BlazeHedgehog's Blog: Frustrated.

So I bought another new Power Supply for my PC hoping that would fix the BSOD problem. If the sound coming from my case is any indication, it did not. That most likely narrows the cause of BSODing down to the Motherboard itself, which comes with a massive string of its own problems - after all, the last time I changed motherboards (a little under a year ago, might I remind the viewers at home), I actually lost an entire 160gb HDD because of various poor decisions I made regarding the re-installing of Windows and formatting the drive.

So obviously, I'm more than a little paranoid about doing another motherboard switch. That is, of course, on top of the always present money situation, in which every spare dollar I've had in the last 4-6 months has gone in to trying to buy new parts to fix this thing.

It's really, really putting a damper on my work ethic regarding a new demo of my Sonic game. When you can only work on the game for say, 2-4 hours a night (when typically I'd work on it for 5-8 hours a day), the notion of having this ready for the August 8th deadline is very rapidly slipping away.

Especially when performance issues start to crop up less than halfway through building the level's design. I'm basically getting 30fps now, in a 2D side scrolling game, on a rig that can run a fully 3D game like Half-Life 2 with all settings on high at over 100fps.

This sucks, basically.

On the plus side, a number of my larger GiantBomb submissions were approved, putting me up at 700pts. Hooray.