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For most NAS uses these drives will be awful. Any write to a shingled section that isn't just appending data to what's already there involves a full 256MB read-modify-write cycle, and without an SMR-aware filesystem chances are that will be most of them. We're talking single-digit IOPS here.
Enterprise customers with custom-written object-store filesystems, sure. Your home server, not so much :/
Enterprise customers with custom-written object-store filesystems, sure. Your home server, not so much :/
the cheaper one was simply a shorter statue that did not light up.
It was also made out of metal instead of plastic. Disappointed they didn't go with that one :/
Was introduced in 13.8 beta 2 iirc. "Enabling CrossFire can result in the PCI-e bus speed for the secondary GPU being reported as x1".
Makes a bit more sense if the fix was just cosmetic.
Makes a bit more sense if the fix was just cosmetic.
Looks a lot like Sword of the Stars. I approve.
I dare say it's not entirely up to them; they get to ask Activision nicely if they want to participate in a sale, and some asshole there decides that sure, why not, $1.49 off. I can't quite decide if they seriously think it'll make a difference or if they're trying to be insulting to Impulse and their customers.
Have they fixed the ridiculous load times yet?
£17.99 from Amazon UK. $27. I guess that eases the sting of the fascist activation limits.
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Boo.
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Clear Sky got 10.1 support in patch 1.5.06
Well, it was helping. Then my computer made a loud *POP*, and all the lights in the house went out.
My 8800GTS 512 is now dead, as is my PSU. Yay nVidia
My 8800GTS 512 is now dead, as is my PSU. Yay nVidia
Someone in an earlier thread suggested disabling v-sync. You might give it a try.
Ooh, yeah, that helps lots, pretty much resolves it for me, thanks. What an unfortunate default, do they not test these things?
Also: while I was testing this, I was randomly flipped to the desktop 3 times in as many minutes. It appears they hate focus-follows-mouse, maybe combined with multimonitor.
No, there's no appreciable difference in lag from 800x600 to 2560x1600. 2560*1600 is silky smooth, so it'd be very odd for that to be the problem anyway.
I guess I was a bit harsh saying 500-1000ms though, it's maybe not quite that high, maybe more like 300; it's certainly high enough to be very distracting. It feels like they're trying to replicate the craptastic aiming you get with a console controller, only with a mouse :/
I guess I was a bit harsh saying 500-1000ms though, it's maybe not quite that high, maybe more like 300; it's certainly high enough to be very distracting. It feels like they're trying to replicate the craptastic aiming you get with a console controller, only with a mouse :/
Controls on the PC are actually pretty dire. There's something like a 500-1000ms lag between moving the mouse and the game actually noticing. Very distracting.
Runs very smoothly at 2560*1600 on my 8800GTS though. It just happens to play like my controls are connected via a server in China...
Runs very smoothly at 2560*1600 on my 8800GTS though. It just happens to play like my controls are connected via a server in China...
Full changelog here.
"Drones launched from ships now seek out new targets without returning!" woo \o/
"Drones launched from ships now seek out new targets without returning!" woo \o/
Performance still sucked, changing the system scan thing to give lower settings isn't a better engine, it's a quick hack. They probably tweaked it as well to be fair, but nothing noticeable.
Um, it was pretty noticable here; I can play Warhead with higher resolution and with comparable detail levels to the original and it still runs smoother.
Autodetection did seem a bit conservative, though, I had a lot of popup before I bumped up the detail levels.
The online activation actually worked fine, I think my disc is just defective. I am pretty pissed that I didn't find out about the limited activations until after I bought it though.
The game itself is good, certainly a tighter experience than the original. The engine is considerably faster; I can play in "Gamer" (aka "High") at 1920*1200 on a 8800GTS 512, though auto-detection wanted me to run "Mainstream" (Medium); a bit smoother, but has a lot of irritating popup. Hopefully they'll backport the changes to the original.
The game itself is good, certainly a tighter experience than the original. The engine is considerably faster; I can play in "Gamer" (aka "High") at 1920*1200 on a 8800GTS 512, though auto-detection wanted me to run "Mainstream" (Medium); a bit smoother, but has a lot of irritating popup. Hopefully they'll backport the changes to the original.
Oh look, the installer's hung. I wonder why that is.
Online activation you say? Maybe they should ensure they actually have some clue about high-availablility services before they do that.
Should have bought through Steam...
Online activation you say? Maybe they should ensure they actually have some clue about high-availablility services before they do that.
Should have bought through Steam...
Got there eventually; it seems my DVD drive had spun down so low I couldn't hear it. This is apparantly not an isolated incident; some people had to buy a new DVD drive just to read the disc, so I guess they weren't manufactured very well.
PC Zone gave it 83%, "decent plot, satisfying tactical combat, real sense of strategy".
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