*lol* Spybot picked up the Windows dump engine..*lol*

That's a registry entry which is created when your system BSODs. It's a dump preparation utility that will give you the message about your system being shut down unexpectedly and asks if you want to send information to Microsoft about the problem.

As far as your mouse going, you've got a cascading problem;

Try a format / reinstall of Windows. But I'm going to say it's really starting to sound more like a hardware problem.

I don't know if new drivers are going to help you honestly. Progressive random failures are generally the first sign of big trouble.

If it were locked at failing OpenGL games only then I'd say it was a driver problem. Since it has started to creep in to the world of DirectX and those last two failures are FAR, FAR, FAR from common, you may need to back up your system, wipe and try from a fresh install. If it STILL fails, then you can pretty much rule out software and start looking at your GPU.

Well, something is wonky here. It's hard to tell exactly what is going on here w/o a full memory dump, but;


The first minidump you sent me is straight forward stuff,

THREAD_STUCK_IN_DEVICE_DRIVER.

This is usually one of two things, the drivers have a bug in them which causes the offending thread to spin wildly (like a failed test condition or something simple) or the hardware itself fails to respond to a request in a timely enough manner. In this particular case it looks as though the ATI driver is attempting to handle a mode change (possibly changing to OpenGL, don't screw around w/ video card drivers that much so.. *shrugs*).

kd> u ati2dvag!CMMPostSetModeNotification+0x79 -0x10
ati2dvag!CMMPostSetModeNotification+0x69:
bf9f553b 8b4074 mov eax,[eax+0x74]
bf9f553e 8945ec mov [ebp-0x14],eax
bf9f5541 8d45cc lea eax,[ebp-0x34]
bf9f5544 50 push eax
bf9f5545 ff159c05a1bf call dword ptr [ati2dvag!gCMMcalls+0x5c (bfa1059c)]
bf9f554b c9 leave
bf9f554c c20400 ret 0x4
bf9f554f cc int 3
kd>

These look like the latest ATI drivers...
kd> kd> kd> lm t m ati*
start end module name
bf9d3000 bfa15000 ati2dvag Tue Feb 21 19:46:46 2006 (43FBDEA6)
bfa15000 bfa54000 ati2cqag Tue Feb 21 19:04:48 2006 (43FBD4D0)
bfa54000 bfa8a000 atikvmag Tue Feb 21 19:11:01 2006 (43FBD645)
bfa8a000 bfd0db80 ati3duag Tue Feb 21 19:30:43 2006 (43FBDAE3)
bfd0e000 bfde0140 ativvaxx Tue Feb 21 19:24:28 2006 (43FBD96C)
f7451000 f75cf000 ati2mtag Tue Feb 21 19:46:24 2006 (43FBDE90)
kd>

If there's a bug in the ATI driver(s), it's possible the Omega's have carried the same bug forward so I doubt they would be much of a fix for you.

The next two are a little more concerning;DRIVER_UNLOADED_WITHOUT_CANCELLING_PENDING_OPERATIONS.

Both of them have screwed up dumps (usually an indicator of something tromping on memory) and again w/o a full dump it's hard to tell who caused that problem because I can't rebuild the call stack. I'd suggest it's still a problem with the ATI card / drivers because of your scenarios. My first suggestion would be to download some driver cleaning utilities;

http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1275

Reboot the system and try installing the latest batch of drivers.


As it also seems to be getting progressively worse and more common in DirectX games as well, it's possible that the card itself is failing. Worst case scenario though.

Nope, you got the wrong stuff.

Okay, let's do this, look in c:\windows\mindump and see if you have any files name Mini<date>-0n.dmp.

If you have some, email the two most recent ones.

der.jackal AT gmail DOT com

Windows XP?

If so:

Right click "My Computer" >> Manage >> Event Viewer (expand) >> System

You're looking for Type of "Error" with a source of "System Error" and a date / time around the time it happened to you last.


Double click on entry and hopefully the description will have some information like this in it;

Error code 1000008e, parameter1 c0000005, parameter2 80568e68, paameter3 f216a474, parameter4 00000000.

Highlight and copy that information (you have to use CTRL + C) and paste it back here.

Saying "it crashes" isn't really helpful honestly.

Does it crash as to a Blue Screen or does it crash to the desktop?
Is there an error message displayed, if so what is it?

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

Indeed I will agree any day that people displaying poor driving while on cell phones are far worse.

Anticipative guessing is intuitive for some and not for others. Even if you've "got it", it still dreadfully annoying being behind someone with their brake lights either on constantly or flickering since there is just enough weight on the pedal to cause it to flutter.

If one doesn't have the processing power in their grey matter to be able to drive while talking on a cell phone, they shouldn't be able to own either a car or a cell phone.

I'm all full of rant today I must be in a bad mood.

It's annoying being behind 90% of the drivers in the world.

At the risk of dangling off topic;

I would only contest one point comrade, nobody posses the ability to hold a phone up to their ear and drive at the same time. Hands free devices are fine, but the whole world goes away to people when they put a phone to their ear and have to hold it there.

and to merge BACK on topic...LEFT FOOT BRAKERS UNITE!!! We are the true power brokers. We have the ability of ambidextrous behaviour with our feet while piloting a vehicle!!!! Just like left handed people, we're smarter than the rest.

Quote from Ball Bearing Turbo :

.. Although there are people I've seen that apparantly LFB, and are too lazy to move their foot far enough that it doesn't rest on the brake pedal.... That is annoying to the point that culprits should have their license suspended if caught... You can't tell what they're doing and it's tantamount to dangerous operation of a motorvehicle from the standpoint of other drivers. There's a good reason to teach the average joe not to LFB.

So they're worse than everybody else whom you can tell what they're doing?

Anticipative guessing isn't altered any more or less because Timmy's got his foot just enough on the brake to engage the light. What you know is he's got his foot on the brake pedal enough to engage the light. At least you know that. The guy next to you on his cell phone however...

Quote from drinklime :

Actually I think the opposite. Some old lady who left foot brakes (i have seen tons of these people in Florida going 60 mph with their brake lights strobing on and off) is more likely to plow through the local Dunkin Donuts storefront.

The vast, vast, vast majority of people (especially older ones) do not left foot brake. I'll bet you some Chocolate Creme Dunkin Donuts that those brake light throbbers are not Left Foot Brakers. They're the worst kind of drivers...the gas on, I'm going too fast, light tap of the brake drivers. All with their right foot.

Most of the old people "drive through" accidents are caused by them having a siezure, panic attack or loss of focus, and stomping on whatever pedal they can w/ their right foot, hitting the accelerator and launching over a kerb into the store front.

Quote from Vain :

In real life you only need left foot braking when you want to stay on the gas while braking....<snip>

Vain

Incorrect answer.

In real life, in an Automatic / DSG / SMG / Tiptronic / etc., you should learn to LFB.

The biggest reason;

In quite a few situations (panic, anger, distraction and so forth), people stomp at something with their right foot, because they are always trained to drive purely with their right foot. If they stomp and hit the gas...zooommmmmm, there you go.

This is how a lot of people end up turning store fronts into drive thrus and 1 door garages into 2 door drive through garages.

I H&T and LFB in my Audi, and I LFB exclusively in my Discovery 3, sue me.

Quote from ShannonN :

Greg Murphy is a left foot braker (I think) and he says it's better for trail braking and allows quicker throttle response as you never take the foot off the throttle pedal etc, and he's the fastest man at the mountain...

Yeah, but Murph's an ass. I mean WTF was that move on Ambrose last year?

In all seriousness, I wish they'd get a footwell cam on Murph's car. I do love watching Skaife-cam though...even though he's a RFB primarily.

Quote from Cue-Ball :

I'm a right foot braker both in sims and in real life. People are always saying I should learn to left foot brake and I'd be faster, but Mark Skaife is a right foot braker and he seems to do alright.

If you're not gonna LFB, and you're gonna model Skaifey, then learn to carry the last part of your braking in to the corner. :P

I LFB in real life, in both automatic AND manual vehicles.




/*waits for people to freak out*/

Come come, it's Windows Vista Millennium Edition.

Vista Me.

Quote from keiran :

You can imagine our faces when they turn up at our house with a brand new Audi A4 estate SLine (the sports one) was like this : Then my Dad asked them if his 17 year old son could go on the policy for this hire car and the guy laughed and said No and I was like :
This car is just crazy though, the brakes are incredible and the thing just grips. I know not to follow close behind one of them things in my Clio I'd smash right into the back of it, my Dad brought the car to a near stop from 60 in a blink of the eye and he didn't even press the pedal that hard.

I got a shot in a car park and just couldn't believe how good it was, made the Clio feel like a sponge. I could accelerate up to 60mph and stop again in the length of this car park, in the clio I'd have been lucky to hit 35mph in the same distance.


Keiran

The As are great fun, but even more fun is the actual S4..

At least it was a CART guy and he's running him in Busch series.

Had it been an IRL guy who spotted him, he'd have a ride in the next race.

Quote from Vain :

I protest against §03. It allows the inside car to push the outside car off the road on corner exit. In a corner the inside car has the right to stay on the track as well as the outside car has the right to stay on the track on his side.

Vain

In verbage yes, but if you fail to allow proper racing room to your opponent you will be penalized 9/10 times. Every race series will stipulate that rule.

Well, you're not using two languages in your example. You're using the output from two languages.

---simple answer---

DLLs have a common interface mechanism that can be accessed by any language that supports calls through that interface mechanism

---simple answer---

We're fine so long as we don't add cows and factories.

Quote from Niels Heusinkveld :

Nail on the head.. When it comes to simracing I want the most realistic controls. Its been 8 years since I used 'standard' pedals, and those where Thrustmaster T2s, arguably better than most of todays pedals.. Recently the Dutch Groningen Gang (tm) made some new pedal sets with a 50kg force sensor as brake sensor which is awesome.

I see 'simracing' as a fun hobby but the hardware and software isn't always worthy of the term 'sim'.. Its not easy to get right and even sims like LFS do certain things wrong, but it can be a lot of fun and a good 'nod in the right direction'. Once you tried 'my' pedals, as the other 4 guys who made a set will testify, its in another league.. It really makes you go 'hmmmmmmz' when you reach for your plastic logitech.

The g25 does look more promising, the single transmission probably means 1:15 or 1:20 at most making the wheel potentially quicker and less 'hard' to turn.

BRD, well, they're weird.. one product every 5 years, each product seemingly being 7 years in development, and they aren't bust? Very strange.. Lets hope their wheel is good but at that price not many will be able to get it. VPP is going to make a decent FF wheel.. that only turns 270 degrees so thats not ideal.. Seems that its worth waiting to see how the g25 'handles'.

Even with the ECCI locked at 240 rotation, it's a far better over all "feel" to me than any FFB based wheel I've had. Even w/o Optical sensors.

But there are pages and pages of threads talking about how realistic the physics are / aren't, we're all sitting here demading slip angles, traction, etc be 100% accurate, but it is okay that the same levels of expectations are not applied to what quite a few people have chimed in and stated is the most important part of the "immersion" equation here?

Last edited by der_jackal, Mon 12 Jun 2006, 20:15.

Quote from joeynuggetz :

Just wondering if people running no FF can tell a crappy sim from a good one.

Yes.

Quote :

In the Audi RS4 traction is no real problem, but you can't go full throttle also, because the clutch starts to slip then.

Well, not really, you'd never really get to that point. Even when it's off, Audi's ESP system is still engaged, it just kicks in later than when it's on.

I have no problem going full throttle on launches in the S, but it's still obvious when the ESP kicks in.

In the older turbo based B5 S4s, you had to slip the clutch on start to make it worth your while.

TTTTTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR KLOSE!!!

+1

with an addition; Tire Blistering on slicks.

Quote from Hoellsen :

Right, he purposely did so to be put out of the race because he was running third and had a chance to win. Makes total sense.

No, he jumped HARD on the brakes to stagger the field behind him to prevent anybody from getting a run at him.

Alonso does it as well.

Problem is JPM was right up his arse when he did it, AND he did it in a stupid place on the track no less.

And he was leading NOT in 3rd when he did it.


And congrats to the Stewards for showing the balls to send him back, IIRC he did it a couple of times in F3 as well.

Last edited by der_jackal, Sat 27 May 2006, 23:09.

Just reminds me of his BS a couple of years ago at Monaco where he was coming out of the tunnel and then "brake checked" heavily under safety car thus causing JPM to run up his backside.

He's a great driver, but he's also a tremendous ass in the cockpit.