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Also, now that I come to think of it. I think the only reason why MMO's and games alike have preset move types and animations is because of the controller/keyboard/mouse limitations. If they were to bring real live action motion controls into the mmo world, where your movements base your actions. Think of The legend of Zelda Skyward Sword but improved more and with even better motion accuracy, I think it would completely change the way we play games. There would be no need for levelling as the real purpose of levelling is to get stronger preset skills where it's up to you to find the rotation that fits your needs. Instead you physically act out each of the motions so it becomes real skill = power instead of gear+skill+level= power.
I think this just might into a random thought thread, post your random thoughts and views. |
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Ok so I'm sitting at work bored out of my head. During this time i'm thinking of what game I should play that would be unique and fun, then it occured to me. What if they made a game in which the only way you can complete it, is by killing yourself in the end. Of course if I actually gave it any real thought I would easily see the lame boredom in it and the flaws, but as a random thought it kind of blew my mind. |
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Originally posted by niceguy3978 You need to compare the colors to the motherboard manual, NOT the colors of the board and the case wires. Only the manual will show you what goes where and you need to look closely to the power connectors for + and -
DO NOT connect ANY of the male tips with a screwdriver to figure out what goes where, doing this will cause a short and you're only asking for trouble. |
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Originally posted by Ridelynn Did you read the specs that I gave for the machine? lol. It has a dedicated raid card that runs in pci-e x8, and I avoid where possible to use a swap file or page file. I plan on upgrading this machine with 32 GB of ram eventually. I do agree I need to get another system for gaming but right now this one runs perfectly fine for the little gaming that I do. |
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Originally posted by Quizzical lol, weren't you the one that tried telling me I should get a different power supply then that one. |
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Originally posted by Ridelynn The only mission critical part of my vm's is the phone system, since I am not yet using this machine for any business situation. I am one that dislikes having to move hardware, having everything in one chasis makes moving it a lot more simplistic. Yes I have an older machine that could handle being a NAS, but the network storage I need is only for the other people that live here which won't be congesting the drives as much as I would be. So running it on my main machine I can have full access without congesting the network for other people around here. I would prefer to run ESXi on one of my machines but the only other machine I have capable of handling it, doesn't have any expansion ports for a realible network card that's compadible with it. Energy efficiency isn't something I'm concerned about as well. On a further note it takes about 15 seconds for my PC to boot from POST and I have scripts to auto start my VM's after I log in and I have remote access to the system from anywhere in the world and an alert system that emails me if the system stops responding.
Don't get me wrong, when I start hosting game servers and start going into a more production type environment I will not be gaming on the machine as it wouldn't have the resources it needs to survive. At that time I would be building a second, much smaller unit to handle my gaming and run ESX off of the main system purely for a VM environment. Before anyone asks why so much for a home system. As I've stated before there is a plethora of devices in my home that require network access, as the only IT person around here I'm often stuck fixing everyone's problems and I do not have the time for it on top of monitering what they are installing and etc. Running these VM's as I do I can predeny stuff from accessing their machines and stop them from installing software that could harm their machine and keep me busy for 10 hours to fix it. So far it's working as intended as I have not needed to fix anyone's machine since Christmas where I would normally be doing it every week or more. |
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SWTOR has proved you can have story in a sandbox MMO...
The Pub at MMORPG.COM « General Discussion 2/09/12 2:29:43 PM
How about a sandbox with an optional to follow storyline. A pve element that caters away from the pvp element of the game. Kind of like incursions in eve online although not so fail worthy.
A great sandbox would be able to give you as many options as possible to create the game experience that you want. A forced story driven sandbox wouldn't work because not everyone wants that, but to have a secondary PVE storyline you can choose to follow would fall perfectly within what a sandbox wants to achieve. |
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Originally posted by jdnewell Your problem is you're using AMD products... Intel and Nvidia you can still get very decent stuff that can do FAR more then AMD ever wished for the same price. Try finding budget i3's and a GTX 560 fermi or something along those lines even if you need to go back to the GTX 400 series.
A very important side note. When it comes to PC components, you get what you pay for! If you want cheap, then expect to replace that machine within a year if you have hope of properly playing any newer things that come out. Always buy hardware that can be further upgraded, never buy hardware that you max out the first time you use it. Doing so will only cripple yourself and your wallet in the future. Leaving room for improvement will allow you to save loads of money and make upgrades much easier and quicker. |
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Originally posted by skeaser I run 4.2 with my 2600 and it idles at 23C, my hard drives and SSD idle at 10C and my GPU idles at about 23C as well. No liquid cooling, just many well placed fans. Under full load, nothing goes over 45C, the gpu MIGHT rarely go over 50 for some unknown reason I couldn't care about. |
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Sorry about the lack of replies, I've been rather busy and kind of been forgetting to check on my older threads. The reason I skimped on the gpu was because as much as I can overclock the one that I had gotten which turned out to be the Gigabyte 570 GTX with three cooling fans. It is capable of running everything on max/ultra with 60 fps via Vsync. To further clarifiy, I do use Linux operating systems, but I prefer windows for simplicity and reliability with guaranteed support and fixes if they're required. I run VMware server where I run my phone system, domain controller, untangle, Network Security system, databases and etc. Yes I know Linux is awesome and all, but when setting up all these things I prefer to run as quickly and simply as possible, why give yourself extra work if it's not needed kinda thing. I got the i7 2600 because it cost me only $200 and I didn't feel at this time that I needed the 2600k due to the only difference being OC limitations. Although I spent a lot of money on my machine, I tried to stick with what I need over what I want. I have over 30 devices at home that uses my home network, 4 laptops, 3 desktops, phones, ipods, consoles, etc. As for the guy who recommended 10gb ethernet, yes that's a great idea however for it to be truly utilized my system would have needs to get requests that require more then 100MB/s which is highly unlikely given it's still just a home environment. Hell even at the office where we have 50 workstations and people constantly accessing all our data we still merely run on 1gbps flawlessly. Not only that but I'm not going to fork out the money to buy a 10gbps switch, then the cards needed to utilize it. If there is anymore questions, feel free to keep posting :) |
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Win7 x32 - with full 4 GB or 8 GB RAM Support (Tweak)
Hardware « General Discussion 2/05/12 6:44:05 PM
Originally posted by spizz You want 64 bit features but don't want to switch to a 64 bit system... Do you think about half the shit that comes from your fingers? Not meaning that as a flame but seriously, you either get them or you don't and modifying a 32 bit system to forcefully accept 64 bit architecture features is probably the dumbest thing you could do. Never to mind you're going to exhaust 10 times the amount of energy and time instead of just doing a quick backup and format of your hard drive. Think about it. |
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Win7 x32 - with full 4 GB or 8 GB RAM Support (Tweak)
Hardware « General Discussion 2/05/12 5:30:27 PM
If you run Windows 7 x32 you can use the same key and install x64 without issues. Don't waste your time with half retarded "hacks". There is a substantial amount of benefits going to a 64 bit system, it's not just about using more ram.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit Posted link to save myself a bunch of typing. |
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SWTOR screenshots at max settings
Reviews & Impressions « Star Wars: The Old Republic 1/28/12 4:13:57 PM
Originally posted by chryses Thank you for posting these. I am now glad I didn't waste my money on a game that has such an ugly interface and last gen graphics. Yea people can tell me all they want that graphics don't matter, well lemmie tell you. I wouldn't date an ugly fat girl if I had the option of a victoria's secret model... |
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Originally posted by Harafnir Considering I am saving myself about $10,000 in software licensing and another possible 10k in hardware required for a server environment to run what I'm in the process of running on my computer I think I've done quite well in that department. Because I've stuck with a single processor and kept it simple I do not have the enterprise license limitations. Most corporations run a similar setup just with far more ram, duel cpus or more but because they are corporate they have to pay per core and amount of ram for their windows/vmware licensing. I honestly am not sure if this rig will be strong enough for all that I want to do with it, it should be but only time will tell... Because I got a standalone raid controller, that takes the burden of running a software raid that can bog down your cpu and with that powerful graphics card there will be hardly any overhead for my cpu. Think of the raid controller like a graphics card but made just for processing data between your hard drives instead of your cpu doing it. |
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Originally posted by duelkore Network attached storage devices are used for more then just knowing where your stuff is. It will be my backup machine for all of the devices in my house, which is about 6 different computers and a shitload of other things. On top of that I will be hosting a domain controller as one of my virtual machines on that computer which all of the systems capable of utilizing it will be running their profiles from that location. Instead of everyone being locked to being forced stuck with their profile on one machine, they could login to any machine in this house and have the same access to their stuff and the same desktops wherever they go. That also includes outlook settings and PST files. Yes a server motherboard with duel CPU's would be a benefit for me, but once again I need to worry about licensing limitations with VMware and windows. As well I don't feel like spending 5 grand on Xeon processors and even more money on ECC ram to accomidate that board's memory Dimms. This is why I stuck with a well made home computer running enterprise hardware. |
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Originally posted by Quizzical
As for the poster about the Quad-SLI. There is no god damn reason why that's ever needed unless you're a high level graphics designer and maybe radiologist that needs that kind of power for rendering, compiling and processing. Having 4 cards doesn't mean 400% power boost, it would be more like maybe 250% if you're lucky. You would be better off having maybe a tri-sli but duel should be more then enough with a dedicated phys-x card although that's not even really needed. I don't plan on overclocking unless it was truly needed, I voted for the Corsair GS PSU due to my infatuation with glowy things and that PSU has built in LED's and I didn't really think I needed more power then that PSU offered. I have a bunch of extra peripheral to sata power connectors for the extra drives. Although I never did think about the possibility of choking the PSU's voltage supply, although with it giving so many sata and peripheral connecters I didn't see anything to worry about. |
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Originally posted by Kabaal lol, Merry Christmas to you too |
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Corsair Force Series GT 180GB Sata3 SSD The unfortunate thing is that my mobo doesn't have enough PCI-E lanes to run everything at full speed, so I'm stuck in x8. *USB 3.0 turbo disabled as it uses 8 PCI E lanes* |
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Waited a long time to play this
General Discussion « Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn 12/23/11 8:32:08 AM
Well I was completely taken off guard with how fantastic the starting feel of Final Fantasy 14 gave. I had been meaning to play the game since I got a beta invite last year but never had the hardware for it until recently. I had seen many reviews about the game and those reviews alone almost made me not play but knowing the IP as well as I do I had still been curious
On any note. There is a current deal right now with square enix, $13.99 and you can get your own copy of the game as well. The only downside is that the subscription comes from having to pay monthly for your character which is like $3 a month per toon and the first month is free so it's not too bad. Anyway, I started playing the game and I was taken completely by surprise with how fantastic they had made the entry cinematics and with the detail they had done them. So far it has a true feel of a single player game when you start, which in my opinion is great as it gets you more involved personally in the lore and the game itself and naturally upon adventuring you would meet people and grow from there. The beginning tutorial isn't very in-depth but it does get you to understand your controls quickly and easily although combat does take some getting used to at the start as you can attack while moving and must have patience with getting hot keys to work and keeping your target. There is a bit of room for improvement but I am completely satisified so far with the game. I'm sorry I couldn't write an extensive review as I only got a few hours of gameplay in but I can tell you that so far the game really pulls you in and makes it feel like you are playing a game you can get truly involved in. Unlike wow that kind of slams you in the middle of a bunch of chaos, hands you a sword and says. "Here, go kill something and level up then figure out what you need to do from there." FF14 places you in a starting zone with a little bit of a cinematic to get you involved softly and tries to give you the urge to discover your purpose in the game and where you want to be. Levelling isn't super fast like leaving a zone then "DING", honestly I didn't even notice or care for my character's level. I was far too distracted with the story and the gameplay itself and trying to master how to move my character and attack with precision while role playing my archer class and actually moving and having strategy an archer would have. Not just stand at x location and spam your buttons, but run around, hide behind trees and do what you can to survive while staying far from the target. Anyway I've typed far too much, I hope others find this game as awesome as I do so far. As long as you got a bit of patience to understand the game and it's mechanics, I see no reason why it can't be loved. |
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I do agree with what you said, I was aiming to get him to try and find any other possible issues before moving to replace the PSU. Of course it still should be done regardless, but if there are bigger things at work within his system they should be found and dealt with. I'm still curious about how his caps are though, if the computer is overheating like he says there might be possible capacitor damage.
P.S I would never disclaim Nvidia for the work they do and the products they develop :P |
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