Spartan

Reply to Pre-orders for the beta sold really well I guess... in Everything Else Sins Forums

Dont forget the "after the taxman cometh" image.

Reply to Random crashes since new patch... in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I get a runtime error since I installed the mini patch for the repair error issue. Prior to that when I had an error the game had a screen and what not pop up, but with the runtime it just dies.

Reply to By popular demand... in Sins Modding Sins Forums

A mod forum for a beta - you know SD is way cool. How many times wished for this for some other games I played...

Reply to Spartan's Impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thanks for the info. Regarding your question, sometimes when I click on a ship all the ships of that class are selected. I dont know the entire control set yet but I could swear the only buttons I used were the "crtl and shift" plus the numbers throughout the game (this is real good in opinion)other then my mouse for movement ans selection. I have tried the group setup and it seems to work well. I have now spent about 12 hours on the demo and I find I get random cra

Reply to Phase Highways in space is a bad game concept! in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

@boo - nicely said. I'm a big huge fan of Stars! I'm glad to see others here are old timers. I so want this title to be a super deluxe version of Stars! mixed with MoO and Pax. To me that would be the ultimate 4x space sim game mechanics wise.

Reply to GIVE ME BSG!!! in Sins Modding Sins Forums

I'm amazed that after 4+ years of the new BSG being in production and many licensing deals that there is not yet a galactic scale space simulation based on the show on the market yet nor announced as far as I know - go figure...

Spartan's Impressions in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I just finished my first game with the beta. I think this title has a lot of possibilities and I hope they will be fully realized. For my first game I played a 1v1 on a medium map with medium resources. The game lasted over 5.5 hours. This was mainly because I was taking my time and exploring things. I could have soundly defeated the AI by the two hour mark. Some things that bothered me with the game at present are: 1. The travel lanes. The system needs to be reworke

Reply to Phase Highways in space is a bad game concept! in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

I guess I'll speak up on this issue here since I have done so on the SD forums. Simply put I dont like them. I can see both sides of the argument clearly and they both have merits however I think removing or modifying the current system has more value for the simulation. For example using lanes would be great for auto trade routes there could even be tech options to increase the density of ships on a route. For military ships it is just plain wrong. Moreover under the current

Reply to (Fixed)Repair Bug crash in Beta Feedback Sins Forums

Thanks guys! I got the error but it was during play and the game did not crash just hung-up for a couple minutes then it dumped about 600MBs of memory and started to play as normal for me.

Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

@Craig - thanks. Regarding the memory it is not an issue for me at least I have several GB to go. I mentioned it because I was not sure it was meant to use that much.

Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

I got an error finally it is as follows: Failed to find StringID: 'IDS_SUPPORTABILITY_REPAIRTECHPLANETMODULE_NAME'. NOTE: Any following StringID failures will be supressed. Additionally, it is currently using 1.5GBs on memory (Sweet)

Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

->1Spartan: Your computer is making me drool. Thanks.

Wanted: An Affinity Control Panel in OS Customization WinCustomize Forums

I realize this topic is meaningless to a great many users within this community so if you fall in this camp I'm sorry to waste your time. If however you are a multi core CPU owner then I hope you find suggestion one of value and will jump on the bandwagon. In short being the highly anal type of guy that I am I like to keep my PC extremely optimized and my biggest effort in achieving this state of performance has traditionally be setting and maintaining core affinity for applications and

Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Mr Moneybags LOL! The entire rig is brand new with all top of the line extreme components and cost over.... [w

Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

@Ash & Lord - I have two 30" and two 20" Dell FPD. Since I am using SLI mode for the game I can only use one monitor. I chose to use one of the 30" ones. Its max res is 2560x1600 and sadly the refresh rate is a mere 60Htz.

Reply to Sins Beta 1 - Gameplay Feedback - *Post Here* in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Well so far so good. I see lots of potential for this title. I cant add any real useful comments at the moment because I have only had about an hour with it. With that said I must say it is fluid and crisp on all visual levels at 2560x1600 resolution. Moreover it barely makes a spike on my CPU meter - so far. Regarding any suggestions at the moment I feel the speed should be slowed down (I love to fly around with the camera to check things out and often it is over before I can find a g

Reply to Quad Monitrs.. cant run Dreams in DreamScenes WinCustomize Forums

Delete Me - Double post

Reply to Quad Monitrs.. cant run Dreams in DreamScenes WinCustomize Forums

I have two 20" and two 30" Dell monitors on my GB. They are most excellent for "wow" factor when clients come in for a meeting. Now if I can only get rid of the damn black bars between the monitors. One day when I'm stupid rich I guess I'll get the Athens monitor array from www.l-computer.com. but sadly it has the bars as well albeit very thin ones.

Reply to Know What Really Grinds My Gears? (NSFW) in WinCustomize Talk WinCustomize Forums

Hmmm... From the highly creative use of the English I can detect so anger management issues that need to be resolved before any meaningful advancement in the understanding of females and associated social norms can be achieved. I suggest getting laid as the first step to recovery. Start off with a simply romp in the hay then slowly progress to to extreme S&M interplay.

Reply to DeskScapes 1.01 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

@Frogboy - no worries brother. I know you guys will work it out as soon as possible. You always got my support and more importantly money for your products. And that is not fanboi smack talk. It is from an informed consumer with about a 15 year history of following SD development.

Reply to Animated Wallpapers: First Impression in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

For what it is worth on my qx6700 the usage was maybe 1%. I cant be 100% as I cant see fractions. Now if only I can get it to play nicely with Vista 64b and some G80s in SLI mode.

Reply to Windows Vista Updates release today in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

@DZ - I have to agree with your assessment wholeheartedly.

Reply to DeskScapes 1.01 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

@Neil - As far as I know they are the defult ones from MS. Once I installed the direct one from SD I got a different folder and put all the downloads into it and I'm not sure what they either. @o0SHU- I'm running Vista 64Bit currently with SLI. However I had the issue with SLI turned off. I know for sure it is the Nvidia drivers however and not anything by SD. When the BSoD appears it always shows an memory error in the driver for what it is worth.

Reply to Windows Vista Updates release today in Animated Wallpapers WinCustomize Forums

The ones from MS are good for the average Joe. The Earth one from SD is what I expected to see from MS however. I think the earth one is by far the best one out of all the published ones. It seems to work best as well as far as I can tell.

Reply to DeskScapes 1.01 in WinCustomize News WinCustomize Forums

So far my experience with DS has not been good. The only good thing so far is that the earth beta one seems to be trouble free. All the other files kill my drivers with a 50/50 chance of a full BSoD after about 10 minutes each time. My guess is it has something to do with the memory clearing or something like that given it is 100% repeatable. For what it is worth, I have two G80s 768MB (factory OC) GPU in SLI mode, a QX6700 CPU and 4GBs of Dominator 8888 RAM. I really want to t