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Chazcon  Title: FOR THE VITAE!
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Registered: 2001-12-11 13:57:12
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Question has been answered, the thread has degraded.
http://forums.acdev.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=23009#23009
Add these entries to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts (use Notepad to edit):
127.0.0.1 insanity-inc.org
127.0.0.1 www.insanity-inc.org
Then Start > Run and: ipconfig /flushdns
Voila!
Thank you Gawa!
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Fix for extremely slow launch time/crashes |
Working great for me so far after doing this fix!!
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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This delay problem started this morning for me, it was loading just fine yesterday. Unfortunately, my system won't let me save the edited Hosts file even though I'm in admin mode. My system is insisting that the Hosts file is in use, by what program I have no clue as the system error message isn't giving me that info.
This does, though, indicate a design flaw in Decal. It shouldn't be taking 2 or more minutes (as it's doing on my system) for Decal to load when that web site is down. Even after the Decal icon appears in the task bar it's taking another 45 or so seconds before Decal will respond to mouse clicks (i.e. to bring up the configuration window). On my system, at least, that's over 3 minutes for Decal to completely load, which is far too long. Whether the flaw is just in that it's trying to connect to insanity.org in the first place, or just too many attempts to re-connect before moving on, is a good question. I'm sure insanity.org will be back up relatively soon, but this will inevitably happen again. This needs to have a priority fix and re-release.
Anyway, why is Decal trying to connect to insanity.org at start up, what's at insanity.org that Decal needs to look at???
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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There could be an anti-virus/spyware program trying to "protect" you from changing the hosts file.
Try safe mode?
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-Adolf- Posts: 3
Registered: 2003-8-20 13:00:08
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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what about the crashes 3 hours ingame?
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Hazridi  Posts: 411
Registered: 2001-3-15 13:24:12
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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DenAgent is a signed binary, so it checks the cert provider to see if the signature is correct. This is actually unexpected and unwanted behaviour.
In any case, if you do this -- be warned that it will cause problems in the future if you do not remove the hosts entries, particularly when installing the next version of Decal.
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Date Posted:
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tag so i remember to remove this on next release of Decal
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Tag
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Arch_Magi Title: The Lord of Chaos
Posts: 827
Registered: 2002-10-31 14:31:20
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Fix for extremely slow launch time/crashes |
coasty posted:
Anyway, why is Decal trying to connect to insanity.org at start up, what's at insanity.org that Decal needs to look at???
That is what I wanna know.
More to the point ... what, if any, information is being passed back to that server for possible data collection?
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Date Posted:
1/1/00 12:00am
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Haz already said..
DenAgent and Decal in general are now signed applications with a certificate validating it's authenticity.
When you launch Decal, it attempts to verify and validate the certificate by connecting with th ecertificate and comparing notes basically.
It's not expected behavior and as Haz has said.. we're trying to stop it from doing that. We don't want it happening any more than you do.
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