Well, One of the first companies to put DRM-like control onto DVDs(forcing peeps to watch the previews) is now interested in the maker of the most DRM laden games on the market. Seems a perfect fit and easier to boycott them both as whole :) .
It's broke, has been broke and seems likely to be broke. It's only there to give false hope. There is several posts a weeks about it yet they can't seem to simply remove it. Of course then you would probably have people asking where the search is ;) . Fixing it seems unlikely after all these months, but would be a big help to newer people(and vets) trying to find info. People just don't usually know about site searches and really shouldn't need to when there is a search box sitting there on t
oh yea! Just to bad it wasn't found a lot sooner. Would of maybe had a chance of making 2.0
GalCiv2 has been a strange one on W7. Dread Lords ran fine right off the bat. Dark Avatar and Twilight wouldn't work until I went into the pref.ini and adjust the resolution to my monitor and put it into windowed mode(for dual screen setup). Otherwise just a black screen and had to kill it through Task manager. SoundMAX HD audio drivers are a little flaky trying to get installed, but used the ones for vista 64 seemed to work as long as I used compatibility mode on the installer(coming
Well since you mentioned schoold I take it your on the young side, so you will still have some time to go through some growth adjustments. Could just be a phase your goin through. Alarms suck for me to and no normal one will wake me. One thing I did is hook an auditorium loudspeaker to a clock radio. Put it far enough away that you have to get out of bed to get to it and point it at your head. If it doesn't get you roused whoever else is in the house will when they come rushing i
AA gets rid of the "jaggies" along the edges of things, so yes it makes things smoother. I believe AA itself is more on the GPU than CPU. When testing CPU bottlenecks it seems to be recommended to turn off AA. I think that is due to it possible tainting the test with a GPU intesive feature. I'm no expert though ;) .
Can SM do HD repair and recovery or rebuild broken partitions?
One bad thing about sleep cycles. I think we are forced into this 6-8 hour, roughly 11pm to 6am habit. Every persons body is different and for some the natural sleep time is different. I find about 4pm to 10 or 11pm to be the best time for myself and even have worked that around work in the past. You can force yourself into the so called "normal" sleep cycle, but even after 20 years my body still hates it and whenever I am off work I revert to my natural time to sleep.
When I had a subscription to Cmputer Gaming World and got their demo discs they would often have wallpapers on them. Bad thing is they took an entire widescreen type box on top and bottom to put Computer Gaming World in bold letters. Just looked aweful, but a few minutes with GIMP took care of that. I have also skipped using many an otherwise cool looking wallpaper due to a big, ugly, out of place looking logo on it.
FarCry2 Installs and works. It benchmarks lower than on my Xp setup on the same PC in DX9 mode, but gets better FPS in DX10. Thing is, it still is a little choppier than on the same rig on XP in game. All settings Ultra High 8xAA though ;)
[quote]I have a similar, but different problem. I wanted to install 7 as a dual boot with Vista onto a second drive already on my system. But when I try, 7 don't see that drive. It sees my C drive and my G drive (external) but not my F drive, internal.[/quote] Have you tried going into your disk management and checking if it shows up there? Win 7 seems to have an issue with assigning drive letters after the first two or three drives. After going into DM and assigning it a letter I cou
[quote]I d/load at 25k max[/quote] Wow! And I thought I was getting shafted only getting around 260 out of their servers. @pm1: Thanks for that tip, was wondering why I could only get one partition of one drive to show up right :) .
You need more RAM and I'd say a Gfx card update should be in your near future as well. The larger all abundant maps can use almost all of the 2GB of RAM alotted to 32bit programs, so the game is dipping into the swap file probably causing some of the slowdown. The zoomed in slowdown is being exxagerated by the dated Gfx card also I believe. Short of an upgrade, you'll just need to keep turning down options. Some of the biggies are planet surface variety, specular intensity, and for me(before
Another way to rush buy and save a few BCs is to buy a blank cargo hull(492bc) and upgrade it to a colonizer. Depending on what you have on the colony ship the cost can vary, but usually you can figure on saving about 300bc over rush buying the colony ship itself. You just have to be able to weather the turn delay for the upgrade.
[quote]SCC isn't a GA, just SP.[/quote] Gahh GA, SP, anything that gives me the little event popup is fair game ;) . [quote]I am probably the only player on earth who hasn't ever built the eyes of the universe. There just always seem to be higher research priorities in my games[/quote] It's one of those things i really enjoy having , but I don't usually research it till I can go through the sensor techs(well II -IV, 1 is done early) basically in o
Damn, and I was going to say the eyes. The preTA MCC is huge for my DA and DL games. For TA that's a toughie and the eye's may pull back into the lead, slightly above the SCC :) .
[quote]Three times I've been completely incapable of figuring out how to do anything. The demo is useless because it doesn't come with a tutorial, and that game needed it![/quote] I've done the same thing myself, just ended up watching the pretty explosions as I lost [e digicons]:grin:[/e] .
I played Civ4 for about month a couple of years ago. I bought GC2 and haven't played Civ 4 more than an hour or two since. Still playing GC2(and Expansions) over two years later :) .
[quote]Says the guy with a PM2008 bobblehead as avatar. [/quote] Good one That got a laugh out of me :) Really I shouldn't of picked on the graphics when it is so far away and sure to look a lot different in time. I just never really got into HOMM and after SDs GC2 got me hooked on scifi TBSs, I look forward to seeing where the GalCiv series goes from here. I don't wanna go back to the midevil type game with swords and horses ;) . Of course this is all just one persons opinion
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@Pndrev I remember that happening to me as well at one point. I'm not sure if the forums changed or my browser. I did do a reinstall of everything recently, so I may have something different now. I agree there was supposed to be some meta love, but then again there was also originally supposed to be more of a 2.0 backport to DA and some for DL as well. Can't complain much about free updates but this is the second time I have seen things I have been looking forward to dropped(Epic Gene
[quote]Another thing that was amusing was this: They had satellite, and HD costs extra, and they didn't pay the extra so the satellite was all SD. But over the airwaves, it's all advertising paid, and many stations switched to HD, so they were getting a far better picture with the antenna than with the satellite!! That was so ironic. [/quote] It took awhile for people to start realizing if your recieving HD content through a cable box or satellite reciever the signal is compresse
Wish they were working on GC3 [e digicons]:')[/e] . Now they have me worried, because they said the Elemental engine will be powering GC3. God, I hope they lose the cartoony 16bit looking Graphics before then.
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[quote]For example the difficulty medal, that currently shows up only as a black box[/quote] What browser are you on? I am seeing everyone's difficulty medals fine. Just to make sure we're talking about the same one, the one that looks like a pie that pieces light up for each level. mmmm Pie! :) I'm using FF3 btw.
[quote]Can anyone else verify this. I'm not sure if this was the case. They were very powerfull and I had a difficult time catching up evern with cheats? [/quote] Since I was the one who said it I'll check it out, though it will have to be tonight before I get a chance. I don't have high esp. level in my game yet with the Ais to look at the planet directly without spys. I am starting to wonder if they changed something with the 2.0 update on DA, beca
[quote]Using an agent, I could see that the social/military/research was through the roof and in three digits in the 2 AIs capital planets without any major bonuses being around. [/quote] When looking at AI planets in this way, IIRC you are seeing the maximum potential output of the three categories not what is actually being prodiced based on their current slider settings. That's why when you take over with a normal split spending setup your output shows much less.