[PayPal] need bloodthirsty Win32 killer

[Riddick]

hello, need someone to write me a program (payment, if you wish) in language of your preference for the task at hand. c++ or asm? ^^

reason: the new fangled games don't exit properly and continually jam my computer.

the culprit: [HL2] Counter-Strike Source

project specification: when WinXP hangs, i need program to rip the very heart out of WinXP. force a logoff, or, optionally, a task cancel. grab the hardware layer, make it shake until it gives way. w/e, i dont know how this works.

requirement: try to keep me out of the "hold the power button in" until powerdown with a 90% success rate.

program name: atheist.exe or atheist.com. or, name it as you will.

irrelevant: my computer is a Velocity Raptor™ 64 DualX™ E-SPORTS Microcomputer (http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=75)

[Soapy Sam]

CTRL ALT DEL, Then push the big button on the front.

[kevin]

any possiblity it's caused by the copy protection?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce

[Rob Lister]

any possiblity it's caused by the copy protection?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce

Wouldn't it be ironic if this were the case?

ETA: hats off to wikipedia. Is there anything on which they don't have an article?

[Riddick]

CTRL ALT DEL, Then push the big button on the front.
yea, i thought of that back in about 1983.

[RayG]

irrelevant: my computer is a Velocity Raptor™ 64 DualX™ E-SPORTS Microcomputer (http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=75)

Man, if I paid over $5,000 for a gaming computer and it choked like you're describing, I'd be contacting Randy, and asking him what the h4ll he did to my computer!!! :eek:

Do you get the same symptoms from ALL games, or just a select few? Are you certain it's Win XP and not the games themselves, or hardware issues? (video card perhaps)

Lots of similar complaints over here (http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36798/) and here (http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showforum=44).

RayG

[Riddick]

Man, if I paid over $5,000 for a gaming computer and it choked like you're describing, I'd be contacting Randy, and asking him what the h4ll he did to my computer!!! :eek:
who's Randy?

Do you get the same symptoms from ALL games, or just a select few? Are you certain it's Win XP and not the games themselves, or hardware issues? (video card perhaps)

Lots of similar complaints over here (http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/36798/) and here (http://www.planetamd64.com/index.php?showforum=44).

RayG
it is just HL2 based games. so far, that is.

[Donks]

who's Randy?
The guy who "designed, crafted, and tuned" your computer.

[rocketdodger]

it is just HL2 based games. so far, that is.

HL2 == source + steam. Both of those applications cause problems, I advise staying up to date with all the valve patches.

[rocketdodger]

any possiblity it's caused by the copy protection?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce

HL2 copy protection is steam. I don't know if they have any actual disk protection since with steam in place it is pretty pointless.