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Posted on 03-04-10 09:54:46 AM, in Assassin's Creed 2 will require a crack to play (last edited by Surlent at 03-04-10 06:57 AM) Link
I recently bought Anno 1404 and I am very pleased with this game in any aspect, 'cept the loading times maybe.
This game also was published by Ubisoft, requiring an online activation first, and having the Tagés copy protection (don't like this at all, but at least you can forget when playing this game, as it is awesome).
The online activation actually got removed by the bad critics of customers in the first patch, so you can play the game without any these measures as a legit owner.

I think this is going into the right direction, and really _reacting_ on the customers' complaints is the only way. Of course, people who have nothing better to do than just downloading illegal material in masses, using torrents all the day or using one-click-hosters will never buy any software (not offending all those people of course; sometimes you own a LEGIT software which _doesn't run_ on your machine due to DRM problems, so you have to CRACK your LEGAL version or download one pre-cracked [...]). Instead of putting more DRM stuff in, the publishers still need to add certain offers for customers, like printed manuals, I think these are quite nice to have for some good games. Not just the jewel case with only one tiny sheet of paper (if I check my HoMM V packaging: Huge-ass cardboard, but inside only one paper holding device for the case, no booklet of course). Of course there's certain editions for some games (as for Anno 1404, even a wooden treasure chest containing some goodies), but a naked CD or DVD might be just not enough; especially if the game is in the higher price range when released.
If Ubisoft really continues to use even more frustrating DRM, I am going to boycott them in the future. I know piracy is indeed a problem, but really: The companies will probably save those costs for copy protection measures, and if you really succeed in offering content to legit owners (playing on official servers is one thing) or something, what pirates might miss, some more people might buy the product instead maybe.

Pirating games like Spore is, imo, the only way to show what too restrictive protection measure may do. Legit owners have not only to worry about the right system setup and drivers (okay, it's more complicted with lots of hardware combinations, but the publisher should always ensure there is proper help and/or patches), but maybe also worry about a non-working product which just shelled out some bucks for.

And what happens, if the company shuts down the activation servers or goes bankrupt? Will they at least provide a simple patch to remove that?

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Posted on 03-12-10 10:57:30 AM, in AAAAAAARG damn it youtube *kicks something* Link
Maybe you can install Greasemonkey and, within this extension, install (again) a user script which circuumvents the changes. There are indeed some scripts for YouTube, but since I have the old version, too, I cannot tell/am not in need to alter the page display here.
It does not look too well with those big buttons, but I have to admit to like the current player quite much. Getting used to video descriptions below the actual videos (480p or higher) takes some time, but at least you can watch them in a good quality or HD (even looks pretty nice on my old 19" CRT). Too bad Google won't offer at least a lite and full version of the video page and/or player.
Yet, I have to agree how some older designs work much better. Take the channel page for example. Am I the only one who still is _really_ confused about searching for certain uploaded videos?
And for the channel page there seems no setting which allows you to open up new videos on a new page (some people have nasty backgrounds or you just want to watch videos in a fresh, new tab or window), but just plays the video on the same page. Okay, you CAN just middle-click again ...

HTML5 would be great, I also think the <video> tag uses less system resources than Flash. It might be good for some lower end Net-/Notebooks. On my older computer with a single-core Flash could use up quite some resources then.

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Posted on 03-13-10 08:32:09 AM, in Sonic 4 (Episode 1 - 10/7 iOS, 10/11 Wii, 10/12 PS3, 10/13 360) Link
Hopefully Sonic 4 will turn out to be as good as Mega Man 9 (and 10?) did, when it comes to sequels from classic games.
As for music, Sonic 3 ranges in front personally, due to Angel Island and Hydrocity Zones mainly. Didn't like Ice Cap Zone that much, at least in the first act. Really shortly after this comes Sonic & Knuckles, the Flying Battery Zone really pleases me a lot, also liked the levels from both Sonics most. The other ranks go to Sonic 1, Spring Yard and Marble Zone and Sonic 2's Chemical Plant and Hill Top, Metropolis (!) and Egg Death Zone (the first time it was creepy in a nice way somehow).

Matter of taste, of course. Gameplay-wise I would like those huge-ass levels from Sonic 3, as these encourage you to explore the levels quite a bit (think Hydrocity or Marble Garden).
Hope Sega doesn't blow up this one. Interesting are the details, but I also ask, why put in leading zeros into the Ring counter? It seems like to encourage you "There must not be any zero in front of this counter, get 100+ Rings or you suck!"

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Posted on 03-15-10 11:36:35 AM, in How do i play Sonic Adventure DC? Link
Actually the emulator nullDC can open CDI files directly, so give it a shot.
As for ISO images, it also may depend if the image is made self-bootable or not. If you are unlucky, Chankast will just bring up the system configuration and report something like "No disk inserted", even if you assigned the right drive letter inside the emulator.

Both emulators are technically the same, with some tweaks, like one includes a hack for Ikaruga. Without it being turned on, bullets from those rotating boxes in level 2 cannot be seen at all.

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Posted on 03-17-10 06:40:59 AM, in How do i play Sonic Adventure DC? (last edited by Surlent at 03-17-10 03:42 AM) Link
"Self-bootable" is similar or the same with CDs and DVDs for a computer. It makes you start from the medium, like from Windows 98 on you could just pop in your CD, the computer then would automatically start from the CD (assuming, it will be checked before the harddisk). Non-bootable CDs cannot be used to install an operating system directly. Then you need something to "prepare" an installation like, say Windows 95. Usually a floppy disk, again, bootable

But enough of that.
I am not too deep into DC emulation, I think it mainly affects users who want to burn their ISOs on a CD and play the game on the real thing: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=25906
This thread might help you, note the text in red, which describes your problem. And read thorougly through the passage first.

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Posted on 03-20-10 08:16:07 AM, in PC Startup time (last edited by Surlent at 03-20-10 05:17 AM) Link
It skips the quick RAM-counting-up sequence and/or device listings, you technically could leave quick boot on. These tests aren't too reliable usually anyway if something like the RAM faills, but I have them enabled anyway.

Just remember that you have a little shorter time window to hit the BIOS entrance key.
My machine takes about 40-45 seconds to boot. One funny thing, it needed about 10 seconds longer, when I still had IDE Legacy mode enabled instead of AHCI (it has a regular SATA II drive). Thought it would take longer the other way around.
I was dumb enough NOT to change to AHCI before installing Windows 7. And as you expect, Windows would give you a blue screen if you just switch the setting inside the BIOS alone.
Just use the goold old registry value change of ONE digit, following reboot and going into the BIOS (changing from IDE to AHCI), worked flawlessy.

But since I have not that much (startup) applications installed on my machine, mainly the VMWare tray process, AntiVir, Bluetooth and Catalyst and only the most neccessary process load at start, it loads pretty quick.
Not that I care about boot time, if you turn on the computer once or twice per day.


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Posted on 03-20-10 08:23:33 AM, in Random Freezing Link
I doubt most viruses kick in before you can even boot Windows. Yes, there is still boot sector viruses, but nowadays these are extremely rare (and concering malware from these authors it still seems "popular" to just zombify yor PC, using it as a spam machine - so they would not have anything from a non-working cient).

Can yout boot something else than the Windows CD without freeze?
If no and your motherboard supports booting from USB devices, try that if you can still access your BIOS setup before a freeze will occur.
From another computer, download Ultimate Boot CD, like Gabu said, a quite nice collection of small tools which require no operating system installed. It has software to stress your components. But you're getting this mainly for memtest86+.
Let it run for several hours (it goes on endlessy until you end). There must not be any errors, or the RAM (in rare cases also a slot) might be broken. If you have errors, then repeate the test with one one RAM module plugged in to find the mallicious one.

You could also open up the case to check the motherboard for damaged capacitors, as one older board had bizzare errors due to them here.

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Posted on 03-20-10 11:13:17 AM, in Favourite season(s) Link
Definitively summer. I have skin tone II and get sun burn quite quickly, but still like the weather far more than the winter (of course using sun milk on hotter days).

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Posted on 04-10-10 03:38:51 PM, in Game Deals (last edited by Surlent at 04-10-10 12:51 PM) Link
Originally posted by yde
Modern Warfare 2 is free to play on Steam from now through the weekend. So if you're like me and want to know what all the fuss is about, well, get on it.


I never had Steam before, although there might be neat, little games which sound quite interesting, like Puzzle Quest: Galactrix or Braid. Personally played Modern Warfare 2 through the singleplayer - it was in the video rental were it was not supposed to be, as it will be tied to an existing Steam account. But rented it, "made it" playable for the SP.
As nice as it was, the single player was just a tad too short (7-8 hours maybe), but it seems the game is built around multiplayer much more, the campaign being some kind of tutorial. But you need a LOT of patience to download the multiplayer portion, as it is about 8 gigs and everyone probably wants/ed to play it until tomorrow.

So I tried the the game online, and surprisingly it ran well, even though this entry does not feature dedicated servers by Infinity Ward. But in the end it will be interesting only to hardcore fans, as the main problem is its unlockable weapons. You start with bad weapons and have to finish quite a lot of games, until you finally have those nifty perks and perhaps the best stuff. That doesn't mean, it is impossible to win with level 1, but if you compare two skilled players at the same level with a hefty varation between levels, it is sad that the level will probably decide. If this was optional, it would have been better, as many players just sit out and camp (the game even encourages that by offering the sniper class quite early). Also I only really liked the Headquarters Pro game type really.

So, even if 5-6 hours may be a bit short to judge the multiplayer, basically it is really nice looking. It runs fluently on a mid-range video card with several people. It is just not a game for people which play singleplayer only. If you tear through games like butter, I'd wait until the game drops to a reasonable price, because for the campaign it is just a tad short. The fact this one is made up quite well (minus the airport mission, I just don't understand what happens in the end) just doesn't redeem its little duration.

The question is, how long will this game actually live? CoD4/MW1 is said to be better be some people, others say that Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has the better multiplayer, but if you cannot run mods or change little more than some generic options, like amount of health and round duration, it will not help at all (but if you are EA or Ubisoft *cough* ...)

As for Steam itself, it is okay. It is not all all bloated as I expected (25-30 MB of RAM usage if fine, though), although the initial advertisement/news page (in full mode) strongly markets Valve's own and its partner flagship titles. But it was enough for me; I wanted to test one of those "war games" online, got what I want and at least know a bit about that, uninstalled Steam.

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Posted on 04-10-10 04:10:37 PM, in My computer is possessed! Link
The thing with PSUs is, as often some companies just label them "up to XXX Watts", but either due to bad capacitors or other problems some just cannot hold the voltage perfectly (a video card's +12 volts rail for instance). Fluctuations could cause irregularities, although this may not happen on every cheaper PSU automatically. In my older computer there is a cheap noname 400 Watts power supply unit which still works like a charm. The system was never even close to 350 Watts consumption (passively cooled low-budget video card), so I cannot tell if it might fail after longer terms of usage.

A friend of mine recently had a dead PSU from BeQuiet!, but I think he either just had very bad luck (it was only about one year old) or maybe ran it at 100% 24/7 all the day long, although an expensive unit should survive this with ease usually. Still, I would recommend anything 80+ certified from brands like Corsair, Enermax or BeQuiet! At least the risk of losing components by a cooked power supply should be remarkably lower, like if a no-name one dies, probably already damaging the motherboard. Currently I use a 450Watt unit from Corsair. I hope it will survive long enough, at least you have about five years warranty, as some harddisk manufacturer may offer, too.

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Posted on 04-18-10 09:06:53 AM, in Favorite Windows versions Link
Had tried every version in this poll, except the non-SE version from Windows 98 and NT 4.0.
I really like Windows 2000 Professional, although I only used an old licence on a secondary machine. Even with little resources on that the operating system ran surprisingly well.

Most satisfied I was with XP in the long run, it was stable. The only gripe was working with a restricted account. By default even "Run as ..." is a potential security hole and you may use something like MakeMeAdmin to eliminate those risks, but I think Microsoft fixed this with Vista and 7.

Currently this machine runs Windows 7. I would have stayed with XP, but upgraded for those reasons:

- 4 GB of RAM in a new computer. So to fully utilize them, I needed a x64 licence anyway, as my versions only support 32bit and a newer OS might utliize the resources in a better way than an older one
- Cheap student offer. Around 40$ for either Home Premium or even Professional was a fair price imho. Back then paid twice as much for XP Home, and used it for years.
- Opinions from friends. Except one they didn't like Vista at all, but were very satisfied with Windows 7, until now at least
- Having no experience with SATA drives and the installation of XP, I just didn't want to experience any hassle with it (if you have no floppy and have no experience to include the driver into the XP install CD); built the new machine in December 2009 and until then I still had an old motherboard with IDE support only

Current favourite operating systems: Windows 7, some time I had Kubuntu set up in dual-boot, as well.

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Posted on 04-18-10 04:42:17 PM, in Okay, well, since I haven't posted here since early 2008, here are all my releases sinc in catch-up. (last edited by Surlent at 04-18-10 01:43 PM) Link
Nice to see read you back, Gideon Zhi.
Really awesome stuff, personally interested especially in Tactics Ogre, as the PS version from TO is - imo - inferior to the SNES one sound-wise, aside from the sole sound effect when someone dies. If you listen to "Avilla Henya" on the PS1 version, after you heard the SNES/SFC version before, your ears will probably bleed. And, the side effect, if you don't know Japanese, the SFC game was nearly unplayable until then (you could just try or map those katakana-ish skills to a class, but in the story it is especially difficult at decision points ...), but this is solved, of course for the main use of this patch.
And we can keep that awesome SFC music as well minus any loading time here, sweet. Really nice work

Awesome stuff, and those other Japanese gems, yet relatively unknown, have awesome graphics, as well.

If you didn't play this game yet, get it now. And if you played Final Fantasy Tactics, this might be even more interesting for you, as FFT is the inofficial TO2 (was made from the same guys who did Tactics Ogre - LUCT), just dressed with Chocobos and FF stuff, with the same battle system plus the Charge Turn element, not present here. Yes, there's official sequels to Tactics Ogre on GBA (only?), but I didn't like any of those too much.

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Posted on 04-18-10 05:06:57 PM, in I Thought I Saved? Link
I don't pay too much attention to "proper" saving, but instead just try to save as often as possible/neccessary. Yes, even in games where saving takes forever, like in Vagrant Story. Many different save files are crucial in open games like Fallout 3 anyway, where it can be decisive, WHEN you saved last. Try to blow up ... uh, no spoilers, and it can be bad if you wanted to other things first if your auto-save got overwritten and you have neither quick nor regular save ready.

And the risk of losing a precious save due to a faulty (system) memory card block, power shortage or damaged hard disk is not as problematic as losing your term paper or work you did before on the computer (although you will backup crucial stuff like this anyway beforehand regularly on different media/places), but it can be very annoying indeed.
Never had too many trouble here, even my old Lufia - Rise of the Sinistrals (in Germany just "Lufia", as the prequel never came out here) cartridge save with 97 hours and multiple clearances in the Ancient Dungeon still works.

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Posted on 04-19-10 10:37:02 AM, in Games negatively impacted by bugs and/or questionable programming decisions Link
Final Fantasy 8 allowed "100" of x in many categories, like the maximum amount of for each spell or the characters' level. I'm curious what happens, if you can do anything at lv 100 and attacking monsters with L5-Doom (as there seems no way to raise the level to a number not divisible by 5 anymore).
Maybe having those 9s is just a psychological aspect in older games, as many of those had fonts with fixed widths. You as a player will know you have the maximum amount of points/damage or whatever done, if all digits show bunches of nines - as you filled out all provided spaces with numerals as high as possible. And "9" as the highest natural number before it rolls over to increase the most-left, or even other ones, digit by one, it probably feels like "I have the maximum now!". This might explain the 9999 damage cap in Final Fantasy games, some have no damage cap, but even only display four digits maximum, too. Think Lufia II if you fight the Egg Dragon. There you can easily reach 9999 damage and check, that only the damage display is cut to 9999, not the damage itself.
You can buy a certain sword in the Casino, its IP does fractional damage, removing 1/4 from the remaining HP. Now the little boss has 65000 HP, so it is easy to calculate how much life is taken off with one swing at full HP (you can verify this by using that attack _again_, it will do a lot less damage instead of the displayed 9999).

If we got used to the hexadecimal system instead the decimal one, it probably would have been similar to today, anyway. To digits fo up to FF/256 (actually 255, as the zero indeed counts to "no items").

As for nerving passages, I despise anything which adds long cutscenes _after_ a save point, right before a really challenging part in a game.

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Posted on 04-19-10 08:38:13 PM, in Screen savers Link
On XP I used the default one, as I'm not in the room anyway if the screen saver kicks in. For longer time spans, shutting off the screen (an old CRT) will save more energy and may prevent the burn-in effect as well.
I never used any other ones beside the default ones installed by the system, with one exception, when I downloaded one Matrix screen saver. After a reformat I forgot to grab it and never bothered to put it back on.

Now, with Windows 7, I just use the "Ribbons" one. I actually like it, although I probably won't see too much of it anyway.


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Posted on 04-28-10 07:48:09 PM, in Sony to stop producing floppies Link
My old computer has a floppy, I used it about 20 times in five years, that was for some really old program which liked to save on floopies. Aside from this, older machines and/or a Windows XP install disk without SATA drivers on them. You may need them by default, there might be one occasion to use one, as these things literally cost nothing - but any friend should have one if needed for once. Borrow it, pop that bastard in, install your OS, return the drive.
Aside from vastly increased storage and file sizes floppy disks were unreliable at times. Think about backing up some really important documents - then the disk is probably damaged and gone. Personally didn't have too much trouble in those rare occasions I used them, always double-checked if those data were _really_ on that disk. On extremely important data even used a second floppy (aside the local hard disk copy in the homecomputer era, if there was enough space back then).

You also may ask why there are still CD-only writers available, while I think that many people who will primarily burn DVDs, if not using an audio CD for older machines or just to make it compatible to any CD player.
There are a lot of computers which are really old for today's standards, but still work flawlessy. And if you can even get some essential parts it might be good. Although I think it even might be possible to install a DVD drive in Windows 98 SE (even with little resources I'd install a "shrinked" Win 2000 on that machine, either a custom install disc or removing/disabling unused files and services).

I just hope the prices from the remaining manufacturers won't rise too much, as like with IDE HDDs. The prices for those are ridicously high, compared to any SATA hard disk. And I don't think IDE is "dead", though, and will not vanish as fast, when even floppy disks are around today.

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Posted on 05-03-10 07:25:04 PM, in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty - July 27 Link
StarCraft/BroodWar is by far the game I played the longest time ever. Unfortunately I didn't get a key for the SCII beta (opt-in), but this may be due to this machine I built in December, as it is just "one of too many". If I maybe hooked up my old rig (old video card, though not even pixel shaders, still enough for things like Half-Life 2 or - with _very_ low FPS, Torchlight), there might have been even chances, if Blizzards probably needed to test the game on the lower end of the hardware scale as well. Nevermind.
While I sometimes have problems to spot the right units in Warcraft III TFT, in BW the graphics are still great - and in SCII the overview seems to be quite well. I will probably use the English hotkeys once available - if you can run the English version without any problems, I will get that version. The localization from the original was done nicely then, but if a Marine or a Zealot dies, this sounds a lot better and funnier in the English one.

And in BW there are so many good funmaps. Now, with the SCII beta editor released, I hope the builders will make good maps for this game (and not DotA-type ones only. Nothing against it, but in TFT there is rarely a good TD game open at times), some Turret Defenses in BW are still fun - and others like Bounds, Desert Strike always make you try once more.

I could preorder it and get a key, yeah, but I'd like to wait a little more. Already had the client to watch replays, when this was possible. The game looks very nice, but either I get a key meanwhile through opt-in or not, I will definitively buy this when the first game will be released. Although the three games plus maybe even additional expansions might come with a hefty price tag.

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Posted on 05-05-10 07:50:54 PM, in If you needed a really good external drive... Link
Technical innovation is great, and as it can be pain in the ass copying large amounts of data off/to external drives at times, this beast might come in handy. But if this thing costs like 600-1000 USD in its highest variant with 256 GB, you still only have one reliable source. And concerning this will indeed will be very pricy, I would expect this thing uses single-level cells instead of MLCs (I know, Wikipedia, but many sources can be found easily, which prove that). These have less lifespan than SLCs, although they are more expensive.
Even if I had the hardware and money for that, I would just buy regular external drives and/or internal SSDs (or external via a card-reader's slot probably, don't know too much in that term) for that amount of cash, as I have more reliability - several drives probably will NOT fail all at once.

But it sounds great indeed. Hook up your USB 3.0 drive, copy a few movies over to your computer - several hundered gigs in a few minutes - sounds really nice. Just wait long enough when USB 3.0 and storage devices like this are spread more and the prices drop significantly; probably the speed probably could even improve more by then

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Posted on 05-06-10 09:14:25 PM, in Lets complain about the new Google layout Link
Google may change many things, but a lot of people will still continue using their services. Think Youtube, people adapt to the new player (if they like it or not, as a lot of stuff is published on YT).

I like the design actually, for that left pane I would like it to be able to move on the right side/toggling it. But probably this would hurt Google's AdWords and other advertisement types - and if those got moved to the left side maybe, we had the same problem as before.
Whatever, this is another time the Firefox addon Greasemonkey kicks in. There are already some scripts for Google to remove the left sidebar, some don't work, but that one I installed removed it entirely:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/76127 (requires Greasemonkey to be installed, every source can be checked before installing to prevent any suspect code; but usually there should not be even one bad script on that site).

I will still use Google as my default search engine, as well as a Google Mail account. Made this entirely for Youtube, really good web interface, although I have to admit _not_ using it for private messaging or services like eBay and such. The image search from Google still is very nice to use, but I would like to see some serious competitor to Google.

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Posted on 05-07-10 11:48:32 AM, in IE9 boasts 100% coverage of HTML5, CSS3 Link
Since it's still a beta, I won't install IE9 on my computer.
But on the other hand it would be really nice, if Internet Explorer could get a bit more modern in its configuration. I don't know anyone for instance, who uses the zone model in IE properly. And although I think IE8 is _usable_ nowadays, it still has some culprits which can be annoying; for many people it's the address bar being above the menu bar and no quick way to change this. You have to go into the registry for that. Another thing is the lack of *good* addons for IE.

I use Firefox, but the latest versionss from Google's Chrome are really nice, being fast, relatively low resource consumption, nice appearance - if this thing wouldn't install into your AppData folder (you cannot change that, but think it is possible in SRWare Iron II) directly and hadn't the issue of displaying blank pages before displaying a freshly loaded website on my machine, every other browser just works fine, I would consider checking the future versions more often, addon and plugin support.

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