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GMod On OS X (2.16 MacBook with Intel 945GM)
I bought GMod the other day and enjoyed it while in Windows Vista (Boot Camp) however it was a bit sluggish. I know from experience that source games tend to run nicer inside Crossover than actually in Windows, go figure. First off you’ll need to install crossover, and steam inside crossover, there are plenty of tutorials on how to do this. Next you’ll need to complete the font hack so you can see the text. In crossover go Programs, Run Command, select the correct bottle, and type in regedit. Inside regedit navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER – Software – Wine – AppDefaults – hl2.exe – Direct3D and double click on tf2_alpha_hack and replace it with “-game tf2; -game ep2; -game portal; -game garrysmod”. Now in steam you’ll have to right click on Gmod and click properties and change the launch parameters to “-console -heapsize 512000 -dxlevel 70 -novid +cl_drawmonitors 0 +r_shadowrendertotexture 00″. If your game launches and you can only see a quater of the window, just change the video settings, they just fit in.
Storing your profile elsewhere [BETA]
A few days ago I decided that I wanted to have all my documents and settings on my server so it didn’t matter which computer I logged into I could access this files. I have done this with window directory services before, but I really didn’t want the hassle of installing a Windows Server or configuring wine to do so. Also it’d mean I’d have to buy Windows Pro rather than home on my clients. I setup samba on my nice freebsd server so I could get a share like… \\fruit\mwheeler\Windows . Samba was easy to install in freebsd. Now just map a network drive using the wizard to a nice letter like U: to \\fruit\mwheeler\ making sure you use the “login using differnt username” or something feature and make sure it reconnects on login. Now for the fun part, some nice registery editing. Located in HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Explorer \ User Shell Folders are keys that point to where your files are stored just change the keys from (for example)
Desktop - C:\Documents and Settings\Michael\Desktop
to…
Desktop - Z:\Windows\Desktop
There are a few I didn’t change such as start menu and program, basiclly use your common sense, oh and as always, make a backup of your registery first. When you login you may be a “Incorrect Function” error or something along those lines, just ignore it, still works afaik.
I love windows
I dual boot the computer I’m typing this on. Two simple OS, Windows and Ubuntu. Today I admired the power of Windows Xp SP2(or something) home edition. It started with me browsing the network, I came to a folder that had a nice 300mb exe file. Explorer frooze up for a good 5 minutes. Now I know windows happens to have allot of problems network wise, but what I saw as it frooze up was remarkable. Windows for once decided to be humane and instead of letting explorer suffer in pain, it started freezing all my other applications. WOW, nothing moving for 5 minutes. And you know whats even more scary CPU was 99% idle and Memory was only 50% used. Go figgure.
The second thing I done different was by using nLite. nLite allows you to customize your Windows XP install, by adding and removing certain settings and combining service packs. For example I used nLite to combine SP3, remove IE, WMP, messenger, other random stuff, drivers I don’t use, services I don’t want on, set the default theme to classic, disable hibernation, disable system restore, disable automatic updates, set the systems location and time zone, and slipstreamed the serial into the main install. It also patched the install to allow custom themes and the TCP hack for torrenting.
It was surprisingly easy to do and setup, which was good and I’ll use this disc for a long time. M*A*S*H is on now so have to go
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