Savyg

Savyg

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Reply to Perfect game Skyrim/Mass Effect blend... in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

There's some randomass Russian game called The Precursors which mixes genres a bit I heard, and has a fan improvement pack to get rid of some of the cheese. I bought it a while back but never found the right time to download it on my conn.

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Reply to Brad Wardell's Kotaku Article On Windows 8 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I'm becoming convinced that the entire reason people are railing against Win8 is disruption. It's the first Windows release that disrupts the twenty year way of doing things. It makes sense that developers would hate that since they worked well with the old way, and some endusers love it because it'll force devs to start looking at better tools for programs or be left behind. Obviously there are other things, but that just occurred to me yesterday. An

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Reply to Brad Wardell's Kotaku Article On Windows 8 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="2" id="3196900"] Yes, but I caught up with it and found the read quite interesting... not just for Brad's thoughts, but also the comments below. While a couple of advocates kept espousing the virtues of Win 8, the majority did not/do not like it, citing the Metro UI as being the primary reason.[/quote] While the negative commentors are front and center on pretty much every Windows release, the other guys (like me) get really tired of r

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Reply to MS W8 “File History” Application in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I've used File History and it's one of the best changes to Win8. I *hate* the backup utility in 7 and previous. They're fine if you leave your computer on when you're not there, sure, but they waste a lot of resources otherwise. This I will definately be using. Also anyone still on the Consumer Preview when the Release Preview is out is a bit goofy.

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Reply to The state of Steam in 2012 in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Vladesch" reply="285" id="3194876"]To those who say you have to be online to go into offline mode... you are wrong. I disconnected my network while steam wasn't running. Started up steam and it says it couldn't connect and asks if I want to try again or go into offline mode. I select offline mode. Steam starts up. Maybe they have something wrong with their steam, or maybe they just need to check things out befor

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Reply to Arriving at My Place Monday in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="118" id="3193801"]Well it's official, AMD's Bulldozers are definitely faster/better performed in Win 8 [Release Candidate] than Win 7.... I haven't done any benchmarks or anything, but Win 8 is visibly faster on the same machine... by about 15 - 20%.[/quote] It's visibly faster in my machine as well, and I have a Core i7. No more stuttering in games like Arkham City, whatever that was caused by (I assume PhysX or the sound

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress updated screenshots in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Murteas" reply="32" id="3194256"] I think they have talked about this, but they won't move to DX10+ until they can drop Win XP support. I assume they are anxious to move to 64 bit and DX 10/11 as that will solve alot of the performance/memory issues they've seen in Elemental.[/quote] It's possible but I usually have a pretty good memory for these things and didn't remember them ever talking about it (I know last time I asked noone said anything

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Reply to Stock Ticker: Why EA's Market Valuation Has Crashed in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Just to mention, John hasn't been CEO except for the last five years, and anyone who didn't already think gaming was headed in that direction is clueless. And if I do yearly, yes, they've been going down, and this year they didn't. Will they continue to make money? Noone knows, but it's certainly looking better than it did. I expect they're done with acquisitions, going by what has been said. Also for Tridus: they can't lie to thei

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Reply to Arriving at My Place Monday in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="84" id="3190726"]Oh, and the two fans, according to the Coolermaster site, is to increase air pressure within the fins, thus improving cooling.[/quote] They're inches away from eachother. That's ridiculous. You might as well stick 700 fans in your case, because it'll be ridiculously stupid but it will improve cooling!

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Reply to Arriving at My Place Monday in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Bulldozer is disappointing overall, but some games actually like it quite well from what I've seen. I'm happy with my current system...don't expect to replace it before 2014, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong!

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Reply to Arriving at My Place Monday in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="64" id="3190501"] where as with a real computer you can either add OR replace the keyboard without needing to replace the unit harpo [/quote] yeah thats what bluetooth is there for. You can add or replace a keyboard without attaching anything! Fancy. You know what else makes it a non phone? The fact that there is no cellular connectivity whatsoever.

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Reply to Arriving at My Place Monday in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="60" id="3190477"]and the real killer of your claim is the websites that had it listed it as a PHONE!!!! [/quote] https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_16gb It says phone where now? I'm kind of lost as to your claim. http://www.asus.com/Tablet/Nexus/Nexus_7/ Phon

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Reply to Arriving at My Place Monday in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="harpo99999" reply="56" id="3190298"]I also did not know what a nexus 7 is/was, turns out it is one of those phones for dummies that are smarter than the users ie the phone uses the person, NOT the way I prefer ie person uses phone. harpo[/quote][quote who="harpo99999" reply="58" id="3190313"]I see that they made it large enough for idiots to FIND when they put it down. like starkers new case harpo [/quote] Yeah, do yo

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Reply to Stock Ticker: Why EA's Market Valuation Has Crashed in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ARESIV" reply="45" id="3189610"] What does the 64 Bit engine have to do with the quality of a game? Just because it is new doesnt mean it is better in most cases. [/quote] Of course. Speed won't really be different at all, though devs still using x86 code (ugh PhysX) will have to change to SSE2...which will be a major boost. And bringing up FPSes is lame. They can shovel you through a corridor and control every aspect of everything a

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