Look at the bright side, this means you have an excuse to get an even better computer! As Treydog said though, it is a good idea to back up everything important on something, even just a simple flash drive.



Maybe not. Fallout 3 runs far better on my machines than Oblivion does, and it is the newer generation, with better graphics. They obviously took the time to tweak the performance of the engine and reduce a lot of the resource hogging. Although Skyrim is probably using an all new engine, in which case it may be what you say, and we will be back at square one with a game that needlessly wastes memory and cpu cores.

Yeah I'm actually pretty excited to see what they do with Skyrim in terms of gameplay. Hopefully they don't stick to their old ways of removing things and simplifying others, taking the game even further into the mainstream market.

I don't think it can get any more mainstream than Oblivion, that was as basic as it gets - but I loved it anyway, lol.

New Sound Card just arrived.

Now to get it installed. It's already plugged in and recognized, but I need to DL a few more peripherals for it from Creative first (their auto-updater is doing that for me now).

EDIT: IT'S ALIIIIVE!!!

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Dec 20 2010, 11:49 PM

WOO HOO !!! Congrats!!!

Update on my dead computer: I guess technology can be a wonderful thing. My shop built me a new computer over the weekend and was able to port everything over from the old machine. I don't mean just data, I mean an entire complex Oblvion installation with patches, mods and utilities. I knew my data would be able to be transferred, but I expected to have to reinstall Oblivion, patches, utilities, mods and try to get it all running again. Amazingly painless, and I'm back in business - both my game and my fanfic. WooHoo!!

Cool! Hopefully Oblivion runs better on the new machine in the bargain.

Does that mean we will be seeing Buffy today?

You see? PCs aren't that bad. Looks like today is a great day for hardware.

On that topic, I actually keep two hard-drives of data on my computer, one being an exact copy of the other created with a HDD cloning tool and updated semi-weekly. This means not only am I assured minimal data loss in the event of computer failure (backup HDD is kept off the computer's power grid unless it is needed), but also the ability to fall back if I encounter software failure and Windows refuses to start, quick and painless. Glad to hear your hard drive survived the transfer.

I've just started playing around with my sound card, and let me tell you... Dolby Digital through my Ear Force X41 headset (Turtle Beach), WOW! What a difference over the integrated!

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Dec 21 2010, 12:11 AM

Thanks! The new one has more puter juice (that's the right technical term, right?) so it should run very well for a long time. I hope to tinker with things tomorrow, and post our next episode on Wednesday. I edit and fret like a treydoggie glacier.

Lets hear the stats!!!!

Oh gee, I don't even know what most of that stuff means. The guys that built it know me well and built the last one which lasted 5 years.

I just asked them, "Bobo play Oblivion on this?"
They nodded and said, "Bobo play Oblivion good."

Here is some of the gibberish on the write up sheet:
GeForce GTX 460
Intel i5 760 processor 2.80 GHz
2084 MB DDR3 1600 Dual Channel Memory
2084 MB DDR3 1600 Dual Channel Memory
500 GB SATA 7200RPM 3.5" Hard Drive
500 GB SATA 7200RPM 3.5" Hard Drive
Windows 7 Professional 64

It backs itself up every week, and they gave me this whiz bang little stick so I can archive Buffy's story every few days.



This post has been edited by Acadian: Dec 21 2010, 01:40 AM

WOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!! This one will handle TESV with no problems !!!



This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 21 2010, 01:45 AM

Oh, Bobo did good. Bobo happy!

Bobo make happy plate, ROFL !!!!

Looks good. Even better if that handles TES V then with minimal upgrades so should mine...

Still new computers are always exciting things Enjoy the new found speediness Acadian.


And Happy Solstice everyone! Finally the days start getting longer again, good excuse for a bonfire and mulled wine too

Heheh...sorry, I just can't help it, Acadian...

My 5 year old machine (OK, I've more or less rebuilt it 2 years ago) has 8 gigabytes RAM in addition to a GE force 8500 GT...

And I shall be getting a new machine for Christmas...

*ducks*

My PC is [censored] and it has a better graphics card on it - the criteria for buying a PC (for me) used to be, "Will it play Oblivion?" - Now it is, "Will it play Fallout 3?" - since mine plays Oblivion but not Fallout 3. I didn't even bother looking for New Vegas, just headed right to the 360 rack.

Since we're on the topic, here's my specs:

Motherboard: MSI P6N Diamond PCI-E
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Pro SP3
Memory: 3GB DDR2 RAM, 512MB GDDR3 VRAM
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.40 gHz
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8800GT 2 way SLI
Audio: Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium PCI-E

A little old, but don't underestimate it, it can play most modern games (ME2, AC2, Nehrim, etc.) without even sweating. I'd prefer to have more RAM, but that's all WinXP can handle and I'm not QUITE ready to upgrade yet (skipped Vista).

This post has been edited by Thomas Kaira: Dec 21 2010, 10:25 PM

GAAAAH!!! It is pretty bad when I'm drooling over a PC that the owner describes as OLD, lol. And if you have XP - NEVER go to Vista!!! It is a huge mistake, and once Vista is in, it won't let you go back to XP without making a partition - and Vista is not gamer friendly to some PC's (HP's in particular, there may be others).

This post has been edited by mALX: Dec 22 2010, 04:44 AM

While we're talking about it: what's everybody's experiences with gaming with Windows 7? I'm using it extensively at work (one laptop Win7, one Linux) and I like it a lot more than any previous version of Windows, yet I still use XP on my gaming rig because I don't know if most games will still work in Win7...