Homepage of Perfect Dark(I think)
http://www21.atwiki.jp/botubotubotubotu/
There is no english wikipedia link for it yet...
At this moment, the most recent version is 0.961
Titled "the most adaptable to change".
I think it's wise to keep all the PD related questions in a single thread. So yeah, use this one.
Personally, I wonder if anyone can tell me what all the options are in the preferences. With one of the last releases, the entire menu was overhauled and is now tabbed into 3 portions.
My guess is:
-the speed/port/autoupdate tab
-something with cache(unity)/speed management
-unity size, sign(nickname), folders and some button for the mutagen(customize) settings. No clue what it does.
Is there a new location to download PD? I can only find .993 that won't connect or update.
>3 NVM found it, 1.01 won't connect either, ports forwarded. Blah. XP sp2, added nodes (hit add, list disappears.)
http://rapidshare.com/files/97677688/InstaGaiaGoldVer1.rar.html
Instant gaiagold. I made this program myself. 300 gold a minute. Its still in its early stages. But tell me what you think.
Your setup must be incorrect, .993 connects and updates shortly (XP SP2). Ignore the fact that nodes doesn't appear after pasting them into window and hitting 'add', simply continue.
If you're running other P2P/data upload programs, they may have your upload bandwidth maxed out. PD will NOT connect if it does not find enough free upload bandwidth... so these are your choices:
1) Buy faster broadband (if you can find...)
2) Set a lower upload speed in your other P2P programs (if they allow to do so)
3) If you can't lower your upload speed in your other programs, then you will need to close them when you want to use PD. Sounds awful, but you must understand that there is no unlimited bandwidth.
If you plan to run Share and PD with a DSL with a 512Kb upload AT THE SAME TIME... you're pretty out of luck :(
Or install Netlimiter (2.10 because older versions have problem with PD->CPU 100%) and keep the upload at 20KB/s(globally).It's important to have a slow latence for connect to a japanese host,otherwise you have a lot of time out.
+1 month without new version, testing time over???
How do the Board, Gather, and View areas work?
My unity folder is stuck at 12MB, yet my total send is 2.6 gigs and total receive is 2.8 gigs, what the hell is it doing sending all that information yet it's not growing? I have had 10 files set to DL but it says they're sleeping for the past 2 days, is this related the unity thing? Cause I think it said I needed 2000MB unity folder first...
>>1
そこがPDのHomepageです。
常に最新の情報が書かれているとは限りませんので注意して下さい。
PDの使い方が分からない時は、以下のファイルを翻訳して読んで下さい。
ファイル名：PD help ver.7.txt
キーワード：perfect dark ヘルプ
サイン：@ヘルプマン=JACpfmCkRNPHbJ8tvSghQAXX4rf
サイズ：41,822
ID：87b78c88e03590baf255671455da90e68166c5aef43bf87dca228ae48e6f504e
My task window are always blank, can someone explain me why? Please
I'm downloading several files but still blank...
■DLが始まらない幾つかの原因について
①：接続回線の種類を間違えて設定している場合は、接続が頻繁に切れる為まともにDL出来ません。
つまり、接続回線の詐称には何の旨味もありません。接続回線の種類を正しく設定し直して下さい。
②：接続要求が多くて順番待ちの状態になっている場合は、暫くDLが始まりません。
あなたは行列が出来る店の前で並んでいる様な状態です。気長に待ちましょう。
③：ネットワーク上に実身を持っているノードが接続していない場合は、暫くDLが始まりません。
実身を持っているノードが接続してくるまで気長に待ちましょう。
④：ネットワーク上の完全な実身が何らかの理由で既に消滅していて仮身だけが在る場合（仮身の寿命は、実身が消えてから3日経過するまで）、
幾ら待ってもDLできません。再放流を依頼するか諦めて下さい。
⑤：Unity（キャッシュ）が満タンの状態と空きがある（スッカラカン）状態では、通信量もDLの落ちて来易さも全然違います。
自動DL（dht）分の2GBがなかなか溜まらず、ファイルをDLできない場合は最低でも2GB分のファイルをULして下さい。
又、すぐにでも最適な稼働状態にしたい場合は、最大Unity設定値の半分までファイルをULして下さい。
※自動DL（dht）分の2GBは、Unity用の最低40GBに含まれます。
※自動DL（dht）分の2GBが溜まるとPDの動作が、自動DL（dht分）優先から手動DL優先に切り替ります。
普通に稼働してる様に見え始めるのは、最大Unity設定値の半分【dht＋du分（自動DL分を含む）】が溜まってからです。
つまり、Unity即消しには何の旨味もありません。自分のDL効率を下げているだけです。
またDLし易くする為に、故意に「捏造・キーワード間違い・アフィリエイト・ウイルス」等のファイルを流し続けると、
あなたの仮身は各ノードに無視登録されるか有害評価を受け、以後のファイルをなかなかDLしてもらえないという状況に陥ります。
⑥：①～⑤を試しても症状が改善されない場合は、PD本体のバグの可能性が有ります。
ボードの『perfect dark 総合ボード』にテンプレを使用して詳細なバグ報告を書き込んで下さい。
※ADSL1.5M以下の回線を利用されている方は、回線速度が遅いためになかなか自動DL（dht）分の2GBが溜まらない場合があります。
その場合は、一時的に自動DL（dht）分の2GBが溜まるまで回線速度設定をADSL4Mに変更して下さい。
自動DL（dht）分の2GBが溜まった後は、①の理由により回線速度設定を元の正しい設定に戻して下さい。
I recently changed computers and copied my PD and unity folders (latter was 27GB) to my new computer. For some reason, PD refuses to go online now no matter what folder I assign as the unity folder. I can only get it to work by deleting perfect dark.sekai. Is there any way to get it to use the old unity folder? How should I have migrated the program?
>12
I have the same problem..
Oh hay guise!
Nice to see PD is still around!
Current version: 1.02 "SAC"
Does anyone know if a wiki or some tutorial has been created by now?
PD still seems to work here.
>>13
Gomenasai,
Previous post was meant as a reply to you.
dude, just add something to your upload that is 2 gigs. it will then create a 2 gigs cache (unity).
Exactly!
My PD cache didn't growed at all... until i fed it with some gigs of older Share downloads. You can grow your cache fast: simply upload some delicious files, and you're done. As a side bonus, you help the network to grow, migrating the content from Share/Winny/<put your favorite network here> to PD's mass storage darknet.
It's dead simple. A single DVD ISO or a bunch of episodies of a series will do the job. But please, don't cheat by uploading crap or bogus/dummy/fake files! (anyway, the network will reject them eventually, with the content rating system)
and do not use netlimiter because perfect dark limits download too! this is ownage.
I can not get PD to connect. I have added all the new nodes at that site and the port is open but it just says "Perfect Dark is offline"
Is there a logg in english somewhere on the connection attempts?
Perfect Dark will NOT connect if you don't have enough free upload bandwidth. From my experiments, it requires, at the very least, 5KB/s of upload to start up. If you're running other P2Ps at the same time, hogging your upload, PD will refuse to connect.
As for the connection attempts, i'm not totally clear on this, but if you look at the stats on "Information" tab, you will see a line called "sekai". "Sekai" seems to be PD's node database. It's stored in a file called "perfect dark.sekai" (something like Share's "nodes.db" or Kad "nodes.dat"). In that stat line, check the two last numbers at the end (looks like a fraction, like "2/190" or something like that): the last number seems to be the number of connection attempts. The number just before it seems to be the number of sucessful conections, If it's zero, PD is "offline". If it's between 1 and 5, it's on "firewalled" status, and if it's 5 or higher, you're properly connected, open for uploads and downloads.
Anyone can explain exactly that sekai info line?