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Royal Mail FTW!

Lee wrote:I hope Fista fails badly. The interface looks horrible and it has way too much un-needed crap, i've disabled a lot of windows xp's features as it is. Classic windows ftw. Also i bet it'll mean lower fps in games because of all the resources it eats.

^^this

Operating systems are there not to be noticed. Sounds like I'm going to have to learn linux :/

good mate of mine seems to think its the dogs bollocks, alot of bugs to be ironed out but alot of good uses. although he did come round last night to borrow a heatsink of mine as his cpu had mysteriously asploded.
you do the math

Strawberry Dragon wrote:Operating systems are there not to be noticed. Sounds like I'm going to have to learn linux :/

Mmmm.. *Definitely buying a mac*

Congratulations, your system will Rock this product! Wish we had a system that hot you lucky dog.

Rock!

Strawberry Dragon wrote:

Lee wrote:I hope Fista fails badly. The interface looks horrible and it has way too much un-needed crap, i've disabled a lot of windows xp's features as it is. Classic windows ftw. Also i bet it'll mean lower fps in games because of all the resources it eats.

^^this

Operating systems are there not to be noticed. Sounds like I'm going to have to learn linux :/

It's not all bad. Some nice Linux chaps figgured out how to get eve working in Linux via some kind of emulator (Cedga, or somethng like that), and Linux is mainly stable as a rock. Just don't go pulling out chunks of the OS. Only problem I had was installing drivers, and in the end that forced me back to windows, but if I can crack that, mandrivia linux ftw!

Hehulk wrote:Only problem I had was installing drivers

nVidia rather pwn ATI on the drivers side of Linux. Also, Soundblaster Live, Audigy, Audigy2, Audigy4 cards FTW.

My Kubuntu install runs lovelyshiney with full 3D video support...

Ah Linux, must have set up machines with it a hundred times. Felt a bit of satisfaction having got everything working, and then deleted it and done something else.

Don't get me wrong, I've done stuff with it: replicated eDirectory, set up webmail mirrors, run Apache clusters, even the odd phpBB installation, but for home use it's all a bit unnecessary for what I actually do at home. Which is play games.

FatherJack wrote: Don't get me wrong, I've done stuff with it: replicated eDirectory, set up webmail mirrors, run Apache clusters, even the odd phpBB installation, but for home use it's all a bit unnecessary for what I actually do at home. Which is play games.

^this. When linux/mac can run *all* the same games as PC, *then* I will think about switching.

Although, the only thing I would be thinking about is which way to go

FatherJack wrote:Ah Linux, must have set up machines with it a hundred times. Felt a bit of satisfaction having got everything working, and then deleted it and done something else.

Don't get me wrong, I've done stuff with it: replicated eDirectory, set up webmail mirrors, run Apache clusters, even the odd phpBB installation, but for home use it's all a bit unnecessary for what I actually do at home. Which is play games.

This is why I can never quite be bothered. Despite best intentions of having my PC as a word processor, which it is used a lot for, its other main function is gaming. Unless games like Oblivion start getting Mac or Linux releases too, then I just can't see myself being drawn away.

"Install Instructions: Mount in Dameon tools click on setup and prepare to squirt loads of joy."

sounds like our kind of sweepings, all installed and working, I couldn't wait for the postman.

Gah. Postman came and all he brought me was a fecking bill. Maybe tomorrow then. Ho hum.

Lateralus wrote:Found this site earlier which is very nice. It tests your computer to see if it'll run whatever game you've selected from the drop-down list. The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion gave me these results:

[big picture]

Fuck yeah.

Ah... Those are the minimum specs. What did you get in the recommended tab? I passed all but graphics card with flying colours, and I don't think it really understands muti-gpu rendering, so I'm not bothered.

These are my recommended results:



I think if I had a 256MB GFX card it would've passed, but its close enough for me!

you'll be fine, lat, thats almost exactly what mine came up with.

What's this program you're all using to see these system requirements?

EDIT: Nevermind, I found the appropraite thread

Seemed to have a bit of trouble detecting my DVD writer

FAIL! FAIL! FAIL!

they dont go for subtle on that site, do they?