Directx 9 Impact on Director

In case anyone might know the answer to this. With director
11 having support for directx 9 support, should 3D developers
expect to see better 3D performance in general, or just better
looking graphics etc? Not sure what impact going directx 7 to
directx 9 will have.

i'm pretty sure it does
but i'm gonna reinstall service pack 2 (with directx 9.0c) onto the mega, so i'll let you know later

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Startup classes order

How can I ensure the execution order of startup classes?? I want to run startupclass1
before startupclass2..

Dimitri,
Upon second glance at my reply, I noticed I "mis-spoke" part of it. We want
the system administratord who control the directories to be able to change the
values in config.xml, not have control over the properties files.
We could use a higher priority startup-servlet for that, but then our system
administrators would have to edit the deployment descriptors of those servlets,
rebuild them, and redeploy them (and then the server has to be restarted anyway
to force all the deployed component to pick up the new values).
It just strikes me that the startup class provides this functionality much
more elegantly. They can just change the startup parameters in the console and
restart the server.
Jason
"Jason Titus" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Dimitri,
Thanks for this information. Here are the details of my situation.
I am trying to set some values in the startup class that all applications
can
me use of, by putting them in a singleton. Currently we are using the
following
values: a directory from which configuration files can be read, a directory
into
which output files can be put.
The reason for this is that we are keeping our properties files out
of the
components so the components don't have to be rebuilt when we move from
test to
integration to production. We can simply get a different version of
the properties
files from configuration management as part of the deployment process.
This also
lets us expose just the properties files to the system administrators
who impact
those directories.
With this scheme in place, my servlet initialization can configure
itself by
loading its specific property file from the directory passed to the startup
class
based on the config.xml. Once it has the configuration, it can access
the database
and cache application general data before the first request is placed
to the servlet.
Does that sounds reasonable?
Jason
Dimitri Rakitine <[email protected]> wrote:
I think that startup classes are executed after applications etc are
deployed and
right before server starts servicing client requests.
Why do you need startup classes at all? load-on-startup servlets are
a much nicer
replacement, which solves lots of problems associated with startup classes.
Jason Titus <[email protected]> wrote:
According to this document, you should be able to set a startup deploymentorder
for your startup classes.
I have a servlet that is also initialized at startup, which seems
to
always get
initialized before the startup class methods are called. I've triedchanging
both the deployment order for the startup class in the console, aswell as the
servlet deployment descriptor value its priority. I can't get thestartup to
go first.
Any suggestions?
Thanks for your help.
Jason
"Michael Girdley" <[email protected]> wrote:
Check this out:
http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs61///////ConsoleHelp/startupclass.html
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Bad_pool_caller BSOD windows 8.1 pro

Hi. Several times a week i get BSOD about bad_pool_caller or irq_less... so I would kindly ask for help. here is one minidump.
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=FBD3C7D7FBA9DAD0%214817
thanks!

My apologies, I missed that.
This is not software/driver, that's for sure. If it is software, the only drivers I can really see having this sort of DirectX related impact are the video card drivers. With this said, ensure you are on the latest drivers, and if you already are, try a few
versions before, or perhaps the beta if available.
In the 0xC2, the pool was valid, yet there was a 7 as the first parameter. This indicates that the current thread attempted to free the pool, which was already freed. We can see that it was a DirectX Kernel routine, because it calls into
nt!ExFreePoolWithTag.
The second bug check I've seen here, 0x139, was introduced due to security failure interruption. In your case, this was also caused by DirectX.
To be absolutely sure this isn't a low-level driver possibly causing corruption, could you please do two things?
1. Upload and paste the link to a kernel-dump. Kernel-dumps are located at C:\Windows and named MEMORY.DMP. If there is nothing there, you may need to enable generation of them -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff540128%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
2. Enable Driver Verifier:
Driver Verifier:
What is Driver Verifier?
Driver Verifier is included in Windows 8/8.1, 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 to promote stability and reliability; you can use this tool to troubleshoot driver issues. Windows
kernel-mode components can cause system corruption or system failures as a result of an improperly written driver, such as an earlier version of a Windows Driver Model (WDM) driver.
Essentially, if there's a 3rd party driver believed to be at issue, enabling Driver Verifier will help flush out the rogue driver if it detects a violation.
Before enabling Driver Verifier, it is recommended to create a System Restore Point:
Vista - START | type rstrui - create a restore point
Windows 7 - START | type create | select "Create a Restore Point"
Windows 8/8.1 -
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/4690-restore-point-create-windows-8-a.html
How to enable Driver Verifier:
Start > type "verifier" without the quotes > Select the following options -
1. Select - "Create custom settings (for code developers)"
2. Select - "Select individual settings from a full list"
3. Check the following boxes -
- Special Pool
- Pool Tracking
- Force IRQL Checking
- Deadlock Detection
- Security Checks (Windows 7 & 8)
- DDI compliance checking (Windows 8)
- Miscellaneous Checks
4. Select - "Select driver names from a list"
5. Click on the "Provider" tab. This will sort all of the drivers by the provider.
6. Check EVERY box that is NOT provided by Microsoft / Microsoft Corporation.
7. Click on Finish.
8. Restart.
Important information regarding Driver Verifier:
- If Driver Verifier finds a violation, the system will BSOD. To expand on this a bit more for the interested, specifically what Driver Verifier actually does is it looks for any driver making illegal function calls, causing memory leaks, etc. When and/if this
happens, system corruption occurs if allowed to continue. When Driver Verifier is enabled, it is monitoring
all 3rd party drivers (as we have it set that way) and when it catches a driver attempting to do this, it will quickly flag that driver as being a troublemaker, and bring down the system safely before any corruption can occur.
- After enabling Driver Verifier and restarting the system, depending on the culprit, if for example the driver is on start-up, you may not be able to get back into normal Windows because Driver Verifier will detect it in violation almost straight away, and
as stated above, that will cause / force a BSOD.
If this happens, do not panic, do the following:
- Boot into Safe Mode by repeatedly tapping the F8 key during boot-up.
- Once in Safe Mode - Start > Search > type "cmd" without the quotes.
- To turn off Driver Verifier, type in cmd "verifier /reset" without the quotes.
・ Restart and boot into normal Windows.
If your OS became corrupt or you cannot boot into Windows after disabling verifier via Safe Mode:
- Boot into Safe Mode by repeatedly tapping the F8 key during boot-up.
- Once in Safe Mode - Start > type "system restore" without the quotes.
- Choose the restore point you created earlier.
-- Note that Safe Mode for Windows 8/8.1 is a bit different, and you may need to try different methods:
5 Ways to Boot into Safe Mode in Windows 8 & Windows 8.1
How long should I keep Driver Verifier enabled for?
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My system BSOD'd with Driver Verifier enabled, where can I find the crash dumps?
They will be located in %systemroot%\Minidump
Any other questions can most likely be answered by this article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244617
Regards,
Patrick
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Best Practice for Portable Home Directories

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Login and logout take about 2 minutes - even over ethernet 100Mb, and longer using Airport, and 'background' home directory syncing seems to always suck all of my network bandwidth - making apps like Safari unusable - even though I have barely changed anything in the folders I am syncing.
My personal home directory is 1.5Gb, and I keep my Music, Pictures and Movies on the network - as Apple suggest.

I generally recommend the following for the least impact on user experience:
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Introduce an "passive" Exchange 2013 in Exchange 2010 environment without user or administration impact.

Hi
We wish to introduce an Exchange 2013 server in our existing Exchange 2010 environment.
The Exchange 2013 server is only needed for migration purposes where we wish to leverage the new features of the migration-batch functionality.
It’s important that the Exchange 2013 server will not have any “visible” impact on the Exchange 2010 environment, or take over any functionality, right now, since the customer wish to stay on 2010.
Can you guys come up with anything to be aware of?
Oblivious we disable the Autodiscover SCP for the Exchange 2013 server, so that the clients will not hit this server. Nor will we point any URLs to the Exchange 2013
I can see that a new “Default Offline Address Book (Exch2013)” is created and set as default when EX2013 is installed. We will change this back to the default EX2010.
The server will properly take part in the Shadow Redundancy feature, and is doesn’t seem to be possible to exclude the server or avoid, unless disabling Shadow Reduncancy.
I can only come up with these 3 things that will have a "direct" impact on the environment, but any input will be highly appreciated!
BR,
Martin

Hi,
I agree with Li Zhen’s suggestion. If you don’t migrate from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013, we can disable add services in Exchange 2013 and don’t use it any more.
If you want that the Exchange 2013 server will not have any “visible” impact on the Exchange 2010 environment, or take over any functionality, please keep the published server to pointed to Exchange 2010. Then the original configuration in Exchange 2010
would not be changed to the new configuration in Exchange 2013.
If you want to use Exchange 2013, then we can point the published server to Exchange 2013 and configure the virtual directories in Exchange 2013. Though all mailboxes are still located in Exchange 2010, all external requests would be proxy or redirected
from CAS 2013 TO CAS 2010 automatically.
For more information about Client Connectivity in an Exchange 2013 Coexistence Environment, please refer to:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2014/03/12/client-connectivity-in-an-exchange-2013-coexistence-environment.aspx
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TechNet Community Support

Upgrade impact on ALE, IDOC, RFC & XI

Hi all
We are having SAP R/3 4.6c and planning to upgrade ECC 6.0. Please tell me what are impacts on ALE, IDOC, RFC & XI integrations.
Thanks in Advance.
Raju

During Upgrade...
ALE : ALE Customer Distribution Model ajustments due to changes in underlying structures and fields in Idoc Segments
We need to adjust the CDM as to adopt these to new ECC6.0 enviroment.
IDOC : Many of the new IDOCS are not released by SAP hence it happens that these IDOCs get stucked in ALE Communication layer and hence we need to see that IDOC's in use or to be used are released by SAP.
SAP supports these release issues ...
Also check the Message Control Settings which needs to be checked and verified during upgrade..
Interface Mappings : - IDOC to Non SAP systems..Proper rights access should be checked...
Authorisations, Access rights for Directories ...
These are the main areas which you should look upon and rest of the things will be known to you once your Business Process testing will start
Thanks and Regards
Pushkar Joshi

Portable Home Directories Pretty Much Unusable

Running OSX Server 10.6.2 and a dozen or so client macs with either 10.5 or 10.6 on them, we are having huge problems with portable home directories.
Firstly, after a while after initial install I did change certain sync settings in the workgroup manager - namely omitting library folders from the sync, and changing sync frequency from every 2 hours and on startup over to only on startup and shutdown, but none of these settings are ever honoured by the client machines - they keep syncing every 2 hours and just on startup as per the previous settings, and still sync the library folders. Tried deleting the managed preferences folder on client machines, or wiping home directories on the server and recreating - all without success.
Secondly, the sync at startup takes forever (gradually seems to be getting worse and worse) and now hangs for about ten minutes at the end of sync just stating 'finishing'. This is getting to be a real impact on our workflow. Even if users cancel the sync it happens.
Getting seriously annoyed with this software now. Would be nice if Apple actually fixed bugs in their server software - PHD has always been terrible IMHO.

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Air FileSystem: Update: New directories for Windows only!

Hello Sirs & Ladies
i have a nice idea for important directories like they want to call WindowsDirectory, SystemDirectory or any directories for Adobe Air 13.x and 14.x
Look out my example screenshot:
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blue points mean new directories....
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Macromedia Director 6 in Windows 7?

Is there any way to run Macromedia Director 6 in Windows 7?

I also have a similar problem.
configuration: MacBookPro 17 "window7 ultimate sp1 (with bootcamp).
the computer starts up window.
I installed 'director 11.5' and I can not use it.
All diretcor windows (the cast, movie, code libraries, property inspector) when you place all the middle and is able to remove or move it.
See examples:
http://www.promecut.it/sharetemp/director_01.jpg
http://www.promecut.it/sharetemp/director_02.jpg
can anyone help?
More hardware info:
ram 8GB
DirectX 11
NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, Integrated RAMDAC, Approssim. ram 4079 MB
1920 x 1200 (32 bit) (59Hz)
DirectDraw, Direct3D, AGP : Active.
Driver 8.17.11.9716 date 03/17/2010 , WHQL: yes, DDI: 10, drive model :WDDM 1.1
processor : Intel Core Duo T9900 3,06 Ghz
Window 7 ultimate 64bit (6.1, build 7601)
hi, I discovered this additional anomaly.
This week I downloaded the latest updates for Windows 7 64bit.
I restarted the PC. I started the program and it worked.
There is one problem though: was only the laptop's screen (1920x1200) but my workstation is not this one.
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The monitor (and cover) of the laptop is closed.
The program has the same problems I describe above images to which they refer.
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Mac Lion:
only notebook screen 17" is ok
with matrox with 2 screens 24" more its notebook screen 17" is ok.
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hello;
I am about to buy a laptop and I am discovering that most
laptops (affordable)
have integrated videocards (ex: Intel GMA X3100 w/ 384mb
allocated ram
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I understand that these integrated videocards use the
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Yes it does. The shared RAM isn't so much an issue. More RAM
will equate to better handling of texture maps on those 3D objects.
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up to par compared to a ATI or NVidia GPU. When it comes to
rendering 3D objects you need fast floating point calculations and
polygon rendering/fills. That is what an ATI card or NVidia card in
a desktop or laptop will buy you. Both excel and will render
DirectX (the 3D driver) faster and better then the Intel GPU.
The downside is that they consume more power. You will seldom
find a ATI or NVidia card built into say a Tablet laptop computer.
Most Tablets tend to lean towards consuming less power for more
portability in the hand of the user and thus ship to the less power
consuming (and weak) Intel GPU.
Also, if you do alot of transparency in Director (and
especially Flash within Director), the Intel GPU will come to a
crawl.

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Hi all ,
We are trying to acheive transparency for 3D models. When
using png textures with transparency details we either get 100%
transparency or 0% transparency. semi transparent areas are
converted to 0% transparency. We are using 3dsmax 7.0 to export the
3D models. The inbuilt shockwave player in 3dsMax displays models
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1. What version of directx is supported by Adobe director.
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I have been searching for a reason why I am unable to get WMV
video files to work in Director. I am using Director MX 9.0. I saw
a post on a forum saying that one should have a newer version of
DirectX and I have downloaded that and installed it but I am still
unable to import the WMV file...or should I say that it imports
under ALL FILES but I see no option for WMV and when I get it into
direct it just shows as place saver, it wont play on the stage. Can
anyone possibly aid me in finding out why I cant get WMV files
working? This is for a work assignment and I am being held up
because of this...thanks in advance.

I believe that the 1st version to support WMV files is MX
2004 (version
10), so you would need a new version of Director in order to
play those
files. You can still use Quicktime (and I think Real, but I'm
not sure
about that).

Automount Home Directories Failed

Hi There,
i have solaris 10 server that is running zfs filesystem.
after patching this server, the clients running sol 10 are not mounting the home directories anymore.
i see that /etc/dfs/dfstab file has the word "Error: Syntax" infront of the line where home directories are getting shared.
also the autofs svcs is up, while the nfs/server svc is offline*.
any thoughts, what should i check.
any help will be greatly appreciated.
thanks
wasim.

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svcs -xv nfs/server
svc:/network/nfs/server:default (NFS server)
State: offline since Tue Feb 22 09:56:10 2011
Reason: Start method is running.
See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-C4
See: man -M /usr/share/man -s 1M nfsd
See: /var/svc/log/network-nfs-server:default.log
Impact: This service is not running.
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nfs dfshares:edison: RPC: Program not registered
bash-3.00# vi dfs/dfstab
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# Do not modify this file directly.
# Use the sharemgr(1m) command for all share management
# This file is reconstructed and only maintained for backward
# compatibility. Configuration lines could be lost.
# Place share(1M) commands here for automatic execution
# on entering init state 3.
# Issue the command 'svcadm enable network/nfs/server' to
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# the very first entry to this file.
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# .e.g,
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# Error: Syntax share -F nfs -o ro -d "local" /tank/local
bash-3.00# zfs get sharenfs tank/home
NAME PROPERTY VALUE SOURCE
tank/home sharenfs rw=soemgr,rw=soelab113 local
well i did try to correct the dfstab file but did not work. i dont know what was being used to share the home directories, but i do recall that dfstab file was not like the one above.
any thoughts,
wasim
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Hi all,
I'm creating a simple game in director using 3ds max to
create my 3d enviroment/scene. I am not extremely fluent with
director, but i would like to think i have a basic grasp of its
work flow, i have recently been introduced to Havok inside Director
and am using it for said game!
So without further ado, let me explain some issues:
1. Exporting my scene gives me an extreme loss in quality, is
there some way to set up shaders or material properties inside
director? If so, how?
2. One of the materials would be illuminated, which i am
guessing would also be a shader!
3. Setting up physics, would i be better to define each
object in the reactor in 3ds max, or just do it all in havok?
4. Is it possible to have geometry that has no collision
until another object interacts with it?
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plank invisble and no collision, so the player would fall throguh
it. But then if the player placed a specific object/box to the
invisible plank could director then make it appear and have
collision?)
Thats the main issues i have, if anyone could help me answer
them or point me int he right direction i would really appreciate
it.
Thank you prior

The MAX exporter routinely tells you that you are using
non-blinn
shaders even when you are in fact using blinn shaders. That
is just
weird, but nothing to worry about. The dimensions of your
bitmap
graphics will matter. They should always be powers of 2
(512x512 for
example). If you have non-powers-of-two dimensions, then the
images can
get distorted or blurry.
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size. If
you use that, it will automatically scale all your texture
maps down to
whatever it is set for. That makes the file size smaller and,
depending
on your source images, can impact the image quality.

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