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Reply to Dammit. IDE to AHCI. Someone needs to be shot in Personal Computing Sins Forums

Well, in fact, the bottleneck can be the drive itself... AHCI don't increase the rpm or directly the data flow... what is greatly reduce is the latency... " Native Command Queuing (NCQ) is a feature supported by Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI). It allows ATA drives to accept more than one command at a time and dynamically reorder the commands for maximum efficiency. NCQ, when used in conjunction with a hard drive that supports NCQ, can increase storage performance on

Reply to Spartacus: Blood and Sand in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="sareth01" reply="7" id="2996462"]so this is what happened!? I thought this show went the way of firefly and got cancelled by a dumb executive.[/quote] http://www.tvguide.com/News/Liam-McIntyre-Spartacus-1027979.aspx

Reply to Dammit. IDE to AHCI. Someone needs to be shot in Personal Computing Sins Forums

The register key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci is for both Intel and AMD system... The register key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV is related to the RAID mode... standard RAID mode are 0-1-2-3-4-5-6... but there is plenty of non standard mode ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-standard_RAID_levels )... these key enable the non standart intel matrix raid

Reply to Just how big are the Titans? in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

I know... really wish to have ingame ( rebellion ) screenshot who show the real visual improvement of the iron engine ( maybe due to shader 3.0 )... you know, the "Updated graphics bring Sins of a Solar Empire to life as never before, with new particle effects, enhanced textures, and improved shading"... My reply was mainly motivated by your OP... first show a big ship and after speak about the need to improve the iron engine due to scale... I am pretty sure that i will enjoy

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="2623" id="2996367"]@Thoumsin Thanks, will look into this. Glad you are still around! [/quote] Was never away... simply very busy to finishing the numerous project that i have started... As today, i am buzy to improve my texturing skill... will never reach SteinerX skill but result is not so bad... simply take a look at the other forum ... if some day, i make the B5 sta

Reply to Just how big are the Titans? in Sins Developer Journals Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Not surprising, the Sins of a Solar Empire engine (the Iron Engine) required a significant upgrade to deliver these spectacular enhancements in scale.[/quote] Well, again, i don't agree... seem that Stardock underestimate the power of the Iron Engine in it's actual state... The screenshot below was taken in Entrenchment ( in game, not a Maya render )... with a Kol too for scale purpose... the space station is somehow a little bigger that a Titan..

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="2615" id="2995939"]... but I do fail to make the AI research the most basic subjects, e.g. an armor upgrade. It just won't do it. I have no clue as to why but I hope to be able to solve it soon...[/quote] Maybe take a look at the pirate hidden research tree... with diplomacy, it seem that armor-weapons research/upgrade is not a problem for the pirate AI...

Reply to Dammit. IDE to AHCI. Someone needs to be shot in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="yrag" reply="12" id="2995970"]Thoumsin: enough already............[/quote] What is the problem, i simply try to help... [quote who="starkers" reply="10" id="2995884"]Despite the best advice of yrag, my machine BSOD's at boot in the AHCI mode[/quote] Well, from now, i will not make anymore post related to computing since it seem that you are the local expert...

Reply to Yet another suggestions for titans in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote who="SemazRalan" reply="8" id="2995963"]SOASE doesn't support mesh animation/motion...[/quote] In fact, it is possible, via chain particle effect who use a mesh for each piece... it is not simple but it is possible... By example, something like the pic below is possible : Will have a .mes

Reply to Spartacus: Blood and Sand in Everything Else Sins Forums

Spartacus ( Andy Whitfield ) is dead in the arena of real life... after a 18 month fight again a opponent called "non-Hodgkins Lymphoma", he was vanquished...Spartacus have faced this very personal battle with courage, strength and grace. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family during this difficult time.

Reply to Dammit. IDE to AHCI. Someone needs to be shot in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="10" id="2995884"] Also, you will notice that I post from Wincustomize, so I would not have seen your post over at Sins, or the fix you speak of... or that it worked for some guy.[/quote] It is a cross forum topic... opening post was from "Joeuser" forum and there is reply from Wincustomize, GalCiv II, Elemental, Stardock, sins of a solar empire and more forums... [quote who="starkers" reply="10" id="2995884"]What I read elsewhere, however, is that

Reply to Dammit. IDE to AHCI. Someone needs to be shot in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="7" id="2995717"]I'm currently awaiting confimation of a method to best enable the required BIOS edit without having to reformat Windows afterwards. Once in possession of that advice I shall be making the necessary changes[/quote] Do you read topic before posting in it ??? Look at the topic : https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/411863 reply 9 : link to the microsoft Fix i

Reply to Successor to Impulse will be boring in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="Fulgrymm" reply="11" id="2995515"]Does this mean Stardock Central will rise from the grave?[/quote] Will be great... SDC was working with Linux... was never the case for Impulse... [quote]I don’t even have a cool screenshot to show you because, well, there’s not much there. It’s just about updating “your Stardock stuff”, largely automatically, largely in the background (all options of course). [/quote] I have one cool screensho

Reply to Titan Manufacturing Yard a Sttarbase Upgrade? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote] Also makes a yard buildable in a sun's well. ... I like the idea of having the titan shipyard being buildable only in star gravity well's for the extra juice. I'm all for making stars less useless.[/quote] Well, stars are far to be useless... in fact, a star is the power source from my own starbase... shipyard being a small section of the huge starbase... <img src="http://danmangames.com/forums/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=3585.0;attach=4

Reply to Love / Hate relationship with state of the art PC hardware in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="16" id="2995168"]The mobo also supports SATA 6GB in two of the ports,...[/quote] For info, SATA III is 6Gb/s and not 6GB/s... there is a 8 times difference between bit ( b ) and byte ( B )... To my knowledge, the only SSD able to reach the 6GB/s use a PCI express x16 connection : the ioDrive Octal ( http://www.fusionio.com/products/iodrive-octal/ )... it is not a new produ

Reply to Anyone knows how to use 3DS Max? in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="OrionHunter122" reply="3" id="2995244"]Ignoring unknown material type (24): DefaultLib.wire_086086086 Valid Material not found for PolygonList: DefaultLib.wire_086086086 Bounding Information Calculated - Radius:-1.00 Optimizing... Pre-Optimization Vertex Count = 0 Post-Optimization Vertex Count = 0 C:\Users\Multimedia\Desktop\ForgeTools 3\ConvertXSI> C:\Users\Multimedia\Desktop\ForgeTools 3\ConvertXSI>[/quote] Well, befo

Reply to Love / Hate relationship with state of the art PC hardware in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"]Second, the machine supports the new AHCI standard which, when enabled, gives about a 20% boost to write performance on any drive. [/quote] New ??? Well, my 5 year old computer have SAS/AHCI/SATA/IDE !!! [quote]However, it MUST be enabled in bios before installing. If you do it after, you have to reinstall Windows 7 and it's not on by default as I discovered.[/quote] Well, dissable AHCI in the bios, reboot, open your brower and go to <a href="

Reply to HDTV prototype is also a Windows 7 PC - All 70” of it! in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote who="G_Bison" reply="16" id="2993510"]Wow, the vids were most impressive. Was the characters in the concert rendered in real time or post and or was it a program or the singer performer was in a or using a mo cap suit? [/quote] There is no singer performer... voice is created by Yamaja Vocaloid 2... as for animation, it use the freeware Miku-Miku dance ( preprogrammed motion or capture with Microsoft Kinect )... Real time render will not be a problem for&nbsp

Reply to HDTV prototype is also a Windows 7 PC - All 70” of it! in Personal Computing Sins Forums

[quote quoting="post"] ... but how cool would it be to see a high end PC merged with a big screen TV like this for gaming?[/quote] not very cool... the future is not for TV screen but hologram... in fact, actual technology is already great : [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTXO7KGHtjI[/video] Now, imagine a full room dedicated to SOASE Holo version, where you are inside the holographic space projection, a camera following your hand movement... and

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="Stant123" reply="50" id="2992570"]Pale moon is firefox without the cross OS stuff built in so that it's optimized to run with windows much better.[/quote] Well Pale moon is Firefox without : - Crash reporter - Parental control - ActiveX and ActiveX scripting - Accessibility features and recompiled using SSE2 instruction set for improve the speed... mean that Pale Moon binary need a Intel processor newer that 2001 or a AMD pr

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

Well, when you look at the page source, it seem that almost all problem, like the "karma" thing is related to javascript code... There can be several reason why javascript don't work perfectly : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript#Compatibility_considerations Now, a brower is not the other... the DOM interface is different for each engine... in fact, no browser meet fully a

Reply to [MOD] [NEED HELP WITH THINGS] Darkness Race - Vasari Ancient Enemy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

Well, now i am busy with a very complex model for a other mod, texturing stage... once done ( around end sept ), i make a package for you...

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="30" id="2991800"]Well, wouldn't be the first time Wikipedia was wrong in some way.[/quote] Well, in these case, Wikipedia have similar value that these of Microsoft : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/system-requirements As for the physical memory limit and processor limit, look at : <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr

Reply to Sins Website Gets an Update! in Sins News Sins Forums

[quote who="Ryat" reply="28" id="2991785"]Your win7 uses 2 gigs? Wow, mine (Win7 64 bit) uses barely over a gig.[/quote] I don't use/have Win7 x64 but use XP pro x64... less that 300 mb used... My comment is based on : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win7#Hardware_requirements

Reply to [MOD] [NEED HELP WITH THINGS] Darkness Race - Vasari Ancient Enemy in Sins Modding Sins Forums

[quote who="ImperatorPavel" reply="21" id="2991258"]Need modeler.[/quote] Well, i have some old models make year ago for something similar to your planned mod... it was for the dark race... I have no time for finish these model... some have minor modeling error who need to be corrected, some are not yet with UV and only one is textured ( destructor )... use Vasari name for their function... if one of the model please you, i can upload it... once you have found a modeler, he ca