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hey some reason in my zone awarp.dll was working fine and it just stopped working for no reason, i tried to load a fersh new one and all and still dosnt work why?

Solo Ace · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:25 pm Post subject:

Giving at least some details about the problem would make it easier to find the cause of it, post some more details like settings, a link to the dll, error messages, whatever.

CypherJF · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 9:30 pm Post subject:

Well along with this, I know both TT and I have had this issue; so it's not only I. But over time Merv stops yoinking antiwarp. I've talked to Catid about it - he hasn't found a solution becuase it doesn't always happen. The only way to fix it, is by resetting the machine.

... Anyone else have this issue?

Like it'll work for a month or so of yoinking awarp, in both flag.dll, and awarp.dll - then one day just stop working.
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Smong · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:22 am Post subject:

If it works for about a month it could be a timer problem.

Cerium · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:33 am Post subject:

Doesnt getTickCount() start returning negative values once the machines been on for longer than 24 days?

Maverick · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:55 am Post subject:

I have the same problem with my duel bot. It seems to idle after some time. (It stops warping people to the boxes)
However, it can be easily restored by doing !help on the bot

Cerium, you should test that theory

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Solo Ace · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:59 am Post subject:

It probably does, I think Subgame became very slow after ~ a month because of a negative value returned by GetTickCount().

Maverick · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:07 am Post subject:

isn't getTickCount() a mervbot feature?

Solo Ace · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:19 am Post subject:

No.

Header:
Declared in Winbase.h; include Windows.h.

Library:
Link to Kernel32.lib.

DLL:
Requires Kernel32.dll.

Maverick · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:22 am Post subject:

once again ... crappy windows :/

Cerium · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:39 am Post subject:

I <3 System.currentTimeMillis()

You guys should find/post/use the C equivilant =)

D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:28 am Post subject:

you mean time() from time.h?

http://cplusplus.com/ref/ctime/time.html
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CypherJF · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:47 am Post subject:

Hm, if they had to fix it from returning negative numbers; yet MSDN says it wouldn't... Which one do we believe

... Anyone have a machine thats been running for more than 49.7 days? lol...

D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:54 am Post subject:

Wait, aren't DWORD's unsigned? How could it be negative then?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:09 pm Post subject:

Shhhh d1s, you weren't supposed to notice that!

I dunno, probably some crappy subgame type casting problem.
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CypherJF · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:01 pm Post subject:

GetTickCount() is returning a negative value:

sendPrivate(p, (String)GetTickCount());

returned:

OF-Main-Bo> -1951598312

Solo Ace · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:05 pm Post subject:

Oh! So your system's uptime is -5 days, -22 hours, -38 minutes and -32 seconds!

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Can anyone whip up a plugin or sumit that fixes?

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:07 pm Post subject:

Guess so! So, how do we come up w/ a fix, other than rebooting the machine.

edit: according to a microsoft tool, the uptime of the server has been 27 days.

D1st0rt · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

how about just take the absolute value?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:17 pm Post subject:

That's a problem with String::String(Uint32). I'll talk to catid about it when I see him on IM next.

Cerium · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:28 pm Post subject:

Absolute value wouldnt work. Itd go up to ~25 days, then start coming back down to 0.

The real problem with this, is even when the problem is 'fixed', after 47 days the problem will resurface =(

You should start making use of time(), only find an alternate that returns the current time in milliseconds.

Bak · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:08 pm Post subject:

your variable is overflowing... 24.8551 days = 2^31 milliseconds

use an unsigned variable and you'll double that... store it as centiseconds and you get 10 times... deciseconds and you get 100 times...
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CypherJF · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject:

Well, why does this only affect awarp though?

Bak · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 11:05 pm Post subject:

it probably affects the cycling of the players when in spec... and therefore will prevent antiwarp from being detected properly