Minecraft - CP Ultra Hardcore

[phaneuf_train]

My name is iggy12.

[Rathji]

Ok, added both of you.

Server address is: minecraft.tnlonline.ca

If you want to double check if you can log in, it will be online until after we run our match on Monday (I don't always have it running.)

You can look around the spawn city or if you want to play around with Ultra Hardcore, use the warp listed and then click on the sign. It is a temporary hardcore world right now, as the real one is being saved for Monday.

[Rathji]

Current players for Monday, May 21st (Victoria Day) at 7pm MST.

We have 10 currently (only 9 confirmed). 10 players maximum can play, we may adjust this number up or down as the connection's performance dictates.

CP Username - Minecraft Name

Confirmed:
Slacker - SlackerRob
QuadCityImages - Dodger6500
HPLovecraft - Pickymcpickaxe
Rathji - Rathji
Hanni - Hannibal14
Hmmhmmcamo - nachoincredible
Otto-matic - Need Minecraft name
Phaneuf_train - Iggy12
Mazrim's g/f - happygolucky137
TorqueDog - TorqueDog007

Waiting List:
None

[phaneuf_train]

Says I wasn't white-listed still. my name could be case sensitive I guess.

[TorqueDog]

I don't know what Ultra Hardcore is. Sounds like a noob like me would get schooled badly.

Sure what the hell, I'm in.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by phaneuf_train

Says I wasn't white-listed still. my name could be case sensitive I guess.

Try again. Restarted the server.

[Otto-matic]

I'll record my end too and post it on youtube, I always have the worst luck with creepers popping out of corners so better watch out I attract a ton of them

[hmmhmmcamo]

I think my laptop has bit the big one.

Last night I was trying to figure out how to do the video recording for our game on Monday. I downloaded Dxtory as suggested by QuadCity, and when I went to install it said I needed some framework .net program. So I download/install that from Microsoft's site, it says I need to restart, computer shuts down, I hear 1 long beep and 2 short beeps and nothing happens (the computer is running but nothing happens on the screen).

My limited google skills are telling me the thing is pretty much pooched and because it's a few years old now it isn't worth repairing.

Anyone familiar with this?

[Rathji]

Look here under the manufacturer of your motherboard and it might give you more hints.

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

[hmmhmmcamo]

Originally Posted by Rathji

Look here under the manufacturer of your motherboard and it might give you more hints.

http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm

Thanks Rathji. It's definitly 1 long beep and 2 short beeps...so it doesn't look good. The laptop is at least 5 years old now so I'm not too interested in trying to save it. Luckily I've recently taken everything I want/need off it so I'm not too worried about it.

so moving on...

A couple months ago they replaced all the computers (and gave away the old) at Mrs Camo's work. It's an engineering consulting office, and the computers apparently get replaced every two years, so I thought it might be a good opportunity to get a desktop for free that I could easily upgrade into something useful.

So today I went on a bit shopping spree...got a new 23" monitor, gaming mouse and keyboard and the Logitech G35 headset so I can do commentary for our hardcore matches.

After setting everything up, I'm really starting to think that trying to upgrade this thing isn't worth it at all and I should just get something new. But I really don't know anything about computers... so maybe throwing some more RAM into it (upgrading to 2 GB) and upgrading the OS might be enough to handle minecraft etc...

A few specs...

windows xp 2002 lol
intel pent 4
cpu 2.8 ghz
510 mb RAM
Radeon 7000
not sure what else I should mention.

anyone have any advice?

part of me just wants to go and buy something like this tomorrow and be done with it.
http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10369679&whse=BCCA&Ne=5000162+ 4000000&eCat=BCCA|84&N=4011460%204294955232&Mo=10& No=4&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDes c1&lang=en-CA&Sp=C&topnav=

thanks for your help.

[hmmhmmcamo]

adding to my last post...

I went to Crucial's website looking at memory and did the scan they provide.

The results:

board: D865GLC
4 slots
2-256 mb
2-empty

memory type, DDR PC2700, PC 3200, (non-ECC)

Max memory 4GB
Current 512 MB
Total slots 4
Available 2

Each slot can hold DDR PC2700, 3200 with max 1 GB per slot

[Mazrim]

Originally Posted by hmmhmmcamo

A few specs...

windows xp 2002 lol
intel pent 4
cpu 2.8 ghz
510 mb RAM
Radeon 7000
not sure what else I should mention.

anyone have any advice?

part of me just wants to go and buy something like this tomorrow and be done with it.
http://www.costco.ca/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=10369679&whse=BCCA&Ne=5000162+ 4000000&eCat=BCCA|84&N=4011460%204294955232&Mo=10& No=4&Nr=P_CatalogName:BCCA&Ns=P_Price|1||P_SignDes c1&lang=en-CA&Sp=C&topnav=

thanks for your help.

Your current computer will have some low framerates on Minecraft. The Costco one you linked to is overkill for Minecraft, but at least you can record video with no framerate problems.

A quick question for tomorrow - Do I need to install an earlier version of Minecraft for this? Anything else need to be done on the client side of the game to be ready for this? I'm gonna look for a recording program today and otherwise the fiancee should be ready to go.

[hmmhmmcamo]

Originally Posted by Mazrim

Your current computer will have some low framerates on Minecraft. The Costco one you linked to is overkill for Minecraft, but at least you can record video with no framerate problems.

At this point I can't even get minecraft to start on this thing. It starts to load, but then goes to a black screen and then exits back to the desktop. I get these error files each time.

Spoiler!

#
# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
#
# EXCEPTION_INT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO (0xc0000094) at pc=0x6926716a, pid=1760, tid=3824
#
# JRE version: 7.0_04-b22
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (23.0-b21 mixed mode windows-x86 )
# Problematic frame:
# C [atioglxx.dll+0x26716a] atiPS+0xc43aa
#
# Failed to write core dump. Minidumps are not enabled by default on client versions of Windows
#
# If you would like to submit a bug report, please visit:
# http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/crash.jsp
# The crash happened outside the Java Virtual Machine in native code.
# See problematic frame for where to report the bug.
#

--------------- T H R E A D ---------------

Current thread (0x49722000): JavaThread "Minecraft main thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=3824, stack(0x49cf0000,0x49d40000)]

siginfo: ExceptionCode=0xc0000094

Registers:
EAX=0x00001e00, EBX=0x49c33760, ECX=0xe8020000, EDX=0x00000000
ESP=0x49d3f6e8, EBP=0x00000040, ESI=0x49c33e28, EDI=0x49d3f738
EIP=0x6926716a, EFLAGS=0x00010246

Top of Stack: (sp=0x49d3f6e8)
0x49d3f6e8: 49c33e28 49c337e0 00000001 692670a6
0x49d3f6f8: 49d3f738 49d3f864 49c337e0 00000020
0x49d3f708: 00000030 00000000 00000009 00000000
0x49d3f718: 35004239 0000000f 49d3f518 00000000
0x49d3f728: 49d3f76c 7c90e920 7c9101e0 ffffffff
0x49d3f738: 00000090 00240571 00000009 52870000
0x49d3f748: f3f58000 00000002 00000006 00000780
0x49d3f758: 00000438 00001e00 00000438 e8020000

Instructions: (pc=0x6926716a)
0x6926714a: 89 46 70 89 46 74 8b 47 2c 89 46 78 8b 4f 2c 89
0x6926715a: 8e 88 00 00 00 8b 57 24 89 56 28 8b 47 24 33 d2
0x6926716a: f7 76 18 89 46 20 8b 47 28 89 46 24 8b 4f 34 89
0x6926717a: 4e 68 8b 57 3c 89 56 6c 8b 47 40 89 86 94 00 00


Register to memory mapping:

EAX=0x00001e00 is an unknown value
EBX=0x49c33760 is an unknown value
ECX=0xe8020000 is an unknown value
EDX=0x00000000 is an unknown value
ESP=0x49d3f6e8 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x49722000
EBP=0x00000040 is an unknown value
ESI=0x49c33e28 is an unknown value
EDI=0x49d3f738 is pointing into the stack for thread: 0x49722000


Stack: [0x49cf0000,0x49d40000], sp=0x49d3f6e8, free space=317k
Native frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code, C=native code)
C [atioglxx.dll+0x26716a] atiPS+0xc43aa

[error occurred during error reporting (printing native stack), id 0xc0000005]

Java frames: (J=compiled Java code, j=interpreted, Vv=VM code)
j org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsPeerInfo.setPixelFormat(JI )V+0
j org.lwjgl.opengl.WindowsDisplay.createWindow(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/DisplayMode;Ljava/awt/Canvas;II)V+187
j org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.createWindow()V+68
j org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/PixelFormat;Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/Drawable;Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/ContextAttribsV+63
j org.lwjgl.opengl.Display.create(Lorg/lwjgl/opengl/PixelFormatV+9
j net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.a()V+178
j net.minecraft.client.Minecraft.run()V+6
j java.lang.Thread.run()V+11
v ~StubRoutines::call_stub

--------------- P R O C E S S ---------------

Java Threads: ( => current thread )
=>0x49722000 JavaThread "Minecraft main thread" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=3824, stack(0x49cf0000,0x49d40000)]
0x49704800 JavaThread "Timer hack thread" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3664, stack(0x49b40000,0x49b90000)]
0x49694c00 JavaThread "Keep-Alive-Timer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3720, stack(0x49c50000,0x49ca0000)]
0x00968400 JavaThread "DestroyJavaVM" [_thread_blocked, id=3200, stack(0x00a50000,0x00aa0000)]
0x494c6c00 JavaThread "TimerQueue" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=532, stack(0x492e0000,0x49330000)]
0x494c5000 JavaThread "SwingWorker-pool-1-thread-1" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2208, stack(0x49950000,0x499a0000)]
0x49464400 JavaThread "AWT-EventQueue-0" [_thread_blocked, id=4016, stack(0x49900000,0x49950000)]
0x49463400 JavaThread "AWT-Shutdown" [_thread_blocked, id=3624, stack(0x498b0000,0x49900000)]
0x49084400 JavaThread "AWT-Windows" daemon [_thread_in_native, id=1596, stack(0x49330000,0x49380000)]
0x49081400 JavaThread "Java2D Disposer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3232, stack(0x49290000,0x492e0000)]
0x48f25400 JavaThread "Service Thread" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2892, stack(0x491f0000,0x49240000)]
0x48f22c00 JavaThread "C1 CompilerThread0" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=2904, stack(0x491a0000,0x491f0000)]
0x48f1dc00 JavaThread "Attach Listener" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3088, stack(0x49150000,0x491a0000)]
0x48f1c400 JavaThread "Signal Dispatcher" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=1984, stack(0x49100000,0x49150000)]
0x02c35400 JavaThread "Finalizer" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=4056, stack(0x48eb0000,0x48f00000)]
0x02c30400 JavaThread "Reference Handler" daemon [_thread_blocked, id=3728, stack(0x48e60000,0x48eb0000)]

Other Threads:
0x02c2ac00 VMThread [stack: 0x48e10000,0x48e60000] [id=3156]
0x48f27c00 WatcherThread [stack: 0x49240000,0x49290000] [id=3628]

VM state:not at safepoint (normal execution)

VM Mutex/Monitor currently owned by a thread: None

Heap
def new generation total 157248K, used 93020K [0x02c50000, 0x0d6f0000, 0x181a0000)
eden space 139776K, 66% used [0x02c50000, 0x08727040, 0x0b4d0000)
from space 17472K, 0% used [0x0b4d0000, 0x0b4d0000, 0x0c5e0000)
to space 17472K, 0% used [0x0c5e0000, 0x0c5e0000, 0x0d6f0000)
tenured generation total 349568K, used 0K [0x181a0000, 0x2d700000, 0x42c50000)
the space 349568K, 0% used [0x181a0000, 0x181a0000, 0x181a0200, 0x2d700000)
compacting perm gen total 12288K, used 11655K [0x42c50000, 0x43850000, 0x46c50000)
the space 12288K, 94% used [0x42c50000, 0x437b1df0, 0x437b1e00, 0x43850000)
No shared spaces configured.a

[hmmhmmcamo]

got this today so hopefully I'm good to go for tomorrow night.

http://www.cdata.ca/desktops.aspx#i7-2700K

any comments? I think it looks alright but you guys know way more than me.

[BloodFetish]

Originally Posted by hmmhmmcamo

So today I went on a bit shopping spree...got a new 23" monitor, gaming mouse and keyboard and the Logitech G35 headset so I can do commentary for our hardcore matches.

I had a heck of a time trying to get the Logitech G35 recording game sounds along with the commentary in WinXP. I assume your new Certified Data dekstop is Windows 7, and hope you have much better luck than I. I'm not sure if my problem was a limitation in XP, or the Logitech driver didn't support mixing audio sources.

If they don't work out hopefully you can exchange them for something with a 1/8" inch minijack.

[QuadCityImages]

Do we have a plan for some kind of voice-com client? I know last time we had the CP Vent server, but that should be gone I would imagine.

[Mazrim]

Alright, got everything set up, mic and all. Just a couple recording questions:

- The file size fraps outputs is huge. I'm talking like 500MB a minute. You guys seem to record in pretty high quality so I assume you all deal with that (the half size quality looked pretty bad). Do you split the file every 4GB (an option in fraps) or just let it make one really gigantic file for the entire UHC run?
- What program do you use to encode the recording into something more manageable?

Thanks!

[Rathji]

I will be doing fraps in half size for this.

I use windows movie maker to encode.

As for Vent, I never even thought of it. We will just have to do in game chat for the preliminary stuff

[QuadCityImages]

Setting up a Mumble server (Murmur) isn't very hard, but I certainly won't have time to do it in the next 20 hours.

As far as video recording, DXTORY doesn't seem to have the option to break it into chunks. During our previous round of UHC I had intended to stop and start the recording manually every hour or so. Unfortunately, my PC crashed like 30 minutes into the game, so I lost everything up to that point. I was thinking of stopping/starting the recording every 15 or 20 minutes this time. Rathji, how often does that "Saving" message pop up? I was thinking of using that like a mark, assuming its the same for all players. I've been pleasantly surprised at how well Win7 handles 50-100 gig video files, so the only reason I want to split up my files is to minimize losses due to any potential crashes or whatever.

[Rathji]

I will be putting a server message at 30 min intervals, starting when the match does.