Having seen this become obviously a big problem. I have decided to do a podcast on this and talk about the solutions on it.
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Is Spore Worth 49.99?
So I been doing a little digging and trying to find out what the heck people are complaining about and I found some great reviews telling me exactly why people hate EA. They don’t necessarily hate Spore or Will Wright, but the Security around The Spore game.
So In a couple of these comments. These reviews talk about Creating the creatures and All. I’ll submit some of the reviews that I thought was relevant and let you decide for yourself. I would however wonder the one big question? Is Spore Worth the Money? Here’s the details that I know of right now:
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- You can only install it 3 times before you have to call EA to get an override code. (Although I heard rumors that if you unistall it, you will get a credit for an Install)
- You can not Install new hardware or upgrade your hardware because if you do, it’ll count as an install, According to this one person.
- The game only allows 1 login per Install. So you can’t have more than one character and one universe according to this person.
- Part of the Copy Protection prevents you from taking your saved games off your computer and taking it over to your friends house, according to this Person.
- On the Mac Version, it tends to breaks subsequent versions of the system services according to this one person.
According to Amazon the reviews aren’t pleasant. I tend to agree does this mean there are going to be even more people pirating it because they don’t want the DRM or Is EA going to send out a patch to fix this. I am curious as to see how EA responds to all this NONE TOLERANCE to DRM.
After seeing all these reviews of Spore, I tend to agree with everyone. I’ll probably wait and see before I buy my copy. All the reviews however don’t look promising or even makes the games look like it wouldn’t be fun.
Fixing the Adobe Problem!!
If your have been having problems with Flash Players stoping after 2 seconds of playing. I have a few ideas to try to get rid of the problem. It used to happen all the time with Vista in the early days. Here’s what I did to occasionally get the flash player to work:
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Cleaning out the Prefetch Directory! — Having seen this from time to time. If you have programs startup that might need to be refreshed this will refresh them so that they run like new. You occasionally can get programs that will load in a odd way and this will fix that also.
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You want to be more anonymous? — Cleaning out your cache on your browser can sometimes fix the problem. It’s like anything else it can sometimes be corrupted.
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Some Important programs to prevent yourself from having viruses and Malware!! — Having seen this with my own two eyes, if you have a viruses or malware on your system that too can cause problems with playback of flash media. So just double check making sure you don’t have any viruses.
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Adobe Flash tips and Tricks! — Also having found this out. Adobe actually keeps the flash video on there servers cached or sometimes somewhat buffered to help with playback. Clean the cache out at the source sometimes fixes the problem also.
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Now having used some of these tricks to get flash players to run has on occasion worked for some strange reason or another. Although I don’t know if this will fix the 2 second playing video problem I get the feeling it should since in theory it has everything to do with cache and corruptions of the files. If you can come up with some other tips or tricks to fix the problem let me know!!
Limiting Use of Your Bandwidth!!
With the Recent Comcast deciding to declare how much of bandwidth you can use. I decided to talk about how to limit your bandwidth. So Here are some tips and tricks to get the most out of your bandwidth:
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Chapter 1 — Understanding your Wireless Router : This is a must. This chapter talks about how to access your router and and how what is an IP!!
Chapter 2 — 10 Ways to keep your wireless router Secure — This one will help with those pesky neighbors who are leeching of your internet and Bandwidth!
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- Turn off Auto Update to Unimportant programs : Having several programs checking for updates can start to add up. Although this is a small amount of bandwidth. It will give your that extra amount.
- When not using your Internet turn off your Modem : This one is the most useful because when your not using your internet just turning off the modem will prevent you from using to much bandwidth.
- Use a program like AppSnap to update your programs : Having told you that you should stop auto-updating on some of programs. Here is how you can update manually. This little program will check most of what you have installed on your system and will let you know which ones have available updates. This should be done once a week or every other week!!
- Use a Program like GoodSync to perform backups : Know that some people have backups in the cloud this will greatly reduce the amount of bandwidth your system will use to upload to the cloud. Get an E3 Amazon account and use the program to back to E3.
- By an External Backup Hard Drive : This option is also good for people who have the need for all the bandwidth possible. Buying an external hard drive for use as backup is also a good idea so that way you don’t depend on your internet bandwidth. Just remember when you do a backup take it off site just in case of a fire or earthquake or something like that. Might be time to buy a Safety Deposit Box, and use that.
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In an Upcoming post I will be discussing the program or tools you need to monitor your bandwidth! This is going to be a must for thos who need to monitor you monthly bandwidth per month. I will be looking into some of the options available to you for free.
Cleaning out the Prefetch Directory!
From time to time you will need to clean out the Prefetch directory in Vista and XP. Here is how you do it in Vista. You first would need to boot into safe mode in Vista then you will log into Vista and go to:
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Having been using XP and Vista for the past few years, I’ve found that deleting all of the files in prefetch directory and letting them rebuild actually speeds up the system. I got a feeling it has something to do with file corruptions. After you go into the Prefetch directory and delete all the files. You would then go into your Readyboost Directory if you are using Readyboost then there will be a Readyboost directory inside the Prefetch directory. Deleting all the files in the Readyboost directory also will greatly improve performance of your system. Don’t delete the Prefetch Directory or the Readyboost Directory, Vista won’t let you delete the Prefetch but will with Readyboost. Deleting the Readyboost directory will prevent Vista from using Readyboost and then you would have to restart the process of using Readyboost.
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If you can come up with more ways to speed up Vista then by all means let me know!!
