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Post by Mereel Ma'viin on Apr 30, 2009 16:00:19 GMT 1
I finally purchased a new computer, an HP Pavilion s3750t with 4GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, Lightscribe DVD-RW disc drive, 256MB nVidia video card, and an 18.5" flat-panel monitor. Equipped, naturally, with Vista (Home Premium version with SP1).
After first setting it up and turning it on, I came away wanting to destroy the machine. Within half an hour of startup, everything I tried to do froze up before it could even load. So, I shut it down and walked away. However, it turned out that the problem was me, one of the settings adjustments I had made. After re-adjusting the settings, and shutting off User Account Control, I've come to the conclusion that this OS is actually easier to use than XP for what I use it for. Thus far, I've run Call of Duty 4 (fairly graphics-intensive), and I'm halfway through Knights of the Old Republic, and have yet to have any more major issues with it. Still not online with it, because HP didn't include a dial-up modem (*shakes fist at all the techies who think that everyone uses broadband*), but I should be able to rectify that problem fairly easily.
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Post by Jos Nelsh on May 2, 2009 0:51:54 GMT 1
Alright! Awesome!
Nevermind the question I asked in the other thread. Liking KotOR? ;D
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Post by Xzero on May 2, 2009 8:19:27 GMT 1
I actually still have UAC active. lol
But that's an understandable portion of Vista. I can definitely see why most people disable it.
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Post by Mereel Ma'viin on May 5, 2009 0:53:34 GMT 1
Alright! Awesome! Nevermind the question I asked in the other thread. Liking KotOR? ;D Oh, yes, definitely ;D It was a little unnerving at first (I've played RPGs before, but never one that functioned quite like KotOR), but once I got used to it I realized that it was very much like Final Fantasy XII (seen it played, never actually played it myself). There were, I must admit, several instances where I felt like tearing out my hair (for example, battling never-ending hordes of Dark Jedi, Sith apprentices, and Sith troopers aboard the Star Forge), but overall it's an absorbing and extremely enjoyable game ;D One final note: If the objective of the swoop-racing sidequest was to avoid all of the accelerator pads and hit all of the obstacles, I'd be the greatest swoop jockey in the galaxy. Since it's not...
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Post by Jos Nelsh on May 6, 2009 0:36:34 GMT 1
The great thing about KotOR is that it can have different endings... different players have different relations with the NPCs, it's very cool. How some NPC reacts, or how some situation is at the end of the game, sometimes depends on something that you did or said all the way in the beginning of the game. Now that's good scripting. The second time I played it, I had totally different things happening to me and different relations with my NPCs. It's pretty great.
I've tried playing dark side, and doing all the dark things that get you a maximum dark side points, but I just couldn't. Some of the things you can do are really sick and evil. I did some of it, but I just couldn't gather enough dark side points to become really dark. I recently retried playing KotOR II dark side, and succeeded a little better, but still skipped a lot of dark options. I just can't bring myself to do some of that stuff they come up with, even though I know it's just a game.
I eventually won all the podracing championships in both games. Some courses are really hard though. I needed to get the hang of it first. It's all about perfect timing. You need to race flawlessly for at least 70-80 % of the track to beat the time records, and about 95% for the really tough ones, so... what I did was everytime I made a single mistake, I immediately quit the race and restarted it, until I had it down flawlessly.
I'm so off topic right now. =\
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Post by ras on May 7, 2009 23:25:15 GMT 1
Yeah, Ive had Vista for two years and havent had any problems. Granted, you put 3 gigs of ram on XP and its a super-computer whereas 3 gigs of ram on Vista is only a little bit better than say 2. Basically, the rewards you get from such hardware that Vista uses/needs doesnt seem to really work out. Most of the time, if someone has a problem with a game (or any program) on Vista is because they either didnt install it as the administrator OR theyre not starting the program AS an administrator. Its a weird new Vista thing. Youre just always better off installing as admin and running most if not all games as admin. My JK is still on my Win2000 computer and my Vista comp sits here nest to it. Vista has been solid for me for sure. I do know most if not all games have been reputed to run better on XP however.
I wish I had XP in this 3gig/dual core computer as I know Id get about 10% better game performance.
My problem is Vista is how it uses resources - like I said, 3 gigs RAM on a different OS is a much different machine. Im just not so sure theres an advantage with the way Vista uses those 3 gigs of RAM.
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Post by Jos Nelsh on May 8, 2009 1:29:35 GMT 1
Yeah you're totally right about that. XP seems a lot lighter on the hardware.
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Post by Xzero on May 14, 2009 3:35:28 GMT 1
Yeah, Vista is a little more memory intensive. It's 512 instead of the usual 256 as the minimum requirement. But where Vista loses memory compared to XP, is allocation. Vista can only allocate 2GB to any program it uses. XP can allocate the entire system's RAM to one program. Hence why 3GB doesn't do you as good. However, Vista is much better at organizing this memory, so you don't eat through it half way through the day from idling and being forced to reboot.
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Post by ORJ_Brand on May 30, 2009 12:10:53 GMT 1
I'm sticking to XP!
I don't know when we'll eventually replace our PC ("always in motion the future is")... but now that my PC problems have been sorted (touch wood) my PC is working faster than any computer I've ever had!
I just wonder what spec you'll need for SWTOR and Star Trek Online...
Brand
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Post by Jos Nelsh on May 31, 2009 1:45:27 GMT 1
Ouch.
That reminds me.
I forget to censor the word S**r T**k.
There, fixed.
LOL
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Post by ORJ_Brand on May 31, 2009 18:27:04 GMT 1
What do you have against Star Trek?
Ok - it can be a bit cheesy... but so are parts of Star Wars (especially TPM).
Seen the new Star Trek film? Its really good! The best film I've seen this year! (Ok - it may have been the only film I've seen this year... that's parenthood for you...) They even managed to bring back the classic bit where the Away Team security guard in the RED uniform is the guy that gets killed!
Anyway - I quite fancy the idea of commanding my own starship and blasting those darn Klingon's off the starboard bow... (No wait - they are on our side now... better not then. Oh well, I'm sure there's someone to blast into smithereens!)
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Post by ORJ_Brand on May 31, 2009 18:31:10 GMT 1
While I'm off topic... lol
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Post by Jos Nelsh on Jun 3, 2009 15:17:26 GMT 1
lol
Let's just say I'm not a fan of Star Trek. To me it's just a soap series in space uniforms. I could never really get into it. What bothers me the most about Star Trek is the way the dialogue is larded with semi-scientific technological words.
It's a totally different thing than Star Wars, you just can't compare the two.
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