Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Facebook's fraudulent trick to steal users phone number?

If your Facebook account got disabled with reason of not following community standards then you probably got into the Facebook cheap trick to get users phone numbers.

This claim can be easily tested.

Create a new account and wait for violation after around weeks. Even if you followed every standards your account will be disabled. Surely Facebook has fallen in standards. They are desperate to get numbers and who knows what's their future plan. One thing is clear they need phone numbers because that is one of the most important user data.

I deleted Facebook years ago but was testing it months ago. I got violation 2 times on 2 different accounts without doing anything wrong. Then people around me told same thing and it was clear its fraudulent activity in shadow of community standards. Now one must think how much rules these tech giants follow and how they treat users.

Tuesday, February 1, 2022

How to play Ubersoldier 1 on windows 10 without crash.

When i tried to run Ubersoldier 1 on Windows 10 it crashed in the loading screen. Intro video also didn't played. Only logo was shown. Game folder has a config file config.ini which can be used to change settings before game starts. In windowed mode the intro video played correctly.


We can check the logs for problems of crash etc. Its inside the bugreport folder. I looked at the bug report which contained below lines in file runtime.log -


SERVER Module information:

SERVER D:\Games\UberSoldier\xtend.exe : base 00400000 offset to crash: 048AD00A

SERVER D:\Games\UberSoldier\platforms\3DNow_SSE\sv.dll : base 04A30000 offset to crash: 0027D00A

SERVER D:\Games\UberSoldier\platforms\3DNow_SSE\cl.dll : base 11000000 offset to crash: N/A

SERVER D:\Games\UberSoldier\platforms\3DNow_SSE\xtend3d.dll : base 052A0000 offset to crash: N/A

SERVER Faulty module: D:\Games\UberSoldier\platforms\3DNow_SSE\sv.dll

SERVER Function offset in map file: 0027C00A


The problem is with the accelerated modules. Todays CPUs are fast and can run well even without 3DNow etc. I removed the 3DNow_SSE folder from platforms folder. Game worked!.


The solution is -

1. Run game in windows XP compatibility mode.

2. Go to <Game installation>/platforms/ folder. Make backups of 3DNow_SSE & SSE2 folders somewhere and delete original ones. Just keep the common folder untouched. Common folder has generic CPU code and runs on most platforms. Now game can run without crash.