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TES4: Oblivion
March 22nd 2006, 04:53 CET by Dumdeedum It's hard to know whether hooking up with Oblivion is a good idea or not. I mean after we finally walked out on Morrowind because it was beating on us you'd think we'd stay away from those hewn from the same polygon, but maybe we're just suckers for potentially abusive relationships. Still, it was a very attractive polygon and it did do a lot of things right, so we owe it to ourselves to try it out... but let's hold onto that kitchen knife just in case. |
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(and better than third party crap). This normally applies to any kind of situation. Notto FRAPS though - that thing is a piece of Heaven. Why, the other day it even cured the ass cancer a stupid cutscene bug in Shogo gave me! How cool is that? so what now
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See? I turn it off for a second and WHAM! TYPO UP THE POST! Friends don't let friends game without FRAPS™! so what now
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*crickets* I hope to have this game tonight or tomorrow to start a new OCD. |
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To sum up my screen shot adventures, PRINTSCREEN now works perfectly fine from within Oblivion. Yay for features that suddenly start working for no apparent reason but I'm not going to complain! Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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I want screens and a full review! |
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Question for LP (or anyone else)- Do you know anything about this monitor? It seems like a good buy, but I'm not sure. "It's only make-believe until it becomes flim-flam."
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The only problem I'm having now is this annoying sound issue that crops up fairly regularly. It seems to happen when I venture into an area with fire (torches, fireplaces, etc). The sound goes all crackly, high pitched, and distorted. Not sure what's going on. Fucking PCs... Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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Sounds like your computer sucks. ..ahem. No actually I agree, it's rather ridiculous that we have to face these frigginly annoying errors. If there's one thing consoles has gotten right it's the ability to trust things won't suddenly crash or whatever. Hrmf. Shadarr, how'd you crack whatever StarForce game you mentioned a couple of 20-posts-per-page pages back? (fuck StarForce. Last I heard their new version is going to completly fuck us up the ass with lowlevel drivers that can insta-reboot your computer and whatnot. It's certainly not something I'll ever want to pay money for) "The gun settles all arguments. The boot silences criticism. The tank crushes protest."
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I don't have such issues on my 360... "It's only make-believe until it becomes flim-flam."
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I turned down the hardware acceleration on sound in the Window control panel and it seems to be fixed now. I hope it stays fixed... Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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gaggle Consoles definitely have that comforting knowledge associated with them that when I put the disc in, the game is going to boot up and it's going to work. PCs haven't had that in ... hell, I can't remember the last time I could feel confident that a game was going to work perfectly the first time without having to tweak, fuck around with drivers, etc. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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Fucking Creative... So in agreement. so what now
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#128 yotsuya I don't have such issues on my 360... Nor do I on my computer. Win win! Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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Head shot! "It's only make-believe until it becomes flim-flam."
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Shadarr, how'd you crack whatever StarForce game you mentioned a couple of 20-posts-per-page pages back? It ended up being frightfully easy, and I'm not sure why I had to put it together myself rather than just finding a page that said what to do. Basically, you don't run the install, you just copy the game files off of the discs into a folder, then replace the exe with the one from GameCopyWorld. I'm thinking the Devs were forced to use Starforce and didn't really buy in, because my understanding is that if they'd wanted to they could've encrypted every single file, plus they could've packaged up the installer rather than leaving the files loose. Anyway, the game is Space Rangers 2 and I highly recommend it to anyone who likes fun. |
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Can you buy Space Rangers 2 local yet...? "me did a sneak attack to smack the demons off my back"
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I tried at lunch yesterday with no luck. |
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I heard it's being repacked for a U.S. distribution, but I thought that wasnt until next month or the month after. "me did a sneak attack to smack the demons off my back"
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PCs have never really had that "It'll Just Work" feeling. Before hardware accelerated audio cards and 3D chipsets there were all the memory issues (himem.sys tweaks, etc, because the game needed some exact amount of memory free before running) and other problems. In my experience, the idea that a game will "Just Work" on a computer died with the Amiga, which was pretty much just a console with a keyboard and a spiffy OS (for the time) anyway. The Mac is probably much better than modern PCs in this regard since there isn't too much variation in core hardware. If only they had any games to begin with! YHBT. YHL. HAND
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What, no PC gaming is dead? Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP
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I suspect most of us learned much of what we know about computers by trying to get different games to work back in the DOS days. I remember having boot disks for several games that absolutely demanded very specific environments, and I had some sort of menu program I loaded at startup that I entered every game into and, if it needed a specific environment, I had a seperate menu entry for the batch file that would alter my config.sys and autoexec.bat files. Then there were the really fun times before the invention of jumperless cards. Beyond that, there were the bizarre timing issues that would occasionally crop up. I remember I ran into one of those once, and the only way to solve it was to physcially move my sound card and network card so that I had at least one slot between them, otherwise there was all sorts of hell - but, of course, only at very specific times in very specific programs. Ah, the good ol' days. Compared to then, today's games are very much "It'll Just Work" - of course, that's only by way of comparison. Continuing it, compared to consoles, there's still no such thing on the PC. I only got Oblivion on the 360 because it's so much more comfortable to play on the big screen in the living room than at my computer desk. It marks the first game that was available on the PC and a console that I chose the console route over the PC, but I think that was more because I knew that the 360 was going to play Oblivion just as beautifully as my PC would, more or less. Once it gets back to the point of my PC giving me a better looking game at higher framerates (of any significance, of course), I'm sure I'll go back to picking the PC over the console. For right now, though, given the choice between a PC or a 360 version of any game, I'll go with the 360 easily. Of course, I have to compete with the wife on who gets to play and for how long. It's even worse now that the Call of Duty 2 fix has been released, so that in addition to her love of Ghost Recon, she's got a second game to fall back on. It's great having a wife who understands and accepts my gaming, and it's awesome that she's becoming more and more of a gamer herself - the only drawback is that I can no longer monopolize the living room as I once did. Ah, well...there are much worse situations and I can't complain. Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam...
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Why do you use so many words. Somethin' no good, or worse.
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Why don't you scroll? Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam...
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What, no PC gaming is dead? Oh... PC gaming is dead -- but Mac gaming is deader. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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Something has to live before it can die, dumbass. Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam...
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Creative Soundcards are a f*cking death-trap...Creative solely should be held responsible for the demise of PCs as a gaming platform. |
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My Creative soundcard has given me no problems. Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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I've never ever had a problem with any of my sound cards, either - and they've all been Creative. I understand, though, that apparently a lot of people do have problems, or at least think they do, so I guess I'm lucky. Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam...
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I've never had a problem until Oblivion. I turned down my hardware acceleration slider and it was fine. Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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I've had a variety of sound problems on a variety of games, with a variety of cards. The weirdest was on Empire At War, where most of the sound was fine but every once in a while something (I think it was R2) would skip and stutter like an unbuffered stream. |
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The only issue I've ever had with a Creative card was back in the early Win2K days, when Creative's drivers weren't quite there yet. I would get an IRQ_NOT_LESS bluescreen after playing any game that used EAX. I found a workaround until they patched it. Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
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...every once in a while something (I think it was R2) would skip and stutter like an unbuffered stream. That was just Artoo fucking with you. He does that. Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam...
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I just said Artoo, didn't I? Gah! My geek is showing! Accipere quam facere praestat injuriam...
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I haven't had a separate soundcard for three motherboards now, the onboard has been fine. But Creative stuff is fine by me, so long as you carefully don't install any of the software. Just the card and the drivers. |
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So no discussion of last nights Lost? Was it a rerun or is noody discussing it anymore? I have it tivo'd, but keep finding other things to do other than watching it. Actually, the liberalism of the media - as a general thing - IS a major fallacy. What the media is, is a whore. -LP
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I just watched it on Tivo. When the Korean fertility doctor was talking to Sun the caption said "You're husband..." and I thought I was reading an Interweb forum. YHBT. YHL. HAND
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Heh, that threw me as well. I did wonder if there was some sort of deliberate point to the typo that I wasn't seeing, which probably says less about the typo and more about the fact that pondering typos was more interesting than the episode. MP3 Of The Week: Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea.mp3 (?)
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On the BBC spy show Spooks last season, two characters were having a conversation in Arabic, and one of the lines was subtitled 'Your welcome'. |
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It had Rose and Bernard being an adorable old married couple. That alone makes it a decent episode. The rest was pretty much just "Look everyone! We're gearing up for a big ol' season finale!" Lady, people aren't chocolates. But you know what they are, mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with bastard filling.
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"Lost" states everything about the plot. The initial releases were intriguing, but now it's like trudging through wet cement. The mystique of the first few gripping episodes is now yesterday's garbage, and they're trying to salvage them by bringing out a handful of lame, red-herring twists in the plot that are about as sharp as a FUCKING BAG OF WET MICE. Gregor Samsa woke to find himself changed into a monstrous vermin.
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Lost should be on at 3 in the afternoon with the other soap operas. Somethin' no good, or worse.
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I broke down and bought Oblivion. They only had the Collector's Edition, so I bought that. Remember a time when things like faux leather books and metal coins didn't cost $20 extra? Anyway, the game is infinately better than Morrowind. I'm only level 4 or something like that, but I've been having a blast just going around finding caves and casting fireballs against skeletons. Watching pieces of rib cage fly in every direction is oh so satisfying. Aeternum vale
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Oh man... Shane, Shane, Shane... so sad... And Dutch... sigh... I hope there is another season. Kid: Because you went to the bathroom on mommy's dishes?
Willie: What the fuck? No! |
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actually, I'm enjoying using the bow. Hiting someone and knocking them over a cliff or bridge or whatever is great fun. "Testiculos habet et bene pendentes" — "He has testicles, and they dangle nicely."
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lwf- I got that Aubrey Menen book. I just started reading it. I'll let you know what I think. Kid: Because you went to the bathroom on mommy's dishes?
Willie: What the fuck? No! |
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Oh man... Shane, Shane, Shane... so sad... And Dutch... sigh... What about Dutch? He's finally making progress with the hottie so let's have less sighing and more woohooing. MP3 Of The Week: Future Sound Of London - Papua New Guinea.mp3 (?)
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What's the name of the music in the background of the Left Behind trailer? Ahr, it's drivin' me nuts! link erotic triptychs featuring badgers with hats.
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I am so buying Oblivion today. I can't wait. Except I won't be getting home until dead late today, so it doesn't really matter if I buy today or tomorrow... /me continues to whine about work. :D "me did a sneak attack to smack the demons off my back"
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I just completed one of the coolest quests ever. Neener! Jesus Christ, that is unbelievably retarded! - lwf
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I've got the screening of my video at the Phoenix Film Festival tonight, and I'm picking up Blazing Angels for the 360, so it will be a busy weekend. "It's only make-believe until it becomes flim-flam."
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