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Old 04-11-05, 08:42 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Bug in Fear Factor?

Yes, I did see a bug in Fear Factor (at least on my PC), and I do not mean an insect.
When I ran the latest Fear Factor.bin on my desktop PC, I have noticed a moment when the "Flags" text has wrapped down to the next line for a second or two.
e.g. It should be:

Flags: 10

But it displayed for a second or two as:

Flags:
10

Is this a bug within the bin file or does it have to do with how I made Windows display fonts larger than normal (in order to improve readability on my super high resolution monitor)?
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Old 04-11-05, 09:02 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Try and discombobulate the hydrocondiller from the penultimate word of byte 36 in the bin file. Just be careful you don't aquaint the system with any new contrafibularities.


Sounds like a font issue.
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The strange part is that it happened for only a second or two. And I thought that Fear Factor is an OpenGL program so the text should remain the same.

Well, I opened the hex editor, what hex value should byte 36 be?
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Originally Posted by A friend of mine who has a Linux kernel named after his girlfriend.
If I was VirtualBox, I could load my virtualization module into Hannah and boot up another kernel in the same address space.
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Old 04-11-05, 10:49 PM   #4 (permalink)
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byte 36 should have a value of 7 according to my friend Jennifer Lopez in my super ultra top secret tech group that i can't give you a link to because of security reasons...

BTW, is this the new version of Fear Factor (ver. 2.73586)? My other friend tells me that size was cut down to a mere 35 gigabytes.

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Byte 36 already has a value of 07.
And Jennifer Lopez? Wow, you even know an expert network engineer at the tech group.

Yes, the file is about 35GB.

BTW, it seemed like many other members reported the exact same thing, whether they used Windows, Linux, or even PDA. I think there is a bug somewhere in the file.
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WOW I would really like to help out here but I DON'T HAVE A DAMN CLUE WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT.......but I thought in Fear Factor if you came across a bug your supposed to eat it.
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i asked the BOFH about your problem and his answer was just "Bidirectional Transmission Desynchronisation Error" i have no idea what he meant , but i hope it helps ..
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My sister's IT teacher Paris Hilton (yes) found the solution.

All the precompilated packages linked to the main routing table in the 3rd subsection are usually reverse-coded to a display matrix. This can cause in some cases (when the privacy settings are an issue) this bug to occurs :approve:

The reason is that on a very high resolution screen (like those obviously supported by Britney chips), all the previous internal settings in the build registers are set to UNSET by default, which brings a type mismatch problem when trying to access the packaged oZddy. My other friend recommand to cross-compile the kernel using a slightly different support for parallel builds (of course the source directory must be read-only and each build process must have its own build tree.) :approve:

Header files could be an issue though...

Hope this helps
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Haha, at least star's java is syntactically correct.
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I thought in Fear Factor if you came across a bug your supposed to eat it.
Only if you're a Contestant object in the program, and only if the eat method of that object is called with the Bug object as the parameter. (I may be a little (or a lot) off; I haven't actually looked at the Fear Factor source code. It's just an educated guess based on my understanding of programming and how the program behaves on the outside.)

I'm the one operating the computer that's executing the program, so it doesn't apply. Oh, and it's "you're", not your. A little English grammer (syntax?) bug.

BTW, the memory usage does not decrease significantly as Fear Factor runs, but it does run faster later on. I think that while Contestant objects are not deleted from memory when they are eliminated, they do get swapped to disk or at least not used, freeing some of the load.
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Actually, it would be a grammar bug.
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Awww Star . I'm sure you knew this was coming.

And why are you dealing with .bin files anyway? What's wrong with good ol' avi!
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Originally Posted by star882
A little English grammer (syntax?) bug.
Originally Posted by wmcjhi
Actually, it would be a grammar bug.


.....either way.....

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What's wrong with good ol' avi!
They will only run from the viewpoints that are hard-coded into the file. Not to mention that the resolution is fixed. (e.g. it cannot be efficiently scaled up like a .bin can, up to the limits of the computer hardware.)

And BTW, the .avi files can be created by running the .bin with the "to file" setting.
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