Most of my viewers know that I'm dealing with a fair number of health issues. The tremor, in particular, has gotten quite bad over this past year. After reviewing all my meds, the plan is to change some of those out for others in hopes of improvement. These all being drugs that effect my brain & nerves, sudden changes cannot occur or it could make things even worse (seizures, stroke, etc.).
After 2 weeks I'm off the 1st one and about ready to start phasing out the next. However, this has made the tremor even worse. I have not given up on doing videos, but I'm not going to post ones that are really horrible either! So bear with me folks, there will be new videos coming eventually!
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Journal's Table of Contents
Blogger's software doesn't support menu systems of any sort, so this post will act as a Table of Contents. Posts will be categorized under Headings by Subject so as to make it easier to find what you are looking for.
Table of Contents
YouTube Gaming Posts
Banished
- Frequently Visited Posts
- Banished Startup Conditions, Mods List for all Series
- Efficacy Test
- Performance Tweaks for Banished that Work!
- Banished - Red Flags in Mod List
- Posts Relating to Specific Series
- News Posts
We Happy Few
Posts Relating to Production
- Software & Hardware in Use
About Athena Artiste
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
We Happy Few - Game Saved Game File Location
As outlined by seleste [developer] on Steam, the easiest way is to:
"From your Windows desktop, press the Windows key + R together. This will bring up the “Run” dialog. Type in %LOCALAPPDATA%\GlimpseGame and press Ok.
This will bring up a File Explorer window showing the directory where the game stores its local data. You should see a folder called Saved."
Thanks selestefor posting that!
"From your Windows desktop, press the Windows key + R together. This will bring up the “Run” dialog. Type in %LOCALAPPDATA%\GlimpseGame and press Ok.
This will bring up a File Explorer window showing the directory where the game stores its local data. You should see a folder called Saved."
Thanks selestefor posting that!
Sunday, November 13, 2016
Banished Water World Series Herb Grower Locations
In a comment for Chapter 12 of the Water World Series, I was asked if I had placed any Herb Menders in addition to the Herb Growers. There are 4 on the map by the end of that episode, with some more being constructed near the newer Markets. One area was missed! (Stars indicate location of 4 in operation.)
Sunday, September 25, 2016
Banished News - MEGA Mod Now in Public Beta!
Last week Mr. K announced the public beta release for the MEGA Mod. In brief, this is a huge compilation of over 80+ mods created by a wide variety of talented people. Even better is how the work of sorting out load order and conflicts is done for you. That, in itself was a tremendous undertaking! All one has to do is download the archive of the mod, and extract to wherever the mods for Banished reside on your machine. If you've never done a manual install of a Banished mod it is not hard (read directions on the Banished Info website).
The best news of all, for viewers of my YouTube Channel, is the fact the MEGA mod does not interfere with the current mods in use for my ongoing series (Water World). Happily, that can continue for a while. I will, however, start doing a few videos on the MEGA mod quite soon. The interface, for example, for selecting structures to build has been revamped so as to consolidate types. Options, in many cases LOTS of them, are available for all standard building along with some totally new ones. I've only had my hands on it for a few days, so the first videos will be overviews and so forth.
One word of caution, however. Those with older machines may find it impossible to run. The performance tip I wrote about a short time ago would probably help some, so do check that out. I'm seriously considering re-installing Banished and so forth on my old laptop just to give it a whirl. It is 3-4 years old in so far as today's tech, but can run Windows 10 just fine. Until I try that, I can't say too much else! Happy gaming everyone!
The best news of all, for viewers of my YouTube Channel, is the fact the MEGA mod does not interfere with the current mods in use for my ongoing series (Water World). Happily, that can continue for a while. I will, however, start doing a few videos on the MEGA mod quite soon. The interface, for example, for selecting structures to build has been revamped so as to consolidate types. Options, in many cases LOTS of them, are available for all standard building along with some totally new ones. I've only had my hands on it for a few days, so the first videos will be overviews and so forth.
One word of caution, however. Those with older machines may find it impossible to run. The performance tip I wrote about a short time ago would probably help some, so do check that out. I'm seriously considering re-installing Banished and so forth on my old laptop just to give it a whirl. It is 3-4 years old in so far as today's tech, but can run Windows 10 just fine. Until I try that, I can't say too much else! Happy gaming everyone!
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Performance Tweaks for Banished that Work!
When recording Chapter 6 of my Very Harsh Farming series I had noticed some lag in performance, though not that serious. This became very evident when attempting to record the next episode for the Water World series. Even though the speed was set to 10x, citizens were walking around in slow-motion as if the speed was 1x. Scrolling actions around the map, even when the game was paused, had slowed down to a crawl. I found this to be quite odd as performance issues should not have become evident (from past experience) until the population base was around 500.
As a remedy, the first thing I tried was to make the changes to Banished's video settings suggested by others. No improvement. While doing those, however, Windows Task Manager was open in the background showing the Performance tab so as to monitor CPU usage, etc. When the Banished game was loaded, there was an obvious increase usage of resources. Maybe increasing the priority level for Banished would help?
It has been a while since I've had to do that, but found a very well written tutorial on the subject here (keep in mind I'm running Windows 10). Bumping the priority level for Banished up one notch (above normal) worked wonderfully! Citizens were once again running about like busy little bees at 10x. In my first attempt at recording Chapter 12 for Water World, however, another issue quickly became evident. OBS (capture software in use) was not, only a black screen.
This was a real puzzler as changing the priority level for Banished shouldn't have any effect on OBS, other than a possible frame rate drop. Tweaking settings around within OBS, and even adjusting its priority level to match Banished, didn't fix things. A removal & re-install of OBS did! Everything was working just fine again, although the priority level for Banished had to be adjusted whenever it was loaded. There may be a permanent way to set that in the Windows setting, but I'm not sure how at this time. If anyone does know how, please do let me know!
UPDATE!!!! I've been a bit under the weather of late, while spending a lot of time playing with the MEGA mod for Banished. When doing so, many of my games were exhibiting odd crashes & behaviors much like the strange performance issue detected with Banished. In searching around for post on Steam's forums for these various games I came upon this one, which I'm sure by now is appearing elsewhere in similar form:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/200510/discussions/0/353915953248830432/
Having already tried a removal and reinstall of XCom: Enemy Unknown (without improvement), the idea of removing the Steam client itself seemed the next idea. Not that the Steam error mentioned had ever shown up, but it was worth a try. Yes, it was highly annoying to have to re-install all of my Steam games including Banished; but it has done the trick! All of my games, including Banished, are all running great (that I've tested thus far)! Posting here for the benefit of my subscribers on YouTube who may be running into those same oddball issues through Steam.
Thursday, August 4, 2016
Banished Efficacy Test
There was a question asked by one of my viewers on building efficacy as to if making lots of tiny stockpiles all around where a new building would be built would be faster than the usual method. (One larger stockpile everyone has to run back & forth to over longer distances.) It sounded like an interesting idea to test, so I started exerting some skull sweat to figure out how to do what would - hopefully - be a fair comparison.
My first idea was to have a timer playing in the foreground of Banished while making the recording got shot down pretty quick. While I really do love this gaming laptop with its two different graphic chips this does on occasion mess things up. See, the "standard" Intel graphics chip was putting the stopwatch program up on my screen, while the Nvidia chip works with game display. The video capture was only going to get one or the other no matter what I did.
What I did was use the Stopwatch app I have on my cell phone, normally used to track how long my videos are running for, and try two juggle the 2 things at the same time. Needless to say, that got fouled up a bit! Thankfully, in the editor used in post production, measuring out when the game was running was quite easy as I had planned to have a graphic show on screen at those times. Adding up the duration for those down to the tenth of a second was a snap.
If you watch the video you'll see what I came up with in so far as this test. Thanks Gianni Campanale for the suggestion!
https://youtu.be/Auke674dZD0
My first idea was to have a timer playing in the foreground of Banished while making the recording got shot down pretty quick. While I really do love this gaming laptop with its two different graphic chips this does on occasion mess things up. See, the "standard" Intel graphics chip was putting the stopwatch program up on my screen, while the Nvidia chip works with game display. The video capture was only going to get one or the other no matter what I did.
What I did was use the Stopwatch app I have on my cell phone, normally used to track how long my videos are running for, and try two juggle the 2 things at the same time. Needless to say, that got fouled up a bit! Thankfully, in the editor used in post production, measuring out when the game was running was quite easy as I had planned to have a graphic show on screen at those times. Adding up the duration for those down to the tenth of a second was a snap.
If you watch the video you'll see what I came up with in so far as this test. Thanks Gianni Campanale for the suggestion!
https://youtu.be/Auke674dZD0
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