Well, it's not for sending my laptop in, it's for one of their technicians coming to me!... Why this would be necessary is too far beyond me, I'm afraid.
I only want a damn replacement fan. I don't need anybody to install it! Of course their technician coming over here costs a lot, they're paid a fix price per hour and for the miles they have to travel, but that's not even necessary. This is just wasting both mine and the technician's time and money!
My largest concern is that this little fan thing is that much customized by Dell that I won't find a third-party-replacement anywhere.
set drakethedragonracequest.framestoskip to XXX
Actually it's "DrakeDragonRaceQuest". There's no "the" in it.
But did you really tell the scripts to wait for "999" frames until the next check for slot changes takes place?!
And it still works?? My, how many frames per second that must be on your rig...
Come think of it, with an average of 60 FPS, which is quite high usually, it will still wait 999 / 60 ~= 16 seconds between the checks! Isn't that a bit long a reaction time?
Hmm, maybe script processing frames and rendering frames is not happening synchronously, which would make it possible to have much more FPS for scripts than for rendering... but still... :confused:
However, this setting is there for fine-tuning. That's its only purpose. So whatever setting makes your game less stuttering, make use of it.
I will never ever expect any logical, reliable or even consistent behavior from the GameBryo engine, now that's for sure! I've just seen too much already.