Thursday 23 August 2012

Waves Soundtrack: Extraction How-to


I was playing Waves near launch, after snagging it in one of the first sales. I loved the soundtrack, so I tried hunting some of the tracks down. First, I hit up the Waves Steam Forums and did some digging, and apparantly only Microcosmic and Disco Just Won't Cut It This Time are released. Since Squid in a Box's plans to release the soundtrack don't seem to be going anywhere, I figured I'd just extract the files myself. I looked around the game files (the game is relatively small) and eliminated files that wouldn't contain audio. Eventually, I figured that one area with content files was the only one that could contain any music.


Monday 20 August 2012

Western Digital: The Supreme Customer Support Saga


Here begins the tale 'Western Digital: The Supreme Customer Support Saga,' also known as 'The Long Distance, Double HQ Migration Hard Disk Drive Swap'





Around June the 15th, 

my data drive starts to get slow and my games installed there start having visual glitches, like the pavement in GTAIII being transparent. I try to get Steam to verify game cache, which is too intense for the HDD and crashes my computer ever time I attempt it. I eventually download a 3rd party HDD diagnotic tool and WD's diagnostic tool. The 3rd party tool, like Steam, somehow manages to crash while testing the HDD (My OS is on an SSD, I don't even understand how that's possible), and the WD tool confirms that the drive is broken. Time to send it in.