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Reply to The Impulse/Steam scam: Gamestop is selling Steam client required software on Impulse in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="MottiKhan" reply="64" id="3072132"]After Impulse did an update, I couldn't play any of my games. The serial numbers, even though they were listed .... [/quote] Have know similar problem... after having upgraded from the Stardock impulse client to the Gamestop one... no help from Impulse but Stardock people have help me ( and consolidate my multiple account in the same time )... [quote who="MottiKhan" reply="64" id="3072132"]Now go to Steam. Buy a ga

Reply to The Impulse/Steam scam: Gamestop is selling Steam client required software on Impulse in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="JCD-Bionicman" reply="58" id="3071548"]You can stop at 'true'. PC game sales are more profitable now than before consoles became 'competition'. What gave you that idea? Not saying your wrong, but some figures would be nice.[/quote] - http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/97047-thank-you-farmville-pc-gaming-will-soon-overtake-console

Reply to Better Debris models? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="ice27828" reply="15" id="3070710"]...Unless the other game engines that are commercially available, where they have been perfected over many years, with teams of 20 or 30 people gutting the engine every few years and totally re-writing it. ... You got to remember that even if they have had insane programmers and have it heavily optimized, with few hundred models with thousands of polygons, you are going to get a slow down. ... Also the reason why other games su

Reply to Better Debris models? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="Draakjacht" reply="10" id="3070182"]To sound like the Bionic Man... Why the hell are we wasting time having modders do this when we can demand the devs do it?!? It's never gonna be as cool if they don't! Just kidding. Love those graphics. Play with debris and just about everything I can get my hands on. Woot! [/quote] Well, devs can make more that modders... Now, custom debris use .mesh... .mesh who have a harcoded limit of 800... original g

Reply to Vertices count issue in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="SZ0" reply="1" id="3069200"]I believe the max poly count is around 50k if it is optimized on conversion...[/quote] Well, the convertxsi.exe have a limit around 50k tri but it is not the limit of the iron engine... There is some work around who allow to have more poly... By example, let say that you have a model with 75000 tri... when you model it, you can put all the detail in a secondary mesh... main hull with big piece will be model_part1.mesh and de

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Reply to [v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023* in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="TobiWahn_Kenobi" reply="2943" id="3064218"]Yes it is. But with the high supply costs of Vorlon capitalships they won't be able to have a hugh capship fleet anyways.[/quote] On big map who ask a long time playing.. cost become not really a problem... and i was not speaking only about capship but all ship... Not yet modeled and included but look at the power of the Vorlon destroyer... you know, the brown one ; <img src="http://www.isnnews.net/hyperspace/vorl/vorl

Reply to [v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023* in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="TobiWahn_Kenobi" reply="2939" id="3063920"]The Vorlons and Shadows need their own limitation[/quote] Well, in the serie, vorlon have plenty of ship, a huge fleet... a sleeping fleet since they have not enough crew for all of them... Don't know if it is possible to have lower crew/capitalship point for one race only... and/or make the crew/amount of capitalship research very expensive... Well, it is the problem with any old races... they are few and don&

Reply to Why the iPhone is made in China in Mobile Tech Sins Forums

[quote who="DsRaider" reply="24" id="3063731"]Luckily for Stardock programmers will be relatively safe. [/quote] Are your sure ??? More and more business outsource their software development to India...

Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="15" id="3063558"]Well obviously it doesn't increase the real DPI of the monitor.[/quote] Well, some render engine use the subpixel rendering who can somehow triple the horizontal resolution... 1 white line on grayscale monitor 2 white line on grayscale monitor with antiliasing 3 white line on color

Reply to Win! Well, partial….DNS pulled from SOPA (for now) in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="myfist0" reply="43" id="3061480"]I try to not be a conspiracy guy but do question a lot of things that may be considered normal...[/quote] There is no conspiracy... it is only business... after all, the big media business need your money for help bride politician... http://torrentfreak.com/white-house-petitioned-to-investigate-mpaa-bribery-120122/ After all, it

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[quote who="JcRabbit" reply="11" id="3062946"]Drool some more. 3 x 30" displays.[/quote] Well, i dream of the tomorrow TV who use UHDTV format ( http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/19/sharp-shows-off-the-worlds-first-super-hi-vision-lcd-with-16x-m/ )... first broadcast is planned for the 2012 London's Olympics game ( <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011

Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="9" id="3062879"]http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/image-interpolation.htm Possibly that explains what I mean.....[/quote] Well, in fact, it perfectly explain what I mean... Even the most advanced non-adaptive interpolators always have to increase or decrease one of the above artifacts at the expense of the other two — therefore at least one will be visible...Adaptive interpolators may or may not produce the above art

Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="3" id="3062623"]Thoumsin ...I think you'll find that what you're getting is 4 pixels per pixel....that's 4 pixels of 'screen resolution' to each pixel of system 'painting'.....in other words [as Brad mentioned] the system display resolution is exactly half of the hardware resolution...and thus twice the clarity/sharpness.[/quote] What is see is that frame is rendered at lower resolution ( graphic card ) and send to a high resol

Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Well, it seem to be only a 2x zoom... For a real increase of DPI, you new to change the screen itself... Record ( 2008 ) is from Kopin with a 2272 dpi screen ( http://optics.org/article/32411 )... Since non aided human eye cannot differentiate detail over 300 dpi, we can somehow say that screen need to have at least 300 dpi for be called a "retinal" screen... this was reach in 2007, with the mobile phone Toshiba G900... but

Reply to HiDPI on MacOS X in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Have you a link who explain how these miracle is done... DPI mean dots per inch... and to my knowledge, it is a fixed value... if a screen is able to have 2560 pixel ( dots ), nothing change when you use a lower resolution... the screen itself have always 2560 pixel ( dots )... the amount of DPI remain the same... By example, my little 20.6 monitor have a have a DPI of 96 ( http://www.infobyip.com/detectmonitordpi.php

Reply to A Coward but not a Criminal (Rant) in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="Polistes" reply="67" id="3062186"]Actually in Italy it IS a crime to leave the boat before everyone else, and its punishable up to two years...[/quote] Well, there is more generic laws around too... like the "duty to rescue"... Here, you can be punish at max with 5 year jail and a fine of 100k euro if you don't assist people in danger... and Italy have similar laws...

Reply to GPU-Z Free GPU and Video Card Utility in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="3" id="3061777"]My little card humming along happily...[/quote] Driver 267.91 [quote who="Gwizz41" reply="10" id="3061860"]Dell XPS M1710 .....time flies![/quote] Driver 179.48 For info, last nvidia driver for windows is 285.62 from end Oct 2011 ( 290.53 beta ) and 290.10 for Linux ( end nov 2011 )... same if you have a older card like in the second case, it is always a good idea to keep driver updated at the last version... not only so

Reply to [v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023* in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Tobi, you have miss the point of Boshimi post... author of the video is called "TobiwanK3nobi" and have ask if it was related to you...

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[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="6" id="3061809"]Unfortunately, when downloading from Filehippo, I got this:[/quote] Have download it from the original site ( http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html ) some time ago and have the same that you... CPU-Z ( with HW monitor ) was used for monitoring the over-clocking world record : [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irJKpN8ULkE[/video]

Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="DrJBHL" reply="91" id="3061747"]Patience just doesn't seem to be an option when "instant gratification" is offered... [/quote] I have plenty of patience... i can wait my turn in a long row without problem... What i don't accept is to have various row with various speed... obligate to use the slow row because i have not the US nationality !!! Or being in a row and when i reach the clerk windows, find a paper who say "we don't serve foreign people"...

Reply to Megaupload taken down by FBI–Anonymous takes down DOJ, Universal Music, RIAA, MPAA websites in Personal Computing Sins Forums

It is not about "being allowed to steal" but more about explain why some of the "stealing" happen... By the way, here, it is not illegal to download... but it is illegal to upload... so, at law level, i don't steal... More, we pay tax on all blank media support ( tape, videotape, cd, dvd, etc )... money who go for the "author right" ( who in fact feed the big media business and not really the author )... these tax allow us to make a backup copy of media that we legally pur

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[quote who="Jafo" reply="84" id="3061552"]How many pirates are going to answer "yes, I pirate your software'? Criminals do not tell the truth...it's a pre-requisite of their trade....[/quote] Jafo, i hate you for saying that i don't tell the truth... Seek in all my post and you will find a few times where i say that i have pirates SOASE at first... main reason being your game not available in Europe... have need to wait months before being capable to buy

Reply to [v0.54.2]Babylon 5 - Sins of the Younger Races Remastered {Rebellion 1.95+} *UPDATE 16.05.2023* in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="HMS-ARKROYAL" reply="2909" id="3061362"]2.EA ship speed,range or fire rate needs to be increased, minbari ships can easily out run all of there ships, including chasing after my ships for easily kills (when your trying to escape with a few ships left)[/quote] Well, it is like in the series itself... Minbari with one exception always win... [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFvkgfBXHPA[/video]

Reply to WOW! THANK YOU! in Elemental Dev Journals Sins Forums

[quote who="Drakohan" reply="65" id="3061012"]... the story is told with the game instead of beside it...[/quote] About story... will Brad write a new book related to "fallen enchantress" ??? Something like http://www.amazon.com/Elemental-Destinys-Embers-Bradley-Wardell/dp/0345517865/