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| News Comments > Free Hyperspace Pinball |
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Re: Free Hyperspace Pinball |
Apr 12, 2013, 08:05 |
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I like free games (and pinball too!), but I'm not going to install yet another digital distribution client for it.
You did see the standalone download, no? |
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| News Comments > Star Wars: The Old Republic APAC Servers Closing |
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Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic APAC Servers Closing |
Mar 27, 2013, 12:53 |
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As for the server closures, it makes sense that you turn underpopulated servers into well-populated servers, but how exactly does this give the Asian players the "best play experience?" I guess the Force is stronger than latency?
You didn't know?
Perhaps they think that the number of players outweighs latency? |
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| News Comments > Star Wars: The Old Republic APAC Servers Closing |
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Re: Star Wars: The Old Republic APAC Servers Closing |
Mar 27, 2013, 11:30 |
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I've been playing TOR for about a year now. The merging of servers has been good so far - there are a lot more players in zones now.
The only problem is that you really don't need to group with other players all that often - unless you are doing the Heroic quests. And even then, a duo (with companions) can plow through them with a little effort. Granted, my highest toon is level 27 or 28. Maybe groups are required at higher levels.
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| News Comments > Saturday Tech Bits |
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Re: Tomb Raider |
Mar 10, 2013, 01:28 |
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While I suppose it looks kind of cool I can't really see much benefit to running a 3rd person game across three screens like that. Everything looks kind of stretched out too.
I am playing SWTOR (as third-person) across three screens and its pretty cool. The left and right screens are a bit warped, but its not too bad.
The only real problem is that its kind of expensive to get something like this going. I am using screens that cost ~$150 each plus a ~$200 video card. So at around $650, I don't think its worth the cost of admission unless you are doing something like flight sims (which I am doing on this rig) where three screens are actually awesome, needed AND cool!  |
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| News Comments > G4 Makeover Coming? |
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Re: G4 Makeover Coming? |
Sep 8, 2012, 10:14 |
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Parallax Abstraction wrote:
Nuke the site from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
Hell yeah. |
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| News Comments > Black Ops 2 Specs; No XP Support |
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Re: Do it! Come on, do it! Do it now! |
Sep 7, 2012, 13:13 |
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Yes, work which requires no 3D API use whatsoever. That's becoming more and more rare.
For sure, but with VMWare supporting it - I think its only a matter of time before someone figures out how to do it. Its entirely possible that they already know how to do it, but just haven't got it implemented yet. Or they are waiting for Windows 9
I agree that there really shouldn't be a technical reason why they cannot do this - especially if they support only the D3D API and require a certain DirectX level on the host.
For what its worth, I've run some older games in VMWare with good results. From the testing I've done with it so far, at least for me, it makes more sense to continue using VMWare on my desktop but to use Hyper-V on my servers. |
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| News Comments > Black Ops 2 Specs; No XP Support |
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Re: Do it! Come on, do it! Do it now! |
Sep 6, 2012, 14:13 |
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You missed my point. My point was that you should be able to disable hardware virtualization in VMware without uninstalling it or changing your BIOS setting so you can test Hyper-V.
There isn't a way to disable hardware virtualization in VMWare as a whole (at least not that I know of), it can only be disabled per VM.
And even if you could, you would no longer be able to run 64-bit guests. HW virtualization is required for 64-bit guests.
And even if you didn't want to use a 64-bit guest, if you try to install Hyper-V when VMWare is installed, Windows will not let you.
And even if you could MAKE windows let you install the Hyper-V role or change the install order (Hyper-V THEN VMWare), most likely you would have to do a bunch of crap to prevent it from crashing.
Putting virtualization in a consumer OS like Windows 7 and 8 and then not being able to use it for any applications which use Direct3D or OpenGL is just pointless. A server can get away with only running 2D apps, but a consumer PC can't. Even business applications like many of Adobe's products have 3D functionality. Microsoft has no excuse for doing that especially since it develops Direct3D.
Except to do work.
Besides, in order to install Hyper-V, you would need Pro or higher:
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| News Comments > Black Ops 2 Specs; No XP Support |
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Re: Do it! Come on, do it! Do it now! |
Sep 5, 2012, 14:39 |
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Actually I've now read online that you can use both at the same time if VMware is set not to use hardware virtualization mode.
Then there really is no point to trying it out. Hyper-V won't install if you don't have virtualization enabled in the BIOS (at least it didn't in Windows 2008 and 2008 R2).
Without HW virtualization, you'd need to have a real monster of a machine to get good performance out of a VM. If it came down to that, I'd just build a super cheap Windows XP machine with a somewhat modern graphics card and install old games on that.
I've also now read that Hyper-V doesn't support hardware 3D so it sounds like it is still basically just Microsoft's Virtual PC product integrated into Windows 8 which means it is useless for games.
Yeah, I don't think Microsoft is going for the legacy gaming market with Hyper-V. I think what they are going for is server consolidation (Windows Server), testing and backwards compat (Windows 8).
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| News Comments > Black Ops 2 Specs; No XP Support |
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Re: Do it! Come on, do it! Do it now! |
Sep 5, 2012, 08:09 |
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Well what the hell are you waiting for?! That's the only reason to use it.
Do it and report your results.
As I said, its a 'one or the other' kind of deal with Hyper-V and VMWare, so I'd have to uninstall VMWare to make try it out.
I'll try to do something with it this week and let you know how it goes.
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| News Comments > Black Ops 2 Specs; No XP Support |
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Re: Windows 7 was not exclusively 64-bit because of compatibility issues. |
Sep 4, 2012, 22:02 |
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The Hyper-V performance in Windows 8 RTM is quite nice, although I haven't tried to run games in it yet.
You won't be able to install VMWare 8 and Hyper-V at the same time, which is to be expected, so you'll be forced to pick between one or the other.
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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
May 7, 2012, 19:14 |
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AT&T CEO Regrets Ever Offering Unlimited Data.
Bet you he wasn't saying that when AT&T was the only place you could buy an iPhone.
Edit: For grammer |
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| News Comments > etc., etc. |
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Re: etc., etc. |
Apr 20, 2012, 19:38 |
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So, Gabe met with Tim and they talked about secret stuff?
I'm betting its a Steam Console. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Mar 9, 2012, 19:31 |
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Holy crap how much porn do you guys need to watch at one time?
As many as we want!
What's really cool is spanning a video across all four screens, which gives you this huge area, but you have to sit back a bit to enjoy it. At that point, it's almost better to turn on the the 32" and stream the video on that. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Mar 9, 2012, 19:25 |
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Your image reminds me of one the things which really annoys me, that you can't set different backgrounds for different
I'm actually running a screensaver across all 5 screens. I use DesktopFusion, the free version lets you set different desktops on each screen. The paid version lets you run the same screen saver on each screen or different screensavers on each screen.
I have that 32", but there is a reason it's 5' away from me. It's fucking hot. Don't get me wrong, the four screens put out a decent amount of heat, but not as much as the 32". |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Mar 9, 2012, 13:54 |
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Six screens, one desk.
Big deal. I have 5 (possible 6) hooked up to one PC.
2 x Dell 2007 WFP
2 x HP L2045w
1 x BBY LCD (32" Dynex Flat Screen)
I have two graphics cards:
ATI Radeon HD4200 (On-board, supports 1 VGA and 1 DVI/HDMI)
ATI Radeon HD4600 (PCI-x, supports 4 x DVI)
http://download.candela.us/img/fun/allon.jpg |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Feb 7, 2012, 10:08 |
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I would be ok with this if games weren't 60.00. There are VERY FEW games that have enough content to be worth that much. Every year they pump out less content per disc and more DLC.
Isn't that the truth.
That's why I think this whole 'not playing used games' is crap. We get less and less content every year for our $60.
The only consolation we get is that there will be DLC, which is generally released right after launch and/or there is occasionally some stupid achievement or trophy for playing through the game more than once.
Providing it keeps good games coming and especially if it keeps game developers employed, I am OK - but not happy - with:
Getting nickel and dime'd on the DLC.
Paying for an 'unlock' key as long as the price is reasonable.
Paying MORE for a game.
I am NOT OK with all three combined. Even IF it keeps devs employed.
This comment was edited on Feb 8, 2012, 06:29. |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Feb 6, 2012, 21:06 |
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Volition dev: next Xbox not playing pre-owned games would be "fantastic".
Fuck. you. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Jan 28, 2012, 08:48 |
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| Would have been cooler if its was one of those underlit deals from the show... |
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| News Comments > Morning Mobilization |
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Re: Morning Mobilization |
Jan 28, 2012, 08:46 |
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Do your worst AT&T. The more customers you drive away, the better I'll feel.
Thats right. I dropped my AT&T account because my Android's 'unlimited data' on Verizon is still unlimited and hasn't increased in cost.
I have bone to pick with Verizon about my aircard, but thats another story.
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