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Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="starkers" reply="30" id="2512455"] Are all ram sticks buffered? Sometimes, unbuffered ram will be seen at half the amount, or sometimes not at all. There is buffered and unbuffered RAM. Not that I'm an expert on the subject, but I understand that some mobos do not read unbuffered RAM.... and if buffered RAM is installed in the primary channel on a mobo that reads both types, unbuffered RAM will not be read in the secondary channel, and visa versa.

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="DirtySanchezz" reply="41" id="2510733"]Do stores even sell used PC games anymore? I wouldn't know where to find them even if I wanted them (other than Craig's List and eBay).[/quote] They stopped selling used games in my area years ago. The only way to get them is online, craigslist, used stores or garage sales. I pretty much stopped buying them when serial numbers were required to get extras. I have no problems with companies requiring accounts for extra stuff, add factio

Reply to Elemental: The MUST HAVE 2010 TBS requirements in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ellestar" reply="43" id="2510482"] Quoting Nesrie, reply 42 So I guess this answers my question about whether custom games are going to rely on outside servers to fuction properly since games are saved to Stardock servers, which is... unfortunate. Already answered in the dev journal about multiplayer, you can host your own game on your own server https://forums.elementalgame.com/373543 [/quote] Well sin

Reply to Elemental: The MUST HAVE 2010 TBS requirements in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"] 32 player multiplayer. This is a big one and will take a lot of work but it we are requiring that the game handle up to 32 players playing together. To make this work, it also means that games need to be automatically saved (to our servers regardless of whether it’s on a custom modded server or ours) so that stopping and starting games later is easy. [/quote] So I guess this answers my question about whether custom games a

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="MadDeez" reply="23" id="2510231"]example: most times, you can mix pc-2700 and pc-3200 memory but they will run at pc-2700. of course, both (or all) sticks are ddr. you can not mix ddr, ddr2, or ddr3. it's almost impossible to attempt since there are very few mobos that have two different types of memory slots and the few that do allow only one type of memory to be used at a time. [/quote] Asrock boards tend to do the side by side ram (DDR2

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Thoumsin" reply="17" id="2509751"]A interesting detail : http://www.memory-up.com/Memory/HPPavilionPCs15006.html Your HP Pavilion-PCs a1320n only supports memory modules made with a specific type of chip. Should you find what seems to be the exact same memory modules elsewhere for a lower price, it is very possible that the cheaper memory modules will not work in your system. So, if your new PC4200U use a type of chip non supported by your HP comp,

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Check out Vernor vs Autodesk. This is certainly not settled in court. I should have added, this discussion on whether software is a purchase or a lease is still going strong as well. Some of you act like this is a cemented issue, done, over with. In the USA, far from it.

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="18" id="2510115"]Nesrie I think you may need to do some research. Ecery time I have tried to mix and match RAM of diffrent speed the PC will not start up. And yes if you want the RAM to work in dual channel mode you must use two matching sticks. [/quote] My research is my life experience. IT works. I don't know what to tell you. I have actually done it. I am working on on a laptop right now that has two different sticks of RAM in it. It wor

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Fuzzy Logic" reply="27" id="2509717"]I still find it unbelievable that people don't know how software purchases work. When you buy a game, what you are buying is a license to use the game. The disk which comes with it is just media for use in the installation, it is not the product. When you sell the game to a second hand store, what you are selling is the media not the license. No suprise then when the new owner or the media cannot register the game without purchasing

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="25" id="2509671"]But this isn't a case of buying and selling. This is a clear-cut case of piracy. Making a copy of the game is all fine, so long as the person who controls the copy is the original buyer. If he gives away the copy, both he and the recipient have committed piracy. You'd have a point about sharing if his friend deleted Entrenchment before he left. In that case, one could argue that the copy was never really given awa

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="14" id="2509670"] Last time I checked you can't mix and m,atch RAM. PC-2100 will not work sitting next to PC-6400. Am I wrong about that? [/quote] Yeah you can mix and match ram of different speeds but not different types. I don't go around calling people stupid for doing what they want, but it will lower the speed to that of the lowest RAM so there is no real reason do it except maybe during some periods of RAM shortage or when the higher

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Darvin3" reply="23" id="2509649"]Oh, come on! That one is no different than burning a disk. You have an illegitimate copy of the game you didn't pay for. [/quote] Buying and selling legal copies of games should be, and probably is, a basic legal right for the consumer. Sharing i suppose is iffy although every other piece of media (CDs, DVDs, Console Games) can do it fairly easy. I don't mind Impulse's DRM, but I don't call what Stardock does as DRM free, t

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

This looks like a common issue for this particular computer. It's come up before in other forums, in this case HP's own forum. http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Hardware/Machine-does-not-recognize-memory/m-p/45302 This individual thought it might be the display driver. <a href="http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/integrated_mce-xp.aspx?type=2.7&product=2.7.5.3.4.3.1&a

Reply to Elemental's cities and issues they raise. in War of Magic Stardock Forums

I was going to say, the responses to those questions all sound pretty orthodox to me. [quote who="Cookie_1" reply="5" id="2508895"] Without this, the "multiple-tile-city" concept seems much more mundane and less interesting to me... [/quote]

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Moosetek13" reply="4" id="2508896"]Nesrie, read! "two available ram slots" With a MB that can accept 2GB of RAM, that means 2 1GB sticks. "I never followed it"... That's for sure. Stay out of the discussion if you don't know what you're talking about. [/quote] Down boy down. Relax. Chill out or whatever it is you do that takes you down a notch. You can mix and match RAM.

Reply to Computer only recognizes 1 GB RAM in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="rothdave1" reply="1" id="2508874"]I'm pretty sure RAM needs to be identical, not just similar. ie. PC4200 Go grab another stick of kingston. [/quote] I always heard this was just fluff sales men used to sell you pairs of RAM. In any event, I never followed it. OP did you look at your manual to make sure its in the right slots. My current board wants mine in positions 0 and 1 or 2 and 3 which are not right next to each other and are color coded. My board before w

Reply to Used game sales = impossible (see EULA) in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="18" id="2508624"]They don't get anything by you buying it second hand. Thus they are not obligated to support your purchase. Don't like it? Welcome to the real world. You didn't give them anything, they don't have to give you anything back. *shrug* [/quote] That's awfully rude of you actually. Ignore Annatar and his "real world" garbage. This is just an example of a copyright holder trying to maintain control over individual copies instead

Reply to Windows 7 and Sleep Problem in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Well it's only been a couple of hours, and I've let it go to sleep a few times. I might have solved my issues but I will have to let it stay overnight to be sure. It looks like it might have been my power cord. Gonna turn on my external drive to be sure.

Reply to Windows 7 and Sleep Problem in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I didn't see anything called "nVidia Forceware Network Access Manager" in my list.I forced it into shutting off the display and into sleep mode after a couple of minutes. It didn't do it this time though. Been about 30 minutes. I just don't get it. The other thing I did was turn off my external harddrive. An attached external drive shouldn't do this... right?

Reply to Windows 7 and Sleep Problem in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="2" id="2508294"]Are you sure that it's actually shutting off and not simply crashing after it shuts off the display? I've had that happen a few times due to certain drivers or services not taking to sleep kindly. [/quote] No I am not sure. I have at least two critical logs that say it crashed when I walked away, but this morning the computer was also off even though I left it on to perform a backup and there was no error message. I know the backup didn't

Windows 7 and Sleep Problem in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I thought I might try here first since I know a lot of people around here have been using Windows 7 for awhile now, and so have I. My OS has developed a highly annoying issue recently, at some point when the computer enters sleep mode or standby, it simply shuts off. This issues is less than a week old as I downloaded Star Trek Online over night with no issues on the 12th and it was sleeping when I woke up and recovered just fine. The only thing that I have done fairly recently was in

Reply to Elemental Multiplayer Revealed in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Jalicos" reply="18" id="2504490"] I'm much more familiar with how FPS games are typically set up, so I assume whatever the strategy genre has been using is somehow inferior? [/quote] Yeah it's confusing to me too. I never paid much attention to servers and the like until some publishers started yanking them. I do remember encountering a lot more Mod type stuff, with console commands, which is something i never encountered in strat

Reply to Elemental Multiplayer Revealed in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="9" id="2504266"]The server setup should also make getting a LAN game going ridiculously easy. [/quote] So this means that custom servers don't need to remote access something... aka hypothetical: twenty years from now if Stardock doesn't want to support servers anymore, custom servers theoretically will still be able to function on their own? [quote who="Polynomial" reply="11" id="2504312"]Is this some kind of persistant world mu

Reply to Confused about Transfering from Vista 32 bit to Win 7 64 bit in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="xinh2" reply="9" id="2504105"]Your REGISTRY which holds oodles of information on how each program is supposed to work was not transferred, as it was a clean install. So, yes, you would have to reinstall all programs (or in many cases 64 bit new versions of said programs) to get things working "as before." Also keep in mind you may have programs that used to work just fine that will NEVER work if they were 16 bit. The 32-bit windows would run 16-bit programs, but the default for 64

Reply to Confused about Transfering from Vista 32 bit to Win 7 64 bit in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

Just a quickie here. awuffleablehedgie is incorrect in you loosing all your files. Unless you formatted the drive, which is not a requirement for a clean install of Win 7, you have your files under the Windows.old folder. So while you have to reinstall all your programs, your information is not lost and the easy transfer should h