Hi Support, I'm getting this error CLR20r3 and "KernelBase.dll" when I try to play GTA V, I have contacted Microsoft Support many times before and they've had helped me reset my pc, update it and many more but the error won't stop. I have entered 3 errors messages from both "Problem Details and Event Viewer". I have tried uninstalling .NetFramework and reinstalling it but it didn't solve the error messages
Hi Cheong00, Thanks for your reply. I only have one plugin installed which is Lspdfr as shown in the picture. I have uninstalled gta v completely and ran it once fully without any mods or plugins, then I installed lspdfr, scripthookv, and rph all latest versions. But the error is still active.
Hi Cheong00, I've followed up with the devs of lspdfr but there isnt any response from them as of today, I have found an error regarding .NET Runtime. I have attached a screenshot of the error from my event viewer.
I was about to suggest you to use "Process Monitor" to check, but quick test reveal that illegal paths will be blocked by the runtime before it has the chance to be passed to CreateFile() call, so it should return nothing useful.
What a bunch of sore losers.
Seriously.
Maybe one of the folks complaining that they didn't get anything for FREE should put up $150k for everyone else to enjoy?
Sparkfun does this to test the load capacity of their servers, IIRC, so if you aren't prepared to help them do so perhaps you should not engage in Free Day at all.
I got nothing last year after trying during the whole giveaway.
This year I walked away with $30 for an hour an a half of clicking 'reload' in between getting real work done.
Thanks for being so generous, SparkFun!
You have my continued patronage.
I would argue that SF could have just said "Hey guys, we want to test our pipe capacity so could everyone please ping us to death?" and most people would have just done it.
The result to their backend would have been the same without people getting annoyed, and they could have hosted the giveaway after making some upgrades so that everyone had a fair shot.
Thats because people are ignorant and self-serving. If there's free stuff to be had and they don't get it, well they get mad and complain. Unfortunatly that's the way it is in our society (sorry for that society). I didn't get free stuff because I had to go to school, but I'm not complaining. While it would have been nice, I'm not going to bitch at Sparkfun for not giving me free stuff. To anybody that complains: If you didn't get free stuff, suck it up and go buy the stuff you want with your own money, like you would with every other electronics company that ever existed!!
I did not complain - in part out of grace - and in part to avoid the picture you paint of those who did complain, and most of all because so much money was given to charity (thank you SF!).
You do not know what someone who complains is thinking, though.
I'm sure some complaints were about not getting something free, but I'm sure others were simply people voicing regret that the website failed to load for 2+ hours, and that their hope the website would get more power mid-contest did not happen.
I too was a little bummed that I spent 2 hours pressing F5 key when appropriate, and I never got to see the whole quiz (even now.. I am curious to see it... is it posted anywhere??).
In any case, SF wanted their servers to get DDOSed (of sorts), and they gave money to charity. To anyone else who was bummed, don't complain -- just remember that last bit, and that you helped. :-)
Come on! SFE has been consistently clear about how this day would work. That anything of real value is being given away is generous and amazing.
For me, I'm just grumpy that my schedule didn't give me a chance to try my luck. Client meetings --- blegh!
I was talking about how they said the servers were fixed to handle the load and all the testing done 24 hours before the free day started.
I had no interest in even visiting this site on the free day because I knew it would be worse than Black Friday at Walmart. Unfortunately, I completely forgot about it and it took me over 30 minutes just to be able to visit the home page. A lot of other websites were giving me problems so just thought it was that until I seen the Free Day is OVER! banner.
I agree and disagree. Clearly you shouldn't be mad a someone who is trying there best to give stuff away. However, free day isn't free. It depends on how you value your time/frustration level.
It would be silly for SFE to have enough server capacity that this kind of thing didn't result in a DOS. However, I feel like they should construct the give away such that is doesn't result in something they are totally unable to handle. Getting though during a DOS is almost random, there are lots of ways you could randomly give people store credit, that might be a better use of their customer's time.
For what is is worth this year was better with basically one click for the code. Last year with shopping at the time was way worse.
One random idea would be to on the home page assign a ticket (random number like the promo code), then you have 1 week to use your ticket to take the quiz or take the cash. That requires 1 page load, still generates a traffic spike etc if that is what they want and lets people actually take the quiz. I didn't take the quiz because I knew it would likely be several hours of my time.
There are a multitude of other ways to approach this also but it depends on SFE's objectives. At least part of the objective is to get people to decide they want items SFE sells.
They wanted to load test their server, and they did, and in the process they made a lot of people happy, but did NO injustice to anyone.
It was a fun gamble to see if you could get in and answer some questions, to those who didn't get free stuff, but lost their time, well its the risk you have to take to get free stuff and have fun. You can also feel good for helping someone out with their load test.
It's nice of SFE to do this.
I disagree that it is an effective test of server load. More data would be gathered if you had a load just near the breaking point and not over, though it does appear they learned how to break it less badly than last year. Just my thoughts...
Dude/Dudette, the quiz was a ploy, everyone was much better off taking their loyalty money if any. Don't blame the servers, they did their job and didn't crash miserably at the 11:00:05am est. From the looks of your Membership page you just joined SFE today? hmmm......
I wouldn't say that. My four years would have gotten me $40 but I went with the quiz and got and extra $7 ...(yes, I messed up on one question as I read too quickly over the question).
The damn hamsters were so unfit after all the Christmas turkey and new years celebrations, so I was distracted to say the least, but the server wouldn't let me get past the 6th question. $10 went to charity...pretty awesome anyways :)
They are a business and they are spending money on this promotion to get new members as well as reward regular members, but I do not blame them for giving their regular customers/members exclusivity over the promotion give away.
While I agree in theory, that's not the way that it played-out. Loyal customers (for some values of "loyal", and "customer") were probably more often "penalized" if they tried to take the quiz, in spite of their (and SF's historically naive) best intentions.
By giving up something you may have felt that you earned with your customer loyalty, and then "lost" because the quiz was a Fail, it's not entirely reasonable to feel like you were mini-screwed.
Did one in fact "lose" anything by participating? Well, yes -- time and patience. Is that an egregious loss? No. Did it piss people off? A bunch, yes. Was it a Net Win? Probably for SF and the charities, but clearly not for many that participated. Do I answer my own questions like Donald Rumsfeld? Apparently. It it annoying? Yes.
The problem is one of correctly managing expectations -- and this is a very important business concept. This is where the FAIL was (again), for all of the good that did come of it.
To sit there and just say "Free Day is great and f-ck the haters" is, frankly, naive and simplistic at best, and ignorant at worst.
I'll wait and read about it in the April issue of the HBR -- "Why Engineers shouldn't Market". Maybe someone will pick up the option on the screenplay.
I've been on here for a couple of years, mostly on IRC or the -excellent- Tutorials. I've had an account for 6 months or so. The only reason I have not made a purchase is I did a lot of shopping at Adafruit (they're much closer to me, shrug.)
I guess what I'm saying is, I did not show up for the door prize. Anyways - counter to your argument - I think does design these contests to get new customers. Otherwise Loyalty would be the only prize, right?
I'd like it if SF had a quiz like this all year round, not necessarily giving $10 off for correct answers every time, I mean at random. That would spread the load out, and unfortunately for other sites I would probably do all my shopping here for sure.
one of the points of the free day was to bring in new members... You can read that somewhere in the Free Day rules i think. Thats why i joined... Been on the sight before, but joined just in preparation for free day.
They got tons of good will from me. I logged in early and took the $40 code for loyalty. Sorry you didn't get anything, but are you really complaining about a website not giving you free stuff? Welcome to the internets.
I "cheated" by setting my browser to NOT load images... (learned from last year's pain of refreshing)... The benefit of not having images to load meant that I got through to the page to get my Loyalty bucks in about 20 min of fighting the refresh button... still painful, but definitely better than it could have been...
It would be kind of cool to take $5,000 of the give away money and pay someone like SquareSpace (with their fancy load sharing tech) to host the site for the day.
In the end it is all just free money, so I ain't complaining!