Craigs

DoomUK said:

I must ask, what's a "Microsoft mentor", expect for being someone who apparently gives you very cool birthday gifts?

A friend wiser than I am, a programming principal who's taken to educate me about the structure of the company, business models, and currently C#. I've just gotten a stack of books from him on that.

The fact that I've built many of his computer didn't hurt either.

Happy Fagday, Fag. We should coop shit again this winter!

:D Remember me? Well not under the tag sjampansee. I think 3DZOEF might ring a bell but anyway... Belated happy birthday man!

OMG I can't believe AndrewB was the only one who got the reference.

Super Jamie said:

OMG I can't believe AndrewB was the only one who got the reference.

I did, but I didn't use the right image.

Super Jamie said:

OMG I can't believe AndrewB was the only one who got the reference.

Doesn't matter, had sex!

Craigs said:

But my friends and my brother have been sending me text messages all week wishing me a happy birthday. I have literally been wished a happy birthday ~150 times now.

I fucking hate birthdays

Well sorry Mr. Popular guy. Some of us only get a text from our moms. Asshole

Happy birthday!

Mr. T said:

Well sorry Mr. Popular guy. Some of us only get a text from our moms. Asshole

hahahahahaah

I was pretty sure 150 wasn't very accurate.

Could also be a bad connection. Clean the contacts of the card/slot see if that helps. Sometimes dust gets lodged in there. I've had a could sound cards get flaky when that happen.

Use3D said:

I've had a could sound cards get flaky when that happen.

Lemme guess... Creative shit? :-p Those get flaky for, well, pretty much any reason.

The last time I had a GFX-specific glitch/lockup/crash however was on a mobo which actually suffered hardware damage:

1. A PCIe 7600GT card burned up, and caused computer shutdown with no other apparent damage...yet. Mobo worked fine with a normal PCI card, until I ordered a replacement PCIe card.
   
2. With the defective card IN the slot, my mobo wouldn't start up at all (PSU protection, as I later realized). On a mobo WITHOUT protection however it DID start up...only to cause a RED HOT glowing transistor on the card and a LOT of sparks and Magic Smoke (TM). Yeah, that was one dead card alright.
   
3. The damage to the MOBO became apparent only after I received the new PCIe card: whenever I activated something more "advanced" than desktop/safe mode/video overlay, the computer locked up. Not even a blue screen, just a silent freezing. It did this with THREE different PCIe cards, and also with AGP cards in the AGR slot (modified AGP/PCIe transitional slot), but NOT with plain PCI video cards. Therefore there was actual hardware damage somewhere on the mobo itself, which was now usable only with PCI video cards. Not pretty.
   

I once got £3 out of PC world after 'juggling' broken and working graphics cards I'd bought from them. True story.

Fallout isn't an FPS, so I don't see the issue. Sure it has guns, but the fact that everything is determined by your character's stats and the weapon's damage variables combined kind of throws the FPS deal out the window.

Xeros612 said:

Fallout isn't an FPS, so I don't see the issue. Sure it has guns, but the fact that everything is determined by your character's stats and the weapon's damage variables combined kind of throws the FPS deal out the window.

Its just my preference to have fragile enemies, especially when you put on Hardcore mode and you become fragile yourself. That, and I've never been a fan of your weapon skill reflecting damage; I think that the skill should reflect accuracy. It's just different tastes. But NV is pretty much half FPS and half RPG, especially when you factor in ironsights (which lets you play the game without going into VATS once).

Mr. Freeze said:

Its just my preference to have fragile enemies, especially when you put on Hardcore mode and you become fragile yourself. That, and I've never been a fan of your weapon skill reflecting damage; I think that the skill should reflect accuracy. It's just different tastes. But NV is pretty much half FPS and half RPG, especially when you factor in ironsights (which lets you play the game without going into VATS once).

Go play STALKER on master difficulty then.

Aww snap, son. You's young.

Golly..

Technician said:

Quit hijacking the thread, Mike.

Well.. fuck.

I love that.

Craigs said:

Finished.
Best line in the entire game: "Nah."

Cool. I.. don't agree with that line though. :p

What difficulty did you play on? What skills did you grab?

Khorus said:

Cool. I.. don't agree with that line though. :p

What difficulty did you play on? What skills did you grab?

IIRC I maxed out strength and standard guns. I also put 4 points into energy weapons and 3 points into agility so I could use the laser rapier. Also 4 points in endurance, 4 points in hacking, and two points in cyber-affinity. Also I went with the cyber assimilation trait

I enjoy it when people use Facebook for humor.

oh you planned it all along

tryin' to hook up with a valentine

Craigs is lookin' desperate

Christian Bale's stunt double? ...I hope you didn't lose too much weight for The Machinist.

Mike.Reiner said:

I'm too lazy to find a woman. That or can't, take your pick, don't care much either way.

It's this cock, it's just too big.

I want a beer and I want to see something naked.

Shadow Dweller said:

I want a beer and I want to see something naked.

Do you have a pet? I don't fuck it, I just assume it's naked.

It looks like a dong with a jimmy on it to me. Guess they've got something in mind for you Maes. Lol

Or maybe they were just comparing sizes, which, judging from the hunched, defeated expression on the nigga mario guy, just didn't, well, measure up to the expectations.

I made something in minecraft also http://www.wheelchairunicorn.com/desertdome.png

I wonder how long it will take for porn video sites to stream HD for free.

For the most flexibility, use an old computer with two network cards and install a router distribution. I use Smoothwall Express personally. Of course, you'll need a switch or a hub...

printz said:

Judging from that tone I hope you're not planning to leave, but suit yourself.

And that would be a "Healthy Choice".

Or perhaps I want to play some games that aren't from our world.

Craigs said:

Or perhaps I want to play some games that aren't from our world.

But... Another World runs just fine without all that unnecessary processing power.

Sweet comp, should be a powerhouse :-D

At $180 you would've been better off with a single 5770. Or buying a pair of used 4870s. A single 5770 is just slightly under a 4890 in terms of performance. Along with less heat, less power consumption, and Direct X 11.

POTGIESSER said:

At $180 you would've been better off with a single 5770. Or buying a pair of used 4870s. A single 5770 is just slightly under a 4890 in terms of performance. Along with less heat, less power consumption, and Direct X 11.

For $180, the optimal graphics processing is a pair of used 4870s indeed, but you also run into difficulties of dealing with online strangers coupled with potential hardware reliability issues. The money saved versus security is essentially up to the individual to decide.

A single 5770 is nowhere near as powerful as a pair of 4850's, and DX11 is irrelevant in the purchasing decision at this point, since none of the GPU's out there are powerful enough to handle much tesselation, and the notable games that uses it are counted on fingers, with minimal tesselation to the point of unnoticable. In other words, DX11, like DX10 at the time of its release, will have to wait until hardware catches up to be employed effectively.

As for the heat and power consumption, if anyone's seen the Antec gaming cases, they are essentially wind tunnels that can blow away their entire air volume in seconds. The amount of money saved by switching to a less power-hungry card is not signficant enough to warrant that big of hit in performance.

I see what your saying. I've been thinking about replacing my 512mb 4870 with a 5770 for a while. But I can score another 512mb 4870 for alot less. Then I can get all gitty about performance and having two of them crossfiring. For 5770 $ I can add two and have the most pointless yet simultaneously awesome tri-fire rig that only runs shit at 1680X1050. But I think 750Watt wouldn't cut it for 3 and I can barely shoehorn 1 4870 inside it with the PCIE connectors plugged in.

^ Heh.

Craigs said:
parked there, ran across the street, and jogged over to where the dog lay. When I got close the dog jumped to its feet, looked at me, and then walked away. I am 80% sure it was just trying to be a dick.

Aw... it wanted to see if anybody cared!

You should've taught it that it's wrong to trick people by getting in your car, coming back and running it over

I remember a devious little puzzle game where you played as a 3. That's about it.

Heh, we had Putt-Putt Goes to the Parade on my computer back in the day. I think I had more fun with the falling pinball game in the toy store than anything else.

I only got through Putt-Putt. I watched someone else beat Pajama Sam and Freddy Fish cause I sucked at them, and Fatty Bear made my 5 year old brain explode like the guy's head in Scanners.

Especially when the old Windows 98 froze whenever the phone rang. Once I clicked on some kind of light that exploded in Fatty Bear's Birthday Surprise, and the computer froze while the light was exploding. It sounded like someone set off the Chaingun in Doom on full blast.