1 Reply by Zobot

(3 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Recognizer wrote:

press "esc"

Oh nice, thanks.

A button would still be nice ...
Unless the lack of it is a feature designed to cull the weak smile

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2 Reply by Zobot

(14 replies, posted in Q & A)

So how do I remove the need for it to run in admin mode?

I installed it in my secondary drive ("d:\games") so it should not need access to "Program Files". Using Vista.:rolleyes:

Those of you who don't get the login, are you running your PC in admin mode from the moment you boot up?

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3 Reply by Zobot

(12 replies, posted in Resolved bugs and features)

The freezing still happens for me.

Logged in today to test the update and as soon as I got in, it froze. RealTemp reported the CPU temp only at 82C at the time, so I am now almost certain this is not an overheating issue, although when I reboot, sometimes the BIOS reboot message beeps at me and says "CPU Thermal Trip". This only happens for this game. As I stated above, I used to run STO for hours (with its throttling options on) and the CPU temp there was between 90-100, without any problems.

Not sure it if matters, but the Install created my EXE shortcut so that I can only run it with admin privileges. Maybe the game would be just simply crashing if it was running in User mode, i dunno.

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4 Topic by Zobot

(14 replies, posted in Q & A)

After downloading the client, the installer asked for Admin permissions, fair enough.
But now every time I start Perpeetum.exe, it asks me for admin privileges.

How do I remove this?

(Games shouldn't need admin privileges to run)

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5 Topic by Zobot

(3 replies, posted in Feature discussion and requests)

Would like to be able to set the Graphics, Audio and similar client options from the Login screen, not just after logged into the game. Or at least a "Reset to Default" or "Reset to Minimal Settings" button.

This is to let us try different graphics/audio settings (and potentially crashing).

Currently I have a CPU overheating problem and would like to be able to get into the game with minimal graphics options, but it won't let me change these unless I am actually logged in.

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6 Reply by Zobot

(12 replies, posted in Resolved bugs and features)

I went back and checked out STO again because this was really bugging me.

Their "CPU/GPU overheating reduction option" actually says it makes the game pause or sleep for 10ms between each frame.

In addition, they have a frame rate limiter which I have set to 30fps since launch (at 30fps the game still looks very smooth).

So the combination of these two seem to allow my crappy old PC to run that game happily.

Incidentally, when I run STO, my CPU runs boiling at 96C-98C YET my PC doesn't freeze and the CPU doesn't lock up (sometimes I ran STO for hours without a break), which would indicate that the problem might not actually be an overheating issue but something else (Perpetuum locked up my PC as soon as the CPU got to 88C).

I hope some of this will make sense to the Devs.

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7 Reply by Zobot

(12 replies, posted in Resolved bugs and features)

I have the CPU overheating issue too, but for me it happens while playing,
It happens around the time I get to the "Shoot the Dummy" part in the tutorial.

I remember playing STO, they had a "Troubleshooting" section in their Option dialog boxes where you could throttle the CPU for the game if you were experiencing overheating issues. Something like this would be great here too.

EDIT:  This of course means I can't actually play the game, but would love to come back and have another go when this is fixed, so would be great to see some notes on the website or get some notification in email when this happens.

Oh yeah, and I don't have any relations or anything (referring to the first poster in this thread) I only started to play the game today and was just going through the tutorial screens.

(CPU: Intel E8400)

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