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This is a problem that would be difficult to track down sitting at your computer, let alone to do remotely. I am almost certain that an interrupt request that goes away in Safe Mode means you have a corrupted device driver, but it is also possible (but less likely) that you have malfunctioning hardware that doesn't cause problems in safe mode because the system isn't trying to use it.

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At this point you could methodically uninstall one driver at a time until the problem goes away, then install fresh drivers for that device. This will take quite a bit of time and hassle.

Uninstalling all of your drivers would also work, and would probably be faster overall.

Given I didn't install any new hardware ever, how can I access the list of most recently updated drivers?

And how can I successfully use System Restore?

You could also back up your data and reinstall Windows from scratch. That would be sure to solve the problem, but carries hassles in and of itself.

Given I don't have a Windows 7 Install Disk at hand but that I could maybe have one on the place I will do an internship, I might search for which software device is currupted before going for reinstallment, especially since I don't know how and where to store my 13 Go library.

If we're going to make each culture have its language, could the sectors of use be divided?

For exemple, in the Middle Age, the average French used (Old) French daily and Latin while at church and doing scholarly enterprises; likewise, in post-1066 England, the poor peasants spoke (Old) English while the nobility used (Old) French and the clergy used Latin.

I could see cultures where several languages would be used: for exemple, there would be one for the daily life, one as sacred language, one as lingua franca for the traders, one sor the scholars and one by social class.

This could depend from the history of this culture: the sacred language might come with the religion currently practised (as Classical Arab used by Muslim scholars worldwide), the lingua franca would come from the contact with other merchants and its structure would depend from the tongues of its users and the scholarly form could be the language of a more advanced and prestigious cultore or be the archaic form of the standard language.

every dwarf has a skill for each language (like instruments and songs are handled right now) OR: the Languages are tracked fortress wide (like animal training is handled fortress wide). either way, probably a lot of work.

The first might be more realist but the second might be better for purposes of performence and simplicity.

I still take the first, as it would nicely mix with the Adventure Mode and make more strategic the use of Linguists.

Meanwhile, the next major version is going to include lobbies.

It looks like a good idea.

Maybe, in hthe future, some of these lobbies might have additional faculties: for exemple corporations might have private militias ala Pinkerman and give funding and the Churches might lobby for the freedom of prisoners.

Some of the IRL products from thees already there are wine palm, maple syrup, birch sap and rubber.

Toady doesnt want to go beyond the 1400s, but, in the future, we could see adventurers and fortresses discovering the remains of a collapsed civilization with techs more advanced than theirs.

What should be the causes of a civ's development and downfall? Should it be on a fixed timer, as MDF said?

The causes of the development of a civ could be the

Should civilizations be able to balkanize? If so, when and why?

Balkanization should happen when much cultural drift happened, drift helped by huge distances or obstacles such as mountains or oceans, along with the presence of another civ to influence.

What should trigger the development of a completely new civilization during worldgen? Should the ruins of a dead civ be able to foster the growth of another group, or do they need to be conquered outright?

When enough drift happened - about this, could we envision future public entities (states and asimilated statuses) separated from civilisations, so that one state might have several civilizations (IRL, Switzerland has the French, German and Italian civs) and a civilization might be separated in several states (Greece, which was divided in several cities and kingdoms)? -, a new civ should be created.

And dead civ can serve to create another one - see the Classical culture after 476.

Should a player adventurer be able to conquer sites in the name of another civilization?

Yes, as a conquistador, or even for himself.

Should a player fortress be able to form its own government/send out settlers/etc. and separate from the parent civ?

If they don't want to pay their taxes, then yes.

Should civil war's frequency increase in civs liable to nationalism and balkanization?

Yes, because they want to be separate.

Where should mythgen fit into the role and development of the states?

Gods and other deities could interviene in the creation of some civs, and rulers could claim to descend or having been granted their rule by deities.

Quote from: Patar on October 05, 2016, 12:50:14 pm

Thanks for responding!

Quote from: IsaacG on October 05, 2016, 08:09:04 am

If you download and install Visual Studio 2015

Just googled it and found https://www.visualstudio.com. Which one do I pick? I found another link to the windows store. Visual Studio 2015 was priced in the thousands of dollars...

(I know, $5,999?  Visual Studio 2010 allowed auto-generation of MakeFile.am, but that version of 2015 doesn't.)

Yep, if it were simple, clear, and reasonably priced, asking for help compiling wouldn't be the most common thread on this forum.
(Urgh, they even changed the site layout from when I downloaded Visual Studio last year.)

Make sure of the following.
1: You have an internet connection that can download a several GB file and install it without needing to interrupt the connection.
(Fairly common, but not everyone has one.)
2: Your copy of Windows 10 is completely legal.
(No judgements, and can be circumvented the same way as item #1.)
3: Object Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, vector<String>.
You know what at least two of these three items mean without looking them up.  You don't need to be able to use them, just know what they are as a baseline.
(If you're familiar with vector<String> but not the other two, then you are in the opposite place I was last year.)

Still here?  Good.

https://www.visualstudio.com/
On the Visual Studio page, select Download, followed by:
Visual Studio Community
Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source and individual developers

vs_community__[bunch of weird letters].exe
209 KB binary file

Run the installer.
Make sure anything with "C++" or "SDK" in the name is set to install.
But you can skip anything with "C#", "Mobile", or "Android" in its name or description.

Beyond that, any customization options are your choice, just keep clicking "next" if you're not sure, but keep an eye out for free trials and search bars they might attempt to trick you into installing.  Especially Bing.

[Once Installed]

.vcxproj files should automatically become associated with Visual Studio Community 2015, allowing you to open the file and VS will take care of most of the rest.

Select whatever appearance you like.

Somewhere along the top few bars of the GUI will be the word "Debug" or the word "Release".  Set it to "Release" if it isn't already.

Along the side of the screen there should be a box labeled "Solution Explorer", or possibly "Project Solution" or "crimesquad".
Right click it and select "Build Solution", or "Rebuild Solution", or "Build All", that will compile the program and export the .exe in the folder \Release
For this first run they all do the same thing, since this project only has a single solution.
This should take a few minutes to compile.  If it completes immediately, select "Rebuild" (the goal here isn't to compile, it's to make sure the computer can compile the project)

Visual Studio will generate a bunch of .obj files and crimesquad.exe
This .exe file will have a filesize of either 1MB or 10MB.  Either way, it works and should run properly, so long as it is run from a directory that contains all the data files and natives for LCS (mainly the .dll files and the art folder (music optional)).
If it compiles and runs, you're done.
If the file is 10MB it will still work fine, just oversized (and technically it will run faster, but that's not normally a concern in LCS, which is why we aim for the 1MB version).

That should be everything you need.

Can CodeBlocks be used for this project?

As for git client, personally I use TortoiseSVN, but I have to hit it with a hammer to make it work, so I guess I can't help you there.

How do you do to use TortoiseSVN on GitHub?