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[Loru]

Irrelevant.
A game should be fun to play, the rest is bloat and minimum specs inflation!

I totally agree with you. I play lot of older games simply for their playbility value or atmosphere and feeling they create, while graphics is secondary, if not tertiary for me. Ok - sometimes graphics is just repulsive but that's usually caused by bad design, not hardware limitations at the time of game developement.

In my previous post I was just admiring effects (as a graphic designer) created by realtime render engine, however I don't force myself to play games only because of stunning graphics.

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BTW: My game folder:

DOW = Dawn of War
FIRSTENC = Elite 3 Frontier First Encounters
Moo2 = Master of Orion 2
tfw is mission editor for Tie Fighter

Orbiter has now separate drive dedicated to various installs so is not listed here

 

[Pipcard]

Remember when every add-on on O-H was an XR2 skin?

 

[Izack]

There was never such a time. O-H long predates the XR-2.

There was a surge of themed Ravenstar repaints some time after the repaint kit was published, but it was hardly severe. And besides, some quality skins came of that.

Now lately we have a flood of sci-fi ships. Ah, well. Some of them are quite good.

 

[Pipcard]

Is it just me, or is Orbiter more prone to random crashes if I have a lot of add-ons installed?

 

[Izack]

That at least is true. With enough patience any such problems can be debugged, or at least the cause can be narowed down to with trial and error.

 

[Pipcard]

I'm not sure about this, but is there a program that allows you to manage/uninstall/disable/re-enable add-ons?

 

[Quick_Nick]

I'm not sure about this, but is there a program that allows you to manage/uninstall/disable/re-enable add-ons?

*waves magic wand*
[ame="http://orbithangar.com/searchid.php?ID=2701"]Generic Mod Enabler v1.4.0[/ame]

 

[MJR]

I do it manually cause I am cool like that....

 

[Athena]

Ugh

Recommended courses for me:

Electrical Engineering
Agricultural Engineering
Marine Engineering

Sweet jesus. :blink:

 

[mojoey]

Go EE. It could come in handy eventually.

 

[jedidia]

This is the program HP has flashing my BIOS...

The comic sans and poorly-sized 90s clipart do not bode well.

I just had the opportunity to witness this myself, as I updated my BIOS in a (probably vain) attempt to keep my pvilion dv3 from overheating when idling... An HP supporter said a BIOS update might help, but I have my doubts.

Anyways, some interesting expieriences with HP support:

Went to HP support page, entered my product number as recommended. Product number was not found.
Entered my Model number. Model number was not found.
Entered only the series, 64 results. Looking for my model, it isn't there. Great...

Back to google, enter complete model number. First search result is HP Driver download site for my precise model. WHAT? Why can google find my drivers better than their support site??

Anyways, it's the german support site. I check the date of the newest BIOS update... It's older than what I have installed. again, WHAT?

Back to google, search for my model again, exclude german results. Right. Back on the english support site where I started, except this time I actually get support for my model. Look at BIOS update, latest version is 3 months younger than my current. I don't expect it to help much, but...

why on earth was the BIOS on the german page a full one and a half years older than on the english? Why do I have to use google to find the download page for my model? Seriously, how hard can this stuff be to get right??

And to preempt all the well-meant suggestions of cleaning my fan and repasting my chip, been there, done that. I have no Idea what the matter is with this piece of junk.

 

[Loru]

I had also few problems with HP tech support. For example they've offered PCL6 printer driver for my office multifunction laserjet without any warning that in order to make it usefull I'll need to upgrade firmware also.

One of my employees installed it and it took me few hours to figure out why printer doesn't work. Since driver was installed on data/print server and all PCs in my company are using it via print server it resulted in major disturbance as all documents had to be printed from my graphic workstation until problem was solved. After that all employees have ban on installing any upgrade without consultation .

 

[astrosammy]

Wow, Berlin is getting a new DC-3, it's on the way from Coventry, I just saw it.

Beautiful

I saw a Ju-52 in flight, but this was much better.

 

[Urwumpe]

Ugh

Recommended courses for me:

Electrical Engineering
Agricultural Engineering
Marine Engineering

Sweet jesus. :blink:

What is bad about marine engineering?

 

[Izack]

Oceans sound like they don't need any more engineering; they work pretty well by themselves already.

 

[Loru]

Ugh

Recommended courses for me:

Electrical Engineering
Agricultural Engineering
Marine Engineering

Sweet jesus. :blink:

Hmm- if you're interested in any of those courses take one.

I'd urge you to look at market in your area or area you're planning to live in future.

My friend took marine engineering (with extensive hydrodynamics) and now he designs yachts (every few years he takes me for a trip to deliver said yachts to customers).

 

[N_Molson]

I'd think that Electrical Engineering is the one that has the most applications. And one day, if you buy a house and have to renovate the electrical system, you know how to do it safely. Huge fiscal savings.

 

[Athena]

What is bad about marine engineering?

Because our class went on a field trip in Manila bay last year and we had to take a boat and i threw up for nearly the entire boat trip and i'm still seasick up this day. :lol:

If Marine Engineering involves staying at boats out at sea, of course...:hmm:

I'd think that Electrical Engineering is the one that has the most applications. And one day, if you buy a house and have to renovate the electrical system, you know how to do it safely. Huge fiscal savings.

That's what i'm planning to take.

 

[N_Molson]

Because our class went on a field trip in Manila bay last year and we had to take a boat and i threw up for nearly the entire boat trip and i'm still seasick up this day.

That's a good reason (though there are medications and the fact you get used to it on long durations - the same phenomenon occurs in space - ) ! :lol:

But also if you're interested in aeronautics, I guess it is possible to focus and specialize into that (there is so much electrical stuff and cabling in planes) ?

I'm taking the plane this evening for a 620 kilometers hop. Yes, I will fly !

 

[Quick_Nick]

I just had the opportunity to witness this myself, as I updated my BIOS in a (probably vain) attempt to keep my pvilion dv3 from overheating when idling... An HP supporter said a BIOS update might help, but I have my doubts.

Anyways, some interesting expieriences with HP support:

Went to HP support page, entered my product number as recommended. Product number was not found.
Entered my Model number. Model number was not found.
Entered only the series, 64 results. Looking for my model, it isn't there. Great...

Back to google, enter complete model number. First search result is HP Driver download site for my precise model. WHAT? Why can google find my drivers better than their support site??

Anyways, it's the german support site. I check the date of the newest BIOS update... It's older than what I have installed. again, WHAT?

Back to google, search for my model again, exclude german results. Right. Back on the english support site where I started, except this time I actually get support for my model. Look at BIOS update, latest version is 3 months younger than my current. I don't expect it to help much, but...

why on earth was the BIOS on the german page a full one and a half years older than on the english? Why do I have to use google to find the download page for my model? Seriously, how hard can this stuff be to get right??

And to preempt all the well-meant suggestions of cleaning my fan and repasting my chip, been there, done that. I have no Idea what the matter is with this piece of junk.

You may have to do like me and downgrade BIOS. (Although I think my problem is not gone...)
Also, when searching exact things related to PCs, Google will point you to malware first... There's a ton of identical sites for every PC model, GPU, OS, antivirus, virus, software, etc. saying "hey, solve your <search term> problem by downloading this!" and, yeah, it's malware.