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Off Topic / Re: So I bought Rosetta stone
« on: April 25, 2010, 05:06:57 PM »
J'etudie le francais a l'ecole. Je parle un peu, mais je pense que je suis terrible a parle francais :(
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Off Topic / My Computer May or May Not Be Bipolar
« on: April 25, 2010, 05:05:06 PM »
Hey look my computer is having some odd problems again.
I'm going to go ahead and divide up this thread post into three sections.
I. Problem 1
II. Problem 2
III. Upgrade; Yes or No?
DxDiag.txt is attached.
Problem 1
Description of the problem: The computer freezes up.
When: Generally whenever there is no user interaction via mouse or keyboard present but has happened randomly while doing anything though.
How long: Ever since this computer has come to be.
Possible and ruled out causes: COULD be motherboard or hard drive, definitely not memory at least I don't think.
I defragged my drive and I'm going to do a virus scan and a disc check tomorrow but I highly doubt it is a virus.
UPDATE
Disk check found nothing wrong.
Problem 2
Problem verified and 'solved'.
Different RAM speeds = BAD.
Took out 800 MHz 2GB and its much faster somehow, and will either get two 1GB 667 MHz or two 2GB at 1066 MHz. Whichever one.
Description of the problem: My system does not live to its potential (aka it's being loving bottlenecked by something and it's pissing me off)
When: Very demanding games such as Crysis or Grand Theft Auto 4.
How long: I passed it off as "oh my system just still isn't good enough" but a 9800GT shouldn't be failing to perform in Crysis or GTA4 at all.
I don't know what is wrong with my system.
I have a Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66 GHz (Yes I stopped overclocking it to make it last longer).
A 9800GT 512 MB that shares 2.2 GB with my system.
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L motherboard
4GB of RAM (two 1GB at 667 MHz and one 2GB at 800 MHz)
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
An Antec EarthWatts 650w PSU
160GB WDC 7200RPM HDD (finally found specs of my hard drive)
I seriously don't see how this can fail to perform properly in Crysis or GTA 4 which are literally the only demanding games I've played on this system. GTA4 fails to do anything more than 25FPS on a street with severely low settings (and its ungodly hideous too) and Crysis can only go on low with around 50-60 FPS as well. It's incredibly annoying because I can't figure out whether I need to upgrade the entire thing or something specific.
UPDATE
For GTA 4;
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, AMD Phenom X3 2.1GHz
You Have: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7300 @ 2.66GHz
This is the only thing that failed for recommended. Wat.
But with Crysis it says I can do incredibly great on it.
Should I upgrade?
Problem 2 being stated, should I really upgrade? Is my system just seriously not that good enough? Do I need a quad core?
Upgrade thoughts:
A Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66 GHz (because I don't want to dish money for anything other than my already current LGA775 motherboard)
4GB of DDR2 1066 RAM
and hopefully a used GTX260 when my brother buys a 480.
End of problems relating to a computer.
P.S. If you don't know anything about what I'm talking about please turn around and leave the thread.
I'm going to go ahead and divide up this thread post into three sections.
I. Problem 1
II. Problem 2
III. Upgrade; Yes or No?
DxDiag.txt is attached.
Problem 1
Description of the problem: The computer freezes up.
When: Generally whenever there is no user interaction via mouse or keyboard present but has happened randomly while doing anything though.
How long: Ever since this computer has come to be.
Possible and ruled out causes: COULD be motherboard or hard drive, definitely not memory at least I don't think.
I defragged my drive and I'm going to do a virus scan and a disc check tomorrow but I highly doubt it is a virus.
UPDATE
Disk check found nothing wrong.
Problem verified and 'solved'.
Different RAM speeds = BAD.
Took out 800 MHz 2GB and its much faster somehow, and will either get two 1GB 667 MHz or two 2GB at 1066 MHz. Whichever one.
Description of the problem: My system does not live to its potential (aka it's being loving bottlenecked by something and it's pissing me off)
When: Very demanding games such as Crysis or Grand Theft Auto 4.
How long: I passed it off as "oh my system just still isn't good enough" but a 9800GT shouldn't be failing to perform in Crysis or GTA4 at all.
I don't know what is wrong with my system.
I have a Core 2 Duo E7300 2.66 GHz (Yes I stopped overclocking it to make it last longer).
A 9800GT 512 MB that shares 2.2 GB with my system.
Gigabyte EP43-DS3L motherboard
4GB of RAM (two 1GB at 667 MHz and one 2GB at 800 MHz)
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
An Antec EarthWatts 650w PSU
160GB WDC 7200RPM HDD (finally found specs of my hard drive)
I seriously don't see how this can fail to perform properly in Crysis or GTA 4 which are literally the only demanding games I've played on this system. GTA4 fails to do anything more than 25FPS on a street with severely low settings (and its ungodly hideous too) and Crysis can only go on low with around 50-60 FPS as well. It's incredibly annoying because I can't figure out whether I need to upgrade the entire thing or something specific.
UPDATE
For GTA 4;
Recommended: Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz, AMD Phenom X3 2.1GHz
You Have: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7300 @ 2.66GHz
This is the only thing that failed for recommended. Wat.
But with Crysis it says I can do incredibly great on it.
Should I upgrade?
Problem 2 being stated, should I really upgrade? Is my system just seriously not that good enough? Do I need a quad core?
Upgrade thoughts:
A Core 2 Quad Q9400 2.66 GHz (because I don't want to dish money for anything other than my already current LGA775 motherboard)
4GB of DDR2 1066 RAM
and hopefully a used GTX260 when my brother buys a 480.
End of problems relating to a computer.
P.S. If you don't know anything about what I'm talking about please turn around and leave the thread.
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Games / Re: I fret at the thought: Is it too late to get that pre-order stuff in tf2?
« on: April 25, 2010, 04:39:27 PM »
The hat is the same as the gibus or bills hat like Xoax said. It's not special, it's just another hat.
I honestly only think the true craft-able hats are real hats. Everything else like the cheaters lament and bills hat and stuff are just lame.
I honestly only think the true craft-able hats are real hats. Everything else like the cheaters lament and bills hat and stuff are just lame.
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Off Topic / Re: Friend's in deep stuff.
« on: April 25, 2010, 04:04:45 PM »And that was unjust?Yeah really. He deserves that just for not using a helmet ffs. I understand if you don't use a helmet like on a dirt road and you're going casually slow but seriously wtf.
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I'm considering buying Spore, all my friends say it's great, is it the sort of game that goes on and on with no proper goal (like Sims) or is it an action game with a goal?Goal of cell stage: Get big by eating meat or kelp.
Goal of creature stage: Get evolved by eating animals or sucking their richard and playing ring around the rosies with them.
Goal of tribal stage: Conquer the 1 mile radius around your tribe by destroying other tribes or sucking their richard and playing orchestras for them.
Goal of civilization stage: Conquer the planet by destroying them, buying them or sucking their richard and shooting musical pieces at them.
Goal of space stage: Conquer solar systems by taking over the planets/destroying them, buying them or plant colonies. Oh and you win the game, which is basically the end because by the point of 'the end' you're pretty much done the whole game.
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Games / Re: SimAnt
« on: April 25, 2010, 03:25:02 PM »abandon where is illegalDon't you have to be stupid somewhere else?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandonware
Also I have the regular Windows CD version somewhere, not the funky DOS version.
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Off Topic / Re: Make me laugh
« on: April 25, 2010, 03:21:54 PM »
Nothing in this thread made me laugh.
You all suck at humor.
You all suck at humor.
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Games / Re: Left 4 Dead 2 - All Mutations Unlocked Mod
« on: April 25, 2010, 03:17:30 PM »
I wish that a lobby leader could choose to play a Mutation game mode and choose whichever mutation they wanted.
That'd be cool.
That'd be cool.
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Off Topic / Re: Check out this cool game review site
« on: April 25, 2010, 12:42:08 PM »
Your reviews really suck.
You're an awful critic and obviously you haven't played a good game before.
You're an awful critic and obviously you haven't played a good game before.
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General Discussion / Re: Why doesn't Badspot answer name-change PMs?
« on: April 24, 2010, 11:05:59 PM »
Email him very politely with a strong reason.
For example, my forum name used to be Gen. Nick. Same with my Blockland name but I eventually changed it to General Nick. I PMed him once to change it on the forums but he either never got it or was too busy and forgot. I PMed him again like a month ago to change it and he did.
...Ta-da.
For example, my forum name used to be Gen. Nick. Same with my Blockland name but I eventually changed it to General Nick. I PMed him once to change it on the forums but he either never got it or was too busy and forgot. I PMed him again like a month ago to change it and he did.
...Ta-da.
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Off Topic / Re: Her whole face? her eyes? her mouth?
« on: April 24, 2010, 11:00:02 PM »
Eyes.
Always eyes. Never look anywhere else on her face.
If you look at her mouth you'll make her think you want to kiss her and probably weird her out.
Always eyes. Never look anywhere else on her face.
If you look at her mouth you'll make her think you want to kiss her and probably weird her out.
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Off Topic / Re: Holy forget I'm hungry.
« on: April 24, 2010, 10:57:16 PM »
I'm eating poptarts, chips ahoy, chips and dip and ice cream with my friends while laughing at rifftrax.
How do you feel of this?
How do you feel of this?
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Drama / Re: Why was Syntho banned?
« on: April 23, 2010, 09:36:34 PM »
He says "Large Image Spam".
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Games / Re: Beat Hazard.
« on: April 23, 2010, 08:02:02 PM »
The game is great, but seriously it takes a lot of stuff to win this game.
forget man.
forget man.