Mekablog

The reading on my depress-o-meter has been knocked down a few notches. For the past few weeks I’ve been struggling with computer demons that have kept me from working on Project Vega. If you haven’t been in the loop, Carn is taking the work-in-progress game to show off at QuakeCon this year. We were working on a 3-map demo to help show off the game so far, but problems have been abounding. For numerous reasons, the project has had all sorts of trouble keeping mappers. WastedYouth, whom I dearly hoped would stick with the project till the end, got too close to a Wal-Mart employment opportunity kiosk and was never heard from again. Agent Spork is too busy being Agent Spork. And of course, with my sort of luck these days, I was barred from mapping because of a BSOD error with the map editor. In short, Carn is pretty much doing the lion’s share of the work I was lead to believe that the BSOD error I kept getting was hardware related, and so I have been “negotiating” with the Alienware tech support to try and figure out the problem. Well long story short the “tech support” is full of crap. Atleast I was able to get my wireless card fixed in all that mess though.

So where’s the good news, you ask? Well it turns out that the errors and BSODs I kept getting weren’t hardware related at all. Actually it’s really hard for me to say what the exact problem was, but it apparently had something to do with Windows Update and how retarded it can be. I wouldn’t have expected this outcome since I had the editor [sorta] working on a WinXP installation on my 12-year-old desktop machine. Carn had sent me some email messages while I was stuck in bed with some nasty bug, so I was sorta late to this discovery. He ran into the BSOD and errors with the editor in the exact same way that I had been. So he was apparently able to fix the problem and then oh hey looky at this:

Ahahahahaha FUCK YOU MICROSOFT. BTW leaked screenshot omg.

One problem at this juncture, though, is that QuakeCon is literally only a days away. Yea. I’ve still got to talk to Carn about what he plans to do since time is going to be at a premium for this demo. We’ll see what happens. All I know is that I’m ecstatic that this problem is finally behind me. Now the only thing I gotta figure out is if I want to keep using this installation of Windows Vista…