Comments for Armed Pineapple http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk Alan's Blog Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:12:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by joeHopehttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-539 joeHope Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:12:05 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-539 I was able to correct extreme lag on Conquerors multiplayer by turning off UPnP under the administrations menu on my Linksys WiFi router. Maybe that will help someone? I host a game on Win7 x64 and play against two Vista machines no problem now -- it was hardly playable before. Used the batch file to fix colors on Win7 and Ctrl-Alt-Del works on Vista. I was able to correct extreme lag on Conquerors multiplayer by turning off UPnP under the administrations menu on my Linksys WiFi router. Maybe that will help someone? I host a game on Win7 x64 and play against two Vista machines no problem now — it was hardly playable before. Used the batch file to fix colors on Win7 and Ctrl-Alt-Del works on Vista.

]]> Comment on Disassembling Maxtor Basics External Hard Drive by Dan Smithhttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2011/01/disassembling-maxtor-basics-external-hard-drive/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Dan Smith Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:58:09 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=168#comment-538 Thank you so much for posting this - had a colleague bring this drive in with the complaint that the USB connection had become to far pushed into the casing to plug the cable in. From following your instructions I was able to pries it open to find that the USB connector had actually come away from the circuit board. Got myself a SATA connection cable though so it should be ok (once i get the right screwdriver to remove the drive from the metal housing) Thanks again for your help. Thank you so much for posting this – had a colleague bring this drive in with the complaint that the USB connection had become to far pushed into the casing to plug the cable in. From following your instructions I was able to pries it open to find that the USB connector had actually come away from the circuit board. Got myself a SATA connection cable though so it should be ok (once i get the right screwdriver to remove the drive from the metal housing) Thanks again for your help.

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]]> Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by Amalgamookhttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Amalgamook Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:05:52 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-536 “Sometimes after extended play, the game will freeze and all players will be kicked out to a screen that asks you to select an option from continue, wait, resign or save and exit. This usually results in the host unable to talk to the clients and the only eventual outcome is the players having to resign. Because of this you should save regularly, as the save and exit option inevitably rarely ends up working. The game is fine again if the host restores a game from a previous save.”This is the exact (and only) problem I've been having with AoE II on Windows 7 64-bit. It's quite the annoyance, but only seems to occur when there's either fighting going on, or large amounts of military units in production. Decreasing the population cap doesn't solve the problem; it'll occur under any circumstance which involves battle or copious amounts of simultaneous military production. As ASD said, if there's a solution other than saving, it would be most appreciated if it was known. “Sometimes after extended play, the game will freeze and all players will be kicked out to a screen that asks you to select an option from continue, wait, resign or save and exit. This usually results in the host unable to talk to the clients and the only eventual outcome is the players having to resign. Because of this you should save regularly, as the save and exit option inevitably rarely ends up working. The game is fine again if the host restores a game from a previous save.”

This is the exact (and only) problem I’ve been having with AoE II on Windows 7 64-bit. It’s quite the annoyance, but only seems to occur when there’s either fighting going on, or large amounts of military units in production. Decreasing the population cap doesn’t solve the problem; it’ll occur under any circumstance which involves battle or copious amounts of simultaneous military production. As ASD said, if there’s a solution other than saving, it would be most appreciated if it was known.

]]> Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by radionicshttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-534 radionics Thu, 27 Oct 2011 02:21:29 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-534 I'll right away grab your rss feed as I can't in finding your e-mail subscription link or newsletter service. Do you've any? Please let me recognise so that I may subscribe. Thanks. I’ll right away grab your rss feed as I can’t in finding your e-mail subscription link or newsletter service. Do you’ve any? Please let me recognise so that I may subscribe. Thanks.

]]> Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by asdhttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-533 asd Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:41:40 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-533 "Sometimes after extended play, the game will freeze and all players will be kicked out to a screen that asks you to select an option from continue, wait, resign or save and exit. This usually results in the host unable to talk to the clients and the only eventual outcome is the players having to resign. Because of this you should save regularly, as the save and exit option inevitably rarely ends up working. The game is fine again if the host restores a game from a previous save."If anyone knows solution to this problem, other than saving, please share it! “Sometimes after extended play, the game will freeze and all players will be kicked out to a screen that asks you to select an option from continue, wait, resign or save and exit. This usually results in the host unable to talk to the clients and the only eventual outcome is the players having to resign. Because of this you should save regularly, as the save and exit option inevitably rarely ends up working. The game is fine again if the host restores a game from a previous save.”

If anyone knows solution to this problem, other than saving, please share it!

]]> Comment on Windows XP running on an O2 Joggler? by verg0http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2011/01/windows-xp-running-on-an-o2-joggler/comment-page-1/#comment-532 verg0 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 07:14:01 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=165#comment-532 Here is XP working on the joggler at: http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=241 Here is XP working on the joggler at: http://www.jogglerwiki.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=241

]]> Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by Alexander Cruzhttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Alexander Cruz Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:03:32 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-531 I found a solution for the "Toxic wasteland", you just need to CTRL + ALT +DELETE then kill explorer.exe, you should be seeing everything in order, when you get bored of the game, press SUPER (windows key)+ R then type explorer.exe I found a solution for the “Toxic wasteland”, you just need to CTRL + ALT +DELETE then kill explorer.exe, you should be seeing everything in order, when you get bored of the game, press SUPER (windows key)+ R then type explorer.exe

]]> Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by Mattlekimhttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-530 Mattlekim Fri, 15 Jul 2011 09:34:47 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-530 I have a solution to fix the colours create a batchfile in your aoe folderwrite this in the batch filetaskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe age2_x1.exe Start explorer.exethen run the batch file to play the game. I have a solution to fix the colours create a batchfile in your aoe folder

write this in the batch file

taskkill /F /IM Explorer.exe
age2_x1.exe
Start explorer.exe

then run the batch file to play the game.

]]> Comment on Age of Empires II (AOE2) Multiplayer Problems by Anthonyhttp://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2009/11/age-of-empires-ii-aoe2-multiplayer-problems/comment-page-1/#comment-525 Anthony Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:27:14 +0000 http://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/?p=3#comment-525 My friend and I love playing AoE:The Conquerors together and we've both managed to take care of the graphics problem (he closes explorer, I have the screen resolution screen up) but suffer from pretty bad lag. We'll definitely try your suggestions. My friend and I love playing AoE:The Conquerors together and we’ve both managed to take care of the graphics problem (he closes explorer, I have the screen resolution screen up) but suffer from pretty bad lag. We’ll definitely try your suggestions.

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