Developer Journal: Defrag
Posted 1 decade ago Lead Map Design
In FF-related news:
I've been working on ff_push a bunch and it's comin' together quite nicely. I'm working with an old industrial theme at the moment (red brick and warehouse textures) and it's a nice little distraction. Depending on what we've got for this week's media update, I may polish up ff_spirit a bit more for your viewing pleasure.
The reaction to ff_bases has been extremely positive, so that's cool and what not, like that time Jon and I killed a hooker.
Joe Webloggs time.
After waiting 10 days on OCUK's returns service, they sent me the same RAM back, claimed there's nothing wrong with it and charged me ~£17 for the privilege. I've been keeping track of the OCUK forums and now know of several other Nforce2 motherboard users that have ordered the same RAM and had the same problems. The other person that had his RMA dealt with at the same time as me also got his memory back and was charged the same, too.
Now, if this was an incompatibility issue and the incompatibility was clearly stated on OCUK's website, I'd just suck it up, accept responsibility for the error and then move on. However, OCUK's site states:
"GSKILL 2-3-3-6SERIES Dual Channel Edition PC-3200 memory is specifically designed for high frequency operation on Intel 865/875 and Nvidia Nforce 2/Nforce 3/Nforce4chipset based motherboards. Through the use of G.SKILL"
.. and my old Crucial RAM runs fine through memtest, SuperPi, Prime95 and any other test you could care to throw at it (pretty sure my original instability was caused by a combination of heat and page thrashing when I had several applications open, not the actual RAM) so it's obviously not my system. So, yeah. OCUK are great... until you actually require some customer / technical support. I've always wondered what people were talkin' about when they slated OCUK, now I know. I'm now almost £100 down and still don't have working memory. Awesome. It's a real goddamn pain working with several applications open and only 512MB of memory. It's affecting my productivity a fair amount. It also takes forever to start up HL2 to test!
View all developer journals I've been working on ff_push a bunch and it's comin' together quite nicely. I'm working with an old industrial theme at the moment (red brick and warehouse textures) and it's a nice little distraction. Depending on what we've got for this week's media update, I may polish up ff_spirit a bit more for your viewing pleasure.
The reaction to ff_bases has been extremely positive, so that's cool and what not, like that time Jon and I killed a hooker.
Joe Webloggs time.
After waiting 10 days on OCUK's returns service, they sent me the same RAM back, claimed there's nothing wrong with it and charged me ~£17 for the privilege. I've been keeping track of the OCUK forums and now know of several other Nforce2 motherboard users that have ordered the same RAM and had the same problems. The other person that had his RMA dealt with at the same time as me also got his memory back and was charged the same, too.
Now, if this was an incompatibility issue and the incompatibility was clearly stated on OCUK's website, I'd just suck it up, accept responsibility for the error and then move on. However, OCUK's site states:
"GSKILL 2-3-3-6SERIES Dual Channel Edition PC-3200 memory is specifically designed for high frequency operation on Intel 865/875 and Nvidia Nforce 2/Nforce 3/Nforce4chipset based motherboards. Through the use of G.SKILL"
.. and my old Crucial RAM runs fine through memtest, SuperPi, Prime95 and any other test you could care to throw at it (pretty sure my original instability was caused by a combination of heat and page thrashing when I had several applications open, not the actual RAM) so it's obviously not my system. So, yeah. OCUK are great... until you actually require some customer / technical support. I've always wondered what people were talkin' about when they slated OCUK, now I know. I'm now almost £100 down and still don't have working memory. Awesome. It's a real goddamn pain working with several applications open and only 512MB of memory. It's affecting my productivity a fair amount. It also takes forever to start up HL2 to test!