kryo

kryo

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Reply to Optimizing Windows for Games in GalCiv III Support GalCiv3 Forums

I would take the bit about disabling virtual memory with a grain of salt. It's actually a myth that doing that helps in any significant way. You may gain a fraction of a percent improvement in performance of memory-heavy workloads (due to background apps not getting swapped out while it runs), but if you reach a point where Windows feels it really needs that swapfile, the app is liable to just outright crash instead of slowing down. And we have seen a number of crash reports where folks h

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Reply to Time that the keys will be delivered? in Offworld Trading Company Stardock Forums

[quote who="Tigershawk" reply="4" id="3522089"] So, given that, I'm starting to think that the countdown timer may be the start of it available on Steam, and then sometime later in the afternoon the keys will be available on our account. Is that accurate? [/quote] 'typically in the afternoon' = 'typically beginning at 1pm'

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Reply to Computer Optimization (Mantle?) in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

Most of Brad's comments on that are in the context of Nitrous which is made specifically to take advantage of DX12 and Mantle. GC3 was already in development well before Nitrous was started though so it's using a more traditional engine.

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Reply to Computer Optimization (Mantle?) in GalCiv Beta Feedback GalCiv3 Forums

[quote]I'm curious if the game currently supports Mantle[/quote] It doesn't. [quote]and not using all of the processes available to a true 64bit (the money overflow issue as an example)[/quote] 64-bit is about addressing. There's no reason you can't continue to use 32-bit integers, just like using 8 or 16-bit values on a 32-bit architecture. Overflows are more likely a result of unsigned-vs-signed errors and just plain bad math, and can happen jus

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Reply to Order History Blank? in Stardock Central Support Stardock Forums

OTC keys for early access have not been released yet. You will be charged and granted the key when early access begins. GC3 should appear there with your Steam key if you bought it from us directly. Make sure you are logged in with the same account, and if so, contact [email protected] for help.

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Reply to How will early access deliver? in Offworld Trading Company Stardock Forums

Your key should appear on your store downloads page once it is available. You should get an email too, but it can take a while for them to all go out after the announcement so the store page is the quickest way if you're raring to play.

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Reply to Keurig - Bringing DRM to Coffee in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

[quote who="MottiKhan" reply="40" id="3519559"] I was pleasantly surprised today when I saw that Rogers Family Company put a free clip in each of the boxes of coffee that I ordered from them. [/quote] My clip finally showed up today with three free coffee pods. So I am all set in case I ever have to get a new machine :)

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Reply to Jafo's OK PC Build of 2015 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Jafo" reply="4" id="3520572"] [doing this in 'bits' because the ISP is flaky] ...[e digicons];)[/e] What I ended up getting, less what I might add [matching mouse and a Blueray burner]--------------> Prices are in AUD so [these days] multiply by 80% for USD. ************************************************ Thermaltake Level 10 VL300A9N1N Titanium Limited Edition Case $1299 Corsair

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Reply to ID’s Great PC Build of 2015 in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I haven't heard of anyone having actual issues because of it (self included), just in synthetic vram benchmarks. Still, nVidia should not be advertising it as a 4GB card when the upper 512MB runs barely faster than system memory. They should have advertised it appropriately (3.5GB with 512MB of supercache!) or just disabled it entirely. Annoyingly, they are only offering refunds (and a promise of drivers that handle the design better), which puts folks without a video card for wha

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Reply to Keurig - Bringing DRM to Coffee in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

[quote who="Daiwa" reply="32" id="3518711"]Keurig was founded in 1990. Green Mountain bought 35% stake in 1996. Didn't become wholly-owned subsidiary of GMCR until 2006. Just FTR.[/quote] Fair enough (could have sworn that GMC claimed full credit for it years ago, my fault for not confirming), though it wasn't until after GMC had a major stake in it that they actually produced anything. There's never been a Keurig brewer in which GMC wasn't involved; it was just a VC s

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Reply to Keurig - Bringing DRM to Coffee in Life, the Universe and Everything Stardock Forums

[quote]Also, don't remember if mentioned above but the reason this DRM scheme was adopted is that Keurig is now owned by a coffee company - Green Mountain[/quote] Keurig was a subsidiary of Green Mountain from the start. All of this is just because the patent on k-cups ran out and their new patented machine (Vue) was a non-starter since it was even more expensive than old ones, let alone the flood of third party cups that appeared since licensing is no longer required. Rog

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Reply to Windows 10 Icons - You cannot be serious, Microsoft! in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I could live with it if they were all flat (still beats the monochrome glyphs that they had in VS), but they aren't even consistent. Some are isometric (the computer) and some are mixed (network folder). Some aren't flat or isometric (the disc drive). Consistent look and feel is one of the key parts of UX.

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