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Reply to Dev Journal #1: Elemental: Reforged in Elemental Dev Journals Stardock Forums

Wow, it has been quite some time since I last posted here. Glad to see you're bringing Elemental back. I've still got the Collector's Edition (with that little dragon that I've been trying to make a mold of so I can make resin miniatures of various colors for potential RPG encounters) sitting on my shelf, probably the biggest box I've got. Hoping the re-release takes off, and people can do even crazier things with it with mods. I remember being able to marry your daughter off to a dragon, in

Reply to Stardock Announces Star Control: Origins in Press Releases (Star Control) StarControl Forums

Splendid news. I look forward to seeing what you do with these guys

Reply to DirectX 12 and AMD CPU scaling in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Thanks, that's good to know.

DirectX 12 and AMD CPU scaling in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Hi folks, long time no post. Has anyone had the opportunity to test out the DirectX 12 version from the Windows 10 technical preview in a system equipped with an AMD FX CPU? After seeing the Anandtech test, I keep wondering how it affects the FX series of AMD CPUs. Since they don't have full cores, it would be nice to know how well an 8 core behaves on DirectX 12 vs DirectX 11, or even the 6 core variants. If there's anyone that has done test, and are willing to share,

Reply to Stardock Games 2015 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I've also added a written preview for Offworld Trading Company http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/25/preview-offworld-trading-company/ Now that I think about it. Why are we colonizing Mars, and not the planet Kcodrats?

Reply to Stardock Games 2015 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Added a video about Offworld Trading Company as well: http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/17/demo-offworld-trading-company/ It's a lot faster pace than I thought it would be. Needs rampaging mule random event.

Reply to Stardock Games 2015 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

As promised, I have made overview videos of SK and GC3, which people have seen, plural. Some of them weren't even spambots. http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/11/demo-galactic-civilizations-3/ http://www.games-arena.ro/2015/02/10/demo-sorcerer-king/ Really happy to see Shadow World is still in the game.

Reply to Stardock Games 2015 in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'll be covering Sovereign and Galactic Civilizations 3 next week on: http://www.games-arena.ro/ After that it'll be looking at OTC soon after that. Now, I wouldn't call the site major, compared to ones that use English. But in the obscure eastern european language niche, we are quite notable-ish.

Reply to There’s a dog in my search in Personal Computing LittleTinyFrogs Forums

I miss the cat from Word 2000. Open Office needs a cat, or a dog. At this point, I'd settle for a paperclip.

Reply to I need a new TV series to watch in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

Defiance also had, more or less, the same basic plot as Terra Nova [spoiler](outsider dude becomes sheriff, someone wants to destroy the town from within)[/spoiler], combined with the same vibe Tabula Rasa had. Not really a proven combination for long lasting appeal, but I liked it.

Reply to THQ bundle in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Too bad they made Armageddon a part of it, Guerrilla was a so much better game, with a multiplayer that, had it not been for Games for Windows Live being horrible, is a ton of fun. (Yes, I'm complaining about a game that in essence cost 25 cents)

Reply to The Car Talk Thread: What do you have? in Everything Else Elemental Forums

Having failed the written exam twice, on account of the questions being dumb, I don't own a car, but I have driven a few in training, and by coincidence, there were all the same type of car, the Dacia 1300: (for reference, Top Gear's James May kept going on about the Dacia Sandero until the other two got him one and crashed it) <img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Dacia_1300.JPG/800px-Dacia_1300.JPG" alt="" wi

Intel is axing the socket in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

So, I was browsing around the internet instead of working again, and I came up with this: http://semiaccurate.com/2012/11/26/intel-kills-off-the-desktop-pcs-go-with-it/ In short, the CPU that Intel is prepping after next year's Haswell, that Broadwell thing, won't be using a standard socket, it will be soldered to the motherboard. So that means no more upgrades and a lot less t

Reply to Here's one for Snowman ....... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Loved that scene, really sad they won't continue the series. Thought there was supposed to be some special show to end everything this year.

Reply to Idiot - An adventure in CPU upgrading in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Gave PlanetSide 2 a go, it used to murder the PentiumD in the beta, hit 65 once, hovered at 63 or lower for most of the time, and that used to be a really CPU intensive game in the beta. So, so far, it's all good. But honestly, it's very jarring to play something at this high a framerate after being accustomed to it running at 5-10 frames a second. It's like when I switched from my Pentium 2 to the Athlon 64 back in 2006... which was about a year before this C2Q was made..

Reply to Idiot - An adventure in CPU upgrading in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Jafo has kept hinting at something, and after a while I've manged to decipher his riddle. Now I'm idling at 37-38 on the main core, which is swell. Haven't run any other tests. Maybe that will keep it from going over 70 while encoding videos, since I've found out it's not made to operate correctly over 71, and I make my living from web shows about video games. Gotta say I hate the LGA775 snap on/have no idea if it's actually snapped on, moun

Reply to Idiot - An adventure in CPU upgrading in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Thank you for all the advice. I'm building up the courage to meddle with it again. I doesn't help that I'm 90% certain I will make things worse, I haven't gotten paste on the CPU pads yet, so that's probably on my to fail list.

Reply to Idiot - An adventure in CPU upgrading in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Well, I've slept on it. In the light of day you can barely see that everything was silver last night. Haven't taken the heastink off again. Instead, I tested it with prime95 again, temperature didn't go over 75 for 15 minutes. Most importantly, I re-encoded the video I previously did with the Pentium D, it finished in half the time, with temp going once over 70, but staying mainly under 70. So far it hasn't exploded, and unless that happens, I think I'll leav

Reply to Idiot - An adventure in CPU upgrading in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I know what it does, makes me look like the Silver Surfer. It's getting to 50 degrees in FTL now, not exactly something fun. I'll re-re add it tomorrow. This time even less of it. I swear these were made especially to discourage people like me from meddling with the CPU. It was also probably not a good idea to show my support for the new computer store down the street by buying thermal paste from them, since they didn't have any on stock, and the one they g

Idiot - An adventure in CPU upgrading in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Hello folks, stop me if you've heard this before, but changing a CPU is hard if you have no prior experience in doing it. Thought it would be something easy, just pop the old one out, pop the new on in, ladder some thermal paste on it, put the cooler on and BANG! That's all she wrote. Well, it sort of started like that. Got the old CPU out OK, put the new one in without hassle, got the heatsink cleaned, and began wondering just how fluid is thermal paste when I

Reply to Metacritic - Let's Write Some User Reviews While We Wait for The Professionals in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Guys, really? Metacritic? Really? Don't buy into it, don't give that monstrosity power. Or at least not as long as my reviews aren't on it.

Reply to Fallen Enchantress 1.02 changelog in FE Support Elemental Forums

Immune to magic no longer protects against special abilities like crushing blow and true strike Love this! Really got my posterior handed to me when a successful gambler's strike got immuned by one of those big snake things. Also, I have prepared this short review of the game: "Dragon, dragon burning bright... oh crap, I'm on fire." Also a longer <a href="http://www.games-arena.ro/2012/11/12/review-elemental-fallen-enc

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Other idea. Can we please get a few more unique hero progression options? Most if not all of the perks I keep finding are all statistics related, it would be nice to have some that aren't just tied to numbers, but give some sort of extra ability. Like, when your hit points go below a certain number, you start to randomly teleport across the map every turn. Or, every time you cast a spell that requires X or more amount of mana, there's a chance you'll summon a demon a

Reply to Coming soon: Fallen Enchantress on Steam in Elemental Dev Journals Elemental Forums

Random event/world quest ideas: Tectonic Shift: randomly changes a part of the terrain, like water to land, land to mountains, mountains to plains, plains to water, in a not very large area of the map. Reign of Fire: A bunch of dragons start roaming the land, you'll need to find Christian Bale in order to stop the source of the invasion. Time of Storms: Units on the map outside any area of control are randomly struck

Reply to Windows 8: 8TB of memory available for games? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

8TB!? Modern technology is just screwing with me these days. I'm still stuck with 2GB of DDR2 until I can change 70% of the system at the end of the year.