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> Wow.. Except for things just not wanting to install, or maybe 1-2 games
> that actually have crashed, and I had a fair idea why (like low memory
> resources, or the like), I literally haven't seen any of this stuff... o.O
Actually, that reminds me: Ever since my PC went dual-core, The Settlers
will no longer run. Nothing I do seems to fix it. When you try to start
the game, it just summarily crashes with an obscure error message.
I keep thinking maybe I could run it in a VM - except that I'd need a
license for another copy of Windows XP, and nobody sells those any more.
> When playing Arkham Asylum I was running on a machine that was "below
> spec", so a lot of the animation was slower than normal, in some places,
> so that "could" potentially cause the same sync issue, on a machine that
> is on/over-spec.
Oh, I've seen plenty of PC games do things they shouldn't. What I'm
saying is that it's fairly rare for a game to *crash*. Sometimes a game
won't work at all, but it's unusual for one to intermittently crash.
(Unless that game is Cryostasis. :-P )
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On 24/01/2012 10:21 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Hmm, that's a thought... My new PC can handle Crysis, I wonder if it can
> run Batman on lowest detail settings?
The answer? Yes, it can. Batman seems to run just fine now. (Although I
haven't visited the batcave yet...)
> (Stupid, isn't it? Crysis was a
> cutting-edge masterpiece, whereas Batman has quite low graphical
> quality. And yet, Batman takes more compute power than Crysis? WTF?)
This still baffles me...
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Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 20:12:40 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:
>
> > This is based on my observations of what happens with laptops. Typically
> > if you buy, say, a £300 laptop, a replacement battery costs £280 - which
> > is obviously absurd.
>
> If you buy from the manufacturer, it is.
>
> I bought a replacement battery for a Dell D610 (my old laptop) about 8
> months ago, and it cost me about $50 IIRC.
>
> Bought it through Amazon.
I had to get a new battery for my MacBook a couple of years ago, which ended up
I may have to - mine hasn't been the same since the beer incident).
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:05:48 +0000, Invisible wrote:
>>> This is based on my observations of what happens with laptops.
>>> Typically if you buy, say, a £300 laptop, a replacement battery costs
>>> £280 - which is obviously absurd. The manufacturers are simply preying
>>> on the fact that nobody else can supply this part.
>>>
>> That is because, usually, by the time the battery needs replacing,
>> nothing uses it any more, so keeping them in stock isn't cost
>> effective, but your laptop is now, itself, worth $100. lol
>
> I'm pretty sure as soon as you tear open the seal on the shipping
> container the laptop came in, its value plummets to about 5% of the
> original purchase price. I mean, who would buy a second hand laptop that
> may or may not work, when you can just buy a new one?
I repaired a broken laptop (my stepson's) for about $100, including
replacing the battery, and used it until I needed something more powerful.
Then I bought something more powerful.
I still use the older laptop, in fact I've got both sitting on the desk
here with me right now.
Jim
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On 1/25/2012 2:10, Invisible wrote:
> Actually, that reminds me: Ever since my PC went dual-core, The Settlers
> will no longer run. Nothing I do seems to fix it. When you try to start the
> game, it just summarily crashes with an obscure error message.
Have you tried setting the thread affinity to just one core?
I've heard of a couple of old games like this, and just locking it to one
core fixes it.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
People tell me I am the counter-example.
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On 27/01/2012 04:23 AM, Darren New wrote:
> On 1/25/2012 2:10, Invisible wrote:
>> Actually, that reminds me: Ever since my PC went dual-core, The Settlers
>> will no longer run. Nothing I do seems to fix it. When you try to
>> start the
>> game, it just summarily crashes with an obscure error message.
>
> Have you tried setting the thread affinity to just one core?
>
> I've heard of a couple of old games like this, and just locking it to
> one core fixes it.
For a while CSS would be all jittery unless I pinned it to just one
core, and then it would run fine. (They eventually fixed that.)
The trouble is, when I launch The Settlers, it crashes in about 4 ms -
far too quick for me to open Task Manager and fiddle with the affinity
settings. Unless there's some how to specify such settings before a
program starts?
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On 27/01/2012 9:30 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Unless there's some how to specify such settings before a program starts?
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/start-an-application-assigned-to-a-specific-cpu-in-windows-vista/
I checked it works in Win 7
--
Regards
Stephen
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On 27/01/2012 10:40 AM, Stephen wrote:
> On 27/01/2012 9:30 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Unless there's some how to specify such settings before a program starts?
>
>
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/start-an-application-assigned-to-a-specific-cpu-in-windows-vista/
>
>
> I checked it works in Win 7
Interesting. It seems that option was only added in Vista. (I.e., it
doesn't exist in XP and earlier.)
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>> I checked it works in Win 7
>
> Interesting. It seems that option was only added in Vista. (I.e., it
> doesn't exist in XP and earlier.)
Also, you can apparently use PsExec from System Internals, and that (I
imagine) works on any version of Windows.
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>>> For example, the entry-level video card they recommended was the
>>> GeForce FX 5700, which had a street price at the end of 2003 of US$199.
>>> The recommended GeForce 6800 was sub-$300 when it came out.
>>>
>>> Back in 2004, that was a considerable expense for a video card.
>>
>> Worked just fine with my GeForce 6600, which was about £60.
>>
>> (That's not GeForce 6600 GT or 6600 Ultra, just a vanilla 6600.)
>
> In 2004 when the game was released?
I don't recall what year I bought it. HL2 wasn't all that old at the
time, although it probably wasn't release day.
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