The suffering was first released in 2004.
Its editor is now giving it away for free.
I found the news here (in French) but the game should be in English :
http://www.clubic.com/actualite-165502-suffering-disponible-gratuitement.html
The 1.3 GB exe file can be found here :
ftp://clubicvisiteur38318:1222421669@ftpclubicc23.clubic.com/temp-clubic-rx1080/disk2/the_suffering_jeu_complet_anglais_261530.exe
Yea, there is. Also, I don't know if it applies to the download on filefront, but the on the website that rabbit gave for Penumbra,there is a patch for the Suffering.
download: http://files.filefront.com/The+Suffering+Client/;11846564;/fileinfo.html
patch: http://www.download.com/The-Suffering-v1-1-patch/3000-7504_4-10299283.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10299284
The game does work on Vista 64bit. I haven't run into any problems yet, but I've only played it for an hour or two. SO I am not sure if the patch is needed, unless it is for older sytems.
Good Graphics, actually the best I've seen for a free download other than the free MMORPG's. I guess that cause its not a typical download, since the editor or owner gave up the rights.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Nice find FrankW ;)
Please be aware though that the game may be ad supported, which means that you will have to watch advertisements during the game. Txnnox, did you see any while playing the game? Maybe the French download is a different version to the file front download???
I will be downloading it just to see if there are adverts and how invasive they are, and will report back sometime over the next week. I'd do it now but I'm really buys playing a pile of games I bought the other day. I went mad this past week buying over $200 worth of DVD based games after celebrating an appeals victory over disability living allowances that some nameless official somewhere had decided I wasn’t entitled to any more, (based on a report written by a physiotherapist who'd not even examined me)
One of the games I bought called Frontlines: Fuel of War had to be returned though because the serial number was missing from the packaging. Thankfully the game shop I bought it from http://www.game.co.uk was really cool about it and are sending me a replacement.
If you live in the UK and regularly buy DVD based games the above address is probably the best place to buy games from as they always have special offers on as well as great bundle offers. The games I bought would have cost nearly $600 if I'd bought them earlier this year.
Have a great weekend everyone. :)
The game is definitely a great find though. Thanks for posting details. We needed a couple of decent games weekend to cover for the lack of a game giveaway. :)
The first time I played it I didn't get anything, but this time just at the launch, a pop up comes up saying a message from our sponsor and has little 30 sec. flash video and whenever you close the game. I made it to two save spots last time and didn't get any then, so maybe its a just a launch add.I hope.
On another note, this time my Asquared Antimalware picked up a bug in it. I forgot what it called, but Virustotal's webwasher gateway picked it as a Win32 file infecter. The funny thing is, Asquared's engine is from Ikarus and it didn't notice anything at Virus total.Which it always does after a test. Maybe ad video is program to kick off after the first or second time its run and that's why asquared didn't it before. Adaware pro didn't notice anything, so its probably a false positive.
I've had Asquare pick up one of its own files once. I'm not kidding either,lol. It's their beta using the new way these companies are trying to to moniter programs. I thought everyone should make their own decision before installing it. heres the link to virus total.
http://www.virustotal.com/reanalisis.html?3b33ca771775b55cb3192bcb3257061c
Funny you should bring up disability. I just went to my first appeals hearing last week for my benefits. I had life saving trans oral neural cranial surgery. I had my odontoid bone pushing on my brain causing me to have a kiari(brain falling into your neck basically) plus neck bone damage. They had to go through the roof of my mouth to that bone to chop it and then flipped me over cracked my skull open to open my brain and then shoved a couple of metal rods in my neck to hold it all still.
The point of all that was to get to the my hearing. They had been denying me for two years now and I finally get to that hearing. The sum of it was that I can't do any job, but possibly 1. They think I might could be furniture salesmen. Of course their doctor didn't show up, so we have to wait for him to say whether my medicine will prevent from doing my that effectively, before the judge can make a ruling.
He's paid by the goverment, so what do you think he'll say.
I'm glad you got yours, rabbit. I swear its like pulling good teeth with those people. Hard and painful. I don't the UK is much different. Stick it the little man is the same world wide.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Hi Txnnok. I actually lost the appeal the first time around. The same thing happened at the first appeal hearing as with yours. The doctor failed to turn up so it was cancelled. I had to wait several weeks before a new meeting was arranged. The lawyer who chaired the second meeting was the rudest person I've ever met in professional circles. He never gave me the opportunity to reply to any queries properly, and at the end of the meeting I was told I was still not entitled to the care component of DLA. I appealed the appeals decision. It took nearly a year to get anther meeting, and I must say I was extremely nervous. I needn't have been. The panel had already decided that anyone appealing an appeals decision must be genuine, so they asked me if I was satisfied with the lowest rate, which I was because I’m not totally incapable. Still, it was a long year. I’m really pleased that it was backdated over a year. :) My advice to you is fight the decision and keep fighting till you've won, even if it means taking it to the highest level.
The operation sounded horrific.
It's unfortunate that there are too many scum bags conning the system; which then makes it harder for genuine people to claim benefits.
Good luck for the future.
Regards
Stephen
my_name_is_brad
Member
i haven't run the download yet, but the ad explains why i got a warning about it accessing the internet. the short time i played this game before, it was very good.
If you enjoy horror style games, this is great. The moodiness, and settings keep you on the edge of your seat, and then you get the occasional flash of some grim scene or other from the prison's past. Sometimes it's a bit of a story, and others it's just a quick flash of something.
The only game that has actually kept me in nervous anticipation of what was going to jump out next.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
I've played this three or four times so far today. There was no advert the first time around. On the whole I'd say the game is worth it if you like immersive FPS games. It's surprisingly good quality for a game that's nearly four years old. (I'm comparing it to other games such as Call of Duty, which was released around the same time. (You can pick up the original with expansion pack for around $10 now.
Was there any pop ups from the ad driver or is it just something they run at the start of the game?
I've been keeping track of this game for about a week now over at http://www.slickdeals.net .
This is were I first saw it posted and it seems that the ad support throws off some antivirus scanners. The ad support is merged in with exe app, so when it tries to access the internet the scanners log it as trojan or I can't remember the other. I posted it and more about in the thread for the partition manager the other day if anyone is that curious. I had a couple of posts that day, that one is closer to end.
Anyway, its safe don't worry. Play and Enjoy
Thanks for the well wishes Stephen,
I was reading the some of the other posts and yours doesn't look like any fun either. I was trying to think of something helpful for the nausea and stuff from the medicine that your going through, but there isn't anything really except to just go ahead and blow junks. Oh sometimes baking soda helps, a couple of teaspoons in a half cup of water, especially if your getting acid reflux from the meds.
Chris
my_name_is_brad
Member
downloaded and installed this from the french site after it cleared 2 virus checks. No problems. When i went to run it asquared came up saying it was trying to access the internet so i blocked it. Since then I have had something running and accessing my HD continuously. I can hear the HD access, and see the light flashing.
This started immediately after first run yesterday and after uninstall today it stopped right away.
I can't say what it was doing as I never found the process it was running, or the service. It just seems very odd, and is enough for me to say beware of the download from the french site. It may be nothing since it came up clear on every scan I ran, but keep an eye on things if you do download it.
I looked at my post the other day. I just posted the suffering,no info on the bug.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/easeus-partition-manager-professional-edition-20/#comments [Post 113]
The post I was thinking of was on slick deal's.
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=395509&t=931659&page=6
My name is,
go there and look at my post, under the same name Txnnok page 6.
There is pic there with my asquared catching the same bug. The file is called riot engine. The programmers wrote a file called riot engine into the suffering.execute file, so when you start suffering, it tries to access the internet to play the flash file on it or something similar to a flash video.
There is nothing malicious about it, other than it's a cheasy way to advertise. They should have programmed an option in so you have an option to look at it. If it was an actual virus the other programs on virustotal would have got it. I do know a thing or two about virus's and this isn't it.
What your hearing is the your computer reindexing your files from the install and uninstall. Everybody's computers do the same thing, unless you have that feature turned off. I have a network moniter and a bandwidth monitor running on my cpu all the time and it has never tried to access the internet on it's own or upload any data.
I was rereading what you wrote. I guess it's possible something extra could have been gotten from the french site, but it's probably the same thing. If you still have that file, upload the application file(exe) to virustotal.com and compare it to mine.
http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/6b91f200a5aaf21f314c9ee77a4f45d0
This link is good for some reason the reanalysis link isn't there anymore.
my_name_is_brad
Member
i do still have the install file from the french site, and yeah i know developers will use third party software, or alternative techniques to make an app ad supported.
The running HD access only started after execution because i ran 2 virus scans and a malware scan that came up clean both prior to and just after install. It was only after the first execution that the continual access happened (scans still came up clean).
I didn't install anything after this except the Penumbra software and that was several hours after I first noticed it. I did see an increase in dwm.exe activity, but can't say it was related as I have no solid reference. dwm.exe is also a windows file, so it could be completely unrelated.
I suppose it could be that there was a service or process that looped through repeated internet access attempts after I blocked it, and it could be harmless. It could simply be that there is a logic error somewhere in the code executing an infinite loop. It's hard to say, but I rebooted twice and got the same activity. Rebooting should have killed the loop.
Like I said, I can't say it is malicious, or that it is not. It is interesting that it stopped within seconds of the uninstall.
Of course I downloaded from the french site I gave (which is by the way a really trustworthy one).
Trend Micro found nothing in it. It just catch an Internet connection when the game is launched and another when it's closed.
If I block the first one, the game won't launch, saying I must have an Internet connection to play an ad-supported game for free.
If I allow this first one, the game launches, and so far (4 times) I never had an add displayed.
If I block the connection attempt when game is closed, it has apparently no consequence.
To me, from the fiability of the download site and from what I can see, there is nothing fishy in this game.
Ok, the name of company is http://www.softwrap.com ip-DestinationAddress: 66.212.236.107
They also use riot engine as some sort of moniter. It sends to adsrv10.doublefusion.com ip is 72.5.2.231 and then when you close the game another one pops up trksrv10.doublefusion.com -ip is 512 72.5.2.232.
I gota do some stuff for few hours, when I get back I'll look into it some more. This is all very strange. I was thinking all of GOATD people should email them and ask them why.
I think at least a few hundred emails should teach them a lesson. Funny thing is its DRM company which is fine, but why are they talking to users computers so much.
I'll have to look into a packet sniffer program to see what what is being sent back and forth. If anyone knows a good one or about this stuff,please chime in.
Oh, sorry my name is and Frank if my comments came off a little rude. That wasn't my intention. I was trying to let you know I thought it was safe. I still don't think it's malicious, but they could be sending back and forth more info than just info to turn on the game. The whole time I was testing the flash video didn't come up once.
That makes all that communication seem even more weird.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Hey Txnnok, I really appreciate you going to the trouble of checking this thing out. You seem to know a lot about this sort of thing. I'm still living in the dark ages when it comes to the nastier side of computing. I just run the protection I have and hope the rest takes care of itself.
So far this game is the only one I've ever allowed installed that has in game advertising (though I supposed games like Battlefield 2142, which has a sort of advertising could qualify).
Take care, and I look forwards to your conclusions.
I'm going to have to recap all of the free games that are now available via the giveaway forums. There's so many of them scattered around the place. I thought I'd list them alphabetically, with download links and nothing else (maybe a link to the original posting as well).
regards
Stephen
Thanks, its no biggie. I've got a do something with all this time. Using those programs for that purpose was a first for me, though. I've always used them to monitor, but not to track, so this was a first.
If you have a link to Battlefield 2142, I'll take a look at it.
Oh, almost forgot the program I used to track the ip's was none other than GOATD's Netstat Agent,lol. I knew it would come in handy.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Here's some images of BF2142:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=Battlefield+2142&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
and you can check it out and download a demo from the following link:
http://planetbattlefield.gamespy.com/battlefield-2142/?game=8
The in game adverts occur when you're logging into your battlefield account. What I hate about the game is the fact that you can't play it offline even though there's a singleplayer campaign (or so I think). I've not reinstalled it for over a year and never downloaded the Northern strike expansion even though I paid for it becaiuse I really detest EA's game downloader.
Did you use the demo before installing the EA's downloader for the full version?
I use the downloader for Warhammer Online and it doesn't do that to me. Even though it is a different game I'm not positive that it is related to the downloader. I just can't see EA spamming people its bad for business. They lost yours.
I've got the demo downloading right now 50 minutes left (1.1g file). Shoulda seen Warhammer it was like an 8 to 12 hour one. If I would have known that before hand, I wouldn't have bought it online.
I'm with ya on the downloader, although it's convenient for getting your games, it is terribly slow at opening the game and I have a pretty fast cpu. If you ever try it again, you can by pass the downloader by making a shortcut to the game's exe (application) file on your desktop. The downloader just has to be on your computer since it carries the license info as you probably know.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
No, I pre-ordered the full version because at the time I was a battlefield fanatic. Anything Battlefielld I bought no matter what. I'm still waiting for Battlefield 3 to come out as it promises to be similar to the console game Brothers in Arms. I have over 200Gb of mods and maps just for Battlefield 2 alone.
I'm presently getting back into Oblivion and Silent Hunter 4, and am downloading anything I can find thats remotely releated to the games. It's amazing what thhe modding community makes for thhe more popular games. I liked Warhammer, but never got into it in a big way as I preferred the FPS style game, though I'm getting more and more into strategy games again. I bought World at War several months ago, which is a fabulous game.
regards
Stephen
shawndion
Member
The game run's fine and if you have any doubts about it run it inside of sandboxie..
I haven't seen any ad's in the game and I finished it twice (Using the walkthough obviously) No ads...
P.S: Spoiler hint... don't go rushing into rooms too fast :D accidents happen ;-)
Well, I didn't have any pop ups using it, but I can tell you there was alot communication. The destination addresses were always to >DestinationAddress: EdgePoint Networks, Inc. 12D2DD [00-E0-61-12-D2-DD].
- All Traffic
- Other Traffic
- BF2142.exe (4876)
- IPv4 (72.3.184.153 - 192.)
- IPv4 (192.- 72.32.5.13)
+ TCP (50311 - 9961)
- IPv4 (stella.prod.gamespy.com )
+ TCP (80 - 50312) ConvID = 25
+ IPv4 (bf2142-pc-demo.fesl.ea.com )
- IPv4 gpcm.gamespy.com)
- IPv4 (stellad.ms9.gamespy.com)
+ svchost.exe (1072)
I noticed when you pre order the demo goes through the downloader if I understood correctly.They probaby put in some crapware while people were waiting for the game and it ended up backfiring on them, so they ended up taking out.(possibly)
Hey shawndion, what is sandboxie? I've never heard of it. I think the reason the ads don't always come up is because of the firewall blocking. I've had it come up on mine, but not every time.
Right now I'm using Comodo free, but I usually use Bitdefender's Total security 2009. Unfortunately, it just came out of beta and it was causing a serious problem with cpu's locking up. I think its become common practice now for companies to send out products before they are actually ready. Well at least I didn't pay for it, it was free for beta testing.
200gb's of extra features for the game. wow
Oh, I tried playing, but I kepted getting nocked off by something called the Punkbuster. Is that a person?
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Hi Txnnok,
A sand box is a program that creates a virtual computer within your physical memory. You can do anything you normally do that you would do using your normal computer, but if something goes wrong or even horribly wrong, all you do is switch you're computer off and it's gone and your computer is back to normal. That's the simple explanation. It's a little more technical than that, but I'm sure you get the ghist. We've been given several sand box programs over the last year including Macrium Reflect, Returnil and Buffer Zone. If you'r eunsure about any program it's always adviseable to work within one of these programs first to make sure it's safe. You can save virtual images so that when you boot your computer up again and re enter the sand box, the programs haven't been lost.
You can check out all the comments about the abve programs. You'll find some interesting discussion on the merits of such programs, and there might even be some links to freeware though I don't know of any freeware sandboxes.
Macrium Reflect:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/macrium-reflect/#comments
Buffer Zone:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone-security-pro-2-50/#comments
and
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/bufferzone-security-pro/#comments
Returnil:
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/returnil-virtual-system-premium-edition/#comments
and
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/returnil-virtual-system/#comments
I hope this helps :)
There are alternatives to sand box programs, the best of which I reckon are programs such as Eaz-Fix, a great little program that acts similarily to Windows restore point, but in my opinion is much better, because you can restore your computer from boot up much easier. The trick with these programs is to ensure that you always create a snapshot of your system before you download or install anything - remembering to delete previous save points because such programs use up quite a large chunk of hard disc space. Eaz-Fix, which was given away back in February (I think) has been one of my favorite giveaways and has saved my system several times already. (I'm sometimes a little reckless, lol)
queenfisher
Member
I just had to add alittle comment here not so much about the games but about you guys. I left my first comment earlier on the GOTD site and I'm sorry if it sounded a little snotty. I didn't mean it to. I too am getting ready to fight the disability dragon. I have degenative disk desease in my spine.Already had 3 disks fused n getting ready for the next. till then they'll just keep sticking me with needles. I try to stay positive likeI'm sure the rest of you do but some days it just gets the best of you. Today was one of those days.I look forward to coming to the site. Even if theres no game I get to learn new things about software and you people. So when I log on and read the griping it ticks me off. I've never paid anything, I'm sure the software guys don't pay to give their stuff away, and theres no ads. So I'm pretty sure noones getting rich. And it really bugs me about people who gripe about getting stuff when its free. So I just had to say my peace earlier. But I just want you to know Stephen and the rest of you who take time from your lives to make our little GOTD world a better place, Thank you its appreciated. (PS Stephen, try raw almonds for the nausea)
Don't wait till after the surgery to do start the process. I did that, but I was planning going back to work. If I would have done from the start, they couldn't have denied me. That way after its all over with and you feel like you can work you will have the a fall back. They will just deduct your earnings from your Dis. check.
I don't think they will penalize you for trying to go back to work, but I'm not sure about that. Oh and if you can get a letter from your doc get it now. They don't like to though, they want to believe they completely healed you with their god like powers.
Thankyou rabbit explaining it. I can definitely see using those virtual programs for installs you know are probably infected. I was actually looking into using vitual pc a few weeks ago, but was going to wait till I got some more ram.1066 is so expensive, esp.if you want to get the 2g sticks and I made this cp for overclocking so I don't want the cheapies.
WhiteRabbit & Txnnok - Hey guys! Mmmmm, I know I shouldn't say this (but its never stopped me before).....don't you think that there is something just a little bit off with you two (or three, if queenfisher is in on this as well) playing a game called....The Suffering? I mean, really, after reading all the way thru the thread, it just HIT me, and now, well, ROTFLMAO!!!!! I am also disabled - health reasons are why I haven't been around much this year - and I'm always worried about my benefits getting pulled.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
lol, yeah, I didn't consider the link to the title game. Good one :). I'd noticed you'd not been around for some time. Sorry to here you've been ill. My kids love your online name by the way. :)
Txnnok, did you download any of the sand box programs I mentioned above when they were given away??? There's a good chance that at least one of those will be repeated. I particularily like Buffer Zone because it puts a red line around the edge of the screen, so you kinow when you're in the virtual machine. Although returnil is also a good program, I don't like the little box that says returnil that stays on your desktop and will even remain on top of any browser pages I open. Macrium Reflect I've got, but have not really tested yet, simply because I've been using buffer zone.
Hi Queenfisher, thanks for the tip. I actually really like almonds, but they are the sort of food that are not generally on the shopping list. I'll buy some next time my p.a. takes me shopping Thank you for the tip. As for your outburst. Too be honest, It's good to see posts such as yours. I too find a lot of the negative (unconstructive) comments really annoying. As far as I'm concerned you have no need to apologise. Personally I think it's a sad world when people complain about free stuff. I was brought up to appreciate any gift no matter what it was, whether it was something you thought was useful or not.
Regards to all
Stephen
shawndion
Member
#Whiterabbit
I couldn't of said it better myself in regards to sandbox softwares... and same as you many times sandboxie or returnil (BTW thanks again GAOTD team and returnil for this one) has saved me from re-formatting my computer over and over again... I test so much software on my system that I think that without a software to do this my Registry file would outgrow my swap file...
Practically any GAOTD before installing and keeping it on my main system I run through a Sandbox to avoid those pesky programs that don't contain all their files together..
Shawn
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Yeah, it's always a good idea if you download lots as I do to.
Whiterabbit-uk
Games Guru
Thanks copmom. I could do with some alchol actually, lol. Apart from a few glasses of wine and champagne to celebrate birthdays and other special occassions, I've not had any alchol since my accident due to the heavy opiates I have to take. I'll try your suggestion though. Anthing to get rid of those nauseous feelings will be welcome.
Regards
Stephen
hamstergirl,
roflmao too,
That's great I never thought of the relation.
Whiterabbit,
No not yet, but I will when I get some ram. On this computer I have only 2gs, but I'm running vista, so that means 1gig really left over for apps + I only have 20 gigs left on this partition with fluctuates with all the installing and unistalling I do testing programs.
On my other partition on this drive I have xp, but I haven't used it 2 years. Once I got used to vista I left xp behind. I will probably end up taking it off and putting a linus OS on it for my dual boot. My main focus right now is getting some form linux on the other partiton and to start learning how to use it. I think they are the verge of making the a really good OS that is better than the big 2's os.
Other readers please don't jump for vista xp debate,That was not my intention in bringing them up.
Oh I had forgotton one other thing Stephen for your nausea, which you probably get or had gotten at one time. Phenegran, thats really good stuff and works and if it doesn't do all of the job. It will make you drowsy and you can sleep through the nasea.
I have gone as far as to make myself throw up to get it over with(does work), but then you probaby waisted your pain meds you just took that made you get nauseous. My baking soda recipe i gave before is just for the acid reflux, but sometimes the relief can get rid of the nasea.
Oh and no drinking alcohol for me either since the start of my problems. I learned quick for my meds that alcohol will make it worse. Since alcohol will intensify the effects of the opiates and can make the nausea worse or get me really ignorant.
copmom,
Were did you learn that? I have never heard of rubbing alchol for that purpose.
You must log in to post.
