** Sigh **

I was even surprised when my name came up on the ubuntu forums one time (archived already of course), regarding wine:

They always say I’m from Canada, even if that’s my Last Name (Distrowatch got my name wrong too)

Back to the topic, I’m getting offcourse…

Anyways, as I’m mainly in windows for testing games now, I’ve noticed an error in my Vista box lately after I updated my Batman: Arkham Asylum game through Windows Live:  800705b4.  This happens when I log into Windows Live, after which, the game would totally become unresponsive and has to be shut down from Task Manager.

After looking for a solution (this was a very cryptic error message, and many users don’t know what to do with it), I found a solution which works for me: open up the command prompt in administrator mode and type in the commands:

netsh winsock reset

and

netsh int ip reset

and reboot your pc.

This should fix your Windows Live problems.  As a side note, I find this one to be the best of all the superhero games I’ve seen so far (good story, albeit not for young audiences – stays mostly true to the Dark Knight stories in comics, depth and actually lets you feel you’re Batman – LOL) – and I’ve played quite a number of Batman games for the NES and SNES and Genesis, and a very nice game to see graphically – it puts the Unreal game engine to good use (which is quite impressive because this game is not a First Person Shooter, which I’m not fond of).

Codenamed “Zombie Mallard”, this version sports compatibility to Left4Dead 2, and apparently, Codeweavers is running a raffle wherein the lucky winner customer buying CrossOver Games or CrossOver Offline gets an Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93 Ghz Quad-Core Processor machine as a prize!

Sounds too good to be true?

Here’s an excerpt from the Codeweavers Site:

As part of our CrossOver Games 8.1 release, and its support for Left4Dead 2, we felt it was important to put superior firepower into the hands of our users! Any customer purchasing CrossOver Games or CrossOver Professional until December 1st will be automatically registered to win this loaded CodeWeavers Gaming PC. We’ll pull the name out of the hat on December 1, 2009, just in time to have this little gem sitting under some lucky winner’s (non-denominational) Christmas / Hannukah / Kwanza / Festivus tree. Lovingly hand-crafted by our very own sysadmin / web genius / first-person shootist Jeremy Newman, we promise it will have all the woof you need to feed smoke to the baddies. Did we mention that it comes with a lifetime license for CrossOver Games Linux as well?

Look to Tom Wickline’s site for more details.

http://www.wine-reviews.net/wine-reviews/games/codeweavers-releases-crossover-games-81-for-mac-and-linux.html