Mystikmind

[quote who="Tridus" reply="54" id="3428015"]8 is a great OS, at the kernel level. The UI is bloody awful. The only good thing to ever come out of Metro on the desktop is that it's made Stardock a lot of money selling Start8 and ModernMix to fix it. [/quote] Oh that reminds me, when i downloaded the third party shutdown program for Windows 8 (because it is bloody annoying to access in Windows 8), they bragged on their website how popular the download was... it occurr

Ahh,,, i learn't to use a bow when i was only 'knee' high and i could not see anything behind me, which was my 'blind side'??

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="44" id="3427789"] Quoting Sanati, reply 43 Not really. I have Vista on my desktop and 7 on a laptop (I never use), I have zero interest in upgrading my desktop to 7. Doing so would just require me to once again go through everything and strip out all the useless crap I don't want. I'd still be using windows 3.1 if it was possible, I don't need my OS doing a lot of pointless stuff, I just want explorer to manage my files and shor

[quote who="Seilore" reply="42" id="3427774"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 41Compatibility is an interesting topic..., say anyone know if the windows backwards compatibility options are actually connected to anything? Or are they just pretend/placebo to give people something useless to play with? Since i have never actually had it work for any older games?? I've had it work on my windows 7 home 64 bit to play win xp games such as mall tycoon, where it wouldn't work

Compatibility is an interesting topic..., say anyone know if the windows backwards compatibility options are actually connected to anything? Or are they just pretend/placebo to give people something useless to play with? Since i have never actually had it work for any older games??

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="3" id="3427635"] About multitple opponents. If memory serves, Jagged Alliance 2 allowed multiple sides battles with possibilities of interrupts. There even were four siders (Deidrana forces, Militia, local fauna and our mercenaries). I exclude civilians and alike, they rarely participated in combats, and even if they did, generally in small numbers. So in theory there could be possibility of "interrupts" should someone left "action points" during

[quote who="ParagonRenegade" reply="35" id="3427728"]DX11 isn't as big an improvement over DX10 as it was over DX9, but it's still a pretty sizable upgrade if you play games with lots of multi-core support. Make sure you get Windows 8.1 to get the latest version[/quote] The only reason i would have windows 8.1 is if i had ordered it with a new computer - I would never throw money away buying it on its own, that's just crazy talk! Currently i only have Vista 64 bit. <p

[quote who="Seilore" reply="31" id="3427608"] Quoting Sanati, reply 30The FAQ says 10 or 11, but in the Q&A somebody said it was 11 in a question and they weren't corrected. I don't know beyond that. I said DX 11 and win 7/8 (not referencing 64 bit though, assuming it was known at this point) in my question mainly because I wasn't being as specific as what I could have been. Mainly poking for system information that wasn't provided in Q&A,

[quote who="Rudy_102" reply="19" id="3427630"]Think the other way - people live differently, have different incomes, so buying expensive copies is "rather unlikely" in countries with low income. So if you want something sold there, you have to reduce prices, otherwise people aren't going to buy anything.[/quote] Yes, But i was refering to the price on steam being much higher than in the shop in the same country. If i buy it in the shop, Steam gets less or no share of the pro

[quote who="Sanati" reply="27" id="3427581"] Doesn't make sense that there would be any issues making it run on Vista if 64bit and Dx11 are the requirements, the (windows) OS itself shouldn't be important it's just the Dx11 and 64bit part that matter. I'm hoping it was an oversight on the FAQ, since it's so unpopular maybe whoever typed up the FAQ forgot about Vista or that it was Dx11 or had 64 bit versions.[/quote] So we definitely need DX 11

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="25" id="3427565"] Quoting Mystikmind, reply 24That's interesting, i would not have thought to concern myself with overheating because I'm not doing any overclocking. I should have mentioned that I also am not doing any overclocking. It would appear that CPU and GPU manufacturers have gotten wise to those that do. Also, some games work CPUs and GPUs very hard. It doesn't take overclocking to crank up enough heat to fry any CPU

Yea all these kinds of possibilities. Allot of 'problems' have already been solved in other games that use reaction moves. For example, as far as movement is concerned, reaction moves can only use movement left over from the previous turn, therefore you would always have full mobility at the start of your turn. This would also create good strategical potential because you have to think about how far you will push your fleet and how much reaction movement it will be left with?<

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="23" id="3427534"] Overheating. I found this an interesting subject during the last year while trying to play Civ 5. Here are a couple of the things I learned -- 1) Most CPUs and GPUs will monitor their own temperature and will "declock" themselves if their internal temperature gets above the device's safe threshold. I was amazed at how high that temperature was, on my old computer, the CPU's max safe temperature was about 163 degre

I,m not sure i have noticed any problem as you describe?? Although in Galciv 2 i did find that influence was often very time consuming to trade - The more advanced the game the more difficult to set the level of influence to the maximum the AI will accept.

[quote who="Achronous" reply="21" id="3427515"] As far as I know if the game gets stuck in a loop doing something very heavy then it will tax the system and push it to its max. If the system is already at its thermal limit, damage may occur. I suppose if there is a problem with the PC now would be the time when the problem would occur.[/quote] Well, if the computer is driven at maximum capacity by a program for whatever reason and it causes overheating, don't

[quote who="Achronous" reply="18" id="3427410"] Overheating games have been known to cause PC problems. Maybe not immediately, but soon. I'd rather the game won't play than frying my CPU and/or graphics card. Remember the throttle frame rate box in the settings of GalCiv2??[/quote] No, a game cannot exceed the maximum safe capacity of the hardware, it is totally illogical, you can only run as fast as you can run, because that is your limit. Your not going to run any fast

The Nvidia control panel system information says; 2815mb graphics memory total dedicated video memory 1024mb GDDR3, system video memory 0mb shared system memory 1719mb I have no idea how this memory is divided the way it is or how to change it?

[quote who="NitroX infinity" reply="13" id="3427375"] CPU: I don't think you have anything to worry about. MEM: My guess is that 4GiB will be the minimum. GPU: The GPU itself should be okay, but how much memory does the card have? Why is your resolution so low?[/quote] The graphics memory is listed: Display Memory: 2798 MB Dedicated Memory: 1007 MB Shared Memory: 1791 MB C

Ok here is my system in detail: Windows Vista™ Home Premium (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_gdr.100218-0019) Motherboard: Gigabyte P35-DS3L Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Memory: 4094MB RAM DDR3 DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT Display Memory: 2798 MB Dedicated Memory: 1007 MB Shared Memory: 1791 MB Current Mode: 800 x 600 (32 bit) (75Hz)</

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="10" id="3427333"] And, I would guess, after being warned that a barricade blocks a highly injurious fall you would step past that barricade and suffer those injuries, just so you could sue the pants off the owner of the property the barricade was on? If you survived, that is?[/quote] Oh yes, of course and our hospitals are full of people who fell off cliffs because of ignoring software safe guards on their computers... is that sarcastic enough?

Why is it that reaction moves seem to have been forgotten? Is it because it is too exploitable verses AI? Reaction moves play a very significant part in some very old strategy games that i really love, and i see no reason why it could not make a game like Galciv3 even more brilliant? Reaction moves are pretty much exactly that - reactions to the moves another player makes during that other players turn. Imagine this if you will - your fleet approaches an

[quote who="Lucky Jack" reply="8" id="3427306"] Quoting Lavo_2, reply 7While technically Vista isn't Windows 7, it should be fine nonetheless. You forget that GC3 might check the OS level and refuse to play on Vista. [/quote] Oh, that reminds me of the old "CPU not supported" in the original Alpha Centauri. And do we care that the CPU is not supported??? NO!!!!!!!!!!!! I always wondered what dummass moron programmed that one in, and wh

[quote who="admiralWillyWilber" reply="6" id="3427298"] On a side snote one of the first computer games I bought was Civilizatin Call to power 1 I later bought civilization 3. My question is call to power and civilization the same games.[/quote] That question confused me for a long time as well, but no, different games. What you do is, take Call to power, cut out half of the interesting attributes, add an AI that works, and what you have left is the

If galciv 3 is not compatible with Vista 64 bit i will have a problem..... I have recently managed to convince my wife to let me buy a fishing boat, but if i have to tell her i want to upgrade my computer as well,,,, ahh,, ahh , um, ... possibly 1 funeral will cost less???

[quote who="NitroX infinity" reply="3" id="3427273"] Right click on Computer, or My Computer, whatever it's called in Vista and select properties. That should tell you if your OS is 64bit or not.[/quote] Yea 'that' part says its 64 bit... .. but is it possible by some reason it can run in 32 bit? say some piece of hardware makes it do that etc etc?