Gaming => Gaming Community => Topic started by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2014, 02:28 AM
Title: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2014, 02:28 AM
PC stuff!!
Welcome!
Talk all things PC Also feel free to make your own threads about PC. Share your builds, your dreams, your games.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2014, 02:29 AM
Finally have a respectable PC myself. :)
Playing Tomb Raider at the moment. Looks amazing and plays well despite the fact that I'm still using integrated graphics. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 02:40 AM
I need to finish Wolf Among Us. Only episode 4 and 5 left. Love it so far. Not sure why I haven't finished it yet. Trying to savor it, I guess.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2014, 07:01 AM
I have civ 5, minecraft, the forest, antichamber, and kerbal space program.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 11:38 AM
I have over 170 steam games.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jul 31, 2014, 01:33 PM
hmm I don't have any PC games :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 01:39 PM
I also have quite a few on Origin, quite a few boxed PC games and quite a few DRM free. Way over 200 in total
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Jul 31, 2014, 01:43 PM
hmm I have $20 code for origin / ea that I never used, or so... and I have Shadowrunner? or something like that ... its not installed on my pc as when I installed it on my old PC windows live just about killed the internet for some reason.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 02:01 PM
hmm I have $20 code for origin / ea that I never used, or so... and I have Shadowrunner? or something like that ... its not installed on my pc as when I installed it on my old PC windows live just about killed the internet for some reason.
Windows Live is no more so you're in luck
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: ethomaz on Jul 31, 2014, 02:04 PM
The Master Race :D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2014, 09:34 PM
I have yet to spend a penny and yet I have 3 steam games (one of them was a gift, kind of 2), and 4 games on Origin. :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 31, 2014, 10:15 PM
I am stunned by how good Tomb Raider looks. I only played on a SDTV, so my higher resolution monitor makes a huge difference. :)
Yeah it looks very good on PC. Runs great too
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Aug 07, 2014, 03:27 AM
just downloaded the demo for starcraft 2... :P starcraft was my favorite PC game along side doom and diablo
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 10, 2014, 03:32 PM
There's one thing I hate about PC gaming.
It's the fact that it is a PC.
On consoles I really just want to play games and if I want to look something up or whatever, I can just walk a few feet and go on my computer or just pick up my tablet. On PC, I really want to play games, but its like there's so much distraction that I don't.
It makes no sense, I know. I hardly ever do.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 10, 2014, 03:33 PM
On consoles I really just want to play games and if I want to look something up or whatever, I can just walk a few feet and go on my computer or just pick up my tablet. On PC, I really want to play games, but its like there's so much distraction that I don't.
It makes no sense, I know. I hardly ever do.
I know what you mean. Always get distracted on the internet and stuffs
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 16, 2014, 01:50 AM
Got The Elder Scrolls Anthology.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 16, 2014, 02:05 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 16, 2014, 01:55 PM
@the-Pi-guy and @Pezus I have that same problem. I have a bunch of Steam games I haven't even downloaded. I'll go to my computer and be all like "I should probably play something" then I come here and post instead.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on Aug 16, 2014, 01:59 PM
@the-Pi-guy and @Pezus I have that same problem. I have a bunch of Steam games I haven't even downloaded. I'll go to my computer and be all like "I should probably play something" then I come here and post instead.
@the-Pi-guy and @Pezus I have that same problem. I have a bunch of Steam games I haven't even downloaded. I'll go to my computer and be all like "I should probably play something" then I come here and post instead.
lol the same thing happens to me every fudgy day ;D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 18, 2014, 07:00 PM
Skyrim is awesomely playable. :) Just for the heck of it, I got FRAPS. Getting 30-35 FPS on integrated. Then I tried Age of Empires II to see a slaughtering. 3-10 FPS in the menu. ;) And 1000 FPS in game. Fun times. :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Silverf0x on Aug 21, 2014, 12:15 PM
I have ~100 games on Steam and I can confess to not spending much time with most of them. Then there are some game I've played for hundreds of hours...
Garry's Mod - 583 hours (I mostly played the Jailbreak game mode. It's unique and rewards both patience and quick thinking.) Skyrim - 349 hours (Glorious Argonian master race.) The Sims 3 - 305 hours (I don't even know how or why I played so much of it) Civilization V - 250 hours (Expansions make this the best game in the series, I say.) Europa Universalis IV - 228 hours (Makes Civilization look like a casual game. It'll probably pass Civ in the next few months.) Terraria - 110 hours (Good times on multiplayer. Not so good times otherwise.)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 21, 2014, 12:57 PM
Ah, the Sims. We all wonder where the time went
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 21, 2014, 02:20 PM
Higher resolution makes a world of difference, even with lower quality assets (to an extent).
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 21, 2014, 04:20 PM
There's no way I could even download it by the end of the weekend...
Aw, I remember when I had bad internet.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 22, 2014, 05:15 PM
Yeah I'm not downloading. Already hit the bandwidth cap. Oh but I got Plants vs. Zombies: GW. It's F2P for 72 hours, and I think it only starts counting when you start playing
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 22, 2014, 05:16 PM
Oh, TF is the same really. 48 hours free beginning when you start playing, I believe. So add it to your collection even if you don't download yet!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 22, 2014, 05:17 PM
Origin won't go online!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 22, 2014, 05:18 PM
Btw, you can get Titanfall, PvZ: GW, Kingdoms of Amalur all with similar deals! Pretty cool. Don't need to start playing until you're ready.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 22, 2014, 05:21 PM
There's one thing I like about Origin (and that's it). The "on the house deal."
Speaking of Origin.
I dont have a single game on Origin that I actually purchased. I have 16 games on Origin - some were part of humble bundle, some were part of the On the house deal and some were just extra redeemable steam keys.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Aug 29, 2014, 10:15 AM
Been playing some EU4 these past few days. Great game!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 29, 2014, 05:33 PM
I dont have a single game on Origin that I actually purchased. I have 16 games on Origin - some were part of humble bundle, some were part of the On the house deal and some were just extra redeemable steam keys.
I think I have 7.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 29, 2014, 06:23 PM
I have like 4 or 5 Origin accounts. The main one has probably around 10 games if I include the on the house stuff, the others 1-2
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 29, 2014, 06:24 PM
anyone here use multiple video cards in there pc build?
"Video cards," my computer doesn't even have 1. Though I did set it up so that I could SLI down the road if I wanted. I am thinking SLI GTX 770.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Sep 11, 2014, 02:03 AM
When I was doing some promotions at a microcenter in my area a lot of customers were talking about the boost you get from utilizing 2 video cards in one pc and I think bridging them together
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 11, 2014, 02:05 AM
When I was doing some promotions at a microcenter in my area a lot of customers were talking about the boost you get from utilizing 2 video cards in one pc and I think bridging them together
Do you have any experience with SLI/CrossFire?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 11, 2014, 02:07 AM
You get like 1.8x the power of just one card.
The newer the card, the closer it is to 2x.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Sep 11, 2014, 01:06 PM
no... when I built my pc (almost 2 years ago I think) I just based it around my cpu (amd athelonx3) and made sure I got a motherboard that would allow me to use 16gb of ddr3 ram... I reused some parts like tower, psu, cd drive....
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 11, 2014, 01:19 PM
no... when I built my pc (almost 2 years ago I think) I just based it around my cpu (amd athelonx3) and made sure I got a motherboard that would allow me to use 16gb of ddr3 ram... I reused some parts like tower, psu, cd drive....
Me either, but I read up on it quite a bit while building my newest computer. Was making sure that my motherboard and PSU would support it. Not sure if I will SLI, but the option is there if I do. :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Sep 11, 2014, 01:26 PM
yeah when I rebuilt mine I just wanted to replace my ram and cpu on current build... but soon found out that my motherboard didn't support either of the items I was wanting LOL it was my first (and only) time building a PC from scratch, went better than I was expecting tho!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 11, 2014, 01:34 PM
yeah when I rebuilt mine I just wanted to replace my ram and cpu on current build... but soon found out that my motherboard didn't support either of the items I was wanting LOL it was my first (and only) time building a PC from scratch, went better than I was expecting tho!
I learned quite a bit building from scratch. Like that not all motherboards fit in all cases, there are ATX, BTX, etc. So I decided to get a new case.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Shinobi-san on Sep 11, 2014, 07:09 PM
Sands of Time is an amazing game. Loved it back in the day on my PS2, and I recently replayed it on my PC as well.
I wish I had gotten the Prince of Persia collection when it was available during Christmas sale 2012 on Steam :(.
Now the series is only separated purchase T.T.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Sep 21, 2014, 12:40 AM
I've completed only one...AC1.
Surprisingly, it was my most hated game (possibly most hated game EVER) and yet it was the only AC game I completed. I tried AC2/3/Black Flag and either Revelations or Brotherhood I don't remember which one exactly.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Sep 21, 2014, 01:28 AM
Surprisingly, it was my most hated game (possibly most hated game EVER) and yet it was the only AC game I completed. I tried AC2/3/Black Flag and either Revelations or Brotherhood I don't remember which one exactly.
AC1 was.....OKish but I guess I would of been more impressed if I didnt play it in low settings (due to the fact that I didnt have a good GFX card when I first played it) - AC2 was fantastic! I'm playing AC Brotherhood now and loving it!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Sep 21, 2014, 01:34 AM
AC1 was.....OKish but I guess I would of been more impressed if I didnt play it in low settings (due to the fact that I didnt have a good GFX card when I first played it) - AC2 was fantastic! I'm playing AC Brotherhood now and loving it!
It was too repetitive. The graphics part didn't bother me at all, it's just the entire game was go to a city, do some of the same boring mission to reveal your target in the city and go kill him. Rinse and repeat for literally the entire game. I mean I understand it's an "Assassin" game and you're supposed to kill people, but at least they should have had some better side missions or something so the game wouldn't feel so repetitive.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Sep 21, 2014, 01:56 AM
It was too repetitive. The graphics part didn't bother me at all, it's just the entire game was go to a city, do some of the same boring mission to reveal your target in the city and go kill him. Rinse and repeat for literally the entire game. I mean I understand it's an "Assassin" game and you're supposed to kill people, but at least they should have had some better side missions or something so the game wouldn't feel so repetitive.
I didnt like the side missions that much, that involved beating up people to save them or to get info, sneaking up on people to obtain information or to steal a item, going through puzzle dungeons just to get some treasure, etc. Assassinating those who are part of the templars was fun :O lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 30, 2014, 09:40 PM
I agree - it shouldnt be Game of the Year - it should be Story of the Year though :P
Btw I rated it 89 out of 100!
8/10 for me. Story was pretty good but the game itself was very boring to play. I love a good story in my single player games but I also want the game to be fun to play because to be honest that is what pushes me to continue playing a game to the finish. If a games not fun I just won't bother.
Far Cry 3 for instance had a meh story, but god dayum was it fun to play...Loved that game. Off topic but I was actually thinking about picking up a PS4 if they have a Far Cry 4 bundle here in Canada.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 01, 2014, 04:49 AM
As for Halloween like - for me it is and more than enough reason to play it around this time of the year!
Basil I finished Darksiders 2, there's nothing Halloween about it. It's very bland because the world's are all tube like. You just get funneled from one area to another.
This is what 90% of the game looks like: (http://vb.bdr1.net/image/14/05/images_ix61.jpg)
And this is one of the more colourful areas. If you want Halloween, then look no further than this: (http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/8/87790/2372459-box_medievil.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Oct 02, 2014, 10:16 AM
Basil I finished Darksiders 2, there's nothing Halloween about it. It's very bland because the world's are all tube like. You just get funneled from one area to another.
This is what 90% of the game looks like:
And this is one of the more colourful areas. If you want Halloween, then look no further than this:
So are you telling me I should not play Darksiders 2 at all? If so you should know my answer to that...
Its still Halloween themed for me :o - I dont care about the environment design of the game - I'm talking in terms of the theme of the game, cast, etc.
(I already played Medieval on PSP - didnt like it as much.)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 02, 2014, 05:49 PM
So are you telling me I should not play Darksiders 2 at all? If so you should know my answer to that...
Its still Halloween themed for me :o - I dont care about the environment design of the game - I'm talking in terms of the theme of the game, cast, etc.
(I already played Medieval on PSP - didnt like it as much.)
Honestly Darksiders 2 is a pretty bad game. Though, I'm not sure how you equate giant dwarves with Halloween...
About Medievil: (http://gtfo.ca/picard_gtfo.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Oct 03, 2014, 10:57 AM
Added to my collection, even though I've played it already lulz
Good man. 8)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 08, 2014, 11:51 PM
Starting to play some Battlefield 3 on PC again after a long break from that game. It's so good in comparison to the shitfest that is BF4.
Also thanks for the heads up on Dragon Age. I got BF3 for free through Origin too and I have it on PS Plus on PS3. I must have put over 100 hours on both the PC and PS3 version. 60 Hours on PC 40 on PS3.
PC MASTER RACE FOR BATTLEFIELD 3
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: BasilZero on Oct 09, 2014, 02:51 AM
I got Dragon Age Origins on Origin.
But I plan to get it on Steam for the Ultimate Edition simply cause I'm sure I can get it for cheaper on Steam with the Ult edition than on Origin with the DLC/expansion pack by itself.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 09, 2014, 04:05 AM
I loved Dragon Age. Was one of the first rpg games I ever played. Its really left a lasting impression on me, especially on how I feel other fantasy rpg's should feel.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: BasilZero on Oct 11, 2014, 02:32 AM
Loving Darksiders 2 *_*!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 11, 2014, 05:48 PM
So what do you guys think? Will my 560 Ti handle Dragon Age 3 at max settings running at 720p?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: BasilZero on Oct 11, 2014, 06:57 PM
So what do you guys think? Will my 560 Ti handle Dragon Age 3 at max settings running at 720p?
No idea - use this - it is what I use to decide whether a game is playable at high/max settings on my PC: http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=1883&game=Dragon%20Age%203:%20Inquisition
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 11, 2014, 07:04 PM
Thankfully I built my own Bad-dog computer, so I can handle everything gaming!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 11, 2014, 07:47 PM
No idea - use this - it is what I use to decide whether a game is playable at high/max settings on my PC: http://www.game-debate.com/games/index.php?g_id=1883&game=Dragon%20Age%203:%20Inquisition
I saw that, but the specs aren't official, just hearsay.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 11, 2014, 07:56 PM
well this sucks dog, i been playing AC4 for like 3 hours, i quite the game to go get something to eat, started up the game again and then my save isnt there.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 11, 2014, 08:05 PM
well this sucks dog, i been playing AC4 for like 3 hours, i quite the game to go get something to eat, started up the game again and then my save isnt there.
Ouch.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: BananaKing on Oct 11, 2014, 08:06 PM
well this sucks dog, i been playing AC4 for like 3 hours, i quite the game to go get something to eat, started up the game again and then my save isnt there.
Wat you have it on PC o.O?
Steamfriend plx.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: Xevross on Oct 11, 2014, 08:38 PM
Transistor was fantastic. I'd recommend it to everyone
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Dragon Age: ORIGINs free on
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 12, 2014, 01:27 AM
Now you can get XCOM: Enemy Unknown for the low price of FREE! Amazing game!
Awesome! Already started downloading it!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 15, 2014, 11:58 PM
26 hours later, it's done downloading!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: NeverDies on Oct 16, 2014, 12:25 AM
I remember when Legend played it, he kept turning off the game whenever a teammate died. He made it through the whole game with no deaths, except for the scripted one at the very beginning of the game.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: Legend on Oct 16, 2014, 12:27 AM
I remember when Legend played it, he kept turning off the game whenever a teammate died. He made it through the whole game with no deaths, except for the scripted one at the very beginning of the game.
I grew a connection with my squad. Nothing could break that bond.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 16, 2014, 12:28 AM
I remember when Legend played it, he kept turning off the game whenever a teammate died. He made it through the whole game with no deaths, except for the scripted one at the very beginning of the game.
Oddly enough, I've been playing Mario Kart Wii on my PC using my dualshock 3 controller. :D I didn't say that. ;)
I played luigi's mansion with the ds3 ;)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 17, 2014, 04:57 PM
Hey guys Payday: The Heist is available for free (Forever) on Steam for the next 24 hours or so! Download it and maybe we could play a couple of games together. I'll be trying it tonight after work.
My Steam ID is Riderz1337 (Surprise!!)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Oct 17, 2014, 05:27 PM
Says $1.49 for me :O
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: Riderz1337 on Oct 17, 2014, 05:33 PM
Bioshock collection available for 12$ on Steam. All 3 games.
I would of gotten it but I bought Bioshock 1 + 2 collection off of Amazon for $5 last year :P.
Bioshock Infinite is $7.99 or somethin right? The season pass though....I think I'll wait a bit more for the price to go down - besides I still need to play bioshock 2 :P.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 29, 2014, 05:06 AM
I would of gotten it but I bought Bioshock 1 + 2 collection off of Amazon for $5 last year :P.
Bioshock Infinite is $7.99 or somethin right? The season pass though....I think I'll wait a bit more for the price to go down - besides I still need to play bioshock 2 :P.
Yeah, 7.99 I believe. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 01, 2014, 02:24 AM
I am hoping for Elder Scrolls Anthology to go on sale in Amazon. Friend bought it for $10 last year :(.
Anyways, played Evolve - recorded a bit too - uploading vid zzzzz
Done!
Looks pretty cool. Loved how it was stuck at the end, haha.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 02, 2014, 01:58 PM
Titanfall already going for $10 on PC (Amazon)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 03, 2014, 12:03 AM
Just bought Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
It only started being $4.99 recently from what I've been told and its a hidden RPG gem that is exclusive to PC :o.
Will get to it.....sometime in the future XD.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - XCOM: Enemy Unknown free for voters
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 02:14 AM
This week has been nuts!!!!
Bought -Bioshock 5$ -Bioshock 2 5$ -Bioshock Infinite 7.50$ -The Witcher -2$ -The Witcher 2 - 6.50$ -Fallout: New Vegas - 6.50$? -Fallout 3 - 6.50$ -GTX 970 - 380$ which comes with either The Crew, Far Cry 4, AC Unity Which to get?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 05, 2014, 02:55 AM
Far Cry 4
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 03:00 AM
It only started being $4.99 recently from what I've been told and its a hidden RPG gem that is exclusive to PC :o.
Will get to it.....sometime in the future XD.
I tried to play through it, I couldn't get past 10 minutes of the game.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 03:46 PM
I'm still hyped to the bone. :D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 05, 2014, 04:45 PM
Guys, I am willing to share my Steam library of 180+ games if anyone wants it (through Family Sharing). The person has to be trustworthy though and not a cheater/hacker
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 04:50 PM
Guys, I am willing to share my Steam library of 180+ games if anyone wants it (through Family Sharing). The person has to be trustworthy though and not a cheater/hacker
Too late! You've been hacked.
Okay not really. :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 05, 2014, 04:51 PM
So nobody wants it? Then I am out!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 04:52 PM
Shucks. :( I want it, but at the same time I want to build my own.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 05, 2014, 04:56 PM
Guys, I am willing to share my Steam library of 180+ games if anyone wants it (through Family Sharing). The person has to be trustworthy though and not a cheater/hacker
What is family sharing? I've heard of it on steam but never knew what it did. Someone can just play your entire game library? No strings attached?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 05, 2014, 05:04 PM
What is family sharing? I've heard of it on steam but never knew what it did. Someone can just play your entire game library? No strings attached?
Indeed. You can download almost any of my games to your PC as long as I authorize your PC (which can be done remotely if I just give you a temporary password to access my account on your PC). The only "catch" is that only one person can play a game in my library at the same time. It's not really a catch in my case though since I don't play very often.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 05, 2014, 05:04 PM
And you have your own saves, achievements etc.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 05, 2014, 05:06 PM
That's cool.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 07:57 PM
I just got UPS TRACKING INFORMATION!!! THE HYPE IS REAL. IT'S SUFFOCATING.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 05, 2014, 08:14 PM
I would ask except I already own a third of the games you have + more that you dont have :O - and I wanna build my own collection as well and my own hours n_n.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Shinobi-san on Nov 05, 2014, 09:18 PM
Anyone play league of legends here? I recently started :)
Im gonna quit dota 2 since the fudgy russians are taking over the South African servers WHAT THE FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKk!!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 05, 2014, 09:27 PM
I would ask except I already own a third of the games you have + more that you dont have :O - and I wanna build my own collection as well and my own hours n_n.
It all becomes a part of your collection and only the games you don't already own. Even just two thirds of my games is still 120 games lol... Your own hours??
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 05, 2014, 10:56 PM
Disney Infinity 2.0 is free for PC?! Downloading
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 05, 2014, 11:09 PM
It all becomes a part of your collection and only the games you don't already own. Even just two thirds of my games is still 120 games lol... Your own hours??
But thats temporary and not permanent though. Like you can always revoke status of having those games whenever you want, I want my own games D;
(I like seeing the number of hours I played from a game on my own account :P - addicted to the number of hours on Steam and 3DS xD)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 05, 2014, 11:25 PM
Also the catch with steam is that the person sharing cannot be on steam at all.
Essentially it's just that person logging in to steam on your computer, except made easier.
That's not true. Like I said above I was playing a game from my friend's library and he was playing one of mine at the same time. And it was all through our own accounts.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 06, 2014, 11:56 PM
Why don't you want this now? I've explained the downsides (there are hardly any??)
Pff
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When I authorize a device to lend my library to others, do I limit my own ability to access and play my games? As the account holder, you may always access and play your games at any time. If you decide to start playing when another user is already playing one of your games, he/she will be given a few minutes to either purchase the game or quit playing.
If you start playing the same game he is playing (which makes sense so he can't hijack a game of yours)...not any game. Trust me, I've tested this myself.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 07, 2014, 12:10 AM
Lol yeah right. Like I said, it only kicks you out if you try to access the same game at the same time.
In any case, even if you were right it wouldn't have much impact on someone who'd get to play my games since I don't play games on Steam very often (like once a week, sometimes less although it depends on if I get hooked on a game).
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 07, 2014, 12:13 AM
K who wants to family share I have Left 4 Dead 2 and Payday The Heist (http://cdn.in-depthoutdoors.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Kappa.gif)
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Post by: Legend on Nov 07, 2014, 12:21 AM
The main symbol/emote of Twitch.tv. It represents sarcasm, irony, puns, jokes, and trolls alike. Usually used at the end of an ironic or sarcastic sentence.
It's called Kappa. If you type "Kappa" on Twitch chat you get that image. Has to be capital K
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 07, 2014, 02:30 AM
Just found a game called Farming Simulator on Steam. And It's managed to do the impossible. It made me think a farming simulator looked fun.
Yeah, that game is pretty popular. We have Farming Simulator: Titanium Edition in the store. FS: 15 came out a while ago. On the day it did, we had a customer ask if we had it, then we later got a phone call asking if we had it.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 07, 2014, 02:46 AM
So why is Farming Simulator so popular D;?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 07, 2014, 02:50 AM
It's not really. As Farmville proved, we all secretly want to be farmers.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 07, 2014, 02:53 AM
"Players are able to farm, breed livestock, grow crops and sell all assets created from farming. The game has sold millions of copies,[3] and is considered the most widely played realistic farming simulation game."
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 07, 2014, 02:55 AM
The Witcher - steam sale 2$ The Witcher 2 - SS 4$ Fallout 3 GOTY - SS 6.79$ Fallout New Vegas - SS 6.79$ Bioshock - Steam-ish Sale 5$ Bioshock 2 -Steam-ish sale 5$ Bioshock Infinite - Steam-ish sale 7.50$ Far Cry 3 - sale because of my Far Cry 4 voucher 10$
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 07, 2014, 04:03 AM
The Witcher - steam sale 2$ The Witcher 2 - SS 4$ Fallout 3 GOTY - SS 6.79$ Fallout New Vegas - SS 6.79$ Bioshock - Steam-ish Sale 5$ Bioshock 2 -Steam-ish sale 5$ Bioshock Infinite - Steam-ish sale 7.50$ Far Cry 3 - sale because of my Far Cry 4 voucher 10$
No I mean why you download all of them at the same time o.O.
I usually download a game - play/finish it then back it up game and save file to my external HDD - delete the game on PC but keep the save file - rinse and repeat with another game ;o.
Although I do keep a few games such as Left 4 Dead 2, CSGO, etc.
Those are some great games! Play bioshock 1 - its good ;)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 07, 2014, 04:05 AM
No I mean why you download all of them at the same time o.O. I usually download a game - play/finish it then back it up game and save file to my external HDD - delete the game on PC but keep the save file - rinse and repeat with another game ;o. Although I do keep a few games such as Left 4 Dead 2, CSGO, etc. Those are some great games! Play bioshock 1 - its good ;)
Because if I decided that I wanted to play a game one day, I'd have to wait at least a full day. So I have it all downloaded. I've played Bioshock, but only the first one for the most part.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 07, 2014, 04:48 AM
Far Cry 3: Time left 1036 h 26 min
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Post by: Legend on Nov 07, 2014, 05:36 PM
It was going at 2 kb/s. Right now it's doing 3.5 kb/s for some reason. Don't know why it's that slow.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 08, 2014, 03:48 PM
Anyone here have Origin accounts that I haven't added?
Btw, what do ya'll think about Ubisoft ignoring Steam?
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 08, 2014, 03:49 PM
Looks like the Ubisoft games are back on Steam :OO
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Post by: Raven on Nov 08, 2014, 04:00 PM
I think that considering no one uses Uplay because it's garbage that they need to go on a big marketing campaign and improve the service before they even consider moving away from Steam. Though I can imagine that they may very well lose a lot of sales even then because of how popular Steam is. It could also hurt Steam, though. They already lost EA titles after Origin came out. If any more big publishers pursue their own thing it could be bad news for Valve.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 08, 2014, 05:58 PM
I think that considering no one uses Uplay because it's garbage that they need to go on a big marketing campaign and improve the service before they even consider moving away from Steam. Though I can imagine that they may very well lose a lot of sales even then because of how popular Steam is. It could also hurt Steam, though. They already lost EA titles after Origin came out. If any more big publishers pursue their own thing it could be bad news for Valve.
Actually each time you play a ubisoft game that came out after 2009 - you are automatically using uPlay due to the fact that the DRM requires you to log in before you are able save or even play the game. Its much more forcing than GFWL where it just prevents you from saving a game but still play the game.
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Post by: Raven on Nov 08, 2014, 06:01 PM
Actually each time you play a ubisoft game that came out after 2009 - you are automatically using uPlay due to the fact that the DRM requires you to log in before you are able save or even play the game. Its much more forcing than GFWL where it just prevents you from saving a game but still play the game.
Haha. Goes to show what games I haven't been playing on Steam since then. I'm still not sure who it would be worse for. Ubisoft or Valve.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 08, 2014, 06:24 PM
Haha. Goes to show what games I haven't been playing on Steam since then. I'm still not sure who it would be worse for. Ubisoft or Valve.
In terms of how the games are operating? I would say neither - the end user is the one who has it worse since they need both uPlay and Steam to be on to play one single game......
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Post by: Raven on Nov 08, 2014, 07:44 PM
In terms of how the games are operating? I would say neither - the end user is the one who has it worse since they need both uPlay and Steam to be on to play one single game......
I mean in regards to which company would take the bigger hit from it. Would it be Ubisoft for making their games digitally available only through their own Uplay service, which no one seems to like, or Valve for no longer be able to offer Ubisoft titles?
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 08, 2014, 07:55 PM
I mean in regards to which company would take the bigger hit from it. Would it be Ubisoft for making their games digitally available only through their own Uplay service, which no one seems to like, or Valve for no longer be able to offer Ubisoft titles?
Ubisoft would take the flack just like EA takes the flack for having their games Origin Only. But in the end - people will still play/buy games from companies like them.
Also in case you were wondering, ACUnity and Far Cry 4 are back on the Steam store lol - at least for now.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 08, 2014, 09:08 PM
Metro 2033 free for everyone here! https://www.humblebundle.com/store?free&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5271c92f15-Humble_Store_1st_Birthday&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-5271c92f15-127127489
Edit: Nvm, too late lol :(
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 08, 2014, 09:09 PM
I already got Metro 2033 from the humble bundle last year or so.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2014, 12:09 AM
Anyone have a gaming PC and want SoM? How about paying $22? dang, son!!
The Witcher 3 Pre-order for $33: http://cdkeyshere.com/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-cd-key.html#.VF6wsvmsV8E
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Post by: Raven on Nov 09, 2014, 12:25 AM
StarCraft 2 Global Finals at Blizzcon. Taeja playing Terran. Life playing Zerg. All the commentators picked Taeja to win either 3-to-1 or 3-to-2. Life is up 2-to-1 right now.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 09, 2014, 12:29 AM
Dat trailer doe
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Post by: Raven on Nov 09, 2014, 12:40 AM
Blizzard could just go make animated movies if they somehow fail in the games industry.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 09, 2014, 12:42 AM
This is my first time using uplay. Does it have any redeeming qualities?
No idea, I never really used it other than for Assassin's Creed - whenever I load a game - it makes me auto update/patch and then log in - but other than that I've never really taken avantage of it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 09, 2014, 05:15 AM
No idea, I never really used it other than for Assassin's Creed - whenever I load a game - it makes me auto update/patch and then log in - but other than that I've never really taken avantage of it.
I see. Origin has free games. (only reason I like it.)
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Post by: Raven on Nov 09, 2014, 05:19 AM
The only time I ever dealt with Uplay was with Black Flag on the PS4. Somehow it made my game unplayable for two days. Mind you, I got the game for Christmas and it came out the month before.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 09, 2014, 05:58 AM
I see. Origin has free games. (only reason I like it.)
Almost all of my games on Origin are Free.
Well some of them were humble bundle duplicate keys (which can be used on both Steam and Origin) and from Mass Effect 1 (which I got from a friend) and Mass Effect 2 which I bought which also had Origin compatible keys.
If I were to buy anything next from EA/Origin it would be either bioware points or Mass Effect 3.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 10, 2014, 04:51 AM
Anybody want to play League of Legends?
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 10, 2014, 07:38 AM
Streaming League with music. I know it looks amateurish but it's my first time and really I'm just testing this out.
Twitch.tv/GamingWithRiderz
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 10, 2014, 07:39 AM
Oh and if you can please hit follow because I am using notifications and I want to see if it actually works or not. Thanks
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 10, 2014, 07:52 AM
Stopped after like 15 minutes. I think the twitch notification works, but I don't want to stream on this poorly executed laptop because it's too taxing on it lol. Don't want to break it down.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 10, 2014, 04:40 PM
Today is the day.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 10, 2014, 09:08 PM
I now have a GTX 970.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 10, 2014, 10:12 PM
Done. I'm blown away. Been using emulators, benchmarks, games. In the past, just one setting would've brought my computer to its knees and now I'm putting everything up and it's taking it like it's nothing. Low settings with edge AA made Kingdom Hearts unplayable. Now, I've got that, a bunch of other things and everything is still playable. I have these games running at 6x native resolution. These games look amazing.
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Post by: Raven on Nov 11, 2014, 06:22 AM
Done. I'm blown away. Been using emulators, benchmarks, games. In the past, just one setting would've brought my computer to its knees and now I'm putting everything up and it's taking it like it's nothing. Low settings with edge AA made Kingdom Hearts unplayable. Now, I've got that, a bunch of other things and everything is still playable. I have these games running at 6x native resolution. These games look amazing.
What were you running with before this?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2014, 06:29 AM
Yeah XD It's nuts! Did you see the benchmarks? Graphics Score 991 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8948685 Graphics Score 15654 http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/8949485
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2014, 06:38 AM
Next thing I want to do is get a bluetooth adapter so I don't need to be tied to my computer with my PS3 controller. After that I'll have the perfect set up. -48 inch HD TV -Awesome graphics card -comfort of bed while playing
Also I'll be getting Far Cry 4 for free download a week from today. Far Cry 3 is having issues though, can't get it past the start screen.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 11, 2014, 07:10 AM
Next thing I want to do is get a bluetooth adapter so I don't need to be tied to my computer with my PS3 controller. After that I'll have the perfect set up. -48 inch HD TV -Awesome graphics card -comfort of bed while playing
Also I'll be getting Far Cry 4 for free download a week from today. Far Cry 3 is having issues though, can't get it past the start screen.
Nice! That's the type of PC gaming I'd really love to get in to.
Also have you thought about buying a DS4? It just feels so good compared to DS3.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2014, 07:13 AM
Next thing I want to do is get a bluetooth adapter so I don't need to be tied to my computer with my PS3 controller. After that I'll have the perfect set up. -48 inch HD TV -Awesome graphics card -comfort of bed while playing
Also I'll be getting Far Cry 4 for free download a week from today. Far Cry 3 is having issues though, can't get it past the start screen.
What kind of issues with FC3? You might be able to fix them by looking into what kind of issue it is on the Steam forums/chat via Store page.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 11, 2014, 04:34 PM
Yep, just google the issue and someone else probably has had it on the steam forums
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 11, 2014, 04:41 PM
Lots of people with the same issue with not a lot of help. But I figured it out on my own. validating the files fixed it.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 11, 2014, 05:58 PM
Lots of people with the same issue with not a lot of help. But I figured it out on my own. validating the files fixed it.
Great! Yep sometimes validating the files usually works other times you have to change the compatibility setting for the exe i.e. Max Payne 1 and 2 needs to be run on Win 98 mode to run without issues.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 11, 2014, 06:24 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/KtPu9ZJ.png)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2014, 03:10 AM
Far Cry 3, Skyrim, Bioshock Infinite. All of them look amazing and play amazing. Only downside is when you get close to something, then it looks like PS2 level stuff.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Get something like this, and go "nice!" (http://i.imgur.com/BOyUer7.jpg) And then you're like what? (http://i.imgur.com/XFDNVaW.jpg)
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 12, 2014, 03:55 AM
Lol get a close up shot of the fruit/vegetable stands in Bioshock Infinite. I thought they looked pretty good until I got closer to them haha
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2014, 04:00 AM
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 12, 2014, 04:08 AM
Agreed. I love the art style a lot. Sadly the game just didn't click with me and I didn't finish. Not sure how far I got but I did play it for quite a bit. At least 5 hours+.
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Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 12, 2014, 04:09 AM
And I remember playing the first Bioshock on PC and had to stop because of some game breaking bug on PC. There was a section where you had to open a safe or something and it wouldn't open for me lol. I assume they already fixed it with a patch a looong time ago but I just gave up on it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2014, 04:37 AM
I love the Bioshock games, at least of what I've played.
Has anyone used HumbleBundle?
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 12, 2014, 04:58 AM
And yes I've used humble bundle (http://i.imgur.com/L9pY52z.png)
I don't believe you, woman!!! Pics or it didn't happen... oh wait.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2014, 05:13 AM
Tomorrow I will be getting a blutooth antenna thingy. Which will be awesome because then like I said, don't need to be tied to my computer. Every time I play Skyrim or Bioshock, I'm stuck on the edge of the bed closest to my computer which isn't very comfortable. But this will be amazing.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 12, 2014, 06:05 AM
I finished the first one, and played parts of Infinite. I don't believe you, woman!!! Pics or it didn't happen... oh wait.
I highly recommend Humble Bundle - they usually carry well known multiplat indie titles along with some multiplat AAA developed titles such as from Squareenix, EA, etc.
I also recommend Bundle Stars if you want some of the lesser known, cult classic, PC exclusive games - their bundles are usually cheaper too but some of the ones such as Crusader Kings and LEGO have been...well a lot lol.
Also just to let you know, Humble Bundle usually has 2-3 bundles with 2 of them changing each week and one main one changing every 2 weeks. They have other bundles too but not gaming.
Bundle Stars usually updates with a new bundle every few days (2-3 days) and the bundles expire weeks/months later with the first few days being really dirt cheap. So in the end they have had up to 10-20 bundles active at once before.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2014, 07:51 AM
Really. :D This is my third computer. First one, I got in 2008 or so, was running a Pentium 4. Wasn't even able to run Age of Empires 3. But I did play Age of Empires 2. Second one, I got a year ago or maybe 2 now, CPU was much better. It was a Athlon X2 6000+/Radeon HD 4200. Age of Empires 3 yes, but any game newer than 2008 or so was a no no.
So my first 2 computers I got from family members and were outdated by quite a bit.
This year I decided I was going to build my own. -Intel i5-4690, 8 GB Ram Got that far about 3 months ago, finally got a good GPU.
-Intel i5-4690 -8 GB RAM -GTX 970
So proud and happy with it. :D
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 12, 2014, 08:01 PM
Really. :D This is my third computer. First one, I got in 2008 or so, was running a Pentium 4. Wasn't even able to run Age of Empires 3. But I did play Age of Empires 2. Second one, I got a year ago or maybe 2 now, CPU was much better. It was a Athlon X2 6000+/Radeon HD 4200. Age of Empires 3 yes, but any game newer than 2008 or so was a no no.
So my first 2 computers I got from family members and were outdated by quite a bit.
This year I decided I was going to build my own. -Intel i5-4690, 8 GB Ram Got that far about 3 months ago, finally got a good GPU.
-Intel i5-4690 -8 GB RAM -GTX 970
So proud and happy with it. :D
Pretty nice config.
My PC is a Pentium III with GeForce 256 yet :P play Diablo (the first) and StarCract pretty well... ohhhh it plays the first Age of Empires too.
I have a note but it is not for gaming... so I never installed anything but I guess it plays better than my PC even being an i5 with HD integrated graphics.
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Post by: NeverDies on Nov 12, 2014, 09:18 PM
My comp's pretty awesome.
Intel i7-4770k 16.0 GB ram GTX 660 And running on a SSD
And check out my boss CPU cooler (http://www.hardbloxx.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Scythe-Ninja-3-B-20.jpg)
And here's my case (http://cdn.overclock.net/f/f1/f174184a_raidmax_agusta_titanium01.jpeg)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 12, 2014, 09:19 PM
Nice1! All that for Hearthstone? ;OO
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Post by: NeverDies on Nov 12, 2014, 09:24 PM
I wonder if I should get Enslaved for $5 on Steam. I have it on PS3 but the FPS/tearing was atrocious so I quit playing quite early.
I'm tempted too especially by dang Wright.
But I'm holding it off - looks too niche for my tastes and I love getting anime/waifu niche games...oh wait I probably shouldnt of said that outloud. Now I have to keel you women ;(
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 13, 2014, 03:21 AM
Got my bluetooth adapter today. Was a pain setting it up to connect to the controller, but it shouldn't be that bad the next time.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 13, 2014, 01:55 PM
But I'm holding it off - looks too niche for my tastes and I love getting anime/waifu niche games...oh wait I probably shouldnt of said that outloud. Now I have to keel you women ;(
Too niche? It's an action game with a supposedly great story.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 13, 2014, 05:17 PM
But I'll be honest, I've never heard of the game until last year and I'm sure a lot of people never heard of it :O
When I meant to say Niche - I meant to say its like a cult classic - in which a lot of people never heard of it originally but then it had legs/grew slowly kinda like the Disgaea series.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 14, 2014, 06:20 PM
Battlefield 4 available on Origin Game Time! Play for free for a...week!
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 15, 2014, 03:35 AM
Why does this thread keep showing up as blue but no one has replied to me..
Some post that quoted you got edited. Just go through each page, should be fixed after.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 15, 2014, 05:20 AM
This is amazing. It's so easy to connect my controller. Its like exactly like connecting it to the PS3. Just hit the PS button and you're pretty much done. :D
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Nov 15, 2014, 05:28 AM
i figured i would share this here as he does mostly PC reviews
http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 15, 2014, 05:47 AM
This is amazing. It's so easy to connect my controller. Its like exactly like connecting it to the PS3. Just hit the PS button and you're pretty much done. :D
Yep thats the same way with the Xbox 360 controller I use :o.
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Post by: Legend on Nov 15, 2014, 06:09 AM
They've had Game Times for multiple games no, including BF4, TF, PvsZ and more. I added them all to my library which means I can start playing when I want and then it starts counting down
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 15, 2014, 04:10 PM
Far Cry 4 looks awesome, can't wait to play it on PC. :D
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 19, 2014, 12:30 PM
Anyone interested in CoD: AW for $35? http://cdkeyshere.com/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-cd-key.html#.VGyNJPmsV8E
That is a great PC deals site, btw. Shadow of Mordor is available for $24.99 and Alien: Isolation for $19.99
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 20, 2014, 04:11 AM
Humble Jumble Bundle 3 seems pretty good.
I mainly got it for Grid 2 but dayum I got Half-Minute Hero and Grid 1 as a bonus lol. Worth it~
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 20, 2014, 09:47 AM
I paid less than average because I don't care much about the added games, except Truck Simulator and my friend has that game in his library which he shares with me on Steam
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 20, 2014, 02:57 PM
Getting faster internet! Far Cry 4 is almost done downloading. :D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 20, 2014, 03:14 PM
Gonna be sweet.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 20, 2014, 07:54 PM
dang your interwebs is slow
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Legend on Nov 20, 2014, 10:14 PM
You know where you could change up some code in VGC, and then post in a different thread, even potentially one that hasn't been made yet? That's what I was going for. Seeing what, if any quirks VizionEck has.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 21, 2014, 02:56 AM
On topic, my internet got an upgrade. A 300 MB download would have probably taken me an hour, now it takes much less than 10 min.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Legend on Nov 21, 2014, 02:59 AM
You know where you could change up some code in VGC, and then post in a different thread, even potentially one that hasn't been made yet? That's what I was going for. Seeing what, if any quirks VizionEck has.
Yeah the only security holes we have are in the fancy profile pages. In there you can edit some code to change things up.
Everywhere else is locked up tight through a set of permissions. Before the server does anything, it checks if that user is actually allowed to do it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 21, 2014, 03:26 AM
I paid less than average because I don't care much about the added games, except Truck Simulator and my friend has that game in his library which he shares with me on Steam
Truck..simulator ;(
wat
you dang casual
GRID 2 was the main reason but dayum those bonus games, glad I paid the bonus amount lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 21, 2014, 03:51 AM
Well if you insist. :D As far as I've seen, no. Still quite useful, but if you're going to be gaming quad core is almost minimum now as some games don't support dual core.
I was thinking with all the future games coming out being built with 8 core in mind for the consoles that quad cores would be almost pointless in a years time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 25, 2014, 05:36 PM
I was thinking with all the future games coming out being built with 8 core in mind for the consoles that quad cores would be almost pointless in a years time.
The CPU on the consoles are not the best. AMD CPUs are like half an intel CPU. I think the numbers I see are like 60%; plus the CPU is clocked very low compared to most new PCs. Newer PCs might have a CPU that runs some 3 or 4 GHz. Mine is 3.5. Whereas the consoles are 1.6, and 1.75. So even if they were clocked at about the same, an Intel CPU would barely lose and would probably still win most of the time anyway.
So, because of consoles, quad cores should be good for a few more years. Dual cores on the other hand, like I said are pretty much on the way out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 25, 2014, 05:38 PM
I was thinking with all the future games coming out being built with 8 core in mind for the consoles that quad cores would be almost pointless in a years time.
It will in a few years.
Some of the latest AAA games coming to PC are minimum with a quad core.
I'll be upgrading possibly next year or the year afterwards. Depending on when I get my PS4 :P.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 25, 2014, 06:42 PM
Pc deals this year seem really lame.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread - Pi-GUY IS HYPED!!
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 25, 2014, 06:48 PM
That's what I thought. I agree. Saw some decent deals, but mostly on bad laptops.
Yeah the Golden era of good laptops for 600 are over.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 26, 2014, 05:13 AM
Performance of Far Cry 4 is all over the place. Starts out at like 370 ish frames per second. Goes to 60 in the gameplay, and then a little after it'll jump up to 75-90.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Nov 26, 2014, 02:16 PM
What about this ram? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ST1XB8668 Whats you're build again?
I'd look for different RAM. DDR 3 - 1600 http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Memory/memory_ga-990fxa-ud3.pdf Look in the DDR3 1600 section, would probably be the best bet. This is what I bought. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4nkdgs I ran without the GTX 970 for a while though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 27, 2014, 07:06 PM
I'd look for different RAM. DDR 3 - 1600 http://download.gigabyte.us/FileList/Memory/memory_ga-990fxa-ud3.pdf Look in the DDR3 1600 section, would probably be the best bet. This is what I bought. http://pcpartpicker.com/p/4nkdgs I ran without the GTX 970 for a while though.
Why 1600? and not something higher?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 27, 2014, 07:09 PM
lol ok, which one? I've been looking at the r9 290 4gb version. It cost 380 So i guess 400 is my limit, over time i will buy a second card. This is my eye candy machine, as i already have a ps4 and xbox 1. I want to build something that will blow the two out of the water.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 29, 2014, 07:01 PM
GTX 970?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 29, 2014, 07:02 PM
"Meet the GPU that nukes almost the entire high-end graphics market from orbit." I'm sure it would suffice lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 29, 2014, 07:07 PM
From Eurogamer:
"The GeForce GTX 970 is that rarest of things in the graphics card market - a genuine game-changer. In fact, it's actually more like a cooked hand grenade strategically lobbed into the high-end GPU market, designed to cause maximum damage to the competition - but in the process impacting just as many Nvidia cards too. It costs £260, which is a lot of money, but its performance per pound ratio is so strong that some might say there's little point considering any other high-end GPU currnetly available - and that includes Nvidia's own flagship GTX 980."
I'm sure it's the same in the US as in the UK
"The headlines are this: AMD's R9 290 and top-line R9 290X - £300 and £400 GPUs respectively - are effectively obsolete: hot, power-hungry, inefficient products that are effortlessly bested by Nvidia's £260 upstart. Nvidia is caught in the blast radius itself too - the GTX 780 is history, while the 780 Ti - a card that sold for over £500 just a few months - is also bordering on the irrelevant. Overclocked, the GTX 970 also beats the stock performance of the £430 GTX 980 in most applications too - a phenomenal showing bearing in mind that the latter is 65 per cent more expensive."
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 29, 2014, 07:08 PM
This is definitely the card I'd get if I had money to burn and needed a new card
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 29, 2014, 07:08 PM
I do like the built in screen cap of the GTX 970, to bad i doubt i could hook the ps4 or Xbox One up to it, So i'd still need a capture card for those.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 29, 2014, 07:09 PM
I do like the built in screen cap of the GTX 970, to bad i doubt i could hook the ps4 or Xbox One up to it, So i'd still need a capture card for those.
But they have it built in too, lol?? Or is that not enough?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 29, 2014, 07:11 PM
hmm i tried basically just plugging it in. it finds it and sorta works, but all the buttons are kinda wonky. trying to play ff8. is there a way to button map?
hmm think i just found a way lol
edit: cant seem to get the d-pad working. everything else is working though
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 12, 2014, 07:09 PM
hmm i tried basically just plugging it in. it finds it and sorta works, but all the buttons are kinda wonky. trying to play ff8. is there a way to button map?
hmm think i just found a way lol
There's a program to download that tricks windows into thinking it's an xbox controller. Download that, your track pad and light will work too. Sorry for got the name.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on Dec 12, 2014, 07:25 PM
hmm k i found that one, i can get everything working outside, but inside ff8 the d-pad doesnt work. must be an ff8 issue
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 12, 2014, 09:01 PM
hmm k i found that one, i can get everything working outside, but inside ff8 the d-pad doesnt work. must be an ff8 issue
Did you try XInput mapper? http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XInput-Wrapper . Works flawlessly. Can even change the color of the light and use the touchpad as a mouse!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: DD_Bwest on Dec 12, 2014, 09:05 PM
Did you try XInput mapper? http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XInput-Wrapper . Works flawlessly. Can even change the color of the light and use the touchpad as a mouse!
hmm might fiddle aorund with that later, the one i had got the d pad working in other games just not ff8 lol so im blaming se. its fine, its just to get me through a flights. Im jsut happy i can play it offline, and get most of the controls. i prefer the dpad for menus and combat but ill gt used to it
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 12, 2014, 09:19 PM
hmm might fiddle aorund with that later, the one i had got the d pad working in other games just not ff8 lol so im blaming se. its fine, its just to get me through a flights. Im jsut happy i can play it offline, and get most of the controls. i prefer the dpad for menus and combat but ill gt used to it
It's really simple. You just download this program and it works! As long as you have the 360 controller drivers for Windows (they should install automatically when you connect with USB for the first time)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 13, 2014, 02:32 AM
Far Cry 4 is super awesome with the DS4, because it actually takes it natively. :D
But yeah, get DS4Tool or something. I believe there's a couple different ones.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 13, 2014, 10:43 AM
Far Cry 4 is super awesome with the DS4, because it actually takes it natively. :D
But yeah, get DS4Tool or something. I believe there's a couple different ones.
The one I linked to is the best, the BEST!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 14, 2014, 03:02 AM
Follow around the links from PCSX 2. There's a GUI based driver I'm currently using. It uses the same backend as the other drives but gives you more options. You can use key maps. I was actually using the key maps on the nullDC emulator since 360 controllers don't work on it. I can't get keymaps working for Bloodrayne 2 for whatever reason though :/
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2014, 06:23 AM
Did you try XInput mapper? http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XInput-Wrapper . Works flawlessly. Can even change the color of the light and use the touchpad as a mouse!
11 BEFORE ASKING QUESTION DOWNLOAD XinputTest and see if all buttons work. (A LOT OF GAMES REQUIRE HIDE DS4 TO BE ON) IF XinputTest shows everything correctly the problem is with the game!
Explanation on what HIDE DS4 CONTROLLER checkbox does: http://forums.pcsx2.net/Thread-DS4-To-XI...#pid346076
Source code : https://code.google.com/p/ds4-tool/
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 14, 2014, 04:31 PM
On another note, I think I am going to buy Oculus Rift next March or so. If it's good at least.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 14, 2014, 05:43 PM
@the-Pi-guy I told you to get the ui based version:
The UI one gives you keyboard mapping, as well as profiles and auto updates.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 15, 2014, 12:26 AM
Welp, got my hard drive today, cd drive, and cheap video card so i could check out my stuff. Plug everything up and nothing.... The light on my mouse comes on for a second then off and nothing. Any ideas?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 15, 2014, 12:43 AM
K got it to turn on. My power supply is a piece of shame, the fan is rubbing something. But now I got no video..
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2014, 12:59 AM
On another note, I think I am going to buy Oculus Rift next March or so. If it's good at least.
I think next march will be when the new/final dev kit is set to be revealed. I know I'll be getting one at least.
Would have got one sooner but I only have a laptop that I could play on right now. It runs games great, but that's at 900p(native screen size) 30fps. 1080p 75fps would kill the game visuals.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 15, 2014, 01:00 AM
I think next march will be when the new/final dev kit is set to be revealed. I know I'll be getting one at least.
Would have got one sooner but I only have a laptop that I could play on right now. It runs games great, but that's at 900p(native screen size) 30fps. 1080p 75fps would kill the game visuals.
That's one of two reasons why I'm waiting till March. At least that's the biggest one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 15, 2014, 03:10 AM
Hmmm, I was afraid of that when you said what you bought. Power supply, CPU and GPU are the three things you shouldn't go cheap on for a gaming PC. That's one of two reasons why I'm waiting till March. At least that's the biggest one.
It was a wire that was sticking up to far and hitting the fan, but now to button is broke, so fudge it. I'll send it back and get another brand. The thing wasn't cheap it's just i got it on sale. And if i can't get video to display i'll just send the board back. Hell at this point i'm half temped to just send everything back and forget about it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 15, 2014, 03:28 AM
Going to send the Mb and psu back. Already filed a rma with Newegg. I guess it will be about 3 weeks before I can try again.
That sucks. I was in a different, but similar boat. The PSU I had first was poorly executed, so I was like nope not gonna try putting that in my computer. Bought a new one a few weeks later.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 15, 2014, 05:51 PM
I've been reading reviews on newegg, seems I wasn't the only one to get a one this way, no video no beep. But it has more good reviews than bad, if the next big the same I'll swap it for something else.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Dec 15, 2014, 09:50 PM
I've been reading reviews on newegg, seems I wasn't the only one to get a one this way, no video no beep. But it has more good reviews than bad, if the next big the same I'll swap it for something else.
I had the same problem with a Hard Drive. Reviews were really good, but a few people had some major problems with it. I was unlucky enough to be one of those. Thankfully the one I got afterwards worked perfectly.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2014, 11:33 PM
Watch Dogs flash sales for 6.5 Euros!! http://www.kinguin.net/product/48677/watch-dogs-uplay-key/?utm_source=g2play&utm_medium=bigbanner&utm_campaign=flash
CoD: AW for 16 Euros!! http://www.g2play.net/category/8694/call-of-duty-advanced-warfare-steam-gift/ Insane stuff
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 15, 2014, 11:53 PM
@BasilZero: http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/2356-final-fantasy-xiii - FFXIII for $11 http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/2500-final-fantasy-xiii-2 - FFXIII-2 for less than $14
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 16, 2014, 02:50 PM
@BasilZero: http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/2356-final-fantasy-xiii - FFXIII for $11 http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/2500-final-fantasy-xiii-2 - FFXIII-2 for less than $14
dang so tempting.
But but...;(
Squareenix NA Online store had the FFXIII for Steam for $6.40 2 weeks ago :(.
I was saving my monies for to buy MK8 DLC on WiiU but now I know it doesnt take PayPal >.>.....hopefully SE store has a online sale again lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 16, 2014, 02:51 PM
Only one game so far. Lost Planet Extreme Condition for $2.99.
I'm hoping for the following titles to go 75% or above
-Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands Digital Deluxe Edition -BloodRayne -Quake Collection -Crysis Maximum Edition
I'm going light on Steam purchases during the Winter time and bank on mostly games during the Summer Sale.
I mainly focus on PC gaming during the Summer and Console gaming during the Winter.
---
As for what I plan to get for summer - I got myself a plan ;D
-Assassin's Creed III Digital Deluxe Edition -Assassin's Creed Liberation HD -Assassin's Creed Freedom Cry Standalone -Fallout 3 GOTY -Saints Row IV Game of the Century Edition -Prince of Persia The Two Thrones
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 22, 2014, 02:51 AM
Three Batman games, 2 Mass Effect games, Binding of Isaac,Castle Crashers, Rage, How to Survive.
Do I not have you on Steam?? Nvm, see it now!!
OT: Everyone should grab Wolf Among Us!! 75% off
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 22, 2014, 01:32 PM
@Basil: You bought Ridge Racer?? o.O
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 22, 2014, 02:43 PM
My wishlist on Steam is composed of 148 games right now. That might be understandable if I had very few games on Steam but I actually have over 240 games lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 23, 2014, 01:26 AM
Yeah. I know its not made by the same team but it was super cheap, came with all the DLCs and.............. its Ridge Racer nostalgia that got me to buy the game lol ;(
Anyways
So far this is what I got in the Holiday Sale overall
-Lost Planet Extreme Condition for $2.99 -Ridge Racer Unbounded Collection for $3.74 -Jet Set Radio (From Humble Store) for $1.24
I have like $19 left.
Hoping to buy Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands Deluxe Digital Edition ;( - Also Crysis 1 Maximum Edition on Steam.
I dont care much for Bloodrayne and Quake at this time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 23, 2014, 01:34 AM
Three Batman games, 2 Mass Effect games, Binding of Isaac,Castle Crashers, Rage, How to Survive.
I also bought Two seasons of the Walking Dead andThe Orange Box.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 23, 2014, 06:20 AM
Just bought another game.
So now my list looks like this....
-Lost Planet Extreme Condition for $2.99 -Ridge Racer Unbounded Collection for $3.74 -Jet Set Radio (From Humble Store) for $1.24 -Sacred Gold for $1.99
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 23, 2014, 06:28 AM
-Lost Planet Extreme Condition for $2.99 -Ridge Racer Unbounded Collection for $3.74 -Jet Set Radio (From Humble Store) for $1.24 -Sacred Gold for $1.99
Woah, easy with all the spending there bud.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 23, 2014, 01:59 PM
I haven't bought anything yet but I got 2 games as gifts (Wolfenstein: New Order and Sanctum 2)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 23, 2014, 02:00 PM
Hmm The Legend of Heroes caught my eye. What about you, Basil?
Its considered to be one of the best jRPGs of last gen by a few.
Originally came out on PSP - I played a bit of the older ones that came out before it on the PSP - not the one on Steam though - its a pretty good old school style RPG series.
Chapter 2 is coming out next year on Steam.
If you want to spend extra monies sure get it ;o
Me personally, I'm gonna wait till next year.
I still have Ys 1, 2 and Oath to play xD.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 23, 2014, 06:55 PM
Omg.
I completely forgot about Payday 2
My friends want me to get Payday 2 AND Battlefield 4 which is on sale (or was I think) on Gamestop.
>_<
Saints Row IV GotC is on sale at a great price too :(.
Then there's still Crysis Maximum Edition and Quake Collection I still need to get n_n.
Dayum sons.
I think I'll be getting Payday 2 at least and then focus on the rest mentioned above for the summer sale next year.
I REALLY want Prince of Persia Forgotten Sands DDE though.
Also I have a feeling we may get a really good bundle on Humble Bundle...its gonna happen on Christmas too so :O.
Maybe a Origin or THQ style bundle and maybe under UBISOFT :O??? (one can dream).
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 23, 2014, 09:45 PM
I want payday too :((
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 23, 2014, 09:45 PM
Someone stop me!!!! The game itself looks fine, but the cut scenes don't have the same quality. Lot of noticeable aliasing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 25, 2014, 09:15 PM
Mirror's Edge (4) Terraria (2) Dishonored (10) Black Ops (40) World at war (10) The walking dead (6) Season 2 (6) 3d mark (5) Batman (15) Binding of Isaac (1) rounding up because I rounded down before. Rage (5) Castle Crashers (1.50) Mass Effect (8.74) How to Survive (1.50)
Plus some others.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 25, 2014, 09:34 PM
Mirror's Edge (4) Terraria (2) Dishonored (10) Black Ops (40) World at war (10) The walking dead (6) Season 2 (6) 3d mark (5) Batman (15) Binding of Isaac (1) rounding up because I rounded down before. Rage (5) Castle Crashers (1.50) Mass Effect (8.74) How to Survive (1.50)
Plus some others.
Half Life (5) Orange Box 10? Portal Bundle (10?)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 25, 2014, 11:07 PM
I think 15 or 20 of them are from humble bundles, but aside from that, a bunch of them are retail purchases or steam purchases. Sometimes retail beats steam prices. :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 26, 2014, 02:11 PM
Well my steam account got semi-"hacked" and my inventory got sent to an account called BaDToY. lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 26, 2014, 02:12 PM
I think 15 or 20 of them are from humble bundles, but aside from that, a bunch of them are retail purchases or steam purchases. Sometimes retail beats steam prices. :)
Not over here
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 26, 2014, 03:08 PM
How seriously have you looked? I got Black Ops 2 for 10$ at Walmart. Never seen Steam get that low.
:O
Thats a good deal but you know its Activision, they barely drop their prices on digital games so its no surprise stores sell their physical games for less lol.
But I know other dev/pub games are never lower! (at least to my experience)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 26, 2014, 04:01 PM
Not that seriously but I just know that prices never drop that low in stores here. If they do drop a lot it's for games that came out eons ago
There's also The Elder Scrolls Anthology, which comes with all games plus the DLC. Skyrim: Legendary Edition, 24$ on Steam sale right now. Oblivion: Game of the Year, 14$ on Steam sale. Morrowind, 12$. There have been better Steam sales for these I'm sure. But that's 50$, at retail the whole collection is 40$ plus it comes with a sweet case!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 26, 2014, 05:41 PM
There's also The Elder Scrolls Anthology, which comes with all games plus the DLC. Skyrim: Legendary Edition, 24$ on Steam sale right now. Oblivion: Game of the Year, 14$ on Steam sale. Morrowind, 12$. There have been better Steam sales for these I'm sure. But that's 50$, at retail the whole collection is 40$ plus it comes with a sweet case!
How much was ESA?
I wanna get it on disc since Bethseda is being an bumb on the pricing of their games on steam.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 26, 2014, 05:44 PM
I wanna get it on disc since Bethseda is being an bumb on the pricing of their games on steam.
The first two Elder Scroll games are free downloads from the Bethesda website. http://www.elderscrolls.com/arena/ http://www.elderscrolls.com/daggerfall/
You do need Dosbox to play these two though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 26, 2014, 05:47 PM
http://www.amazon.com/The-Elder-Scrolls-Anthology-Pc/dp/B00E9I1FPI 30$ Plus this is the case. (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81yxenO47ZL._SL1500_.jpg)
Every page is a game, Morrowind takes up 2 pages for all 4 discs.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 26, 2014, 06:51 PM
I noticed the animations were jerky and stiff for cutscenes. Though, for Arkham Asylum, it was quite a bit more clear than the PS3 version. You have an nvidia card correct?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 28, 2014, 03:53 PM
There's also The Elder Scrolls Anthology, which comes with all games plus the DLC. Skyrim: Legendary Edition, 24$ on Steam sale right now. Oblivion: Game of the Year, 14$ on Steam sale. Morrowind, 12$. There have been better Steam sales for these I'm sure. But that's 50$, at retail the whole collection is 40$ plus it comes with a sweet case!
You have to wait for the daily deal for TES
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 28, 2014, 04:10 PM
Dark Souls II for $15.49 with FB code: http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/dark-souls-ii-2-pc-cd-key-steam Worth it??
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 28, 2014, 05:14 PM
Dark Souls II for $15.49 with FB code: http://www.cdkeys.com/pc/games/dark-souls-ii-2-pc-cd-key-steam Worth it??
Eh? Kinda if you are in a hurry - as for me I'll wait for the Remastered Edition which will be re-released on PC next year with all DLC intact and improvement in MP :P.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 29, 2014, 09:25 PM
Won Risk of Rain on gaf
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 29, 2014, 11:27 PM
So does Risk of Rain almost require a co-op partner or something?
Nope but its hard ;o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2014, 04:26 AM
My damage this sale has been greater than I expected, although a lot of this is from Nuuvem or other places.
Deponia (Nuuvem) One Way Heroics (Steam Store) Savant - Ascent (Steam Store) Unholy Heights (Steam Store) Marlow Briggs (Steam Store) Risk of Rain (Gift) Racer 8 (Free) FEAR 3 Retail (Gift) Five Nights at Freddy's (Amazon) Wolfenstein: The New Order (Gift) Sanctum 2 (Gift)
Right before this sale I got this: Gunpoint (Gift) Terraria (Gift) Memoria (Nuuvem) The Dark Eye (Nuuvem)
In total I have won 3 games on gaf near or during the sale (F3AR, Gunpoint, Risk of Rain). I got Terraria from a friend who bought a 4-pack. I got 2 games from my secret santa on VGC (Wolfenstein and Sanctum 2).
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 31, 2014, 04:27 AM
It seems that new egg is getting ready to ship my stuff back to me. Lets hope the MB works this time and they don't send me another shaming PSU.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2014, 05:24 AM
It seems that new egg is getting ready to ship my stuff back to me. Lets hope the MB works this time and they don't send me another shaming PSU.
Best of luck! Hope it ends up being worth the trouble. :)
I'm so proud of my PC, it was so flipping worth it. Its just crazy. Like everything about it has been way better than any PC I've ever had that was prebuilt. Every case I've had was a cheap tinny thing with one tiny 80 mm fan. :P But this one, the case itself feels good and it has 2 120 mm fans and 1 140 mm fan and one of which is LED and its sweet. Just everything about it is awesome.
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Post by: BasilZero on Dec 31, 2014, 07:16 AM
My damage this sale has been greater than I expected, although a lot of this is from Nuuvem or other places.
For me I spent about $25.
(http://i.imgur.com/6KeiVAx.png)
Racer 8 and Penguin's Arena were free from Indie Gala and Bundle Stars.
SpeedRunners was gift from a friend
Alan Wake Bonus Materials were Free on Steam Store.
Fallout Classic Collection 2014 I bought from GMG and used my 22% discount when it was 75% off already.
Jet Set Radio I got from the Humble Store when it was 75% off.
Everything else I bought when it was 75%-80% off the Steam store.
This makes it the most I've ever spent on a Holiday sale - I mainly go for PC games during the Summer sale and focus on console games during the holidays.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2014, 01:49 PM
I also bought FFXIII-2 and GTAIV for my Tiny Tim
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2014, 01:50 PM
So I have 161 games on my Steam wishlist and 256 games in my library if I include the ones shared by my friend (52 games). Dat steam doe
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2014, 01:58 PM
Steamworld Dig for $1.5 on Nuuvem: http://www.nuuvem.com.br/produto/1899-steamworld-dig It activates on Steam (in English!)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2014, 03:55 PM
I think I spent like 170? But like 50$ of that was 2 games.
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Post by: Rorono on Dec 31, 2014, 04:15 PM
Did anyone play both the PC and PS4 versions of Alien Isolation? How does ps4 stack up against PC? Have on Steam, thinking of double dipping for trophies and cause i love it.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2014, 08:27 PM
"You have spent approximately 183.43 USD in the store since the sale began."
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 31, 2014, 08:32 PM
Who said that
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2014, 08:34 PM
Hehe that was in the humble bundle. IMO I am most interested in Year Walk, then Lovely Planet and finally the last one (Blue Flamingo) as far as the games in the basic bundle go.
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Post by: BasilZero on Jan 02, 2015, 04:29 AM
Hehe that was in the humble bundle. IMO I am most interested in Year Walk, then Lovely Planet and finally the last one (Blue Flamingo) as far as the games in the basic bundle go.
Yep I was only interested in Lovely Planet :o.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 02, 2015, 06:07 PM
I love selling and buying stuff on the steam market, and crafting gems and stuff. lol
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Post by: BasilZero on Jan 03, 2015, 12:02 AM
I love selling and buying stuff on the steam market, and crafting gems and stuff. lol
I sell my extra cards I make that I dont need anymore and buy cards to craft badges :3
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 03, 2015, 05:39 PM
I got a personalised epilogue in Gunpoint in the form of a blog post lol: http://www.pentadact.com/category/conwaysblog/?K=11&U=30&C0=1&E1=2&C1=6&E2=1&C2=3&C3=3&C4=3&C5=3
Pretty great
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Post by: BasilZero on Jan 04, 2015, 12:56 AM
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 04, 2015, 02:40 AM
Well new egg shipped my parts again. They shipped my PSU and then two days later my MB... This has been a pain. I hope i don't have to return either one of them again.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 07, 2015, 01:05 AM
I got a new hard drive. :D 3 TB this time. Moving all my games over. 267 GB of data. My first hard drive was only 540 GB. :P
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Post by: BasilZero on Jan 07, 2015, 01:32 AM
It's really awesome to be able to play pretty much any PC game.
Yeah, barring a stupid update with Microsoft, games should be BC too.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 09, 2015, 11:19 PM
Okay, So i just got my computer parts in the mail. I wanted to set them up tonight and see if i could get it to post. but the problem is i had to separate the heat sink from the cpu and i forgot to buy more thermal paste, Now it still has the factory thermal past on the cpu but it isn't perfect. Do you think i'd be okay to turn it on to set up the bios till i get thermal paste?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 10, 2015, 12:22 AM
Okay, So i just got my computer parts in the mail. I wanted to set them up tonight and see if i could get it to post. but the problem is i had to separate the heat sink from the cpu and i forgot to buy more thermal paste, Now it still has the factory thermal past on the cpu but it isn't perfect. Do you think i'd be okay to turn it on to set up the bios till i get thermal paste?
It'd probably be "okay," but I'd recommend against it. Best to wait till you get thermal paste. I know its a pain. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 10, 2015, 06:14 AM
Well now.
2013 (http://i.imgur.com/RoSQ2M0.png)
2014 (http://i.imgur.com/FveZGyD.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 11, 2015, 03:04 PM
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 11, 2015, 04:04 PM
Need to play more of that. ^
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 11, 2015, 10:06 PM
fudgy psu came in dead. fudge new egg.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 11, 2015, 10:40 PM
System System: Connecting... System System: Your reference number for this chat session is 401091 System System: Ethan L. has joined this session! null System: Connected with Ethan L. System System: Welcome Chris frieze! My name is Ethan L. System System: How may I assist you today? Customer Chris frieze: I just got my second PSU from you, and it's dead. Customer Chris frieze: The RMA process took to long last time. Customer Chris frieze: I want a new unit, i need to make sure the MB is working this time Customer Chris frieze: A new unit of a different brand. Agent Ethan L.: Thank you for providing me with that information. I truly apologize for any inconvenience you have endured. I assure you I will do my best to resolve this issue. Would you please provide me with the order# and the RMA#? Customer Chris frieze: #218409197 Customer Chris frieze: Thats the order number, i haven't started a new RMA yet. Agent Ethan L.: Thank you for the information. May I place you on hold while I look into this for you? Customer Chris frieze: yes Agent Ethan L.: Thank you for holding. Upon double checking, I show that the PSU has passed the return period by 14 days. I advise you to contact the manufacturer by calling to 1-909-718-0789 for help. Thank you for your understanding. Customer Chris frieze: I just got it. Customer Chris frieze: in the mail. Customer Chris frieze: How can it be past the 14 day return period? Agent Ethan L.: We calculate the return period from the original invoice day. Customer Chris frieze: Well that doesn't work for me. Customer Chris frieze: let me speak to your supervisor Agent Ethan L.: I apologize that even the supervisor can not help you with this issue since you have passed the dead date. Please stop looking for exception. Policy is policy. Customer Chris frieze: Well it will be my policy to stop else where from now now. Customer Chris frieze: on Customer Chris frieze: put your supervisor on Customer Chris frieze: shop* Agent Ethan L.: That's fine. Please hold on. System System: Mason X. has joined this session! Agent Mason X.: Hello Chris. Customer Chris frieze: hello Agent Mason X.: I am Ethan's supervisor. Customer Chris frieze: Okay mason. Customer Chris frieze: I'm trying to get my PSU replace and swapped for a different manufacturer. Customer Chris frieze: Ethan tells me that theres a 14 day return period. Customer Chris frieze: This is my second psu, it came dead. Customer Chris frieze: If you want me to keep shopping with new egg i'd like it replaced. Agent Mason X.: I feel sorry to hear that. I do apologize for this inconvenience. Could you please provide me with a brief description of details that make you determine this item is defective again? Customer Chris frieze: It does nothing with powered. Customer Chris frieze: It's dead, out of the box. Agent Mason X.: Thank you. May I please know whether you have kept the retail box and all accessories? Also, please verify your current shipping address. Please be advised that any physical damage or missing accessories/retail box will void Newegg return policy. Customer Chris frieze: Yes, i have everything. I just took it out of the box 30 mins ago to plug it in. Customer Chris frieze: Agent Mason X.: Thank you. I have created a refund RMA for you. Please remember to return the retail box and all accessories originally included with the item(s). A confirmation email has been sent to you with the return instructions and a pre-paid shipping label so you may return the product(s). You will receive this email within the next 24 hours. Please print the label and tape it onto the outside of your returning package. The pre-paid shipping label does expire in 7 days so please make sure you send this package as soon as possible. Once your return is received, it will take 2-5 (7-10 notebooks) business days to process. Customer Chris frieze: Okay, thank you. Agent Mason X.: You're welcome. Agent Mason X.: Is there anything else I can assist you with today? Customer Chris frieze: No that is all.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 11, 2015, 10:41 PM
And this is how you handle jack asses, I'll order from amazon from now on. Much better to deal with.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 11, 2015, 10:54 PM
can anyone suggest a good PSU?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 12, 2015, 01:31 AM
This is mine. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438018 I got my friend to get this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=17-438-017
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 12, 2015, 01:55 AM
The PSU also comes with an adapter so you don't need a motherboard to test it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 12, 2015, 02:31 AM
I built my computer a couple of years ago for about $500 using new egg
Mine originally cost 580$. Case - 50$ Motherboard +CPU +Ram = 390$. PSU - 140$.
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Post by: 7H3 on Jan 12, 2015, 06:27 PM
i'm waiting for a better deal on a 2.5" 2tb HDD for my ps4 lol
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 12, 2015, 08:39 PM
Don't click the link if anyone posts this on your Steam profile: Hi bro you need it? http://captures-web.com/sxreenshot.png
That means don't click it here either.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 14, 2015, 05:18 PM
Middle Earth: SoM for $14.99 on PC: https://www.facebook.com/cdkeyscom/photos/np.105615198.1048206671/435859169895680/?type=1&ref=notif¬if_t=notify_me Only one day!
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 16, 2015, 07:42 PM
Yes! Steam said they will return my stolen items!
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Post by: BasilZero on Jan 17, 2015, 01:30 AM
I got into it quite a lot. I think I have about 600 hours in it. Not massive for an MMO, but still.
Yeah I put that time in the first. I was just so put off by the second.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 28, 2015, 07:59 PM
I'm needing a new work PC.
CPU is most important for me, as well as SSD and what nots that make programs and applications run faster. Having a good GPU would be nice but it's not too important to me.
Here's just my general thoughts right now: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9PCHQ7
Now to go through and trim the fat!!!
CPU stays, but what else can I cut corners on or find better deals to bring down the price? I feel investing in a good PSU is important since this computer will be on 20 hours a day. All savings from efficiency are worth it. Case wise it just needs to be functional. Don't have any care about looks.
Do care about sound though. Anything to make it silenter is worth investing in imo.
You guys have any input?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 28, 2015, 08:05 PM
Looks good but don't ask me. I've been trying to build one for months. About to order that psu Btw. Let me know how that gpu works out. I'll need two!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 28, 2015, 08:17 PM
Would it be cheaper to use your hard drive from your dieing laptop?
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Post by: Legend on Jan 28, 2015, 08:24 PM
Would it be cheaper to use your hard drive from your dieing laptop?
My laptop's hard drive is only 750GB which filled up fast with all the work I do. I've been using an external 1TB hard drive to augment it.
For this new PC I'll be moving over the external 1TB hard drive and making it internal so that I have 3TBs of hard drive space, which should last me at least until VizionEck releases hahaha.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 28, 2015, 08:44 PM
My laptop's hard drive is only 750GB which filled up fast with all the work I do. I've been using an external 1TB hard drive to augment it.
For this new PC I'll be moving over the external 1TB hard drive and making it internal so that I have 3TBs of hard drive space, which should last me at least until VizionEck releases hahaha.
Well then I got nothing. But thats not bad for what your building.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 28, 2015, 09:08 PM
CPU is most important for me, as well as SSD and what nots that make programs and applications run faster. Having a good GPU would be nice but it's not too important to me.
Here's just my general thoughts right now: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/9PCHQ7
Now to go through and trim the fat!!!
CPU stays, but what else can I cut corners on or find better deals to bring down the price? I feel investing in a good PSU is important since this computer will be on 20 hours a day. All savings from efficiency are worth it. Case wise it just needs to be functional. Don't have any care about looks. Do care about sound though. Anything to make it silenter is worth investing in imo. You guys have any input?
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422479082&sr=8-1&keywords=3+tb+hdd I'd get this hard drive.
Would you be able to skip the GPU for a while at least? The CPU has an integrated GPU, not great, but it does okay. Otherwise you could look into getting the GTX 960. I've got the same case. :D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 28, 2015, 09:51 PM
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Caviar-Green-Desktop/dp/B004RORMF6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422479082&sr=8-1&keywords=3+tb+hdd I'd get this hard drive.
Would you be able to skip the GPU for a while at least? The CPU has an integrated GPU, not great, but it does okay. Otherwise you could look into getting the GTX 960. I've got the same case. :D
Nice hard drive find!
What would be the advantage of skipping the GPU for a while? Are prices expected to significantly drop soon? Yeah a 960 would be a pretty viable option.
How do you like the case? Are the fans too fast and loud by default? Can they be controlled? Any issues fitting your 970 in it? Which 970 do you have?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 28, 2015, 10:23 PM
Nice hard drive find! What would be the advantage of skipping the GPU for a while? Are prices expected to significantly drop soon? Yeah a 960 would be a pretty viable option.
How do you like the case? Are the fans too fast and loud by default? Can they be controlled? Any issues fitting your 970 in it? Which 970 do you have?
I actually got that same HDD too. Not really a real advantage, just cuts the start up costs. Which was beneficial in my case, but probably not as much in yours. I'm not expecting any big price drops soon. The case is nice. Fans are pretty quiet. I actually stopped them, and didn't find any different in sound. My only complaint is the size of the case. It's a mid-tower, not a full one. Which can make it a little cramped when installing the motherboard, but once that is in, it is good. As for the GPU, it's kind of the same deal. I think it has something like 10.5" of clearance for a GPU. Which is an issue for the 970/980 tier. The bays are riveted in so its not easy to take them off for more clearance. I have the EVGA GTX 970 FTW, fits super well though. There are some itx cards too. This is mine. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814487077&cm_re=gtx_970_ftw-_-14-487-077-_-Product
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 28, 2015, 10:58 PM
CPU - you said keep it. Motherboard - probably cheaper options, but quality would be questionable. RAM - probably your cheapest option. SSD - you said keep it HDD - 99$ 3 TB. Keep it! Video Card - I recommend the 970, but if cost is an issue the 960 or even the 750 TI ought to be good depending on your needs. Case - cheaper options are available, will probably lose the amount of included fans though. Power Supply - recommend not going cheap on this part. Probably the sweet spot for price/reliability. Optical Drive - can you take one off a different computer?
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Post by: Legend on Jan 29, 2015, 12:31 AM
CPU - you said keep it. Motherboard - probably cheaper options, but quality would be questionable. RAM - probably your cheapest option. SSD - you said keep it HDD - 99$ 3 TB. Keep it! Video Card - I recommend the 970, but if cost is an issue the 960 or even the 750 TI ought to be good depending on your needs. Case - cheaper options are available, will probably lose the amount of included fans though. Power Supply - recommend not going cheap on this part. Probably the sweet spot for price/reliability. Optical Drive - can you take one off a different computer?
Yeah the CPU I can get at my local microcenter for only $280 so it's a great deal too.
Motherboard could probably be cheaper yeah. I found one for $40 lol.
RAM-Neverdies is either crazy or crazy lucky. I was telling him about my ram and he called it "really overpriced." Apparently 2 years ago when he made his PC 8GB of similar quality ram was only $45.
SSD-I can go for another one, probably smaller too. I just need a SSD in general and this one seems pretty good.
HDD-YES!
Video Card-I'm thinking 970. It can be the part of the system that I splurge on for personal reasons :)
Case-yeah
PS-agreed
OD-I throw out all my old computers and such. Hording runs in my family so I try to avoid it any way possible.
I'm feeling pretty good about it overall though. Got the price down considerably compared to where I started.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 29, 2015, 01:21 AM
Yeah the CPU I can get at my local microcenter for only $280 so it's a great deal too. Motherboard could probably be cheaper yeah. I found one for $40 lol. RAM-Neverdies is either crazy or crazy lucky. I was telling him about my ram and he called it "really overpriced." Apparently 2 years ago when he made his PC 8GB of similar quality ram was only $45. SSD-I can go for another one, probably smaller too. I just need a SSD in general and this one seems pretty good. HDD-YES! Video Card-I'm thinking 970. It can be the part of the system that I splurge on for personal reasons :) Case-yeah PS-agreed OD-I throw out all my old computers and such. Hording runs in my family so I try to avoid it any way possible.
I'm feeling pretty good about it overall though. Got the price down considerably compared to where I started.
CPU- Sweet! RAM - Yeah, RAM seems to have gone up. About 2.5 years ago I had written down 32 GB of RAM for 160$. Which is about the same price range. OD - Hoarding runs in my family too. Unfortunately I hoard as well. :( Not as bad as my grandpa did though. He was a master hoarder. It was unlike anything I've ever seen. 100% serious too.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 29, 2015, 07:13 PM
Downloading Ryse. Xbox 1 exclusive! ;)
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Post by: Legend on Jan 29, 2015, 11:09 PM
Picked up the CPU from MicroCenter.
While I was there I tried out the nvidea shield. It just felt poor.
PC to Vita streaming would be much much nicer.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 29, 2015, 11:48 PM
Tried looking up some builds for a PC
I went to pcpartpicker and it is so intimidating because theres hundreds of builds around the same price and I have no idea which one would be the best
I know now I will need at least one thousand two hundred dollars canadian to build a good PC sorry for not using numbers my keyboard is so iced up right now
I want to make one that is a little big future proof as im sure i can get one now for like seven hundred or eight but i want it to last for a while plus i want to play all the latest games on high settings sixty fps
I guess Ill wait till next holiday probably by then they will have a ton of price drops because right now twelve hundred is a bit much and it sucks that the canadian dollar is messed up in comparison to the american dollar everything is so much more expensive now
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 30, 2015, 12:26 AM
I went to pcpartpicker and it is so intimidating because theres hundreds of builds around the same price and I have no idea which one would be the best
I know now I will need at least one thousand two hundred dollars canadian to build a good PC sorry for not using numbers my keyboard is so iced up right now
I want to make one that is a little big future proof as im sure i can get one now for like seven hundred or eight but i want it to last for a while plus i want to play all the latest games on high settings sixty fps
I guess Ill wait till next holiday probably by then they will have a ton of price drops because right now twelve hundred is a bit much and it sucks that the canadian dollar is messed up in comparison to the american dollar everything is so much more expensive now
You could alway buy a part at a time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 30, 2015, 01:35 AM
I went to pcpartpicker and it is so intimidating because theres hundreds of builds around the same price and I have no idea which one would be the best
I know now I will need at least one thousand two hundred dollars canadian to build a good PC sorry for not using numbers my keyboard is so iced up right now
I want to make one that is a little big future proof as im sure i can get one now for like seven hundred or eight but i want it to last for a while plus i want to play all the latest games on high settings sixty fps
I guess Ill wait till next holiday probably by then they will have a ton of price drops because right now twelve hundred is a bit much and it sucks that the canadian dollar is messed up in comparison to the american dollar everything is so much more expensive now
You could probably get that under 1,000 canadian. That'd be like $800 us right?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2015, 02:33 AM
I went to pcpartpicker and it is so intimidating because theres hundreds of builds around the same price and I have no idea which one would be the best
I know now I will need at least one thousand two hundred dollars canadian to build a good PC sorry for not using numbers my keyboard is so iced up right now
I want to make one that is a little big future proof as im sure i can get one now for like seven hundred or eight but i want it to last for a while plus i want to play all the latest games on high settings sixty fps
I guess Ill wait till next holiday probably by then they will have a ton of price drops because right now twelve hundred is a bit much and it sucks that the canadian dollar is messed up in comparison to the american dollar everything is so much more expensive now
You can never future proof a computer. Whatever video card you buy now will be obsolete in 6 months.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 03:04 AM
You can never future proof a computer. Whatever video card you buy now will be obsolete in 6 months.
A bit dramatic of the use of "obsolete." Were he to buy a top of the line GPU, then yeah, it wouldn't be top of the line in 6 months. But I'd hardly call that obsolete. Still be usable for years.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2015, 03:13 AM
It's flipping huge so I've going to definitely have to go with a different case. I went with this one because it had better reviews than the one I was looking at, and I like the multiple display ports. Plus I have Amazon Prime so yah!
I've also figured out my PSU. This one is cheaper, and is one of the best PSUs on the market. Comes with a 10 year warranty.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NH5T1MS/?tag=pcpapi-20 It's flipping huge so I've going to definitely have to go with a different case. I went with this one because it had better reviews than the one I was looking at, and I like the multiple display ports. Plus I have Amazon Prime so yah! I've also figured out my PSU. This one is cheaper, and is one of the best PSUs on the market. Comes with a 10 year warranty. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817438017&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=
GPU - Oh yeah, that one's giant. PSU - lol, everyone I know is getting that. I got the 850, then I got my friend Michael to get the 750 when his PSU didn't work out. Then I got Tacos to go that way too. :D It had amazing reviews.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 03:40 AM
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/y82hTW This was my build.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 30, 2015, 03:59 AM
You can never future proof a computer. Whatever video card you buy now will be obsolete in 6 months.
I just mean I want to get something that I will not have to replace in the near future
I do not want to get a mid end GPU right now and then have to replace it in a couple of months
I would rather get something a little more high end so that even in the near future I probably would not have to worry whether or not my pc could run a game
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 30, 2015, 04:00 AM
I'm running Ryse at high settings 1080p@60 fps most of the time. Where as XB1 is 900p@30fps. Also I can fairly easily add another GPU.
Also I noticed your setup does not have a CPU cooler do some builds not need one or something? And how much do you think you spent on other accesories for your build such as mouse keyboard etc if you even bought any of that
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2015, 04:12 AM
Also I noticed your setup does not have a CPU cooler do some builds not need one or something? And how much do you think you spent on other accesories for your build such as mouse keyboard etc if you even bought any of that
CPUs come with fans. It's only if you overclock or have issues then you need a better cooler.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 30, 2015, 04:18 AM
It's flipping huge so I've going to definitely have to go with a different case. I went with this one because it had better reviews than the one I was looking at, and I like the multiple display ports. Plus I have Amazon Prime so yah!
I've also figured out my PSU. This one is cheaper, and is one of the best PSUs on the market. Comes with a 10 year warranty.
Amazon is the way to go, even if you save few dollars buying somewhere else. The RMA process is so much better than newegg if you have to return a part. They don't even have you send it back first, they ship it out right when you do the RMA and give you 30 days to return. Plus the return shipping is free, but that might be because i'm a prime member, not sure. I just love amazon and they deserve the success they've earned over the years.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 30, 2015, 04:18 AM
Also I noticed your setup does not have a CPU cooler do some builds not need one or something? And how much do you think you spent on other accessories for your build such as mouse keyboard etc if you even bought any of that
Like Legend said. The CPUs come with fans. Very rare that they don't. I haven't had any issues with the included fan. Mouse, keyboard, monitor, the optical drive, network card and speakers I already had. Mouse, Keyboard can be gotten pretty cheap 20-40$. Monitor is going to be somewhat expensive depending on size/resolution. And you could use your TV. Optical drive maybe 20$. Network card, difficult to find, but may be able to find one for 20$. Speakers, 20$ maybe more for better quality. Less if you know where to look. If you're using your TV, not an issue. As for the OS, that'll probably be the most expensive thing, barring a new monitor. Keep in mind those are US prices.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 30, 2015, 04:24 AM
Like Legend said. The CPUs come with fans. Very rare that they don't. I haven't had any issues with the included fan. Mouse, keyboard, monitor, the optical drive, network card and speakers I already had. Mouse, Keyboard can be gotten pretty cheap 20-40$. Monitor is going to be somewhat expensive depending on size/resolution. And you could use your TV. Optical drive maybe 20$. Network card, difficult to find, but may be able to find one for 20$. Speakers, 20$ maybe more for better quality. Less if you know where to look. If you're using your TV, not an issue. As for the OS, that'll probably be the most expensive thing, barring a new monitor. Keep in mind those are US prices.
Only thing I really need is OS Mouse and Keyboard
I just recently bought a new thirty two inch TV that may be a bit big but later on down the line I will get a monitor in the twenty inches area they dont usually cost as much as a TV
Also I would have to get a headset now lol after using the ps gold headsets i just cant go back to using the speakers on my TV
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 04:26 AM
What is every ones opinion on overclocking? Yes or no?
Personally no. I don't like to mess with stuff. Not a lot of benefit from it, in my opinion. Only real benefit would be extra performance, but at the cost could be big. You're increasing heat, which can damage parts, you may void the warranty, and there might be weird software glitches.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 04:27 AM
I just recently bought a new thirty two inch TV that may be a bit big but later on down the line I will get a monitor in the twenty inches area they dont usually cost as much as a TV
Also I would have to get a headset now lol after using the ps gold headsets i just cant go back to using the speakers on my TV
OS would cost you probably 80$.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 30, 2015, 04:54 AM
I will definitely look into building a pc sometime this year if I can get some good deals during holiday this year
Ive always wanted to get a great pc that way I can get all my third party games from there
Sure its much more expansive than a PS four but honestly the amount of money I could save because of the fact that PC games are cheaper is worth it right now a brand new ps four game is seventy bucks here
Ill still buy games like CoD on console because of the community though cause it seems like theres barely anyone playing them on PC
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 30, 2015, 03:16 PM
I just mean I want to get something that I will not have to replace in the near future
I do not want to get a mid end GPU right now and then have to replace it in a couple of months
I would rather get something a little more high end so that even in the near future I probably would not have to worry whether or not my pc could run a game
There's really no way around that. We're just lucky PC games are console ports. That delayed things. Like I got myself a Geforce 3 back in the day. It lasted me a year before I had to replace it. It was top of the line when I got it. Like I didn't replace it cause I was in school and switched to laptops for a few years. I built my machine about two years ago with a gtx 560Ti. It's lasted me till now, a little longer than my Geforce 3 did. But that's because I don't game at 1080p on my PC and console ports have been holding PCs back. Though I can run Crysis 3 at max settings at 720p and it's fluid. The situation would be no different if I had a gtx 590. That card shows up at minimum specs now. I'd still have to replace it now either way. Mid-range is always the best option. Always think now when building computers.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 30, 2015, 03:38 PM
560Ti is definitely not obsolete yet. It still runs games at medium to very high (depending on game) at 1680*1050 or 1080p.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 30, 2015, 05:07 PM
560Ti is definitely not obsolete yet. It still runs games at medium to very high (depending on game) at 1680*1050 or 1080p.
You do realize the 560 stopped showing up as minimum spec? For any cross gen game, it's still useful, but it won't run Unity. Hell it has trouble running Watchdogs at medium settings at 720p.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 30, 2015, 05:28 PM
You do realize the 560 stopped showing up as minimum spec? For any cross gen game, it's still useful, but it won't run Unity. heck it has trouble running Watchdogs at medium settings at 720p.
Lol never use Ubisoft games aa a benchmark. Specifically Unity runs bad on any system.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 05:28 PM
The 560 TI came out in 2011. So 2 years before you had it. It was barely high end when it came out. The 560 TI is what Watch Dogs recommends, either software issues or maybe somewhere else you have a bottleneck. The 590 is about the same as the GTX 670 though, so something to keep in mind.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 30, 2015, 05:31 PM
You do realize the 560 stopped showing up as minimum spec? For any cross gen game, it's still useful, but it won't run Unity. Hell it has trouble running Watchdogs at medium settings at 720p.
Stopped showing up? Isn't it more important how it actually runs the games than something on paper? Minimum requirements are often battleship in my experience. Also, I'm talking about the 560Ti. I run Shadow of Mordor at very high with medium textures at 1080p with a solid 30FPS.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 31, 2015, 02:22 AM
The 560 TI came out in 2011. So 2 years before you had it. It was barely high end when it came out. The 560 TI is what Watch Dogs recommends, either software issues or maybe somewhere else you have a bottleneck. The 590 is about the same as the GTX 670 though, so something to keep in mind.
I lied about when I got it :P. I forgot how long its been since I stopped making apps. I got it June/July 2011. Yes it does, but the "joys" of PC gaming. 590 is not the same as a 670. Horse power may be, but the 670 is optimized to do things better. Good example: Tomb Raider Legends. The "next gen" option in the game was created on the 360's GPU. The 360's GPU was the first card out in the world with unified shaders. Tomb Raider Legends ran like dog on every video card. Even overkilling it with a Geforce 9800 (Their top of the line card at the time) couldn't handle it. That card ran circles around the 360's GPU in terms of power. Doesn't matter though next gen tech is next gen tech, power is irrelevant and new technologies are starting to get created. Whatever card anyone buys now will most likely be outdated a lot sooner. Though I'll concede that a beast now will last a bit longer, there's also costs to consider. A 590 is about the bare minimum you're going to be needed for games moving forward. Bare minimum looks like dog in most cases. You're better off getting a mid range card for 300 and getting it replaced in 3-4 years and buying another mid range card for 300 that runs circles around the high end card. Spending 600 for a top of a line card that's going to need to be replaced at the same time as the midrange card just doesn't make sense unless you're running 3 monitors. Note: All pricing is canadian :P.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 31, 2015, 05:11 AM
Okay another weird thing about buying pc parts is that there are so many different GPU versions
Theres like EVGA theres MSI etc why cant they just make one lol it makes it so much more work to find which version is best
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 31, 2015, 05:15 AM
Okay another weird thing about buying pc parts is that there are so many different GPU versions
Theres like EVGA theres MSI etc why cant they just make one lol it makes it so much more work to find which version is best
Yeah but it's also nice to have options. Like same card, but you can get different video outputs and better cooling. It's not like a cpu that only does 1 thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 31, 2015, 05:26 AM
Okay another weird thing about buying pc parts is that there are so many different GPU versions
Theres like EVGA theres MSI etc why cant they just make one lol it makes it so much more work to find which version is best
Don't really have to worry about brand, unless you're particular to one brand over another. Otherwise, just look for what'll have the best cooling/highest clockrates. They all use the same chips, but some will have higher clocks. There's also outputs, but I don't think you'll have to worry too much about that unless you decide to get a bunch of monitors.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Jan 31, 2015, 05:41 AM
feature=youtu.be&a
SHOCKING interview with Nvidia engineer about the 970 fiasco
HOLY fudgy shame IM IN TEARS THIS IS AMAZING
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 31, 2015, 03:02 PM
rofl
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 31, 2015, 03:10 PM
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kind of want this game
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Rorono on Jan 31, 2015, 03:30 PM
Does anyone know if GMG allows adding funds to the account, similar to steam wallet?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 31, 2015, 07:07 PM
Yeah this GPU is huge lol. Practically a foot long.
Found a perfect and cheap case at microcenter, but they were out of stock. So I went with last year's version of the case. Lost a usb 3.0 port but saved $5. Case ended up having a window in it so I guess that's nice.
Right now I'm putting in the dvd drive plus storage, then on wednesday I'll get the psu+ram+mobo so I can finish it up.
Any recomindations for a good pc game that really shows off what pc can do that consoles can't? I feel I should buy a game since this is my first powerful pc. Already own skyrim.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 03, 2015, 01:00 AM
Yeah this GPU is huge lol. Practically a foot long. Any recomindations for a good pc game that really shows off what pc can do that consoles can't? I feel I should buy a game since this is my first powerful pc. Already own skyrim.
Yeah, that thing is a monster. Let's see Ryse looks great, Skyrim looks good, especially modded. I've heard and seen great things of Metro: LL, and Crysis 3.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 03, 2015, 01:01 AM
PC lost some exclusives today :(( (SOE games)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 03, 2015, 01:22 AM
Yeah, that thing is a monster. Let's see Ryse looks great, Skyrim looks good, especially modded. I've heard and seen great things of Metro: LL, and Crysis 3.
Aw man I thought it released with the next gen ports.
Was suppose to come out in Jan 2015 as originally announced - never intended to come out with the Console versions. Delayed it again till March.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 03, 2015, 05:01 PM
My PC is having this annoying system lag (Windows 7). Both mouse, video, sound (basically everything) lags at random intervals and the sound becomes distorted while the lag lasts.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 03, 2015, 05:03 PM
My PC is having this annoying system lag (Windows 7). Both mouse, video, sound (basically everything) lags at random intervals and the sound becomes distorted while the lag lasts.
Have you tried turning it off and on?
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I almost forgot but I need a monitor!!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 03, 2015, 05:04 PM
Yes I did that and it didn't get fixed. It seems to be more prominent when my external HDD is connected via USB (but it's still there when it's not). No idea why.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 03, 2015, 05:14 PM
Yes I did that and it didn't get fixed. It seems to be more prominent when my external HDD is connected via USB (but it's still there when it's not). No idea why.
Have you tracked the cpu during these spikes? Is it jumping to 100% or doing anything strange?
With google I couldn't find anything like that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 03, 2015, 05:17 PM
My PC is having this annoying system lag (Windows 7). Both mouse, video, sound (basically everything) lags at random intervals and the sound becomes distorted while the lag lasts.
Never had that issue. I'd check your antivirus and then defragment your PC.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 03, 2015, 06:38 PM
Last few parts arrived. Time to get building!!!!
Then I'll have to run out and get windows :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 03, 2015, 07:01 PM
Yeah this GPU is huge lol. Practically a foot long.
Found a perfect and cheap case at microcenter, but they were out of stock. So I went with last year's version of the case. Lost a usb 3.0 port but saved $5. Case ended up having a window in it so I guess that's nice.
Right now I'm putting in the dvd drive plus storage, then on wednesday I'll get the psu+ram+mobo so I can finish it up.
Any recomindations for a good pc game that really shows off what pc can do that consoles can't? I feel I should buy a game since this is my first powerful pc. Already own skyrim.
Minesweeper
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 03, 2015, 09:18 PM
My brother put some 30 hours into Shadow of Mordor. :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 03, 2015, 09:20 PM
And kinda? I have to take out the graphics card to fiddle with them lol.
Both of mine do. The one on the bottom of mine has a little light on the left side away from the eject button, the one on top has a much smaller light about 3/4ths of an inch away from the eject button.
Might be the power cable. I had the issue where the data cable on the top drive was not completely connected. Was too lazy to fix it for a while, but I got around to it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 04, 2015, 02:01 AM
Both of mine do. The one on the bottom of mine has a little light on the left side away from the eject button, the one on top has a much smaller light about 3/4ths of an inch away from the eject button.
Might be the power cable. I had the issue where the data cable on the top drive was not completely connected. Was too lazy to fix it for a while, but I got around to it.
Yeah I'm not seeing any lights. Time to check that!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 04, 2015, 02:09 AM
Yeah it was the power cable!!!
Working now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 04, 2015, 02:10 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 04, 2015, 08:47 AM
Fudge.
The case has a small lip of plastic as part of its design at the top of the top pci i/o cover slot. This wouldn't be a problem with dvi like connectors that extend out, but with hdmi and display port it stops the plugs from fully fitting in. My mobo only has one pci3 slot so my only solution is to cut off that metal lip.
Fun!!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 04, 2015, 06:12 PM
Hahaha now the back of my case looks like a warzone with bent and cut metal twisted and deformed over the whole middle section, but it works! HDMI plugs fit fine and I think display port plugs will fit fine.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 04, 2015, 07:07 PM
Wish I could have gotten mine up and running that quick.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 05, 2015, 12:06 AM
My PC is having this annoying system lag (Windows 7). Both mouse, video, sound (basically everything) lags at random intervals and the sound becomes distorted while the lag lasts.
How's your monitor inputs?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2015, 01:30 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 05, 2015, 07:33 PM
My 3TB external drive has pretty much died on me...It's just about 16 months old or so...what a load of dog shame. I researched it though before buying :(. So much good stuff lost (TV/movies/anime etc)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2015, 10:44 PM
My 3TB external drive has pretty much died on me...It's just about 16 months old or so...what a load of dog shame. I researched it though before buying :(. So much good stuff lost (TV/movies/anime etc)
Aw shucks. Sure you can't save the data still?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Feb 06, 2015, 01:56 AM
Download SkyUI for Skyrim it makes the UI so much better
Its a mod
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 06, 2015, 03:05 AM
My 3TB external drive has pretty much died on me...It's just about 16 months old or so...what a load of dog shame. I researched it though before buying :(. So much good stuff lost (TV/movies/anime etc)
Did you use it like for multiple hours at a time or do you plug it in once in a blue moon?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 06, 2015, 03:05 AM
Went with the 850 because it really only cost me 30 dollars with the gift cards I had collected over time. A little more power can't hurt.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 08, 2015, 12:45 AM
What do you think of this card http://www.amazon.com/PNY-GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics-VCGGTX9704XPB/dp/B00NH5ZNWA/ref=sr_1_11?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1423356218&sr=1-11&keywords=gtx+970
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 08, 2015, 12:48 AM
can anyone tell me the difference between the two?
What do you think of this card http://www.amazon.com/PNY-GeForce-GDDR5-Graphics-VCGGTX9704XPB/dp/B00NH5ZNWA/ref=sr_1_11?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1423356218&sr=1-11&keywords=gtx+970
It's a 970. They are generally all the same. Biggest difference between brands is going to be cooling and clock rates. As far as I understand PNY is a good brand.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 08, 2015, 05:30 AM
Why not get Windows 7? Well, either way I guess.
Going to upgrade to Windows 10?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 08, 2015, 05:53 AM
(Other than the Metro App screen - which I disabled at start up).
Yeah behind the scenes 8.1 is nice. Its front end and all the stupid apps is what's annoying. No way will Windows 10 get rid ofthese apps, but hopefully it integrates them better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 08, 2015, 07:53 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 10, 2015, 01:47 AM
Windows is on the way!!!
I went with the full version because the OEM version is locked to the Motherboard and processor. So if i want to change either down the road it will be a major pain. 10 more dollars to eliminate battleship down the line is okay with me.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 10, 2015, 01:54 AM
I'm needing to get a case fan for the back of it. All the hot air just twirls inside instead of exiting.
Besides that it's great. No issues with coil wine and it's super quit even while gaming.
Only hilarious thing is the disc drive. Running that makes me fear the whole system will explode.
Lol, I went with an external drive that i'll only plug in when i need to install something. 99 percent of my games will be downloaded from steam or else where so i figured i didn't need an internal.
I love the idea of this case but it's got bad reviews from the two people that took their time to review it. Might look into something similar.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2015, 02:24 AM
One of you guys should build this super expensive PC. :o
Item 1 --- Digital Storm Aventum II (Config # 1146846) 1 $27,698.00 $27,698.00 Chassis Chassis Model: Black OPS Aventum II Exterior Finish: Onyx Black Matte Finish with Red Stand
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster ZxR (Ultimate in Audio Playback and Creation)
HPC Processor: 3x NVIDIA Tesla K20 Computing Processor (5GB of Memory)
Digital Storm Engineering Extreme Cooling: H20: HydroLux Level 1: Digital Storm Exotic Custom Cooling System (CPU Only) H20 Tube Color: Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive) Chassis Fans: Standard Factory Chassis Fans Internal Lighting: Digital Storm RGB LED Lighting System (Requires Thermal Management Control Board & Software) Airflow Control: Digital Storm Thermal Management Control Board & Software
Digital Storm TwisterBoost Technology Boost Processor: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz (Requires High-End Motherboard Selection)
Software Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows CD) Virus Protection: FREE: McAfee AntiVirus Plus (1 Year Service Activation Card) (Not Pre-installed) ($35 Value) Office: Microsoft Office 2013 Pro (PC Attach Key PKC Only, No Pre-install)
Accessories / Goodies Display: Asus 4K Gaming 31 inch PQ321Q Series (3840 x 2160 Resolution) (Black) (LED Backlight)
One of you guys should build this super expensive PC. :o
Item 1 --- Digital Storm Aventum II (Config # 1146846) 1 $27,698.00 $27,698.00 Chassis Chassis Model: Black OPS Aventum II Exterior Finish: Onyx Black Matte Finish with Red Stand
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster ZxR (Ultimate in Audio Playback and Creation)
HPC Processor: 3x NVIDIA Tesla K20 Computing Processor (5GB of Memory)
Digital Storm Engineering Extreme Cooling: H20: HydroLux Level 1: Digital Storm Exotic Custom Cooling System (CPU Only) H20 Tube Color: Red Tubing with High-Performance Fluid (UV Lighting Reactive) Chassis Fans: Standard Factory Chassis Fans Internal Lighting: Digital Storm RGB LED Lighting System (Requires Thermal Management Control Board & Software) Airflow Control: Digital Storm Thermal Management Control Board & Software
Digital Storm TwisterBoost Technology Boost Processor: Stage 2: Overclock CPU 4.5GHz to 4.8GHz (Requires High-End Motherboard Selection)
Software Windows OS: Microsoft Windows 8.1 Professional (64-Bit Edition) Recovery Tools: Windows Recovery Toolkit (Bundled with Windows CD) Virus Protection: FREE: McAfee AntiVirus Plus (1 Year Service Activation Card) (Not Pre-installed) ($35 Value) Office: Microsoft Office 2013 Pro (PC Attach Key PKC Only, No Pre-install)
Accessories / Goodies Display: Asus 4K Gaming 31 inch PQ321Q Series (3840 x 2160 Resolution) (Black) (LED Backlight)
I feel like for 27 grand you could get a much better build.
The 3 HPCs by themselves make up half that. There's a bunch of parts that make up a good portion of the rest of it too. GPUs - 2000$ or so. CPU - 1000$ is my guess. Drive - 600$ PSU - 600+$
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2015, 02:35 AM
Bad idea, in my opinion. The GTX 970 will be good enough to run the OR at pretty good levels, it may require turning down some settings, but that's better than SLI. SLI is getting better, but it often has issues with stutter, and stutter is the death of good VR.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 11, 2015, 03:05 PM
Bad idea, in my opinion. The GTX 970 will be good enough to run the OR at pretty good levels, it may require turning down some settings, but that's better than SLI. SLI is getting better, but it often has issues with stutter, and stutter is the death of good VR.
Well SLI is getting or has already gotten an update to the way it works for VR. Basically one card will run each eye.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 11, 2015, 05:00 PM
Yep, I had to send back my first board, so had to separate heat sink from the cpu. So I had to replace the paste.
As I thought.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 14, 2015, 01:56 AM
This is my fist message from my new pc! On a 120 inch screen In 720p... I could have sworn I picked up a 1080 card, guess not as it wont let me change the resolution settings. Can't wait to get my real GPU. But at least I have it up and running. I'm sure it will play mine sweeper just fine. ;)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 14, 2015, 01:57 AM
Okay, something crazy just happened. I think as I typed that it switched to 1080. WTH?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2015, 02:05 AM
This is my fist message from my new pc! On a 120 inch screen In 720p... I could have sworn I picked up a 1080 card, guess not as it wont let me change the resolution settings. Can't wait to get my real GPU. But at least I have it up and running. I'm sure it will play mine sweeper just fine. ;)
What GPU do you have?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2015, 02:05 AM
Woot! Woot! Woot!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 14, 2015, 02:07 AM
You're right in that it's not 500 anymore but 250 is still expensive: http://www.staples.ca/en/Microsoft-Office-Home-Business-2013-1-User-English/product_122562_2-CA_1_20001
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2015, 02:52 AM
You're right in that it's not 500 anymore but 250 is still expensive: http://www.staples.ca/en/Microsoft-Office-Home-Business-2013-1-User-English/product_122562_2-CA_1_20001
Link doesn't work for me.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 14, 2015, 02:57 AM
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Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 14, 2015, 02:57 AM
Is till trying to make the Zelda map, his templates are saved in word format, will those programs convert from natural word document?
I'd use google docs, you can upload in word format and then download in word format. Open office is great too, but sometimes in .doc or .docx, stuff gets messed up.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 14, 2015, 02:58 AM
I'd use google docs, you can upload in word format and then download in word format. Open office is great too, but sometimes in .doc or .docx, stuff gets messed up.
I'll give one a try.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 14, 2015, 03:02 AM
fudge I hate the "break the internet" slogan.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 14, 2015, 03:07 AM
A tweet from the oscars last year was so popular that it caused twitter to crash. Then that caused it to kinda be a saying for meaning something's so popular that it crashes the website. Then kim kardashean made it a common phrase by having it on the cover of her magazene photo. Since then I've seen tons of things saying it.
What's annoying about it is that people don't say it as an exageration. They litteeally think kim's butt broke the internet for a bit.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2015, 04:23 AM
A tweet from the oscars last year was so popular that it caused twitter to crash. Then that caused it to kinda be a saying for meaning something's so popular that it crashes the website. Then kim kardashean made it a common phrase by having it on the cover of her magazene photo. Since then I've seen tons of things saying it.
What's annoying about it is that people don't say it as an exageration. They litteeally think kim's butt broke the internet for a bit.
Lol. People.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 15, 2015, 01:51 AM
The boot time is amazing on this pc. It boots up faster than my ps4.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2015, 01:58 AM
The boot time is amazing on this pc. It boots up faster than my ps4.
Its awesome.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2015, 01:58 AM
How's the PC Legend?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 15, 2015, 02:04 AM
K, went to download Crome, clicked some stupid link wasn't paying attention and it download a bunch of shame because I'm probably to tired to mess with this right now. Rather than track down all the junk I'm reseting window's. FML...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 15, 2015, 02:07 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Feb 15, 2015, 02:10 AM
I got some games with my new PC lately. I got Fallout:NV, Insurgency,and Deus Ex: HR. They are all amazing. My favorite PC game is probably Empire: Total War. I got Blacklist a while back and it's really good too.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 15, 2015, 02:11 AM
I got some games with my new PC lately. I got Fallout:NV, Insurgency,and Deus Ex: HR. They are all amazing. My favorite PC game is probably Empire: Total War. I got Blacklist a while back and it's really good too.
What pc did you get?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Feb 15, 2015, 02:11 AM
I'd use google docs, you can upload in word format and then download in word format. Open office is great too, but sometimes in .doc or .docx, stuff gets messed up.
Google docs is web based?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 15, 2015, 02:35 AM
PC rebuilt, now back to my starting point. I really don't want any junk on this pc.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2015, 02:37 AM
Anyone use dolphin, and if so how are you getting your games?
There's some kind of emu place, it's kinda like a paradise.Me personally, is where I like to go to look at back ups of titles. Makes me think of how things would be if it was possible to sell rom based memory sticks again. I like to make comparisons between old and current formats and see how times have changed.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 16, 2015, 02:40 AM
Anyone use dolphin, and if so how are you getting your games?
Legally, the method is to either play the disks from your PC, which few drives support Wii/GC games, or you can dump them with you Wii onto a drive, but that requires modding.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 16, 2015, 05:22 AM
I find the top image more appealing visually. (http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/239120/ss_c279abd3c7a57c1993d1f53cc1213a4ccbcb95da.600x338.jpg?t=1421705709) (http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/39140/ss_36d4fd599fa82ef1f9850ec916ff55613810bcbf.600x338.jpg?t=1399391149)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 16, 2015, 05:29 AM
I find the top image more appealing visually. (http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/239120/ss_c279abd3c7a57c1993d1f53cc1213a4ccbcb95da.600x338.jpg?t=1421705709) (http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/39140/ss_36d4fd599fa82ef1f9850ec916ff55613810bcbf.600x338.jpg?t=1399391149)
I guess if you put it that way but the image you used for FF7 was pretty bad example lol.
I still like the environment design of FFVII over FFIII's designs.
Legally, the method is to either play the disks from your PC, which few drives support Wii/GC games, or you can dump them with you Wii onto a drive, but that requires modding.
Is there a list of supported drives?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 16, 2015, 05:37 PM
Could get the used one for 12$, but I'm not finding a lot that can play the disks. http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-GDR-8163B-DVD-ROM-Drive/dp/B0006AZ5AO/ref=cm_rdp_product
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 16, 2015, 06:00 PM
Could get the used one for 12$, but I'm not finding a lot that can play the disks. http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-GDR-8163B-DVD-ROM-Drive/dp/B0006AZ5AO/ref=cm_rdp_product
How do you know if can read wii disk?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 16, 2015, 06:04 PM
F: No Pirates. General discussions about piracy and its morality are ok, but do not link or assist other members in performing it. This applies to all content, not just games. If people have to pay to view the content, don't post the content. No magazine scans.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 16, 2015, 07:08 PM
F: No Pirates. General discussions about piracy and its morality are ok, but do not link or assist other members in performing it. This applies to all content, not just games. If people have to pay to view the content, don't post the content. No magazine scans.
The streaming capability or the visual settings for the game o.O?
Streaming. My brother has been able to play maxed out Shadow of Mordor on a PC with a Radeon 4200. Streaming is awesome.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 17, 2015, 03:15 AM
Well i upgrade my internet plan to 100/10. They are running a special so it only cost me 5 dollars more a month to jump a tier in internet speed. Not sure when it will take effect. But currently it's running really slow ( this happened before the upgrade ) i'm only getting 5 up 5 down right now and i can't figure out why.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 17, 2015, 04:41 AM
Well i upgrade my internet plan to 100/10. They are running a special so it only cost me 5 dollars more a month to jump a tier in internet speed. Not sure when it will take effect. But currently it's running really slow ( this happened before the upgrade ) i'm only getting 5 up 5 down right now and i can't figure out why.
wireless or wired?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 17, 2015, 02:47 PM
Maybe you should call your internet provider and ask if they are throttling it or something
Well i had my wife do a test, it's running about 35/6 today. But now I should get 100/10 with the upgrade.. I'll have to call them after work. I despise call service. They act like you don't know what your doing and have you do all the same shame you've already tried before calling.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 17, 2015, 03:46 PM
Well i had my wife do a test, it's running about 35/6 today. But now I should get 100/10 with the upgrade.. I'll have to call them after work. I despise call service. They act like you don't know what your doing and have you do all the same shame you've already tried before calling.
Haha yeah same here. Had to call my provider recently and the guy made me do all the things I had already tried and then some but it was only after I had tried all that and called them again that they found it was some setting on their end they had to change...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 17, 2015, 05:29 PM
I had a dream I had to go back to the store to get a new cd drive. Fun dream.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 17, 2015, 07:40 PM
Anyone want Tomb Raider?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 17, 2015, 08:10 PM
Nah, I got Tomb Raider from Humble Bundle. But I gave it to Tacos.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 18, 2015, 02:50 AM
Well i had to call cox and get my account fixed. Now it seems that i'll need to replace to modem, the most i've been abel to get is 60/12 which the up is better than promised but if i pay for 100 i'd like to see it or close to it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 20, 2015, 12:21 AM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/4156332800.png)
score
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 20, 2015, 12:35 AM
What are you getting on your ps4? I'm getting 24/5. i just got a new ubee modem from cox. But even after port forwarding and trying dmz i still can't get good speeds. It's actually slower for my ps4 now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Feb 20, 2015, 01:24 AM
What are you getting on your ps4? I'm getting 24/5. i just got a new ubee modem from cox. But even after port forwarding and trying dmz i still can't get good speeds. It's actually slower for my ps4 now.
tv is being occupied right now and I haven't set up remote play for my phone... i'll check it later, but I don't think its 50/50 on the ps4
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Feb 20, 2015, 02:20 AM
What are you getting on your ps4? I'm getting 24/5. i just got a new ubee modem from cox. But even after port forwarding and trying dmz i still can't get good speeds. It's actually slower for my ps4 now.
51.4 down 41.2 up i'm also hard lined to the first port on the modem.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Feb 20, 2015, 02:50 AM
We need you Google Fiber!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 20, 2015, 02:51 AM
51.4 down 41.2 up i'm also hard lined to the first port on the modem.
Yeah, i'm not getting anywere near what i should on the ps4. or even on pc now. That test i did when i first turned the modem on. now... not good at all.
I think i'll return this modem again tomorrow.
Anyone know anything about ubee? The tech talked good about them but i'm think about changing to a netgear.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Feb 20, 2015, 03:01 AM
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-nighthawk-x6-ac3200-tri-band-wi-fi-router-r8000-black/7201035.p?id=1219257124935&skuId=7201035 that is the one the best buy associates that know what they are talking about reccomend
this would be good as well: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/linksys-smart-wi-fi-dual-band-wireless-ac-router-black/2699008.p?id=1219076366991&skuId=2699008
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2015, 03:03 AM
You guys are so lucky.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2015, 03:04 AM
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-nighthawk-x6-ac3200-tri-band-wi-fi-router-r8000-black/7201035.p?id=1219257124935&skuId=7201035 that is the one the best buy associates that know what they are talking about reccomend
this would be good as well: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/linksys-smart-wi-fi-dual-band-wireless-ac-router-black/2699008.p?id=1219076366991&skuId=2699008
That first one looks like it's secretly a transformer. :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 20, 2015, 03:14 AM
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/netgear-nighthawk-x6-ac3200-tri-band-wi-fi-router-r8000-black/7201035.p?id=1219257124935&skuId=7201035 that is the one the best buy associates that know what they are talking about reccomend
this would be good as well: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/linksys-smart-wi-fi-dual-band-wireless-ac-router-black/2699008.p?id=1219076366991&skuId=2699008
geeze, so expensive. Which one are you using?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 20, 2015, 03:15 AM
i'm using one from verizon their "quantam" dualband AC modem/wifi router
The thing is. I dont need to get my full 100 across wifi. My ps4 is hardwired. It shouldn't be a problem. I don't think port forwarding is working at all.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Feb 20, 2015, 01:47 PM
The thing is. I dont need to get my full 100 across wifi. My ps4 is hardwired. It shouldn't be a problem. I don't think port forwarding is working at all.
What port is the ps4 plugged into? Plug it into the first one... And then reset the router/modem
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 20, 2015, 02:53 PM
The thing is. I dont need to get my full 100 across wifi. My ps4 is hardwired. It shouldn't be a problem. I don't think port forwarding is working at all.
You don't port forward for a wired connection. It's for wireless connections only. At least if I'm remembering everything right.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2015, 01:17 PM
I can be wrong. I just remember port forwarding was to give you wired like connection speeds.
I thought port forwarding was to bypass security checks or to have better connection to services like VOIP, I'm sure a lot of people that are HxC PC gamers are hard wired and utilize port forwarding. I remember setting up port forwarding for Dust514 on PS3 for the game itself as well as VOIP for that game separately and it did improve those connections.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2015, 08:21 PM
I'd like to get a 1080p monitor so I can set my monitor and TV to display the same thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 21, 2015, 08:24 PM
Interesting. I'm not sure if that happens with mine (I usually extend anyway, instead of duplicating)
Extending doesn't depend on resolution. That's what I do right now, and have my TV set to primary which means to log in, I have to turn on my TV, and some things don't like to be moved over to the secondary monitor.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2015, 08:44 PM
(http://www.speedtest.net/result/4161000135.png)
At least i'm getting this constant hardwired now. I hope this guys that's coming can fix my slow WiFi speeds and the hardwired speed i'm receiving on the PlayStation.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2015, 09:26 PM
I have 30 pc games now! Thanks humble bundle and Pi guy!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 21, 2015, 09:32 PM
Oh crud.. It's either Mmmfishtacos, or Mmm_fish_tacos. I had to shame the pc down cause the tech is here. Once I boot it back up I'll let you know for sure.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2015, 09:40 PM
Oh crud.. It's either Mmmfishtacos, or Mmm_fish_tacos. I had to shame the pc down cause the tech is here. Once I boot it back up I'll let you know for sure.
shame DOWN!? XD
lol jk
Ok I'll try to see if I can find you as well ;p.
Edit: No results D:
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2015, 09:52 PM
Oh I thought you were asking a serious question XD.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2015, 01:51 AM
Tacos, add Pezus on Steam.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 22, 2015, 02:00 AM
y u no add me fish taco ;(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2015, 02:02 AM
Tacos how do you feel about RTS games?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 22, 2015, 02:05 AM
I like them. I'm not that great at the but I like to play them from time to time.
Sorry guys, I'll get my steam thing worked out. I haven't been able to turn back on my desk top, and the laptop wont load steam. I'll get to that tomorrow tho.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2015, 02:08 AM
I like them. I'm not that great at the but I like to play them from time to time.
Sorry guys, I'll get my steam thing worked out. I haven't been able to turn back on my desk top, and the laptop wont load steam. I'll get to that tomorrow tho.
Oh? :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2015, 02:09 AM
I'm looking at my steam inventory and I have 2 Age of Mythologies going unused. If anyone is interested?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 22, 2015, 02:16 AM
I have steam, but no games... Any good and cheap ones to get? I'm still playing Starcraft 2 on pc
Pro tip like piguy said - wait for humble bundle deals or steam summer/winter - a GREAT % to wait for is 75% otherwise 66% if you are planning to play a game immediately - anything higher than 75% is golden.
There's a few good games on sale right now and on a great deal on bundle sites.
If you want a horror game - Fear - is 75% off for $2.49 right now: http://store.steampowered.com/app/21090/
You can buy the entire collection too which is on sale for the same % but its like $13 or so or you can check out individual titles within the series: http://store.steampowered.com/sub/12357/
BUT you can get the ENTIRE collection just for $7.99 at Bundle Stars: http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/fear-bundle/
----- If you like strategy RPGs try this one : http://store.steampowered.com/app/237890/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_2
Agarest series is on sale thanks to the release of the recent one 2 days ago or so. The first one is on sale for $3.74 and $5 for the complete edition.
----- Capcom's Lost Planet game is on sale
Lost Planet Extreme Condition is currently $2.99: http://store.steampowered.com/app/6510/?snr=1_7_7_204_150_2 -----
Squareenix Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/ Co-Op game humble weekly bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon for $3.74: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/farcry3_blooddragon_storefront Dead Island GOTY for $4.99: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/p/deadislandgoty_storefront
If you want some casual puzzle games: http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/puzzle-bundle/
Here's a pretty decent old school starter PC gaming action games: http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/reboot-bundle-3/ Another one: http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/reboot-bundle-4/
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2015, 04:14 AM
Tacos isn't in my friends list yet. Hasn't confirmed it yet.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 22, 2015, 04:16 AM
Tacos isn't in my friends list yet. Hasn't confirmed it yet.
Oh lol
I was about to say D:
I think he didnt fully register his account. Its in limbo - I remember mine was like that too - I think he needs to change some settings in his profile.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 22, 2015, 04:22 AM
I think he didnt fully register his account. Its in limbo - I remember mine was like that too - I think he needs to change some settings in his profile.
It's a real time strategy game, very much like Age of Empires. It's done by the same studio. It's considered to be very good. What Basil said, it is an enhanced version of the old game. So Steam and Twitch support among other bonuses. Just to give an idea of what it looks like.
Spoiler for Hidden:
(http://i.imm.io/1402f.jpeg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 22, 2015, 04:39 AM
Anyone else have a problem adding friends from steams web site?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 22, 2015, 04:43 AM
It's a real time strategy game, very much like Age of Empires. It's done by the same studio. It's considered to be very good. What Basil said, it is an enhanced version of the old game. So Steam and Twitch support among other bonuses. Just to give an idea of what it looks like.
Spoiler for Hidden:
Spoiler for Image:
(http://i.imm.io/1402f.jpeg)
I love age of empires! Always used the cobra car cheat.
Still have a copy to give away?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2015, 05:32 AM
It's been out since 2013 though. Basically like Minecraft when it was in "beta" for years lol. The game has a lot of content but the dev is always adding more.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 22, 2015, 03:43 PM
It's been out since 2013 though. Basically like Minecraft when it was in "beta" for years lol. The game has a lot of content but the dev is always adding more.
:o
I dont like Minecraft that much either :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 23, 2015, 01:30 AM
Deciding on a case is a pain. But i'm thinking about this one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: 7H3 on Feb 23, 2015, 03:38 AM
needs fan on the side... i'd worry about over heating / ventilation issues depending on the hardware I remember a friend of mine had no case on his rig next to a box fan
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 23, 2015, 03:57 AM
needs fan on the side... i'd worry about over heating / ventilation issues depending on the hardware I remember a friend of mine had no case on his rig next to a box fan
Well currently i'm not worried about heat. If it becomes a problem when i get my GTX970, i can take the side to work and drill a hole pattern it in and a fan mount.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 23, 2015, 04:35 AM
Legend, are you enjoying the gift?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 23, 2015, 12:45 PM
thanks Pi! I just noticed an email where you sent me the game. So awesome!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 23, 2015, 01:10 PM
Its incomplete thats why its in beta/early access! I DONT LIKE INCOMPLETE GAMES :O
But then you suddenly said "I don't like Minecraft either" or something like that lol. It's early access but really just like Minecraft was when it was in "beta". Complete game with more free stuff to be added. Just think of it as free dlc and maybe you'll change your perspective lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 24, 2015, 03:05 PM
But then you suddenly said "I don't like Minecraft either" or something like that lol. It's early access but really just like Minecraft was when it was in "beta". Complete game with more free stuff to be added. Just think of it as free dlc and maybe you'll change your perspective lol
Because someone said Minecraft thats why ;o
I'll change my perspective when the game is out of early access ;o
It's been out since 2013 though. Basically like Minecraft when it was in "beta" for years lol. The game has a lot of content but the dev is always adding more.
But then you suddenly said "I don't like Minecraft either" or something like that lol. It's early access but really just like Minecraft was when it was in "beta". Complete game with more free stuff to be added. Just think of it as free dlc and maybe you'll change your perspective lol
I'll change my perspective when the game is out of early access ;o
You missed my point >_>. I wasn't saying the game itself was like Minecraft, I was just comparing this game's early access state to Minecraft's "beta". Minecraft was in "beta" for years but it was a complete game and fully functional.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 24, 2015, 03:34 PM
You missed my point >_>. I wasn't saying the game itself was like Minecraft, I was just comparing this game's early access state to Minecraft's "beta". Minecraft was in "beta" for years but it was a complete game and fully functional.
But...I still dont like Minecraft :( or Early Access/Beta games n_n.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2015, 03:48 PM
Again, you not liking Minecraft isn't relevant to what I'm saying and I'm saying the game really is only an early access game by name.
I'm referencing this post
(http://i.imgur.com/yMhQQUH.png)
Why did you mention MineCraft as an example when we were talking about Early Access :O
I'm just saying I dont like MineCraft so using it as an example as a game that I potentially like is wrong because I dont like it to begin with :O - in other words there are no games that I like that were Early Access on Steam and playable before their actual release - that is what I meant :o
Again like I said before - I rather wait for the full actual release and not play an early access/beta game. Play it for a few minutes or so to see how it is but long term no.
StarBound was released to be able to play like 2 years ago or so? I've played it then and havent touched it since.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2015, 04:50 PM
Why did you mention MineCraft as an example when we were talking about Early Access :O
I'm just saying I dont like MineCraft so using it as an example as a game that I potentially like is wrong because I dont like it to begin with :O - in other words there are no games that I like that were Early Access on Steam and playable before their actual release - that is what I meant :o
Again like I said before - I rather wait for the full actual release and not play an early access/beta game. Play it for a few minutes or so to see how it is but long term no.
StarBound was released to be able to play like 2 years ago or so? I've played it then and havent touched it since.
"I wasn't saying the game itself was like Minecraft, I was just comparing this game's early access state to Minecraft's "beta". Minecraft was in "beta" for years but it was a complete game and fully functional."
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 24, 2015, 05:38 PM
"I wasn't saying the game itself was like Minecraft, I was just comparing this game's early access state to Minecraft's "beta". Minecraft was in "beta" for years but it was a complete game and fully functional."
I still like fully functional complete games over incomplete games - there :o.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2015, 05:39 PM
The post you just quoted above lol "I wasn't saying the game itself was like Minecraft, I was just comparing this game's early access state to Minecraft's "beta". Minecraft was in "beta" for years but it was a complete game and fully functional."
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 24, 2015, 05:41 PM
We should be talking about my sexy pc case. Not paid demos.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2015, 05:42 PM
The post you just quoted above lol "I wasn't saying the game itself was like Minecraft, I was just comparing this game's early access state to Minecraft's "beta". Minecraft was in "beta" for years but it was a complete game and fully functional."
Oh. But again, doesnt change the fact that I dislike Minecraft and doesnt change the fact that I dislike earlyaccess games/beta games.
I dont like Minecraft just like I dont like Sports games.
And I dont like Early Access games like I dont like tomatoes.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 24, 2015, 05:55 PM
Starbound is notorious for being incomplete though. Space Engineers is not!
y u hatin on Terraria ;(
I havent played Space Engineers but upset about StarBound - was planning to play it with friends but it had constant wipes and was still in development - good thing I didnt buy it with my own money lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2015, 06:33 PM
Poor Basil. Going to miss out on good games.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 24, 2015, 06:55 PM
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 25, 2015, 11:47 PM
I was thinking about it....Titanfall but eh I'll pass on it.
Anyways, the indiegala bundle this week seems to be pretty good - grab it before the price goes up though if you are interested in it! I would of grabbed it myself but eh I already have blazblue and that honestly would of been my main reason to buy the bundle (alongside A Bird's Story which is a spiritual sequel to To The Moon - made by the same team) - there's I guess the bloodrayne spinoff and the double dragon but I'mma save my monies for other games ;o
Edit: Actually i might just bite cause some of those games alone will be $2.50 lol.
https://www.indiegala.com/
(http://i.imgur.com/hbbSbKT.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: NeverDies on Feb 26, 2015, 12:44 AM
There are a bunch of fun games I'd love to get, but I'm poor and my comp has bad internet. :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 26, 2015, 12:44 AM
What do you guys think about custom cable sleeves?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 26, 2015, 01:03 AM
I've gotten over 150 games in less than 12 months on PC. :o Steam - 150 Origin - 20
Sounds about right.
These are all the games I bought/gotten in 2014
Steam -3 Stars Of Destiny (Steam via Groupees) -100% Orange Juice (Steam via Groupees) -99 Spirits (Steam via Groupees) -99 Spirits Cage of Night DLC (Steam via Groupees) -Age of Mythology: Extended Edition (Steam via Gift) -Age of Wonders (Steam via Humble Weekly Triumph and Larian Bundle) -Age of Wonders Shadow Magic (Steam via Humble Weekly Triumph and Larian Bundle) -Alien Breed: Impact (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Alien Breed 2: Assault (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Alien Breed 3: Descent (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Always Sometimes Monsters (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Anachronox (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Anodyne (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (Steam) -Assassin's Creed Revelations (Steam) -AudioSurf (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Rock, Paper, Shotgun) -Avencast: Rise of the Mage (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -Awesomenauts Cluck DLC (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Ballpoint Universe Infinite (Steam via Groupees) -Battlestations: Midway (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Beat Hazard Shadow Operations Unit DLC (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Joystiq) -Beyond Divinity (Steam via Humble Weekly Triumph and Larian Bundle) -BIT.TRIP RUNNER (Steam via Humble Rhythm Weekly) -BIT.TRIP Presents... Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle X) -Blackguards (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Blades of Time Limited Edition (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 5.0) -Borderlands 2 Game of the Year Edition (Steam via Summer Sale) -Borderlands 2 Ultimate Vault Hunter Upgrade Pack 2 (Steam Via Summer Sale) -Borderlands 2 Headhunter 1: Bloody Harvest (Steam via Summer Sale) -Borderlands 2: Headhunter 2: Wattle Gobbler (Steam via Summer Sale) -Borderlands 2: Headhunter 3: Mercenary Day (Steam via Summer Sale) -Borderlands 2: Headhunter 4: Wedding Day Massacre (Steam via Summer Sale) -Borderlands 2: Headhunter 5: Son of Crawmerax (Steam via Summer Sale) -Bridge Constructor (Steam via Humble Bundle PC and Android 9) -Broken Sword 2 The Smoking Mirror Remastered (Steam via Humble Bundle PC and Android 9) -Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Bully Scholarship Edition (Steam) -Capsized (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Chaos Domain (Steam via Indie Gala Giveaway Dec 2014) -Cloudbuilt (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Crash Time 2 (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -Crazy Taxi (Steam via Humble SEGA Bundle 2014) -Crusader Kings II (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Crusader Kings II - Norse Unit Pack (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Crusader Kings II - African Unit Pack (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Crusader Kings II - Russian Unit Pack (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Daikatana (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Deadly Sin 2 (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle RPG Maker) -Deadlight (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Dear Esther (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Defender's Quest (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -Defy Gravity Extended (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Deus Ex: The Fall (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Dino D-Day (Steam via PC Gamer + Bundle Stars Promotion) -Divine Divinity (Steam via Humble Weekly Triumph and Larian Bundle) -Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition (Steam via Steam Autumn Sale/Exploration Sale 2014) -Dungeons of Dredmor Complete (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Rock, Paper, Shotgun) -Dungeon of Elements (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Joystiq) -Dust: An Elysian Tail (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle 11) -English Country Tune (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Eschalon: Book III (Steam via Be Mine 14 Groupees Bundle) -Euro Truck Simulator 2 (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Evoland (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -Fallout (Steam via GMG Holiday Sale Fallout Collection + 22% Voucher) -Fallout 2 (Steam via GMG Holiday Sale Fallout Collection + 22% Voucher) -Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (Steam via GMG Holiday Sale Fallout Collection + 22% Voucher) -Far Cry (Steam) -Far Cry 2 (Steam) -Final Fantasy VIII (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Full Mojo Rampage (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 3) -Galactic Civilizations II: Ultimate Edition (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle 11) -Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams Rise of the Owlverlord (Steam) -Greed: Black Border (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -GRID (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -GRID 2 (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -Grotesque Tactics 2: Dungeons and Donuts (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -GTR Evolution (PC Gamer + Bundle Stars Giveaway) -Guacamelee! Gold Edition (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle 11) -Guilty Gear Isuka (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Melee Bundle) -Gun Monkeys (Steam via Bundle Star + PC Gamer special promotion) -Gunpoint (Steam via Humble Bundle Indie Bundle 12) -Half Minute Hero: Super Mega Neo Climax Ultimate Boy (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Hammerwatch (Steam via Humble Bundle Indie Bundle 12) -Hitman: Codename 47 (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Hitman 2: Silent Assassin (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Hitman: Blood Money (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Hitman: Contracts (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Hitman: Absolution (Steam via Humble Bundle (Squareenix Bundle) -Hoard Complete Pack (Steam via Bundle Stars 3.0) -Hotline Miami (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Incredipede (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition (BundleStars) -Insurgency (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Intake (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Joystiq) -Intrusion 2 (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Ion Assault (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 3.0) -Jet Set Radio (Steam via Humble Store Winter Sale 2014) -Legend Danger 2: The Movie (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle X) -KickBeat Steam Edition (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -Knights & Merchants (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 3.0) -Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (Steam via Tomb Raider Collection) -Legend of Grimrock (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -Legionwood 2: Rise of the Eternal's Realm (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle RPG Maker) -Light (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Little Inferno (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Steam via Steam Holiday 2014 Sale) -Magical Diary (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -Mass Effect 2: Digital Deluxe Edition (Steam) -Max Payne 3 Complete (Steam) -Meltdown (Steam via Be Mine 14 Groupees Bundle) -Memories of a Vagabond (Steam via Indie Gala New Years Giveaway) -Metal Slug 3 (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Millenium A New Hope (Steam via Indie Gala January 2014) -Mini Ninjas (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Mount & Blade (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 5.0) -NEO Scavenger (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -NiGHTS Into Dreams (Steam via Humble SEGA Bundle 2014) -Nosgoth (Steam via Humble Bundle Squareenix Bundle) -Offspring Fling (Steam via Humble Weekly Open Source) -Oil Rush (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -One Way Heroics (Steam via Gift) -Overruled! (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Painkiller: Black Edition (Steam via Bundle Stars Painkiller Bundle) -Painkiller: Overdose (Steam via Bundle Stars Painkiller Bundle) -Painkiller: Recurring Evil (Steam via Bundle Stars Painkiller Bundle) -Painkiller: Redemption (Steam via Bundle Stars Painkiller Bundle) -Painkiller: Resurrection (Steam via Bundle Stars Painkiller Bundle) -Papers, Please (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Papo & Yo (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle X) -Payday: The Heist (Steam via Free Steam October weekend) -Payday: The Heist Wolfpack DLC (Steam) -Payday 2 (Steam via Steam Holiday Sale 2014) -Penguins Arena Sedna's World (Steam via Bundle Stars Free Giveaway) -Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 4 (Steam) -PixelJunk Eden (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumble Bundle 2) -Planet StrongHold (Steam via Humble Weekly Sale: Celebrating Open Source!) -Planets Under Attack (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 3.0) -Post Apocalyptic Mayhem (Steam via GMG Free Giveaway) -Proteus (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -Puzzle Kingdoms (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 5.0) -Race 07 (PC Gamer + Bundle Stars Giveaway) -Racer 8 (Steam via Indie Gala Holiday Giveaway 2014) -Race Room Racing Experience (PC Gamer + Bundle Stars Giveaway) -Ravensword: Shadowlands (Steam via Humble Bundle PC and Android 9) -Really Big Sky (Steam via Free Promotion on PCgamer) -Receiver (Steam via Humble Store Free Giveaway) -Red Faction (Steam via Regular Sale) -Red Faction 2 (Steam via Regular Sale) -Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad (Steam) -Resident Evil 5 (Steam via Gift) -Ridge Racer: Unbounded (Steam via Steam Holiday Sale 2014) -Risk of Rain (Steam via Summer Sale) -Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -Rune Classic (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 3.0) -Rush Bros. (Steam via GreenManGaming/PlayFire Promotion) -Sacred Gold (Steam via Steam Holiday Sale 2014) -Sanctum 2 Season Pass (Steam) -SEGA Bass Fishing (Steam via Humble SEGA Bundle 2014) -Sequence (Humble Rhythm Weekly) -Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Shadowgrounds (Steam via Frozenbyte Humble Weekly) -Sid Meier's Civilization III: Complete (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gods and Kings DLC (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Sid Meier's Civilization V: Scrambled Continents Map Pack -Sid Meier's Civilization V: Scrambled Nations Map Pack -Sid Meier's Ace Patrol (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Sid Meier's Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Sid Meier's Pirates! (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Sid Meier's Railroads! (Steam via Humble Sid Meier Bundle) -Skyborn (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle RPG Maker) -Sleeping Dogs DLC Collection (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Sniper Elite V2 (Steam via Free Promotion on Steam) -Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed: Metal Sonic Pack (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed - Yogscast DLC (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed - Upcoming DLC Ryo Hazaki (Steam via Steam Summer Sale) -Space Channel 5 Part 2 (Steam via Humble SEGA Bundle) -Space Hack (Steam via Bundle Stars FREE Promotion) -SpaceChem (Steam via PC Gamer + Bundle Stars Promotion) -Space Trader: Merchant Marine (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -SpeedRunners (Steam via Gift) -SteamWorld Dig (Steam via Humble Bundle Indie Bundle 12) -STORM: Frontline Nation (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 5.0) -Sugar Cube: Bittersweet Factory (Steam via Gift) -Sweet Lily Dreams (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle RPG Maker) -Symphony (Humble Rhythm Weekly) -Teleglitch: Die More Edition (Steam via Halloween Humble Bundle Giveaway) -Tesla Effect: A Tex Murphy Adventure (Steam via Humble Jumble Bundle 3) -The Swapper (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle 11) -The Walking Dead 400 Days DLC (Steam) -The Bureau: XCOM Declassified (Steam via Humble Bundle 2k Bundle) -The Darkness II (Steam via Humble Bundle 2k Bundle) -The Dream Machine Chapters 1-4 (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Joystiq) -The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Complete (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -The King of Fighters XIII: Steam Edition (Steam via Humble Bundle Jumbo Bundle 2) -The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (Steam) -Thief Gold (Steam via Free Amazon Promotion) -Thunder Wolves (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 5.0) -Tiny and Big in Grandpa's Leftovers (Steam via Humble Daily Bundle Indie Re-Bundle 8) -To The Moon (Steam via Humble Indie Bundle X) -Toki Tori 2+ (Steam via Summer Sale+10% Coupon) -Tomb Raider I (Steam via Tomb Raider Collection) -Tomb Raider II (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider III (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider IV The Last Revelation (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider V Chronicles (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider VI The Angel of Darkness (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider Legend (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider Anniversary (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider Underworld (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tomb Raider Game of the Year Edition (Steam via Tomb Raider Colllection) -Tropico 3 Steam Special Edition (Steam via Humble Bundle Store Free Giveaway) -Two Brothers (Steam via Indie Gala January 2014) -Trine (Steam via Frozenbyte Humble Weekly) -Type:Rider (Steam via Humble Bundle PC and Android 9) -UFO Extraterrestrials Gold (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 5.0) -Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Steam via Halloween Sale) -Warlock: Master of the Arcane (Steam via Humble Store Free Giveaway) -Wasteland Angel (Steam via Indie Gala Grotesque Bundle) -Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space (Steam via Bundle Stars Halloween Giveaway) -World of Goo (Steam via Humble Weekly Bundle Rock, Paper, Shotgun) -Worms (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Worms Reloaded: Game of the Year Edition (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Worms Revolution Gold (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -Worms Ultimate Mayhem: Deluxe Edition DLC (Steam via Humble Weekly Team 17 Evolved Bundle) -X-Blades (Steam via Bundle Stars Reboot 3.0) -XCOM: Enemy Unknown (GMG/PlayFire Joystiq Voting Free Giveaway)
Origin -Bejeweled 3 (Origin via In The House Free Promotion) -Crusader: No Remorse (Origin via On The House) -Dragon Age: Origins (EA Origin - In the House) -Peggle (Origin via ON THE HOUSE Promotion) -Plants VS Zombies GOTY (Origin - On The House Promotion) -The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (Origin via Free Promotion) -Wing Commander III Heart of the Tiger (Origin via On the House Free Promo)
GOG -Age of Wonders (GOG - DRM FREE Big Winter Sale) -Aliens Versus Predator Classic 2000 (GOG) -Bloodrayne (GOG via Groupees) -The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition (GOG.com Holiday Stamp Giveaway)
PS3 -Beyond Good & Evil HD (PS3 PSN via Heroine Flash Sale) -Devil May Cry HD Collection (PS3 - Amazon) -Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster (PS3 - Frys Electronics) -Final Fantasy XIII Lightning Returns (PS3 - Best Buy/Amazon Price Matched) -God of War Saga (PS3 - Amazon) -Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 ReMIX (PS3 via Pre Order of Limited Edition Best Buy) -Uncharted Drake's Fortune (Via Uncharted Dual Pack Amazon) -Uncharted 2 Among Thieves GOTY (Via Uncharted Dual Pack Amazon) -Valkyria Chronicles (PS3 - Amazon)
WiiU -Donkey Kong Country Returns Tropical Freeze (WiiU - Best Buy Black Friday Bundle) -Mario Kart 8 (WiiU - Walmart Black Friday) -Nintendo Land (WiiU - Best Buy Black Friday Bundle) -Super Mario 3D World (WiiU - Best Buy Black Friday Bundle) -Super Smash Bros (WiiU - Best Buy Black Friday Bundle)
3DS -Bravely Default Collector's Edition (3DS Preorder Best Buy) -Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D (3DS via Platinum Elite Member Status Reward) -Kirby Triple Deluxe (3DS via Best Buy Buy 1 Get 1 Free) -Mario Kart 7 (3DS - Frys Electronics) -Pokemon Omega Ruby (3DS - Walmart) -Super Mario 3D Land (3DS - Frys Electronics) -The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition (3DS via Free promotion on 3DS eshop) -The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D (3DS - Amazon) -Yoshi's New Island (3DS via Best Buy Buy 1 Get 1 Free)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 27, 2015, 12:39 AM
My 970 looks good. Has a glowing blue "windforce" on it. I can then control that light through graphics settings.
can you turn it red? and which on did you get?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 01, 2015, 12:04 AM
I'm going to guess this is the one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684# I do like the back plate, which is something else i wanted because the fans will be facing down in my case, and i can paint some red to match the case. maybe pin stripe the edges leaving the center black.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 01, 2015, 03:03 AM
I'm going to guess this is the one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684# I do like the back plate, which is something else i wanted because the fans will be facing down in my case, and i can paint some red to match the case. maybe pin stripe the edges leaving the center black.
Yeah that's the one. Light is only blue or at least I don't know of a color setting for it. Can just turn it off too.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 01, 2015, 03:31 PM
Yeah, I found a site that said it was only a 20 percent difference. Dosent sound like 200 more to me. When you could sli for a bit more than one 980 and get 80 percent more abouts.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 01, 2015, 04:24 PM
And to those that might watch card prices. How long will it take the 980 to drop 200?
They don't really drop prices unless they need to. If AMD comes out and makes them a bad deal, or the next generation of Nvidia. So probably a year away, except I'm not sure about AMD.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 02, 2015, 03:07 AM
Why don't they make these wireless!? http://m.newegg.com/ProductList?description=KUN4LI2yJHgXS2JKiJb2i5%252bynsuNEYSXkIqB2XPCNK4%253d&storeid=1&categoryid=-1&nodeid=52165&storetype=2&subcategoryid=3523&brandid=-1&nvalue=100052165&showseealldeals=False&itemcount=0&issubcategory=true&level=3&sortField=RATING
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: Xbro on Mar 02, 2015, 03:15 AM
I felt this was relevant.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 02, 2015, 03:20 AM
Why don't they make these wireless!? http://m.newegg.com/ProductList?description=KUN4LI2yJHgXS2JKiJb2i5%252bynsuNEYSXkIqB2XPCNK4%253d&storeid=1&categoryid=-1&nodeid=52165&storetype=2&subcategoryid=3523&brandid=-1&nvalue=100052165&showseealldeals=False&itemcount=0&issubcategory=true&level=3&sortField=RATING
What are these?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 02, 2015, 03:24 AM
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 04, 2015, 05:07 PM
Apparently there will be many Steam Machines released before the holidays, many are more powerful than consoles at the "same price". This one isn't though
(http://abload.de/img/untitledq0u5c.png)
I don't understand this price. Weak GPU in the first one
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 04, 2015, 05:13 PM
Apparently there will be many Steam Machines released before the holidays, many are more powerful than consoles at the "same price". This one isn't though
Spoiler for Image:
(http://abload.de/img/untitledq0u5c.png)
I don't understand this price. Weak GPU in the first one
What the heck? That first PC should cost 400-500$ max. That second one should cost 1400$ max.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 04, 2015, 05:26 PM
If someone wants to pay an extra 500$ to make something small, they may go right ahead. ::)
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 04, 2015, 10:15 PM
it seems The Ibuypower is one of the better steam machines in price/performance. Those ones posted are Wayyy overpriced. I'm not sure I get the appeal of these machines though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 04, 2015, 10:32 PM
it seems The Ibuypower is one of the better steam machines in price/performance. Those ones posted are Wayyy overpriced. I'm not sure I get the appeal of these machines though.
What is its price/performance??
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 04, 2015, 10:34 PM
Got my card... Took it out of the bag, it's so cold that it has condisation on the metal parts... :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 04, 2015, 10:40 PM
Yeah, i played some hell divers for a bit. Waited for the gpu to come up to room temp and didn't see any water residue so i put it in. I figured it would be better to fry it now than later down the road if it had lingering effects.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 05, 2015, 01:30 AM
Pi, can you run tomb raider on ultra? When ever i pick the setting it crashes.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 05, 2015, 01:31 AM
Cool trailer.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2015, 01:40 AM
But it can also just be the resolution of the images, thus I don't know for sure. I just remember watching Toy Story at my little cousin's a few years back and thinking "Why does this look better than Toy Story 2?"
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 05, 2015, 02:18 AM
Okay, got it running. 56 FPS on ultra. Two things, it does look better than the ps4 version, even with out me switching between screens. And my surge/back up hates my computer now. When ever i run a game it goes nuts.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 05, 2015, 02:25 AM
Also, glad I can join the pc master race. Where I spend more time fiddling with shame than playing gAmes. :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 05, 2015, 02:46 AM
But it can also just be the resolution of the images, thus I don't know for sure. I just remember watching Toy Story at my little cousin's a few years back and thinking "Why does this look better than Toy Story 2?"
I think its more of a resolution upgrade from SD to HD....not that they remade the whole thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 05, 2015, 02:59 AM
Phone streaming sucks.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 05, 2015, 02:59 AM
And it's limited to certain games.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 05, 2015, 03:14 AM
You really think they will let Valve release a app that lets you play games that are on their store but through Steam? I dont think they will...would of been nice. Could play some indie games while I am at lunch break or somethin ;p
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 05, 2015, 05:22 AM
You really think they will let Valve release a app that lets you play games that are on their store but through Steam? I dont think they will...would of been nice. Could play some indie games while I am at lunch break or somethin ;p
They have apps that allow you to control your PC, and and send images back. You could already play games on steam, with awful awful results at the moment.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 05, 2015, 05:37 AM
They have apps that allow you to control your PC, and and send images back. You could already play games on steam, with awful awful results at the moment.
I dont mean like that.
I mean like actually cross buy........uhhh
Purchase Bioshock 1 on Steam - get Bioshock 1 for iOS/Android as well.
Dont have to share files or anything.
Just a nice feature that will never happen cause companies want to nab that $15 and Google/Apple will have a hissy fit if people get games that can be played on their platform that easily ;p.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2015, 05:41 AM
Purchase Bioshock 1 on Steam - get Bioshock 1 for iOS/Android as well.
Dont have to share files or anything.
Just a nice feature that will never happen cause companies want to nab that $15 and Google/Apple will have a hissy fit if people get games that can be played on their platform that easily ;p.
Oh gotcha. That'd still be in the hands of the developers, not Valve, not Google/Apple.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 05, 2015, 05:49 AM
Regardless I still think Google/Apple will do somethin to block to prevent loss of sales ;x
Like a contractual thing or somethin.
Nah you can do it, but it comes out of the publisher's pocket.
Also you'd have to do some complex behind the scenes things to make it true crossbuy, not just a bundle containing both versions. You wouldn't want a mobile buyer turning around and selling their steam key.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 05, 2015, 06:00 PM
What's up with the new humble bundle?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2015, 06:42 PM
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 07, 2015, 05:05 AM
So apparently Xbox live is coming to PC for free and now Xbox gamers are upset. I wonder what the consequences of this decision may be? Edit: I may have misinterpreted this news?
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 07, 2015, 05:07 AM
Woah, Batman: Arkham Knight pre-order for $33.99!!
Before you ask: Yes, this site is 100% legit.
What do you mean by "100% legit?" Is it one of those steam key resellers?
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color]
Post by: Xevross on Mar 07, 2015, 05:40 PM
Can anyone help me with this little issue I'm having? ...
I got some new headphones which use the sound and mic jacks on the side of my laptop. When I plug it in my laptop continues playing sound through its speakers instead of switching to the headphones. I can change this if I set the headphones as the default sound device. This works until I unplug my headphones, when the laptop still tries to play through the headphones (which are no longer plugged in) instead of switching to the speakers. I have to set speakers back as the default device for it to work. Any way I can make it so it switches automatically?
Oh and I've just noticed that it doesn't even recognise the microphone part of the headset
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2015, 06:21 PM
Can anyone help me with this little issue I'm having? ...
I got some new headphones which use the sound and mic jacks on the side of my laptop. When I plug it in my laptop continues playing sound through its speakers instead of switching to the headphones. I can change this if I set the headphones as the default sound device. This works until I unplug my headphones, when the laptop still tries to play through the headphones (which are no longer plugged in) instead of switching to the speakers. I have to set speakers back as the default device for it to work. Any way I can make it so it switches automatically?
Oh and I've just noticed that it doesn't even recognise the microphone part of the headset
It should automatically o.O.
Is it overall sound that is affected or by a certain program? If its program, I know like Axon I use I had to relog in order to get sound through my headset.
If not - did you try control -> Sound settings -> recording tab? I remember having to fiddle in there once before to get sound working once :x. You might have to disable something or enable something.
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Post by: Xevross on Mar 07, 2015, 09:28 PM
Is it overall sound that is affected or by a certain program? If its program, I know like Axon I use I had to relog in order to get sound through my headset.
If not - did you try control -> Sound settings -> recording tab? I remember having to fiddle in there once before to get sound working once :x. You might have to disable something or enable something.
No its with everything. I've been through all that and nothing works.
Headset works perfectly for PS4 though which is good
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2015, 09:41 PM
Where are his glasses?? o.O
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 07, 2015, 09:44 PM
What do you guys think is Gaben's favorite game?
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Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 08, 2015, 06:17 AM
I dont find it disturbing (since its pixels lol) - I just find it stupid....that such a game exists...if you can even call it a game -___-.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 09, 2015, 04:16 PM
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2015, 04:19 PM
In terms of appearance in my opinion. Morpheus > Rift > Vive Morpheus looks awesome and futuristic. Rift looks interesting. It reminds me of my PS Vita case. Vive looks good, but in an alien way.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 09, 2015, 04:21 PM
In terms of appearance in my opinion. Morpheus > Rift > Vive Morpheus looks awesome and futuristic. Rift looks interesting. It reminds me of my PS Vita case. Vive looks good, but in an alien way.
I just hope morpheus comes in black.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 09, 2015, 04:27 PM
In terms of appearance in my opinion. Morpheus > Rift > Vive Morpheus looks awesome and futuristic. Rift looks interesting. It reminds me of my PS Vita case. Vive looks good, but in an alien way.
Vive looks the most hardcore. Morpheus looks mainstream. Rift is middle of the road.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2015, 04:27 PM
Vive looks the most hardcore. Morpheus looks mainstream. Rift is middle of the road.
Agreed.
Morpheus>vive>rift.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2015, 10:44 PM
I got H1Z1 for my birthday.
Visually, some things look awesome. Other things look terrible. Controls have been a pain. For some reason 95% of the time, (that number is actually too low) most of the controls don't want to respond. I'm not sure if that's because I set it up for the controller or the game or something else. I've been sitting here watching my character crawling away from a zombie for the past ten min. I think part of that is that the sensitivity is too high, but I can't stand up, except one time I got lucky and he did what I wanted. Punching worked the first time, but its not working right now. First time I was stuck under a tree crouching only able to turn the camera and punch. Tried the keyboard and the controller didn't let me stand up or walk away. :P
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2015, 10:46 PM
That time I was able to walk about 40 feet before the controls stopped.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 09, 2015, 10:48 PM
Not finding much yet. Its really weird, like 3/4ths of the buttons don't respond or rarely do and the other 1/4th works pretty well.
On another note, despite not being that pretty it drives my GPU up the wall. Loudest and highest temps I've seen in a game.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 10, 2015, 01:13 AM
Well i got a gaming keyboard, it's mechanical and I love it. And it's heavy enough to knock someone out. I also got a Bluetooth adapter so i can pass sound to my sound bar. And a flight stick that i though i could use with war thunder, which it wont so i might be taking it back.
I'm afraid i wont be able to actually game on this living in this apartment. Having the computer and ps4 on at the same time with nothing running kicked the breaker. I really don't know what i can do about that... Which sucks.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 10, 2015, 01:16 AM
Well i guess i'll start a game and see if it kicks the breaker.
Anyone know how to pair a Dual shock 4 over Bluetooth?
To pair the DS4 with your computer, first put the controller into pairing mode by press and HOLDING the Playstation button and Share button at the same time. Hold these buttons until the light bar starts rapidly flashing. Then go into your bluetooth menu and chose "Add Device". Select the "Wireless Controller" that pops up and chose "Pair". Once the pairing completes you should see your controller in your games menus.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2015, 01:35 AM
Well i got a gaming keyboard, it's mechanical and I love it. And it's heavy enough to knock someone out. I also got a Bluetooth adapter so i can pass sound to my sound bar. And a flight stick that i though i could use with war thunder, which it wont so i might be taking it back.
I'm afraid i wont be able to actually game on this living in this apartment. Having the computer and ps4 on at the same time with nothing running kicked the breaker. I really don't know what i can do about that... Which sucks.
How does the breaker work for your apartment? Is it just one circuit for the whole thing?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 10, 2015, 01:42 AM
How does the breaker work for your apartment? Is it just one circuit for the whole thing?
Oddly there is two for this room. Well the kitchen lights are on half of it. The pc was the only thing on Played a game for 5 mins and it tripped. I can do anything else on the pc and it won't.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 10, 2015, 01:59 AM
So i think i might have a bad breaker, it's got to be. I have a 850 watt power supply, that isn't running full load either and it's tripping the 15 amp breaker and that should be 1400 watts before it trips.
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Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2015, 03:14 AM
So i think i might have a bad breaker, it's got to be. I have a 850 watt power supply, that isn't running full load either and it's tripping the 15 amp breaker and that should be 1400 watts before it trips.
Worth a shot.
However the projector and stuff are on the same circuit right?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 10, 2015, 03:20 AM
Visually, some things look awesome. Other things look terrible. Controls have been a pain. For some reason 95% of the time, (that number is actually too low) most of the controls don't want to respond. I'm not sure if that's because I set it up for the controller or the game or something else. I've been sitting here watching my character crawling away from a zombie for the past ten min. I think part of that is that the sensitivity is too high, but I can't stand up, except one time I got lucky and he did what I wanted. Punching worked the first time, but its not working right now. First time I was stuck under a tree crouching only able to turn the camera and punch. Tried the keyboard and the controller didn't let me stand up or walk away. :P
Isnt that game still on "Early Access"...well there's your reason why its messing up....
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 10, 2015, 03:26 PM
Yeah the DLC thing did tick me off a bit but even before that I lost complete interest in the game lol.
If the game still exists....after it goes on sale for a price that I deem fit for it then I'll get it....otherwise RIP.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 10, 2015, 06:32 PM
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 10, 2015, 10:29 PM
Well, ended up running a cord to the washer plug. Now i'll test it again and see if it will kick that breaker. I tried the other breaker in the same room and it wont run with the projector on. And i have no choice but to plug the projector in there as if i put the projector on the same side the systems are plugged into it will trip it. I've never lived in a place where i had issues running my stuff. But this is also the most power I've ever used in a single room before.. Maybe.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 10, 2015, 10:34 PM
Well i ran a bench mark in tomb raider and it survived... Too bad i have a cord running across the hall way. Good think my wife puts up with my shame.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 11, 2015, 12:57 AM
I think i might loose some interest in consoles now.. It was so much better playing war thunder on pc than it was on the ps4. Using a flight stick made a world of difference. Plus i was running everything on max at 1080 so that's a plus.
Now i'm trying to deiced if I should pick up ori or skylines... hmm..
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 11, 2015, 03:30 PM
I think i might loose some interest in consoles now.. It was so much better playing war thunder on pc than it was on the ps4. Using a flight stick made a world of difference. Plus i was running everything on max at 1080 so that's a plus.
Now i'm trying to deiced if I should pick up ori or skylines... hmm..
Skylines. It will likely retain its price much longer + it's the hot thing right now. Ori shouldn't take that long to drop.
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Post by: Rorono on Mar 11, 2015, 03:34 PM
dang it this morning there was something I wanted to ask here but was too lazy to look for the thread Now i don't remember what it was
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2015, 03:58 PM
Probably SW. I've had so much on my plate these days that I keep forgetting things On the bright side, if I forgot it can't have been that important.. I guess.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2015, 04:10 PM
Probably SW. I've had so much on my plate these days that I keep forgetting things On the bright side, if I forgot it can't have been that important.. I guess.
New game? Sales? Computer software issues? New software?
@bold, tell that to the guy who forgot to breathe.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 14, 2015, 01:57 AM
I think i might loose some interest in consoles now.. It was so much better playing war thunder on pc than it was on the ps4. Using a flight stick made a world of difference. Plus i was running everything on max at 1080 so that's a plus.
Now i'm trying to deiced if I should pick up ori or skylines... hmm..
I'm the opposite. I love pc gaming, but for pc games! Console games I'd much rather play on consoles, outside of mods sometimes.
And do skylines. Great game.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 14, 2015, 02:33 AM
I'm the opposite. I love pc gaming, but for pc games! Console games I'd much rather play on consoles, outside of mods sometimes.
And do skylines. Great game.
For me its kinda 50/50.
I only play exclusives on Consoles - no point in buying the multiplat titles on consoles at all for me.
Anyways enjoying Darksiders 2 a lot :)!
Also recommend Beat Hazard Ultra - such a great indie game!
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 15, 2015, 07:52 PM
I'm starting to get a bit of motion sickness playing war thunder on my projector. When in a deep dive I can almost feel it. So strange. I hope i can handle flight sims in V.R. I've never been one to get motion sick before. I dunno what it could be.
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Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 15, 2015, 08:22 PM
That just tells me you haven't played many western series ;o
Liberation and III are probably notably worse than the previous ones
I havent but I've started in the last two years.
Assassin's Creed, Torchlight, Counter-Strike, Left 4 Dead, Saints Row, God of War, Mass Effect, Bioshock, Half-Life, Darksiders, Grand Theft Auto (was my first one though started back in 2003?), and some others o.O
I dont know about III and liberation - I'll just have to find out soon ;p
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 19, 2015, 01:12 AM
Apparently Windows 10 upgrade will be free even for pirated copies of W7/W8
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 19, 2015, 01:21 AM
I'm thinking about coming up with my own gaming headset. I tried some sony DJ headphones last night at best buy and i was blown away by the sound quality. Way better than my current headset.
Check on these videos
I'm thinking about going with Sennheiser HD 518 or the Audio Technica AUD ATHAD500X with a blue snowball mic and the Astro mix amp.
Just read about this. The OS is still marked non-genuine. The pirates will get the required updates, but they won't get any of the special optional updates or features. They think that they'll convince them and they'll see the benefits of a genuine copy and move to getting it. (Or so they say).
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 19, 2015, 07:39 PM
Just read about this. The OS is still marked non-genuine. The pirates will get the required updates, but they won't get any of the special optional updates or features. They think that they'll convince them and they'll see the benefits of a genuine copy and move to getting it. (Or so they say).
Or they can just pirate the new OS lol
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 19, 2015, 09:53 PM
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 21, 2015, 02:40 PM
My head phones got here this morning!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 24, 2015, 03:43 AM
Having a lot of issues with Watch Dogs. Starting up the game seems to immolize my computer for 5-10 min. When I finally get into the game it runs pretty well so far though.
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Post by: BasilZero on Mar 24, 2015, 04:25 AM
Having a lot of issues with Watch Dogs. Starting up the game seems to immolize my computer for 5-10 min. When I finally get into the game it runs pretty well so far though.
How's the FPS - I heard WatchDogs is unbearable on PC :(!
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 24, 2015, 04:27 AM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 26, 2015, 07:56 PM
SEGA publisher weekend on Steam!
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Post by: FLGibsonIII on Mar 27, 2015, 12:38 AM
Hey! What are your guy's opinion on emulation? Do you think it's OK to do because I want to play Super Metroid, but I'm not sure if it's right thing to do.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 27, 2015, 12:45 AM
Hey! What are your guy's opinion on emulation? Do you think it's OK to do because I want to play Super Metroid, but I'm not sure if it's right thing to do.
Yes, I think it is. Maybe not if you're dloading games that can be easily found today
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Post by: Legend on Mar 27, 2015, 12:55 AM
Hey! What are your guy's opinion on emulation? Do you think it's OK to do because I want to play Super Metroid, but I'm not sure if it's right thing to do.
If you own the game, I think it's morally OK.
Haha I went out and bought Metroid Other M from Target just so that I could emulate it. If you have a wii or wii u, spend a buck and buy the game on the eshop and then emulate on PC.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 27, 2015, 01:06 AM
Haha I went out and bought Metroid Other M from Target just so that I could emulate it. If you have a wii or wii u, spend a buck and buy the game on the eshop and then emulate on PC.
that's just silly imo. lol
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Post by: Legend on Mar 27, 2015, 01:07 AM
I guess. I'd rather just tip the dev directly. Buying a cheap copy in a store will not really add anything to their total (because the store already bought it).
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2015, 01:43 AM
Hey! What are your guy's opinion on emulation? Do you think it's OK to do because I want to play Super Metroid, but I'm not sure if it's right thing to do.
Emulation is completely legal. Certain methods of attaining games are not. PS2 emulation is great, because it's really easy to buy a legitimate copy of the game and put the disk into your computer and play it like that. Only "difficulty" is getting a bios.
Haha I went out and bought Metroid Other M from Target just so that I could emulate it. If you have a wii or wii u, spend a buck and buy the game on the eshop and then emulate on PC.
I think that's okay. It's like a DVD, you can play it on a player, video game system, computer. It'd be nice if it was easy to do it like that with a game.
I guess. I'd rather just tip the dev directly. Buying a cheap copy in a store will not really add anything to their total (because the store already bought it).
If the game is new enough, then the store will replenish their bought stock, so if you buy a game, the store will buy more games.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 27, 2015, 06:09 AM
A few interesting updates to SteamVR Added support for chaperoning. This is a system that allows an application to show a user the area that is safe to move in while the user is in VR.
This is a new component of SteamVR that simplifies the process of adding VR support to an application. Continues to draw an environment even if the application hangs.
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Post by: BasilZero on Mar 27, 2015, 03:10 PM
Hey! What are your guy's opinion on emulation? Do you think it's OK to do because I want to play Super Metroid, but I'm not sure if it's right thing to do.
For a game like Super Metroid yes.
If its a recent game (not that there are any systems capable of emulating well except for 3DS maybe) then no.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 28, 2015, 05:12 PM
How about that Pillars of Eternity, eh?!
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Post by: BasilZero on Mar 28, 2015, 06:30 PM
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 29, 2015, 05:10 AM
I think it's nicer to put photos in spoilers. That way it 1.) Takes up less space. 2.) Doesn't get loaded until it's opened, which is nice if a page gets overloaded. It can usually be covered up and remade usable.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 29, 2015, 11:26 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
(http://abload.de/img/gtavpcnew3aksn2.jpg)
(http://abload.de/img/gtavpcnew21oscq.jpg)
(http://abload.de/img/gtavpcnew64gyp2.jpg)
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Post by: Legend on Mar 31, 2015, 04:31 AM
I think it's nicer to put photos in spoilers. That way it 1.) Takes up less space. 2.) Doesn't get loaded until it's opened, which is nice if a page gets overloaded. It can usually be covered up and remade usable.
Agreed.
In forum 2.0 I think that should be a user setting.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 03, 2015, 10:34 PM
Anyone want the game Costume Quest?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 04, 2015, 01:29 AM
Hopefully the final product will at least be better than GTAIV (which was ok on its own though at least for me except for a few FPS drops here and there).
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 10, 2015, 06:52 PM
Hopefully the final product will at least be better than GTAIV (which was ok on its own though at least for me except for a few FPS drops here and there).
Wat. Í meant yes, that is the case again. Read the dang article, lazy woman!
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Post by: BasilZero on Apr 10, 2015, 07:04 PM
Wat. Í meant yes, that is the case again. Read the dang article, lazy woman!
Oops I misread you lol - I thought you said No - for some reason I registered it as No XD.
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Post by: BasilZero on Apr 11, 2015, 09:02 PM
Just finished Darksiders 2, played/completed To The Moon Minisode DLCs and A Bird Story.
Darksiders 2 is pretty good but could of been better - 83 out of 100
To The Moon's DLC episodes were pretty good.
A Bird Story is OK but not recommended for someone who wants to play a game - only recommended for those who want to enjoy a light hearted short story. 62 out of 100
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 12, 2015, 12:42 AM
Buying on impulse is so strange to me. Other games I've bought on impulse are Kerbal, Slender the arrival, Driveclub, and City Skylines.
I usually put in a few days thought for Humble Bundles, but I'm sure I impulse bought at least once. I'd say the biggest game I bought on impulse is DriveClub. :o
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 13, 2015, 01:07 PM
So how is it?
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Post by: Legend on Apr 13, 2015, 02:33 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 99!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 15, 2015, 11:03 PM
Grand Theft Auto V finally hits PC after over a year of waiting. While the wait was hard it was completely worth it given the final product on display. Improved graphics are just the beginning as the game becomes an entirely new experience on PC.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 15, 2015, 11:15 PM
Grand Theft Auto V finally hits PC after over a year of waiting. While the wait was hard it was completely worth it given the final product on display. Improved graphics are just the beginning as the game becomes an entirely new experience on PC.
Spoke too soon. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 16, 2015, 10:54 PM
Starting elite dangerous!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 17, 2015, 12:50 AM
Also, I pretty sure that i would have been vaporized being that close to a star. It did give me a heat warning when i was directly above it, but let me live anyway.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 17, 2015, 03:24 AM
Also, I pretty sure that i would have been vaporized being that close to a star. It did give me a heat warning when i was directly above it, but let me live anyway.
Yeah you can get pretty close without getting killed. Worst though is when you get caught in the gravity AND are overheating.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 18, 2015, 01:03 AM
This game scares the shame out of me. Probably more so than games that are meant to be scary only being top by that Silent hill demo we had a while back. Something about the vast loneliness of space, Barreling a long at light speed only to come to a sudden stop because your about to plow directly into a star. The Sounds in this game are very well done and add the the over all scariness of it all. I'm still unsure of how i feel about the game, but i think I could really get into it. Once i find the point, but wondering around space is fun for now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 18, 2015, 04:02 AM
Also don't worry about destroying your ship. Until you start buying upgrades, it's free to replace.
Right now I'm just trying out trade missions and am going to start mining.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 18, 2015, 06:44 PM
Good at trading, bad at everything else haha. I spent a bunch of credits on a fighting ship and some nice guns, only to find out that I didn't have enough energy to power it. When I pulled out my guns, life support and other systems would fail. So with only a few credits to my name, I went back to trading. After building up like 15 grand, I outfitted my ship with a mining laser and refinery so that I could try mining. Took a long time to get anything usable, and the money was pitiful compared to what I'd get from contracts and trading. So I switched back to contract work.
Then like an hour ago I decided to go all out with trading and not bother with contracts. I sold all my mining equipment and weapons, then got a total of 12 cargo spaces and a better warp drive. Since then pretty easily I've made it up to like 80 thousand credits!
HBU?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 18, 2015, 08:33 PM
Good at trading, bad at everything else haha. I spent a bunch of credits on a fighting ship and some nice guns, only to find out that I didn't have enough energy to power it. When I pulled out my guns, life support and other systems would fail. So with only a few credits to my name, I went back to trading. After building up like 15 grand, I outfitted my ship with a mining laser and refinery so that I could try mining. Took a long time to get anything usable, and the money was pitiful compared to what I'd get from contracts and trading. So I switched back to contract work.
Then like an hour ago I decided to go all out with trading and not bother with contracts. I sold all my mining equipment and weapons, then got a total of 12 cargo spaces and a better warp drive. Since then pretty easily I've made it up to like 80 thousand credits!
HBU?
I've made 10,000 credits, I'm really lost, I took a contract and when I got to the location to find the transmission I couldn't find it. I don't know how to start off making good money.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 03:55 AM
I've made 10,000 credits, I'm really lost, I took a contract and when I got to the location to find the transmission I couldn't find it. I don't know how to start off making good money.
For transmissions, you need to investigate weak/strong/unidentified signals. Go to the system and just fly around. If you see one of the signals, lock on and disengage supercruise once close enough.
Then you'll find "something," hopefully a transmission.
For food and trade missions, you can see which places have it in the galaxy map. Filter to just that commodity, and look for places that show trade routes coming from them.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 19, 2015, 06:42 PM
http://eddb.io/station/24
Good tool for finding your way threw the galaxy.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 19, 2015, 10:17 PM
I'm about to give up on this game, 15 hours in and i just can't make money, I travel from here to there doing stupid missions that don't pay shame, most of the time i can't find what i'm looking for and i decided to buy everything i need to mine, at least i thought i did. Found some gold and it wont let me hold it now. Really wish the game wasn't so sand box and gave you a starting path to make it more fun. Maybe star citizen will be better.
I have no Idea how the xbox fan base it going to take this game. I don't think they'll like it much. looking at the games that do sell on xbox and this.. It doesn't stand a chance to do well.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 19, 2015, 10:29 PM
I'm about to give up on this game, 15 hours in and i just can't make money, I travel from here to there doing stupid missions that don't pay shame, most of the time i can't find what i'm looking for and i decided to buy everything i need to mine, at least i thought i did. Found some gold and it wont let me hold it now. Really wish the game wasn't so sand box and gave you a starting path to make it more fun. Maybe star citizen will be better.
I have no Idea how the xbox fan base it going to take this game. I don't think they'll like it much. looking at the games that do sell on xbox and this.. It doesn't stand a chance to do well.
Yeah it is seriously confusing and hard to get into. I was the exact same as you, but eventually I found my way. Also how much are you making from missions? I was happy when I'd make a few grand.
For the console release they're probably going to add much better tutorials and training. Also don't worry fish! The game is continually be upgraded with free DLC. Maybe in a few months you'll like it better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 21, 2015, 12:26 PM
Do you guys think it would be worth upgrading my cpu to something Intel? What cpu would be good or at least better than what I have. I'm thinking about doing this and selling my board and cpu to a friend so maybe he'll get in gear and build his rig. What do you guys think? Also, Amazon has the gtx970 on sale with the Witcher 3 for like 300, I might get my second gpu too.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 21, 2015, 02:02 PM
Never mind, it wouldn't be worth upgrading, I'd need to spend some serious cash. I might just upgrade to the top end of amd and sell him my processer for a decent price. At least that would get him started. And be a whole lot cheaper on me with decent performance boost.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 21, 2015, 05:38 PM
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Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 21, 2015, 05:51 PM
I love my PC, but I feel like if Bloodborne were exclusive to it, I'd play it a lot less.
Like I love the Witcher a lot more than the Order but I finished the Order. Would have finished The Witcher if it was on console I think.
Kinda the same with me, but not really. I spend a lot of time pc gaming spur of the moment short bursts. Meanwhile consoles are long dedicated play sessions. Story based games or the like I prefer playing on console while 100 hour sims and rpgs I prefer on pc. With pc I can eventually soak more hours into the game.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2015, 12:20 PM
Not sure what I think right now. I don't use mods that much myself
I use mods a lot in Cities Skylines and KSP. I find the problem with Valve's system is it makes paid mods seem "official." They're practically endorsed by steam and the game devs now. If the mods worked like professional DLC, then this'd be fine. I'd personally hate it, but I wouldn't be against the concept of it.
However these mods are broken and glitchy. Many mods are not compatible with each other, and many mods break when game updates are released. They either need to stay free and stay mods, or become paid and become professional/official DLC simply made by individuals. This middle ground is just an abomination.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 25, 2015, 06:12 PM
Yeah that's the best way to say it. The middle ground needs work.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 25, 2015, 06:23 PM
Did I read that creators only get 25% share??
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 25, 2015, 06:24 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 25, 2015, 06:35 PM
Opens the door for Negatives: -micro transactions. -fraud: people selling others stuff. Already happened I heard. -waste of consumer dollars: if a mod breaks after 24 hours theres no refunds.
Positives: - people can live off modmaking - more and better mods but the small cut will reduce this majorly.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 25, 2015, 06:42 PM
Not really, While not great a good mod could bring in more money than so of the higher paid you tubers and twitch players. You got to think it's not your IP and valve is giving you store front advertising. 25 percent for your time is pretty good.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2015, 07:00 PM
Not really, While not great a good mod could bring in more money than so of the higher paid you tubers and twitch players. You got to think it's not your IP and valve is giving you store front advertising. 25 percent for your time is pretty good.
Yeah 25% is fine. Probably 25% mod maker, 25% steam, and 50% game dev.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2015, 07:08 PM
I'm not signing but: https://www.change.org/p/valve-remove-the-paid-content-of-the-steam-workshop
56,163 supporters
93,381 supporters
Yeah Valve fudged up.
Good idea or not, the community reaction has been extremely negative. I wonder just how severe the fallback will be from this. Will Valve slowly just abandon this idea and let it die from obscurity? Will they come out with a press release saying consumers suck similar to XBO dropping online DRM? Or will people finally stop praising Gaben and seriously saying "PC Master race?"
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 25, 2015, 07:18 PM
Well I can run elite dangerous 2700 at 45-60 fps and dips in to the 30's. Not bad.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: Legend on Apr 25, 2015, 07:26 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 12:50 AM
Gezz, my card is spinning up quite loudly today. Wonder what's up. Anyone know how to check the fan speed and temp. I thought i found it before but i can't seem to find it now.
3x downsample, and yes my card was getting loud before that. :) , surprisingly it stayed a playable 45 FPS with everything cranked to the max.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 12:50 AM
Not the best shot, I'll try to grab some better ones later.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2015, 01:02 AM
I never realized how bad the textures look inside those buildings.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 01:05 AM
Yeah, I was looking at that too, for some reason fps takes a hit inside one of those star ports than on the outside.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Apr 26, 2015, 01:37 AM
I disagree the modder should only get 25%. mods add so much longevity to a game and people continue to buy games because of the support mods add. Edit: plus the modder made 100% of the content. I don't think sitting on a ip and letting other people create content is worth 50% of the revenue. I think it should be 25% valve 25% Beth 50% modder. I don't even think a paywall should be a thing. I think a donation button would be better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2015, 01:51 AM
I disagree the modder should only get 25%. mods add so much longevity to a game and people continue to buy games because of the support mods add.
Yes mods add a lot to games, but until now they haven't been modding for the money. 25% is a whole lot better than 0%.
Plus, modders are third on the Totem pole. Game developer is obviously first while steam is second. 45% to dev, 30% to Steam, and 25% to the mod maker. The 30% going to Valve is industry standard and perfectly fine. That's not changing.
So then you have 70% to split up between the mod maker and game developer. Would you really think the modder deserves more than the devs themselves? Doing so might be good business as a way to help support the mod community sure, but from a manhours/fairpercent perspective it's ludicrous.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Apr 26, 2015, 02:06 AM
Hmm... you bring up some good points! Maybe they should all get 33.3%? IDK. I just don't think sitting on the ip is worth 45%(most) of the revenue. They already got their sale from the game. One could argue it's 100% the modders labor that's on sale. One could also argue the modder couldn't sell it without the game exisiting. One could argue this is only possible through steam invention of the program. I think all getting 33.3% sounds very fair. Also on the 25% is better than 0 thing. The same could be said for bethesda since they couldn't profit from this before. If my previous comment or this one sounds too aggressive I apologize since that is not my intention.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Apr 26, 2015, 02:12 AM
Also Legend. What do you think would be a good first coding language to learn? I want to self teach myself. I'm thinking python.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 02:13 AM
I already took a computer programming class this year using visual basic(which I hear is useless). What do you mean by that exactly. I was just thinking of buying a book like "learning python the hard way" to learn from.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2015, 02:27 AM
I have been thinking about that. I always wanted to create a game or a website. I think I really just want to learn something new and apply myself in new areas.I think if I liked coding enough I would start to create a game(probably nothing profressional, but just my own side-project). That would probably require languages like C++ though. For now I just want to learn something that's good for beginners and to see if I really like coding.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 02:58 AM
I already took a computer programming class this year using visual basic(which I hear is useless). What do you mean by that exactly. I was just thinking of buying a book like "learning python the hard way" to learn from.
Well there's other ways to express your creativity with out jumping straight to the hard stuff. 3d modeling or learning to us unity unity, which you'll also learn code along the way.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2015, 03:05 AM
Hmm... you bring up some good points! Maybe they should all get 33.3%? IDK. I just don't think sitting on the ip is worth 45%(most) of the revenue. They already got their sale from the game. One could argue it's 100% the modders labor that's on sale. One could also argue the modder couldn't sell it without the game exisiting. One could argue this is only possible through steam invention of the program. I think all getting 33.3% sounds very fair. Also on the 25% is better than 0 thing. The same could be said for bethesda since they couldn't profit from this before. If my previous comment or this one sounds too aggressive I apologize since that is not my intention.
Yeah 33.3% would probably have been best simply because it's an even split. Gets rid of most of the debate.
Oh and no worry! I think of everyone on this forum as friends, so the thought hadn't even crossed my mind that you were too aggressive.
Also Legend. What do you think would be a good first coding language to learn? I want to self teach myself. I'm thinking python.
Python is good. It's simple yet powerful enough to give you a full taste of programming. In fact at 19 it was the first full programing language I learned.
Tangent time haha.
When I was 6 or so for take your kid to work day I'd visit my Aunt at her office. She'd teach me basic basic programming. I think it was just HTML. Then in middle/high school I was bored during class so using trial and error I taught myself how to program my calculator. The only other programming I tried was a simple/horrible website for my dad's company.
I went to college for mechanical engineering. In my second semester I didn't have enough credits so I signed up for a programming class, just for the heck of it. I fell madly in love with it. This coincided with the PS4 reveal. Seeing John Blow up on stage inspired me to become an indie dev so I spent the rest of the semester madly self teaching myself programing. Come summer I dropped out of school and changed my life's course to be an indie dev instead of a mechanical engineer. This game better pay off haha.
My final for that class was a program that would produce modern art with a random seed: (http://i.imgur.com/gzr0QiU.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Apr 26, 2015, 03:09 AM
Well there's other ways to express your creativity with out jumping straight to the hard stuff. 3d modeling or learning to us unity unity, which you'll also learn code along the way.
What programs should I get to do 3d modeling. Unity the game engine right? Isn't that a free download now?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Apr 26, 2015, 03:12 AM
That's a really cool story. Hopefully the game pays off. I think Python will be my first language. I might do that after the stuff taco recommended though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 03:17 AM
That's a really cool story. Hopefully the game pays off. I think Python will be my first language. I might do that after the stuff taco recommended though.
Yeah if you're wanting to do Unity, then learn C#. Unity supports Java too, but it's being phased out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2015, 03:55 AM
Python is good. It's simple yet powerful enough to give you a full taste of programming. In fact at 19 it was the first full programing language I learned.
"TI-BASIC" was my first. Java is my second. It was an interesting jump.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 03:56 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2015, 01:22 PM
You can get Ryse for 13$ on humble bundle.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 06:07 PM
I got amazon to refund me 10 percent for the card, going towards my second card now with Witcher 3! Which brings the actual cost of the card down to 235 minus refund, rebate and the cost of the game.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2015, 06:27 PM
I got amazon to refund me 10 percent for the card, going towards my second card now with Witcher 3! Which brings the actual cost of the card down to 235 minus refund, rebate and the cost of the game.
Wait your graphics card?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 26, 2015, 07:05 PM
I just talked to them about that whole 3.5 gig thing. They gave me a 10 percent refund, just about 40 bucks. That i'm going to apply to my second card to be ready for vr gaming this Christmas.
I'm also wanting to get a monitor, but i don't know what i should get. The 4k ones are expensive, might be better off waiting for the 4k vizio
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Apr 26, 2015, 08:32 PM
Now I feel more torn about the paid mods. I don't know what side to be on.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2015, 09:06 PM
Now I feel more torn about the paid mods. I don't know what side to be on.
Be on the side that wins.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 27, 2015, 12:40 AM
Well after an hour or so of playing Elite Dangerous my fans started spinning up really fast, So i took the side cover off and it settled down quite a bit. I think I need to look in to quieter fans and maybe some better cooling. I don't think it was the card making the noise, but the other fans that came stock with the case.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: BasilZero on Apr 27, 2015, 01:20 AM
Hahaha it all depends on if the backlash springs back on up tomorrow as the weekend ends. If the hate was short lived, then Valve can stay quiet while people forget.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2015, 03:53 AM
I think mods should go back to free. Yes, making money is good and should entice bigger and better mods.
But in comparison to most software, can't imagine it'd get as much testing or reviews. With mods its a bit unpredictable to know how two mods interact. Not very fair to consumers if long term their expenses start crashing or bugging out somehow. Skyrims a big game and I hardly think a day is long enough to know if it works properly.
Valve needs and I fully expect them to change something.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 27, 2015, 09:34 AM
I think paid mods can be fine if they have a way to prevent scams and the like,although I expect the community to deal with most of that themselves.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 27, 2015, 04:06 PM
I think paid mods can be fine if they have a way to prevent scams and the like,although I expect the community to deal with most of that themselves.
When money is involved, community policement doesn't work. Piracy in the form of paid mods being re-uploaded as free will get low scores but still exist none the less.
Also, Steam's refund policy that bans you from using the Steam Community Market for 7 days has been expanded to include refunding mods purchased from the Steam Workshop (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33zsp0/steams_refund_policy_that_bans_you_from_using_the/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 27, 2015, 05:37 PM
When money is involved, community policement doesn't work. Piracy in the form of paid mods being re-uploaded as free will get low scores but still exist none the less.
Also, Steam's refund policy that bans you from using the Steam Community Market for 7 days has been expanded to include refunding mods purchased from the Steam Workshop (http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/33zsp0/steams_refund_policy_that_bans_you_from_using_the/)
Banned for getting a refund on a mod? :o Am I reading that right? Ick. That's terrible.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: BasilZero on Apr 27, 2015, 06:37 PM
Banned for getting a refund on a mod? :o Am I reading that right? Ick. That's terrible.
Technically not a ban per say - you just lose the ability to use the community market for 7 days. This is kinda like when buying a steam card or another item in the community market - you cant sell it back to the market until a few days after purchase date and time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 27, 2015, 08:38 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Apr 27, 2015, 10:32 PM
I weirdly want this game now
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: BasilZero on Apr 28, 2015, 02:08 AM
So paid mods are no longer on Skyrim.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 28, 2015, 02:13 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 29, 2015, 05:46 PM
So i'm going to order my second card this week. But, i was also thinking about ordering a DK2. I just don't know if it would be worth it, or should i just sit tight and wait for the Real deal this holiday. I really, really want to try VR though. And it seems that i can get at least what i paid for the DK2 on ebay. I'd just do a buy it now at 300. People are crazy on there trying to ask twice what the unit is worth.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 98!!!![/color]
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 29, 2015, 05:47 PM
I'm waiting for the next oculus rift.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Legend on Apr 29, 2015, 05:49 PM
So i'm going to order my second card this week. But, i was also thinking about ordering a DK2. I just don't know if it would be worth it, or should i just sit tight and wait for the Real deal this holiday. I really, really want to try VR though. And it seems that i can get at least what i paid for the DK2 on ebay. I'd just do a buy it now at 300. People are crazy on there trying to ask twice what the unit is worth.
If you have the money and technical expertise, then yeah get DK2!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 98!!!!
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 29, 2015, 05:54 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 03:07 AM
It's unplayable, I went into a game of elite which the internet told me works very well with SLI in the hanger i was getting 14 fps. WTF? I was getting a sold 50 before that. The stutter is like taking 3 or more transpires of the same photo and spreading them apart slightly and it fights back and forth. So i thought maybe it was hitting the wall of my projector, so i cranked Mufti sampling to 4 times native resolution which i think is 4k and still the same shame. BTW, I guess it wont be the projector because I've seen the FPS counter display 400 and no such stutter. If i can't come up with a solution by weeks end i'll just return the card and forget about it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Legend on May 05, 2015, 03:23 AM
It's unplayable, I went into a game of elite which the internet told me works very well with SLI in the hanger i was getting 14 fps. WTF? I was getting a sold 50 before that. The stutter is like taking 3 or more transpires of the same photo and spreading them apart slightly and it fights back and forth. So i thought maybe it was hitting the wall of my projector, so i cranked Mufti sampling to 4 times native resolution which i think is 4k and still the same shame. BTW, I guess it wont be the projector because I've seen the FPS counter display 400 and no such stutter. If i can't come up with a solution by weeks end i'll just return the card and forget about it.
How is when playing a game in windowed mode?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 03:39 AM
Didn't try that. Flip and bridge again And put it on the front connector. Color issues and stuttering went away. But no performance gain. If feels like it's running on one card, but it says it's in sli. I dunno.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Legend on May 05, 2015, 03:44 AM
Didn't try that. Flip and bridge again And put it on the front connector. Color issues and stuttering went away. But no performance gain. If feels like it's running on one card, but it says it's in sli. I dunno.
Dunno either. Modern SLI should be getting close to doubling performance. Definitely have something cooky going on.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 03:46 AM
So frustrating, I was looking forward to this.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 03:54 PM
terms and conditions apply. Better check that first
Considering he just got one, he can return it and get his money back. When they did the get one of the three games, people asked amazon for the games even though they bought theirs awhile ago. Still got a voucher.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2015, 04:36 PM
I could get the new Batman game for 44$.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 04:39 PM
Pi knows what I'm talking about. Right now I only get the Witcher. But might as well try for batman too. It just came in the mail yesterday so it shouldn't be a problem.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 05, 2015, 04:43 PM
In most cases a 3rd party steals credit cards and buys steam keys. They then sell the keys to these resellers. The resellers like cdkeys have protection since they can claim they don't know where the keys come from.
I certainly wouldn't trust any of them, especially since every once in a while Steam tracks the stolen credit cards and deactivates the keys.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 05, 2015, 06:50 PM
In most cases a 3rd party steals credit cards and buys steam keys. They then sell the keys to these resellers. The resellers like cdkeys have protection since they can claim they don't know where the keys come from.
I certainly wouldn't trust any of them, especially since every once in a while Steam tracks the stolen credit cards and deactivates the keys.
I have never heard about then deactivating from cdkeys.com. They are legit
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Legend on May 05, 2015, 07:26 PM
They probably just buy from Russia/Brazil/Asia for very low prices.
*Possibly stolen*
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 10:26 PM
So I plugged in my old plasma just to see, It's only 720 so i ran 4x native resolution and was getting an average of 95 FPS with everything all the way up to the max. I'll run a test here in a bit with one card. It seems i'll be able to run VR @ 1440 75fps? But i have a another question, One cpu is running about 65 C while the other is running 75c. What temps are you guys seeing when running your cards and whats the breaking point? Should i look into some cooling?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2015, 10:28 PM
So I plugged in my old plasma just to see, It's only 720 so i ran 4x native resolution and was getting an average of 95 FPS with everything all the way up to the max. I'll run a test here in a bit with one card. It seems i'll be able to run VR @ 1440 75fps? But i have a another question, One cpu is running about 65 C while the other is running 75c. What temps are you guys seeing when running your cards and whats the breaking point? Should i look into some cooling?
80C is usually where one should get concerned. Mine runs 50-70, I think.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2015, 10:31 PM
Biggest thing is that you've got 2 big GPUs sitting next to each other. That means, it's going to get hot. -GPUs get hot as is. -the second one isn't getting as much air as the first one. So it gets even hotter.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 10:35 PM
Biggest thing is that you've got 2 big GPUs sitting next to each other. That means, it's going to get hot. -GPUs get hot as is. -the second one isn't getting as much air as the first one. So it gets even hotter.
Yeah, and this is with the side open. It's going to get hotter if I shut it. I really don't need to run the cards like I am now. It's just for personal satisfaction.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 05, 2015, 10:40 PM
Yeah, and this is with the side open. It's going to get hotter if I shut it. I really don't need to run the cards like I am now. It's just for personal satisfaction.
Having the side open isn't necessarily what you want. If you have the GPUs right next to eachother, then the fan is getting almost closed off by the other GPU.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 10:52 PM
Having the side open isn't necessarily what you want. If you have the GPUs right next to eachother, then the fan is getting almost closed off by the other GPU.
There's a space between the gpu's. But i've had the side open because i've been having problems and taking stuff in and out. Not for cooling.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 05, 2015, 11:01 PM
Well i just ran the same exact setting with only one gpu it and was only running 45 fps. So that's about 40 FPS gain in the same location and setting. I think that's pretty significant.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: DD_Bwest on May 06, 2015, 02:33 AM
figured id put this hear lol just awesome, and must have taken a hell of alot of work
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=88c_1430737335
utterly impressive!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 06, 2015, 02:44 AM
Nice, contacted amazon and they are going to give me batman, no hassle. Love amazon.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 06, 2015, 02:49 AM
You get the Witcher and batman for free with a 970 right now. You should look into it.
I know, but I'm poor. I've also been thinking about if I should make a new PC. I wanna downsize my rig, but I don't quite want to buy a new mobo. I'm not sure if my CPU can be transplanted or not. It's 3 years, old, not sure if it melted into the board or not. Plus the Lian Li case that's perfect for what I want is 550 dollars. The Cool Master one isn't being made right now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 08, 2015, 01:30 PM
I know, but I'm poor. I've also been thinking about if I should make a new PC. I wanna downsize my rig, but I don't quite want to buy a new mobo. I'm not sure if my CPU can be transplanted or not. It's 3 years, old, not sure if it melted into the board or not. Plus the Lian Li case that's perfect for what I want is 550 dollars. The Cool Master one isn't being made right now.
I think I know the case you want. I wanted one too, but couldn't bring my self to spend that much.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 08, 2015, 01:36 PM
Does nobody know if graphics cards are different between us and Europe? Any compatibility issues?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 08, 2015, 01:40 PM
I think I know the case you want. I wanted one too, but couldn't bring my self to spend that much.
I was thinking of getting this one, but it's out of stock and there's nothing else quite like it: http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mini-tower/elite-360/
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 08, 2015, 04:46 PM
Then I need to figure out how much it costs to get a GPU through customs here
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 08, 2015, 04:47 PM
Euroland means European countries that use the euro.
I've shipped my fair share of packages to Euroland, and when declaring the goods I always had the option of saying it was a VAT free gift under $50. http://www.dutycalculator.com/help_center/do-i-have-to-pay-duty-and-vat-on-a-gift/
I was actually shipping gifts though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 09, 2015, 05:09 PM
Oh I already registered Morrowind GOTY, Oblivion GOTY and Skyrim Legendary on Steam - So I'mma play it on Steam rather than through the DVD...few years back I was gonna get it for PS3 (Skyrim) but I heard about the horrible bugs and glitches lol.
Edit: This was before I became a PC gamer :p
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 13, 2015, 08:42 PM
What are the best mods used for enhancing the graphics?
Oh I already registered Morrowind GOTY, Oblivion GOTY and Skyrim Legendary on Steam - So I'mma play it on Steam rather than through the DVD...few years back I was gonna get it for PS3 (Skyrim) but I heard about the horrible bugs and glitches lol.
No idea. ENB has a huge list of mods that you could use together.
I got it on PS3 originally and had minor issues, but PC is way better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 14, 2015, 06:49 PM
Overwatch gameplay!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 15, 2015, 04:51 PM
I really hope my cpu is going to be fine for Vr. I've read that the whole fx line won't be. But currently I don't think it's a problem running games or dropping frames.
Worst case I sell my cpu and MB to a friend that's looking to build aMD . And buy intel... might cost me an additional 250.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 15, 2015, 05:06 PM
Intel i7-5960X, 16GB DDR4 RAM, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game Ready GeForce GTX Driver
For the complete lowdown on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt you'll have to stay tuned to GeForce.com for our Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide. In the meantime, let us know in the comments which NVIDIA technologies you'll be utilizing to enhance your The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PC experience.
(http://gifyu.com/images/tweet.png)
Why are they using a 1000 Dollar cpu in their test?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 15, 2015, 05:17 PM
Intel i7-5960X, 16GB DDR4 RAM, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Game Ready GeForce GTX Driver
For the complete lowdown on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt you'll have to stay tuned to GeForce.com for our Graphics, Performance & Tweaking Guide. In the meantime, let us know in the comments which NVIDIA technologies you'll be utilizing to enhance your The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt PC experience.
Spoiler for Image:
(http://gifyu.com/images/tweet.png)
Why are they using a 1000 Dollar cpu in their test?
Because it's easier to compare GPUs when the CPU isn't the bottle neck.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: BasilZero on May 15, 2015, 05:27 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 16, 2015, 12:25 AM
Okay, So I did a few benchmarks on War thunder For Sli, I was starting to get pissed because at 1080 I was getting worst performance in SLI than on a single card.
But then I deiced what the hell. I'll run it at 4k. The game maxed out averaged 45 FPS with a low average of 30ish, And with SLI 75 FPS with a low of 60. Not bad, I could probably turn off most anti aliasing and get even more FPS as it wont be needed in 4k Down sampled.
It's weird that it produced a gain at 4k, but a loss at 1080.
Ran the test again with anti aliasing off with a high average of 89 and a low average of 65. A decent gain.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: BasilZero on May 16, 2015, 06:18 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Legend on May 16, 2015, 06:39 PM
Okay, So I did a few benchmarks on War thunder For Sli, I was starting to get pissed because at 1080 I was getting worst performance in SLI than on a single card.
But then I deiced what the heck. I'll run it at 4k. The game maxed out averaged 45 FPS with a low average of 30ish, And with SLI 75 FPS with a low of 60. Not bad, I could probably turn off most anti aliasing and get even more FPS as it wont be needed in 4k Down sampled.
It's weird that it produced a gain at 4k, but a loss at 1080.
Ran the test again with anti aliasing off with a high average of 89 and a low average of 65. A decent gain.
Yeah it's interesting how wonky sli is for you.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 16, 2015, 07:30 PM
Internet suggests CPU bottleneck, or refreshing drivers. Have you tried a good SLI game?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 16, 2015, 07:40 PM
Warthunder is or at least was, witcher 2 I was getting 1500 fps
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 16, 2015, 07:44 PM
Warthunder is or at least was, witcher 2 I was getting 1500 fps
Do you mean 150? If not, max out your settings!! Maybe try over clocking first. Don't want to push you into getting a new CPU when you might not need one. Especially if the issue lies elsewhere.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 16, 2015, 07:55 PM
Do you mean 150? If not, max out your settings!! Maybe try over clocking first. Don't want to push you into getting a new CPU when you might not need one. Especially if the issue lies elsewhere.
That is max, Uber sample off. Only change. I think with it on I was getting 100 fps or something.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 16, 2015, 08:19 PM
I'm not seeing upgrading my cpu being worth the extra cost, while their aMD cpu is slightly better than the one I'm using it's not doing bad when compared with and intel cpu.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 16, 2015, 10:25 PM
Which do you have? I was reading the same earlier. Something must be wrong though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 16, 2015, 10:31 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 17, 2015, 06:59 PM
I guess I should have asked about the mobo first.
Though those prices aren't bad. I think I spent 120 on my DDR 3 ram 4 years ago. I was thinking of making a new PC. Though I was thinking of making it at Christmas time. I was thinking of going mini-itx. Then replacing the desktop upstairs with my old one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 17, 2015, 07:22 PM
Humble Bundle Spring sale: https://www.humblebundle.com/store?logo&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=82a7368733-Humble_Store_Spring_Sale_2015_Sunday&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-82a7368733-99080117
Highlights: Alien Isolation $12.49 Kentucky Route Zero $12.49 Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed $3.99 Typing of the Dead: Overkill $4.99 Valkyria Chronicles $6.79 Killer is Dead Nightmare Edition $4.99 Saints Row Franchise Pack $13.74 Gunpoint $1.99 Max Payne 3 $4.99 GTA IV $3.99 | GTA IV Complete $5.99
lots more
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 17, 2015, 07:30 PM
Though those prices aren't bad. I think I spent 120 on my DDR 3 ram 4 years ago. I was thinking of making a new PC. Though I was thinking of making it at Christmas time. I was thinking of going mini-itx. Then replacing the desktop upstairs with my old one.
They seem to range from 2-400 . With intel being you only choice for CPU. Around here that what people want anyway.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: BasilZero on May 17, 2015, 11:58 PM
Humble Bundle Spring sale: https://www.humblebundle.com/store?logo&utm_source=Humble+Bundle+Newsletter&utm_campaign=82a7368733-Humble_Store_Spring_Sale_2015_Sunday&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_990b1b6399-82a7368733-99080117
Highlights: Alien Isolation $12.49 Kentucky Route Zero $12.49 Sonic All Stars Racing Transformed $3.99 Typing of the Dead: Overkill $4.99 Valkyria Chronicles $6.79 Killer is Dead Nightmare Edition $4.99 Saints Row Franchise Pack $13.74 Gunpoint $1.99 Max Payne 3 $4.99 GTA IV $3.99 | GTA IV Complete $5.99
lots more
Dayum, VC and Killer is Dead are the titles I am interested in - the rest I either have or no interest.
VC was $5.99 if I remember right few days ago but that Killer is Dead price is tempting but I'll buy it later.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: BasilZero on May 19, 2015, 11:06 AM
I did a 1080p and 60 FPS video!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 19, 2015, 11:13 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 21, 2015, 10:51 AM
I recommend Heroes of the Storm for everyone, including MOBA noobs! It has great tutorials and seems quite a bit easier to play than most other MOBAs (but hard to master of course).
It's in open beta now
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 22, 2015, 05:53 PM
Getting a 1080p monitor.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 22, 2015, 06:14 PM
Have my PC set up to a gigantic TV and a little monitor.
To play games I need the TV set as primary, but that means turning the TV on and logging in that way. So I'm getting a 1080p monitor so I can clone displays.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 22, 2015, 06:25 PM
Have my PC set up to a gigantic TV and a little monitor.
To play games I need the TV set as primary, but that means turning the TV on and logging in that way. So I'm getting a 1080p monitor so I can clone displays.
I want one for 120 fps
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 23, 2015, 07:44 PM
Three issues I have with gaming on PC. Monitor - would be nice to use TV at times and monitor at others. But this is getting fixed.
Speaker - same as above.
Controller
Would be nice if everything got set up for me automatically.
Monitor should be good. Thinking of setting up a few batch files or something that starts up at the same time as steam to set the appropriate settings. But it doesn't seem like there's an easy way to do that. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: BasilZero on May 23, 2015, 07:48 PM
Three issues I have with gaming on PC. Monitor - would be nice to use TV at times and monitor at others. But this is getting fixed.
Speaker - same as above.
Controller
Would be nice if everything got set up for me automatically.
Monitor should be good. Thinking of setting up a few batch files or something that starts up at the same time as steam to set the appropriate settings. But it doesn't seem like there's an easy way to do that. :P
o.O
You can already do that though o.O
My only issue with PC gaming is that some games are exclusive to other platforms (i.e. ME3, etc on Origin).
Other than that I have no other issues with PC gaming.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 23, 2015, 07:50 PM
My only issue with PC gaming is that some games are exclusive to other platforms (i.e. ME3, etc on Origin).
Other than that I have no other issues with PC gaming.
I can already do what?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 23, 2015, 07:54 PM
Monitor - most applications use the primary monitor, so I have that set to my TV, but some games like Age of Empires I don't want to play on my TV. Only way to change this is to set monitor to primary, and then back again every time. Instead I'm getting a new monitor so I can clone them.
Speaker Sometimes I want the TV set as my primary speaker and other times I want my speakers as those are closer to the monitors. Should be doable to set steam to change TV to primary.
Controllers I use the DS4. Which means I have to open up Input mapper and set a profile for the application I'm using. Most games just use my Xbox profile but there are exceptions.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: BasilZero on May 23, 2015, 08:02 PM
Or write a program that swaps screens without telling windows. Then have that automatically launch on select games.
Well at least this would be the cheaper option...
This'd be a good idea. But I think cloning monitors would have some nice benefits.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: BasilZero on May 24, 2015, 12:22 AM
I bought PAC-MAN Championship Edition DX+ All You Can Eat Edition Bundle for $3.74 :O
The last Pac-Man game I played was the NES one lol.
Edit: Btw it is 35 year anniversary of pac-man :)!
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: BasilZero on May 26, 2015, 04:46 PM
Me playing PAC-MAN on Steam.
1080p and 30 FPS though under rendering with 60 FPS during playing lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 26, 2015, 08:41 PM
Made some great progress with what I want to do today. :D -Did some digging, there is a controller set up already there, just have to set it up. -Monitor came today, already set up. -Sound is another matter, but very easy.
So close to a console like set up! :D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Legend on May 26, 2015, 08:51 PM
Made some great progress with what I want to do today. :D -Did some digging, there is a controller set up already there, just have to set it up. -Monitor came today, already set up. -Sound is another matter, but very easy.
So close to a console like set up! :D
Nice.
What are you doing for OS?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 26, 2015, 08:56 PM
I'm thinking about getting this one. I can get http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-28-Inch-Definition-Monitor-U28D590D/dp/B00IEZGWI2?tag=bestmonitors04-20 this one for just 50 more but even running two cards will be difficult to keep up with 4k 60
I was also thinking about running 3 monitors but of course it would only be 1080, Not sure if i could get away with running 3 monitors higher than that, plus i could get all 3 for the price of the two listed above.
what do you guy feel is the better set up.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 27, 2015, 12:37 AM
I'm thinking about getting this one. I can get http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-28-Inch-Definition-Monitor-U28D590D/dp/B00IEZGWI2?tag=bestmonitors04-20 this one for just 50 more but even running two cards will be difficult to keep up with 4k 60
I was also thinking about running 3 monitors but of course it would only be 1080, Not sure if i could get away with running 3 monitors higher than that, plus i could get all 3 for the price of the two listed above.
what do you guy feel is the better set up.
No idea.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 27, 2015, 02:11 AM
My god, this is the hardest decision I've had to make in my gaming career.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 27, 2015, 03:02 AM
or this http://www.amazon.com/Sony-XBR43X830C-43-Inch-Ultra-120Hz/dp/B00R45XH86
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: BasilZero on May 27, 2015, 03:37 AM
the wife is pregnant with twins. So I'm going to lose my room for a year and a half or more. because of this I'll need to redo my set up and make it much smaller. Im having a hard time deciding on what to do with monitors. So many options.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 27, 2015, 01:23 PM
Out of all your posts about ending your game room, this one got me the most :(
Yeah, it's what started the whole journey. And it will also be the start of the end of that journey. But i'll hold on the the screen and pack it back up, maybe a year or so down the road i can get a bigger place and start again.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: BasilZero on May 28, 2015, 01:25 AM
the wife is pregnant with twins. So I'm going to lose my room for a year and a half or more. because of this I'll need to redo my set up and make it much smaller. Im having a hard time deciding on what to do with monitors. So many options.
Holy smokes, congrats dude!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread GTA V 96! :(
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 28, 2015, 01:40 AM
Then there's Warhammer Dawn of War: GOTY edition: [NSFW]https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Z6CfW8afTe2RYt7d[/NSFW]
I'll let someone else take it.
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 29, 2015, 02:38 PM
No one has taken the Dawn of War key yet!! A very special gift just for you (pay what you want and help charity) (https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Z6CfW8afTe2RYt7d)
Title: Re: [color=springgreen]PC Community Thread[/color] [color=red]GTA V 96! :( [/color]
Post by: Xevross on May 29, 2015, 03:45 PM
What a sexy looking thread title!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 29, 2015, 06:07 PM
No one has taken the Dawn of War key yet!! A very special gift just for you (pay what you want and help charity) (https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=Z6CfW8afTe2RYt7d)
I'll take it when I get home if now one else does
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 29, 2015, 11:56 PM
Still unclaimed! It's a classic PC game and holds up well!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 30, 2015, 03:09 AM
Finally finished Shadow of Mordor. It got a lot better when I just focused on the main missions.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: BasilZero on May 30, 2015, 07:53 AM
Still unclaimed! It's a classic PC game and holds up well!!
I would get it but..I already have it from a previous humble bundle AND I BTA'd the recent bundle ;P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: BasilZero on May 30, 2015, 10:35 AM
Peoples, please send friend invite to me on Steam if you havent added me yet ;)!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 30, 2015, 01:35 PM
GreenManGaming is offering Batman: Arkham Knight pre-order for 40% off!! Holy shame, that accounts to just $36 at launch. Pretty tempting to get that version.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on May 30, 2015, 06:12 PM
I got a monitor today, I think what i'll do is have one screen 1080 60hz, one 1080 144hz and one 2560x1400 60 all 27inch.
I've heard some say its fantastic, but how long will you actually notice it? The problem I have is I can't find one with a thin bazel like my 60hz screen has now. So I might just buy another like I have now and a qhd for the center screen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 31, 2015, 10:08 PM
Man, Wolfenstein: The New Order is really good. Much better than I expected
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 01, 2015, 08:51 PM
LEGO Worlds now available on Steam Early Access ($14.99, Warner/TT) - NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1055250)
Quote
Steam page is up.
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Originally Posted by Bigby (http://vizioneck.com/forum/showthread.php?p=166014464#post166014464)
Oh look, that was fast:(http://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam/apps/332310/header.jpg?t=1433169563) (http://store.steampowered.com/app/332310/) Early Access. Feel free to create a thread.
lego world game to battle minecraft on early access! hope it comes to console aswell
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 01, 2015, 09:57 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 01, 2015, 10:44 PM
I discovered a lot of things so far. When you discover something you can instantly build it. The worlds seem a bit small right now, but I did get on my Red dragon and fly out into the water and it let me go a long ways. Until I got board and decided to skydive back in. Got to ride a horse and fly a chopper, got into a fight with a wizard. And had a skeleton steal a lot of money from when I got up to answer the door. All of this happened from the last time I posted. This game just killed mine craft if they can do something about the world size.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 01, 2015, 10:55 PM
haha nice, i really hope it comes ps4 then!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2015, 11:03 PM
Out of all the Minecraft clones, this is the one that actually has a chance of doing well.
Has good sounding gameplay, a great IP that can easily outclass Minecraft as far as third party support, and is a clone of a clone of itself.
Will it overtake Minecraft? Heck no(unless Microsoft screws up), but it'll finally give Minecraft competition.
I think it has a chance. The game is fairly bareally bones now. But even like it is if they put it out on everything it could very well do as well. This game made me smile from the very start. I had a fudgy fist fight with a wizards. How cool is that? And dat bazooka!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Legend on Jun 01, 2015, 11:28 PM
I think it has a chance. The game is fairly bareally bones now. But even like it is if they put it out on everything it could very well do as well. This game made me smile from the very start. I had a fudgy fist fight with a wizards. How cool is that? And dat bazooka!
Any survival elements?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 01, 2015, 11:31 PM
Not right now. Skeletons do attack you. But you don't news to eat or anything like that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 02, 2015, 01:01 AM
Yeah, I can see my self wasting hours on end just building stuff with bricks. This the game lego should have made before they made all those movie spin off games.
There are quite a few bugs right now, and some stuff that isn't so well laid out. Example, you have to exit you level, then Hit start so you can pick a world and you have to exit the game from there. Optimization is pretty crud right now too. This game should have a locked 60 on a 970 but it doesn't, I've encountered dips in the the 20's. I guess that's why they call it early access. Paid beta testing.
I see so much potential with this game. I hope they fix a few thing and really make this game what it deserves to be. Plus, it's could be a cash cow. Imagine the DLC possibilities .
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 02, 2015, 02:51 AM
Another time sink game :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Legend on Jun 04, 2015, 08:16 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Aura7541 on Jun 04, 2015, 08:23 PM
That looks pretty slick. It might take some time for me to get used to it though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Legend on Jun 04, 2015, 10:07 PM
Tbh I don't think it looks good.
Laptop track pads suck to play on. Why would this be better?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 05, 2015, 02:44 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 07, 2015, 12:56 AM
I'm thinking about picking up my second montors here in a bit.
Also my area is getting gigblast Internet from cox. I think I'll snap it up. 1 Gb down, 1Gb up.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Aura7541 on Jun 08, 2015, 02:44 AM
Remember when Valve began the new refund policy on Steam? A few indie developers are complaining about how their sales have dramatically dropped (http://www.dsogaming.com/news/indie-developers-report-steam-refund-abuse-from-pc-gamers-show-graphs-to-back-their-claims/) after the implementation. I voiced my opinion (http://www.vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=96473) why I thought the new policy is good, but what your thoughts on this guys?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: Legend on Jun 08, 2015, 02:58 AM
Remember when Valve began the new refund policy on Steam? A few indie developers are complaining about how their sales have dramatically dropped (http://www.dsogaming.com/news/indie-developers-report-steam-refund-abuse-from-pc-gamers-show-graphs-to-back-their-claims/) after the implementation. I voiced my opinion (http://"http://www.vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=96473") why I thought the new policy is good, but what your thoughts on this guys?
Policy needs reworking
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -93
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 08, 2015, 03:22 AM
Remember when Valve began the new refund policy on Steam? A few indie developers are complaining about how their sales have dramatically dropped (http://www.dsogaming.com/news/indie-developers-report-steam-refund-abuse-from-pc-gamers-show-graphs-to-back-their-claims/) after the implementation. I voiced my opinion (http://"http://www.vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?msg=96473") why I thought the new policy is good, but what your thoughts on this guys?
Maybe we can finally see some AAA indies or AA at least and not a bunch of shoddy early access clones.
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Post by: Aura7541 on Jun 08, 2015, 03:35 AM
What parts of it do you think need to be reworked? Things like reducing the time below 2 hours or making consumers write a legitimate reason why they want to return the product?
Maybe we can finally see some AAA indies or AA at least and not a bunch of shoddy early access clones.
After seeing the Early Access stuff Jim Sterling talked about in his Jimquisitions, Steam will really benefit with those things gone. It is about time that a meritocratic system is implemented.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 08, 2015, 03:35 AM
The problem is many games don't hold my attention for more than two hours . so 90 percent of the games I buy I could have refunded. Once this spreads to steams profits they'll quickly dump the system .
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Post by: Aura7541 on Jun 08, 2015, 03:43 AM
The problem is many games don't hold my attention for more than two hours . so 90 percent of the games I buy I could have refunded. Once this spreads to steams profits they'll quickly dump the system .
Well, your attention span actually won't pose a problem. The current policy states that you can get your refund if you do it within 14 days of purchase or spent less than 2 hours of total playing time.
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Post by: BasilZero on Jun 08, 2015, 04:02 AM
The problem is many games don't hold my attention for more than two hours . so 90 percent of the games I buy I could have refunded. Once this spreads to steams profits they'll quickly dump the system .
Just like paid mods lol
I can see it happening.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 08, 2015, 04:34 AM
What parts of it do you think need to be reworked? Things like reducing the time below 2 hours or making consumers write a legitimate reason why they want to
Should be lowered to 15 minutes of play time. That's enough for most legit returns.
Then have an additional return policy set. 30 days, no limit on play time, but you must call Valve on the phone to do it.
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Post by: BasilZero on Jun 08, 2015, 07:29 AM
The problem with the current refund system is that it's too easy. "Ok that game was short and mediocre, refund button!" My idea forces gamers to get out phones and talk to real people. Maybe spend 20 minutes waiting for a person. They'd even have to come up with a reason for why they were wanting a refund. Will it still be abused? Of course, but I think the amount of abusers would drop significantly. It wouldn't be worth the hassle for scammers.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 08, 2015, 08:06 AM
Just change it to 1 hour and we're good
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Post by: Aura7541 on Jun 08, 2015, 03:11 PM
So thats why they were talking about it on Facebook....hmm
I should try it out lol.
Yup. And they're editing the menu interface a lot to make it easier and more intuitive to use. Also adding cool functionality like better tutorials, better party system, more options for viewing games etc
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Post by: BasilZero on Jun 14, 2015, 02:35 AM
I took the new Assassin's Creed Syndicate survey
(http://i.imgur.com/OymcmUo.png)
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Post by: BasilZero on Jun 14, 2015, 06:25 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/iCfsYz8.png)
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Post by: Legend on Jun 14, 2015, 06:32 AM
let me boot up 1.0 and see if it still works like how I'm used to.
ive heard you need docking ports, which ive been trying to do but have had much luck. im getting frustrated with the placement aswell cause i cant seem to figure out how to move things closer/further from the camera
ive been doing sandbox to try and learn all the basics. making massive rockets and such lol im great and building rockets that can get WELL past escape velocity, but havent really figured out stearing lol my probe will also be my first ion drive
this game is insanely addicting ..
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Post by: Legend on Jun 18, 2015, 06:21 PM
ive heard you need docking ports, which ive been trying to do but have had much luck. im getting frustrated with the placement aswell cause i cant seem to figure out how to move things closer/further from the camera
ive been doing sandbox to try and learn all the basics. making massive rockets and such lol im great and building rockets that can get WELL past escape velocity, but havent really figured out stearing lol my probe will also be my first ion drive
this game is insanely addicting ..
Yeah you need either a docking port or a separator. For placement you rotate the camera by holding the right click and moving the mouse. Scroll to move up and down I think I remember. Use wasd to rotate parts.
To make great rockets you really should use asparagus fueling. Have lots of engines and lots of fuel tanks per engine. Start off with all engines being on, but all fuel is coming out of two tanks. Then when the tanks empty you drop them and their engines.
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Post by: Legend on Jun 18, 2015, 06:29 PM
Have you made it to a planet yet?
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 18, 2015, 06:30 PM
Yeah you need either a docking port or a separator. For placement you rotate the camera by holding the right click and moving the mouse. Scroll to move up and down I think I remember. Use wasd to rotate parts.
To make great rockets you really should use asparagus fueling. Have lots of engines and lots of fuel tanks per engine. Start off with all engines being on, but all fuel is coming out of two tanks. Then when the tanks empty you drop them and their engines.
thanx ill give those a shot. do you get bigger and more stuff on career?
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Post by: Legend on Jun 18, 2015, 06:45 PM
Ive made ships that could reach the first planet further out and probably more cause I really got them going. But my navigation isnt there. I havent even been able tos tay In earth orbit. Is there some kind of autopilot? Ive been trying over and over but i either fly out of control or have a trajectory that is almost straight up lol
actually i just went to my tracking, one of mine, Deep space 8, has a massive orbit around the sun. going much futher then even Eeloo lol but it doesnt have power left and no stearing lol
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Post by: Legend on Jun 18, 2015, 10:07 PM
Ive made ships that could reach the first planet further out and probably more cause I really got them going. But my navigation isnt there. I havent even been able tos tay In earth orbit. Is there some kind of autopilot? Ive been trying over and over but i either fly out of control or have a trajectory that is almost straight up lol
actually i just went to my tracking, one of mine, Deep space 8, has a massive orbit around the sun. going much futher then even Eeloo lol but it doesnt have power left and no stearing lol
You need to use SAS. Press t to engage, and then the ship will stick to whatever course you desire. Add more stability blocks and your ship will be more stable. In the map view you can set up maneuvers to help plan your flight path.
Or you can install mechjeb, which is full on auto pilot. Just tell it what you want to do.
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 18, 2015, 10:11 PM
You need to use SAS. Press t to engage, and then the ship will stick to whatever course you desire. Add more stability blocks and your ship will be more stable. In the map view you can set up maneuvers to help plan your flight path.
Or you can install mechjeb, which is full on auto pilot. Just tell it what you want to do.
got link? im hopeless at flying these things, ive had sas on, is there something easier then using they keypad?
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Post by: Legend on Jun 18, 2015, 10:13 PM
MechJeb - Gameplay - Kerbal Space Program Mods - Curse (http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/220221-mechjeb)
The keypad works great for me. Are you having some issue with something maybe?
Mayne I just dont know how to fly. Lol I was hoping I could program an onboard computer to do it all at set points lol
i decided to get it and try it. so far it looks sweet, and about to launch my first test. i dont care if its cheating cause to me i jsut cant fly and i want to be able to do stuff lol
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 19, 2015, 03:45 PM
So im geting really frustrated. The placemebt in construction is pissing me off. Im trying to connect a tank to a decoupling bracket but the game keeps insisting it mounts to the surface underneith it or half connecting to it so thst the bottom is but top ist so its mounted at an angle.. grrrr
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 20, 2015, 02:25 AM
MechJeb - Gameplay - Kerbal Space Program Mods - Curse (http://www.curse.com/ksp-mods/kerbal/220221-mechjeb)
The keypad works great for me. Are you having some issue with something maybe?
if i were to wanna slingshot around the sun to see how fast i can get, is all i have to do is point towards the sun and fire my rockets aslong as i can? lol
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Post by: Legend on Jun 20, 2015, 02:41 AM
if i were to wanna slingshot around the sun to see how fast i can get, is all i have to do is point towards the sun and fire my rockets aslong as i can? lol
No! In space you don't go where you point, you go where you orbit. Point sideways to the sun, opposite your orbit.
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 20, 2015, 02:46 AM
One last question. If I warp it blows up and if I revert to launch not all my parts are in the rigjt place or connected. Is that because my cpu cant handle it so some stuff gets dropped? Lol when I launch at normal speed 1 ingane second takes about 3 real lol
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Post by: Legend on Jun 20, 2015, 03:39 AM
One last question. If I warp it blows up and if I revert to launch not all my parts are in the rigjt place or connected. Is that because my cpu cant handle it so some stuff gets dropped? Lol when I launch at normal speed 1 ingane second takes about 3 real lol
That sounds like a glitch, and it shouldn't be happening. How flipping big is your ship?
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Post by: DD_Bwest on Jun 20, 2015, 03:42 AM
Taking a break from the forums cause Legend made me sad ;(!
What did I do?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 20, 2015, 08:12 PM
Amazon has the 4k monitor I wanted, with a damaged box . the are selling it for 100 less. I think I'm going to snag it. It's in my cart waiting on me to pull the trigger. What do you guys think?
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Post by: Legend on Jun 20, 2015, 08:31 PM
Amazon has the 4k monitor I wanted, with a damaged box . the are selling it for 100 less. I think I'm going to snag it. It's in my cart waiting on me to pull the trigger. What do you guys think?
How much is it?
Plus 4k is awesome. For your gaming desk that sounds great.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 20, 2015, 08:39 PM
Plus 4k is awesome. For your gaming desk that sounds great.
340
and actually it's not 4k it's 2560 x 1440
is 2560x1440 a noticeable improvement over 1080?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 21, 2015, 06:14 PM
I just picked up Project cars on pc thanks to the steam sale. It's seems like a really good racer so far. I wish i could connect my wheel but the stupid clamp it came with wont work on this desk. I'll have to figure something out with it. And i think i'm missing a cord. I have to find that too.
is 2560x1440 a noticeable improvement over 1080?
No one wants to answer this question :(
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Post by: Legend on Jun 21, 2015, 06:19 PM
I just picked up Project cars on pc thanks to the steam sale. It's seems like a really good racer so far. I wish i could connect my wheel but the stupid clamp it came with wont work on this desk. I'll have to figure something out with it. And i think i'm missing a cord. I have to find that too.
is 2560x1440 a noticeable improvement over 1080?
No one wants to answer this question :(
Yes 1440p is noticeably better. :)
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Post by: Aura7541 on Jun 21, 2015, 06:26 PM
I just picked up Project cars on pc thanks to the steam sale. It's seems like a really good racer so far. I wish i could connect my wheel but the stupid clamp it came with wont work on this desk. I'll have to figure something out with it. And i think i'm missing a cord. I have to find that too.
is 2560x1440 a noticeable improvement over 1080?
No one wants to answer this question :(
I personally can notice the difference pretty easily. It's not 1080p vs. 720p huge, but you do get more detail.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 22, 2015, 06:05 PM
witcher 94!!
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 22, 2015, 09:44 PM
I've come to the conclusion the nividia's drivers are also shame. So i guess i made the mistake up leaving my monitors in extend mode last night and letting the computer go to sleep. Come home today, try to turn it on and no video on the screens. So after fiddling around a bit i left on hdmi unplugged and got video on one screen, made sure extend was off and plug the hdmi back in and it shut off both screens, tried again on the second gpu. Same thing. So I then used windows tool to set everything up and it's all back to normal.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 22, 2015, 09:53 PM
I've come to the conclusion the nividia's drivers are also shame. So i guess i made the mistake up leaving my monitors in extend mode last night and letting the computer go to sleep. Come home today, try to turn it on and no video on the screens. So after fiddling around a bit i left on hdmi unplugged and got video on one screen, made sure extend was off and plug the hdmi back in and it shut off both screens, tried again on the second gpu. Same thing. So I then used windows tool to set everything up and it's all back to normal.
Nvidia drivers sometimes make me scratch my head. I had problems with the GPU recognizing my older TV with sound all of a sudden when it had worked for months before that.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 22, 2015, 10:01 PM
Some...good...games for Oculus lol
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 23, 2015, 12:55 AM
Playing Age of Empires HD. They really messed something up. It seems like every few seconds, there's like a microstutter. Everything just stops for a fraction of a second. Not a deal breaker, but it is slightly bothersome. I think this is because of the AI.
I'm not entirely sure, but AI seems to be slightly messed up in other areas too. Most of the time, there is no trouble. But something I noticed when I tried to send some horseback riders after a moving object, they stuttered. The game itself didn't stutter in these cases. But they'll walk a little, stop, walk a little, stop. Wondering if the search algorithm has some issues. Recalculating every few steps, maybe there's an issue with how it's being done?
Overall aside from the hiccups, it's been pretty great.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 23, 2015, 02:50 AM
What happend to my download for batman. I was downing loading it before i left and it said an hour. I just got back, and it says 55 mins. This is the longest it's ever took to down load anything from steam.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 23, 2015, 02:55 AM
What happend to my download for batman. I was downing loading it before i left and it said an hour. I just got back, and it says 55 mins. This is the longest it's ever took to down load anything from steam.
No idea. That's weird. I've been downloading it for 5(?) hours I think so far. About half way done. Were there other games in your queue? It seems like sometimes other games pop up to first randomly.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 23, 2015, 03:01 AM
No idea. That's weird. I've been downloading it for 5(?) hours I think so far. About half way done. Were there other games in your queue? It seems like sometimes other games pop up to first randomly.
No, I downloaded Pcars yesterday. It took about 30 mins to down load 17 gigs. This is just double the size. Maybe people are all downloading the same thing causing speeds to crash. Yeah, i'm only getting 2 MB a second now.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 23, 2015, 03:02 AM
No, I downloaded Pcars yesterday. It took about 30 mins to down load 17 gigs. This is just double the size. Maybe people are all downloading the same thing causing speeds to crash. Yeah, i'm only getting 2 MB a second now.
I wish I could feel sorry for you. :P
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 23, 2015, 03:03 AM
I've been messing around with UE4. I really like it. I like the visual aspect of it. It's it's much easier to understand.
Yeah I think the coding side of things are worse than unity as far as deep customization is concerned, but unreal is amazing at quickly getting you going and making it look great.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 01, 2015, 02:48 AM
Yeah I think the coding side of things are worse than unity as far as deep customization is concerned, but unreal is amazing at quickly getting you going and making it look great.
Yeah, I made a material in min's and it looks pretty cool. like car paint. And the only reason it took that long was because i was following a tutorial.
It would be nice if i didn't need a second program for objects.
I also like you can use a controller to fly around your scene. Basically you can control it like we've learned to in video games over the years.
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Post by: BasilZero on Jul 01, 2015, 07:10 AM
You have asked countless times and now were excited to reveal the Tales of Zestiria Collectors Edition! These very limited Collectors Editions are packed with a lot of content where not only will you get the game, youll also get: 4 Chibi Kyun Chara figures Lady of the Lake sanctuary cloth artwork Hardback artbook 30 minute anime DVD Selected soundtrack from the game Exclusive Normin metalcase Collectors Edition box
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Were proud to reveal that Tales of Symphonia HD will be coming to PC Digital! This will be based off the HD version released last year and will be hitting digital shelves in 2016! Finally, the pre-purchase bonus for Tales of Zestiria on STEAM will depend on the number of pre-orders! Once the pre-purchase reaches a certain milestone, bonus content will be made available for all users where the final step is Tales of Symphonia HD is given to all STEAM pre-purchasers!
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 02, 2015, 07:26 PM
lol, thanks. Just messing around with materials and textures.
I do have a question about UE4 though. It seems low res to me. Like the videos i watched looked better than what was on my native screen. Makes no sense.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 03, 2015, 02:24 AM
I think I want to make Don't Starve Zelda. I keep thinking of ideas and I think I've locked down the art style. It's going to be very different from those two games. But still share from them as well. You can follow the story path or survive and build even both. I was thinking you could start out as a preteen, sent out one you own. With every year that passes you'll grow. Some things will only be able to be done once you're old enough and strong enough. I've got a lot of ideas so far, but they are so jumbled it might not come out right if i tried to explain it all to you guys.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2015, 01:13 PM
I think I want to make Don't Starve Zelda. I keep thinking of ideas and I think I've locked down the art style. It's going to be very different from those two games. But still share from them as well. You can follow the story path or survive and build even both. I was thinking you could start out as a preteen, sent out one you own. With every year that passes you'll grow. Some things will only be able to be done once you're old enough and strong enough. I've got a lot of ideas so far, but they are so jumbled it might not come out right if i tried to explain it all to you guys.
Would you play as zelda or link?
Also yeah that'd be awesome if you got your indie game made!
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Post by: BasilZero on Jul 03, 2015, 03:59 PM
Wishlisted Tales of Symphonia :)!
Hoping for Vesperia, Eternia, Phantasia, Of the Abyss, Legendia, Graces F and Xillia to come out in the future as well.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 03, 2015, 05:19 PM
Also yeah that'd be awesome if you got your indie game made!
It all depends on how your are sent out on your own. If it's a hero's quest then I'll most likely force a male character. If it's something like your village get attacked and you're the only survivor then there will be a choice of gender. I was leaning towards the first.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2015, 05:21 PM
It all depends on how your are sent out on your own. If it's a hero's quest then I'll most likely force a male character. If it's something like your village get attacked and you're the only survivor then there will be a choice of gender. I was leaning towards the first.
Why does the hero need to be a male?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 03, 2015, 05:24 PM
Oh gotcha. So you have a setting and everything figured out?
Yeah, pretty much. before guns. So your main tools would be an axe, bow, spear and a sling shot. I haven't deiced about a sword yet. I thought about having one in the game. But it being super hard to find.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 03, 2015, 07:08 PM
Does anyone know if the surface/pro 3 can be used as a Wacom tablet?
Not yet, I wanted to get some art going then move over to blender to model some of it. And then into UE to make the level, I think I can use the 3rd person blueprint to start my game.
Wacom Intuos Professional Pen and Small Touch Tablet Black PTH451 - Best Buy (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/wacom-intuos-professional-pen-and-small-touch-tablet-black/1682531.p?id=1219059639314&skuId=1682531)
This is the pad if anyone is interested.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2015, 12:53 AM
Not yet, I wanted to get some art going then move over to blender to model some of it. And then into UE to make the level, I think I can use the 3rd person blueprint to start my game.
Wacom Intuos Professional Pen and Small Touch Tablet Black PTH451 - Best Buy (http://www.bestbuy.com/site/wacom-intuos-professional-pen-and-small-touch-tablet-black/1682531.p?id=1219059639314&skuId=1682531)
This is the pad if anyone is interested.
I'm not an artist at all. The pad thing is cool.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 04, 2015, 01:01 AM
Gezz. I'm going to have to stop crop in flickr . It make it really blury. Looks much better on my screen.
A little bit better, but perhaps make them less round, unless round is what you're going for? See these, the first kinda has these sharp offshoots that are distinguishing, and the second is curvy, albeit plain.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 04, 2015, 05:47 AM
pie, I worked on the bush again but haven't finished it yet and I don't know if I like it. But one of the things that was keeping me from sleeping is weapon design. So here's a quick bow i whipped up.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 04, 2015, 05:50 AM
Looks sweet!
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 04, 2015, 06:01 AM
Thanks, Now to get it over to blender! Which i have to relearn what I did know. But that's okay. This is going to be a more advance bow. I figure the starter ones will look more like a branch and will have very low power. I'm thinking this is something you'll be able to build during you teenage years.
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Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2015, 04:24 PM
Thanks, Now to get it over to blender! Which i have to relearn what I did know. But that's okay. This is going to be a more advance bow. I figure the starter ones will look more like a branch and will have very low power. I'm thinking this is something you'll be able to build during you teenage years.
Is it a 2d bow or a 3d bow?
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 04, 2015, 04:28 PM
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 04, 2015, 05:18 PM
There isa billion good video's on youtube about sketch book pro. Only if blender and UE4 was the same way.
Oh shame. I loged on to autodesk. Some how google knew my sisters password from like more than a year ago where she signed up a student account for me. So i'm download maya to my computer.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 04, 2015, 06:38 PM
Maya is absolutely frustrating
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Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2015, 07:33 PM
I think blender is much better. At least right now. Plus I can't find any good beginners tutorials. Everyone expects you to have some knowledge. Even when clicking on videos with 101 or basics in the title.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 12:09 AM
After hours of frustration I have this really shaming bow. I'll scrap it and start again...
That's not bad at all.
Just clean it up and it'd be good.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 02:18 AM
Well I really screwed up where the string attached. Had to walk away from it for awhile. I went back to sketching. I'll have something to post here in a little while.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 03:39 AM
Would it be a game mechanic or a narrative element?
Dat double quote. :P
Both, I think of him as you're watcher while you're young. And as you grow older you can tame him and have him hunt small prey and fish for you. Maybe even help out in attacks you might not survive or run away from if something wasn't there to get in the way.
I'm thinking running into other humans will be rare. You main dangers will be animals in the wild.
Bear Knife fight!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2015, 04:16 AM
Both, I think of him as you're watcher while you're young. And as you grow older you can tame him and have him hunt small prey and fish for you. Maybe even help out in attacks you might not survive or run away from if something wasn't there to get in the way.
I'm thinking running into other humans will be rare. You main dangers will be animals in the wild.
Bear Knife fight!
You could also have the owl send messages/go on quests!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 04:21 AM
Could scout out areas in advance as the owl. You know, kinda like watchdogs with the cameras. Set up a strategy and then go for the kill.
Are you going for a realistic game, or a gamey game?
Gamey, I don't want to do realistic, one I'll be lucky to make it at all, and realistic is getting boring. So much of the same. It's like people are afraid to do something different. But it will be hard. Take killing a deer for as an example. You won't have a cross hair to tell you where the arrow will go, you'll just have to know how it Flys and where it will land from experience. Plus getting ylto close will make it run off before you can even line up your shot.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 07:07 PM
Could scout out areas in advance as the owl. You know, kinda like watchdogs with the cameras. Set up a strategy and then go for the kill.
Are you going for a realistic game, or a gamey game?
Do you have ue4 on you pc? IF so can you load it and let me know if it looks low res to you? RE4 is the only thing I seem to have problems looking low res. It's make it a pain for text.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 05, 2015, 07:12 PM
Do you have ue4 on you pc? IF so can you load it and let me know if it looks low res to you? RE4 is the only thing I seem to have problems looking low res. It's make it a pain for text.
No sorry the last time I touched Unreal was 2 years ago on a school computer. Don't remember it being low res though.
Does ue4 still look bad if you have it in a small window?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 07:12 PM
No sorry the last time I touched Unreal was 2 years ago on a school computer. Don't remember it being low res though.
Does ue4 still look bad if you have it in a small window?
Yeah, I think so .
Oddly enough the launcher looks fine. It's just tge engine.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 05, 2015, 07:54 PM
dang it. I'm following a 3rd person tutorial, on how to start from scratch. I didn't need to do this because there's a blueprint already but i though it would help me understand it more. And my character I imported has a low arm during animations and i can't figure out how to get it back up where it should go. When I pull up the mess the arm is fine, and only happens during animations. And it seems to affect all animations.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 06, 2015, 03:56 AM
This isn't what I had in mind when I set up the camera.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 06, 2015, 06:39 PM
Ori and the Blind Forest is 75% off on Steam o.O. Only $4.99
NeoGAF - View Single Post - (PC)PSA: Ori and the Blind Forest 75%off - 4.99$ @Steam (possible price mistake) (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=171087329&postcount=148)
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This definitely isn't intentional, guys. So I'm happy for everyone who got Ori at that price... but dang, I hope we'll be getting paid for this mess-up :( :( :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 06, 2015, 07:00 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 07, 2015, 01:13 AM
dang it. So I was building my 3rd person game from scratch. Followed everything to the T. What happend when I went to test it?
Well AWSD all acted like the same function. After about an hour checking and double checking I said fudge it. Closed it down opened the pre made 3rd person Blueprint and everything is the the same. I can't find a single difference. I actually believe this is the blue print he builds in the videos. And I know this because he set some stupid high jump and it is still present in the 3rd person blueprint. Anyway, I'll just go off the pre made like I had planned all a long. I really wish I could figure it out though. It's just not worth the frustration, because I'm sure later down the road I'll want to Hulk smash my PC.
I did learn some, so it wasn't all lost.
I already got the Speed and jump and stuff set the way I think I want it for now. Took All of 10 mins.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 07, 2015, 05:19 AM
dang it. So I was building my 3rd person game from scratch. Followed everything to the T. What happend when I went to test it?
Well AWSD all acted like the same function. After about an hour checking and double checking I said fudge it. Closed it down opened the pre made 3rd person Blueprint and everything is the the same. I can't find a single difference. I actually believe this is the blue print he builds in the videos. And I know this because he set some stupid high jump and it is still present in the 3rd person blueprint. Anyway, I'll just go off the pre made like I had planned all a long. I really wish I could figure it out though. It's just not worth the frustration, because I'm sure later down the road I'll want to Hulk smash my PC.
I did learn some, so it wasn't all lost.
I already got the Speed and jump and stuff set the way I think I want it for now. Took All of 10 mins.
Welcome to the world of unskilled debugging!
I hate it when I get two identical looking things yet one is broken. I always end up removing feature after feature until it starts working again. Remove the fluff and hopefully find the bug, you know. What is really frustrating is when you get down to a SINGLE line of code left, which is 100% equal to the working version, and yet it still doesn't work. That's when you find out you've really screwed things up.
Web dev is more like that then game dev though. With this forum I have zero debugging tools and can't even print debug info easily.
With Unity and I imagine blueprint, you have tons of tools at your disposal to quickly narrow in on the problem. I'd highly recommend finding a tutorial on how to use them. It'll save you tons of time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 07, 2015, 06:20 PM
So I figured out how to import models from blender to UE4.
How do you guys feels about using other peoples models in your game?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 07, 2015, 06:24 PM
Anyone going windows 10 day one?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 07, 2015, 06:34 PM
So I figured out how to import models from blender to UE4.
How do you guys feels about using other peoples models in your game?
Don't do it, unless you're only using it as a placeholder.
Even free games have to follow copyright laws.
If you can make sure the models are open source or have licensing allowing it, then even still I think it's best to not use them. You want your game to be one of a kind.
Don't do it, unless you're only using it as a placeholder.
Even free games have to follow copyright laws.
If you can make sure the models are open source or have licensing allowing it, then even still I think it's best to not use them. You want your game to be one of a kind.
Well I didn't want to use anyone's finished models. As they don't match what I want to do artistically. But for example I found a low Polly horse that needs more work. So texturing and and rigging. By the time I'm done with it it it will basically be mine as it wont resemble the original work at all. And the license said I just have to add his name to the credits.
But my original plan was just to use them as place holders till I can model my own. I just want to get a game play demo as fast as I can and that will save me countless hours.
Not day one. I'll read other people's impressions on it before I decide.
I went ahead and reserved my copy. It will download to your PC and you can choose when you want to install it. I'm on windows 8 and while I've gotten use to it I can't help but to feel that windows 10 will be better no matter what.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jul 09, 2015, 07:10 AM
rofl i broke kerbals.. i got a oops game crashed message, and told me to please send a crash folder to the developers lol
I built a space bus and was trying to unload my tourists on the mun, all 16 of them. 17 if you include jeb at the helm
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 10, 2015, 05:31 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 10, 2015, 11:26 PM
well, i was going to but my computer cant handle to many ships and kerbals in eva so close at once.. then i was going to try to see how many i could leave stranded doing eva's on the moon. that broke the game lol i have managed to make a bus that can take 60 somethin kerbal into space and return them safely lol
but now i got a couple mods so i can make bigger and faster shame, so thatll tide me over for a while lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 12:39 AM
well, i was going to but my computer cant handle to many ships and kerbals in eva so close at once.. then i was going to try to see how many i could leave stranded doing eva's on the moon. that broke the game lol i have managed to make a bus that can take 60 somethin kerbal into space and return them safely lol
but now i got a couple mods so i can make bigger and faster shame, so thatll tide me over for a while lol
You're really making me want to stop working and play. Arghh!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jul 11, 2015, 02:19 AM
You're really making me want to stop working and play. Arghh!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry lol im really hooked on it.. ill be doing something and a desigb will pop into my head lol I like that im onto mods cause I feel like some things I wanted to do are now possible lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 11, 2015, 02:47 AM
Sounds like it's time to upgrade the pc dd.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 11, 2015, 04:23 AM
My computer locked up on me twice today. Just running sketchbook pro and crome. It's so odd when it does it. I wish I knew what was going on.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 11, 2015, 04:27 AM
yea id upgrade if i could but to much other stuff to spend money on lol this laptop really isnt meant for gaming
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 11, 2015, 05:31 PM
dang, I should have just bought the Wacom HD 13. . 4 times the price but might habe been worth it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 12, 2015, 12:43 AM
Z brush looks awesome. Something I think I would be better at than blender. But dang that price is ridiculous. It would be nice if they offered a home use license for a much better price. It's crazy what they think these programs are worth.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 02:46 PM
Z brush looks awesome. Something I think I would be better at than blender. But dang that price is ridiculous. It would be nice if they offered a home use license for a much better price. It's crazy what they think these programs are worth.
Nah it's not crazy, because people pay for it. Professional software is so expensive nowadays.
At least the game engines are trying to break that trend.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 12, 2015, 04:19 PM
Great, I'm now scanning my computer for viruses. I got an email from my internet provider that claimed one or more computer behind my fire wall is infected with a Zeus Trojan. I don't visit any weird sites on this pc. So i'm guessing i got it from VGC, if my pc is the one that has it. Close to 20,000 files scanned right now and it hasn't found one yet.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 12, 2015, 07:02 PM
My pc was clean. Has my wife run scans on her phone and I did mine as well. Both came up clean. So I have no Idea what they are talking about. Didn't run my lab top but I don't really care. It hasn't been on in a month or more.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2015, 07:17 PM
My pc was clean. Has my wife run scans on her phone and I did mine as well. Both came up clean. So I have no Idea what they are talking about. Didn't run my lab top but I don't really care. It hasn't been on in a month or more.
Could be some neighbor on your wifi maybe?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 12, 2015, 07:39 PM
Great, I'm now scanning my computer for viruses. I got an email from my internet provider that claimed one or more computer behind my fire wall is infected with a Zeus Trojan. I don't visit any weird sites on this pc. So i'm guessing i got it from VGC, if my pc is the one that has it. Close to 20,000 files scanned right now and it hasn't found one yet.
Use trendmicro for an online scan or use Avast. Avast has a pre-windows scan. Makes it better to find virus' who hide from virus scanners.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 14, 2015, 06:51 PM
Okay, I'll check that out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 17, 2015, 04:28 PM
So I seem to have a pretty sold 60 fps everything maxed while play the Witcher 3. After we get back from the doctors I'm going to see what it's going to take to break it.
From the sounds that my pc is making right now it looks like I need to look into a better cooling system.
Correction, 70 fps and I gain 15 to 20 fps every time I drop down a graphics preset.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 17, 2015, 04:58 PM
So I seem to have a pretty sold 60 fps everything maxed while play the Witcher 3. After we get back from the doctors I'm going to see what it's going to take to break it.
From the sounds that my pc is making right now it looks like I need to look into a better cooling system.
Correction, 70 fps and I gain 15 to 20 fps every time I drop down a graphics preset.
So you could do VR pretty swell then?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 17, 2015, 05:00 PM
"When a build has more than one component of the same type, the faster component is used"
Maybe this benchmark is ignoring your second card?
But yeah, CPU does look like it's holding you back.
Yeah, it's not counting the second card in this test at all.
I have an I5 4690k and Gigabyte GA-Z97X-GAMING 5 MB in my cart right now.
If I do this i'll need to sell of my current cpu and MB. Don't know how fast I can sell it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 18, 2015, 03:46 AM
Depending on the application intel has a big advantage. Particularly on emulators, and maybe on SLI.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 18, 2015, 08:09 PM
Okay, I think I'm going to run down to get an SSD. What would be the best/easiest solution to get windows to run on it. Copy over my current hard drive, or just install windows on the sdd and move over files I want to run off the ssd?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 18, 2015, 11:56 PM
Okay, I think I'm going to run down to get an SSD. What would be the best/easiest solution to get windows to run on it. Copy over my current hard drive, or just install windows on the sdd and move over files I want to run off the ssd?
Second one. Best by far. Do a fresh install and just move everything that you need to run fast to the ssd
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 18, 2015, 11:57 PM
Second one. Best by far. Do a fresh install and just move everything that you need to run fast to the ssd
Ditto.
Transferring the entire drive can cause so many issues both short and long term.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 12:02 AM
That what I did, or should I say tring to do. I'm having an issue getting windows to install. I'm fudgy using doss right now if that tells you anything...
We couldn't create a new partition or locate an existing one" error.
This is my error.
Following these steps
Start Command Prompt Type In: DISKPART LIST DISK and identify your disk number (from 0 to n disks) SELECT DISK <n> where <n> is the disk number CLEAN ALL (Will Take Some Time) CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY ALIGN=1024 FORMAT FS=NTFS (Will Take Some Time) ASSIGN LETTER=M ACTIVE EXIT EXIT [ Immediately Terminate Install Process Completely ] And Reboot using Installation DVD. Do NOT reformat during installation process
Staring at disk part > clean all
Been about 15 mins, about to run and grab a bottle of crown.
Would have been nice if his instructions were correct. Got it figured out. But still.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 01:42 AM
Okay fudge the internet! People don't know what they are talking about and it wasted a bunch of my time. All I had to do was delete the partition and insall to unallocated disk.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 02:24 AM
Got everything working. Now I guess it's time to download drivers and such. Fun!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2015, 04:47 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/9oUmFtF.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: DD_Bwest on Jul 19, 2015, 07:47 AM
having fun with rovers, built a new one to land on Duna, placed it on my tried and tested delivery system. and causes it to instantly flip over and smash into the ground every time.. I spent an hour trying to figure out wtf wat going on..
it didnt like the parts i had selected as my base in the contruction hanger.. I changed it to 2 random sections of my rocket in the middle and it flys no problem.. lol ffs an hour wasted on something so stupidly small lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 03:34 PM
The SSD upgrade seems to have cut my boot time in half. About 20 seconds till I can enter my password for windows. My MB bios takes longer to do it's thing than it does to load windows now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2015, 03:44 PM
The SSD upgrade seems to have cut my boot time in half. About 20 seconds till I can enter my password for windows. My MB bios takes longer to do it's thing than it does to load windows now.
Sweet.
So you have it all working?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 03:53 PM
yeah, but it seems I can't actually use anything on the old drive. So I got to figure that out. I may have to nuke it i'm not sure. Like I want to run the latest games off the ssd and the old ones off the standard drive. I can't seem to be able to do that right now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2015, 04:11 PM
Should be less
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 04:13 PM
I have my windows set to skip login, and it took about 20s from clicking the button to being back in chrome.
How fast does yours manage it?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 04:46 PM
Got it!
I guess in disk management it wouldn't really erase the drive, So it still had my old install of windows. So I cleaned it using the command prompt and it allowed me to set the drive correctly.
Next time I build a PC i'll just start with an SSD. Too much work for this upgrade.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 19, 2015, 04:54 PM
I have my windows set to skip login, and it took about 20s from clicking the button to being back in chrome.
How fast does yours manage it?
He is talking about until the log-in screen though. He should try and cut the BIOS time somehow. Should only need a few seconds to go to login with a fresh install like that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 05:25 PM
So I disabled password and login. IT's 20 seconds from cold to desktop.
And skipped the bios logo, didn't change much.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 19, 2015, 05:45 PM
I'd like to know the Doctor's cold boot time if he thinks 20 seconds is bad. I mean that's faster than any console or phone for sure.
Mine is slower now because I've bloated my system with a lot of stuff. When it was a fresh install it took about the same time to go to desktop but maybe 15s to go to login
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 06:35 PM
Mine is slower now because I've bloated my system with a lot of stuff. When it was a fresh install it took about the same time to go to desktop but maybe 15s to go to login
You need to work on cleaning that up!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 19, 2015, 07:59 PM
I think with steam installs, you can move all the files over and then you have to revalidate everything installed.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 19, 2015, 08:21 PM
I think with steam installs, you can move all the files over and then you have to revalidate everything installed.
Maybe. , but I already deleted it all. I would have had to move everything over then clean the drive and move everything I didn't want on the ssd back to the other drive. Too much work.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 20, 2015, 05:59 AM
Fixed their WiFi, now I get WiFi at "home"!
Edit: For some reason their WiFi extender fell asleep or something. Stopped giving off WiFi until I hit a button.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 20, 2015, 01:36 PM
Automatic updates for windows 10 are mandatory. You can not stop it, like past versions of windows. Not excited about that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 20, 2015, 03:42 PM
I think that's where I'm at. Until games start demanding it. And I hate 8...
I only bought 8 instead of 7 because I knew 10 was free.
Eh, hopefully 10 ends up being good.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 21, 2015, 01:37 PM
Some vive impressions on gaf.
just got back from likely the same event (Vancouver?), and I certainly agree, the Vive is an amazing experience.
The whole setup just works incredibly well. It's kind of amazing how well it tracks everything, and how intuitive it is to move around in the environment and interact. I didn't realize it at first, but the controllers have dual-sided grip buttons that allow you to grab objects in a natural manner.
I got to try a few simple demos.
- One was a sort of tower defense archery demo where you had to aim a bow and arrow and pull back and fire arrows. It all worked incredibly well, and felt natural. It was interesting how much skill it took, yet how intuitive it was to slowly learn to sense aiming depth, and take out the targets as they moved towards me. I could see VR being excellent for shooter games. - Another was a beer pong demo. I had to pick up ping pong balls off the ground, and throw them into cups. This also felt so natural that I was able to get a ball into the cup first try. - I also got to try a room where I shot a fire extinguisher to put out flames, and briefly try a tennis game. In all scenarios, the controllers worked better than PS move and Wiimotes, and they never lost tracking, regardless of where they were placed, or how I moved or twisted.
I would love to see something that had great environmental detail, as all the demos I tried were simple. It will be quite exciting to see how developers run with this tech and how they might work within the restrictions to produce great games. For example, it feels incredible natural and good to walk around a room with Vive, but is every game going to be set in a restricted room? I'm sure they won't but I wonder how they will get around that, and what kind of experiences we will see, perhaps how they will be controlled.
Speaking of which, I loved the controllers. There were a lot of intuitively placed buttons, and I could see the touchpad being hugely useful, it felt great and natural to use. ____________________________________ My face hurts from smiling.
It's like being a kid again, things like putting objects in buckets or playing with balloons are fun! And while I'm sure the novelty of that sort of thing will wear off, the tech that enabled this was so good it "just worked".
When the presenters hold out the controllers for you, even though you're blind to the real world you can see them in the headset because they're being tracked. You automatically reach out to the exact spot the controller is in space, at the exact angle, and feel something virtual for the first time. It is magical.
My brain immediately went to all the things I could try to make for this thing or play on it and it's endless. The event was based around a game jam, and even these simple demos made in a weekend were so fun that I had a huge grin on my face.
Everyone said the same thing I did when their time was up: "I want one, now!". And then sitting around for an hour and waiting for our next turn we ranted about all the crazy stuff we could try making. There's just so much potential it's insane.
Try this as soon as you get a chance!
P.S. Wasn't sure if this warranted a new thread, but I had to rant. I'm still a little giddy :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 21, 2015, 02:25 PM
I said "a few years" and you said that was doubtful. :P I could see 3 years.
I honestly wouldnt be surprised if we see it up and running next year or in early 2017 to be honest.
Xbox360 is a completely different system compared to the PS3.
Mainly the reason why we havent seen much PS3/Xbox360 emulation updates is because majority of the coders were working on other projects or had this sense of justice of not creating a emulator early in a systems' life.
The days of Dark_Alex are gone :(!
P.S. You quoted the wrong post then. The "You Dont Say" is a response to you saying the PS3 is more complex than the PSP.
Edit: Oh the doubtful was actually for the specs part.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 27, 2015, 12:33 AM
I honestly wouldnt be surprised if we see it up and running next year or in early 2017 to be honest.
Xbox360 is a completely different system compared to the PS3.
Mainly the reason why we havent seen much PS3/Xbox360 emulation updates is because majority of the coders were working on other projects or had this sense of justice of not creating a emulator early in a systems' life.
The days of Dark_Alex are gone :(! P.S. You quoted the wrong post then. The "You Dont Say" is a response to you saying the PS3 is more complex than the PSP.
Supposedly somehow the PS3 has been progressing faster.
Below, you can see the progression of conversation.
Doubtful - its more likely that the emulator isnt as polished as it should be.
When I said "Doubtful" I was talking about the specs part that you mentioned as if you believed those were the supposed specs :P
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It's very exciting.
Really hope those specs aren't necessary though. I expect it'll be a few years away yet.
When I mentioned 2012 I meant it specifically because that is when I had upgraded my PC.
When the first PSP emulator came out it was unplayable. 3 years later and I play almost all of the PSP games (except for Tekken/Soul Calibur) at 60 FPS. I still have the same hardware.
Also my comment was towards the Xbox emulator which kinda ran few years ago compared to the PS3 emulator in which they recently (well last year) were able boot up the start/XMB screen.
You mentioned the PS3 to my PSP post o.O - which confused me - the way you explained it seemed like you were saying.....the PS3 is more complex than the PSP....which to my response was the "YOU DONT SAY :O" since everyone knows the PS3 is more powerful than the PSP ~_~.
Doubtful is a disagreement indeed - and I disagree those were the specs or close to what we actually need. Its probably gonna be far less than that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 27, 2015, 08:17 PM
I'm holding off on upgrading to windows 10, confirmed.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 27, 2015, 08:42 PM
I guess I'll be skipping windows 10. Ms just doest learn.
Some of those might be exclusive to the beta. We'll have to wait to find out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 28, 2015, 01:19 AM
I think generally betas gather a lot more info. Wouldn't see why that wouldn't be the case.
I'm going to read into all of it, but I am going to hold off a little bit while they get stuff figured out.
Apparently the DS4 doesn't work very well with some of the apps that emulate XInput. Apparently the service that they utilized is gone, so now when you have it set up that way, for games that utilize Xinput and dinput, it takes both inputs.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Aura7541 on Jul 28, 2015, 02:15 AM
Oh I was worried your PC updated automatically to 10.
Lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 29, 2015, 06:42 AM
NeoGAF - View Single Post - Upgrade to Windows 10? (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173317089&postcount=1155)
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(http://i.imgur.com/PTGB40j.gif)
I'm so conflicted about W10.
On the one hand, I'm super excited. New software, free! How can you get better than that? Why am I waiting? And on the other hand, it's like bad stuff could happen, man! Don't do it!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 29, 2015, 12:02 PM
Originally Posted by KingBroly (http://"http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=173339331#post173339331") Basically, in order to change your text size, you have to change the size of everything else, icons and everything. In other versions of Windows, you can choose to just change the text size. You can't here. For me, this is a pretty egregious omission/cut feature.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 29, 2015, 03:34 PM
Yeah, I was reading about that. iced up. I guess they got to get their money some how.
They get their money from licensing fees!
Plus even though Windows 10 is a free upgrade for people with 8 and 7, it's still full priced for everyone else. Haha out of all the negatives for Win 10, this is the first that has actually really irked me. WTF Microsoft!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 29, 2015, 04:07 PM
Plus even though Windows 10 is a free upgrade for people with 8 and 7, it's still full priced for everyone else. Haha out of all the negatives for Win 10, this is the first that has actually really irked me. WTF Microsoft!
Just make a free solitaire game and let everyone download it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 29, 2015, 05:16 PM
Originally Posted by KingBroly (http://"http://\"http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=173339331#post173339331"") Basically, in order to change your text size, you have to change the size of everything else, icons and everything. In other versions of Windows, you can choose to just change the text size. You can't here. For me, this is a pretty egregious omission/cut feature.
A whole bunch of people were arguing about this not being the case.
At least it doesn't pop up every time. NeoGAF - View Single Post - Upgrade to Windows 10? (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=173344971&postcount=1712)
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Originally Posted by Hoo-doo (http://vizioneck.com/forum/showthread.php?p=173344596#post173344596)
Is this real?
I dunno, maybe? Haven't played Solitaire in ages. Didn't happen for me when I booted it up just now, but it also gave a "cannot connect to Xbox Live" error, so who knows. EDIT: Wait, found it. It's not a prompt, you have to go looking for it. No idea why anybody would pay for premium solitaire access, but as long as they're not shoving it in my face, I'm whatever on the subject.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 29, 2015, 10:21 PM
Make a Difference Hi guys. First of all, I wanted to thank the community in general for the huge outpouring of support through emails and in the forums. I know a lot of you are concerned about me or think that I'm stressed out. It's true that I'm stressed a little; but it's ok because the result was good. I've worked very hard this year, almost non-stop, to produce good games for this series. Even though there may be some debate as to how "good" the games are, I did my best to provide some good scares and a good story. All I can do is judge from the Steam reviews that I've been mostly successful; so I'm very happy about that.
It's true that there has been a lot of hate toward me lately; on the forums, on youtube, etc. And I'll be honest, it's difficult. It's difficult when people seem to dislike you only because you've found success with something. I think some people have this idea that I spend my days swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck, cranking out games with no effort, then laughing all the way to the bank. The reality is quite different, and I think that people who hate on me for being successful are misguided.
Did you know that last year I was working at Dollar General? I worked as a cashier. I had three bosses who were all still in high school. Before that I worked at Target in the backroom freezer, unloading frozen foods. I haven't had a successful life; and now that God has blessed me with some success, I'm doing my best to be responsible with that success. I don't party on weekends, I don't get drunk or sip martinis. I spend my evenings playing Megaman 3, buster only, with my kids. And I try to do good with what's been given to me.
I guess the reason I'm telling you all of this is to make sure you know that I'm human. I have a lot of flaws, and I've made a lot of mistakes. My games aren't perfect, and they never will be. But something more important that I want to convey to all of you, is that you should never listen to people who criticize success simply because it's success. Being good at something is something to strive for, not something to demonize. Criticisms of my games are fine, and a lot of times the criticism is valid. But there are a lot of people out there who will hate anything that becomes popular, just because it's popular, and hate anyone who becomes successful, just because they are successful. "Haters gonna hate." -as they say, but I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live. People who make videos bashing other people are like people who run into a public square and scream into a pillow. They'll get attention, but they won't change anything. If you strive to be like them, then you'll spend your life screaming into a pillow as well, and your life won't mean anything.
The best emails I get are from people who have chosen to pursue game development because of the games that I've made, or people who have decided to do computer science, or learn programming. Who will be the next game designer? Who will make the next game for Markiplier to play? Make sure that it's you! People who hate success will never be successful. Focus on your success, and your story. People always ask me what college I recommend, or what programs I recommend. My answer is to just go forward, practice. Just GET to college, study hard, be awesome at what you do. Make sure that you are next year's big success story. Don't fall into the pit of people who have given up on making something of themselves, and make sure you make EVERYTHING out of yourself.
I'm getting too old for this. And when I retire someday, I'm going to want to sit down at a computer and play YOUR games, read YOUR stories, and watch YOUR videos. Don't fall in with the people who have already given up on themselves. You are tomorrow's next big thing. :)
Make a Difference :: Five Nights at Freddy's 4 General Discussions (http://steamcommunity.com/app/388090/discussions/0/541906989414847401/)
This is the Five Nights at Freddy's developer. Great post
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 29, 2015, 10:44 PM
Make a Difference Hi guys. First of all, I wanted to thank the community in general for the huge outpouring of support through emails and in the forums. I know a lot of you are concerned about me or think that I'm stressed out. It's true that I'm stressed a little; but it's ok because the result was good. I've worked very hard this year, almost non-stop, to produce good games for this series. Even though there may be some debate as to how "good" the games are, I did my best to provide some good scares and a good story. All I can do is judge from the Steam reviews that I've been mostly successful; so I'm very happy about that.
It's true that there has been a lot of hate toward me lately; on the forums, on youtube, etc. And I'll be honest, it's difficult. It's difficult when people seem to dislike you only because you've found success with something. I think some people have this idea that I spend my days swimming in gold coins like Scrooge McDuck, cranking out games with no effort, then laughing all the way to the bank. The reality is quite different, and I think that people who hate on me for being successful are misguided.
Did you know that last year I was working at Dollar General? I worked as a cashier. I had three bosses who were all still in high school. Before that I worked at Target in the backroom freezer, unloading frozen foods. I haven't had a successful life; and now that God has blessed me with some success, I'm doing my best to be responsible with that success. I don't party on weekends, I don't get drunk or sip martinis. I spend my evenings playing Megaman 3, buster only, with my kids. And I try to do good with what's been given to me.
I guess the reason I'm telling you all of this is to make sure you know that I'm human. I have a lot of flaws, and I've made a lot of mistakes. My games aren't perfect, and they never will be. But something more important that I want to convey to all of you, is that you should never listen to people who criticize success simply because it's success. Being good at something is something to strive for, not something to demonize. Criticisms of my games are fine, and a lot of times the criticism is valid. But there are a lot of people out there who will hate anything that becomes popular, just because it's popular, and hate anyone who becomes successful, just because they are successful. "Haters gonna hate." -as they say, but I want you to know that focusing on someone else's failure or success is the wrong way to live. People who make videos bashing other people are like people who run into a public square and scream into a pillow. They'll get attention, but they won't change anything. If you strive to be like them, then you'll spend your life screaming into a pillow as well, and your life won't mean anything.
The best emails I get are from people who have chosen to pursue game development because of the games that I've made, or people who have decided to do computer science, or learn programming. Who will be the next game designer? Who will make the next game for Markiplier to play? Make sure that it's you! People who hate success will never be successful. Focus on your success, and your story. People always ask me what college I recommend, or what programs I recommend. My answer is to just go forward, practice. Just GET to college, study hard, be awesome at what you do. Make sure that you are next year's big success story. Don't fall into the pit of people who have given up on making something of themselves, and make sure you make EVERYTHING out of yourself.
I'm getting too old for this. And when I retire someday, I'm going to want to sit down at a computer and play YOUR games, read YOUR stories, and watch YOUR videos. Don't fall in with the people who have already given up on themselves. You are tomorrow's next big thing. :)
Make a Difference :: Five Nights at Freddy's 4 General Discussions (http://steamcommunity.com/app/388090/discussions/0/541906989414847401/)
This is the Five Nights at Freddy's developer. Great post
I've always thought he was a good developer.
I love the story about how before fnaf he made Christian games, and people always complained about how they looked creepy:
Two days ago, I promised (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/why-i-m-upgrading-to-windows-10-1719559557) to upgrade my personal desktop and laptop to Windows 10, to demonstrate how wonderful or terrible the migration from Windows 8 might be. Yesterday, I was surprised how painless it felt (http://"http://\"http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-10-day-one-1719864054#_ga=1.39095331.1440593052.1417030347""). Today, I'm feeling a little pain. (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-10-day-two-1720099952)
Unless you're one of the handful of people rocking a Windows Phone, you won't have much experience with Cortana, Microsoft's personal digital assistant. With the roll-out of Windows 10, Cortana is about to make a lot of new friends very quickly--and like me, they might soon find themselves shouting instructions at their computer on a regular basis. [Read more] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/i-installed-windows-10-and-now-im-talking-to-my-compute-1719786498#_ga=1.117221126.1440593052.1417030347)
The first thing that everyone notices about Windows 10 is that the Start Menu is back. It's a cool feature, but an irrelevant one. Thanks to the absurdly powerful new system-wide Search, you're never going to need a Start Menu again. [Read More] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-search-doesnt-suck-anymore-1719865606#_ga=1.117221126.1440593052.1417030347)
Computer settings in Windows 8 were a hot mess: they were split between PC Settings and Control Panel, two completely separate ways to change most settings, but with enough differences that you had to use both. Windows 10 makes things better, but I still wouldn't give the engineers a gold star. [Read More] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/settings-are-better-in-windows-10-but-thats-not-saying-1720747436#_ga=1.38691747.1440593052.1417030347)
The latest version of Windows is hiding a very welcome and well-executed feature: a video-capture tool baked right into the operating system. [Read More] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/windows-10-is-hiding-a-great-video-capture-tool-1719196149#_ga=1.38691747.1440593052.1417030347)
One of the coolest new Windows 10 features is talking to your computer. For many people, it'll be the first time they've had a voice-activated personal assistant on tap. And yet, most computers won't have Cortana turned on by default. Here's the easy fix. [Read More] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/yes-you-can-use-cortana-in-windows-10-with-any-old-mic-1720098441#_ga=1.38691747.1440593052.1417030347)
Windows 10 comes with a Maps app built in. In uses Nokia's nifty (and good!) Here Maps, and Microsoft even lets you download regions for offline perusal. [Read more] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/download-offline-maps-on-windows-10-and-never-be-lost-a-1721013640)
Reviewers agree that Windows 10 is awesome. Reviewers also agree that you should probably wait till bugs get fixed. But maybe you've heard that you can simply revert to Windows 8.1 if you don't like it. Well... I just tried it, and it's not quite that simple. [Read more] (http://reviews.gizmodo.com/psa-windows-10-isnt-a-risk-free-upgrade-1720936691?rev=1438205126961#_ga=1.109988613.1440593052.1417030347)
Spoiler for Hidden:
(http://i.imgur.com/0m234lL.png)
Also it sounds like you should wait a month or two though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 30, 2015, 08:05 PM
Sounds good.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 30, 2015, 10:57 PM
Link (http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/30/windows-10s-first-big-update-may-release-in-early-august?utm_source=IGN%20hub%20page&utm_medium=IGN%20(front%20page)&utm_content=4&utm_campaign=Coverstory) According to The Verge, which cites people "familiar with Microsoft's plans," the company's been hard at work developing patches and updates since the OS' official launch yesterday, with some already rolling out to users. But the biggest of these updates, called Service Release 1, will contain a bunch of fixes that will address several issues people have run into since installing Windows 10.
Windows 10 Xbox App Walkthrough 05:36 Microsoft is said to be aiming for an early August release, which could be as soon as next week. Following that, yet another sizable update is set to release sometime in October, and will bring even more bug fixes and features. These feature include a new messaging app and extensions to support the Microsoft Edge browser.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 30, 2015, 11:45 PM
I think I might update tonight.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 30, 2015, 11:59 PM
How is Spartan web browser, or does it have a different name?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 31, 2015, 12:31 AM
Looked up scores. Much better than explorer but worse tthan chrome and firefox.
That's probably expected.
Could you and Tacos check something. Right click the windows 10 thing, it'll say "go to windows update" and then click on that. Then mine says "failed to update" then when you click on that, there's a list of updates. And let me know if you see "upgrade to windows 10 home." :) Let me know if they failed or not.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 31, 2015, 11:45 AM
Could you and Tacos check something. Right click the windows 10 thing, it'll say "go to windows update" and then click on that. Then mine says "failed to update" then when you click on that, there's a list of updates. And let me know if you see "upgrade to windows 10 home." :) Let me know if they failed or not.
I don't get the update option. It tells me there still looking into it for me.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2015, 02:19 PM
I don't get the update option. It tells me there still looking into it for me.
Ditto
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2015, 03:03 PM
Did you get to reserve it? I'm seeing if you guys are having troubles with downloading the update like I am. The update downloads to the Windows update, that you both absolutely should have, if you're actually running Windows 7 or 8. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 31, 2015, 03:49 PM
Did you get to reserve it? I'm seeing if you guys are having troubles with downloading the update like I am. The update downloads to the Windows update, that you both absolutely should have, if you're actually running Windows 7 or 8. :P
No, I can't download it yet.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2015, 03:57 PM
This is how the update goes. -Windows update downloads the "get windows 10." -You have to reserve a copy. -It downloads the windows 10 to the windows update thing that was always in windows 7/8 -After it is done downloading. It lets you know that it is down downloading and you can install it. (http://news.techgenie.com/files/Windows-Update-Agent-in-Windows-7.png)
This is the windows update thing, that you absolutely have. Below the "updates installed" I'm guessing for you guys it has something that says "failed" and then when you click on failed, it'll say "Upgrade to Windows 10 Home" and in the next column it'll say failed.
That's what I'm guessing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 31, 2015, 04:17 PM
I'll look when I get home.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Jul 31, 2015, 05:19 PM
This is how the update goes. -Windows update downloads the "get windows 10." -You have to reserve a copy. -It downloads the windows 10 to the windows update thing that was always in windows 7/8 -After it is done downloading. It lets you know that it is down downloading and you can install it. (http://news.techgenie.com/files/Windows-Update-Agent-in-Windows-7.png)
This is the windows update thing, that you absolutely have. Below the "updates installed" I'm guessing for you guys it has something that says "failed" and then when you click on failed, it'll say "Upgrade to Windows 10 Home" and in the next column it'll say failed.
That's what I'm guessing.
Yup.
When clicking on the "Upgrade to windows 10" button it says it's still validating.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 31, 2015, 07:45 PM
I got an update that failed, but it wasn't 10. I restarted the pc but nothing happened.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 31, 2015, 07:52 PM
No idea what's going on then.
Tacos if you're eager to try it out, people have been posting this link. Windows 10 (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 31, 2015, 11:01 PM
I can't find the nivida control panel in windows 10. Anyone know anything about that?
You are not in control
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: 7H3 on Aug 03, 2015, 04:43 AM
ehh i'll wait for more reviews 7 is still working fine for me
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Aug 06, 2015, 05:56 AM
feature=youtu.be
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 09, 2015, 09:48 PM
Tacos, you're using W10 right? Thoughts? Review?
----------------------- It sounds like there's a fix for the DS4, but it's not a convenient one. Almost all PC games work well, not a big jump in performance yet. No Soundblaster support yet.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 10, 2015, 12:41 AM
----------------------- It sounds like there's a fix for the DS4, but it's not a convenient one. Almost all PC games work well, not a big jump in performance yet. No Soundblaster support yet.
It's windows. There's nothing about it that really stands out to me. It's better than 8 I suppose but i'm not jumping up and down over here. Cortana is about as pointless as you think she'd be. Unless you'r really busy I couldn't see the point in having a virtual assistant. And it doesn't pick up my voice as well as you think considering I have a pretty decent mic. And her searches open in Edge and not chrome witch bugs me. Edge is better than I.E but I still don't like it over chrome. Games seems to play as they did before and I haven't run into any problems trying to run a game yet. But I've been spending a lot of time on the ps4 over that last few weeks. If you just really tired of 8 then make the jump, if not I guess it doesn't matter if you upgrade or not.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 11, 2015, 11:02 PM
So I just tired out Dota 2, and I hated it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 12, 2015, 08:13 PM
EVERSPACE by ROCKFISH Games -- Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rockfishgames/everspace)
this game looks pretty sweet.
EVERSPACE by ROCKFISH Games -- Kickstarter (http://vizioneck.com/forum/index.php?topic=2595.0)
So sweet it even has its own thread ;)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: FLGibsonIII on Aug 14, 2015, 07:18 PM
Another kickstarter that looks really cool IMO. GRIP - An intense futuristic combat racer by Caged Element -- Kickstarter (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/169002413/grip-an-intense-futuristic-combat-racer)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: BasilZero on Aug 16, 2015, 10:41 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 17, 2015, 03:25 PM
SONY: PROJECT MORPHEUS IS 'READY TO GO' BUT 'WAITING' FOR EXPERIENCES August 17, 2015 (http://vrfocus.com/archives/20201/sce-on-project-morpheus-hmd-hardware-is-ready-to-go-were-just-waiting-for-the-game-titles/) Peter Graham (http://vrfocus.com/archives/author/peter-graham/) News (http://vrfocus.com/archives/category/news/) 1 Comment (http://vrfocus.com/archives/20201/sce-on-project-morpheus-hmd-hardware-is-ready-to-go-were-just-waiting-for-the-game-titles/#comments) (http://vrfocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/ProjectMorphes2_Header-790x300.png) (http://vrfocus.com/archives/20201/sce-on-project-morpheus-hmd-hardware-is-ready-to-go-were-just-waiting-for-the-game-titles/) Its been well reported that Sony Computer Entertainment's (SCE) Project Morpheus head-mounted display (HMD) for virtual reality (VR) will be launching at some point in the first half of 2016. Now it seems this wide launch window is due to SCE waiting for videogames to catch up with the hardware. In a recent Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3h8agv/sony_hardware_is_ready_waiting_for_game_titles/) post, a user noted what Dennis Castleman, hardware R&D engineer at SCE had said in a Facebook post about the HMD: "I've been working on Sony's project Morpheus for 3 years, it's going to go to market in 2016. It's a bit different for things like cell phones or established technologies. When I was designing televisions it was usually 18 months to get a new model into production. A VR HMD is a bit different it also takes time for the component vendors to rampup for million unit volumes." Adding: "In our case the HMD hardware is ready to go, we're just waiting for the game titles to catch up with the hardware."
Castleman also mentioned how some of the Project Morpheus competitors may have difficulties: "Oculus on the other hand faces a tougher battle getting the rift to market. They are relying on a contract manufacture in china to produce their units. They are a new company with out any volume manufacturing experience, they do have lots of cash and of course their parent company has deep pockets so capital isn't going to be a problem. They have a lot of work ahead to successfully pull of the Riff introduction. No one on their executive team has any experience bringing high volume consumer devices to market." The next few months will certainly be telling whether Oculus VR have got it right, or if SCE have with its later launch. VRFocus (http://vrfocus.com/) will be reporting on all the latest facts from the VR industry as the HMD's near their debut. -END-[/font][/size]
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Aug 17, 2015, 04:37 PM
Isn't OR releasing next year as well?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 17, 2015, 04:51 PM
Q1 2016
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Aug 17, 2015, 04:54 PM
Yeah so why is the article acting like OR is releasing significantly sooner than PM? Or did I interpret that wrong...
"The next few months will certainly be telling whether Oculus VR have got it right, or if SCE have with its later launch."
Don't even know if we actually know which will release first. Oculus probably, but as far as I know both have the same launch window at the moment.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 22, 2015, 03:22 AM
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Dear Batman: Arkham Knight PC community,
The teams have been working hard to address the issues with the PC version of the game. We are happy to confirm that we are now putting the first interim patch into testing. If all goes well, we expect to issue the patch in the next few weeks. We'll be sure to report back in the next two weeks on how the testing is coming along.
Below are some of the major fixes and improvements you can expect in the upcoming patch:
• Reduced frame rate hitches • Optimized system memory and VRAM usage • Improved performance on all GPUs (requires the latest drivers) o Min Spec AMD GPU is once again the Radeon HD 7870 2GB
• More Robust In-Game Settings, including: o Added the ability to change settings for Max FPS to 30/60/90 o Added toggles for Motion Blur, Chromatic Aberration, and Film Grain o Added a "High" Texture Resolution value o Added Texture Filtering option o Added an Adaptive V-Sync option (NVIDIA only) o Added VRAM Usage Meter o Added Mouse Sensitivity Slider & Mouse Smoothing Option
• Fixed low resolution texture bugs • Fixed hitches when running on mechanical hard drives (HDD)
While our first priority is fixing the issues listed above, the team is continuing to work on the following:
• Skipping the boot up splash screens • DLC/Season Pass content • Additional updates such as Photo Mode
We again thank you for your continued patience as we work on these issues. As always, we are continuing to monitor and listen for any additional issues.
- Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Aug 22, 2015, 06:03 AM
Is it for sale on PC again yet?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 22, 2015, 06:28 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2015, 04:49 PM
So XCOM 2 was delayed to 2016
On another note, I am trying to upgrade to Windows 10 on my laptop but after the first of three steps when it restarts I only see a black screen and the mouse cursor. Can't do anything. Anyone know about this?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 31, 2015, 04:54 PM
On another note, I am trying to upgrade to Windows 10 on my laptop but after the first of three steps when it restarts I only see a black screen and the mouse cursor. Can't do anything. Anyone know about this?
I think you just let it sit.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2015, 05:03 PM
Well I force shut it down and restarted and then the upgrade continued. Now it's stuck at 40% though... MS sure isn't making this upgrade easy
Black Screen while installing Windows 10 - Super User (http://superuser.com/questions/947254/black-screen-while-installing-windows-10)
Do you have multiple monitors?
Actually some people seem to be saying that even though they have 1 monitor windows detects 2.... Windows 10 install stuck at black screen without cursor or anything - Page 6 - Windows 10 Forums (http://www.tenforums.com/installation-setup/9249-windows-10-install-stuck-black-screen-without-cursor-anything-6.html)
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2015, 05:13 PM
I do not have multiple monitors for my laptop. I'm going to try and disable the CPU embedded graphics card next time. Tried this twice and it stops at 40% each time. If that works it's quite ridiculous. Should be easy for MS to fix...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 31, 2015, 05:25 PM
I do not have multiple monitors for my laptop. I'm going to try and disable the CPU embedded graphics card next time. Tried this twice and it stops at 40% each time. If that works it's quite ridiculous. Should be easy for MS to fix...
Windows launches usually have lots of problems.
And like I said some people were saying even though they had 1 monitor, windows was detecting 2.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 31, 2015, 05:33 PM
And like I said some people were saying even though they had 1 monitor, windows was detecting 2.
if it doesn't work in the next try I'm just going to give it up. MS fooled me into thinking the upgrade would be easy, which is why I said "ok, sure" in the first place
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 31, 2015, 05:35 PM
Went pretty easy for me. Just had a drive format problem
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 01, 2015, 12:40 AM
Cod on pc locks up. Had to do a hard reset..
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 01, 2015, 02:45 AM
Yep, and I had a weird thing where the game deiced i need to jump and during a fight. Which jumped me right off the edge of the map.
There also some weird shame that happens when the game is laggy. If feels like it's trying to predict what you'll do. Similar to the way PS Now acts and it over shoots my movements. Really strange.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 04, 2015, 01:53 AM
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The big Batman patch is finally up, but there is more to fix. This is fixed so far.
Reduced frame rate hitches Optimizations for system memory and VRAM usage Improved performance on all GPUs (requires the latest drivers) More Comprehensive In-Game Settings Fixed low resolution texture bugs Fixed hitches when running on mechanical hard drives (HDD)
Sounds like results are mixed, to be honest. Some are saying it didn't help too much, and others are saying the game is perfect now.
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 07, 2015, 05:09 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/DimqbOT.png)
Hmmm...ouch. Dat % not played. Let's not count how many I've not played more than half an hour lol.
You can calculate yours here: Steam Calculator · Steam Database (https://steamdb.info/calculator/)
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 07, 2015, 05:30 PM
Does that total cost with sales include humble bundle stuff?
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 07, 2015, 05:33 PM
My Steam Profile(from SteamDB (https://steamdb.info/calculator/76561198063219455/?cc=us))
Worth: $3151 ($891 with sales)
Games owned: 207
Games not played: 126 (61%)
Hours on record: 662.5h
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 08, 2015, 11:18 PM
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen Comes to PC This January - NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1108757)
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Big news :ohttp://www.capcom-unity.com/gregaman...n-coming-to-pc (http://www.capcom-unity.com/gregaman/blog/2015/09/08/dragons-dogma-dark-arisen-coming-to-pc)
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As of January 2016, the epic fantasy action-RPG Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen will be available on Windows PC for $29.99 / € 29.99 / £ 23.99, with full Steam platform support. Huzzah! In case you missed it on console, Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen is an awesome, inspired, sprawling fantasy game set in an open world, where players create their own unique character and supporting, AI-controlled characters known as Pawns, which can be "rented" and shared online by other players. Battle giant mythical beasts, master a variety of distinct vocations, and explore atmospheric dungeons to uncover endless items and loot. The PC version will feature stunningly high-res graphics and improved fidelity, as well as support for both the Xbox 360 and Xbox One controllers, as well as a traditional keyboard and mouse control scheme.(http://images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/gregaman/dragons_dogma/highres_pc_screens/large/16d00128c3d9da29633b1ea0645ff81d.png?v=202200)(http://images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/gregaman/dragons_dogma/highres_pc_screens/large/2f8c0ca9417fb6fd3cac5ba2c2590279.png?v=202200)(http://images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/gregaman/dragons_dogma/highres_pc_screens/large/34ab08cc0611cfc0f2083b1443a9abdd.png?v=202200)(http://images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/gregaman/dragons_dogma/highres_pc_screens/large/66d5af9cfcbcb5a30aa27acd6a43c1e9.png?v=202200)(http://images.onesite.com/capcom-unity.com/user/gregaman/dragons_dogma/highres_pc_screens/large/edeba5f96a5d296273fe9af46dead112.png?v=202200)
https://twitter.com/Capcom_UK/status/641264964175532032https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/641266815264555008 January 15, $29.99
Wohoo, I will get this
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Sep 08, 2015, 11:25 PM
Hmmm...ouch. Dat % not played. Let's not count how many I've not played more than half an hour lol.
You can calculate yours here: Steam Calculator · Steam Database (https://steamdb.info/calculator/)
That seems to include whatever free junk there is at the moment.
I have only 7 steam games but have played all of them. Age of Mythology(thanks Pi), there came an echo, the forest, antichamber, elite dangerous, civ v, and cities skylines.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: BasilZero on Sep 08, 2015, 11:31 PM
Does the new one offer anything that you would like?
Well the speed is much faster and it's internal and you have an instant preview window. But thats about it. Everything else is that same, and because it's a card it's not portable.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 28, 2015, 12:44 AM
Well the speed is much faster and it's internal and you have an instant preview window. But thats about it. Everything else is that same, and because it's a card it's not portable.
Is it worth the price difference?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 28, 2015, 12:46 AM
Should I get the new Elgato? Or just the older one. Not sure what to do here.
I have the avermedia extremecap u3 which I think is a bit cheaper.
Works flawlessly for my needs and can do video passthrough through USB 3.0. My devkit is just hooked up to that instead of a TV. If you want to play on a TV while recording though, then you do need an HDMI splitter.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 29, 2015, 12:26 AM
I might have a hard time with an internal card. I'm looking at the space between my two GPU's and there's Not much there. and could cause more heat even if i could get it in there. .
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Sep 29, 2015, 01:50 AM
I might have a hard time with an internal card. I'm looking at the space between my two GPU's and there's Not much there. and could cause more heat even if i could get it in there. .
Why would you prefer an internal card?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 29, 2015, 02:01 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Oct 03, 2015, 01:23 AM
RollerCoaster Tycoon World release date set for December 10th - NeoGAF (http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1118254)
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After ten long years (not to mention several different developers) the fourth major installment in the RollerCoaster Tycoon series, RollerCoaster Tycoon World, will arrive on December 10. Prior to launch, there will be two beta weekends for those who pre-purchase the game to get an early look. I spoke on Monday with Atari CEO Fred Chesnais, COO Todd Shallbeter, Senior Director of Marketing Tony Chien, and RCTW producer Matt Labunka. While RCTW's multiplayer mode will not be ready in time for launch, they told me it is planned as an free update in the future. In the meantime, there will still be some online functionality when the game is released. You'll be able to visit your friends' parks and utilize other social features like sharing screenshots and videos. They also confirmed that RCTW will include Steam Workshop support at launchwhich has certainly done wonders for extending the lifespan of city-building sim Cities: Skylines. RCTW will allow players to upload and share the coasters they build, custom scenery, and other assets, along with saved games and parks. According to Atari, creating your own scenery and "peeps" (park visitors) can be done with any 3D editing program compatible with Unity. Atari couldn't quite confirm there would be deeper mod support in the future, to allow custom-made rides or other changes to the core gameplay, though producer Matt Labunka told me it is "certainly something we're looking at."
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 06, 2015, 03:39 PM
Star wars pc requirements
nimum PC System Requirements OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later Processor (Intel): Intel i3 6300T or equivalent Memory: 8GB RAM Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB Graphics card (ATI): ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection Recommended PC System Requirements OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later Processor (Intel): Intel i5 6600 or equivalent Memory: 16GB RAM Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection Link:http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefronts-pc-system-requirements-reve/1100-6431176/?ftag=MKTd1622df
Looks like I need more ram!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Oct 06, 2015, 03:43 PM
nimum PC System Requirements OS: 64-bit Windows 7 or later Processor (Intel): Intel i3 6300T or equivalent Memory: 8GB RAM Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 660 2GB Graphics card (ATI): ATI Radeon HD 7850 2GB DirectX: 11.0 Compatible video card or equivalent Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection Recommended PC System Requirements OS: 64-bit Windows 10 or later Processor (Intel): Intel i5 6600 or equivalent Memory: 16GB RAM Hard Drive: At least 40 GB of free space Graphics card (NVIDIA): nVidia GeForce GTX 970 4GB Graphics card (AMD): AMD Radeon R9 290 4GB DirectX: 11.1 Compatible video card or equivalent Online Connection Requirements: 512 KBPS or faster Internet connection Link:http://www.gamespot.com/articles/star-wars-battlefronts-pc-system-requirements-reve/1100-6431176/?ftag=MKTd1622df
Looks like I need more ram!
IT'S HAPPENING!
The next gen consoles are pushing PC specs up. RAM requirements are exoloding.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 06, 2015, 04:10 PM
Anyone know what the equivalent of the i5 6600 is, if there is one?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 07, 2015, 04:53 PM
How to Make a Real World - Livestream(https://gallery.mailchimp.com/dcbf6b86b4b0c7d1c21b73b1e/images/ecf10b7d-507f-47fc-a671-30bd119a1f76.png)Tune in on Wednesday October 14, 7PM BST to see our 'How to Make a Real World' Livestream The planets in Elite Dangerous: Horizons feel immersive, tactile and real, and making them is a complex, fascinating and important part of development. We'd love to give you a sneak peek behind the scenes at how we create these planets, so were hosting a livestream next week with a couple of our lead artists (keep an eye on our social media channels for where the stream will be hosted).On Wednesday October 14, at 7PM BST, we'll show you some early development footage of the icy and rocky worlds in motion. This peek behind the scenes will demonstrate the simulation technology that we've been working on to create the captivating Europa lines for the ice worlds and canyons, and the craters and mountains for the rocky worlds. Simulation has always been important within the Elite Dangerous galaxy, and our conversation with the artists will highlight the accuracy, depth and technical prowess that go into creating the impressive features that make up our worlds. We'll talk through the base-scientific principle that the simulation has been built on in order to shape these beautiful, real worlds. Viewers will also have the chance to ask questions about the atmosphere-less bodies they'll be landing on when Elite Dangerous: Horizons launches later this year.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 09, 2015, 06:33 PM
I'm just waiting on vr to get back into the game. Can't wait!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Oct 10, 2015, 06:34 PM
I'm just waiting on vr to get back into the game. Can't wait!
Yup, VR will be amazing in Elite.
I'm also hyped for star citizen! Citizen con starts in like 30 minutes. CitizenCon 2015 - Squadron 42 + Mark Hamill? + Fidelity - NeoGAF (http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1122692)
Secondary stream information (https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/3o42wa/citizencon_live_stream_info/)
(http://abload.de/img/whatdoweexpect5kj2p.png)
Squadron 42 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Citizen#Squadron_42) cast reveal, trailer, live mission demonstration
A number of screen (https://twitter.com/hamillhimself/status/601348416598315008)and stage actors occupying pivotal story roles
Fidelity™
Demonstration of the so-called "baby PU (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qLcXt9Hxxo)"
Update on release time frames
Star Marine delays and demos
All manner of jank, cringe, and stream interruptions that we have come to love
(http://abload.de/img/wishlist4ukkg.png)
Procedural Generation Demonstration
Voxel Asteroid tech and mining gameplay
John Rys-Davies
VR update
CCU of RSI Mr.Coffee to Origin 20Kr Espresso Machines
*Best viewed on an SVGA Dark Theme Monitor
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Oct 14, 2015, 01:50 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Oct 14, 2015, 06:37 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Oct 16, 2015, 12:20 AM
Star Citizen reaches 1 MILLION backers - NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1124871)
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Alpha Access and module passes are eliminated to celebrate the occasion:.
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In honor of our newest Citizen (really, our thousands of new Citizens!) we would like to give something back to the entire community for all your incredible support. Starting today, we are eliminating Alpha Access and the $5 module passes. Anyone who has pledged for a Star Citizen Package can now play today without worrying they wont have access to some portion of the Verse in the future. No Star Marine pass, no Alpha 2.0 pass no additional payment needed for any module in the works, pre-release. Going forward, should we need to put out some sort of limited release it will be done through the PTU test server. All backers will have access to any live release, the moment it publishes.
LINK (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/15007-Letter-From-The-Chairman) Revoke my citizenship if old
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 16, 2015, 01:33 AM
Anyone feel like playing hardline?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 17, 2015, 04:10 PM
Metroid Redux is available for $7.50 on GMG. Two games!
Just played the PS4 demo of last light a few days ago and it was amazing. 60FPS, good graphics and the story is promising (already finished 2033 btw). The demo was like 9 chapters lol, took me 2-3 hours to finish.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 04, 2015, 07:40 PM
GMG has Black Ops III for 40$. Which is pretty crazy. An authorized reseller selling at the same price as cdkeys.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 04, 2015, 07:44 PM
They aren't authorized, they don't work with the publishers themselves.
That doesn't make them not legit!
But it is strange how GMG has been able to have some crazy deals lately
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Legend on Nov 10, 2015, 10:44 PM
I'm thinking about thinking about making my own micro PC "adaptor."
So currently my set up is that I have my work desk with my dev kit and PC, while 30 feet away is where my PS4, couch, and big TV are. A micro PC would be at both locations and pass input/output back and forth through dedicated ethernet lines. The end result would act like a steam machine in my entertainment cabinet, yet it'd be powered by either my dev kit or PC in the other room. No streaming so no significant delay.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 10, 2015, 10:54 PM
I'm thinking about thinking about making my own micro PC "adaptor."
So currently my set up is that I have my work desk with my dev kit and PC, while 30 feet away is where my PS4, couch, and big TV are. A micro PC would be at both locations and pass input/output back and forth through dedicated ethernet lines. The end result would act like a steam machine in my entertainment cabinet, yet it'd be powered by either my dev kit or PC in the other room. No streaming so no significant delay.
I expected step by step instructions. ;D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 12, 2015, 11:25 PM
(http://puu.sh/lj14w/7202d1cbdc.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 14, 2015, 02:59 PM
Surprised DQ Heroes is coming - hopefully this and the recent FFV releases mean DQ mainline will come.
Also dat Capcom humble bundle from few weeks ago!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Xevross on Nov 18, 2015, 07:06 PM
Undertale is amazing :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 19, 2015, 03:11 PM
Gonna take a somewhat of a break from Steam PC gaming - so I can finish up on Uncharted 1/2 (ya I know I'm playing it though I'm about to get the trilogy on PS4) and The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D :O
Still gonna play FFVII on Steam since I'm uploading vids for it.
Once I get a PS4 - I'll have a better view of what I'll be playing - gotta finish my currently playing games ;p
Next PC game I will play more than likely will be Batman Arkham City GOTY.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread--GTA V 96! The Witcher -94
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 19, 2015, 03:14 PM
Trying to find a good deal on Laptops in Canada but it's literally impossible. I want a decent one so that I could also play some of the more recent game at mid-high settings.
Saw this one on the US Amazon site - Amazon.com : Dell Inspiron i7559-763BLK 15.6" Full-HD Gaming Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960M) with Windows 10 : Computers & Accessories (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=gbps_tit_s-3_5262_f5d07087?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=2289565262&pf_rd_s=slot-3&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=gb_all&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0JDWAA3NN9BMKRBGE3TH?&tag=ignsitehgg)
If I bought it, it would come out to about 1000$ Canadian but they don't even ship to Canada =/. Also it's only got a 256 GB SSD which is low on space but I guess you could install an HDD.
Anyone know where I could find some good deals on Laptop for Canada?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 20, 2015, 01:14 PM
Trying to find a good deal on Laptops in Canada but it's literally impossible. I want a decent one so that I could also play some of the more recent game at mid-high settings.
Saw this one on the US Amazon site - Amazon.com : Dell Inspiron i7559-763BLK 15.6" Full-HD Gaming Laptop (Core i5, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce GTX960M) with Windows 10 : Computers & Accessories (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=gbps_tit_s-3_5262_f5d07087?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=2289565262&pf_rd_s=slot-3&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=gb_all&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0JDWAA3NN9BMKRBGE3TH?&tag=ignsitehgg)
If I bought it, it would come out to about 1000$ Canadian but they don't even ship to Canada =/. Also it's only got a 256 GB SSD which is low on space but I guess you could install an HDD.
Anyone know where I could find some good deals on Laptop for Canada?
You have to wait for September when Best Buy gives out sales for school. The other problem is that with the dollar so low, prices have sky rocketed. I want to build a new desktop and the i7 I want is 500 dollars. My i7 2600 was 270 on sale (I think 320 or 350 not on sale) at Canada Computers. Kinda funny cause I remember when I went to get it, I was one of the few to pick it up, everyone else went in for the FX deal for only a bit cheaper.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 20, 2015, 04:50 PM
Mark Hamill talks Star Citizen, Wing Commander and Star Wars - PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/mark-hamill-talks-star-citizen-wing-commander-and-star-wars/)
So excited for this game!!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 21, 2015, 10:01 PM
I just beat Bioshock Infinite :D
Sooo good
Gave it a 93 out of 100.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 21, 2015, 10:29 PM
Asus - ASUS ROG GL551JW-WH71(WX) 15.6-Inch Laptop: Amazon.ca: Computers & Tablets (http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B015QZVA6G/?tag=portablepickerca-20)
I see they both have the same GPU but the dell has 4 GB and the Asus has 2 GB. Does that really make that big of a difference? I also see that the CPU is much better in the Asus model...What do you guys think?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 23, 2015, 03:34 PM
I'm far from even the step below expert, but 2gb of ram sounds really low.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 23, 2015, 04:20 PM
Asus - ASUS ROG GL551JW-WH71(WX) 15.6-Inch Laptop: Amazon.ca: Computers & Tablets (http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B015QZVA6G/?tag=portablepickerca-20)
I see they both have the same GPU but the dell has 4 GB and the Asus has 2 GB. Does that really make that big of a difference? I also see that the CPU is much better in the Asus model...What do you guys think?
I would say the Asus one cause the hardware is more reliable than Dell but that Dell laptop has a better GPU in terms of the memory. 4 GB over 2GB is a no brainer.
But dang the Asus laptop has a better CPU :x - a i7 over a i5. But the GHz for both is 2.6 yet you can clock the i5 to a 3.2.
@Pezus - we need yo advice :O
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 23, 2015, 04:23 PM
Here I thought you were saying it had 2gb ram. I was like oh wow, avoid them!!!! But for the GPU, it sounds like there's only a slight difference for most games. Some are making the case that 4gb is much better though, so maybe go for that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 23, 2015, 04:32 PM
I would say the Asus one cause the hardware is more reliable than Dell but that Dell laptop has a better GPU in terms of the memory. 4 GB over 2GB is a no brainer.
But dang the Asus laptop has a better CPU :x - a i7 over a i5. But the GHz for both is 2.6 yet you can clock the i5 to a 3.2.
@Pezus - we need yo advice :O
4 gb or 2gb, gets a little tricky with lower end cards. The 960 is kinda in the middle where I'm not sure if it'll be able to push 4gb even though it has it. But it might be able to.
The i7 looks like its definitely better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 23, 2015, 05:34 PM
Here I thought you were saying it had 2gb ram. I was like oh wow, avoid them!!!! But for the GPU, it sounds like there's only a slight difference for most games. Some are making the case that 4gb is much better though, so maybe go for that.
Oh he's listing vram!!!!
Crisis averted!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 23, 2015, 05:55 PM
Glad I wasn't the only one to get that impression. 8)
2 GB RAM is like really really low. Avoid like the plague, unless it's like a phone or tablet... Or a really cheap older PC.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 23, 2015, 06:02 PM
I'd get the Asus. They seem really similar. You don't really need 4GB video memory for 15 inches imo. Plus, I think the CPU is slightly better in the Asus one. Asus has been more reliable in my experience
Here I thought you were saying it had 2gb ram. I was like oh wow, avoid them!!!! But for the GPU, it sounds like there's only a slight difference for most games. Some are making the case that 4gb is much better though, so maybe go for that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 23, 2015, 06:17 PM
indubitably. It was on the new page
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 23, 2015, 06:47 PM
A 960 should be fine with 2 gigs I think.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 25, 2015, 09:46 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/Vs76ZmS.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on Nov 25, 2015, 09:48 PM
I would vote for the Asus considering their computers are know to be very reliable.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 25, 2015, 09:52 PM
This. I bought Asus gaming laptop 2 years ago and its fantastic :D
My weak-dog laptop is 4 years old and it still runs perfectly. Definitely will invest on a more powerful Asus computer once I have the money.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 26, 2015, 12:10 AM
(http://i.imgur.com/8ouGtut.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 26, 2015, 04:56 AM
So I tried out WWE 2k15.
For the most part its pretty awesome (though I can see why people hate it since it lacks some modes you would expect) - the last WWE game I played was 2007 on PS2.
Anyways, FPS was around 45 until I realized there was a Audience Tessellation option. Turned it off and now I got 60 FPS with a few hiccups from time to time which goes down to 58-59 which isnt a issue.
First match I tried was playing as Roman Reigns and I fought John Cena in a singles match....couldnt beat him - I got beaten by Superman Cena ;(!
(I like it - was worried my PC might not be able to handle it lol - tested out 6 man in a elimination chamber, fps went down but it wasnt anything major).
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 26, 2015, 06:06 AM
For the most part its pretty awesome (though I can see why people hate it since it lacks some modes you would expect) - the last WWE game I played was 2007 on PS2.
Anyways, FPS was around 45 until I realized there was a Audience Tessellation option. Turned it off and now I got 60 FPS with a few hiccups from time to time which goes down to 58-59 which isnt a issue.
First match I tried was playing as Roman Reigns and I fought John Cena in a singles match....couldnt beat him - I got beaten by Superman Cena ;(!
(I like it - was worried my PC might not be able to handle it lol - tested out 6 man in a elimination chamber, fps went down but it wasnt anything major).
The last wrestling game i liked was on the NES.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 26, 2015, 06:19 AM
This is actually my 2nd WWE game I bought - first was 2007 on PS2. Really loved the game!
I did play 2009, 2010 and 2011 on PSP via emulation lol - but they were meh.
Oh ya - I did also play the first two WWE Smackdown games on PSX and the first Smackdown VS Raw game on PS2 - those were good specifically the PSX ones.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Nov 26, 2015, 08:34 PM
Just bought CS GO for 8$...
Oh god what have I done.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 26, 2015, 09:12 PM
I've only played a couple of games but I suck lol.
It's weird having the crosshair on your screen but your bullets not going where the crosshair is =/. You gotta like crouch and shame. I don't really see this being a good "casual" game to be honest.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Nov 26, 2015, 11:50 PM
I've only played a couple of games but I suck lol.
It's weird having the crosshair on your screen but your bullets not going where the crosshair is =/. You gotta like crouch and shame. I don't really see this being a good "casual" game to be honest.
Once you get the hang of it you'll enjoy playing it casually! It's very skill or tactical based. Not run and gun like CoD and almost every other shooter these days lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 27, 2015, 04:27 AM
CSGO is awesome even if you play it casually like I do myself ;O!
Need to play it still.
Its one of two games I have kept installed on my PC from my Steam library :o
Usually back up all games I finish and delete them off my PC's HDD for more space.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 28, 2015, 02:23 PM
Updated to Windows 10. It's alright.
Like some parts of it, and don't really like others.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 28, 2015, 03:27 PM
What do you mean? Your account or off your computer?
Off my computer.
Can someone check to see how to fix this "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG"
I'm not able to access like any sites.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 12, 2015, 12:03 AM
dns_probe_finished_bad_config prevents you from accessing websites, causes issues with connecting to outside services. As the name suggests, this is aDNS related error. The function of DNS is to resolve/translate names so when your system cannot resolve or translate the address, you will get this error or DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN (http://appuals.com/best-fix-steps-fix-dns_probe_finished_nxdomain/) DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG. By default, your computer is set to use the DNS configured in your router or modem which is Internet Providers DNS unless it has been changed. I always recommend using public dns servers, which you should see in this guide as they are most active and have a 99% uptime. If you don't understand, don't worry, just follow the steps below. To fix this issue, follow the steps below: 1. Hold Windows key and press R 2. In the run dialog, type cmd and click OK 3. When the Black Command Prompt opens, type the following in it and Hit Enter.
This will flush dns cache. Which is sometimes, the cause when there is a change in the DNS and the system is looking up its local cache to take you to the websites. 4. Once this is done, Hold Windows key and press Ragain. 5. This time, type ncpa.cpl and Click OK. 6. You will be taken to the network connections. What we need to do here, is update your DNS settings. 7. Identify your network adapter, which is connected and right click it, then choose Properties. (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ncpaproperties.png) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ncpaproperties.png) 8. Then, from the properties pane, click "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" once so that it becomes highlighted in grey and select Propertiesagain. (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/connectionproperties.jpg) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/connectionproperties.jpg) 9. Put check on use the following dns server addresses and enter the following for Preferred DNS Server and Alternate DNS Server
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Preferred DNS SERVER: 8.8.8.8 Alternate DNS SERVER 8.8.4.4
(http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dnsservers.jpg) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dnsservers.jpg) Click OK and close the rest of the windows. I have also created a network connections reset script, which you should try in case issue is not fixed. Go to Limited Connectivity (http://appuals.com/fix-limited-connectivity-wi-fi-issues-windows-8/) post, and follow the steps there. This should fix the issues with the websites.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 12, 2015, 12:11 AM
dns_probe_finished_bad_config prevents you from accessing websites, causes issues with connecting to outside services. As the name suggests, this is aDNS related error. The function of DNS is to resolve/translate names so when your system cannot resolve or translate the address, you will get this error or DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN (http://appuals.com/best-fix-steps-fix-dns_probe_finished_nxdomain/) DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG. By default, your computer is set to use the DNS configured in your router or modem which is Internet Providers DNS unless it has been changed. I always recommend using public dns servers, which you should see in this guide as they are most active and have a 99% uptime. If you don't understand, don't worry, just follow the steps below. To fix this issue, follow the steps below: 1. Hold Windows key and press R 2. In the run dialog, type cmd and click OK 3. When the Black Command Prompt opens, type the following in it and Hit Enter. (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ipconfigflushdns.jpg) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ipconfigflushdns.jpg)
This will flush dns cache. Which is sometimes, the cause when there is a change in the DNS and the system is looking up its local cache to take you to the websites. 4. Once this is done, Hold Windows key and press Ragain. 5. This time, type ncpa.cpl and Click OK. 6. You will be taken to the network connections. What we need to do here, is update your DNS settings. 7. Identify your network adapter, which is connected and right click it, then choose Properties. (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ncpaproperties.png) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ncpaproperties.png) 8. Then, from the properties pane, click "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" once so that it becomes highlighted in grey and select Propertiesagain. (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/connectionproperties.jpg) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/connectionproperties.jpg) 9. Put check on use the following dns server addresses and enter the following for Preferred DNS Server and Alternate DNS Server(http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dnsservers.jpg) (http://appuals.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/dnsservers.jpg) Click OK and close the rest of the windows. I have also created a network connections reset script, which you should try in case issue is not fixed. Go to Limited Connectivity (http://appuals.com/fix-limited-connectivity-wi-fi-issues-windows-8/) post, and follow the steps there. This should fix the issues with the websites.
Thanks Tacos!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 12, 2015, 05:09 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 12, 2015, 08:36 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 17, 2015, 05:59 PM
Star Citizen out of nowhere decided to show off planetary landings. Will probably be added to the public alpha relatively soon.
Star Citizen - From Pupil to Planet - High quality stream - Gamersyde (http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_star_citizen_from_pupil_to_planet-36350_en.html)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 17, 2015, 07:01 PM
Hmm wonder why. ::)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 17, 2015, 10:32 PM
Star Citizen has been making so much money but the creator wants to make his game be DRM Free - wish there was a steam version D:
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 19, 2015, 05:59 AM
I'm bad at fighters but I enjoy them ;o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 19, 2015, 03:40 PM
SPACE!
It's a singleplayer story focused space dogfighting game
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 21, 2015, 01:27 AM
Download Ryse: Son of Rome - Digital Download for PC | GameStop (http://www.gamestop.com/pc/games/ryse-son-of-rome/117707)
6.79$
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 21, 2015, 02:59 AM
Been playing Arkham City.
Pretty dang good - although for my PC its not entirely 60 FPS all the time its manageable like GTAIV when I played it.
It was around 50-60 FPS at times and would go down to 45 for a few seconds which isnt too bad.
For the most part its 60 FPS.
Anyways, loving the open world aspect and doing missions/side quests.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 21, 2015, 08:19 PM
Tales of Berseria and God Eater 1 and 2 on PC
Dem feels - SOOO HAPPY ^__^
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2015, 06:59 PM
For some strange reason, I don't really like the placement of "all apps" in Windows 10. I kind of feel like something else should be there, so I ignore it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Riderz1337 on Dec 25, 2015, 08:42 PM
Holy fudge Steam is iced.
People are seeing other peoples information right now when they go to "account details"
I can see another dudes profile. I have his email address, CC info etc....
What the fudge is going on. What if someone has access to my account? (my mom makes great fudge) better not buy shame with my money.
This is fudgy huge.
Is something wrong with Steam? (Warning: Security Issues) - NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1162196)
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My friend informed me. When you go into 'Account Information' via Steam Client, it leads you to other peoples pages. I looked at it and there is another guys page named 'minkey314' and it has saved credit card information, which is not mine. I can see his mail address clearly. Also if that random guy has money in Steam Wallet, I think you can spend it too. Mine has $0 at all. I think big security issue is happening right now. You can check it with Steam Client. I am not gonna upload a screenshot because I dont want to spoil that guys e-mail address or other info.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 25, 2015, 10:01 PM
People are seeing other peoples information right now when they go to "account details"
I can see another dudes profile. I have his email address, CC info etc....
What the fudge is going on. What if someone has access to my account? (my mom makes great fudge) better not buy shame with my money.
This is fudgy huge.
Is something wrong with Steam? (Warning: Security Issues) - NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1162196)
yep.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 27, 2015, 11:47 PM
Finished Batman Arkham City GOTY - alongside Metal Slug , Metal Slug X and Metal Slug 3. Also finished Carpe Diem, Voices from the Sea and Written in the Sky.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 30, 2015, 04:34 AM
I'm starting to think Nvidia is pretty much shame. Not their cards. But their software sucks balls.
I got a 32 inch tv for christmas and put it between my 27 inch monitors. There's now way to run this set up right, or at least that I can find with Nvidia's software. But come to find out I could have done this with AMD...
Son of a baby! It worked and I have no idea how it worked and I'm more pissed that I don't know how to recreate it than I am happy that it work. FML.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 30, 2015, 06:24 AM
So when I go into surround for to play a game the left screen makes it self like the center screen with black bars on top and bottom. Screwing everything up. I'm not sure how to fix this because all the setting between the right and left screen are the same but they don't act the same.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Dec 31, 2015, 04:20 AM
Started DmC Devil May Cry on Steam.
Loving it so far.
Gameplay is amazing along with the visual design. Music is OK but may take time to grow on me - loved the original music designer from the original DMC series.
Character design and personality - I can understand why people would hate it since its different from the original DMC Universe Dante but honestly doesnt bother me despite being a long time fan and playing all of the other games on PS2 and PS3.
5 hours into the game but barely on Mission 4 (this is because I've been going back to the first 3 missions and redoing them to complete all difficulty modes and to find hidden items that I missed so I can get them now that I have some additional power ups ;p).
Nephilim/Hard mode makes bosses tanks and changes their AI to do attacks they never do in easy/normal mode - which is pretty cool :o!
Solid 60 FPS with no issues at start up. This was a pretty awesome port.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Dec 31, 2015, 05:59 PM
So I ordered 3 displayport adapters so I can put all the screens on one gpu. The problem I'm having now is that the left screen is adapting the center screens custom size when ever I go into surround. Making the Left screen smaller than other two. And what's funny about that is the left screen is on the second GPU. So let's hope that putting all the screens on one GPU fixes the issue. And that Nvidia gets their crud together for windows 10.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 01, 2016, 10:11 PM
So I think I'm going to sell my 970's and get one 980 ti. I just ran project cars at 5760x1080 for 30 to 45 mins. When I took off my ear phones I noticed my system fans were at max. So I touch on of the gpus just to see how warm it was. It was warm enough to slightly burn my finger. It's either that or spend 500 on cooling the gpus. I think I'll get the same or similar performance running a single 980 ti. But it's just the pain of selling off the two 970's. Anyone know anyone that's looking?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 01, 2016, 10:20 PM
Graphics cards get hot (70C-90C) is usually the absolute highest you'd want them to get. If they are like 65, it should be fine.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 01, 2016, 10:30 PM
Graphics cards get hot (70C-90C) is usually the absolute highest you'd want them to get. If they are like 65, it should be fine.
Not sure of the actual temp. I should have turned on my program to figure it out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 02, 2016, 08:31 PM
Well I got my displayport adaptors in today. And it fixed my issue. Funny how something so stupid can cause so many problems. Nvidia's software is still janky tho.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 02, 2016, 08:38 PM
Well I got my displayport adaptors in today. And it fixed my issue. Funny how something so stupid can cause so many problems. Nvidia's software is still janky tho.
How many video outs do your two cards have together?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 02, 2016, 09:16 PM
Dang, did you search this thread or did you remeber? The 970s are easy to remeber the the psu, not so much. That's a bad dog psu btw. Love it.
I was searching this thread. Then it was like oh yeah, that's right! We have the same PSU!
As weird as it sounds, I'm super proud of the PSU. Which is a little weird, because most people don't even know what a PSU is. Was super happy, it just sounded perfect. It's been running amazing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 12, 2016, 06:19 PM
Yeah PSU is great.
Only problem I've had with this computer is the SSD. For some reason it's kinda wonky and slower than my hard drive at times.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 12, 2016, 06:19 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 12, 2016, 07:46 PM
Hmmm
PSA: Your USB 3.0 ports may not be compatible with the Rift : oculus (https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zrtgs/psa_your_usb_30_ports_may_not_be_compatible_with/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 12, 2016, 08:01 PM
PSA: Your USB 3.0 ports may not be compatible with the Rift : oculus (https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/3zrtgs/psa_your_usb_30_ports_may_not_be_compatible_with/)
That's why I bought the usb card they suggested. I now have 7 usb 3.0 ports.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on Jan 13, 2016, 01:32 AM
Well this is just savage...
NeoGAF - View Single Post - Atlus CEO teases unannounced titles (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192003098&postcount=124)
Quote from: Atlus PR
PC Ports? (http://worldonline.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/img/photos/2012/07/25/oh-wait-youre-serious-let-me-laugh-even-harder_t269x200.jpg?4ed55987df16ce4ecaed3fbcd5c3e2)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 13, 2016, 01:44 AM
Stick with what you have! :P Ya' woman. Your PC is fine, better than even.
I know. It's just so hard... I'll wait. problem is if I get this stuff sold then I have the cash and wouldn't really be more of an investment. Looks like I sold the controller, I've been getting calls about my gear vr's and my ebay listing seems to be getting lot of attention. Plus I'd pretty much have a whole computer I can sell which works out perfect because my co worker wants me to build him one when his wife get's her taxes back. So everything pushing me to do it....
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 14, 2016, 04:03 AM
Those i7 are expensive. Plus the MB is 200 and the ram would be about 100.
NeoGAF - View Single Post - 3DMark can tell you if your PC is good enough for Oculus Rift (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192241673&postcount=708)
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Originally Posted by eifer (http://vizioneck.com/forum/showthread.php?p=192240273#post192240273)
I'm at 10,000 but oculus tool says my CPU doesn't qualify. I have an i7 980x extreme, and even though it's a very good CPU, it doesn't perform as well in single core tests. Pretty disappointing. I guess I'll be going PSVR this year, and get a future oculus version when I build a new PC in a year or two.
The oculus tool doesn't actually test your CPU's performance. It's inaccurate. If you get 10k on 3dmark you're probably fine.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 15, 2016, 04:33 PM
NeoGAF - View Single Post - 3DMark can tell you if your PC is good enough for Oculus Rift (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=192241673&postcount=708) The oculus tool doesn't actually test your CPU's performance. It's inaccurate. If you get 10k on 3dmark you're probably fine.
I only get 10k when I have both cards running... I'm Doomed.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 15, 2016, 04:46 PM
Maybe because I'm using the free version, and it doesn't do the test for SLI?
What did you get again? Like 10?
So if I went with an i7 I should get around this mark.
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-6700K,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VIII HERO (http://www.3dmark.com/fs/7173542)
It seems cpu is a big deal in these test.
I get like 9k. It must be testing sli, otherwise there wouldn't be a big difference. Maybe it's a cpu thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 15, 2016, 06:49 PM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 video card benchmark result - Intel Core i5-6600K,ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VIII RANGER (http://www.3dmark.com/fs/6068247)
here another with an i5 it must be a cpu thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 16, 2016, 08:36 PM
I've been looking and it seems DDR4 only makes a difference in rendering and really not important to games. Skylake in general really doesn't seem help in games. The added cost of going skylake doesn't seem to be worth the squeeze. Any opinions on the matter?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jan 16, 2016, 09:11 PM
FML. I'm still spinning my wheels not know what I really want to do. I promised my wife I'd try to do this without spending any money out of or account So that means selling stuff. At this rate I'd need to sell the Wii U and Xbox one in order to achieve that goal, or just go with Haswell over skylake, as I wouldn't need new ram. And of course I can drop the cooler saving even more.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 17, 2016, 12:16 AM
FML. I'm still spinning my wheels not know what I really want to do. I promised my wife I'd try to do this without spending any money out of or account So that means selling stuff. At this rate I'd need to sell the Wii U and Xbox one in order to achieve that goal, or just go with Haswell over skylake, as I wouldn't need new ram. And of course I can drop the cooler saving even more.
Just wait to see if you need an upgrade first.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 17, 2016, 01:30 AM
I know Pi... But I did manage to pick on of these up for 25 bucks. So that saved a good chunk of change. I might start install it tonight.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 17, 2016, 06:41 PM
So I just got done installing my cooler and it broke everything. Video Drivers, screen set up, my mouse wouldn't work, my keyboard would work. Gotta love pcs.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 17, 2016, 08:45 PM
Spoiler for Hidden:
Apparently upgrading to Windows 10 ruined some legacy stuff. For Age of Empires III, they basically have it in windows 10, but it's deactivated. Fortunately it was easy to reactivate. Fallout games apparently need Games for Windows, so that had to be fixed.
So far nothing too bad. But I do like Windows 10.
On a different note, I do wonder how many people sell stuff on steam. You can sell like trading cards from your inventory on steam, and gets some money. Buy games with that money. I apparently just sold something to someone named "Adolf Hitler", and "Scooby Doo". I am really surprised that the first name is really allowed. I've made $0.21 in the past 20 min., by selling virtual stuff. Not a lot, but I made it by selling basically nothing.
Spoiler for Hidden:
I'm a bit worried about VR. On the one hand, I feel like it's more likely that the games I will want to play are going to be on PC. I really want to play games like Skyrim or something like that. Skyrim already has VR support, with mods I believe. PSVR is great too, but we'll have to see. Can't possibly justify spending 600$ on it. 400$ probably, 300$ very likely.
Apparently every game on the Oculus store will be playable with their recommended settings. As in every single one. Which is nice. But, games sold outside of the store can take different requirements. Elite Dangerous apparently has minimum a GTX 980. Tacos will probably be the only one to hit that.
That's kinda nuts.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 17, 2016, 10:45 PM
Apparently upgrading to Windows 10 ruined some legacy stuff. For Age of Empires III, they basically have it in windows 10, but it's deactivated. Fortunately it was easy to reactivate. Fallout games apparently need Games for Windows, so that had to be fixed.
So far nothing too bad. But I do like Windows 10.
On a different note, I do wonder how many people sell stuff on steam. You can sell like trading cards from your inventory on steam, and gets some money. Buy games with that money. I apparently just sold something to someone named "Adolf Hitler", and "Scooby Doo". I am really surprised that the first name is really allowed. I've made $0.21 in the past 20 min., by selling virtual stuff. Not a lot, but I made it by selling basically nothing.
Spoiler for Hidden:
I'm a bit worried about VR. On the one hand, I feel like it's more likely that the games I will want to play are going to be on PC. I really want to play games like Skyrim or something like that. Skyrim already has VR support, with mods I believe. PSVR is great too, but we'll have to see. Can't possibly justify spending 600$ on it. 400$ probably, 300$ very likely.
Apparently every game on the Oculus store will be playable with their recommended settings. As in every single one. Which is nice. But, games sold outside of the store can take different requirements. Elite Dangerous apparently has minimum a GTX 980. Tacos will probably be the only one to hit that.
That's kinda nuts.
Where did you see 980 as a requirement for elite vr?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 17, 2016, 11:36 PM
VR minimum specification for Elite Dangerous (https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=207248)
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Greetings Commanders,
Many of you have been asking about the minimum system requirements for VR in Elite Dangerous, including Horizons, so here they are:
• OS: Windows 7/8/10 64 bit • Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K Quad Core CPU or better / AMD FX 4350 Quad Core CPU or better • Memory: 16 GB RAM • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 980 with 4GB or better • Network: Broadband Internet Connection • Hard Drive: 8 GB available space
We are passionate about VR and Elite Dangerous is leading the way in cutting edge VR software development. This is what we consider to be a minimum spec to have a good experience on forthcoming consumer VR headsets.
As most of you are aware we currently support HTC Vive and the Oculus rift 0.5 SDK. We continue to work with Oculus on support for their more recent SDKs, and will let you know if and when there is more to announce.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 17, 2016, 11:46 PM
You're fine on that too, it looks like. Elite supports SLI.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 17, 2016, 11:51 PM
I hate trying to take photos to show off leds. They always looks like shame in the photo.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 18, 2016, 02:44 AM
Also, I've been reading what I can find on AMD new Zen cpu, and it's not going to be worth it. You'll be forced to update you MB as they've changed their socket. IF you going to go that far you might as well just jump over to Intel.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 18, 2016, 07:29 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 18, 2016, 09:03 PM
I've been looking and it seems DDR4 only makes a difference in rendering and really not important to games. Skylake in general really doesn't seem help in games. The added cost of going skylake doesn't seem to be worth the squeeze. Any opinions on the matter?
Tamron in the welcome thread was mentioning skylake is bad. My personal thoughts? Intel reached their limit. I personally think Intel should scale back to 4 cores and try bringing each core clocked to 5ghz.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 18, 2016, 09:20 PM
Tamron in the welcome thread was mentioning skylake is bad. My personal thoughts? Intel reached their limit. I personally think Intel should scale back to 4 cores and try bringing each core clocked to 5ghz.
I think it's only a 6 or 8 percent gain over Haswell. I really don't see the point in them releasing something with such little improvement.
It might make sense if you need a computer anyway to start with skylake but if you on Haswell the gain isn't worth the expense.
I think part of the problem is they lack completion and it doesn't look to be getting any better on that front.
A buy out by MS would be the best thing that could happen to AMD and the industry.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 18, 2016, 09:23 PM
I think it's only a 6 or 8 percent gain over Haswell. I really don't see the point in them releasing something with such little improvement.
It might make sense if you need a computer anyway to start with skylake but if you on Haswell the gain isn't worth the expense.
I think part of the problem is they lack completion and it doesn't look to be getting any better on that front.
A buy out by MS would be the best thing that could happen to AMD and the industry.
You're right. But like I said, Intel reached their limit. This happened before in the ghz race. AMD's Athlon at 2ghz was outperforming Intel's 4ghz processors. Intel is reaching their limit of what they can do with a die shrink. Let's hope Zen can catch up and price intel back into competition.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 18, 2016, 09:29 PM
You're right. But like I said, Intel reached their limit. This happened before in the ghz race. AMD's Athlon at 2ghz was outperforming Intel's 4ghz processors. Intel is reaching their limit of what they can do with a die shrink. Let's hope Zen can catch up and price intel back into competition.
I think they'll finally catch up this time. Lets see if they can beat them on price, and hopefully MB manufacturer put out a decent amount of boards for it. That's another issue with going AMD. Low selection.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2016, 09:34 PM
Tamron in the welcome thread was mentioning skylake is bad. My personal thoughts? Intel reached their limit. I personally think Intel should scale back to 4 cores and try bringing each core clocked to 5ghz.
There's a reason why CPUs are going for more cores instead of just getting higher and higher hertz. Synchronization becomes difficult, and energy consumption rises, and the CPUs get very hot. That's one big reason why we have multicore.
Tamron said they were fragile. Not bad. They're very good CPU's.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2016, 09:35 PM
I think it's only a 6 or 8 percent gain over Haswell. I really don't see the point in them releasing something with such little improvement.
It might make sense if you need a computer anyway to start with skylake but if you on Haswell the gain isn't worth the expense.
I think part of the problem is they lack completion and it doesn't look to be getting any better on that front.
A buy out by MS would be the best thing that could happen to AMD and the industry.
Intel basically works in 2 phases. "Tick" "Tock" The first phase, they release basically brand new stuff. The second phase, they just refine it a little. Not usually going to get big improvements with the second one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 18, 2016, 09:41 PM
You're right. But like I said, Intel reached their limit. This happened before in the ghz race. AMD's Athlon at 2ghz was outperforming Intel's 4ghz processors. Intel is reaching their limit of what they can do with a die shrink. Let's hope Zen can catch up and price intel back into competition.
Intel had a big step back with the Pentium 4's. I don't think it's a matter of they reached their limit. They made a bad design, that was worse than their old design.
The Pentium 3's for example were supposed to be more than 30% faster than the Pentium 4 clock for clock. If I recall correctly, the newer CPUs, all the i3's, i5's, etc, were based on the Pentium 3.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 19, 2016, 12:18 AM
Intel had a big step back with the Pentium 4's. I don't think it's a matter of they reached their limit. They made a bad design, that was worse than their old design.
The Pentium 3's for example were supposed to be more than 30% faster than the Pentium 4 clock for clock. If I recall correctly, the newer CPUs, all the i3's, i5's, etc, were based on the Pentium 3.
Pentium M, which are based on the Pentium 3. The point I was trying to make was that they sacrificed IPC for ghz. They also reached the limit at the time.
There's a reason why CPUs are going for more cores instead of just getting higher and higher hertz. Synchronization becomes difficult, and energy consumption rises, and the CPUs get very hot. That's one big reason why we have multicore.
Tamron said they were fragile. Not bad. They're very good CPU's.
I know very well why more cores vs higher clocks. The problem is that multicore isn't a silver bullet. It hasn't been for 7 years and it's never going to be.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 19, 2016, 03:40 PM
Another expansion. Might buy this one, I love snow!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 19, 2016, 04:15 PM
They also reached the limit at the time.I know very well why more cores vs higher clocks. The problem is that multicore isn't a silver bullet. It hasn't been for 7 years and it's never going to be.
Don't think higher clockrate is going to help either. Threading has to be utilized better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 19, 2016, 10:11 PM
Don't think higher clockrate is going to help either. Threading has to be utilized better.
It does, but it's not gonna happen. Why do you think Sony and AMD screwed up with Cell and Bulldozer? Their best bet is to get IPC up and clock frequency is the short term way to go.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 19, 2016, 10:41 PM
It does, but it's not gonna happen. Why do you think Sony and AMD screwed up with Cell and Bulldozer? Their best bet is to get IPC up and clock frequency is the short term way to go.
There's not that much room for higher clock.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 20, 2016, 03:10 AM
Cost going into researching cooling systems and costs for consumers for powering said systems.
Multicore is a much better route to go. Developers need to jump on board with it.
Like I said, 8 years later and we're not much farther. Plus you get scaling issues with larger core counts. Plus that type of programming is better off on a GPU. I personally don't understand why Intel or AMD don't feed assembly calls into the embedded gpus.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 22, 2016, 07:27 AM
A lot of F bombs and a naughtiness scene in DmC Devil May Cry.
I had to lower the volume.......l0l
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 22, 2016, 06:43 PM
Quantum Break rated for PC in Brazil - Gematsu (http://gematsu.com/2016/01/quantum-break-rated-pc-brazil)
The PC listing has since been removed.
SUPREME LEAK
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 29, 2016, 03:39 AM
I highly recommend the corsair H100iGTX water cooler. It keeps my cpu at a comfortable 11c under light load. and blows nice cool air over my gpus dropping their light load down to a few degrees. And it looks nice in the systems, the braided water lines add a nice touch.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jan 29, 2016, 06:40 AM
Volition offers up cancelled PSP Saints Row game for free
Volition offers up cancelled PSP Saints Row game for free - PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/volition-offers-up-cancelled-psp-saints-row-game-for-free/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jan 30, 2016, 04:25 AM
I didn't really know where to put this and I didn't feel it needed a new thread so I'm dumping it here. Basically I've spent the day learning illustrator. Here's what I made today.
Well the last time anything happened like this it was for Portal 2...
Spoiler for Hidden:
but this has non steam games, and is much more cryptic than the portal 2 one.
Half-Life 3 for Steam/Origin/Uplay/GOG
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 01, 2016, 01:34 AM
After a while I'm getting some bad hang ups with illustrator. I just had to use task manager to shut it down because the UI wouldn't work. but I could still draw and use quick keys, but nothing else. I hope I didn't lose my progress. I've spent a lot of time on this drawing.
Well it saved my work but lost my reference image... The reference image was the very first thing I did. So odd...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 01, 2016, 01:49 AM
At least it didn't lose everything.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 01, 2016, 02:11 AM
I'm getting to much into this. I've spent the last 3 days doing nothing but trying to learn this program. I should have worked on my resume today and finished some house papers. I shut down my pc just to take a break. I didn't want to be tempted to keep going.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 02, 2016, 05:39 AM
My PC is giving me the option to eject my GTX 970 as if it were a flash drive?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 02, 2016, 07:23 AM
My PC is giving me the option to eject my GTX 970 as if it were a flash drive?
Would be cooler if you had the option to eject it like a disc drive.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 05, 2016, 03:35 AM
Well my sister brought over her surface 3, I got to try Illustrator on it. While I don't think the basic surface is strong enough for me to run illustrator with out getting pissed off with it, It is very nice for drawing the artwork I've been doing. I think I might have to get one. Although I'd like to just use the power of my pc which would require a wacom. I read about a streaming program, If she hangs out awhile tomorrow I might download it and give that a try.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 05, 2016, 07:23 PM
Well I downloaded the streaming program and the lag was too much. I could draw from on side of the screen to the other before it would show up. And it woldn't complete my strokes. It would start them late and finish them early. Not sure what to do now. I really don't want to spend 1200 on a surface, even if my wife wants one. It seems wacom is going to be the best bet, but they are so overpriced for what you get.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 05, 2016, 07:27 PM
Well I downloaded the streaming program and the lag was too much. I could draw from on side of the screen to the other before it would show up. And it woldn't complete my strokes. It would start them late and finish them early. Not sure what to do now. I really don't want to spend 1200 on a surface, even if my wife wants one. It seems wacom is going to be the best bet, but they are so overpriced for what you get.
Have you tried just a simple cheap one? Neverdies' wasn't much at all.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 05, 2016, 07:35 PM
My PC is giving me the option to eject my GTX 970 as if it were a flash drive?
Its telling you to go and play at the best place to play.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 06, 2016, 02:14 AM
A lot of schools have smart boards that are kind of like smart markerboards.
There's usually 4 markers, and the display tells which marker is being used, basically by the markers being on a button and the system keeps track of which marker was removed last.
Then there's a projector to actually display what's on the board.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 06, 2016, 03:17 PM
A lot of schools have smart boards that are kind of like smart markerboards.
There's usually 4 markers, and the display tells which marker is being used, basically by the markers being on a button and the system keeps track of which marker was removed last.
Then there's a projector to actually display what's on the board.
Yeah my middle school won a grant and had those fitted in every room. Kinda useless yet kinda cool.
They could run simple physics simulations. Like draw a ramp and a ball, and the ball will roll down. Could also convert handwriting to text.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 07, 2016, 07:26 PM
A lot of schools have smart boards that are kind of like smart markerboards.
There's usually 4 markers, and the display tells which marker is being used, basically by the markers being on a button and the system keeps track of which marker was removed last.
Then there's a projector to actually display what's on the board.
Yeah, it's a mixed feeling for them. There's a push for them, but I think they're useless. I like that you can save work and digitize it. Like, they're way to expensive for what they do. I can do just as much with a projector projecting on a black board/white board.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 07, 2016, 07:38 PM
Yeah, it's a mixed feeling for them. There's a push for them, but I think they're useless. I like that you can save work and digitize it. Like, they're way to expensive for what they do. I can do just as much with a projector projecting on a black board/white board.
I think they're pretty cool. I personally like drawing on a marker board. I would want one at some point, that way I wouldn't have to worry about getting markers.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 07, 2016, 10:58 PM
I think they're pretty cool. I personally like drawing on a marker board. I would want one at some point, that way I wouldn't have to worry about getting markers.
It's not quite what you think :P
They don't erase as well. Plus, with the way I teach, I use presentations and then leave empty space so I can write on the white board with. So I'll project something, then use the white board to draw on it. It's not exactly easy to do that with a smartboard. Unless someone wrote software for it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 07, 2016, 11:23 PM
They don't erase as well. Plus, with the way I teach, I use presentations and then leave empty space so I can write on the white board with. So I'll project something, then use the white board to draw on it. It's not exactly easy to do that with a smartboard. Unless someone wrote software for it.
I've used smart boards before, and I've seen teachers use it quite extensively. Pretty much all the teachers had a smart board by the time I got to high school. Seen them used to a great extent for about 3-4 years, used it myself every now and then.
The smart board vendor did have software for it. I think they had special software that resembled powerpoint. Outside of that, if you were to try to draw on the screen, the software would first take a picture of it and import it into some other software.
Some of the teacher laboriously erased like you would with a normal marker board, but there's other ways too. With that one, the software let you just erase a circle, and then tap the middle and it'll erase everything else.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 08, 2016, 02:52 PM
Finished Disc 1 for Final Fantasy VII for Steam/PC.....took me 5 months but I was distracted for the most part XD.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 11, 2016, 11:15 PM
This is probably the most impractical build ever.
lol, he's a bit of a sucker.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on Feb 16, 2016, 03:11 PM
Vulkan has officially launched (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/).
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 16, 2016, 06:21 PM
Vulkan has officially launched (https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/).
Oh fancy.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on Feb 16, 2016, 11:46 PM
Here is the FAQ (http://steamcommunity.com/app/257510/discussions/0/412447331651720139/) on Steam and Croteam's Q&A (http://www.croteam.com/house-interview-vulkan/) for those who are interested in reading about Vulkan. Here's the part in the FAQ that really piqued my interest:
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Q: That's better. Now, why was Vulkan support added to Talos?
A: Good question! We (Croteam) firmly believe that Vulkan is really the best low(est)-level API there can be. Fast and portable!
Yes, it has downside(s). For one, it's quite hard to program for. You have to do a lot of things manually, instead of relying on drivers to do the work for you. This is both good and bad at the same time. Good for performance reasons, because driver doesn't assume what game wants to render (I won't go into any more details here, sorry). Bad because there's a lot more coding and in general, it's a more complex approach. You better know what you're doing, because you won't get any help from the driver. You're on your own. It's really great to have that much control. IF you know what you're doing!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 17, 2016, 08:07 PM
I'm finally getting around to Star Citizen. This game is so amazing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 17, 2016, 11:15 PM
Apparently huge improvement in the emulation scene specifically with the GCN/Wii emulator Dolphin.
Heard Direct X12 gave huge improvements to GCN/Wii
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 18, 2016, 03:03 AM
Walking in space ships is so amazing!
It makes the game like grand theft auto in space. I was having a blast being a stowaway on other ships. In one case I was exploring a space station when I noticed a $200 ship parked outside. I ran to the ship and triggered the boarding elevator. However its captain was right behind me and started shooting as I rode the platform up.
Inside I freak out since I lack a gun. I run to the next room to see him riding the storage elevator up, gun drawn. I run around to the other side of the ship closing doors behind me, finding a deployable fighter. Hide in it while I hear him searching the ship but he missed me.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 18, 2016, 04:24 PM
It makes the game like grand theft auto in space. I was having a blast being a stowaway on other ships. In one case I was exploring a space station when I noticed a $200 ship parked outside. I ran to the ship and triggered the boarding elevator. However its captain was right behind me and started shooting as I rode the platform up.
Inside I freak out since I lack a gun. I run to the next room to see him riding the storage elevator up, gun drawn. I run around to the other side of the ship closing doors behind me, finding a deployable fighter. Hide in it while I hear him searching the ship but he missed me.
This is Star Citizen?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 18, 2016, 05:07 PM
Yeah they recently released the "Universe" alpha which is pretty close to what the final game is.
Here's a video with the specific ship I was talking about.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 18, 2016, 05:55 PM
Well I solved my gpu heating problem by keeping it elite locked to 60 fps. It dropped the temp by 20c. Which is crazy. Because I need that extra fps for vr.
My only option is to water cool both cards or sell them in favor of a 980ti hydro.
Choices....
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 18, 2016, 06:01 PM
Well I solved my gpu heating problem by keeping it elite locked to 60 fps. It dropped the temp by 20c. Which is crazy. Because I need that extra fps for vr.
My only option is to water cool both cards or sell them in favor of a 980ti hydro.
Choices....
Water cooling could decrease your computer's sound a lot.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 18, 2016, 06:45 PM
You can do it much cheaper, something like the corsair h100i. Which is 110. But that will only cool a cpu. In my case I need 3 of them and 2 gpu adaptor brakets. Which I'd do if I bought the reference cards. Honestly it would be cheaper to sell my 970s and buy a 980 ti hydro.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 19, 2016, 11:57 PM
So a couple of days ago my laptop gave up on life. I went out and left it on for a while and when I came back it was acting weird. I could load up programs but do nothing with them. I could open new tabs on chrome but not interact with the page. So I restarted it and when it switched on it made loads of beeping noises and switched itself off again. After messing around with it for a while I did a reset, uninstalling apps but keeping files and that seemed to fix it.
It's working fine now, if anything a bit faster than before it seems... But should I be worried? Do I need to get it checked out? Can any of you think what went wrong?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 20, 2016, 12:11 AM
So a couple of days ago my laptop gave up on life. I went out and left it on for a while and when I came back it was acting weird. I could load up programs but do nothing with them. I could open new tabs on chrome but not interact with the page. So I restarted it and when it switched on it made loads of beeping noises and switched itself off again. After messing around with it for a while I did a reset, uninstalling apps but keeping files and that seemed to fix it.
It's working fine now, if anything a bit faster than before it seems... But should I be worried? Do I need to get it checked out? Can any of you think what went wrong?
I don't know. Maybe if it does it again. Sound like it locked up from being left on too long.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2016, 05:46 AM
Quote from: Nvidia
Spoiler for Get Division Free:
When you buy a 300$ graphics card.
This is pretty much how they structured the email. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Feb 20, 2016, 10:46 AM
Well it wasn't on for that long, I usually keep it on for longer than that, I'd only gone out for a quick walk.
That could be it tbh, I should use it less.
Laptops are more hardware linked than PCs. If something fails, it'd be more of an issue. Though it sounds like something got corrupted in the hard drive.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 22, 2016, 05:13 PM
Friday can't get here soon enough!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 23, 2016, 02:19 AM
Welp, one of my 970's is up on amazon. Let's see if it sells.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 23, 2016, 04:34 PM
System Build - PCPartPicker (http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/)
This is the pc I plan to build for the guy at work.
Does anyone see anything wrong with this, or away to do better or cheaper?
crud, I was playing with parts and it changed the list I posted.
When you're messing with pcpartpicker: There is a link just above "Compatibility Check: No issues/incompatibilities found." Right to the left of the facebook/twitter/reddit/etc business. Copy and paste that link. Don't copy and paste the link at the top, that just takes you to a blank pcpart list.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Feb 26, 2016, 09:59 PM
Man, Superhot looks super... hot
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 26, 2016, 10:14 PM
When you're messing with pcpartpicker: There is a link just above "Compatibility Check: No issues/incompatibilities found." Right to the left of the facebook/twitter/reddit/etc business. Copy and paste that link. Don't copy and paste the link at the top, that just takes you to a blank pcpart list.
I guess no one reads your posts ::)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 27, 2016, 05:40 AM
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Paris_Tuileries_Garden_Facepalm_statue.jpg) I guess no one reads your posts ::)
I'm laughing so hard right now.
"Wow, that's the computer I wanted to build!" "It's even got my name engraved in the side, that's weird."
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 09, 2016, 02:55 AM
Well Microsoft is freaking pushy.
Windows 10 keeps popping up all the time to say "hey, switch now."
Well I guess it didn't like that I kept pressing no, so when I awoke my PC it gave a 24 hour countdown to when it would auto update. Had to click through the menus and cancel that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 09, 2016, 03:03 AM
Windows 10 keeps popping up all the time to say "hey, switch now."
Well I guess it didn't like that I kept pressing no, so when I awoke my PC it gave a 24 hour countdown to when it would auto update. Had to click through the menus and cancel that.
Compatibility issues yet?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 09, 2016, 03:08 AM
Windows 10 keeps popping up all the time to say "hey, switch now."
Well I guess it didn't like that I kept pressing no, so when I awoke my PC it gave a 24 hour countdown to when it would auto update. Had to click through the menus and cancel that.
You could go to control panel - security/updating settings - > go to installed drivers/files and manually delete them.
I had to do that yesterday when I went to update my win 8.1 gaming laptop.
Its amazing how they pushed the upgrade under three different Knowledge base files. I made two of them hidden because I remember the numbers but the third one (under a different number) got downloaded after my update last night. Deleted it manually before rebooting my laptop and did a check for updates for it to appear again and hid that.
So now I got three hidden "Security patches" that are meant for Windows 8.1 but are actually Windows 10 installers in disguise. Sneaky MS ;(!
No issues afterwards though.
I'll get Windows 10 for my new gaming desktop when I build it later this year.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 12, 2016, 07:49 AM
You could go to control panel - security/updating settings - > go to installed drivers/files and manually delete them.
I had to do that yesterday when I went to update my win 8.1 gaming laptop.
Its amazing how they pushed the upgrade under three different Knowledge base files. I made two of them hidden because I remember the numbers but the third one (under a different number) got downloaded after my update last night. Deleted it manually before rebooting my laptop and did a check for updates for it to appear again and hid that.
So now I got three hidden "Security patches" that are meant for Windows 8.1 but are actually Windows 10 installers in disguise. Sneaky MS ;(!
No issues afterwards though.
I'll get Windows 10 for my new gaming desktop when I build it later this year.
Yeah seams it's really common.
Warning: Windows 7 computers are being reported as automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade without permission. : technology (https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4a0asv/warning_windows_7_computers_are_being_reported_as/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Mar 12, 2016, 08:01 AM
Warning: Windows 7 computers are being reported as automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade without permission. : technology (https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/4a0asv/warning_windows_7_computers_are_being_reported_as/)
Good thing I didnt opt in for the free Windows 10 offer on my Windows 7 gaming desktop.
Only did it on my Windows 8.1 gaming laptop which I kinda regret now l0l - but no issues so far.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 17, 2016, 02:41 AM
Well I just ordered all the parts for my Co workers system. Went skylake with it. :'(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 17, 2016, 02:49 AM
You should ask them. It's a decent GPU, that for a lot of games will out perform PS4/XBO especially. It won't do VR very well though for example.
Well he has an xbox already. It's for his wife and she only plays facebook games. Really all they asked for was dual monitor support so I got one that has two hdmi outs, to make it easy on them. I just wanted to make sure it's good for general computing needs.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 18, 2016, 03:27 PM
Well he has an xbox already. It's for his wife and she only plays facebook games. Really all they asked for was dual monitor support so I got one that has two hdmi outs, to make it easy on them. I just wanted to make sure it's good for general computing needs.
In that case, it'll do good.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 18, 2016, 03:38 PM
It's just I promised him I could build a better pc than you could buy at best buy for the same money. I think I did that but haven't check what best buy is selling lately.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 20, 2016, 01:37 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 20, 2016, 04:56 AM
This ship is so huge!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Mar 20, 2016, 10:57 AM
That's not saying much.... There are like no games on Mac.
Even a windows 98 computer can destroy a mac in gaming.
That's why I can't see recommending a mac to him over a pc. When a pc can record music just as well.
She has 1500 to spend and I just put together a system with a 980ti and 16 gb of ddr4. But they'd still need an os and a box to stick it in. but that would be an all water cooled system too.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 22, 2016, 12:00 PM
That's why I can't see recommending a mac to him over a pc. When a pc can record music just as well.
She has 1500 to spend and I just put together a system with a 980ti and 16 gb of ddr4. But they'd still need an os and a box to stick it in. but that would be an all water cooled system too.
I wouldn't waste the money on the 980. You need to put that money towards a high end sound card.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 22, 2016, 12:40 PM
I spent more time on cable management than I did building the system. And the stupid vgc power cable as two on the end and there's nothing I can do to make it look better. Unless I order an extension. But I don't have time for that. Plus I'm not making much on it .
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Mar 24, 2016, 10:07 PM
Scored fairly well, considering it wasn't built to be a 1000$ gaming PC.
Yeah, the people that bought it will be happy with it. I just wanted to see what kid of score it would do. I'm half temped to drop my 970 in it and run pass mark just to see where it compares to my build.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 31, 2016, 06:38 PM
RCTW in a shocking turn of events is now in Early Access.
Still needs a lot of work...
Also the pre-made coasters by the devs are absolutely horrible. This is a legit coaster in the game:
(http://i.imgur.com/HgV43By.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 03, 2016, 03:54 AM
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Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 04, 2016, 12:17 PM
Anyone think pascal is going to be out soon. Wanted a 980ti, but might wait for pascal, either for a cheaper 980ti or a better card for the same price.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 04, 2016, 09:12 PM
Yay dev stuff now officially supports Windows 10. Guess I will be switching over soon.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 04, 2016, 09:13 PM
So i did a slight over clock on the i7 and it took it from Desk 97%, Game 84%, Work 67% to Desktop 105% Gaming 90% Workstation 76%
Dem gains
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Apr 10, 2016, 02:40 AM
Well I got dragged to bestbuy so I could watch my brother in law drag his feet on what he wanted to buy for his computer. Really didn't want to go but it seemed appropriate for me to go for some reason. He ended up getting a nice mouse and corsair mechanical keyboard and an asus monitor. He also just had to get the xbox one wireless adaptor, cause he's an xbox guy. He also talked about how he would have to decied between buying the game on pc or xbox. I told him that he could sell his xbox and get a ps4 because owning one now that he has a bad dog gaming pc is kind of redundant. I figured I'd help my sister out because she want's a ps4 but they bought a xbox over a ps4.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 12, 2016, 11:54 PM
Fake but cool
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 13, 2016, 03:55 PM
That is cool. Too bad there's such a gap with low end computing and mid range computing. I mean, I have a compute stick, it struggles with Dreamcast emulation. Which wasn't a problem with my laptop from when I was in university. Too bad Intel is too focused on Tegra. Ion was such a great idea.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2016, 07:36 PM
This is what star fox should have been.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 02, 2016, 10:12 AM
Finished Final Fantasy VII and will be playing Final Fantasy VIII now :)!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on May 12, 2016, 12:23 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 12, 2016, 02:10 PM
Age of Empires 2 review.
Quote
( 68.8 hrs on record ) Netcode is so bad I would never recommend buying this at full price.
Just think it's hilarious how he didn't recommend it after playing almost 70 hours.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 19, 2016, 04:07 PM
Seems more people are interested in Star Citizen. 2.4 patch notes were leaked.
Star Citizen Alpha 2.4.0 (http://starmon.shin0by.com/structure/html/pathnotes/pts/15320.html)
I'm low on storage space but I might update to this when it releases.
It adds in game currency! You can earn it through new missions and you can spend it on clothes, weapons, fuel, and respawning!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 20, 2016, 04:48 PM
Don't forget your spacesuit.
starcitizen GIF | Create, Discover and Share on Gfycat (https://gfycat.com/CluelessSentimentalBrownbutterfly)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on May 20, 2016, 05:51 PM
Seems more people are interested in Star Citizen. 2.4 patch notes were leaked.
Star Citizen Alpha 2.4.0 (http://starmon.shin0by.com/structure/html/pathnotes/pts/15320.html)
I'm low on storage space but I might update to this when it releases.
It adds in game currency! You can earn it through new missions and you can spend it on clothes, weapons, fuel, and respawning!
NDA lifted on it. Looks good. Should make things a lot more interesting. There's no reason to do any missions right now except for the sake of doing them. Also like that Port Olisar is getting stuff added to it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on May 21, 2016, 02:23 PM
Star Citizen just passed $114 million.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 21, 2016, 05:13 PM
Not very smart, since he clearly wants Age of Empires.
Eww
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 24, 2016, 11:43 PM
Pneuma wasn't too bad, especially at that price.
Definitely a great benefit for VizionEck since during my 3 hour playthrough I wrote 5 full pages of notes. On multiple occasions I bumbled into solutions without figuring out what was happening ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kinjo on Jun 25, 2016, 01:22 PM
Spambot
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 26, 2016, 01:43 AM
Talos principle so far is really good.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 28, 2016, 11:28 PM
Why can't I buy a digital steam card off of amazon? Would be really nice if I could.
There's a lot of good stuff on stream for sale. I just don't know what to get.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 28, 2016, 11:31 PM
Well I got age of empires 2. Loved that game back in the day. for 3 bucks I couldn't pass it up.
Good man Tacos. Good man!
I would like this comment several more times if I could. I've put 80 hours into the Steam version. :o Don't even know how. I wouldn't be surprised if I put 1000's of hours into the game overall.
I dont know! So many good ones. I have amazon credit so i was going to try to use that.
A lot of times Amazon sells Steam games. So look into that at the very least. See look: Age of Empires II HD - 2.99$ Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Age-Empires-Online-Game-Code/dp/B00CMSCTA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1467160853&sr=1-1&keywords=age+of+empires+2+hd)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jun 29, 2016, 12:51 AM
I'm thinking about getting Rise of the tomb raider (but maybe not ) firewatch ( but it's still more than i want to pay) dont starve together (but it's pointless if nobody plays with me ) valkyria chronicles, FF VIII, mass effect 2, one of the roller coaster tycoon games.
A lot of times Amazon sells Steam games. So look into that at the very least. See look: Age of Empires II HD - 2.99$ Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Age-Empires-Online-Game-Code/dp/B00CMSCTA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1467160853&sr=1-1&keywords=age+of+empires+2+hd)
very nice.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 29, 2016, 01:27 AM
That's the game that was leaked and people assumed was Bend's: PS4 Exclusive Sony Bend's Open-World Horror Title's Screenshots and Concept Art Leaked (http://wccftech.com/ps4-exclusive-sony-bends-openworld-horror-titles-screenshots-concept-art-leaked/)
In other news, I've decided to not switch to Windows 10. It's only ~$100 so it's kinda silly for me to do the conversion now and mess up my development workflow.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 02, 2016, 09:17 PM
I'm trying to persuade my friends who don't have civ 5 to get it since its 66p right now but everyone who's interested already has it.
Looking forward to some big civ games in the summer though :D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 02, 2016, 09:18 PM
Civ 5 is one of the best games ever. It's one of the only games I play over and over again.
Agreed so much! I can't wait for civ 6 as well, looks like a great improvement from what I've seen so far.
Its by far my most played game on steam and its definitely in my top 5 most played games of all time. I keep going back to it all the time, if anyone asks if I want a game I can't say no ;D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jul 02, 2016, 10:10 PM
That's the game that was leaked and people assumed was Bend's: PS4 Exclusive Sony Bend's Open-World Horror Title's Screenshots and Concept Art Leaked (http://wccftech.com/ps4-exclusive-sony-bends-openworld-horror-titles-screenshots-concept-art-leaked/)
Agreed so much! I can't wait for civ 6 as well, looks like a great improvement from what I've seen so far.
Its by far my most played game on steam and its definitely in my top 5 most played games of all time. I keep going back to it all the time, if anyone asks if I want a game I can't say no ;D
I picked it up. Are you on my steam woman?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2016, 06:00 AM
Wait civ has mp?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2016, 09:27 AM
If anyone wants to join us and get wrecked with my friends then we're playing in about half an hour. We'll be playing for at least a few hours straight though so if you can't do that don't join us ;)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 03, 2016, 05:40 PM
If anyone wants to join us and get wrecked with my friends then we're playing in about half an hour. We'll be playing for at least a few hours straight though so if you can't do that don't join us ;)
I'm doing yard work today. :'(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Jul 03, 2016, 05:42 PM
Anyone want to give a quick run down of how i should play this game?
Deal with barbarian camps as soon as you know they exist Try and get to at least 3 cities as soon as you can Always research pottery first and get a shrine so you can get a good pantheon Science is the most important value to work towards, as if you're ahead in science you can go for any victory you want When you have three or four cities build a library in all of them and get the national college built in your capital as soon as you can Trade away all of your spare luxuries
Just some things :D
+ Ooh and always build a scout first unless you're on an island map The Great Library usually isn't worth it
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 03, 2016, 09:25 PM
Which expansions do you own? Pretty sure I have all of them.
All of them!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jul 04, 2016, 05:15 AM
I'm finished with Steam Summer Sale 2016
Here's my haul ;p
-Saints Row Gat Out Of Hell -Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth 3 V Generation (and its DLC as well) -WWE 2k16 -Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag Gold Edition
Total: $40
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 04, 2016, 05:22 AM
Black Flag is great.
I bought Talos Principle. Talos Principle DLC. Pneuma.
I want to buy Volume too but I'll probably get it on PS4.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2016, 02:24 AM
Star Citizen is getting updated menus. Man do they look good.
(http://i.imgur.com/iw2eJdX.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/jKzmH6L.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Proxum on Jul 08, 2016, 03:43 AM
I bought some stuff too - Borderlands Borderlands 2 Black Ops (1) Red Faction: Guerrilla Welcome to the Game Shellshock Live Roller Coaster Tycoon: Deluxe Universe Sandbox 2 Cities: Skylines Papers, Please Game Dev Tycoon Slime Rancher Factorio Overwatch (Not on steam) The Binding of Isaac Speedrunners
Total: Too much
I only buy games during the summer steam sale, excluding exceptions such as No Mans Sky.
Star Citizen is getting updated menus. Man do they look good.
Just looked up Star Citizen...
Game Packages - The Completionist - Digital - Roberts Space Industries (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Combos/The-Completionist-Digital) Christ almighty. Thats like most games on steam.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 08, 2016, 05:01 AM
I bought some stuff too - Borderlands Borderlands 2 Black Ops (1) Red Faction: Guerrilla Welcome to the Game Shellshock Live Roller Coaster Tycoon: Deluxe Universe Sandbox 2 Cities: Skylines Papers, Please Game Dev Tycoon Slime Rancher Factorio Overwatch (Not on steam) The Binding of Isaac Speedrunners
Total: Too much
I only buy games during the summer steam sale, excluding exceptions such as No Mans Sky.
Just looked up Star Citizen...
Game Packages - The Completionist - Digital - Roberts Space Industries (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/Combos/The-Completionist-Digital) Christ almighty. Thats like most games on steam.
Holy! WHAT IS THAT? :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Proxum on Jul 08, 2016, 05:25 AM
Did a bit of research and it is a game where you practically roleplay in space. This 15 thousand dollar pack of ships is every ship in the game.... except one. I guess Legend plays it, as he posted about it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 08, 2016, 05:28 AM
Did a bit of research and it is a game where you practically roleplay in space. This 15 thousand dollar pack of ships is every ship in the game.... except one. I guess Legend plays it, as he posted about it.
I also have the game. I just didn't realize there was some sort of 15,000$ pack. :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 08, 2016, 05:50 AM
I looked into it and it seems expensive, with good ships costing up to around $300. To play you rn you need a ship which is at the least $45. Game looks good but I heard it will be f2p pretty soon, so I am gonna wait.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 15, 2016, 07:54 PM
Actor and former NFL player Terry Crews brings celebrity muscle to PC gaming | PC Gamer (http://www.pcgamer.com/actor-and-former-nfl-player-terry-crews-brings-celebrity-muscle-to-pc-gaming)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 16, 2016, 03:14 PM
I'm trying to figure out the best, smallest, cheapest, and easiest to make/use emu box. Up to PS2 and Dreamcast (Maybe even Gamecube :o). I want it to be portable.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Aug 31, 2016, 09:06 PM
I'm trying to figure out the best, smallest, cheapest, and easiest to make/use emu box. Up to PS2 and Dreamcast (Maybe even Gamecube :o). I want it to be portable.
a Pi wont do it?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 31, 2016, 09:08 PM
I'm trying to figure out the best, smallest, cheapest, and easiest to make/use emu box. Up to PS2 and Dreamcast (Maybe even Gamecube :o). I want it to be portable.
Best bet is probably the AMD A10-7890K.
How portable are you talking?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 31, 2016, 09:19 PM
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Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Aug 31, 2016, 10:37 PM
It can. They're just a pain to setup. It also doesn't help that a Pi with an enclosure and sd card isn't much cheaper than a lenovo ideacentre 300. Plus I'm trying to find a machine that runs demul well.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 31, 2016, 10:44 PM
Pi can't run PS2. ^
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 01, 2016, 12:14 AM
Fez Quietly Gets A Beefy Final Patch | Rock, Paper, Shotgun (https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/08/21/fez-final-patch-1-12/)
That's cool
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 01, 2016, 01:04 AM
Maybe it can :P. I haven't tested it. Though Dreamcast "runs" on it. Not sure if there's frame dips or not. It was hard to tell because of the pal issues nulldc was outputing. It does't do Demul though. I love the case you posted!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 01, 2016, 01:12 AM
Maybe it can :P. I haven't tested it. Though Dreamcast "runs" on it. Not sure if there's frame dips or not. It was hard to tell because of the pal issues nulldc was outputing. It does't do Demul though. I love the case you posted!
The general consensus is that emulation isn't doable. Maybe in like 5 years, a Pi will be able to pull it off. You could probably build that PC for about 350$, and it should even be able to run PS2 games (with graphics options turned down.), easily handle Dreamcast.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 01, 2016, 01:14 AM
The general consensus is that emulation isn't doable. Maybe in like 5 years, a Pi will be able to pull it off. You could probably build that PC for about 350$, and it should even be able to run PS2 games (with graphics options turned down.), easily handle Dreamcast.
It'll do more than run PS2 games XD. Pi 3 can do Dreamcast. Though I'm not sure if the A10 can acutally handle Demul. Demul kinda brute forces the tile engine from the PowerVR GPU. It's very slow and needs a pretty powerful GPU, it's actually slower than the PCSX2. Though I like the machine. I wonder if the A10 can run current games at 720p/1080p at fluid frame rates. *Runs to anandtech*
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 01, 2016, 04:22 AM
Acer makes really thin laptop. (https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/895Nnp6WgGhr8GaG_0HNd364g2s=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7020363/vlad-savov08-30_1722da.0.jpg)
Acer makes really thick laptop (https://cdn0.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Qxx11h7mG_dRS2Je7uiaOc4fKSs=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn0.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/7020159/DSC09872.0.jpg)
"Acer's Predator 21 X puts a curved screen and dual GTX 1080s in a laptop"
Acer announces the thinnest and fattest laptops in the world | The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2016/8/31/12725646/acer-ifa-2016-biggest-smallest) HOLY!
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Sep 01, 2016, 04:31 AM
Dat dog.
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Post by: Aura7541 on Sep 05, 2016, 03:56 PM
So I'm planning on getting a new laptop, but I'm torn between these two. Which one do you guys think is the better deal?
XOTIC PC | ASUS GL551VW-DS51 - 15.6" w/ NVIDIA GTX 960M Notebook (http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-gl551vw-ds71.html)
Eluktronics N151RD1 Pro Premium Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i5-6300HQ Quad Core Windows 10 Home 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 15.6" Full HD IPS Display 128GB Performance SSD + 1TB HDD 8GB DDR4 RAM - Newegg.com (https://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=9SIA8S14H10026&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSLMCMBXMDCJ-_-9SIA8S14H10026-_-Product)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 05, 2016, 04:19 PM
So I'm planning on getting a new laptop, but I'm torn between these two. Which one do you guys think is the better deal?
XOTIC PC | ASUS GL551VW-DS51 - 15.6" w/ NVIDIA GTX 960M Notebook (http://www.xoticpc.com/asus-gl551vw-ds71.html)
Eluktronics N151RD1 Pro Premium Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i5-6300HQ Quad Core Windows 10 Home 2GB GDDR5 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 15.6" Full HD IPS Display 128GB Performance SSD + 1TB HDD 8GB DDR4 RAM - Newegg.com (https://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=9SIA8S14H10026&ignorebbr=1&cm_re=PPSSLMCMBXMDCJ-_-9SIA8S14H10026-_-Product)
Pretty much the only notable difference is the top one has a much better CPU, while the bottom comes with an SSD. Personally would go for the first, even if they cost the same. But other people much prefer having the SSD.
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Post by: Aura7541 on Sep 05, 2016, 04:59 PM
Pretty much the only notable difference is the top one has a much better CPU, while the bottom comes with an SSD. Personally would go for the first, even if they cost the same. But other people much prefer having the SSD.
The Asus also has more video memory. I guess I can replace the DVD drive with an SSD if I feel like it. I rarely use the DVD drive if ever.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 05, 2016, 05:08 PM
The Asus also has more video memory. I guess I can replace the DVD drive with an SSD if I feel like it. I rarely use the DVD drive if ever.
I missed that, so I would take the Asus
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on Sep 05, 2016, 07:14 PM
Just purchased the Asus laptop. The 120 SSD and 1TB HDD were on sale, so I went with that configuration for just an additional $55. I'll finally have a competent PC after spending years with a weak dog Asus UJ36C.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 08, 2016, 06:52 PM
Unity 5.5 beta, download now! :o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 08, 2016, 07:02 PM
I just got the email that told me I should download it. 5.5 brings: -Improvements to line rendering -particle system with light and sound modules -2D physics improvements -Texture importer improved
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 12, 2016, 06:06 PM
(UPDATE) In Development - Unity Splash screen tools - in beta! - Unity Blog (https://blogs.unity3d.com/2016/09/12/update-in-development-unity-splash-screen-tools-in-beta/)
Awesome change, speaking of 5.5.
Non paying users really hated the splash screen and 5.4 made it worse. It's more than fine to give credit for Unity, but the old splashscreen felt really amateurish and cheap.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 20, 2016, 04:13 PM
(http://i.imgur.com/hTqvsrl.jpg)
Too true
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 24, 2016, 10:07 PM
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Post by: Dr. Pezus on Sep 25, 2016, 03:17 PM
Anyone tried Horizon 3 on pc? How does it run?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 27, 2016, 02:44 AM
I'm probably going to buy a Skull Canyon soon. Pricey, but dang is it sexy
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2016, 03:42 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 29, 2016, 04:39 PM
On another note, while I'm not against 60fps in gaming, since 3D games is one of the few mediums that can actually not make it look like dog, but why do enthusiasts really cry about games being at 30? I mean, it's not like you wanna watch a movie on fast forward at 60+ fps :/
Also I've been playing with my Skullcanyon. It's expensive, but it's pretty impressive. It's about as powerful as my 5 year old desktop (GTX 560). But it's the size of a PSTwo. Though, while it's not going to be as good as HBM, Intel did a decent job with using regular ram. There's a bit of lag when RE Revelations is loading something, though I'm running my games off of an SD Card, so that can be an issue. But Revelations 1 runs pretty much full speed at 1080p. I downloaded The Witcher 2, but I'm going to try it out after Halloween. I think the little bugger could handle more newer games, but I think Intel is dropping the ball with their drivers. My GTX 560 Ti can handle Rise of the Tomb Raider at 1080p maxed at around 25fps. The Iris Pro 580 is about as powerful, but can only handle the game at 720p, lowest possible settings and at 15fps. That doesn't sound right to me. It can also supposedly run Witcher 3, but I haven't bought it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 29, 2016, 05:44 PM
On another note, while I'm not against 60fps in gaming, since 3D games is one of the few mediums that can actually not make it look like dog, but why do enthusiasts really cry about games being at 30? I mean, it's not like you wanna watch a movie on fast forward at 60+ fps :/
Also I've been playing with my Skullcanyon. It's expensive, but it's pretty impressive. It's about as powerful as my 5 year old desktop (GTX 560). But it's the size of a PSTwo. Though, while it's not going to be as good as HBM, Intel did a decent job with using regular ram. There's a bit of lag when RE Revelations is loading something, though I'm running my games off of an SD Card, so that can be an issue. But Revelations 1 runs pretty much full speed at 1080p. I downloaded The Witcher 2, but I'm going to try it out after Halloween. I think the little bugger could handle more newer games, but I think Intel is dropping the ball with their drivers. My GTX 560 Ti can handle Rise of the Tomb Raider at 1080p maxed at around 25fps. The Iris Pro 580 is about as powerful, but can only handle the game at 720p, lowest possible settings and at 15fps. That doesn't sound right to me. It can also supposedly run Witcher 3, but I haven't bought it.
I'm similar. 60 fps is nice and all but I don't consider it important enough to sacrifice graphics for. As long as there's no screen tearing/pacing problems and the framerate is above 25, I tend to be happy.
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Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Oct 29, 2016, 05:51 PM
30 or 60 the important part is consistency. If the frame rate is jumping around is the only time I notice it. Outside of that i don't care.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 29, 2016, 06:02 PM
On PC, I always try to get 60 fps. But I have a hard time telling the difference between 30 and 60 on console. Can usually tell between the comparison, but differences are minor usually.
I must be weird.
I played Minecraft on my old PC, only really became unplayable to me as it dropped under 20.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 10, 2016, 03:05 PM
Planet Coaster beta released and it is looking amazing.
Wooden roller coasters have the most insane supports!
(http://i.imgur.com/Ud0WbJW.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 11, 2016, 08:30 PM
There's a huge difference between 30 and 60 FPS for me.
60 FPS feels way way more smoother for me than 30 FPS.
It doesnt make games unplayable...well maybe a few, I dont know why but I just couldnt play Bioshock 2 on PC at 60 FPS cause it would drop to 50-55 and the staggering and movement fluidness changes and its very noticeable. So I turn off the cap , and it plays completely smooth at 80 fps for me l0l
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Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 12, 2016, 03:16 AM
There's a huge difference between 30 and 60 FPS for me.
60 FPS feels way way more smoother for me than 30 FPS.
It doesnt make games unplayable...well maybe a few, I dont know why but I just couldnt play Bioshock 2 on PC at 60 FPS cause it would drop to 50-55 and the staggering and movement fluidness changes and its very noticeable. So I turn off the cap , and it plays completely smooth at 80 fps for me l0l
It played perfectly fine at 30fps on ps3/360...
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 12, 2016, 05:50 PM
Hmm no idea - I dont buy third party multiplats anymore on consoles.
But I'm assuming it'll be similar or probably worse than when I played it at 60 FPS lol
Anyways, was my first time playing a full fledged AAA title on my gaming laptop :p (been mainly playing Indies or emulated games).
Didnt experience the same issue with Bioshock 1 or Infinite when played it on my gaming desktop so it might be a isolated issue with just Bioshock 2 o.o.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 12, 2016, 06:05 PM
Hmm no idea - I dont buy third party multiplats anymore on consoles.
But I'm assuming it'll be similar or probably worse than when I played it at 60 FPS lol
Anyways, was my first time playing a full fledged AAA title on my gaming laptop :p (been mainly playing Indies or emulated games).
Didnt experience the same issue with Bioshock 1 or Infinite when played it on my gaming desktop so it might be a isolated issue with just Bioshock 2 o.o.
I mean all fames play fine at 30...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 13, 2016, 10:22 PM
Oh ya, it plays "fine" but not as great as it would on a fully optimized PC version of a game.
They play identical though, I mean, you don't aim better with a higher FPS. You don't move around any faster. Yes it "looks" nicer but it doesn't affect gameplay.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 14, 2016, 12:47 AM
They play identical though, I mean, you don't aim better with a higher FPS. You don't move around any faster. Yes it "looks" nicer but it doesn't affect gameplay.
Well people will argue that higher FPS decreases input lag.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 14, 2016, 12:51 AM
It can decrease input lag because the render itself takes less time. ~33ms at 30fps vs 16ms at 60fps.
Again, V-sync causes large input lag. Also if your USB or Bluetooth is polling at a certain time, you can be running at 1000000fps that won't matter. Your TV also adds lag. The best you can do is match your render time to controller polling.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 19, 2016, 07:15 AM
With polish I think this could be good but that looked bland even with the zero g stuff.
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Post by: BasilZero on Nov 19, 2016, 03:28 PM
They play identical though, I mean, you don't aim better with a higher FPS. You don't move around any faster. Yes it "looks" nicer but it doesn't affect gameplay.
It feels smoother for me. If I were to play the console version of the game, the movement would feel worse.
Its one of the reasons why I still havent played GTAIV on my PS3 ever since I played and beaten the PC version instead lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 19, 2016, 08:47 PM
Old and new versions of the main Star Citizen ship
Gfycat GIFs GIF | Create, Discover and Share on Gfycat (https://gfycat.com/WelldocumentedInsidiousLadybird) Star Citizen: Big Guns Jump GIF | Create, Discover and Share on Gfycat (https://gfycat.com/LastingCheeryIndianabat)
Old and new versions of the main Star Citizen ship
Gfycat GIFs GIF | Create, Discover and Share on Gfycat (https://gfycat.com/WelldocumentedInsidiousLadybird) Star Citizen: Big Guns Jump GIF | Create, Discover and Share on Gfycat (https://gfycat.com/LastingCheeryIndianabat)
The New FFversusXIII and TLG - though probably wont be as good as those two games :P
Not sure where the comparison makes sense. Hasn't been in development anywhere near as long as either of those, and haven't heard any negatives of quality.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 20, 2016, 06:24 PM
Star Citizen aliens. I didn't realise the game had more alien species than just the vandals.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 21, 2016, 01:57 AM
Well my brother in law scrwed up the pc i built for him. something is wrong with his cpu, and ram. his ssd is doing pretty shaming too. not sure how to fix it short of nuking it and starting over.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 21, 2016, 08:24 AM
Not sure where the comparison makes sense. Hasn't been in development anywhere near as long as either of those, and haven't heard any negatives of quality.
o.O
I could have sworn they announced it 4-5 years ago? Closest to TLG/FFvsXIII I meant :p - PC wise at least.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Nov 21, 2016, 08:25 AM
Single player campaign releases next year. Have you kept up with it at all?
Oh, there's actually SP content? My friend filled me on info about it until a few months ago. He uhh...disappeared. Since then really havent had any info on the game, been too busy looking at Pokemon/FinalFantasyXV/MassEffect/KingdomHearts/NintendoSwitch/Zelda/GodOfWar/etc.
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Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 21, 2016, 12:06 PM
Oh, there's actually SP content? My friend filled me on info about it until a few months ago. He uhh...disappeared. Since then really havent had any info on the game, been too busy looking at Pokemon/FinalFantasyXV/MassEffect/KingdomHearts/NintendoSwitch/Zelda/GodOfWar/etc.
Yeah it has a single player game called Squadron 42. This acts as a prequel to the "MMO" side of Star Citizen. Was supposed to have released this year but it's been delayed.
Hope your friend's ok.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 21, 2016, 11:18 PM
Well my brother in law scrwed up the pc i built for him. something is wrong with his cpu, and ram. his ssd is doing pretty shaming too. not sure how to fix it short of nuking it and starting over.
Depends, if his CPU and Ram is dead, just change them. Unless they're stuck in their sockets (My P4 got stuck to its motherboard)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 22, 2016, 03:32 AM
Depends, if his CPU and Ram is dead, just change them. Unless they're stuck in their sockets (My P4 got stuck to its motherboard)
I got it fixed. There's a bug in intel's thermal monitor. I had to shut it off. I hope they get it fixed soon. It was thinking the pc was always overheating and down clocking it. But he's fully watercooled so it shouldn't hurt anything anyway.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 22, 2016, 03:37 AM
I got it fixed. There's a bug in intel's thermal monitor. I had to shut it off. I hope they get it fixed soon. It was thinking the pc was always overheating and down clocking it. But he's fully watercooled so it shouldn't hurt anything anyway.
How do water coolers work? Do you have to change the water every day?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 22, 2016, 03:39 AM
Star Citizen aliens. I didn't realise the game had more alien species than just the vandals.
Xi'An, Banu, Vanduul, Tevarin, and Kr'Thak.
That picture there is of the Tevarin. Humans fought two wars against them. The end of the first war saw us take over pretty much all of their territory. In a supremely sucker move, we even terraformed their homeworld and took it as one of our colonies. Years later, a warlord gathered together as many Tevarin as he could and assembled a huge battle fleet. Its sole purpose was pretty much to take back their home. They ended up losing but before the end he and his remaining warriors flew their ships directly towards their old home and allowed themselves to burn up in the atmosphere. This was back during a time when humanity was ruled by a nasty, xenophobic emperor who used the wars to solidify his power and ideals. The race is dying out slowly. They have no world to call their own. They rely on the other races to allow them to live. Many live in human territory but very few are ever given citizenship. Though there is one of them running to gain a seat in the senate.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 22, 2016, 11:44 AM
Mentally I hate the idea of a water-cooled system. I know it's fine and all, but I don't feel comfortable with it.
Mentally, you're both weird.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 23, 2016, 03:57 PM
Tried Rise of the Tomb Raider on my Skull Canyon... it wasn't pretty. I just tried the benchmark, I didn't actually try playing anything. There was a lot of stuttering, didn't matter what settings. Some more advanced effects don't even show, like they turn white. I think it's a driver issue more than anything, but oh well. I'll see if turning off Direct X12 does anything. If I decide to play it in my room I'll probably just stream it from my desktop downstairs.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 24, 2016, 03:19 AM
I turned off directx 12. I didn't try the benchmark but I started a game. It was fluid. Can't say it was 30, but it wasn't slowing down or stuttering. Not bad for a integrated video card.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 24, 2016, 03:44 AM
I turned off directx 12. I didn't try the benchmark but I started a game. It was fluid. Can't say it was 30, but it wasn't slowing down or stuttering. Not bad for a integrated video card.
Why would dx12 make it worse?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 24, 2016, 03:55 AM
Intel. I was watching some videos of tomb raider on youtube on the lowest possible settings on an Iris Pro and it ran like dog. I had always suspected that the drivers aren't up to par. Iris Pro only has edram for video + system. That setup probably needs a lot of driver optimizations. I'ma assuming Intel is behind. Especially considering my Skull Canyon has an underclocked desktop 6600 in it, it shouldn't be that bad.. I'll try it with Direct X 12 and see how it runs in game vs benchmark.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 26, 2016, 12:37 AM
Star Citizen bird people lol (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/media/if73u12bro8clr/source/Tevarin-Heads.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 26, 2016, 12:41 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on Nov 28, 2016, 07:45 AM
Just found out that Todd Papy, the guy who directed God of War: Ascension and then left Sony Santa Monica to join Crytek, is now a design director for Cloud Imperium Games on Star Citizen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 28, 2016, 12:15 PM
Just found out that Todd Papy, the guy who directed God of War: Ascension and then left Sony Santa Monica to join Crytek, is now a design director for Cloud Imperium Games on Star Citizen.
That's a shame for Sony, Ascensions is probably the best gameplay wise.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2016, 12:37 AM
Just found out that Todd Papy, the guy who directed God of War: Ascension and then left Sony Santa Monica to join Crytek, is now a design director for Cloud Imperium Games on Star Citizen.
That's great. They need those bigger A name devs.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 01, 2016, 05:42 PM
Wow this is crazy.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 08, 2016, 04:11 PM
So Qualcomm has gotten a 10 nm chip before Intel and Microsoft is going to interpret x86 calls to ARM... I don't think Intel is going to be happy with this...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 06, 2017, 08:29 PM
Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/488060/)
Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas!!!
OMG!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 07, 2017, 06:25 AM
Star Citizen switched to the Amazon fork of CryEngine. Seems crytek is dead.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 07, 2017, 06:38 AM
What are people's experience with learning a game engine?
I've touched Unity, Unreal, PhyreEngine, Blender game engine, game maker, and stencil lol.
Unity and Blender are the only ones I actually have considerable experience with. Blender I mostly just taught myself while messing around with buttons, while Unity I followed youtube tutorials for getting started. Unity is incredibly nice for me since I can Google problems and dozens of other people have already posted their solutions.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 16, 2017, 07:43 AM
It's fun how "popular" conlangs are becoming. Didn't realise Star Citizen had two even!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on Jan 16, 2017, 07:51 AM
It's fun how "popular" conlangs are becoming. Didn't realise Star Citizen had two even!
They'll likely have more. The Banu and the Kr'Thak are likely to have their own languages as well. I have a feeling the Tevarin, being that they are a conquered species with no home anymore and living mostly in Human space, will speak almost entirely English but they will probably make up certain phrases in a different language. Kind of showing that the Tevarin are losing their old culture. Much the same way Native American languages are spoken less and less with each generation.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 16, 2017, 10:32 PM
They'll likely have more. The Banu and the Kr'Thak are likely to have their own languages as well. I have a feeling the Tevarin, being that they are a conquered species with no home anymore and living mostly in Human space, will speak almost entirely English but they will probably make up certain phrases in a different language. Kind of showing that the Tevarin are losing their old culture. Much the same way Native American languages are spoken less and less with each generation.
Hopefully some of their languages are even more alien than the ones they showed off. Would be cool to have something humans can't speak.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on Jan 17, 2017, 04:09 AM
- The maps in Star Marine are actual locations you can visit (eventually) in Star Citizen and there are backstories as to why people are fighting in them.
- Blood smear effects will be added to maps where the devs want to give you the impression that something very bad happened there.
- Effects and audio typically come into development late, so effects like zero-g blood floating around will eventually make its way in.
- Effects added into Star Marine will quickly find their way into Star Citizen and vice versa.
- Additional grenades, gadgets, stamina, oxygen, downed states, and revives are all things the team really wants to get into the game.
- With downed states and revives possible, the team could then turn off the spawn mechanism and encourage or reinforce different kinds of gameplay.
- With grenades and gadgets, the team would like to have modular components such as being able to add an EMP effect to a grenade or turret. Other possibilities would be to make things throwable or attached to drones or placed on a surface. (Not very clear on if he's talking about tools the player can use to mix and match or tools the devs can use to quickly and easily create new items as needed.)
- The team wants to add new modes to Star Marine, especially something more asymmetrical. They also want to incorporate the vehicles being made for Star Citizen.
- Different projectile types will be added as they go. Ballistic weapons could have many different types of ammo including armor piercing, incendiary, or slug rounds. Other types of more exotic projectiles will be things like plasma or white phosphorous. Some of these will be inspired from alien weapons. Laser weapons are already in the game.
- A goal for armor is to be able to have different kinds of protection that armor gives you versus the various damage types. Protection from biochemical or thermal or kinetic were some examples. It was even mentioned that armor with low thermal protection would be bad for you to wear in places that are close to a star.
- The team also wants the different armor sizes to affect movement. Light armor would be fast on the ground when compared to heavy armor but heavy armor, thanks to additional power for thrusters, would be faster in zero-g environments. Medium armor would be the middle ground between the two.
- In addition, in order to even further differentiate the armor, they might make it to where you cannot go prone in heavy armor where you can in the other two but then heavy armor could also allow you to carry more grenades and/or gadgets. Heavy armor would be able to take a bit more of a beating but, going back to run speed, you would certainly feel the movement restriction by comparison.
- These improvements to the armor system would be aimed at Alpha 3.0 instead of any earlier, thanks to a lot of balancing work and other things they need to change under the hood.
- Todd Papy and Chris Roberts get together and discuss how they "want everything" and then they have guys who then get to tell them "no... you don't get everything".
- The team definitely feels like the infantry combat in both Star Citizen and Star Marine is too fast right now, and this doesn't translate well to Star Citizen where your character can permanently die (Don't worry. All your assets transfer to your "next of kin", which you then create).
- To tackle the speed problem, one thing they're doing is adding stamina to the game so you can't permanently sprint. This will also affect your oxygen levels, which will be another way to combat this. (Though not stated in the video, oxygen will automatically deplete from your suit when in space, once it is added to the game. So, it's likely that too much running around in normal environments will impact how long you can then be in space, or being in space too long might then greatly limit you from running once you return to a normal environment.)
- They are also looking at limb damage penalties. Currently, highly damaged body parts will simply cause you to bleed out if you don't heal yourself. Depending on where you've taken damage your vision could become blurry, your stamina could deplete at a faster rate, or the recoil from your weapon could become greater.
- Downed states and the ability to revive people is something they're really pushing on right now since it has significant impact on Star Citizen. While you CAN respawn in Star Citizen, you will only be able to so many times in a given span, respawning costs you tremendously, and thus being able to be saved by someone is incredibly preferable.
- Other big things on the list right now are mechanics for taking cover and being able to go "up-and-over" an object.
- The team feels that being able to remove spawning in Star Marine and use revives instead will go a long way to slowing the pace of the game down on top of stamina and oxygen meters and limb damage penalties. They reason that this will cause people to become much more cautious and paced versus running and gunning.
- REC, which is a rental currency to try out new equipment, will eventually be used in Star Marine just as it is used for Arena Commander now.
- Having a much larger pool of developers now compared to earlier in development has afforded them the luxury of having a team dedicated to Arena Commander and Star Marine. They are also divided between those working on short term projects that will be ready soon and those working on long term projects.
- Having AI in Star Marine is something they want as it would allow them to test AI and how it interacts with players in a more focused platform. Currently, it's just not ready yet.
- A spectator mode is not something they've actively discussed as right now they are focused on improving Star Marine's gameplay first but they like the idea, especially for streaming tournaments from home.
- The radar in the game is not actually working as intended but it is something they're going to fix. As of right now there is no in-game concept of stealth or being able to hide and those things will not be brought online until Item System 2.0 is fully implemented. Once that happens, the radar won't simply be able to pick up everyone in the area at all times. This goes for Arena Commander and Star Citizen as well.
- Armor customization will definitely be a thing as time goes on. The team fully expects to be able to allow players to not only customize the look but to customize on placing individual pieces of armor on. You could be wearing a heavy helmet and heavy chest for the added protection of those areas but decide you want the light legs to help improve movement speed. Essentially mixing and matching the advantages and disadvantages to suit your playstyle.
- Many different types of weapons will find their way into the game. One of the weapons the team really wants to get into the game soon is the railgun but weapons like that are better suited to anti-vehicle combat. Those kind of weapons will probably take about as long to really implement as having vehicles in Star Marine.
- Submachine guns, light machine guns, and heavy machine guns are also coming, as well as different weapons within the same type. So there will be ballistic and various energy variants. Such as a ballistic sniper rifle versus a laser sniper rifle.
- Special weapons like the railgun, mentioned earlier, plus rocket launchers and missile launchers will eventually be added.
- They have an extensive list of the weapons they want to have in the game. It takes roughly three weeks to a month for a weapon to be properly modeled and then animations need to be made for it, then balancing for the weapon and how it impacts gameplay needs to take place, and then the weapon effects and sound get created. Sometimes these can happen in tandem but not often.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on Jan 23, 2017, 12:23 AM
- The team is working on female animations in order to get female characters into the game soon.
- Female NPCs are ready to go as they mostly don't require as many animations as a player character does.
- It's not as simple as slapping on animations designed for males. Female animations need to be "feminized". As an example, a female character should not walk with the same center mass as a male character would.
- Tanks would be very easy to put into the game. Any kind of tracked vehicles would be. The engine already has all the parameters in place to make them.
- The devs are constantly trying to improve the game's performance. Quite often the problem is the artists are allowed to run wild in creating things but then when the tech teams come in to find out why the game is only running at 10 frames per second, they end up finding a lot of highly inefficient artist choices having been made.
- Huge strides have been made on reducing the number of asset errors that go through the build process. Two years ago they hit a point where they had over 16,000 errors. For patch 2.6, they managed to push the build through with zero asset errors.
- The devs look at Star Citizen's current state as one giant test environment. Even the current "Live" game is a testing ground to them.
- Anti-aliasing is something that will be worked on. Shader development is what they want to work on first and then they will implement whatever AA they decide to go for. Sean Tracy thinks that supersampling is where it's at. As of right now, they don't want to put AA in the game when some of the other graphical settings haven't even been set, nevermind optimized. The hit to performance would be too great and cause a lot of development downtime as they redo or rethink their AA solution.
- Delta patching is on the way and will be great for both devs and the players. This will dramatically decrease the time it takes the devs to send various builds across the world to their four different studios and the time it takes the player to download new patches. It was a high priority to begin with but there were other things even higher on the list. Otherwise, this would have happened a lot sooner.
- Chris Roberts sometimes mentions battlemechs. Since Sean Tracy and his brother ran a popular mod about them, Sean has threatened Chris that if he keeps it up he'll put battlemechs in the game when he's not looking.
- Sean Tracy feels that there is a layer missing in the game right now and it's power armor, similar to mechs. Right now, a ship could camp a landing pad and there isn't much you can do unless you call in for someone from elsewhere to come take the ship out. Players should thus have an option to equip a powered suit that can carry some of the smaller ship weapons in the game. Anti-personnel or even anti-vehicle weapons won't be sufficient for dealing with most ships in the game. The Titan, a powered suit, is something that has already been talked about and concept art shown for it. It will be in the game eventually.
- Pirate Swarm, one of the modes for Arena Commander, will become much more difficult in patch 2.6.1 thanks to AI improvements.
- The Mega Map tech they're working on behind the scenes will dramatically speed up loading times across the board. For some parts of the game, loading should be virtually instant.
- Your handling in the game is already affected by the size of your weapons and the amount of ammo you have. However, the relative difference in mass is so minor that it's not detected by the players in any meaningful way. Larger vessels capable of carrying tons of cargo, however, may have their handling affected. The calculations are already being done to try and make it so that what you have inside your ship, on your ship, and how much of it will impact your ship's performance.
- An updated schedule report is coming very soon. The company is at the end of its beginning-of-the-year summits where the teams get together and discuss the plans for the upcoming year. Also, HR decided that this was a fantastic time to do everyone's employee review at the exact same time... (The schedule report has since gone live, with 2.6.1 planned to be released on February 17th, 2016)
- Mega Map is also the tech the team is using to make player hangars opening up and letting them fly out into the world possible. (It would allow the player to be inside their hangar without worrying about a performance hit being taken with the game trying to consider what is going on outside. Mega Map would give the devs a tool to effectively allow the game to only concern itself with what is in your hangar and then quickly stream in assets appropriately as the doors are opened)
- The team is looking at different ways to "hand wave" the fact that potentially thousands of players could be trying to leave a hangar that exists for all of them in the same space. So instead of having no room to leave, they would find a way to make it so that, at least temporarily, you're the only one in that immediate area.
- For Star Citizen, they first push for maximum realism and then scale back certain ideas based on what is actually fun. One of the things Sean Tracy tells his guys when the topic of something being realistic pops up is to go outside, sit at a bus bench, and then come back and tell him how fun it was. They would also like everyone to know that they do not advocate ever going outside.
- There is nothing officially announced yet about planetside racing but it is something they want in the game. Because of the massive amount of area that planets have, they would like to give players the ability to create the race courses themselves.
- All kinds of races would take place. It wouldn't just be the high performance, built-for-racing vehicles. Even the Argo transport ships and Dragonfly snub fighters / hover bikes would have their own races.
- They don't know how crazy they want to get with it. Not sure if the race tracks would permanently persist or only as long as players were in the area. Would they do tournaments? Would they allow people to vote / bet on the races?
- The devs really want to give players the ability to create many things in the universe. They feel that some of the best ideas and creations have come from the community already.
- They will absolutely give the players long campaigns, scripted and unscripted events, and whatnot but they feel that the players can often create better experiences for themselves than even game designers can.
- Items 2.0 will allow the team to turn individual entities into components of other entities. So cargo, weapons, ships, and even people will become a part of any larger entity that they are inside of or attached to. This greatly reduces the system's need to constantly track every single entity in the game as if it is separate. Other games have had this tech before but it's such a huge deal for Star Citizen to work properly. (As an example, if you came across a ship with cargo in it, there would be no reason for the game to have to render that cargo and send all the information on it until either you're now a part of that entity as well or the cargo suddenly becomes separated from the ship. It's the idea of taking potentially thousands of entities and turning them into hundreds or less that the game needs to constantly concern itself with. As of right now, every entity in your immediate area is being rendered at every frame, which is incredibly inefficient)
- Sean Tracy's favorite planet in the game so far is something he can't actually talk about but will be arriving in 3.0. Tyler Witkins' favorite is MicroTech. Jared Huckaby really likes Nyx.
- A new snow component is being added to the engine to replace the old one from CryEngine.
- When asked what Sean Tracy is looking forward to doing the most in Star Citizen his answer is "finishing it".
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 23, 2017, 04:55 AM
- The team is working on female animations in order to get female characters into the game soon.
- Female NPCs are ready to go as they mostly don't require as many animations as a player character does.
- It's not as simple as slapping on animations designed for males. Female animations need to be "feminized". As an example, a female character should not walk with the same center mass as a male character would.
- Tanks would be very easy to put into the game. Any kind of tracked vehicles would be. The engine already has all the parameters in place to make them.
- The devs are constantly trying to improve the game's performance. Quite often the problem is the artists are allowed to run wild in creating things but then when the tech teams come in to find out why the game is only running at 10 frames per second, they end up finding a lot of highly inefficient artist choices having been made.
- Huge strides have been made on reducing the number of asset errors that go through the build process. Two years ago they hit a point where they had over 16,000 errors. For patch 2.6, they managed to push the build through with zero asset errors.
- The devs look at Star Citizen's current state as one giant test environment. Even the current "Live" game is a testing ground to them.
- Anti-aliasing is something that will be worked on. Shader development is what they want to work on first and then they will implement whatever AA they decide to go for. Sean Tracy thinks that supersampling is where it's at. As of right now, they don't want to put AA in the game when some of the other graphical settings haven't even been set, nevermind optimized. The hit to performance would be too great and cause a lot of development downtime as they redo or rethink their AA solution.
- Delta patching is on the way and will be great for both devs and the players. This will dramatically decrease the time it takes the devs to send various builds across the world to their four different studios and the time it takes the player to download new patches. It was a high priority to begin with but there were other things even higher on the list. Otherwise, this would have happened a lot sooner.
- Chris Roberts sometimes mentions battlemechs. Since Sean Tracy and his brother ran a popular mod about them, Sean has threatened Chris that if he keeps it up he'll put battlemechs in the game when he's not looking.
- Sean Tracy feels that there is a layer missing in the game right now and it's power armor, similar to mechs. Right now, a ship could camp a landing pad and there isn't much you can do unless you call in for someone from elsewhere to come take the ship out. Players should thus have an option to equip a powered suit that can carry some of the smaller ship weapons in the game. Anti-personnel or even anti-vehicle weapons won't be sufficient for dealing with most ships in the game. The Titan, a powered suit, is something that has already been talked about and concept art shown for it. It will be in the game eventually.
- Pirate Swarm, one of the modes for Arena Commander, will become much more difficult in patch 2.6.1 thanks to AI improvements.
- The Mega Map tech they're working on behind the scenes will dramatically speed up loading times across the board. For some parts of the game, loading should be virtually instant.
- Your handling in the game is already affected by the size of your weapons and the amount of ammo you have. However, the relative difference in mass is so minor that it's not detected by the players in any meaningful way. Larger vessels capable of carrying tons of cargo, however, may have their handling affected. The calculations are already being done to try and make it so that what you have inside your ship, on your ship, and how much of it will impact your ship's performance.
- An updated schedule report is coming very soon. The company is at the end of its beginning-of-the-year summits where the teams get together and discuss the plans for the upcoming year. Also, HR decided that this was a fantastic time to do everyone's employee review at the exact same time... (The schedule report has since gone live, with 2.6.1 planned to be released on February 17th, 2016)
- Mega Map is also the tech the team is using to make player hangars opening up and letting them fly out into the world possible. (It would allow the player to be inside their hangar without worrying about a performance hit being taken with the game trying to consider what is going on outside. Mega Map would give the devs a tool to effectively allow the game to only concern itself with what is in your hangar and then quickly stream in assets appropriately as the doors are opened)
- The team is looking at different ways to "hand wave" the fact that potentially thousands of players could be trying to leave a hangar that exists for all of them in the same space. So instead of having no room to leave, they would find a way to make it so that, at least temporarily, you're the only one in that immediate area.
- For Star Citizen, they first push for maximum realism and then scale back certain ideas based on what is actually fun. One of the things Sean Tracy tells his guys when the topic of something being realistic pops up is to go outside, sit at a bus bench, and then come back and tell him how fun it was. They would also like everyone to know that they do not advocate ever going outside.
- There is nothing officially announced yet about planetside racing but it is something they want in the game. Because of the massive amount of area that planets have, they would like to give players the ability to create the race courses themselves.
- All kinds of races would take place. It wouldn't just be the high performance, built-for-racing vehicles. Even the Argo transport ships and Dragonfly snub fighters / hover bikes would have their own races.
- They don't know how crazy they want to get with it. Not sure if the race tracks would permanently persist or only as long as players were in the area. Would they do tournaments? Would they allow people to vote / bet on the races?
- The devs really want to give players the ability to create many things in the universe. They feel that some of the best ideas and creations have come from the community already.
- They will absolutely give the players long campaigns, scripted and unscripted events, and whatnot but they feel that the players can often create better experiences for themselves than even game designers can.
- Items 2.0 will allow the team to turn individual entities into components of other entities. So cargo, weapons, ships, and even people will become a part of any larger entity that they are inside of or attached to. This greatly reduces the system's need to constantly track every single entity in the game as if it is separate. Other games have had this tech before but it's such a huge deal for Star Citizen to work properly. (As an example, if you came across a ship with cargo in it, there would be no reason for the game to have to render that cargo and send all the information on it until either you're now a part of that entity as well or the cargo suddenly becomes separated from the ship. It's the idea of taking potentially thousands of entities and turning them into hundreds or less that the game needs to constantly concern itself with. As of right now, every entity in your immediate area is being rendered at every frame, which is incredibly inefficient)
- Sean Tracy's favorite planet in the game so far is something he can't actually talk about but will be arriving in 3.0. Tyler Witkins' favorite is MicroTech. Jared Huckaby really likes Nyx.
- A new snow component is being added to the engine to replace the old one from CryEngine.
- When asked what Sean Tracy is looking forward to doing the most in Star Citizen his answer is "finishing it".
Any word on when 3.0 is to release?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Raven on Jan 23, 2017, 05:01 AM
No. Patch 2.6.1 is coming mid-February and there was a recent interview with Chris Roberts that said there will be one more incremental patch, 2.6.2, after that which adds the MegaMap tech to speed up load times and asset streaming. I'm going to guess that patch will drop sometime in March. I'm also going to guess that 3.0 will probably hit just before or right at the beginning of June. We won't know for sure what their plans are until the schedule report for 3.0 lands and that won't happen until after 2.6.2 is out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Aura7541 on Feb 19, 2017, 02:31 AM
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X 8 Core CPU Benchmarks Leaked - Giving Intel's $1000+ 8-Cores A Run For It (http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1800x-8-core-benchmarks/)
I think Ryzen is shaping up to be a good competitor against Intel.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 19, 2017, 02:39 AM
Just finished Dear Esther and Dear Esther Landmark Edition.
Short and decent.
67 out of 100 on the original
74 out of 100 on the remake
My first walking simulator! (Unless you count The Stanley Parable as a walking simulator)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 19, 2017, 03:00 AM
I was trying to show an image from the webpage, but apparently it didn't work. I uploaded it to imgur. The 3rd party benchmarks of Ryzen are really good.
(http://i.imgur.com/0kvtsXc.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 20, 2017, 10:34 PM
I hope their APU is decent. I've been really using my Skull Canyon a lot. I'd upgrade to something better of AMD made it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Feb 21, 2017, 12:44 AM
Ya'll boring like VGC's PC community, only talking about hardware ;(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2017, 12:51 AM
Be sure to have a lot of free time because these games are long and their stories are engaging. I also love the battle system.
Yeah I know lol - Ys Origins took me a while too, didnt expect it to last me 30+ hours and thats playing through all 3 characters stories.
I heard Ys 1 and Ys 2 are short but who knows. I tried Ys 1 two years ago but didnt really like it - gonna play it in easy mode cause I got rekt in normal mode. The fact that you have to literally touch your enemy to attack them sucks and is a double edged sword for me.
Hopefully the rest of the missing Ys series comes to PC - if not I'll just play the missing ones on whatever PS system they came out on.
I'll avoid the Nintendo versions since they are super ancient and gameplay wise similar to Ys 1 and 2 :X
My Ys Collection so far (which is the entire series released on Steam so far) (http://i.imgur.com/3XEWlJF.png)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 26, 2017, 12:12 PM
Oh wow, they are allowing people to make games with this?
Thats pretty cool.
I wonder what type of games will come out from Amazon in house I mean.
Yeah, and they also allow people to use their assets in the link.
It looks like they announced 3 games. Amazon Game Studios unveils three PC games - Breakaway, Crucible, New World | VG247 (https://www.vg247.com/2016/09/30/amazon-game-studios-unveils-three-pc-games-breakaway-crucible-new-world/)
Nothing too exciting in my opinion.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 16, 2017, 11:56 PM
Yeah, and they also allow people to use their assets in the link.
It looks like they announced 3 games. Amazon Game Studios unveils three PC games - Breakaway, Crucible, New World | VG247 (https://www.vg247.com/2016/09/30/amazon-game-studios-unveils-three-pc-games-breakaway-crucible-new-world/)
Nothing too exciting in my opinion.
MOBAs and MMOs
Blurgh.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 16, 2017, 11:59 PM
Yeah, and they also allow people to use their assets in the link.
It looks like they announced 3 games. Amazon Game Studios unveils three PC games - Breakaway, Crucible, New World | VG247 (https://www.vg247.com/2016/09/30/amazon-game-studios-unveils-three-pc-games-breakaway-crucible-new-world/)
Nothing too exciting in my opinion.
DIsregard my like. I thought they were new
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 17, 2017, 12:01 AM
I don't think so, but the engine used is Lumberyard.
Oh. Didnt know that ;o
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 20, 2017, 12:38 PM
I managed to salvage Bloodrayne 1 on PC.
Even though the GOG version is better than the Steam version, playing the Steam version (for the Steam cards and so I can at least have it in my Steam gametime list.
I tried applying some of the fixes that the GOG version had (1.1 version) since the Steam version has 1.0.
Fixed most of the issues.
Changed resolution from 640x480 to 1920x1080 - looks quite good.
FPS went from 200+ to 30 FPS (the console version FPS)
Cutscenes are borked, cant see any cutscene (The CG ones at least) but thats not a issue since there's like 3 or 4 cutscenes total and they are viewable in the "video" folder for the Steam version (which I already watched).
Controller setting at first was messed up but I managed to find a way to get my PS4 controller working but there's a slight right movement by itself...not a big issue.
This game is gonna get a low score for sure I know mainly cause of the issues I experienced with the Steam port. Might play the GOG version just to see how it turns out but not the whole way.
Though I can see why the issues remained since this game came out on PC back in 2003 when PC gaming wasnt really as big as it is now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 20, 2017, 01:31 PM
Even though the GOG version is better than the Steam version, playing the Steam version (for the Steam cards and so I can at least have it in my Steam gametime list.
I tried applying some of the fixes that the GOG version had (1.1 version) since the Steam version has 1.0.
Fixed most of the issues.
Changed resolution from 640x480 to 1920x1080 - looks quite good.
FPS went from 200+ to 30 FPS (the console version FPS)
Cutscenes are borked, cant see any cutscene (The CG ones at least) but thats not a issue since there's like 3 or 4 cutscenes total and they are viewable in the "video" folder for the Steam version (which I already watched).
Controller setting at first was messed up but I managed to find a way to get my PS4 controller working but there's a slight right movement by itself...not a big issue.
This game is gonna get a low score for sure I know mainly cause of the issues I experienced with the Steam port. Might play the GOG version just to see how it turns out but not the whole way.
Though I can see why the issues remained since this game came out on PC back in 2003 when PC gaming wasnt really as big as it is now.
I picked up Bloodrayne 2 from GOG. Controllers don't work with it... well dualshock 4 anyways.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 20, 2017, 02:47 PM
I picked up Bloodrayne 2 from GOG. Controllers don't work with it... well dualshock 4 anyways.
Hmm not sure about Bloodrayne 2 but Dualshock 4 works on Bloodrayne 1 on Steam.
I didnt use any mods though, I used Steam's inbuilt controller configuration which emulated the DS4 into a xinput controller (Steam controller, xbox360 controller, etc).
I dont think GOG supports controller configurations (unless you mod it in) like Steam does which is probably why it didnt work for you.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 20, 2017, 03:24 PM
Hmm not sure about Bloodrayne 2 but Dualshock 4 works on Bloodrayne 1 on Steam.
I didnt use any mods though, I used Steam's inbuilt controller configuration which emulated the DS4 into a xinput controller (Steam controller, xbox360 controller, etc).
I dont think GOG supports controller configurations (unless you mod it in) like Steam does which is probably why it didnt work for you.
Bloodrayne 2 does this thing where it doesn't read DS4Tools. Input mapper might work.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 20, 2017, 03:30 PM
I have Rise of the Tomb Raider but I need a new GPU to play it not looking like dog.
I have every single Tomb Raider game from the mainline series and I think one of the Lara croft spinoffs.
Bought them all from a Tomb Raider bundle that was like $15 (that included the 2013 Tomb Raider with its DLC too).
I'll get the other Lara Croft one later and will get Rise and GO sometime after I upgrade my PC.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 20, 2017, 09:59 PM
I Just installed my 1080 Amp'd... I have no idea if I installed it right O_O
I "think" I plugged it in right. But I don't know if it matters which PCI plug plugs into which port on the card. Windows is using the card but for whatever reason the nviida drivers are off so I'm installing them now from the DVD.
The LED is really nice, I think I might buy a window case.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 21, 2017, 12:00 AM
Got the drivers and everything working. Got Tomb Raider running at 4k at the right benchmarks. The thing is QUIET. Holy crud. The power options are crazy too. The card is literally dead. Then bam. Goes into power mode when things are running.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 21, 2017, 02:24 AM
Got the drivers and everything working. Got Tomb Raider running at 4k at the right benchmarks. The thing is QUIET. Holy crud. The power options are crazy too. The card is literally dead. Then bam. Goes into power mode when things are running.
?????
Card is literally dead, then bam?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 21, 2017, 02:33 AM
He means like dead quiet. Metaphorically literally.
Then it moves into maximum overdrive.
Not just quiet. It's clock speed is 215 mhz, then jumps to 1.8ghz when a game runs. The fan also doesn't spin until the click speed rises for a bit. Even then the thing is quieter than my 560 Ti
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on May 21, 2017, 10:44 AM
Not just quiet. It's clock speed is 215 mhz, then jumps to 1.8ghz when a game runs. The fan also doesn't spin until the click speed rises for a bit. Even then the thing is quieter than my 560 Ti
You had the same card as me!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 21, 2017, 12:56 PM
He means like dead quiet. Metaphorically literally.
Then it moves into maximum overdrive.
Oh lol - I thought he meant his card died xD
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 22, 2017, 03:58 AM
BloodRayne.....garbage dog game.
Cant believe I fell to the hype when it was showcased years ago when it first came out lol. I remember seeing it all over magazines and people were all gawking at the main character.
Got to play it finally - with all the PC version port issues aside, its a garbage game regardless.
Fricken horrible gameplay Horrible story telling Horrible character designs Horrible voice acting Lackluster OST
Its like I was playing Half-Life 1 Non-Source Edition again except in the form of Devil May Cry 2.
39 out of 100.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 22, 2017, 04:28 AM
Cant believe I fell to the hype when it was showcased years ago when it first came out lol. I remember seeing it all over magazines and people were all gawking at the main character.
Got to play it finally - with all the PC version port issues aside, its a garbage game regardless.
Fricken horrible gameplay Horrible story telling Horrible character designs Horrible voice acting Lackluster OST
Its like I was playing Half-Life 1 Non-Source Edition again except in the form of Devil May Cry 2.
39 out of 100.
You're not playing it right. You didn't install the nude mod.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on May 22, 2017, 04:36 AM
Can someone check to see how to fix this "DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_BAD_CONFIG"
I'm not able to access like any sites.
That easy buddy just go through the given steps and it would be just a piece of cake for you !!! I found this solution here : AD REMOVED
Google Chrome
Clearing your DNS cache through Google Chrome is much easier in my opinion than through your computer.
To do so, open up Chrome, and type in chrome://net-internals/#DNS into the search bar and press Enter.On the left-hand side, a menu is shown. Select DNS. From the DNS page, there will be a button you will see that reads Clear Host Cache. Select it, and that is all you have to do. As you can see, it is a much simpler step than using your Mac computer.
However, the Mac method is still viable if you use different browsers and want to clear the whole computer. The Google Chrome method will just clear the DNS for Chrome, nothing else.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 05, 2017, 12:09 PM
That easy buddy just go through the given steps and it would be just a piece of cake for you !!! I found this solution here : AD REMOVED
Google Chrome
Clearing your DNS cache through Google Chrome is much easier in my opinion than through your computer.
To do so, open up Chrome, and type in chrome://net-internals/#DNS into the search bar and press Enter.On the left-hand side, a menu is shown. Select DNS. From the DNS page, there will be a button you will see that reads Clear Host Cache. Select it, and that is all you have to do. As you can see, it is a much simpler step than using your Mac computer.
However, the Mac method is still viable if you use different browsers and want to clear the whole computer. The Google Chrome method will just clear the DNS for Chrome, nothing else.
Well thanks! But that post was a year and a half old.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 07, 2017, 02:32 AM
Today's been a great day for me in regards to PC gaming.
The newest humble bundle is "Sekai Project" humble bundle with about 20 different VNs (technically 19 VNs with 1 DLC to one of the VNs).
That and GOG started their summer sale event but best of all, added a bunch of GOG Connect available games!
Added about 9 games to my GOG account thanks to having them on Steam!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 23, 2017, 01:18 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 23, 2017, 10:40 AM
Steam Summer Sale so far for me
(http://i.imgur.com/GQGLiuA.jpg)
Middle Earth - $4 Sonic - $7.50 The Walking Dead - $6.24 Prince of Persia - $5
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 23, 2017, 12:10 PM
I'Ll probably get steven's sausage roll.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 23, 2017, 01:40 PM
I probably won't buy anything, but I would like to get Age of Empires DLC, and Fallout 4 probably.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 23, 2017, 01:49 PM
I probably won't buy anything, but I would like to get Age of Empires DLC, and Fallout 4 probably.
I use steam sales to more or less only buy off my wishlist. Stephen's Sausage Roll has been sitting there for over a year. At 75% off now is the time to buy!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 23, 2017, 03:23 PM
I was thinking of picking up a few things. Like Valkryie Overdrive and Tales of Berseria.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 23, 2017, 04:40 PM
It works though. I've seen this tech used close to 10 years ago at the local mall. There was a projector projecting to the ground. It rippled water where ever you stepped. I'm sure they could miniaturize it by now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 23, 2017, 09:26 PM
It works though. I've seen this tech used close to 10 years ago at the local mall. There was a projector projecting to the ground. It rippled water where ever you stepped. I'm sure they could miniaturize it by now.
I wasn't doubting it worked. My mall had the same thing.
Gimmick just means it's cooler to see videos of the thing than to actually own and play with the thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 23, 2017, 09:30 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 24, 2017, 01:55 AM
NeoGAF - View Single Post - Steam Summer Sale '17 Hidden Gems & Under-The-Radar Recommendations thread (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=241677261&postcount=118)
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(http://nisamerica.com/img/Disgaea_PC_Capsule.jpg)Disgaea PC (http://store.steampowered.com/app/405900/Disgaea_PC/) Highly recommend Disgaea PC. Its $7.99 during the summer sale, the lowest I've seen it. I bought my copy last fall at bundle stars for like $8 (after a coupon deal when it was $10). I'm 94 hours into the game so far. I had clocked 300+ hours on the PS2 version so ya, its highly worth it especially for the price it is now :3.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jun 25, 2017, 01:48 PM
I'm done with the Steam summer sale.
I think I spent the most ever in a Steam Summer sale ever since I first spending monies in a Steam summer sale event since 2012.
Dragon Ball Xenoverse Bundle Edition - $13.26 One Piece Pirate Warriors 3 Gold Edition - $13 Sonic Lost World - $7.50 The Walking Dead Season 2 - $6.24 Lara Croft and The Temple of Osiris + Season Pass - $5.79 Prince of Persia Warrior Within - $5 LEGO Harry Potter Years 1-4 - $5 LEGO Harry Potter Years 5-7 - $5 LEGO Lord of the Rings - $5 Middle Earth Shadow of Mordor GOTY - $4 Atari Vault - $3.39 Battle Fantasia -Revised Edition- -$3 HITMAN GO Definitive Edition - $2 SEGA Classics: Dr Robotniks Mean Bean Machine - $1.24 $79.42
Didnt even have to use my Credit Card once though which was nice :p.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 12, 2017, 12:53 AM
Procedural Tree Generation (incl. code) : proceduralgeneration (https://www.reddit.com/r/proceduralgeneration/comments/6mpthc/procedural_tree_generation_incl_code/)
Introducing Unity 2017 - Unity Blog (https://blogs.unity3d.com/2017/07/11/introducing-unity-2017/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 12, 2017, 01:17 AM
Huh , thats strange, my DS4 and Xbox 360 controller always work with the emulators I used.
I was playing on PCSX 2. Controller was working fine. Went to chrome for a minute. And PCSX 2 wouldn't register the controller anymore until I reconnected it. Then it was fine while I was playing it.
I run into a lot of problems like that. Regardless of controller or emulator.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 15, 2017, 02:07 AM
I just got a new laptop, paid way to much for it. Everything out there sucks for under 2k. It's got a i7 and and 1050ti and a 4k screen.
Should do for my cad and CNC/3d Printing work, but be a bit hard to game on.
Honestly, prices of laptops have skyrocketed when they introduced ultrabooks. Was back in the day you could buy a midrange laptop (Which was still great) for like 600.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 15, 2017, 02:39 AM
Honestly, prices of laptops have skyrocketed when they introduced ultrabooks. Was back in the day you could buy a midrange laptop (Which was still great) for like 600.
Yeah, it's gotten out of hand. 1000 bucks for a dual core and a gpu that probably wont run minecraft is highway robbery.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jul 15, 2017, 03:02 AM
Yeah, it's gotten out of hand. 1000 bucks for a dual core and a gpu that probably wont run minecraft is highway robbery.
I honestly don't blame them. Laptops are on razor thing margins, if any. They have the same razor blade model. In laptop's cases the blades are bags and mice. 600 for a midrange laptop was probably too much for everyone. Like they price war'd themselves into losing money kinda like with T.V.s. LG and Samsung price war'd themselves into Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic and Sharp losing money.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jul 15, 2017, 12:22 PM
I was playing on PCSX 2. Controller was working fine. Went to chrome for a minute. And PCSX 2 wouldn't register the controller anymore until I reconnected it. Then it was fine while I was playing it.
I run into a lot of problems like that. Regardless of controller or emulator.
Oooh - ya weird stuff like that happens sometimes.
If I need to check on something, I usually use my phone to google something while I leave the game open lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jul 15, 2017, 12:34 PM
Thanks to the latest humble bundle - I now own almost every Resident Evil game on Steam :D
(http://i.imgur.com/cOB6NAv.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 15, 2017, 02:53 PM
It's pretty awesome having a nice PC.
I can emulate PS2 games really great.
I had them running at 120 fps, despite running at 6x native resolution.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jul 15, 2017, 03:37 PM
Cant wait to build myself a custom PC in the future :O
Hopefully this winter but might have to save monies to buy a new car and a new house when my wife comes over to the US.
PCs are best to buy during winter. They run so nice and quiet.
Then summer comes along and the fans are dying trying to keep up ::)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 18, 2017, 04:43 PM
Well had to return it. Twice ..
Looking at the hp spectra. But the hp zbook is looking better. But its 2k...
Got the hp spectra 360. I7, 16gb ram, 500 gig ssd. 4k screen with pen support. 75 a month with an upgrade every two years with protectio plan included.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BasilZero on Jul 18, 2017, 11:36 PM
Humble Telltale bundle.
Really great bundle!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Jul 23, 2017, 03:08 AM
Well I just got my new computer in the mail today. It's pretty nice but I can't help but to feel ripped off. This one only has a 2 core i7, a low end gtx, 500 gig SDD, and 16 gig's of ram, 4k screen. 2 year replacement protection/ You really do pay for forum factor.
To bad the yoga was a piece of crud. because it really was a stronger computer for the same price.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 26, 2017, 03:40 PM
CRYENGINE 5.4 Preview released today, including over 620 improvements (https://www.cryengine.com/news/cryengine-54-preview-released-today-including-over-620-improvements)
CryEngine seems to be crawling along, even as Crytek doesn't seem to be.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 30, 2017, 03:30 PM
I wonder if Lumberyard 2.0 will come out on tuesday.
Been around 3 months since the last big update.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 30, 2017, 03:35 PM
"Reduce Pixelated Edges with Temporal Antialiasing"
DX12
Lumberyard 1.10 introduces networking improvements that include bitpacking compression and an interest management system that can help you prioritize network traffic and reduce bandwidth by up to 80%.
There's a bunch of other stuff.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 01, 2017, 10:22 PM
"Reduce Pixelated Edges with Temporal Antialiasing"
DX12
Lumberyard 1.10 introduces networking improvements that include bitpacking compression and an interest management system that can help you prioritize network traffic and reduce bandwidth by up to 80%.
There's a bunch of other stuff.
Oh that networking stuff is cool. I did bitpacking for VizionEck and it's fun trying to get the byte counts as low as possible.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 03, 2017, 06:24 AM
(https://i.redd.it/ece86u7poddz.jpg)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Aug 04, 2017, 12:27 AM
I don't know if they are quite giving them a run for their money, but it is impressively bad.
(http://i.imgur.com/NgZ1a70.jpg)
Thats some chart making skills yo.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 12, 2017, 11:22 AM
I only have 8 gigs of ram, but it works good enough most of the time. Kinda annoying having to close VizionEck's Unity file everytime I run another big application though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Aug 12, 2017, 11:51 AM
I only have 8 gigs of ram, but it works good enough most of the time. Kinda annoying having to close VizionEck's Unity file everytime I run another big application though.
Am I sensing some upgrades here?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 12, 2017, 02:15 PM
Well the source code has been freely viewable since the first release. :D
You were able to post up to 50 lines of code onto the forums, but now it seems like you could do whatever you want through GitHub as long as you keep the license agreements.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 12, 2017, 04:09 PM
The biggest theft in Eve Online's history went down last night | PCGamesN (https://www.pcgamesn.com/eve-online/eve-online-co2-coup-the-judge-gigx)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 21, 2017, 01:27 AM
Valve battles review-bombers by introducing review histograms - NeoGAF (http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1435122)
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Because of the PDP/Firewatch incident, seems Valve also took a look at the so-called review-bombings and will now add histograms. Some user from the comments describes it well:
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Starting today, each game page now contains a histogram of the positive to negative ratio of reviews over the entire lifetime of the game, and by clicking on any part of the histogram you're able to read a sample of the reviews from that time period.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Sep 28, 2017, 06:01 PM
So Rollercoaster Tycoon Classis just launched, which is some sort of mashup of RC1 and RC2. I'm quite excited to try it out for all the nostalgia but I'm probably going to wait for more user reviews first. I didn't expect it to be £15 :(
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/683900/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_Classic/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 28, 2017, 11:15 PM
So Rollercoaster Tycoon Classis just launched, which is some sort of mashup of RC1 and RC2. I'm quite excited to try it out for all the nostalgia but I'm probably going to wait for more user reviews first. I didn't expect it to be £15 :(
RollerCoaster Tycoon® Classic on Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/683900/RollerCoaster_Tycoon_Classic/)
Any improvements over the originals? I still have my disc copies.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 30, 2017, 03:57 PM
I got an email about CryEngine 5.4 a week ago. They are still chugging along I guess. A fair amount of updates. Vulkan support, new AA methods. A few new things with terrain systems and substance integration. Among others.
Saw on Reddit that Lumberyard just released 1.11 which seems like it's a few days early to me. They are replacing some cryengine animation systems, a new scripting solution to replace CryEngine's flowgraph, a converter for CryEntities to new Component Entities. It also comes preinstalled with Starter Game.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 30, 2017, 04:10 PM
I got an email about CryEngine 5.4 a week ago. They are still chugging along I guess. A fair amount of updates. Vulkan support, new AA methods. A few new things with terrain systems and substance integration. Among others.
Saw on Reddit that Lumberyard just released 1.11 which seems like it's a few days early to me. They are replacing some cryengine animation systems, a new scripting solution to replace CryEngine's flowgraph, a converter for CryEntities to new Component Entities. It also comes preinstalled with Starter Game.
Crytek is continuing Cryengine while Amazon is scrapping it...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 30, 2017, 05:16 PM
Getting Started Guide Tutorial Series: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuGWzrvNze7KbG2x6ccIw8eMhL5e4Iwpe
Yeah well, I saw this on Reddit
Give your game a voice (or a thousand voices) with the Text to Speech Gem | Lumberyard & Amazon GameLift Blog (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/gamedev/text_to_speech_gem/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 10, 2018, 03:28 AM
I want:
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 24, 2018, 10:07 PM
Pretty neat. Some of them sound pretty good, but there's still room for improvement. Especially on Kendra...
Yeah they sound good except Kendra. I wonder how they'd feel with longer samples though. Like after a minute, it'd be really easy to notice all the repetition and mistakes.
This is the new stuff Elite is getting.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 25, 2018, 03:19 PM
From about 12 seconds to about 53 seconds is English.
Here's a 11 minute demo.
It's a mixed bag. Some of it sounds really good, some of it sounds good but then it has like a robotic pause in between, and some of it is easily recognizable as not a person.
I guess those are pretty old, it's possible there might be some improvements here or there...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 14, 2018, 11:03 PM
Devil May Cry HD Available For Free Later This Month - News - www.GameInformer.com (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2018/02/14/devil-may-cry-hd-available-for-free-later-this-month.aspx)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 15, 2018, 11:02 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 17, 2018, 04:17 PM
I'm updating my Unity download.
It's been a while. I didn't remember that while Unity doesn't have royalties, if you're making more than $X, you have to pay monthly fees. Which at that point, is easily affordable. But I still like that Lumberyard is completely free.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 17, 2018, 04:42 PM
It's been a while. I didn't remember that while Unity doesn't have royalties, if you're making more than $X, you have to pay monthly fees. Which at that point, is easily affordable. But I still like that Lumberyard is completely free.
It's $100,000 on the previous year. So if you make a game and it's super successful the stupid monthly fees only apply to the next game or updates.
(I don't like monthly fees either. Would much rather just buy a pro license for $1,000 and be done with it)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 17, 2018, 11:14 PM
So what's up with that company Amazon bought? The one that did season 1 of Killer Instinct
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 17, 2018, 11:25 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 10, 2018, 12:14 PM
Amazon.com: Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, 15.6" Full HD IPS, Intel i7-7700HQ CPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, 256GB SSD, GeForce GTX 1060-6GB, VR Ready, Red Backlit KB, Metal Chassis, Windows 10 64-bit, G3-571-77QK: Computers & Accessories (https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-i7-7700HQ-1060-6GB-G3-571-77QK/dp/B06Y4GZS9C/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8)
Better CPU, double the RAM and VRAM. But no HDD, and costs $150 more than I was looking at.
But there's a bundle with a mouse for free.
Hard drive installation instructions for Predator Helios 300 laptops (https://us.answers.acer.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/46866/~/hard-drive-installation-instructions-for-predator-helios-300-laptops)
And a HDD can be added.
I think this will be what I'm getting.
Wife doesn't like the logo though. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Sep 10, 2018, 02:20 PM
Honestly? Never get a powerful laptop. Always go for size/ergonomics/battery life.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 10, 2018, 02:22 PM
15 inch is too big. Get a 12 inch with a 10+ battery life. You'll be surprised at how heavy 15 inch laptops are.
Eh. My current laptop is either 15 or 17. I like the moderate big screen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 11, 2018, 02:12 AM
Amazon.com: ASUS ROG GL753VE Gaming 17.3" Full HD Laptop - 7th Gen i7-7700HQ Processor up to 3.80 GHz, 8GB Memory, 4TB Solid State Drive, 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti Graphics, Windows 10 Pro, Metalic Black: Electronics (https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-GL753VE-Gaming-17-3-Laptop/dp/B076QF6RW1/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1536631498&sr=1-8&keywords=3+tb+2.5+hard+drive)
This is insane.
A 4 TB SSD. Like $900-$1500 of the value of this laptop is just in storage.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 11, 2018, 04:29 AM
Amazon.com: ASUS ROG GL753VE Gaming 17.3" Full HD Laptop - 7th Gen i7-7700HQ Processor up to 3.80 GHz, 8GB Memory, 4TB Solid State Drive, 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050Ti Graphics, Windows 10 Pro, Metalic Black: Electronics (https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-GL753VE-Gaming-17-3-Laptop/dp/B076QF6RW1/ref=sr_1_8?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1536631498&sr=1-8&keywords=3+tb+2.5+hard+drive)
This is insane.
A 4 TB SSD. Like $900-$1500 of the value of this laptop is just in storage.
I'd love a SSD that large. Sucks having just a 256 GB one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 13, 2018, 12:32 AM
Nice. Your CPU is a bit better than my desktop CPU, and everything else is a lot better than my desktop haha.
Well, the 1060≈970. But, it's actually better than my desktop too... Actually I think our desktops are fairly similar, iirc. You, me and Tacos i thinkI think built similar beasts. Except I think Tacos got 2x 970's.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 13, 2018, 03:19 PM
Funnily enough, my math independent study this semester might be what pushes my computer the most this semester.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 13, 2018, 07:00 PM
Play it without a guide. I made so many dumb mistakes with my first city and it was really fun.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 25, 2018, 02:12 AM
Amazon.com: AmazonBasics USB 3.1 Type-C to 4 Port USB Hub - Black: Computers & Accessories (https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-3-1-Type-C-Port/dp/B01M4J1DDP/ref=sr_1_3_acs_sk_pb_1_sl_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537841486&sr=8-3-acs&keywords=usb%2Bc%2Bto%2Busb%2B3%2Bhub&th=1)
Amazon.com: AmazonBasics USB 3.1 Type-C to 4 Port USB Hub - Black: Computers & Accessories (https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-USB-3-1-Type-C-Port/dp/B01M4J1DDP/ref=sr_1_3_acs_sk_pb_1_sl_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1537841486&sr=8-3-acs&keywords=usb%2Bc%2Bto%2Busb%2B3%2Bhub&th=1)
Need this to play VR on my laptop. To be honest, I already restarted the game at that point. Mostly because I was figuring out how everything worked.
How far have you made it in your biggest city?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 25, 2018, 11:34 AM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 04, 2018, 02:23 PM
So today I learned that RAM is actually very important for gaming. My laptop had 8GB which I thought was fine but I noticed when I was playing Forza Horizon 4 that it was running not so well, and by the looks of task manager it was RAM limiting it. So I bought a new 8GB ram stick for 16GB in total and holy hell what a difference.
I went from ~50fps on medium with occasional freezing and stuttering (possibly to load the world) to a rock solid 60fps on ultra. Wish I'd done that before I'd finished most of the game, it looks absolutely phenomenal now.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 04, 2018, 02:41 PM
So today I learned that RAM is actually very important for gaming. My laptop had 8GB which I thought was fine but I noticed when I was playing Forza Horizon 4 that it was running not so well, and by the looks of task manager it was RAM limiting it. So I bought a new 8GB ram stick for 16GB in total and holy hell what a difference.
I went from ~50fps on medium with occasional freezing and stuttering (possibly to load the world) to a rock solid 60fps on ultra. Wish I'd done that before I'd finished most of the game, it looks absolutely phenomenal now.
I'm crying over here with my 8GB ram :'(
Yeah it's pretty important. It's funny how as of lately everything has really focused on GPU and ram. I wonder if that will continue next gen or if it's just a side effect of current gen consoles being balanced that way.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 04, 2018, 02:51 PM
I'm surprised it made such a difference, to be honest.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 04, 2018, 03:11 PM
I'm surprised it made such a difference, to be honest.
Yeah so am I. I think it's because of how limited it was. With windows 10 eating over 4GB of RAM it only had about 3.7GB to play with before, and now it's using 5.5GB.
I also don't get why my CPU is doing less work now. It used to be matching the RAM with being at 90%+ on task manager but now it's running the game at around 60%.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 04, 2018, 03:22 PM
Yeah so am I. I think it's because of how limited it was. With windows 10 eating over 4GB of RAM it only had about 3.7GB to play with before, and now it's using 5.5GB.
Man, I guess I didn't completely realize Windows 10 was such a hog. :o
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I also don't get why my CPU is doing less work now. It used to be matching the RAM with being at 90%+ on task manager but now it's running the game at around 60%.
The CPU doesn't have to work as hard to make sure what it needs is in RAM.
Having to constantly write and read from the hard drive is incredibly time consuming and uses a lot of CPU time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 04, 2018, 03:26 PM
The CPU doesn't have to work as hard to make sure what it needs is in RAM.
Having to constantly write and read from the hard drive is incredibly time consuming and uses a lot of CPU time.
Yeah windows 10 is a greedy RAM joker.
Makes sense. I don't know computers very well ::)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Oct 04, 2018, 03:46 PM
I'm glad my 1060 is now getting to use all of its juice. It was only working at 70% before.
I'm also quite shocked a 1060 can run Forza horizon 4 at 1440p 60fps with ultra settings. Very impressive.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 04, 2018, 05:40 PM
Nvidia's mid range cards are always impressive. My 560 Ti lasted me up until last year. It would probably last now too at 720p and low to medium settings.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Oct 26, 2018, 05:03 PM
I follow the age of empires 2 community on Reddit. Apparently a lot of people there like watching streamers play the game. There was even someone being obnoxious asking how it is possible someone didn't know who some streamer was.
I follow the age of empires 2 community on Reddit. Apparently a lot of people there like watching streamers play the game. There was even someone being obnoxious asking how it is possible someone didn't know who some streamer was.
Streaming is just part of day to day life now. It's weird thinking of streaming as being established. Same with esports. So many commercials nowadays include esports.
Streaming is just part of day to day life now. It's weird thinking of streaming as being established. Same with esports. So many commercials nowadays include esports.
Streaming is also very important with that too! ::)
Yeah. ::)
Fun stuff. I'd like to learn more about computer organization.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 20, 2018, 11:18 AM
Valve discontinues the Steam Link, the best wireless HDMI gadget ever made - The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/11/19/18103672/valve-discontinues-steam-link-streaming-set-top-box)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 19, 2018, 07:51 PM
So I was thinking of getting the Street Fighter Arcade1up cabinet. I was planning to gut out their android machine and put in a PC capable of playing Street Fighter V and below. Hot dang are PC parts expensive. A pentium, motherboard, 1x16gb ram, 256 m2 drive, and a 1050 TI is over 600 dollars! A Ryzen 5 APU is only a hundred dollars cheaper. All more expensive than a PS4 pro. No case or PSU either.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 20, 2018, 12:34 AM
Yeah that's a tough cookie. Go too cheap and you risk the possibility of it just not being worth it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Kerotan on Dec 20, 2018, 07:27 PM
The biggest scam of this century. Single player beta scheduled for Q2 2020. It will be lucky to even happen in 2020. What a shame show. Might as well port to ps5 at this rate.
Star Citizen creators takes on $46m investment, release financials, Squadron 42 Beta target Q2 2020 | ResetEra (https://www.resetera.com/threads/star-citizen-creators-takes-on-46m-investment-release-financials-squadron-42-beta-target-q2-2020.88404/)
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In a crazy day of news...
Cloud Imperium Games released the Squadron 42 roadmap with the target date of being in Beta in Q2 of 2020 : https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42 (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42)
As we look forward to the holidays, I wanted to give you all a couple of updates. The first item of news is the Squadron 42 public roadmap (https://robertsspaceindustries.com/roadmap/board/2-Squadron-42) is going live today. As with our Persistent Universe roadmap, this is linked to our company's internal JIRA tracking system, so you can see at a glance the work remaining to complete the game. It was a lot of work to make sure every remaining task was broken down in detail and estimated to the best of our ability, and the same caveats will apply to the Squadron 42 roadmap as they do to the PU one, but our plan is to be feature and content complete by the end of 2019, with the first 6 months of 2020 for Alpha (balance, optimization and polish) and then Beta. Click to expand...
Have taken on an $46m dollar minority investment to fund their marketing while all crowdfunding dollars will go strictly into game development, securing their independence and not needing a publisher : https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/letter-from-the-chairman/investment-news (https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/letter-from-the-chairman/investment-news)
Having a great game is only half the battle. As we look towards the release of Squadron 42, we have been acutely aware that having a AAA game that matches the biggest single player games out there only goes so far if no one knows about it. The games we will be competing with for attention have tens and, in some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising behind them.
Other companies in a similar situation have normally tackled this problem by partnering with a Publisher for the marketing and sales of their game. As you all know I am not in favor of putting my destiny in the hands of a third party. On the other hand, I don't feel it would be right to go back to all of you to raise funds to market the game to other people; most of you already have a copy earmarked for you and I still strongly feel that the money brought in from our crowdfunding should continue to go to the development of Star Citizen and Squadron 42.
Because of this, we started to investigate ways to raise money to fund the upcoming marketing and release needs of Squadron 42. We turned away some approaches from Private Equity and Venture Capital because we were concerned about them fully understanding what makes our company tick and pushing us towards short term decisions.
During the course of these discussions it became clear to me that if Clive and Keith joined us as investors in our company, we'd have true partners that respected what we had built, but also fully understood the ins and outs and the patience required with a business based on creating entertainment. Taking in like-minded partners helps us solve the need of funding the marketing and release of Squadron 42, but also stay attuned to what makes us special.
So, it's with this that I would like to announce that we have closed a minority investment (https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cloud-imperium-investment-fact-sheet) into Cloud Imperium US & UK, from Clive's family office and Keith's Snoot Entertainment for $46M for approximately 10% of the shares in the Cloud Imperium US and UK companies, which is a testament to the value, future potential and longevity of the company. Click to expand...
And have released full financials from 2012 to 2017 : https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cfo-comment-2012-2017-financials (https://cloudimperiumgames.com/blog/corporate/cfo-comment-2012-2017-financials)
Overall, the accounting demonstrates that the Group is diligently spending the money we are collecting from our backers and customers on the game development and publishing, as set out from the beginning. There is not a direct annual correlation of our spend to our net income. A buffer arose in the early years as we wrestled with the scope of what our customers wanted, and whilst we accelerated early deliveries through third-party contracting, we were cautious with our growth and expenditure until we could better define what was needed. Since the scope of the production has become better understood, we have been able to plan our growth and optimize our areas of expenditure while still evolving based upon our open development ethos. This allows us to focus in on the detailed areas and key technologies and content that we believe will make this ground-breaking production a great success.
The Group plans ahead based upon the project roadmap and anticipating the continued and growing support of our existing and new backers and customers. That will mean accelerating spend in certain years, to move the production forward or cover key production goals or, unapologetically, cutting back slightly in other years based upon prudent budgeting, as we have the overriding discipline of aiming to balance our foreseeable budgets against our projected collections.
At the time of writing this report we have had our best month ever since we started this journey and we expect with the continued support of our existing and new backers and customers that we will create a truly inspirational game and experience that all of those involved in the community can take credit for and truly claim they have helped achieve. Click to expand...
KEY POINTS :
Financials show ~14m in the black in 2017. Burn rate looks sustainable for years at ~500 employees.
$46m dollar investment for 10% of the company, plan is to use for marketing. All crowdfunded funds used directly for game development.
Public roadmaps for both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 now both published (Star Citizen roadmap launched last year).
Squadron 42 : "our plan is to be feature and content complete by the end of 2019, with the first 6 months of 2020 for Alpha (balance, optimization and polish) and then Beta."
As a Star Citizen/Squadron 42 fan - today has been a great and reassuring day. Looking forward to 2020 :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Dec 20, 2018, 07:33 PM
Was just about to post this lol
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 20, 2018, 07:43 PM
This game is such a mess. It's really cool and awesome looking and I still am hyped for updates, but what is management doing?
SQ42 has been 1 year away for like 5 years. Heck in October of 2016 it was just two months away from launch.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 22, 2018, 01:46 PM
-Subnautica -Super Meat Boy -What Remains of Edith Finch
Jack Box Party Pack is coming up for free next week.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jan 17, 2019, 08:58 PM
Speaking of Epic's store, they actually have something that's pretty worrying.
An integral part of the store is affiliate links. That on it's own could be a nice tool for marketing but instead it's set up as a major element of the store. The publisher sets the rate from 0% to 100% and then any registered influencer can get the link to sell your game with a kickback. The default is 5% and currently Epic is paying this themselves.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 19, 2019, 05:03 PM
Steam games I'd like to play: (my steam backlog)
-Bioshock -Bioshock 2 -Bioshock Infinite -Binding of Isaac -Borderlands -Borderlnads 2 -Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel -Braid -Child of Light -Cities: Skylines -Dark Souls -DarkSiders -Dead Rising 2 -Deus Ex -Dishonored -Devil May Cry -Elder Scrolls III -Elder Scrolls IV -Fallout 3 -Fallout New Vegas -Half Life -Half Life 2 -Half Life 2: Episode 1 -Half Life 2: Episode 2 -L.A. Noire -The Last Remnant -Mass Effect -Mass Effect 2 -Metro 2033 -Metro Last Light -Mirror's Edge -Portal 1 -Rage -Remember Me -Resident Evil 4 -Resident Evil 5 -Resident Evil Revelations -Resident Evil Revelations 2 -Ryse -Saints Row IV -Sleeping Dogs -Star Dew Valley -Tomb Raider -The Walking Dead -The Walking Dead 2 -Watch Dogs -The Witcher -The Witcher 2
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 01, 2019, 04:36 AM
One of my keys on my laptop was sticking, so I was trying to take it off.
Instead I probably ended up breaking it. Either that or it was broken and that's why it was sticking.
Most likely its my fault.
Bought a replacement.
But apparently it costs like $10 for a single key.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 19, 2019, 07:03 PM
PC store exclusives are weird. They simultaneously are perfectly easy to play but silly to exist. It'd make more sense if steamOS took off but nope.
I honestly don't think valve would be in business if Steam wasn't the equivalent of WoW. They'e so horribly mismanaged and Gabe has no drive to do anything. Steam boxes and steamOS could have been huge. Hell I was walking around Best Buy today and my 1070 power MSI Arctic 3 is such a clean marvel compared to the equivalents at the store. All PCs should have this config. If Valve made a proper reference box, steam machines would still be a thing.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 21, 2019, 06:53 PM
The Witness is free on Epic Game Store in 2 weeks.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 21, 2019, 06:55 PM
Was just free on PS+. Would be funny if a pattern emerges.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 11, 2019, 03:28 PM
Also caused issues for people that were still playing the original.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 10, 2020, 11:02 PM
I'd like to build a new desktop this year.
It's really cool getting high quality stuff. I remember with my old desktops the case and the power supply were exciting.
The case came with 3 big fans, and the case felt solid. I was so blown away because I've only had prebuilts that felt cheap and only ever came with 1 small fan. And it was a cheaper case.
PSU was modular with these nice high quality cords.
All the parts came in these nice boxes. Even the cheapest parts have a more high end feel than a lot of prebuilts.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 10, 2020, 11:23 PM
I remember building my PC as if I was working on the Mars rover. Kept everything super clean and organized.
After assembling it I realized the case blocked one of the video outputs partially. Complete 180 and cut some metal off without disassembling anything.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Dr. Pezus on Jun 04, 2020, 05:27 AM
So Total War Troy was announced. And it's EGS exclusive for a year AND free to keep if claimed in the first 24 hours. Weird.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 06, 2020, 03:19 AM
I watched the apology video. Good for him. Social media is a cesspool of blaming other people. It's refreshing to see someone man up to a mistake. His video was cool.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 06, 2020, 02:36 PM
I watched the apology video. Good for him. Social media is a cesspool of blaming other people. It's refreshing to see someone man up to a mistake. His video was cool.
i was 50/50 on posting this here or in the ps5 topic.
what i really liked about this video was him explaining the ways in which cerny's design is benefiting games. i thought i understood the design but this guy had some concrete examples like with the halo load times. i found that very helpful.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 06, 2020, 06:13 PM
i was 50/50 on posting this here or in the ps5 topic.
what i really liked about this video was him explaining the ways in which cerny's design is benefiting games. i thought i understood the design but this guy had some concrete examples like with the halo load times. i found that very helpful.
If you checked the ps5 thread you'd see I already did. :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jun 06, 2020, 09:10 PM
i was 50/50 on posting this here or in the ps5 topic.
what i really liked about this video was him explaining the ways in which cerny's design is benefiting games. i thought i understood the design but this guy had some concrete examples like with the halo load times. i found that very helpful.
Yeah. Linus does good videos. I honestly don't know why he gets so much flack.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 07, 2020, 02:04 AM
If you checked the ps5 thread you'd see I already did. :P
oops. sorry.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 24, 2020, 07:08 PM
I'm thinking I'm going to buy a new SSD and hold off on a new computer for now. Doesn't seem like the time to be buying a high end future proofed build, given the pandemic and next gen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 30, 2020, 12:22 AM
A lot has changed in the PC space.
Intel is struggling and has been falling behind AMD.
Nvidia has been holding onto their GPU advantage. Definitely something AMD needs to improve on.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: aradii on Aug 26, 2020, 04:16 PM
Hi everyone i didn't find any topic to introduce myself so my name is arad ralami and after my works or dinner I'm playing games or watching anime and right know I'm playing Total War: Warhammer 2 as high elves fighting against dark elves, One of the greatest strategy games ever, this game is absolutely amazing so it has extremely addicting gameplay and It's unbelievably well balanced considered the number of different races.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 26, 2020, 04:54 PM
Hi everyone i didn't find any topic to introduce myself so my name is arad ralami and after my works or dinner I'm playing games or watching anime and right know I'm playing Total War: Warhammer 2 as high elves fighting against dark elves, One of the greatest strategy games ever, this game is absolutely amazing so it has extremely addicting gameplay and It's unbelievably well balanced considered the number of different races.
Hi and welcome! I've never actually played a total war game but just got Troy as the epic free game. Guess I need to play it one of these days.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Aug 26, 2020, 05:33 PM
Hi everyone i didn't find any topic to introduce myself so my name is arad ralami and after my works or dinner I'm playing games or watching anime and right know I'm playing Total War: Warhammer 2 as high elves fighting against dark elves, One of the greatest strategy games ever, this game is absolutely amazing so it has extremely addicting gameplay and It's unbelievably well balanced considered the number of different races.
hi to you.
i'm an bumb. the sooner you know the better.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: aradii on Aug 27, 2020, 02:25 PM
Hi and welcome! I've never actually played a total war game but just got Troy as the epic free game. Guess I need to play it one of these days.
Yeah you should try it maybe for the first time it's complicated for you but you can find a lot of tutorials in youtube for troy or any other total war games.
It does, but not by much tbh. ::P Except the SSD. The PS5's is a beast.
to be fair i have no idea what i'm reading here so i'm talking out my butt mostly.
my thought these days is technology has gotten ahead of developers ability to leverage them. to an extent that is because technically few studios are competent enough to push modern hardware. but mostly almost studios have the finacial resourses to put in the time to leverage them.
sony doesn't own all of these studios but they do own a big portion of them. TLoU 2 will be the most "next gen" title for another year i'll bet despite being on ps4. no one can match that kind of attention to detail except maybe rockstar.
a high spec'd pc seems to me to be a waste of money. the best of the best on pc is on consoles. an extra $2200 isn't worth it to me to get the same game at 60 fps...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 01, 2020, 03:50 AM
to be fair i have no idea what i'm reading here so i'm talking out my butt mostly.
my thought these days is technology has gotten ahead of developers ability to leverage them. to an extent that is because technically few studios are competent enough to push modern hardware. but mostly almost studios have the finacial resourses to put in the time to leverage them.
sony doesn't own all of these studios but they do own a big portion of them. TLoU 2 will be the most "next gen" title for another year i'll bet despite being on ps4. no one can match that kind of attention to detail except maybe rockstar.
a high spec'd pc seems to me to be a waste of money. the best of the best on pc is on consoles. an extra $2200 isn't worth it to me to get the same game at 60 fps...
This would be for work and for play for me.
-Various software development projects -VR games
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Sep 05, 2020, 10:02 PM
My computer has decided that hard drives are lame.
My new hard drive is also having issues and it seems to be windows that is causing the issue instead of my hardware. So that's great because my primary worry is backups but that's dumb because I'm not sure how to fix it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 15, 2020, 01:19 AM
So Microsoft put the Trident X on sale. I can't build a better computer for the price they dropped it down to. I mean, the i9 and 2080 (OG) brings me to 90% of the price. My dad's been bugging me to get a new computer. So I picked that up and moved computers around. I thought I could lay it on its side, but I can't. I was thinking of unscrewing the stand and putting bumpers, but I enjoy looking at that 2080's fan spin. So I'm leaving it up for now. Will fill my old PC spot with a PS5 in... like 5 years.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Oct 22, 2020, 10:36 PM
Sounds like a nice buy. I really really need a new computer I'm realising but none of the parts I want are available.
I ended up buying a samsung 970 evo 500 gb ssd and plugging it in to the front usb port. It's a really stupid setup but it'll let me get through the next few months. My computer is just generally showing its age but specifically it throttles my hard drives to kilobytes a second. So far the new SSD isn't affected and seemingly my internal SSD isn't affected.
Then once the rtx 3070 and 980 evo are available, I think I'll build a new rig and transfer this SSD over.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Oct 23, 2020, 12:30 PM
Sounds like a nice buy. I really really need a new computer I'm realising but none of the parts I want are available.
I ended up buying a samsung 970 evo 500 gb ssd and plugging it in to the front usb port. It's a really stupid setup but it'll let me get through the next few months. My computer is just generally showing its age but specifically it throttles my hard drives to kilobytes a second. So far the new SSD isn't affected and seemingly my internal SSD isn't affected.
Then once the rtx 3070 and 980 evo are available, I think I'll build a new rig and transfer this SSD over.
So far it's been good. I mean, a 2080 is no 3080, but close enough. That i9 though, it's going to be lasting me till next gen at least. But yeah, parts are going up. Without a GPU, I think the best decent thing I could price out was 950 cad. That's with like sales priced items.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 07, 2020, 04:36 AM
I said I wouldn't do this.
I bought a PC. Next week is a next gen trifecta for me.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Nov 07, 2020, 12:35 PM
Not my consumer one no. Not expecting it for another two hours or more.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 13, 2020, 06:53 AM
PC up and running!
There is only a single LED on the entire computer. It's just a small blue one only visible head on. No light on the power button, no light on the graphics card, and no light in the case. My kind of pc lol.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 14, 2020, 11:18 PM
There is only a single LED on the entire computer. It's just a small blue one only visible head on. No light on the power button, no light on the graphics card, and no light in the case. My kind of pc lol.
Are you sure you didn't just put together a cardboard box and call it a computer?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Xevross on Nov 14, 2020, 11:39 PM
There is only a single LED on the entire computer. It's just a small blue one only visible head on. No light on the power button, no light on the graphics card, and no light in the case. My kind of pc lol.
Does it have a window though?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 14, 2020, 11:44 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 17, 2020, 02:14 PM
My Trident X has a Window cover. I put it in. They put it on the CPU side, so when I need to put my gen 4 nvme drive in for next gen, it's going to be a pain cause it's on the GPU side.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 17, 2020, 06:14 PM
My Trident X has a Window cover. I put it in. They put it on the CPU side, so when I need to put my gen 4 nvme drive in for next gen, it's going to be a pain cause it's on the GPU side.
My nvme is directly under my gpu. Impossible to change without removing the gpu. Has a heatsink which is working great though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Nov 17, 2020, 07:44 PM
I have a window (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JFIPA6rcik1Dtk8YegTFZcJzysbpQgsl/view?usp=drivesdk)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Nov 18, 2020, 02:48 PM
Just saw the mobo, yeah you have to remove the gpu. Is there a second slot on thee back?
The second m2 slot is on the bottom right. Easy to get to. Third is a short slot right next to the gpu.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 09, 2020, 10:57 PM
Phanteks Enthoo Pro series PH-ES614PC_BK Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case (non-power supply cover) - Newegg.com (https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-enthoo-pro-atx-full-tower/p/N82E16811854004)
I think this is how I want to get started.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 09, 2020, 11:53 PM
Phanteks Enthoo Pro series PH-ES614PC_BK Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case (non-power supply cover) - Newegg.com (https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-enthoo-pro-atx-full-tower/p/N82E16811854004)
I think this is how I want to get started.
Time to get building?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 10, 2020, 11:15 PM
Phanteks Enthoo Pro series PH-ES614PC_BK Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower Computer Case (non-power supply cover) - Newegg.com (https://www.newegg.com/black-phanteks-enthoo-pro-atx-full-tower/p/N82E16811854004)
I think this is how I want to get started.
Get the RVZ02. Best case I've seen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 06, 2021, 03:24 PM
Not yet. Waiting on a good time to buy everything.
I still like that case. But I'm worried it's too big. But going into the mid tower range, I'm not sure what I would want to get. A lot of them don't seem to have slots for a disc reader. I'm half tempted to get the updated version of the one I bought the first time around. It has a few slots, looks decent to my eyes, and has nice clickable buttons.
I think it's between this and that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Jan 06, 2021, 09:02 PM
That case is too small! Not yet. Waiting on a good time to buy everything.
I still like that case. But I'm worried it's too big. But going into the mid tower range, I'm not sure what I would want to get. A lot of them don't seem to have slots for a disc reader. I'm half tempted to get the updated version of the one I bought the first time around. It has a few slots, looks decent to my eyes, and has nice clickable buttons.
I think it's between this and that.
Case is fine. There's space for a Blu-ray drive and 2 2.5inch HDs. That's more than those other small cases.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jan 06, 2021, 09:45 PM
Would like to get an RTX 3080 and a Ryzen 7 5800X. Sounds like it is difficult to get them though.
That's why I went with a 2060 in my new computer. Everything is so picked over. This way I can casually wait till supply and demand level out.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 18, 2021, 01:43 PM
I think the 5800X will be okay to get. Always sold out, but it seems to get regular shipments.
The RTX 3080 will be a pain. It hasn't been in stock any where in 9 days.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 19, 2021, 10:55 PM
Have notifications set up for RTX 3070 and 3080. Will get whatever I can get my hands on.
I'm getting Rift vibes. It's fun getting up at 3 in the morning and buying a $600 device. Maybe in a few months I can look into getting a new VR headset.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 20, 2021, 03:52 PM
Managed to get a 5800X off Amazon.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2021, 10:06 PM
Second computer part bought: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/corsair-rmx-series-850w-atx12v-2-4-eps12v-2-92-80-plus-gold-modular-power-supply-black/6229601.p?skuId=6229601
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2021, 11:06 PM
CPU $450 CPU fan $40 Mobo $190 PSU $150 RAM $185 Case: $100 OS: $80
Total: $1195 thus far.
Ouch. Budget: HDD: $90 SSD: $80 GPU: $500-700
Looks like it'll be a $2,000 PC, which is a good bit more than I was originally setting out for.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Mmm_fish_tacos on Feb 21, 2021, 11:42 PM
I got a 5800x about 2 weeks ago. Upgraded the MB with it. Probably didn't need to, it ran fine on the old one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 21, 2021, 11:48 PM
To save some money, you could be like me and not buy Windows. The watermark is annoying though.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 21, 2021, 11:56 PM
The one that I'm using doesn't track newegg for one.
I now made one that works for Newegg and gamestop. For some reason it doesn't work for amazon or best buy. Best buy doesn't respond and Amazon gives a nonsense response.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2021, 01:45 PM
One thing I have really loved about building a computer is you can get more premium parts.
So many prebuilts will cheap out on the case and/ or the power supply. Even the really expensive ones. And you really don't have to spend much for a nice case. My first one was $50 and I think I got it on a sale for like $35.
And it has like 3 large fans, nice build quality and nice buttons. I got a larger one this time. It only has two fans, but one of them is massive. (200mm I believe). The power button could be nicer but still.
Meanwhile the ones my parents got from Dell all had one very tiny fan. They weren't even cheap computers.
PSU are similar.
I really miss the EVGA supernova g2 though. Those were incredible. They came in premium boxes, had nice cords. It's still considered a top tier PSU. And the price was great too. :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2021, 02:28 PM
I hate power supply units!!! My computer looks so nice and clean and then bam, bunch of power cords. I didn't think about it in advance but it's really nice only having m2 ssds. They use motherboard power.
...I could just learn cable management...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2021, 02:35 PM
I hate power supply units!!! My computer looks so nice and clean and then bam, bunch of power cords. I didn't think about it in advance but it's really nice only having m2 ssds. They use motherboard power.
...I could just learn cable management...
If only PSUs were wireless. /s
This PSU was modular too, so there weren't any extra wires.
This case has better cable management than my last one.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2021, 02:45 PM
So I have my laptop set to check a list of websites every 90 seconds.
If it's in stock it will beep and open chrome to the URL.
Newegg got a hit. 8)
Only $3700.
/s
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2021, 03:18 PM
I did something I probably shouldn't have.
I opted to buy a blu ray player.
But I also opted to buy a second very cheap DVD player. With the intention I would change the region code on the latter to watch Japanese DVDs.
Fun facts: Europe and Japan have the same region code 2 for DVDs. US and Japan have the same region code A for blu rays.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2021, 03:26 PM
But I also opted to buy a second very cheap DVD player. With the intention I would change the region code on the latter to watch Japanese DVDs.
Fun facts: Europe and Japan have the same region code 2 for DVDs. US and Japan have the same region code A for blu rays.
Did not know that about region codes.
This goes against my entire console philosophy, but you still use discs? I have a usb disc drive just in case but otherwise my computer couldn't even fit a disc drive.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 24, 2021, 03:44 PM
This goes against my entire console philosophy, but you still use discs? I have a usb disc drive just in case but otherwise my computer couldn't even fit a disc drive.
On PC for games I don't. I am planning to do something with my DVD/blu ray movie collection....
On console, I have tended to get discs because between the low storage space and slow internet speeds, discs just worked better. Way easier to delete and reinstall from disc when needed.
It's different now though. My internet is so much faster. There were times during the PS3/PS4 era when I would start a full game download only to have it finish 3 days later. Literally that has happened.
I live twice as close to the store, but my internet is so much faster, it's probably faster to download than it is to run to the store. My parents were getting 10 Mbps, in practice it was common to only be getting like 3 Mbps. At this house we are getting 200 Mbps, and it's common to get close to that.
I still get movies on DVDs though. A lot of mine aren't on many/any streaming services. I'm also hesitant to buy movies digitally.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 24, 2021, 04:48 PM
On PC for games I don't. I am planning to do something with my DVD/blu ray movie collection....
On console, I have tended to get discs because between the low storage space and slow internet speeds, discs just worked better. Way easier to delete and reinstall from disc when needed.
It's different now though. My internet is so much faster. There were times during the PS3/PS4 era when I would start a full game download only to have it finish 3 days later. Literally that has happened.
I live twice as close to the store, but my internet is so much faster, it's probably faster to download than it is to run to the store. My parents were getting 10 Mbps, in practice it was common to only be getting like 3 Mbps. At this house we are getting 200 Mbps, and it's common to get close to that.
I still get movies on DVDs though. A lot of mine aren't on many/any streaming services. I'm also hesitant to buy movies digitally.
well with ps3 you can blame sony. my ps4 can download a 50gb game in like an hour. when i was downloading my digital ps3 library to be just my most favorite games a few months ago some of the ~5gb ratchet games were taking 2-3 hours.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 24, 2021, 05:29 PM
I'm sticking to console discs only because I like ownership. They are an inferior experience at this point and I'll admit it. With my fiber internet, I can download a game 3 times faster than I can copy it from a disc. A 50 gb takes ~10 minutes when their servers are being good.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Feb 24, 2021, 07:12 PM
I'm sticking to console discs only because I like ownership. They are an inferior experience at this point and I'll admit it. With my fiber internet, I can download a game 3 times faster than I can copy it from a disc. A 50 gb takes ~10 minutes when their servers are being good.
my feeling is ownership is a mirage.
i literally cannot play my my nes, snes, n64, or game cube anymore. i have them but i have no tv that can accept their output. i already purchased an adapter for my gamecube once to fit my TV that had a component input,.. i'm not doing it again for hdmi. i did buy and hdmi adaptor for my wii but it's pretty janky.
that said, i also have no desire to get those systems up and running. i have a raspberry Pi with my snes games on it and i've probably played it less than 10 hours. those 10 hours were really just launching every game for like 2 minutes to see if it really worked.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2021, 03:55 AM
Amazon charged me for the CPU. Hopefully that is promising.
Also hopefully promising. The 3060 launches tomorrow, and there has been talk of a bigger shipment for other cards.
Wish me luck!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2021, 04:23 AM
Good luck!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2021, 11:37 AM
My CPU has shipped. ;D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2021, 06:15 PM
I clicked add to cart, and it didn't happen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 25, 2021, 07:34 PM
I'm tempted to get a $40 GPU to hold me over for the next few months. I don't know what the best thing to do.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 25, 2021, 09:20 PM
Would they notice if you secretly swapped in a $40 gpu? 8)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 26, 2021, 12:07 PM
To give an idea of how absurd this is:
1.) EVGA has a queue for their cards. Their queue is 5 months behind, and it is lucky to see updates in hours over a few weeks.
2.) Apparently many asian countries are getting a grand total of 20 cards a month from all vendors. Seemingly prioritizing the west.
3.) Even ebay has very few legitimate posts. All the posts I've seen have been scams. "this is a picture. This is for bots. Humans do not buy."
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 26, 2021, 07:56 PM
I wonder what's really happening here? Most of this stuff should be automated. So I don't think there should be massive production issues. Is it the miners? Like before. Or is TSCM just full?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 26, 2021, 08:08 PM
I wonder what's really happening here? Most of this stuff should be automated. So I don't think there should be massive production issues. Is it the miners? Like before. Or is TSCM just full?
- Miners - chip shortages on new tech - RAM shortages I believe
Demand basically has never been higher and supply has probably never been lower.
I'm going to try getting a RTX 3080 over the next couple weeks. If that doesn't happen, I'm going to get a cheap $40 card and wait.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Feb 27, 2021, 03:57 AM
- Miners - chip shortages on new tech - RAM shortages I believe
Demand basically has never been higher and supply has probably never been lower.
I'm going to try getting a RTX 3080 over the next couple weeks. If that doesn't happen, I'm going to get a cheap $40 card and wait.
I know it's not an issue anymore, but that flood in Taiwan really did a number to memory production. It seems like it never recovered.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 27, 2021, 08:39 AM
I've probably had an opportunity to buy a 3070 but they're priced so close to the 3080, it just feels like a bad deal.
I don't know.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 28, 2021, 02:37 AM
Started to put some stuff together.
Comment 1: PSU manual says: follow the instructions for your chassis.
Chassis manual says: screw in your PSU. With 4 circled holes on the picture.
Me: So what are these other 4 identical holes next to the circled ones?
-----
I stuck in the M.2 straight on (which is probably not right). And it bent up at a 45 degree angle. So I was a bit terrified.
Watched a video and the guys like put this in at a 45 degree angle.
This has gone drastically smoother for the most part than the first time around. Worst bit has actually been to put in the CPU heatsink. That was absurd. Had to unscrew some brackets from the motherboard. Screw in a backplate. Screw in this giant heat sink that was basically floating on 4 screws. It was the strangest assembly I've ever had to do.
Basically all put together minus the cables.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Feb 28, 2021, 06:14 AM
I had the same issue with my first m2. I used a lever to push it in. Redoing it at 45 degrees was so easy.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 01, 2021, 05:42 AM
I hate power supply units!!! My computer looks so nice and clean and then bam, bunch of power cords. I didn't think about it in advance but it's really nice only having m2 ssds. They use motherboard power.
...I could just learn cable management...
Cable management just sucks.
You might like the case that I have. I have almost every cable routed through the back. There's one SATA cable that isn't long enough. Aside from that and the ends of the cables to plug in, there are no wires on that side of the case.
My build is done minus replacing that SATA cable and getting a GPU.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 01, 2021, 02:48 PM
The inside:
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 01, 2021, 04:14 PM
That's a big ol cpu cooler. I always use stock ones so others surprise me.
Any leds in their? My computer is pitch black with just a faint blue light on the case for power. Wasn't expecting that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 01, 2021, 04:37 PM
That's a big ol cpu cooler. I always use stock ones so others surprise me.
I always use stock when I can, but the high end AMDs don't include them. (Intel too I believe). So I bought a recommended one that I liked the look of.
Pictures don't do justice for how massive it is. I was not expecting it. It's probably 4x the size of the last heatsink + fan I had installed.
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Any leds in their? My computer is pitch black with just a faint blue light on the case for power. Wasn't expecting that.
I have somewhat been trying to avoid LEDs. I am sure the case has one for the fan in the front.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 01, 2021, 05:01 PM
I didn't notice my motherboard had 8x SATA ports....
I have: 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports 1 3.2 Gen 2 port type C on the motherboard + 2 USB 3.0 ports 2 USB 2.0 ports on the case
Confusingly the 3.2 Gen 1 ports are the same as USB 3.0 ports. My case is using the old naming scheme and my motherboard is using the new one.
Still pretty awesome, it's almost making me miss the days when lots of USBs were required for VR for the sensors and everything.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 03, 2021, 08:55 PM
I put my name into the Newegg Shuffle for a few 3070's. Which I don't know. It just really sucks, because they're more expensive than some of the 3080s being sold.
So I don't know if I should skip it, and wait for Best Buy next week. Or if I should buy it anyway, and sell it or keep it and then sell it when I get a 3080. I just don't like going through that hassle of selling it.
Of course, me thinking about it will probably be worthless anyway, because it's unlikely I win.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 05, 2021, 04:53 PM
You know? I always thought my mother board just didn't power its usb slots properly. But then I read the gigabyte Ryzen boards have issues with their USB ports. I guess I'm sticking with MSI and Asus in the future.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2021, 05:21 PM
You know? I always thought my mother board just didn't power its usb slots properly. But then I read the gigabyte Ryzen boards have issues with their USB ports. I guess I'm sticking with MSI and Asus in the future.
I avoided Gigabyte for that reason. Went with Asus this time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 05, 2021, 06:40 PM
Actually newegg has a few for $300: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti DirectX 12 GV-N105TD5-4GD Video Cards - Newegg.com (https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-gv-n105td5-4gd/p/N82E16814125916?Description=1050%20ti&cm_re=1050_ti-_-14-125-916-_-Product&quicklink=true)
Still, I don't want to spend a huge amount of money on a medium tier card.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 10, 2021, 07:23 PM
I'm amazed how much graphics card prices have skyrocketed. Will things eventually be fully stocked or is this the new normal for a while?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 10, 2021, 07:43 PM
I'm amazed how much graphics card prices have skyrocketed. Will things eventually be fully stocked or is this the new normal for a while?
It'll be this way for a while. Doesn't sound like things are going to get better for months.
Best Buy seems to be doing the best about selling cards at MSRP, but they are limited to new cards. Amazon is hard to say, they don't seem to have any cards.
Newegg seems to be charging like 25% more. Ebay seems to be 2-3x the original price.
And of course everyone is stock limited. Amazon sells out in seconds seemingly.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 12, 2021, 08:32 PM
I had a card in :'( :'( :'( :'( cart and it dropped out. :'(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 12, 2021, 09:10 PM
I had a card in :'( :'( :'( :'( cart and it dropped out. :'(
Somone could make a lot of money making a bot proof shoping system that was stress free.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 14, 2021, 04:38 AM
My mom is learning how to use a computer 8)
She was actually an early adopter and uses computers a lot, but she digressed since I became her tech guru. Lacks confidence for when unexpected things happen because I would just take care of them.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 14, 2021, 02:11 PM
24 port switch (https://www.newegg.com/ubiquiti-us-24-us-24-x-10-100-1000-mbps-rj45-ethernet-ports-2-x-1-gbps-sfp-ethernet-ports/p/0XP-000A-000S4?item=0XP-000A-000S4&source=googleshopping&nm_mc=knc-googleadwords-mobile&cm_mmc=knc-googleadwords-mobile-_-pla-_-network+-+switches-_-0XP-000A-000S4&gclid=CjwKCAiA4rGCBhAQEiwAelVti2-DiZC1ddUPGSXXZ5w3V8GLyij-8gSKkkEeY0IFb1eKqKu8qpjjahoCi_MQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 14, 2021, 05:08 PM
...what are you doing that needs a 24 port switch?
I only have a 6 port switch at my desk and a 6 port switch at my gaming tv.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 14, 2021, 06:16 PM
...what are you doing that needs a 24 port switch?
I only have a 6 port switch at my desk and a 6 port switch at my gaming tv.
I am not really doing anything that needs it. I think I'd like to wire up my house at some point.
Maybe 2 ethernet ports for the living room, 2 in each bedroom or something, 2 wireless access points. Probably would only need like 12 to do that.
My brother in law set up my parents with one, I think it's a 24 port. Most are unused. But there are 3 to wireless routers, like 6 unused ports in the great room, 2 to my brothers room, 1 to the desktop, etc.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 16, 2021, 02:03 PM
I just saw an article that stock probably won't stabilize until Q3. :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 16, 2021, 02:51 PM
Actually newegg has a few for $300: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1050 Ti DirectX 12 GV-N105TD5-4GD Video Cards - Newegg.com (https://www.newegg.com/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-gv-n105td5-4gd/p/N82E16814125916?Description=1050%20ti&cm_re=1050_ti-_-14-125-916-_-Product&quicklink=true)
Still, I don't want to spend a huge amount of money on a medium tier card.
That's bonkers. That's barely cheaper than a 2060.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 16, 2021, 03:19 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Mar 17, 2021, 12:31 AM
I really lucked out buying my 2060 back in October. Was like the only newish card still in stock at msrp.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 17, 2021, 06:30 PM
I bought another 4 TB HDD, one that is actually built for NAS. and will be dedicated to streaming plex stuff.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 19, 2021, 11:01 PM
I had a dream that I got a 3080 FE and part of it got pushed in, still worked. But still.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 28, 2021, 02:12 AM
I am sure I've said this before.
But I love the first desktop I ever built. Like every detail of it, I am proud of.
The case, the PSU, the CPU, the big GPU.
I miss it a lot. It's my parent's now, getting good use.
Considering the age and the gap in what I've paid, my new PC isn't quite the upgrade one would hope for.
I will have paid about double for: - 3x the CPU - 4x the RAM - 2x the HDD - 4x the GPU
Despite being 7 years newer.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 29, 2021, 04:42 PM
Buying off EVGA: *sign up for queue, wait 8 months and purchase it easily* Buying off Amazon: *sees in stock, add to cart, "sorry that item is out of stock". add to cart, *one item added to cart*, purchase, "sorry that item is out of stock" Buying off Best Buy: *sees in stock, add to cart, "please wait" -> 5 minutes later turns yellow, add to cart, hurry and checkout! or more likely ->20 minutes later, refresh add to cart turns yellow "not available" Buying off Newegg: *signs up for lottery, "sorry you did not get chosen"
Supposedly one of the 3070 queues has caught up on EVGA, so now I'm deciding if I want that card. As it's nearly the price of a 3080.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Mar 29, 2021, 04:59 PM
But I love the first desktop I ever built. Like every detail of it, I am proud of.
The case, the PSU, the CPU, the big GPU.
I miss it a lot. It's my parent's now, getting good use.
Considering the age and the gap in what I've paid, my new PC isn't quite the upgrade one would hope for.
I will have paid about double for: - 3x the CPU - 4x the RAM - 2x the HDD - 4x the GPU
Despite being 7 years newer.
Yeah, prices have gone up. I remember even laptop prices. What you used to be able to buy for 500 dollars, the equivalent is like 1000 now (Dollar increase here in Canada, I know)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 05, 2021, 03:08 AM
I'm never going to get a card. :'(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 05, 2021, 10:02 PM
At this point I'm definitely waiting for the next gen.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 06, 2021, 01:07 AM
I have kind of a love/hate relationship with LEDs.
I think it looks gamer obnoxious, at the same time it can look pretty cool.
Kind of want to get some LED fans...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 06, 2021, 03:51 PM
According to Linus, Trump ordered all electronics to have L.E.D.s (A joke, of course). Still, if R.A.M. had L.E.D.s, then screw it, I want all parts to have L.E.D.s. Not enough bling bling in our computers.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 06, 2021, 05:37 PM
According to Linus, Trump ordered all electronics to have L.E.D.s (A joke, of course). Still, if R.A.M. had L.E.D.s, then screw it, I want all parts to have L.E.D.s. Not enough bling bling in our computers.
Put led strips on the power cable!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Apr 06, 2021, 07:15 PM
So I have my laptop set to check a list of websites every 90 seconds.
If it's in stock it will beep and open chrome to the URL.
Newegg got a hit. 8)
Only $3700.
/s
I stopped using the tracker, but I'm trying to make a better one...
Figured out how to bypass Bestbuy's stuff.
Open up a google chrome browser, scan the data, close the browser. The plan is perfect.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Apr 29, 2021, 02:53 PM
Newegg has gotten worse. Every single card now comes as a bundle with another item. Some of those items are really expensive. Like a few actually included $400-$500 motherboards/monitors.
Popular Product Drawing Event | Newegg.com (https://www.newegg.com/product-shuffle)
Today isn't too bad. Only a $180 motherboard, included with their $2350 card. Big improvement. ;D
Best Buy had a drop yesterday out of nowhere. They've never had one so late in the day, and I don't think they've ever had one on Wednesday. So I wasn't even watching. But it seemed like more people were able to get a card than usual.
I'm kind of thinking of giving up. Or expanding, and trying to get a 6800 XT. Would mean no DLSS though. :(
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 12, 2021, 02:52 AM
Zotac had a queue for their store, you were randomly assigned into the queue and they would put you through the line. The line moved about 100 people. The highest number I saw was that someone was about 24,000th in line.
You could be in the queue in multiple spots due to having multiple devices, but I'm assuming that's not many people, and I'm also assuming that the line and the people moving were in a linear fashion with no skipped numbers.
But that suggests to me that demand is absolutely insane for the RTX series. It's kind of crazy that one of the manufacturers can't even get enough cards for 0.5% of the people that were on their store late at night, 6-7 months after launch of the product.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on May 31, 2021, 11:42 PM
Nvidia is supposed to announce the 3080 TI/3070 TI.
And the leaked MSRP are over $2000 for the 3080 TI. Despite only minor improvements over the 3080.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 01, 2021, 02:01 AM
There might be some good stuff.
I think this is the first time I will watch.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jun 06, 2021, 02:34 PM
4K benchmarks at ultra maximum settings with super costly AA solution: 35 fps "The world isn't ready for 4K gaming."
It irritates me so much.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 06, 2021, 04:28 PM
4K benchmarks at ultra maximum settings with super costly AA solution: 35 fps "The world isn't ready for 4K gaming."
It irritates me so much.
PC gaming has always been a bit elitist but nowadays it's crazy. If every setting isn't maxed it's trash.
On Steam I've noticed this a lot with minimum specs. I view minimum specs as "you can play the game at around 30 fps with everything turned to low but still fully enjoy it" while others expect 60 fps, HD+, and medium settings.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Jun 07, 2021, 12:40 PM
PC gaming has always been a bit elitist but nowadays it's crazy. If every setting isn't maxed it's trash.
On Steam I've noticed this a lot with minimum specs. I view minimum specs as "you can play the game at around 30 fps with everything turned to low but still fully enjoy it" while others expect 60 fps, HD+, and medium settings.
it's difficult for me to comprehend "minimum specs" and an expectations of "medium settings"...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jun 07, 2021, 03:15 PM
it's difficult for me to comprehend "minimum specs" and an expectations of "medium settings"...
With AAA it isn't too bad since people blame their pc. As the visual quality of the graphics drops though, people tend to blame the game instead.
I think it creates a feedback loop where devs bump up minimum specs to avoid unhappy players and then people get used to running games at near "minimum spec" with medium settings.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 05, 2021, 04:10 AM
Decided to try running Skyrim Special Edition on low settings. Just to try playing in Japanese again.
Steam says I'm getting 10-20 frames per second with my GT 710.
Can't wait to get a 3080 or something close.
My brother has the regular edition subscribed to a ton of mods, so I don't want to play it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 25, 2021, 03:14 AM
I didn't notice my motherboard had 8x SATA ports....
I have: 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports 2 USB 3.2 Gen 2 ports 1 3.2 Gen 2 port type C on the motherboard + 2 USB 3.0 ports 2 USB 2.0 ports on the case
Confusingly the 3.2 Gen 1 ports are the same as USB 3.0 ports. My case is using the old naming scheme and my motherboard is using the new one.
Still pretty awesome, it's almost making me miss the days when lots of USBs were required for VR for the sensors and everything.
Current Oculus Quest 2 requires a single 5 gbps USB port.
So I have 7x as many ports as needed. And 3 of them are 10 gbps ports.
I'm curious to see what the Quest 2 looks like with a 5 gbps data rate That must be a decent bit of compression. Makes a lot more sense what the PSVR2 will drive off a 10 gbps data rate.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2021, 07:29 PM
I bought a blu ray player that can read 4K discs.
Except LG patched that functionality out.
And I accidentally locked myself into the firmware set that patches it out, because the software I was using claimed it was uhd friendly. (Although, that software might have been talking about a custom version, and I thought I'd stick with the official version, only to find out that the official doesn't actually support it)
joy, joy.
(probably can still be fixed but it's a pain)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 29, 2021, 09:06 PM
And I accidentally locked myself into the firmware set that patches it out, because the software I was using claimed it was uhd friendly. (Although, that software might have been talking about a custom version, and I thought I'd stick with the official version, only to find out that the official doesn't actually support it)
joy, joy.
(probably can still be fixed but it's a pain)
What the heck? Was 4k functionality an unofficial feature? How could they legally patch that out?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 29, 2021, 09:26 PM
What the heck? Was 4k functionality an unofficial feature? How could they legally patch that out?
It seems to be an unofficial feature. There is a good amount of documentation about reading UHD discs by users on various sites. But apparently the feature got disabled with firmware 1.03.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 30, 2021, 03:21 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2021, 02:40 AM
Today was insane.
Got an alert for a different 3080. Checked the Nvidia one, since that's $200+ cheaper than all the others and it was in stock. Got there before the alert for it happened.
Add to cart. Didn't think anything would happen, as it never happened the previous dozen times.
Page changes and asks for login information.
Asks for authentication via phone and asks for billing info.
At this point I'm panicking because I've never gotten this far.
And eventually, I get "thanks for your order".
I'm in disbelief. Even hours later, I'm still checking my order status.
Some 10, or 11 months later of trying, I finally was able to order one and I got the one I wanted too. Was wanting the Nvidia or EVGA ones. The rest are ridiculously pricey.
And then I got a fraud alert. So I had to call someone and let them know that I wasn't forced into buying it. Which was odd.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Dec 24, 2021, 03:37 AM
well, there's still a chance someone steals the package upon delivery...
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 24, 2021, 04:12 AM
You're my shining beacon of optimism and I love you for it.
(But for real, it's actually an in store pick up)
Someone could still pose as you and pick it up
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 27, 2021, 08:03 PM
Wow congrats!!!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on Dec 29, 2021, 05:00 PM
Nice. I was building out a computer for one of my students and holy crud at those GPU prices. I didn't realize it got that bad. I figured stock was low, but like, things just stay sold out. I was in disbelief when I saw a 2060 at 1000 cad. LIke, WTF?
On another topic, I'm almost done Guardians of the Galaxy, but I feel like HDR is broken. I obviously don't have a ps4 or ps5 copy to test with, but when HDR is on, everything gets dim. Like, yes there's more dark detail, but at the same time everything is way dimmer than SDR, which is like the opposite of what I'm used to. Doesn't help at a certain bright part of the game, it looks like the HDR was working as it should, but then dims down a few frames later. I also couldn't find out anything about it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 30, 2021, 02:12 AM
Picked it up a day and a half early.
Will have to set it up later. But this is a huge thing and heavy too.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Feb 22, 2022, 03:55 PM
???? ATTENTION PC PLAYERS: We are retiring the Bethesda Launcher and moving to Steam.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2022, 02:41 AM
This PC building company Artesian Builds, in the space of a couple weeks got destroyed by their CEO.
- CEO acted like a jerk to a small streamer, and decided not to give the PC they won in a giveaway - they shut down, and laid off ~50 employees
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Mar 11, 2022, 09:20 AM
Just built a gaming PC. Never been into PC gaming but just felt like building one. It was really fun to do and nerve-wracking at the same time. Went in with little to no Knowledge of PCs and PC parts but a but of research and a YouTube PC build tutorial saw me through lol. Got a decent set up in the end, the GPU is a 3070 Ti and the CPU is a Ryzen 7 3800x.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: BananaKing on Mar 11, 2022, 08:45 PM
Honestly it would be the biggest acquisition they could make. Steam is massive, and they would own the PC market. They would effectively have the PC and xbox markets.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Mar 11, 2022, 09:28 PM
Honestly it would be the biggest acquisition they could make. Steam is massive, and they would own the PC market. They would effectively have the PC and xbox markets.
steam is private no? i've always gotten the feeling gabe view himself as fighting against MS. i kind of doubt he'd sell to MS at any price.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 11, 2022, 10:06 PM
steam is private no? i've always gotten the feeling gabe view himself as fighting against MS. i kind of doubt he'd sell to MS at any price.
Right.
Gabe does not like closed platforms. There's a reason why Valve is pushing Linux, and making their own open handheld.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 22, 2022, 11:57 AM
I need recommendations for a good puzzle game. Something similar to The Witness, Myst, The Talos Principle etc. I especially like games that involve a lot of exploring with no combat. Just want a peaceful exploration game with puzzles.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on May 22, 2022, 12:31 PM
obduction was good. not as peaceful as the others but no combat.
there aren't too many "open world" puzzle games like this so I'm not sure what to recommend.
the Turing test, manifold garden were good. those are structured more like portal though so not really any exploration.
the Talos principle had an amazing dlc expansion if you haven't picked that up.
I have my eyes on a monsters expedition. it was just featured on a psblog post as coming soon but I think it's out on PC already. I can't personally recommend yet but reviews were good.
just did a Google search for "open world puzzle games"... well you probably already know it but fez is fits the bill and is one of the greatest puzzle games ever.
the swapper came up. I don't think of it as open but it is one of my personal favorite puzzle games.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 22, 2022, 05:44 PM
I need recommendations for a good puzzle game. Something similar to The Witness, Myst, The Talos Principle etc. I especially like games that involve a lot of exploring with no combat. Just want a peaceful exploration game with puzzles.
Return of the Obra Dinn could be what you're looking for. It's a very very small open world.
Outer Wilds is also amazing. Big open world where you are left alone to figure out what the heck is happening.
Not sure if those are the types of puzzles you're looking for though. (https://i.imgur.com/hSsvKPT.png)
Riven is great and better than myst if you have yet to play it. I've also heard great things about Tunic but it has combat.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 22, 2022, 05:50 PM
Thanks for the suggestions. Riven and Obduction look cool. I have already played The Turing Test and Manifold Garden and enjoyed both thoroughly.
I'll also check out Outer Wilds.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: darkknightkryta on May 24, 2022, 02:49 PM
I need recommendations for a good puzzle game. Something similar to The Witness, Myst, The Talos Principle etc. I especially like games that involve a lot of exploring with no combat. Just want a peaceful exploration game with puzzles.
Baba is you?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 24, 2022, 11:17 PM
So I bought Obduction. About an hour in and loving it. Nice suggestion.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 22, 2022, 12:01 AM
I upgraded to Windows 11 a while ago.
It's mostly fine.
So far my complaints are: - I am not sure where to troubleshoot the internet - for some reason to change the name of a file, was placed in a sub menu. - the new paint app, is way too white.
So far my complaints are: - I am not sure where to troubleshoot the internet - for some reason to change the name of a file, was placed in a sub menu. - the new paint app, is way too white.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Dec 31, 2022, 01:28 AM
Both of my drives (DVD and Blu-ray drive) seem to be failing in one sense or the other
Blu ray drive still reads DVDs just fine, but I was having trouble reading a brand new Blu-ray of Avatar. Still kind of working, but not very well.
The DVD drive was even worse. Immediately ejects any disc, asking for me to insert a disc. Seems to think a disc is some kind of foreign object or something.
Kind of feel like the drives were tampered with, by a certain toddler...
Replaced the DVD drive with a new Blu ray drive. Seems to be reading Avatar just fine now.
On a related topic it is weird how difficult it is to play a Blu-ray on windows.
VLC Media Player, which is pretty proud of being able to play pretty much everything, requires a lot to play Blu-ray discs. Like 7 steps of adding different files to different locations.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Dec 31, 2022, 01:56 AM
On a related topic it is weird how difficult it is to play a Blu-ray on windows.
VLC Media Player, which is pretty proud of being able to play pretty much everything, requires a lot to play Blu-ray discs. Like 7 steps of adding different files to different locations.
Wouldn't have expected that.
Bluray is even older than digital netflix!
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 04, 2023, 07:33 AM
Anyone else annoyed with constant forced windows updates? You can just pause them indefinitely regardless of what windows says. I had my computer stay "on" for a couple months while I did a dev sprint and it worked just fine.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Apr 04, 2023, 04:02 PM
i hate them more on my ipad. it's (really) old and updating will brick it. yet over and over and over and over again it will redownload the 1+ Gb on an 8 Gb device to try and make it easy to update the OS forcing me to redelete the update file over and over and over and over again so that i can use the device.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Apr 22, 2023, 06:06 PM
I need some recommendations for games. Only things I ask is a game that doesn't take a while to get in to, some puzzle elements and on Steam :)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 22, 2023, 06:22 PM
just downloaded. That was the quickest game to download for me since PS minis.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Apr 24, 2023, 07:21 PM
The Talos Principle is £4 on steam right now. If you don't own it, this is one hell of a bargain.
If anybody likes investigating games, try the demo of Scene Investigators. 1 scene with all the evidence you need to solve the crime with no help from the game at all. It's from the same people that made The Painscreek Killings and can be downloaded here Home | eqstudios.com (https://www.eqstudios.com/)
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: kitler53 on Apr 24, 2023, 08:33 PM
+1 to talos principle. a game i wish i could forget so that i could play it again for the first time.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 24, 2023, 10:04 PM
The Talos Principle is £4 on steam right now. If you don't own it, this is one hell of a bargain.
If anybody likes investigating games, try the demo of Scene Investigators. 1 scene with all the evidence you need to solve the crime with no help from the game at all. It's from the same people that made The Painscreek Killings and can be downloaded here Home | eqstudios.com (https://www.eqstudios.com/)
I enjoyed that but the demo was glitched for me. Evidence extended off screen so I couldn't see all the hints or change the calendar month.
Makes me want to get around to playing painscreek killings. I bought it on the last sale.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Apr 26, 2023, 05:11 PM
I enjoyed that but the demo was glitched for me. Evidence extended off screen so I couldn't see all the hints or change the calendar month.
Makes me want to get around to playing painscreek killings. I bought it on the last sale.
Great game. I feel bad about my "review" on it because it's one of my favourite games in that genre. Sometimes when you really like a game it's easy to pick on niggly faults that sound worse than they are.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on Apr 26, 2023, 05:12 PM
I just bought the Myst bundle. Should keep me busy for a while since I still have a few other games to complete.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2023, 05:17 PM
Oh lame that it includes multiple copies of myst. I don't own it on Steam so the bundle would cost way more than buying 4 and 5 separately.
Will wait for another sale since I already have a backlog of other games.
Almost just bought Riven, 3, 4 and 5 separately instead of bundle because I already played the first one on Game Pass when I had a month sub for £1. Bought bundle because I want to try and get my boy to have a go to for a few extra quid I got the bundle. Not even sure what URU is and if any good. Is it a full on game or some weird "thing"?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 26, 2023, 09:17 PM
Almost just bought Riven, 3, 4 and 5 separately instead of bundle because I already played the first one on Game Pass when I had a month sub for £1. Bought bundle because I want to try and get my boy to have a go to for a few extra quid I got the bundle. Not even sure what URU is and if any good. Is it a full on game or some weird "thing"?
I don't know about uru. I think the answer is it's both.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 14, 2023, 05:10 PM
I just downloaded a game called Number 217721 and after a minute of playing I had to turn it off because the game doesn't let you cap the framerate so my GPU was running at a constant 95%+. Will this do any damage to the GPU for an extended amount of time and is there an a option to cap the frames outside of the game? I did see options to set the max GPU usage and max heat within the GeForce app but would rather cap the frames.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 14, 2023, 05:24 PM
I just downloaded a game called Number 217721 and after a minute of playing I had to turn it off because the game doesn't let you cap the framerate so my GPU was running at a constant 95%+. Will this do any damage to the GPU for an extended amount of time and is there an a option to cap the frames outside of the game? I did see options to set the max GPU usage and max heat within the GeForce app but would rather cap the frames.
Unless your pc is setup improperly it shouldn't damage it.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 14, 2023, 05:36 PM
I just downloaded a game called Number 217721 and after a minute of playing I had to turn it off because the game doesn't let you cap the framerate so my GPU was running at a constant 95%+. Will this do any damage to the GPU for an extended amount of time and is there an a option to cap the frames outside of the game? I did see options to set the max GPU usage and max heat within the GeForce app but would rather cap the frames.
No, temperature is a more notable issue.
It may shorten the life of your GPU, but they generally have protection against overheating. In that case, you might see something shut down.
I run my gpu at its limits pretty much every day during game dev. It's really not something to worry about. Did a quick test and couldn't get above 81C.
80-85C is generally what you want. There are some GPUs that are often higher, closer to 90C during typical running.
I like that GPUs are self contained so I never really worry. My CPU however, oh boy was I paranoid for a while that it was too hot.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 14, 2023, 06:29 PM
On another note, we are having new windows and the window fitter broke my monitor, which was a 1080p monitor, and didn't say a word. So today I bought a new monitor which is 4k. That's another reason I was worried about the GPU because of the extra load of running at a higher res. I don't think I've ever heard my fans until today lol.
I run my gpu at its limits pretty much every day during game dev. It's really not something to worry about. Did a quick test and couldn't get above 81C.
I like that GPUs are self contained so I never really worry. My CPU however, oh boy was I paranoid for a while that it was too hot.
So if anything I should worry more about the CPU because that relies more on installing it properly?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 14, 2023, 07:03 PM
On another note, we are having new windows and the window fitter broke my monitor, which was a 1080p monitor, and didn't say a word. So today I bought a new monitor which is 4k. That's another reason I was worried about the GPU because of the extra load of running at a higher res. I don't think I've ever heard my fans until today lol. So if anything I should worry more about the CPU because that relies more on installing it properly?
If you built the pc yourself sure, but it's a paranoia more than a valid fear.
Congrats on upgrading to 4k! I love my 4k monitor. Everything just looks so crisp.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 14, 2023, 07:22 PM
I did build it myself :o with no experience of PC building :o *fire emoji*
My previous PC (my first time building one too) I finished everything and closed it up only to realize part of the case was blocking the displayport port. I was lazy and didn't want to take everything out so I grinded that hunk of metal off while all the parts were still in there :P
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 14, 2023, 08:46 PM
My previous PC (my first time building one too) I finished everything and closed it up only to realize part of the case was blocking the displayport port. I was lazy and didn't want to take everything out so I grinded that hunk of metal off while all the parts were still in there :P
;D
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: SWORDF1SH on May 15, 2023, 10:08 PM
Days Gone is £13 on Steam... should I?
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on May 15, 2023, 10:17 PM
I do but I rarely play it these days. PC is where I'm at.
Days gone was free if you had base ps+
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Jul 26, 2023, 04:11 PM
Our first look at Ratchet on PC! It has a few issues but it's overall in good shape! Infinitely better than TLOUP1 and Jedi Survivor at launch. The funniest bit is when Rich tried running the game off an actual PS4 hard drive on a machine just above min spec! https://t.co/Qt0qkYwzeupic.twitter.com/hgFrXKVGSG
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Jul 28, 2023, 07:37 PM
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Aug 03, 2023, 09:54 PM
I just noticed my old computer monitor has burn in and I have no idea what caused it.
One part is very clearly "$2,700 => $8,000" in italicized text and I have no idea when that would have been on my screen. Maybe a youtube ad that was paused. The rest of the burn in looks very similar to a non full screen youtube page but things don't line up perfectly.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Sep 22, 2023, 03:55 PM
Steam VR Client had another ridiculously large update with a ton of new VR focused implementations. Gonna be a wild night on my Twitter!
Lets start off with these! Which include battery information for.. some sort of Standalone HMD thing ???? pic.twitter.com/tSvwKSSJxp
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Nov 17, 2023, 07:08 PM
Half Life (https://www.resetera.com/threads/half-life-25th-anniversary-update-half-life-uplink-new-multiplayer-maps-updated-graphical-settings-steamdeck-verified-and-more.786276/) has been updated for the 25th anniversary, and also Valve is giving it away for free for the next few days.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Nov 17, 2023, 07:59 PM
Half Life (https://www.resetera.com/threads/half-life-25th-anniversary-update-half-life-uplink-new-multiplayer-maps-updated-graphical-settings-steamdeck-verified-and-more.786276/) has been updated for the 25th anniversary, and also Valve is giving it away for free for the next few days.
Thanks for the heads up. I've played the opening section of Half Life countless times throughout the years but I've never stuck with it. Having my own copy might change that.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 04, 2024, 09:58 PM
Been looking into throwing together a server for cheap, mostly because I want expandable storage for cheap.
Got a server with a bunch of HDDs that work was throwing away.
I think I'm going to throw out the server stuff, and keep the HDDs, wipe them.
Build a new server for ~$500.
I've been looking into Unraid vs Raid 6.
The nice thing about Unraid is that you can combine different sized drives. But you lose out on the speed that Raid has.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 05, 2024, 04:46 AM
ASUS - $115 (https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-B550-PLUS-Motherboard-DisPlayPort-Addressable/dp/B089CT5GDM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FQJYMUORP89H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.C0iQGPJGQwvEzQRMHFHEiLmkRffwIpojm9Jh3a8dLK08LxHxibmTWb395297TT0OuE1nWF1asWQ6N0s41kYDtVQwZcjZiJSHLghQEq3y0v_B7ttmdbAeiqk_7vk5qR7kgtuXziJUxK3NOy6KA8HgBhGdEBUB4ZG0_gWQMUB8ELG3wnjTLfe8qfWAJP6nkXdyuNL15outgr3GYr-NMHM1iy_IEi5tQx4YbcziGQQsCsw.RGa1_Q3oXLMp7MndYVXQrw9WCJwo1MQnyeoP77aTKc4&dib_tag=se&keywords=am4%2Bfifth%2Bgen%2Bamd%2Bmotherboard%2Batx&qid=1709614068&sprefix=am4%2Bfifth%2Bgen%2Bamd%2Bmotherboard%2Batx%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-1&th=1)
Both of my drives (DVD and Blu-ray drive) seem to be failing in one sense or the other
Blu ray drive still reads DVDs just fine, but I was having trouble reading a brand new Blu-ray of Avatar. Still kind of working, but not very well.
The DVD drive was even worse. Immediately ejects any disc, asking for me to insert a disc. Seems to think a disc is some kind of foreign object or something.
Kind of feel like the drives were tampered with, by a certain toddler...
Replaced the DVD drive with a new Blu ray drive. Seems to be reading Avatar just fine now.
On a related topic it is weird how difficult it is to play a Blu-ray on windows.
VLC Media Player, which is pretty proud of being able to play pretty much everything, requires a lot to play Blu-ray discs. Like 7 steps of adding different files to different locations.
My slim bluray drive might be failing. There were a few DVDs that have issues. When I open them up on MakeMKV I get a lot of scsi errors. On my slim LG drive, the drive literally dies and I have to eject. My external Pioneer UHD drive reads them fine, though it still gives the scsi errors. I think it might be a power issue, but still.
ASUS - $115 (https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-B550-PLUS-Motherboard-DisPlayPort-Addressable/dp/B089CT5GDM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FQJYMUORP89H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.C0iQGPJGQwvEzQRMHFHEiLmkRffwIpojm9Jh3a8dLK08LxHxibmTWb395297TT0OuE1nWF1asWQ6N0s41kYDtVQwZcjZiJSHLghQEq3y0v_B7ttmdbAeiqk_7vk5qR7kgtuXziJUxK3NOy6KA8HgBhGdEBUB4ZG0_gWQMUB8ELG3wnjTLfe8qfWAJP6nkXdyuNL15outgr3GYr-NMHM1iy_IEi5tQx4YbcziGQQsCsw.RGa1_Q3oXLMp7MndYVXQrw9WCJwo1MQnyeoP77aTKc4&dib_tag=se&keywords=am4%2Bfifth%2Bgen%2Bamd%2Bmotherboard%2Batx&qid=1709614068&sprefix=am4%2Bfifth%2Bgen%2Bamd%2Bmotherboard%2Batx%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-1&th=1)
Ordered a PSU and the first HDD (which is not included in this pricing breakdown.)
Still have to figure out how I want to do this.
I'm leaning towards integrated gpus with Intel. I can potentially cut out the GPU costs.
It's a little funny, only 4 years ago, it seemed like the advice was "Do not try transcoding 4k under any circumstances". And now it's like "why would you get a dedicated GPU for transcoding, my integrated toaster can transcode a few 4k streams."
Although the Intel Arc A380 seems very interesting. It seems like it is excellent for transcoding, and yet terrible for gaming and anything else. Like doubles a RTX 2080 Super in encoding speed, while being a fraction in gaming.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 16, 2024, 02:09 AM
Been struggling to find a good motherboard that has the features I want. And now I found one for cheap at Newegg and wondering what the catch is.
And then I found a reddit thread where people were making fun of it for not having a lot of USB ports. *shrugs*
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: the-pi-guy on Mar 20, 2024, 06:59 PM
ASUS - $115 (https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-B550-PLUS-Motherboard-DisPlayPort-Addressable/dp/B089CT5GDM/ref=sr_1_1?crid=FQJYMUORP89H&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.C0iQGPJGQwvEzQRMHFHEiLmkRffwIpojm9Jh3a8dLK08LxHxibmTWb395297TT0OuE1nWF1asWQ6N0s41kYDtVQwZcjZiJSHLghQEq3y0v_B7ttmdbAeiqk_7vk5qR7kgtuXziJUxK3NOy6KA8HgBhGdEBUB4ZG0_gWQMUB8ELG3wnjTLfe8qfWAJP6nkXdyuNL15outgr3GYr-NMHM1iy_IEi5tQx4YbcziGQQsCsw.RGa1_Q3oXLMp7MndYVXQrw9WCJwo1MQnyeoP77aTKc4&dib_tag=se&keywords=am4%2Bfifth%2Bgen%2Bamd%2Bmotherboard%2Batx&qid=1709614068&sprefix=am4%2Bfifth%2Bgen%2Bamd%2Bmotherboard%2Batx%2Caps%2C99&sr=8-1&th=1)
Now the case I've been looking at is completely sold out everywhere, and going for way more than normal price.
Close to a month on trying to build a PC, and still not a finish line in sight.
yep. i remember building a PC once. it was both much easier and much harder that i thought it would be. at my age (and wage) i don't think i could be bothered to do it again.
Title: Re: PC Community Thread
Post by: Legend on Apr 04, 2024, 03:30 PM