cpu speed haxing?

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 25 Jul 2006, 01:56

http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cpuhaxdl1.jpg

is this ok???

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 25 Jul 2006, 02:31

they fiddled with their registry settings to make it show up as 1ee7 it means nothing.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 25 Jul 2006, 04:09

it means nothing? I was under the impression there was a reason people's cpu speeds were displayed.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 25 Jul 2006, 04:15

I believe it is the ePenis factor at this point, and nothing else. I once ran a game with my CPU as "0.0 GHz" and it had no effects.

hrmph · Post by **hrmph** » 25 Jul 2006, 05:49

it means th0s3 gUyZ R s00p3r k-r4d!!!! or something

Lolsquad_Steven · Post by **Lolsquad_Steven** » 25 Jul 2006, 12:22

THAT CLAN IS NOT ON THE WIKI!

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 25 Jul 2006, 17:39

jackalope wrote:http://img106.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cpuhaxdl1.jpg

is this ok???

:\ All of us have good comps that play spring well. This little gimmck isn't hurting anyone.

jackalope · Post by **jackalope** » 25 Jul 2006, 18:23

meh whatever, guess I overreacted.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 25 Jul 2006, 20:38

Personally I think this should be seriously looked at.

There's a reason why the CPU speed is displayed. It's so that hosts of games, and other players in games, can weed out those with insanely slow CPUs that will slow everyone down.

If CPU speed hacking becomes common, the CPU speed display will essentially be useless. People with 700MHz CPUs - and yes, there are some who play Spring - will simply make it so that their CPU shows as 3.3GHz or something like that, which defeats the point of the CPU speed display entirely.

Obviously it's harmless at this point, but if the technique becomes widespread it will be used for more nefarious purposes.

...and 1337 is so 1997.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 25 Jul 2006, 20:47

If it becomes widspread it wouldn't be distinctive any more and wouldn't be worth changing. We're not telling people how to do it. In fact, CPU ghz is pretty useless anyway. I have an Athlon 64 4000+ that runs at 2.4Ghz, and yet that CPU would trash the older Intel CPUs that run over 3Ghz. Intel's new CPUs are mostly under 3Ghz, but trash everything out there right now. CPU ghz tells you very little about how well a paricular computer can run the game.

Min3mat · Post by **Min3mat** » 25 Jul 2006, 21:16

true. damn i am so having one of those new processors for supcom. just waiting for a damn job to come through atm ;.;

AF · Post by AF » 25 Jul 2006, 21:25

CPU name should + cpu speed should be used instead of just cpu. Afterall a 1.8Ghz cpu with Core duo 2 next to ti is much better than 1.8Ghz with AMD Duron next to it.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 25 Jul 2006, 23:51

LordMatt wrote:If it becomes widspread it wouldn't be distinctive any more and wouldn't be worth changing. We're not telling people how to do it. In fact, CPU ghz is pretty useless anyway. I have an Athlon 64 4000+ that runs at 2.4Ghz, and yet that CPU would trash the older Intel CPUs that run over 3Ghz. Intel's new CPUs are mostly under 3Ghz, but trash everything out there right now. CPU ghz tells you very little about how well a paricular computer can run the game.

Obviously I'm not concerned about you guys. I think most people are aware that there aren't any 1337GHz CPUs

I'm just concerned that, over time, the CPU speed box will change from a useful tool to weed out people who will lag the game to a e-penis-enlargement tool and/or a way to deceive hosts.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 26 Jul 2006, 06:51

How do you know? Maybe we have some kind of mad overclock.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 26 Jul 2006, 07:30

Hydrogen coolant on a bunch of overclocked core duos.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 26 Jul 2006, 07:43

Felix the Cat wrote:Personally I think this should be seriously looked at.

There's a reason why the CPU speed is displayed. It's so that hosts of games, and other players in games, can weed out those with insanely slow CPUs that will slow everyone down.

If CPU speed hacking becomes common, the CPU speed display will essentially be useless. People with 700MHz CPUs - and yes, there are some who play Spring - will simply make it so that their CPU shows as 3.3GHz or something like that, which defeats the point of the CPU speed display entirely.

Obviously it's harmless at this point, but if the technique becomes widespread it will be used for more nefarious purposes.

...and 1337 is so 1997.

It already is. It rarely if ever displays reliable information. You always have to ask people what their CPU speed is if it looks weird anyways.

It's a little disconcerting, but then again, the host has the option of denying someone CPU hacking the right to play should they want to, so it isn't a major threat.

HiEnergy · Post by **HiEnergy** » 26 Jul 2006, 09:49

I know this is probably slightly OT here but I consider this important:

The fact that most players' client displays the cpu speed shows that most of them use a Windows user account with administrative privileges on their system. (I just assume almost everyone here is running Windows XP)

If you're running without admin privs, the cpu speed will just look like this: "?? MHz".

Using a privileged account for non-sysadmin tasks puts your data at a risk. Be careful!

ginekolog · Post by **ginekolog** » 26 Jul 2006, 11:18

cpu speed doesnt mean a lot. When somenoe runs spring on 3.2 gig an integrated gfx card it wILL lagg.

Luckily, u cant cheat ingame .info display. When u see game lagging with most players around 30% cpu usage and one with 70%, just kick lagger and somene take it. Problem sloved.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 26 Jul 2006, 12:23

ginekolog wrote:cpu speed doesnt mean a lot. When somenoe runs spring on 3.2 gig an integrated gfx card it wILL lagg.

Luckily, u cant cheat ingame .info display. When u see game lagging with most players around 30% cpu usage and one with 70%, just kick lagger and somene take it. Problem sloved.

'B' says otherwise.

Post by **hollowsoul** » 26 Jul 2006, 13:01

Ideally u would want to know cpu model / ram / graphics card. And even then its open-source so peep can change them.

Perfer this idea myself
After hosting game. Be able to give players a rating in your lobby client. Maybe be able to share rankings between your friends / clan. But that take abit of coding to get done

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