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Re: Disabling Diagonal Movement « Result #7 Today at 2:46am »
Thanks for the revision, whirligig (most of my code isn't that efficient since I always forget to revise it). I'll update the code in the first post.
As for moveXAxis and moveYAxis, I've yet to experiment with them. Perhaps by using them it's possible to achieve disabled diagonal movement for the keyboard and joysticks simultaneously.
For maxRollVelocity, I still need to do some testing to see which variables actually play a role in capping diagonal movement. Then I can see if perhaps you're right about it not needing to change.
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Re: Matan's Videos Topic « Result #22 Yesterday at 10:47am »
Rise of the Tower (9.69s)
Brixar's levels are always fun but hard at first. With Pascal, it's never hard.
I actually played this level last month with HiGuy and we had a lot of problems beating it. I dare say it took me maybe 2-3 minutes to complete, mainly because I didn't know where I was going, what I was doing or what I was supposed to do. It became hilarious towards the end when I fell right into a lower checkpoint. I eventually beat HiGuy, but only by a few seconds.
With Pascal whatever path I took does not matter since his is completely different to what you were meant to do. I'm not sure it even resembles anything that is meant to be done right.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #30 on Jun 18, 2013, 3:41pm »
I can guess why he thinks it's wasteful (probably needs SLI, better motherboard, OC the CPU [which I won't do] and probably go SSDs only), but gaming is not the priority with it, no, but it should be sufficient to run of the latest titles in moderate speeds.
Thanks for letting me know what your friend thinks
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #31 on Jun 18, 2013, 3:37pm »
So… according to my friend your planned system is "wasteful" for gaming, but that's not the main reason you've specced it as high as you did. It should be good for video work and you'll have a great time with it.
It will be the 20nm however that will give a more noticeable boost in the 800s series and I may wait for that one. However, based on logic it is likely the 900s series will have the 20nm chips, because otherwise the 900s series has nothing "new" and "shiny" to offer.
Nobody said a new series needs anything new and shiny… NVIDIA likes rebranding existing chips (mostly low-end though) to new series names with few or no changes. I doubt they'll intentionally fab chips on 28 nm if it is also possible at that time to make corresponding 20 nm chips in quantity, at good prices, and with good yields.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #38 on Jun 18, 2013, 11:37am »
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...between new architectures and refreshes.
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The GTX 680 and GTX 780 are significantly different since the 680 uses the GK104 chip and the 780 uses the GK110 chip. The 680 and 770 use the same chip and the latter has only a small performance increase over the former.
And that's what Trace didn't research about when he made his post. The 900 series is a refresh of the 800, therefore it is of no interest to me.
There is no point to get the 780 since I knew the Kepler will be obsolete next year, whereas with the 800 series I have a good chip to last all the way to series 1000, or 3 years at least. With the exception of 970-990 a 860/870 should be more than enough as their 900s equivalents will only give a small boost.
It will be the 20nm however that will give a more noticeable boost in the 800s series and I may wait for that one. However, based on logic it is likely the 900s series will have the 20nm chips, because otherwise the 900s series has nothing "new" and "shiny" to offer. It's like Intel where until the next series of dies on a lower scale (14nm). I suspect 10-20% performance increase over the current 4770K with their 5770K.
I'm not against AMD except they're more for mainstream (cost/efficiency is great).
Tahiti (HD 7900) is quite good, especially when overclocked, and is a worthy competitor to GK104 (660 Ti - 680, 770) GPUs.
On graphics architectures:
NVIDIA for the past few generations has alternated between new architectures and refreshes. New architectures have been released at the rate of one every two years, and that is also their roadmap for the future.
2008: Tesla [GT200], 65 nm, 200 series 2009: Tesla refresh, 55 nm, 205 series 2010: Fermi, 40 nm, 400 series Late 2010, 2011: Fermi refresh, 40 nm, 500 series 2012: Kepler, 28 nm, 600 series 2013: More Kepler including GK110, 28 nm, Titan and 700 series (I am ignoring low-end chips.)
The new architectures generally give significant performance increases (taking into account die sizes and TDPs) in part because they are also on new processes. Refreshes generally give only small performance increases since there is no large architectural change, the process is the same or similar, and the chips themselves are not changed a lot. Refreshes are not necessarily "bad" as they could give good performance/price and/or have chips and parts that fill gaps in the original series.
As for Maxwell and 20 nm, there are two options that have been rumored, which one will actually happen most likely won't be certain until at least early next year [NVIDIA has almost certainly decided as of now, it's just that we don't know yet]:
Option 1: one big step 2014: Maxwell, 20 nm
Option 2: two smaller steps Presumably earlier in 2014: Maxwell, 28 nm Probably later in 2014: Maxwell, 20 nm
If option 1 happens, then that would be a good time to upgrade (unless performance/price is terrible). If option 2 happens, then Matan will have to decide whether to get the new architecture earlier or wait for a process shrink for potential additional performance and perf/W improvements.
Kepler has "only" been out for 15 months.
The GTX 680 and GTX 780 are significantly different since the 680 uses the GK104 chip and the 780 uses the GK110 chip. The 680 and 770 use the same chip and the latter has only a small performance increase over the former. The GK110 is one of the "gap fillers," to fill the hole above the GK104 that the GF100/GF110 left behind. Except for the already released low-end GK208 (that sits right below the GK107), there may not be any more of those until Maxwell.
Sir, 800 series and 900 series will be on the same architecture. The current series has been on the market for almost 2 years and will be 3 by the time the 700 comes out. By the time 1000 series (and even newer architecture) you're looking at another 3-4 years, or 2017 at the very least.
And the 900 series will be significantly faster than the 800 series. Each architecture update is just a step, it's going to get faster between each series whether they change the architecture or not. Sort of like how the 780 is much much faster than the 680 even though they are both running very similar chips.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #53 on Jun 17, 2013, 10:27pm »
If by UPS you mean backup battery, I find that they tend to go after a while, as in capacity being lost so much it can't even do a normal boot, and will auto-shutdown. But if getting one after several months or years isn't a problem, I'd think it's okay. They probably last a decent amount of time anyway. If you value your data, I think you can set up some disks as a RAID set, but I'm not too certain how those work exactly. Good luck on making your new computer. Intel graphics chipsets suck.
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Re: MBP World Record Rampage #2 « Result #56 on Jun 17, 2013, 6:46pm »
Speed Attack (11.70s) - Yessssss! Omg... The Tale of the Tall Skyscraper (3:22.25s) - I found a new trick that saves 10-11 seconds. I'll work on it during the next days. If I can pull a flawless run... TTotTS is going to be in the top 2 runs for this WRR2. It might even beat Mastering the Marble, but let's see how it goes. Tweaks and new paths everywhere in this level. Hard.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #57 on Jun 17, 2013, 6:30pm »
Sir, 800 series and 900 series will be on the same architecture. The current series has been on the market for almost 2 years and will be 3 by the time the 700 comes out. By the time 1000 series (and even newer architecture) you're looking at another 3-4 years, or 2017 at the very least.
I came to the realization there is an actual possibility of me having my current computer and the new one right next to each other and operating, each one on its own screen. Two comp screens, two completely different computers, lol.
Jeff: SSD - Yeah I keep hearing that. Probably will lol. CPU - Big yes. i7 is a must for video processing and hardcore gaming and I'm in the first group (sort of) so it's a requirement for me. Imagine going from 30 minutes of exporting to just minutes. Huge. I'm not against AMD except they're more for mainstream (cost/efficiency is great). GPU - 700 series is pretty good, but the reason I want 800 (or will have to wait for 900) is due to the new architecture which has some great features, better power usage and much better speeds.
Get whatever GPU architecture is the newest when you have the money to buy the computer. There will always be a new architecture with better speeds within a year or two of any GPU purchase anyway, and waiting for the "new best" will just result in you always waiting.
Easy ctrl + p trick, but a bit tricky for the timing because they're 2 oob triggers.
Only one I still don't know who created this habbit but why times in marble blast always ended with an "s" like for expressing times in physics and math. Feels weird that stacking and cubing don't use that habbit.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #68 on Jun 17, 2013, 1:16pm »
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CPU - Big yes. i7 is a must for video processing and hardcore gaming and I'm in the first group (sort of) so it's a requirement for me. Imagine going from 30 minutes of exporting to just minutes. Huge.
Oops, forgot about that when writing the post that you do a lot of video stuff. My bad.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #69 on Jun 17, 2013, 12:36pm »
I came to the realization there is an actual possibility of me having my current computer and the new one right next to each other and operating, each one on its own screen. Two comp screens, two completely different computers, lol.
Jeff: SSD - Yeah I keep hearing that. Probably will lol. CPU - Big yes. i7 is a must for video processing and hardcore gaming and I'm in the first group (sort of) so it's a requirement for me. Imagine going from 30 minutes of exporting to just minutes. Huge. I'm not against AMD except they're more for mainstream (cost/efficiency is great). GPU - 700 series is pretty good, but the reason I want 800 (or will have to wait for 900) is due to the new architecture which has some great features, better power usage and much better speeds.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #70 on Jun 17, 2013, 12:19pm »
SSD:
definitely go SSD, I use a UPS and once you have one you will never want to go back. Love the speed.
CPU:
You really need that much? i5 is sufficient...no need for hyper-threading unless your PC is designed for a government program . My i5 at 3.00 GHz is amazing, then again I don't game...
At least your not going AMD, as I'm like completely biased against them. Yay for NVidia too And I ain't discouraging the I7 series, just saying is it necessary to have that much? Big deal if it takes 9 seconds or 10 seconds to load the PC. get my point
1. What are your current computer's specs? 2. What do you do with your current computer? 3. What do you want to do with your new computer?
1) Core 2 Duo, Nvidia 8800 GTS, 4GB RAM I read multiple reviews and they said if my specs start with 'Core 2' then yes to upgrade, otherwise not to bother on upgrading. In addition, my upgrade cycle is once every 3-5 years (more towards the 5) so I need a really strong computer that is supposed to remain strong for the next 3 years.
2) Besides Marble Blast there are very very few games I play. It's unlikely I'd play anything like Arma 3, Battlefield, Crysis, Bioshock etc because I don't like to play such games. I do however want to be able to run smoothly the higher-end items (such as UnrealEngine, Cryengine etc). The current computer also runs FRAPS with Marble Blast just fine but a stronger comp would do a much better job. I'm also involved in a LOT of video editing. I produce a lot of MB videos so the CPU is important, plus I'm encoding my own speedruns. I'm looking at encoding a 4 hour speedrun in a single pass using very demanding programs (of 2GBs or more RAM, tons of CPU). I'm using QuArK, Blender and looking at additional software. I also use 7zip quite a fair bit.
3) All of the above and: In addition if everything is powerful enough for Handbrake to encode super fast, it'll be great. I would like to be able to encode DVDs in under 5 minutes (work laptop does 5 minutes, 4.5 minutes was its best).
Therefore high-end CPU and lots of RAM is required. In addition the HDD is for recording (FRAPS), encoding, storing speedruns (AGDQ marathons) and backup stuff. Oh, and MB can be very demanding on my current system, esp. PQ.
I really don't like OCZ though, maybe their drives' reliability has gotten better but I had nothing but problems with mine. ... Intel drives have write protection for power losses I believe, look into that.
I did check on the Intels but comapred to the latest line of SSDs they aren't as powerful for read/write. The guy at the shop said he uses OCZ personally, so that's how I heard about them. After doing more research into OCZ it seems since Vertex 4 OCZ became a lot more reputable and reliable.
I still think of Samsung 840 Pro or Sandisk Extreme 2 but people seem to recommend Samsung 840 Pro more? It gets confusing on favs after reading 20+ sites lol. That said, because of the stuff above, what should I install on the SSD besides OS and A/V ? video editing?
About power failures you are right. I did think about UPS. I only experienced one super random one (while my computer wasn't doing anything but browsing internet) so I'm not sure if I should worry, but ofc, just in case since this is the OS.
If the 800 series ends up on 28 nm rather than 20 nm, then depending on their price, power, and performance, it may be better to wait for 20 nm. In that case you may be waiting 1-1.5 years to upgrade from the 660 Ti. If that's an option you think you might take, then it's a good idea to make sure you are fine with having the 660 Ti (or another GPU if you change your mind) for that long.
Things written in PHP and jQuery are software And as long as you have a stable host, you should be fine.
Personally, I like ProBoards, and as someone who has spent years writing and reading code to run many different forum systems, ProBoards has far surpassed anything else I have seen.
Good luck with the new site!
I'm certainly not opposed to a new forum system, but I think you're right about the merits of ProBoards. I don't have the kind of experience you do, but simply from being a part of the MBF for so long, I've not really encountered many other forums that are inherently better than what we have here. Basically, for the new site, a simple claim of "but it's better!" isn't much of an argument.
However, what Aayrl said about finally being able to actually work with and OWN the backend is quite a strong argument. Also, the other new features will be very cool too.
I just wanted to point out that ProBoards has given us a great platform. It's been neat to see how these forums have changed and improved functionally and aesthetically over the years. Hat tip to the staff for that.
For this forum, I can certainly see why a self-hosted system would be better, since you have need for single-signon across multiple parts of the site, need to include lots of downloads/file databases, and the like.
I just discovered this after observing this behavior in Survival of the Fittest. If you edit a level with MPs and change an MP's datablock from PathedDefault to PathedMovingBlock, the MP makes a sort of grinding noise (MovingBlockLoop.wav) as it moves. I searched through the forums, and this name only appeared in console.log—did anyone else actually know this before?
It sounds like the noise from the Fans, to be honest.
Things written in PHP and jQuery are software And as long as you have a stable host, you should be fine.
Personally, I like ProBoards, and as someone who has spent years writing and reading code to run many different forum systems, ProBoards has far surpassed anything else I have seen.
Good luck with the new site!
I'm certainly not opposed to a new forum system, but I think you're right about the merits of ProBoards. I don't have the kind of experience you do, but simply from being a part of the MBF for so long, I've not really encountered many other forums that are inherently better than what we have here. Basically, for the new site, a simple claim of "but it's better!" isn't much of an argument.
However, what Aayrl said about finally being able to actually work with and OWN the backend is quite a strong argument. Also, the other new features will be very cool too.
I just wanted to point out that ProBoards has given us a great platform. It's been neat to see how these forums have changed and improved functionally and aesthetically over the years. Hat tip to the staff for that.
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Re: MarbleBlast.com - Coming This Summer! « Result #81 on Jun 17, 2013, 2:53am »
Things written in PHP and jQuery are software And as long as you have a stable host, you should be fine.
Personally, I like ProBoards, and as someone who has spent years writing and reading code to run many different forum systems, ProBoards has far surpassed anything else I have seen.
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Opinions for new computer « Result #82 on Jun 17, 2013, 2:36am via the ProBoards Mobile App »
About the SSD, I think getting one is a good choice. If power failure is a concern, you can always invest in a UPS (good to have even if you went the HDD route). I really don't like OCZ though, maybe their drives' reliability has gotten better but I had nothing but problems with mine. Pretty shitty customer service (mine was having problems and they were trying to get me to dissemble my laptop do all these tests blah blah just ship me a new one..), their drives are fast but not worth it for the reliability. Intel drives have write protection for power losses I believe, look into that.
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Re: Opinions for new computer « Result #83 on Jun 17, 2013, 1:38am »
I asked a friend who's quite knowledgeable about computers and here's what he had to say (paraphrased):
1. What are your current computer's specs? 2. What do you do with your current computer? 3. What do you want to do with your new computer?
since it's hard to say if those specs are right for you otherwise. Also don't be overambitious on what you want to do on a computer or on the specs you want (that's a general reminder since without answers to (2) and (3) we can't tell if you are).
- Power failure apparently can instantly kill your SSD. Is that still worth it?
"Power failure won't kill any modern SSD, but it might cause some data loss. Some SSDs use volatile DRAM to quickly cache writes and then slowly write them to NAND. If the volatile DRAM loses power before the write cache is written to NAND, then the data is lost. DRAM-sporting SSDs marketed to professionals often have capacitors that can provide the SSD with enough power to empty the DRAM cache into NAND when power is lost. But if you're worried about that, just buy a UPS [as Perishingflames says]. They are a good purchase just for piece of mind unrelated to SSDs." (Square brackets are my notes.)
And from me:
If the 800 series ends up on 28 nm rather than 20 nm, then depending on their price, power, and performance, it may be better to wait for 20 nm. In that case you may be waiting 1-1.5 years to upgrade from the 660 Ti. If that's an option you think you might take, then it's a good idea to make sure you are fine with having the 660 Ti (or another GPU if you change your mind) for that long.
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Opinions for new computer « Result #86 on Jun 16, 2013, 11:08pm »
Hey all,
After 5 long years it's time for me to get a new computer! If anyone can let me know what they think of the specs I've chosen, or perhaps recommend something, please reply. Please read the notes after the specs as they contain useful info as to some of the choices.
Specs are: Motherboard - ASUS Z87-C CPU - Core i7 4770K (is it worth it over the 4770? as a gamer yes, but for a dev no. in terms of price, $AU42) GPU - GTX 660 Ti RAM - 16GB , Kingston HyperX 1600MHz (oddly is cheaper than the regular 1333MHz) SSD - OCZ Vector 256G HDD - 2x Western Digital Black Caviar 2TB PSU - 800W, likely Antec. Unknown as of yet.
Misc: OS - 7 Pro Keyboard/Mouse - Logitech.. MK710? Blu-Ray Combo - LG with DVD/CD burner/reader so I'll get 12x BR, 16x DVD and 48x CD which is great. Case - Thought of getting the Antec 900 again. Screen - ? 23" or something dunno. Speakers - ? wireless would be nice, but probably 5.1 min though it should be noted I currently have headphones but I still want speakers.
Notes: - Z87-Pro gets 2 more USBs, and allows multiple GPUs which I don't need - I'm not going to get GTX 670 or 7XX series as next year I'm planning to get the 800 Series, so this GPU is short-lived. Am I correct I won't need a new motherboard just for such upgrade? - SSD is peculiar. I might get two of them, one for Win7 OS, the other for Win XP but XP doesn't have TRIM support by default. Alternatively, only one for both OS. - I did some research into the various companies and products and found the best around are Samsung 840 PRO, OCZ Vector / Vertex 450 and then the rest. OCZ Vector has a gurantee of 20GB write per day for 5 years, or 36.5 TBs. Because the plan is for OS and antivirus only atm, it seems like a great solution. Should I add Marble Blast / SVN to it or better off with the HDD (as of current thought). - Power failure apparently can instantly kill your SSD. Is that still worth it? - Now thinking of it, perhaps 1TB and 2TB mix? 2TB would be great for backup, speedruns and all, whereas 1TB can also be used for those and more programs and stuff. Suggestions? - PSU is interesting. I thought of getting a 1000W (double the price of 800W though) and learned that 850/750W are now not being manufactured as much. - For OS, I chose the Pro because of the compability mode. - Zero idea for my keyboard/mouse combo. Logitech probably would be nice. Maybe what I have now? Dunno, any recommendations? - Any recommendations for cases? Red LED lights would be a massive plus.
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Re: Endless method to unlock Advanced Level 53 « Result #96 on Jun 16, 2013, 10:00am »
your marble goes into the main menu, again. However there is a very hidden purple pixel you must click and find out how to manipulate (shadow of a purple block) to click. You will then play a void level, seeing that the King of the Mountain is not the location. Instead, it is the DC 4 in Marble Blast Bronze, the large level with grass and mountains, you'll need to use that time machine you find again! Once you're in there... (The next person to post shall use this: Green grass level w/o OOB triggers. A very large world with castles and rivers, but using mountains so the marble can't get past.)
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