Coyote_Seven
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Quote:So you're saying that you're not happy unless you have something to complain about. That's fair.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Sadly, that's not how psychology works. It's easy to argue that it's logically superior to not care, and I even agree with it, but just telling someone repeatedly to not care about something really doesn't work most of the time. I like my games to be structured a certain way, and when they violate their own structure, I like them less. It's just how my psychology works. The best I can do is explain why I think I feel that way and see if enough others out there feel the same way for us to come up with a way of either sidelining the problem or otherwise coming up with proposed game changes to lessen the impact of it.
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Quote:So, are your constant complaints about what you don't like in the game actually helping anyone? No, seriously, show of hands? Because I can't recall offhand if anyone else has really found this perpetual kvetching at all productive. I mean, so far you've excelled at letting everyone else know what you don't like. So I guess you get the squeaky wheel award. Uhm... yay?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
You seem overly zealous about hand-waving it away as "oh, there's just something wrong with you," and I can tell you for a fact that this helps no-one.
So yeah, I say it's you who's been totally missing the point. But I suppose that's fine. While you're ever so busy earnestly quibbling over meaningless minutiae, I've been busy actually enjoying the parts of the game that I like. And before you say it, no I'm not cackling about how much I'm enjoying something Samuel Tow does not while I'm having fun playing content I like. I don't think about you when I'm not responding to something you posted here.
Well, except for right now. I'm not playing right now because it's too hot out and I have no AC. My GPU would melt if I tried playing right now! -
Quote:That's not really anyone else's fault that you feel that way, is it? Are you seriously going to sit there and declare your annoyance to the devs for offering an easy mode that makes you feel "silly" for not using it? Is your willpower really that weak that you can't ever resist?Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
You're missing the point by continually insisting it's about other people when it's not. This isn't about a single-player game that someone else has cheated at. It's a single-player game that offers YOU cheats. You don't have to use them, but they're there. Saints Row the Third was TERRIBLE about that. If you bought any of the DLCs, you would start with incredibly powerful vehicles and weapons in your stockpile. This honestly just about ruined the game for me. Why?
Every time I met a hard situation, I thought "I could go get my tank and plough through this." I could, practically speaking, have done this for much of the game and rendered it boring beyond description. I didn't, for the most part, at least until I managed to steal an actual STAG tank and drive it back to my garage. But the thing is that every time I ran into difficulty, I felt stupid for not using the tank and every time I used the tank I felt like I was cheating.
This speaks a lot more about you than this game, its devs, or other players. I remember those kinds of games, and not everyone got stumped at the same points, or if at all. And not everyone felt the way you did about using players guides. What I get mostly out of your response is that certain things bug you and you really wish that they would bug everyone else the same way. Well the world doesn't work like that! Everyone is different, and you can't please all of the people all of the time. I'd hope you'd have realized that by now, but the way you go on about it kind of indicates otherwise.Quote:Here's another example - old-style point-and-click adventures and Internet walkthroughs. When I was younger, games like Flight of the Amazon Queen or Simon the Sorcerer or the Broken Sword would force me to wrack my head, try everything, speak with everyone, invite people over so we could brainstorm solutions, so reaching the end was neither easy nor indeed certain. That was before the Internet. Playing A Moment of Silence a couple of years ago was a very different experience because of this. Initially I tried to solve everything by myself, muscling my way through tough puzzles by logic and brainpower. Then I met something I just couldn't solve and was convinced the game was bugged, so I looked it up. Then I met something else hard and I tried to solve it, but I gave up pretty quickly and looked it up. Before I knew it, I was essentially following the walkthrough and just watching the game play out in front of me with very minimal understanding of how it all worked. In fact, I still don't know what the logic was behind the final puzzle.
It's simple to not take the easy and unfun way out when you plain out-and-out CAN'T. It's not so easy when you can, however, and it turns both options - using it and not using it - into losing propositions. I'd personally rather not be in this kind of position to begin with.
Now for myself, I think CoH as it is right now is just fine. There's parts of it that I like more than others, and there are bits that I really don't like. It doesn't nag at me that those unfun bits are there, being all unfun and everything. I'm sure some other player likes those bits a lot! I just don't play them. Simple. -
Quote:Indeed!Originally Posted by Darth_Khasei
Hmm...IDK something is a foot here. This appears like he is saying something like what people were saying about how "other" people being able to PL to 50 cheapened "their" experience to 50 just because the ability to do so is there even if they don't PL themselves.
Yeah that's just an old regurgitation of the wanting to control what "others" do/can do mentality seen in these types of cases dressed up in a new Sunday suit.
The people who are crying about how this "pay to win" felgercarb is diminishing their own experience are allowing other people to define their own sense of accomplishments for them. This is silly, especially in a videogame. Any sense of accomplishment in a videogame is really based on your own perspective. You shouldn't let others dictate that to you. Likewise, you shouldn't be dictating to others what their experience should be like.
Think of it this way. If this was a single player game, and you unlocked all of its goodies by playing the game straight through, would your feelings of accomplishment be at all diminished if you found out that your next door neighbor, who was also playing the game, decided to use a cheat code to get everything?
I don't care what anyone else does in this game or how they do it. Even if I get frustrated sometimes by market fluctuations, lol! No one's giving out real gold medals if you only use the /ah command in "emergency situations". And beyond the PvP zones, we're not even playing against each other. I'm not racing anyone else to get the most purple IOs in the shortest amount of time. I play the game the way I play it for the joy it brings me to play it that way.
I get the feeling sometimes that many of the forumites here have long lost the forest for the trees. -
I started on Virtue and I'm still there.
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Quote:No, that's called a cult.Originally Posted by tanstaafl
And all sub cultures redfine meanings and expressions. That's what helps make it a sub culture.
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Quote:We're a culture that redefines the meaning of a phrase or word when we learn that what it really means wasn't what we mean?Originally Posted by tanstaafl
Reppu continues to refuse to accept how pay2win is used in this culture.
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All of this rebooting of old movies. You'd think someone would have figured out by now that all the movie studios need to be power cycled.
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Yeeeah, the original movie had nothing at all to do with the book. The movie's story was already set in stone when someone got the bright idea to give the movie the book's title. For what? Some vague similarities? Maybe if you cover your ears and squint, and you're very drunk... maybe! As if no one would ever notice!
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I'm fine with the game as it is right now.
Right now, I log in my level 50 characters almost every day, in order to collect my auction house riches and post more loot up for sale (I do a combination of crafting and flipping). I leave them all in one of the universities (I have access to the /ah command, so parking them in front of an invention table is convenient!), save for one who I leave in DA. The one currently in DA, I join in trials, so that I may earn more Incarnate salvage, Astrals and Empyrians. Once I've gotten every Incarnate power up to its tier 4 ability, I move that level 50 character out of a DA, park it in a university, and bring in another level 50 into DA!
About every 400,000,000 inf, I make a bid for a purple or pvp IO. Every 40 emp merits earned, I make a trip to Ouroboros to buy a purple recipe. And then of course, I get lucky and snag a purple recipe drop while in an incarnate trial. Converters help me to change those into what that character needs, or what another of my 50s might need.
Once all of my current level 50 characters on Virtue have a tier 4 ability in every Incarnate slot, they'll all be parked at universities as I switch to an alt to bring that character up to level 50, so that I may unlock their incarnate slots and play more trials.
This is what I consider fun and exciting! It totally is. Dunno about anyone else. -
So if Japan wants Gundams, then what does the U.S. want?
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How about, in a purple set for nukes, the 6th IO's special feature is that it provides such a massive end cost reduction as to make the power effectively crashless?
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Why do the bad guys always swear revenge? It's OK for them to kidnap your daughter and sell her into slavery, but it's totally not OK for you to kill one of them!
They coulda just let this go, but noooooo! This isn't gonna end until Liam kills each and every member of that Albanian mafia.
Well maybe not all of them. They'll need a hook for Taken 3. Then again, there's that corrupt French guy. I'm pretty sure he also won't be willing just to let it go either! -
What? I was hoping for something else!
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The game crashes on me regularly after a bit of time, each and every time I play it, and it's acted like that for at least several months now.
I kind of measure it in the number of iTrials I can play. That's usually two before the game crashes. Or a single Underground trial (if I'm lucky; sometimes it will crash at some point near the end).
The game always crashes in one of four ways:
1: An "out of memory" error - I'm not really out of memory though. This pop-up error window also says something about the file size of some zipped file. It's in relation to the game's graphical assets. Most curious about this is the game will continue playing in the background while the pop-up error window forces itself to maintain focus. Though there's a lot of missing graphics, which is funny to see! Eventually the game freezes up if I don't dismiss the pop-up to tell it to close the game, and then I have to use the close gadget (which sends me to the standard Windows crash detector thingie).
2: The old Cryptic crash detector pop-up. A legacy from back when Cryptic still owned the game. The pop-up even has their old logo still on it. This is the one where you can type in something in the window to talk about what you were doing just before the game crashed.
3: Windows standard crash detector: You know, that one that says something about "an error has occurred" and something else about the program needing to close? The one where you can send an error report to Mircosoft. I've kind of assumed that MS sends that crash data to Paragon, so I always tell it to make and send the report whenever this window pops up.
4: Crash to desktop: This is the most rare, of the crashings. The game crashes like this maybe once or twice a month (I play this game daily). Note that I actually play in Windowed mode with the window maxed out to fill the screen (I enjoy keeping access to the task bar). So when this happens, the window just disappears and the program terminates. No crash detector pop-ups, no error report requests, do not pass go, do not collect $200! Just, pfft! -
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
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Quote:That page does explicitly state that those particular drivers there do support OpenGL. Without knowing more information about what goes on when you attempt to apply those updates, I couldn't be sure what's happening.Originally Posted by Jen_Thorn
Like I've said in the OP, I have tried those drivers...many times. Does not work at all with this game.
I do wish that page gave the driver version number though. I suspect the installer is failing to actually replace the older driver files for whatever reason. Perhaps if you used something like Driver Cleaner? -
Whoops! No, this:
http://www.intel.com/support/graphic.../CS-021517.htm
Quote:The Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset family supports hardware acceleration of OpenGL* applications in 16-bit and 32-bit color depths.
OpenGL 1.4 is the latest version and is currently supported by the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator drivers. Drivers that come with Windows* or that are downloaded from Windows Update* typically do not support OpenGL.
Use the following steps for optimal performance of OpenGL applications.
Exit any running background applications, such as virus scanners, NetMeeting* or any programs that run in the task bar.
Install the latest graphics drivers from Intel. -
Quote:http://www.intel.com/support/graphic.../CS-023713.htmOriginally Posted by Coyote_Seven
Quote:The integrated graphics controller of the Intel® G965 Express Chipset and Mobile Intel® GM965 Express Chipset supports hardware acceleration of OpenGL* applications in 16-bit and 32-bit color depths. OpenGL 1.5 is the latest version currently supported by the Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator Drivers on this chipset. Drivers that come with Windows* or that are downloaded from Windows* Update typically do not support OpenGL. For optimal performance of OpenGL applications, install the latest graphics drivers from Intel. Also, exit any running background applications or programs that run in the Windows task bar. -
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Quote:If you look, the number 2147483647 seems to show up everywhere on his CoH Helper log. A very interesting number. That's the max value for a 32-bit signed integer.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
It'll run the game on very low settings.
Your video drivers may be damaged (or just really too old) though as your resolution is reporting as
1024 x 2147483647
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Quote:My PSU is a Rosewill Lightning 800 Watt.Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
[*]What is your power supply?
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Quote:According to NewEgg, this GTX 670 from Galaxy has the best rating. And for that price, I might be able to get it a bit sooner rather than later.Originally Posted by newchemicals
Easy as pie then.
GTX 670, get it, love it and don't look back. -
Quote:Indeed. I should have mentioned that, sorry!Originally Posted by newchemicals
Its going to come down to your budget.
For Low to Mid end cards AMD is generally better value. For higher end its going to come down to price and brand preference.
So, you'll have to tell us what your budget is first. No point in suggesting a card if you can't afford it.
I think I'd prefer to spend $400 on a video card. I don't think I'd want to go any higher than $550. So there's my price range! -
If anyone remembers, I had a bit of an adventure late last year with an nForce 980a motherboard from MSI (NF980-G65), which I replaced with an ASUS motherboard with the same chipset (M4N98TD).
At the time, I had to make do with a single core processor. But two months ago, I was finally able to afford an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T. This alone has greatly increased the performance of my computer, but of course I don't really wish to stop there.
Besides upgrading the OS from XP to Win7, I'll most definitely want to upgrade the video card. The GT 440 I have in there now is certainly better than nothing, but I always intended to get something better as soon as I had the chance. I think that chance will be in about a month or two, so I'm curious if anyone out there has any suggestions? I'm still rather partial to nVidia, you ought to know!
Thanks in advance!