Rick's Game Stuff » Games http://blog.gib.me Games, mods & modding. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:00:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Steam Achievement Manager 6.3 http://blog.gib.me/2011/09/23/steam-achievement-manager-6-3/ http://blog.gib.me/2011/09/23/steam-achievement-manager-6-3/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:20:55 +0000 Rick http://blog.gib.me/?p=528 Changes:

  • Added support for secure statistics.
  • Statistics will now display names instead of their ID when available.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

There has not and will not ever be a virus or trojan in SAM downloads provided through my site, if some random obscure virus scanner picks something up, it’s a false positive.

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X:\dead island\DI>"Y:\Gibbed.DeadIsland.FixZip.exe" -v -o DataEn.pak.orig DataEn.zip DataEn.pak
target hash is 9BAF71AA
actual hash is 13E3327B
base hash is BBE82F6D
generated 57154 bytes of magic
success! final hash of 9BAF71AA
size: 749047 -> 1966102
X:\dead island\DI>

If it crashes / doesn’t work, let me know!

Usage:
Gibbed.DeadIsland.FixZip.exe [-v] [-o] [output zip]

-v for verbose
-o for overwrite (if you don’t specify this, FixZip will crash if you specified an output file name and it already exists)

If you don’t specify an output zip file name, it will default to the modified zip file name.

This will create a new version of modified zip that the game will accept as the original pak file.

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Refer to this forum post on Eidos Forums.

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  1. Download no-ads.zip
  2. Extract DFEngine.dll to the game directory (eg: X:\Path\To\Steam\steamapps\common\deus ex - human revolution), overwriting the original. Backup the original if you wish before extracting if you wish.
  3. Play game.
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How to use:

  1. Download startuphook-v1.zip
  2. Extract both files (the DLL and startup.txt) to game directory, such as: X:\Path\To\Steam\steamapps\common\from dust.
  3. Edit startup.txt if you want.
  4. Play game.

startuphook-v1 was made for the latest version of From_Dust.exe (as of this posting) which has an md5sum of b9c5470f75d047f18fbcd1ed21534bdc.

What this DLL does:

  • Patches the FPS limiter to 120 (instead of 30).
  • Hooks engine initialization so you can change a static set of startup arguments to whatever you want using startup.txt.

If you have any issues please comment this post, new patches will break this hook (but the hook will safely warn you).

Important: don’t remove the existing text in startup.txt (/lynfs "/BinPC" /projectid:DUST), only add to it!

The default contents of startup.txt: /lynfs "/BinPC" /projectid:DUST

Example: /lynfs "/BinPC" /projectid:DUST /vsync:2

Possible arguments:

  • /checkfpsmem – ??? (overrides /fpsmem)
  • /fpsmem – ??? (overrides /checkfpsmem)
  • /skipmips:# – ??? (# can be replaced with a number)
  • /skipmips – ??? (it’s as if you did /skipmips:2)
  • /fullversion – ???
  • /shareableSaveGame – ???
  • /forceaitarget:XYZ – ??? (XYZ can be debug or release or optimized or final)
  • /galras – ???
  • /galprt – ???
  • /dusttrack – ???
  • /shaderlog – ???
  • /nosound – ???
  • /cfg-define – ??? (used like /cfg-definebob but I have no idea what this config system is like)
  • /cfg-undef – ??? (used like /cfg-undefbob but I have no idea what this config system is like)
  • /cfg-target – ??? (used like /cfg-targetbob but I have no idea what this config system is like)
  • /nodirectXhardware – ???
  • /fullscreen – Apparently would set fullscreen, but it doesn’t seem to work.
  • /useGameData – ???
  • /NoNetThreads – ???
  • /res – Sets resolution? untested. (used like /res1024x768 or /res1024x768@32)
  • /vsync:# – Sets vsync mode, # can be 0 (off), 1, or 2. No idea how 1 or 2 are different from each other.
  • /vsync – It’s as if you did /vsync:1.
  • /msaa:# – Sets MSAA. Any # other than 0 will break game rendering.
  • /msaa – It’s as if you did /msaa:0.
  • /projectid:XYZ – ???
  • /TextureCapture – ???
  • /wog – ???
  • /wol – ???
  • /nosectorender – ???
  • /nosectoapply – ???
  • /run – ???
  • /dustload [XYZ] – ???
  • /dustsave "XYZ" – ???
  • /dustrunandsave "XYZ" "XYZ" – ???
  • /lang/XY – ???
  • /nocpp – ???
  • /nocrashreporter – ???
  • /eax – ???
  • /xaudio2 – ???
  • /soundnoinit – ???
  • /soundnodata – ???
  • /soundmute – ???
  • /openshare – ???
  • /readonly – ???
  • /hiresshadowbuffer – ???
  • /gobs – ???
  • /offlineTool – ???
  • /LimitFrame # – Sets frame limit (not to be confused with the FPS limiter), setting this value *at all* will cause the game to crash!
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Running DecryptData.exe will automatically detect the game path and decrypt all files in encrypteddata and write them to their paths under data. I’m not sure if the game will prefer files in the data directory over encrypteddata, but if you rename or delete the encrypteddata directory it will force the game to load everything from data.

Download.

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  • Fixes issue with games that have secure achievements unlocked.

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

There has not and will not ever be a virus or trojan in SAM downloads provided through my site, if some random obscure virus scanner picks something up, it’s a false positive.

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http://svn.gib.me/public/dunia

You should be able to relocate without any issues.

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  • Fixed issues with crashes occurring when user had a language other than English set for Windows / Steam and certain games.
  • Achievement list will now show the locked version of a icons for locked achievements.
  • Now handles serverside (secure) achievements and prevents you from managing them. (Spiral Knights)
  • (Yes, this means you can’t cheat those hats, good god the amount of crap in my inbox from people whining about this.)

You can download the new version of Steam Achievement Manager on its page.

Comment in this post if you’re having issues with the new version.

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This is basically a better version of Costa’s freeride mod.

Download.

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