| 6 JUL 2011 at 2:31am |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | @ Trav to force your system to "read" only 2 Gigs RAM upon booting
I read that you can set a maximum memory limit using Msconfig in Win7, under the Advanced Options tab. Was that what you were trying that didn't work so well? Even with 8gb installed you should be able to limit the system on reboot by setting it to max 2000 [2gb].
And don't you just love Starforce?
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| 6 JUL 2011 at 2:56am |
XerNosamSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By placeholder (4 JUL 2011 2:35pm)
So.. now I'm back on 8 Gigs and started ME2.
Hell. Yes.
I LOVED ME2 so please share your thoughts on it.
I'm moving along in The Witcher 2 - I could wander around for days admiring the view... the details in the environments is simply amazing. I'm also enjoying the combat quite a bit more, incorporating more magic into my build this time than the straight swordsman I created in the first one.
I especially like the infusion of color the devs threw into this game - while it contrasts to the bland browns, they managed to make it look natural, and the end result is very impressive.
Spoiler AlertThe kayran was a pain in the ass!
Playing: Skyrim: Dragonborn/Dawnguard; Torchlight 2; To The Moon; Far Cry 3
Finished: HomeFront; Far Cry 3; Dishonored
Always Playing: Half Life 2
Looking Forward To: BioShock: Infinite
Reading: BioShock: Rapture; SW: Revan
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| 6 JUL 2011 at 7:39am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Far Cry is amazing Halycon, the levels are stunning and the action gripping, amazing achievement...and the add ons by the community are even better, esp Matto 4, equal or better than the original game. And all of the content is available in a construction set that you can make just about anything with. One of the most amazing games made yet...and with most modern systems you can set the detail on ultra high and have an amazing experience.
I am finally making progress in Vampire the Masquerade Redemption and it is truly fantastic, the detail and atmosphere in the levels and the complexity of the many quests is nothing short of masterful...i can see why it has taken years for the dedicated fan community to work out all the bugs and make it run now pretty much perfectly..and they keep getting out better and better patches...the current patch is many hundreds of MB and it is worth them all.
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| 8 JUL 2011 at 6:43pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I just played through the first level in MechWarrior 3, with no problems what so ever. Tutorial also worked. Hopefully there won't be any problems down the road. I do think that the controls worked better in MechWarrior 4, with the ones in MW3 being slightly awkward.
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| 8 JUL 2011 at 6:51pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | I needed a bit of a break from the ME universe, so indulged myself in Losing The Game, and now a bit of HOMM5. I never managed to finish the campaign of HOMM 5 - it started feeling very difficult to me when you play the Spoiler Alertdemon side.
Sadly I'll have to start again from scratch since I lost all my old gamesaves.
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 8 JUL 2011 at 11:08pm |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | Playing Alice: Madness Returns. I like to play a platformer now and then, and there aren't many new ones so I grabbed the chance. It's good fun so far and LONG, been playing for hours and the game tells me I'm only 4% through.
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| 8 JUL 2011 at 11:15pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | How well does it hold up to the original? I thought the first Alice game was one of the better 3d platformers, even though it had its share of flaws (then again, I'm not a big 3d platformer fan to begin with, I think the genre should have never left the second dimension )
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| 9 JUL 2011 at 12:31am |
walshSorcerer Apprentice
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Status : Offline | I hadn't played the original before, but since it came with Alice 2 I gave it a short try and it seems very similar. I'll play it properly once I've finished Madness.
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| 9 JUL 2011 at 12:53am |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Are you using a joystick?
In MW3 a joystick made it so much easier. Using the throttle to control movement speed/froward and back and then using the twist to control the torso and movement of the stick for the aiming.
MW3 is also IMO the one that really made your Mech feel "epic/large" compared to most of the others.
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| 9 JUL 2011 at 10:16am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | No, sadly not. I don't own one, and as I rarely play simulators, it feels hard to justify the cost of a decent one (and a poor joystick will usually only make the game more frustrating).
I thought a few places in MechWarrior 4: Mercenaries gave you the feeling of being one of the titans of the battlefield, where you fight in the middle of a small town, with plenty of realistically sized buildings, people milling about, and small vehicles trying to stop your advance.
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| 9 JUL 2011 at 6:25pm |
StilerJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Yeah, there's not any other games that really give you mech combat with that sense of scale.
I'm REALLY hoping they get that new Mechwarrior 5 game off the ground, sadly doesn't look like they will.
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 11:44am |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | I wonder if they ever did resolve the legal issues, or if Harmony Gold still causes trouble. The entire legal case is incredibly complicated, in particular as Harmony gold technically speaking never had the rights to make these legal threats, yet managed to win a court case in the 80s regarding this very thing.
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 1:33pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Personally I always found the controls of MechWarrior 4 highly awkward, whereas the floating reticule of MechWarrior 3 made things rather pleasant and negated a lot of need for torso twist (though it did of course come in handy on many occasions!), not to mention a joystick or much fine movement.
I've not been able to get MechWarrior 3 to run acceptably on my hardware, though. Do you gentlemen have any secrets to share?
You can't kill someone in a studio.
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 1:43pm |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Playing Far Cry now and again. It is, for me, extremely difficult. Gorgeous but hard hard hard. It's a game where you have to keep replaying each level until you memorize the terrain and the baddies.
That is not ultimately rewarding for me, although many games are built on that kind of gameplay. Plus, I stink.
After doing some reading, I discovered some cheats, namely God Mode. So, why not see what this game is like if I was good at it? This God Mode cheat keeps track of how many times you WOULD have been killed. Kind of fun. On one level I ran it up to 154, although I wasn't attempting too much stealth.
The cheat was even less rewarding than regular gameplay, so I abandoned it. Now I play until I get really frustrated, then quit and rest a day or two before going back.
It is a great looking game, though, even though it is somewhat cartoony. Lots of fun driving jeeps, trucks, planes and boats. The multiplayer must be literally chaos.
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 1:56pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Download D3dwindower http://www.gamefront.com/files/13838785/D3DWindower-English/
Set mech3.exe to win98 compatible
Start D3dwindower and link it to Mech3.exe
Highlight Mech3 and enter settings. Make sure that things look like this under Window mode:
[IMG]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/3672/d3db.jpg[/IMG]
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 2:19pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Couldn't find my HOMM 5 saves, and upon starting the campaign up from scratch, I decided that I couldn't stomach going through that first map again, so, since I really had a HOMM/strategy itch, and Heroes of Annhilated Empires gave me so much trouble to get running, I'm now stuck on an extremely fun HOMM 4 skirmish map. 8-)
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 2:23pm |
TravellerGuild Master
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By mgonneau (6 JUL 2011 2:30am)
@ Trav to force your system to "read" only 2 Gigs RAM upon booting
I read that you can set a maximum memory limit using Msconfig in Win7, under the Advanced Options tab. Was that what you were trying that didn't work so well? Even with 8gb installed you should be able to limit the system on reboot by setting it to max 2000 [2gb].
And don't you just love Starforce?
Yes, that's what I was forced to do. It does work, and the game then works (but only in addition to a no-CD patch because of the Starforce).
However, my entire system then works on only 2 Gigs, and since this is the same PC that I also do all my other stuff on, having only 2 Gigs to work with while running on Win 7 64-bit is so frustrating that I decided to shelve HOAE for the December holidays. (Uh- well, that is, if I'm not too busy playing Skyrim, which I most probably will be... )
* * * Just call me Trav. * * *
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.” - Robert Bloch
"They are not reciprocally sublated--the one does not sublate the other externally--but each sublates itself in itself and is in its own self the opposite of itself" (Hegel, from The Doctrine of Being)..."
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 2:25pm |
markornikovJourneyman
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Status : Offline | Dead Space: the first half hour i was frustrated with:
a) the fact that you can't map movement to the directional keys
b) the over the shoulder 3d person view is too close, you character blocks half the screen
c) you can only save at certain points
But i forced myself to continue, and now i'm used to it and even starting to really like it. The game is beautiful and the horror is nicely done.
edit: when you die (which is always spectacular and gory ), you restart immediately before you die, so the save thing is not a big issue
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 2:40pm |
JKingSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Originally Posted By Fnord (10 JUL 2011 1:55pm)
Download D3dwindower http://www.gamefront.com/files/13838785/D3DWindower-English/
Set mech3.exe to win98 compatible
Start D3dwindower and link it to Mech3.exe
Highlight Mech3 and enter settings. Make sure that things look like this under Window mode:
[IMG]http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/3672/d3db.jpg[/IMG]
I'll try this when I have some time. Thanks! 8-)
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 3:03pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | No problem. I could not get the game to run properly using this method and at the same time use the higher resolution fix (which is supposed to fix a potential crash bug that the game has).
Anyway, I just got to the part in Divinity 2 where you get the ability to turn into a dragon at will, and you know what, it is incredibly fun to fly around as a dragon. The limited sneak preview that you get early on in the game has nothing on the freedom you feel as you soar across the landscape as a majestic beast. The game really opens up when you get your battle tower. Not only do you get the ability to turn into a dragon, but you also get several things to do in your tower. You have a few people under you, a necromancer, an enchanter, an alchemist and a trainer, plus 3 workers who you can send out to gather resources. The enchanter & trainer can equip your workers, for a price, in order to increase their chances of success. I'm really impressed by this game right now.
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| 10 JUL 2011 at 3:09pm |
tincup2Journeyman
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Status : Offline | @ Trav, However, my entire system then works on only 2 Gigs,
Reset msconfig and reboot after you are done playing and you'll be back to normal ram. Annoying but if that's all you need to do not so bad if you really like the game.
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| 12 JUL 2011 at 8:17pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Things are back up! Anyway, I felt the sudden urge to fly a spaceship, so I installed X2: The threat, after standing with Tachyon & X Superbox in my hand.
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| 13 JUL 2011 at 10:06pm |
FnordSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Argh, I think the X-series does not love me (I want to love it though). Anyway, I made some bad choices, and have basically managed to spend too much money on goods that are hard to trade. I decided to switch to Terran conflic instead, as it is supposed to be the easiest to get into, and the games are not about their coherent story anyway (X2 is supposed to have the strongest story, so I'll make sure to play it once I feel comfortable with the series).
Terran conflict is by the way pure eyecandy.
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| 13 JUL 2011 at 11:30pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | X2 the Threat has the best stations, you can actually enter them, and it has other good qualities, among the dedicated fans, it is considered the best of the games...even tho the newest are really pretty.
one thing that is fun in the newer ones is to send boarding parties..you get to see the tiny little space marines in action lol
if you search the back threads i posted about X2, you will see some links to some hidden stashes of very cool add ons for it, saved from older days by a few remaining dedicated fans including a fix for that situattion you got into....
enjoy, they are cool games.
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