public safety. See that ladder, over there in my neighbor's yard? If it had hands, that Mercedes would grab that ladder and whip it at your head, hard. Then you'd duck, and...

And to think I spent most of my time in the tech threads...how in the bejeebus could I have missed out on fun places like this? Okay, better late than never, although this one's now about a year old... In keeping up with the cars/bikes/tat...

This thread shows me that I spend far too much time in the tech forums, and nowhere near enough time reading up on events. This was a ton of fun, and thank you for reminding me of it with these neat grabs!

I recently noticed that if I haven't defragmented my hard drive, I get all sorts of file-related problems with games, including MXO, that have tons of files. Try defragmenting your hard drive, then running the launcher again. If you still...

Take a look here: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo/..._id=36300024020 Because it's handy. Then click the link on that page that says, "Firewall Settings for the Matrix Online" (which actually goes here: http://forums.station.sony.com/mxo...

I'm only making a wild guess here, but...zantarra mentioned they'd "bought" the game, which I'm presuming means a boxed copy. That "wblogin.vm"...the boxed product originally belonged to Warner Brothers. When you go to install the game, at...

I learned something new, and it's a Catch-22... Patching kept taking forever, and stalling. Partly due to needing to defrag (I suspect Vista's defragmenter kinda sucks), but here's the other part: If I go into the Windows Task Manager ( Ct...

Sorry to butt in on the thread, but I think I should clarify, that this isn't me. It's her. Another Wintermute. Apologies for the confusion. And thanks a kabillion to Cuty Suzuki for point it out to me. It helped me figure out why I kept g...

I like the way you've formatted (and written) the blog. It makes for a fun read! And, yeah, those Bells. They'll kick you in the ding-ding every time. I suggest some sort of protective pant-like garment. Wait 'til you meet the Furries--err...

Rats. I don't have many suggestions for ya. But...now that it's been over a week, did the Full System Check fix it for you? Are you running Vista? Are you temporarily turning off Antivirus, Firewall, etc. to see if that helps? Have you loo...

You'll probably come across permissions errors like that in other games, too, just FYI. Vista tackles security by running you in the least necessary privilieges, and raising and lowering your privileges on-the-fly as needed. Sounds like a...

Update: After a couple of days of crash-free stability, Vista fell right back into its old tricks. So. Quickest, easiest fix for crash-to-desktop has been to simply disable the dumb Desktop Window Manager. You can do this temporarily, if y...