I'm guessing these are just serious bugs in the software. I stopped playing Sam's games mainly because of these random speed hack errors I'd run into when trying to load them. This was happening when I had no cheating software installed. Maybe the program creates a file somewhere in the hierarchy of your file system. If that's the problem, ask Sam where it can be found and delete it. Other than that, just stop playing the games and move on. It's not worth erasing your entire operating system and reinstalling/configuring all your programs and settings.

As for your computer hardware, you really shouldn't need a lot. Audio games are not very processor intensive applications. You're probably fine if your computer has a GB or more of Ram and a dual or quad core processor running at something over 1 GHZ. I'd only worry about it if you've got a really old machine with 512 MB of RAM or something crazy like that. I don't think this is the case as you've stated that you bought your computer within the last two years or so. Don't stress yourself about it. If sloppy coding is the problem, either get the developer to fix it or just do something else. It's just a game.

That's a bunch of bullshit to be frank. I demand you buy a top of the line PC so you can play my games because I can't be bothered to improve the speed hack detection system. I am back into STW a little bit now, but if this happened to me, I'd just uninstall it and be done. I feel like things left in the wild, so to speak, are just bad form, if Sam can't be bothered to fix it, or doesn't know how, which I doubt, the guy does seem to be a talented motherfucker, in sound design or coding, well bring someone else on board who he trusts and train them up to know how the STW code works or whatever. I know he has a lot of demands on his time, but such is life when you run online games. One suggestion is a second server for testing where people can go to test bugs like this, but stats and inv are reset every day, so you can't build up, and you can't buy things from the STW store on that server.

Anyway, sounds like what Sam needs is another developer on board so they can share the time and its not all falling on him. I'd offer to help, but that's laughable, my coding skill is... well, let's just say my year old Niece could probably do it better.

@30, fully agreed, the speedhacking system should be improved, or it should be done manually.
I'm simply trying to verify the issue, I guess a if you'd reinstall windows it would fix the issue because a middleclass I5 should be fine, but that is waaaaaay too much to do for 1 single game.

Um yeah, I would suggest doing nothing to your computer. No extra software, no clean up, no hardware replacement, no re-formats, not even a single command in command prompt. Your PC is not at all the problem. Everybody has gotten at least one of these alerts and honestly there's no telling at all what causes them. Given that this is a multi player game, who knows, server lag or another client could be confusing the server, I don't know. There's no telling. But it's quite evident that you have nothing wrong with anything relating to your computer that is causing this, because I have specs 3 to 4 times less than yours and I can play every other audio game, and even mostly Red Spot and STW without getting alerts most of the time, and no other games give them to me.

vision is bullshit, you don't need it, this is coming from a partially sighted individual.

uh.. no. It is definitely not bullshit mate and I don't know about you but given a choice I certainly do need it.
Totally blind, but had a little sight when I was a kid, still I can't say blindness is all good, vision sucks. I deal with it cause its the cards I am delt, but I certainly don't have to be happy about it.

OP, I do feel your pain. But personally I think I can do without all these games full of drama even though there isn't much choice as such available although to be fare its more now than what it was 5 or so years ago.

Sam has good ideas, he really does,and you see him taking things in a right direction sometimes but its the fandom that leads him astray, and I don't think I shall get started on this, because if I do, I don't think I'd stop. so formatting a pc for a game? big no no.

grryf

This makes me wonder.

Speed hacks, from what you guys are reporting, seem to happen only when the program does not get a chance to check it's timer loop, so of course the values would be out of sync. Switching menus probably exits the menu loop for a given amount of time which is probably much past the allowed slack value, if he still uses the script available on his website.

Although, why checking for speed hacking in the menu needs to happen is beyond me. Don't choose too fast guys!

hi
there's a bunch of games have for play right now
I don't format my computer for a crappy or buggy game
they made speed hack detection whatever
with bugs,  or how many times you have to explain,  damn my computer doesn't contains cheating engine?
now what the hell?
that happened to me before you know?
but I don't care anymore about
when i tried to update the game,  speed hack detection
I tried to reinstal the game separately hard drive,  and ssd it didn't work either
don't tell me my computer is causes
here's the specs
Asus pro gaming h 170 motherboard
intel core i 7 processor
4 gb nvidia graphic card 256 bit
8 gb ram
512 gb ssd and 2 tb from seagate hard drive
now what to do? nothing seems
my advice If you have doubt, search the google hd tune
the program is accessible with screen readers
hd tune will check your hard drive contains bad sectors
bad sectors causes slow hard drive,  the heads are flying in the over plate
that grows overtime
you will lose your files
just my thought or not
It worked in my laptop once when i am trying to use in my desktop computer won't work
and i decided to remove this in my laptop
the software have to improve with all processors for stable

Oh btw, I just remembered a question regarding STW-gameplay in general:
Does the selected gender of our characters make any difference at all?

So far I haven't noticed any, not even by the voice and emotes (a.k.a. "socials") of the characters in the game, they all sound "quite male" to me...(including my own ones of course)

Edit:
Oh, and another one:
I wish to practice some PvP, but not with my current character, since it has too many cool stuff I would feel sorry for. (meaning losing them if I die)
So, if I start with a new, different, fresh-created character, will the game still remember the old one, and let me continue playing with it again, (from the point where It left the game), normally after entering its name and password again?
I guess that's what passwords are for in STW, or am I wrong?
I already noticed before, that entering a past character-name and password restores my old aliases...but don't know about character's game-inventory and experience-level, since that restored character has died back in its last game.
Of course, without knowing the answer to this question, I would hate to restart with a new character now, and risk losing all the fine stuff I acquired with my current one!

Um, I will have to respectfully disagree with post 45. I mean seriously? paying for a new pc, and 32 gb of ram just to avoid triggering a broaken speedhack system? Video games require strong pcs, maybe, because they are much more processor intensive, and they actually do something with that strong hardware, opposed to just making sure your not speedhacking. And it's all fine that 60 people don't have issues. the others who did just went away. Playing an audiogame, any audiogame accept redspot and stw, can be done when windows run in my experience. So why wouldn't that be the case for stw and redspot?

@hamada, I think that we all have established that it is not Caccio72's computer, nor his internet. Sam shouldn't have even attempted to put speed hack detection in the game. People will figure out ways around it no matter what he tries, and he's definitely going about it the entirely wrong way. From what I can tell from this stack overflow question (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1751 … -hack-work) which sourced it's material from the cheat engine wiki (http://wiki.cheatengine.org/index.php?t … #Speedhack), here's how the different methods work:

1. The old method ran the application in a very high priority thread, used timed sleeping to speed up the game, and, when a function was called, it was given an emulated timer which is sped up.

2. The new method injects the cheat engine DLL into the program and modifies it to the speed you selected in the cheat engine user interface; it sets a base reference to the current time; and lastly, it determines the new returned time using the formula r=b+((c-b)*s), where r=returned time, b=base time, c=current time, and s=speed.

Both Methods are easy to detect by sending a packet with the time every couple of seconds to be validated by a server. The game may also detect the injection. I consider the first detection method, which is the one Sam is using, very unreliable, as displayed throughout this thread. The game cannot detect whether a real speed hack is actually occurring because internet connections factor into this entire equation. Add to that the instability and complication of the BGT network library, and doing it that way is impossible. It looks like that method raises far more false positives than actual speed hacks, which makes it entirely useless. The second method is far more promising. The problem, though, is that it is impossible in bGT. No DLL would work her, either, because a DLL cannot detect DLL injection by another DLL. That's at the program level and not at the DLL level, so a DLL is useless here. And, since BGT is not a real programming language and does not allow you the full functionality of the Windows API, nor does it allow you any access to interfaces which would allow you to detect such injection, and you find that detecting speed hacks in any way is impossible, all because no one is willing to switch to another programming language that does allow you to detect for DLL injections. So yeah, BGT lovers -- use BGT at your own peril.