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Hi there my computer refused to power up recently The fans started spinning the lights came on but I had no beep codes and nothing on the screen not even the post screen. I needed a new comp quickly and so got a new motherboard,Ram and CPU. Once plugged in …

Hi there I am writing a game with some basic AI elements. The enemies know there position and the players position and so are able to rotate and follow the player around etc. The idea is that when an enemy gets within a radius of the player they calculate a …

Hi there I'm not to sure if this should go here or in games development so please move it if required. I'm trying to make a basic function that allows my character to jump. The basic idea is to check if the character height is equal to that of the …

I am slowly understanding functions, but I can't completely wrap my head around it yet. What is the purpose of function with nothing in the parentheses? Like this something(). Also, is there a way to write a function and then have it output what is going on in that function? …

Hi there My computers PSU recently died. So I replaced it and all seemed ok. My computer has now started to randomly freeze,hang or run really slow. I figured this may be a HDD problem, I used the chkdsk and it found 4KB in bad sectors. I tried to clean …

How do I do 2D opengl? I need to be able to put stuff up on the screen so that it is not rendered in three dimensions, and I need the 3d stuff to still be 3d behind it.

Hi there I am currently writing this on my mobile phone so apologies for any mistakes. My computer has been running fine for 2+ years until the other day when it froze and stopped responding. I thought nothing of it and rebooted, it crashed again so I did a harddrive …

Hi I wasn't sure if this was the right section or not How is a GUI implemented in modern operating system. Currently I use win32 code to generate a window and then use openGl with C++ to generate the application. How is explorer.exe (the windows interface) designed and built. Does …

I am working on a HP Pavilion dv9000 laptop computer. It is the entertainment edition. The laptop starts up and all the indicator lights come on but just as soon as the lights are on and the fan starts it reboots to do this over and over again until it …

Hi there I am having a frustrating and strange problem. I am building a particle system. As a result I need particles to reset there variables to be reintroduced into the system. I have had it working in the past. I run through the system once, when the particles pass …

As you folks may know, I love math! I know almost all programming languages, but which one should I use for math. Basically, I want: Easy type conversion I don't care if it is object-oriented or not' Can handle LARGE numbers And speed! I do not need graphical features, just …

Hi This might sound like a really stupid question but what gain do I get for using pointers? I use pass by reference and have used pointers a lot but have never really thought of the actual saving achieved by doing this. I have just been taught that using pointers …

Hi I am currently primarily programing graphics applications and am still fairly new to this. I know the relevance and can see the advantages of making items a template especially with things such as collision detection. I was wandering is there any advantage/disadvantage to doing everything as a template? Obviously …

Hi there I was wandering how a virtual Os exactly works and if it is classed as easier or harder then building a kernel for a normal OS? I have read briefly about having virtual hardware and having to create additional files etc. I have also read about creating one …

Hi there I have been building a program separately and testing the code in sections. Which is fine as it works individually. However two of the classes are designed to share variables. The idea is the first class generates a partcile and then scans through a list of gridCells. It …

Hi there I am developing a grid system that would generate non-overlapping grid cells. Upon creating a grid I want to be able to check to see if the potential grid overlaps any other grid cells. If it does then clamp the new grid cell to the already existent grid. …

Hi there I am not sure whether to put this here or in the games development section I do apologies if it is in the wrong the section. I have an object with a bounding box around it. I want another object to then be able to send a ray …

For example, I want to write a minesweeping. I know the interior algorithm, but I don't know how to start creating a gui. How should I get started? Thanks.

Basically I keep getting asked on different laptops and computers whether if they can play certian games and etc. I would like to be able to just install it and it can run tests on my computers I also would like to be able to type in / select different …

I really need your help on this. What is deadlock? Can someone explain to me in the simplest form what is deadlock in operating systems. How can a process be deadlocked or not. pls. give me examples of resource allocation graph then explain .. I've been reading about deadlocks quite …

I'm quite new to Game Programming. I'm currently learning C++ at its deepest... ;) And, it seems that there are just too many options available to get into the industry. From searching and digging in this very forum and other resources, it seems that C++ is the best suited language …

So I'm pretty far into development of my new game and I am trying to figure out how to do a bullet that will look like it fires from a plane sprite I thought of a way it didn't work so I went back to my old code. I would …

Hi I am looking at using octree data structures to optimize collision detection. I can see how it can be used to replace a normal grid. How does it work around an object? I have created AABB boxes that move and update there co-ordinates alongside an object correctly. The way …

Hi there I have made and run several different graphics programs and applications. The applications I have made so far always use the full processor and graphics card available. The game for instance may run at 5000fps or some really high number. I am assuming this is not how games …

Hey, I'm in college, and I'm required to take a natural science. This includes: [LIST=1] [*]Chemistry [*]Physics [*]Biology [*]Environmental [/LIST] Of these, I want to take environmental the most, but I'm wondering, which would be the smartest/most useful for my future... Yes, I understand that it depends on what kind …

Hi there Sorry wasn't to sure where this was supposed to go. I am interested in the lower level of computing and was wandering how to build a language, or program such as visual studio? I have gathered it goes from the higher language and gets compiled into assembly/machine code …

Hello everyone, im starting on computer science the coming summer. I checked our classes schedule and we start of by Functional Programming in SML. I download the book we gonna use but I cant make sense of it. I guess my question is what do you use 1.Functinal programming for, …

Hi there I am building a 3D game in C++ and openGl I came to do a full test of my game the collision detection and things are finally approaching working fully. When I run it it becomes very memory hungry and eats a few Gb of Ram and crashes …