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Reply to So whose gonna get back into World In Conflict? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'll probably pick it up - since I never got around to it the first time around. And if I can log out of The Lord of the Rings Online long enough to eat.

Reply to Why does The Political Machine 2008 Quick Games Need to Connect to Web? in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

MaarekStele, it is a fair question. You don't need to connect to the internet/web/be online for alot of games. I figured it had something to do with the MP functionality. Not a big deal, was just curious. By the way I am not an AOL user. Let's stick to the questions asked without the commentary.

Reply to PC gaming pet peeves: widescreen support in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

For some strange reason Fallout 3 letterboxes 1440 x 810, instead of 1440 x 990. Not a big deal for my widescreen, don't really notice the letterboxing, but strange nonetheless.

Reply to Fallout 3: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Made the stock person at Walmart dig it out of cold storage yesterday morning about 0700 am. Wanted to make sure I had a copy. However I've got several games going on right now I'm trying to finish - Neverwinter Nights 2 Gold, The Witcher (thanks Stardock!), STALKER - ClearSky (not to mention all the CIV IV /expansion packs you never really stop playing). Once I've cleared the decks a bit will install FO3 and give it a whirl. Spent over 300 hours in Oblivi

Reply to Should Stardock provide alternative IP protection? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I've never liked Steam, but it is becoming a dice roll to determine whether or not they look the other way with publishers still wanting their own DRM on top of Steam. Case in Point - STALKER Clear Sky - online Steam version still has activation limits imposed by Deep Silver.

Reply to They should change the name of "DRM" in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

With the Orwellian DRM that keeps getting worse I might just have to go back to board games. Think of all the money saved by not having to upgrade graphics cards every couple of years! [e digicons]:moon:[/e]

Reply to Advertising in games? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Last game I played with ads was Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 - game websites and automakers hawking their stuff in Mexico. Yeah right. So much for immersion.

Reply to Impulse Weekly – October 10th Edition in Blogging Stardock Forums

I'd be curious if the login requirements for Company of Heroes - Opposing Fronts will still be part of launching the game (even if don't play Multiplayer). I purchased when it came out and just blocked in the firewall and let Securom handle the DRM silliness. Better the devil you know....

Reply to Impulse Weekly – October 10th Edition in Blogging Stardock Forums

I've been interested in Titan Quest out of curiosity - might have a sale here...

Reply to Why does The Political Machine 2008 Quick Games Need to Connect to Web? in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

Wondering if the v .50 is just setting up to listen on a port in case you click MP later/uses the same executable?

Why does The Political Machine 2008 Quick Games Need to Connect to Web? in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

I was having some trouble getting a scenario started through the Quick Play tab on the main menu to load the scenario I had chose (Obama vs. McCain). It would get to the "loading" screen and just hang. Firewall wasn't warning me or anything. Figured out that TPM2008 exe needs to connect to the internet - enabled through Zone Alarm (keep in mind never saw a popup from ZA), and my single player non - campaign games load just fine. This started after the multiplayer upd

Reply to Sarah Palin has no hair in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

Weird. I did something a bit different - moved the SarahPalincfg.xml (something like that) out of the candidate configurations xml folder and to the desktop, launched game and got a generic female (long hair/no glasses). Closed game and dragged original Sarah Palin xml file back where it belongs, and woo hoo my girl is back after a relaunch! Hair and all!

Reply to Sarah Palin has no hair in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

I'll give that a try...

Reply to Sarah Palin has no hair in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

[e digicons]:-"[/e] Hello, Stardock? Seriously, not that big a deal for now.

Sarah Palin has no hair in The Political Machine 2004 Stardock Forums

Just finished a game of TPM 2008 - noticed that after McCain/Palin beat Obama/Biden that Sarah Palin in the victory screen has absolutely no hair. This appears to show up that way in the Print Shop as well. Looks like the only places she has hair is in the main menu and pick list for candidates, as well as in the main game screen. Never noticed this before the last patch - anyone else seeing this?

Reply to What you want in sins II in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

2 new races - the Securoms and the Stardocks!

Reply to Re-Activating/Downloading SOASE in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Very good question - I've wondered the same thing. Couldn't find where the promised "redownload" link is. Within Stardock Central, Impulse, or otherwise.

Reply to Move and attack orders randomly cancel in 1.04 in Technical Sins Forums

Those of you seeing these issues - what are your system specs, including OS? Wonder if there are some common characteristics, since some folks don't seem to see the issues.

Reply to Newbie tips? in Strategy Sins Forums

The "going to bed" suggestion is interesting! I've often got up and used the john/ate lunch. Worse case scenario is Pirates bum - rush me and I'd need to reload my pre - loo save. Hasn't happened yet!

Reply to Newbie tips? in Strategy Sins Forums

I'm a newbie too (for about 2 weeks now) - the game not RTS in general. I've done some of the suggestions above - start out with Pirates off, one rival faction to start, and tailored them as "easy agressor", "easy resource" etc until I got a feel for the rhythm of the game. Starting to bump up the risk a bit - turning on Pirates and getting a feel for that part of the game. At same time going from small to medium to large maps - just mixing it up a bit by trial and error once

Reply to CPU Question in Technical Sins Forums

I'm running a Core 2 Duo 1.86 ghz stock clock with a 7600 GT EVGA 256 mb card on XP Home (have Vista too, but haven't installed there). Runs great/looks great. What an awesome game.