zedman1000

I wouldnt do it.
Look me up on tech-forums.net so you can see i know what im talking about: zedman3d.

Firstly you have the problem of cooling. Secondly you have the problem of a chipset and motherboard combination that isnt designed even on a desktop level for overclocking.

Next, never use a program to overclock your CPU. Always do it via the BIOS and adjust the core voltage very slightly in increments if your find that your OC (determined by fsb x multiplier) is unstable. But its almost always going to be unstable in a laptop with its poor cooling.

But, if there is a CPU that can be overclocked it is the Pentium Dual Core (NOT Pentium D, they are completely different).

If you want to overclock something grab Rivatuner (software overclocking your video card is usually fine) but once again you wont get very far and the benefits will be minimal.

Would people stop using GameMaker for benchmarks... its unreliable. No good, to many inconsistencies. The only way to do it would be to get a DLL to do the benching if possible which would defeat the purpose of using GameMaker...

Sorry but thats just the way it goes. But if you really want to see it through you can add tests that i put in my mini benchmark project: Looking for digits in Pi, Lots of math functions, collisions, unzipping a 5mb ZIP etc etc.

I repeat, no matter what you do a file or game is always crackable, changeable, decompilable etc. you simply have no protection over it.

Zappy you wanna bet your balls? I promise you when 5 steps are complete you can use cd cloning, decompilers, resource editors, script readers and you will fail to do so.

He's right though, if a computer created the security, then a computer can disable the security. Its as simple as that.

Look, if i where you, and i reaaaaally wanted to try this, i would start off by trying what one guy said and getting the harddrives serial number. Its not the most ingenious way, but its a way that you might want to investigate. And its not that often that people change their HDD's and when they do they can go through whatever procedure allowed them to play the game again in the first place.

I think he did.

To check the name of the drive your program is running on, use the following and then get the first letter of the string:

working_directory

and its temp folder with:

temp_directory