shyt, I've posted a lot in this thread
yeah, i didn't expect to come in at #3.
fukk it...PC life.
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yeah, i didn't expect to come in at #3.
fukk it...PC life.
duckbutta
eienaar van mans
I think I'm going to do Dawnguard first. God damn vampires always trying to kill the NPCs
I haven't even modded yet
I installed a sweetfx mod a few weeks back but it brought my FPS from 60 to 30-40 and made movement very laggy so I removed it. I messed up while installing it and thought I fixed it but apparently not. I gotta try it again.
This shyt right here had me :dahellwhat:and is why I started using autosave (bad PC gaming etiquette to not use is but i hardly ever do ...)
I remember when Dawnguard first came out, I bought it, was like "how the fukk I start the mission for this shyt:dahellwhat:"
Had the Orc dude roll up on me in Whiterun after I got to level 11 or 12...
I always make Whiterun my man base until later in the game when I move it to Solitude...Whiterun has a house you can put an alchemy set in...3 people you can trade smithing stuff with, an alchemist, a wizard, a general good guy, and an enchanter...everything you need to build any type of character in one city...
So I go to the castle to take some enchantments off some shyt I found dungeon crawling...and I notice that right after I fast travel there, 3 guards are just running down the steps with their swords drawn...I'm like :usurematteroffact: but I don't think much of it...
So I remove some enchantments, fast travel to Whiterun, puts me right next to the war maidens shop...faster than walking their from the castle...
Nothing but dead bodies and two vampires looking at me like :gingerprivilege:...I'm like :dahellwhat:...mow them down...go outside the castle walls...skip time about 8 hours so the sun is up...come back in...
Chick outside of war maidens...dead...dude inside of war maidens...dead...alchemist chick...dead...random dark elf dude who gives the quest to find his sword...dead...even the dude who does the weapons for the companions was dead...which was super fukked up, because I was doing those quest and when it got to the part where he needed to give us the axe he put back together the game just couldn't continue...i would just get stuck at the cutscene where he is supposed to walk in and tell you he put it together...
so yeah now as soon as the quest becomes available I just do it to keep vampires from spawning everywhere...no matter what side you choose I've never had them spawn after completing all the dawnguard quest...
Another time the same thing happened except the people in Whiterun RAN OUT OF THERE HOUSES TO GET MURKED BY VAMPIRES...
Myself and one guard were fighting vampires, chick and dude from War Maidens just appear at the edge of a door with a wack ass iron mace and sword, one vampire runs at them,cast that drain life spell on them and they both are dead in all of about 5 seconds...literally a third of the smithing materials and weapons you can possibly trade for in the city gone...:rudyasmith:
500 gb 840 EVO is $224 until midnight.
If I just disk clone my current HDD how easy is it to install it onto SSD so that I don't have to buy Windows?
Bboystyle
FIRE MATT LAFLEUR
Your SSD will come with it's own cd clone program and it's a breeze
when i got my SSD i did a new install of windows 7 on it and left my original HHD as is...it still has windows on it but i use it for storage.
i can still boot off of my old HHD if i wanted to if i set it up through my bios....fukk it.
Anyone know of some good laptop deals for around 800$, mostly Internet browsing, but I will be doing some video work
Looking for either i5 or i7 with a small ssd for boot up
Where can I find a chart for the laptop CPU performances?
I found these ones but I'm wondering if there is better
Doesn't have a ssd but still looks to be a good deal but it is a acer tho
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...c&utm_campaign=cse&scpid=40&scid=scsho1316615
Looking for either i5 or i7 with a small ssd for boot up
Where can I find a chart for the laptop CPU performances?
I found these ones but I'm wondering if there is better
Doesn't have a ssd but still looks to be a good deal but it is a acer tho
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...c&utm_campaign=cse&scpid=40&scid=scsho1316615
just got my code in the email. Redeem via Steam 
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Yes, I've done it multiple times. Plenty of tutorials out there. They have programs that do it for you but you still need to follow the directions
Anybody have any experience with Western Digital's Black Series HDD's? I have two 2TB Seagate units in my pc, tech guy yesterday put me on to WD Black Series and the 5yr warranty and possible better build quality.
NormanConnors
Detroit/MSU Spartan Life
Running into a problem with a machine right now...looking for some help
Rig is about 6 years old.
Has Vista on it
XFX board/ quad core 3.2 ghz ( don't have the specs handy at the moment)
1000 watt power supply
4x2GB of ram, similar to what is below
http://www.memoryc.com/computermemo...0goldserieslowvoltagedualchannelkit88824.html
Only thing I noticed with the sticks is the pn # is the same on all four but two of the sticks read 1280 and the other two read 12800 ( not sure what this means, all of the other #s match) same speed 1600 mhz
Machine has been inactive for a couple years, initially had the 1280 combo ( or the 12800 combo not for sure) inside and was working fine with those two sticks. At some some point the other sticks/combo were added and problems started to happen, mainly shutting off/ restarting on its own. Mad blue screens
It's not my machine, but when I looked at it last night it wasn't even booting into Windows, just looped noting corrupt files and a problem with hardware ( option available to run a mem test) and to put the CD in for repair, tried that and nothing happened, it would just loop over again.
I wasnt even able to run a men test until I removed one of sticks and tried again after a couple more loops, and when I did get into the test it froze up solid at around 19%
Blue screened nearly every reboot also
A couple to note:
PFN LIST CORRUPT
page fault in nonpaged area
Bios sees the hard drive and the memory. I'm thinking the OS got corrupted and some of the sticks are bad? I don't usually touch gaming machines, so pass that knowledge if you can
Rig is about 6 years old.
Has Vista on it
XFX board/ quad core 3.2 ghz ( don't have the specs handy at the moment)
1000 watt power supply
4x2GB of ram, similar to what is below
http://www.memoryc.com/computermemo...0goldserieslowvoltagedualchannelkit88824.html
Only thing I noticed with the sticks is the pn # is the same on all four but two of the sticks read 1280 and the other two read 12800 ( not sure what this means, all of the other #s match) same speed 1600 mhz
Machine has been inactive for a couple years, initially had the 1280 combo ( or the 12800 combo not for sure) inside and was working fine with those two sticks. At some some point the other sticks/combo were added and problems started to happen, mainly shutting off/ restarting on its own. Mad blue screens
It's not my machine, but when I looked at it last night it wasn't even booting into Windows, just looped noting corrupt files and a problem with hardware ( option available to run a mem test) and to put the CD in for repair, tried that and nothing happened, it would just loop over again.
I wasnt even able to run a men test until I removed one of sticks and tried again after a couple more loops, and when I did get into the test it froze up solid at around 19%
Blue screened nearly every reboot also
A couple to note:
PFN LIST CORRUPT
page fault in nonpaged area
Bios sees the hard drive and the memory. I'm thinking the OS got corrupted and some of the sticks are bad? I don't usually touch gaming machines, so pass that knowledge if you can
So after my overclock, it's taking about 10-20 seconds longer to boot up my computer (it stays on the windows 8 startup screen for a bit longer than normal, goes to a black screen for a second, and them takes longer to get into windows after logging in). It's nothing crazy, but it's a little weird. I was stable with prime 95 and have no problems with crashes in games or anything like that.
The internet seems to say that a longer boot up might be a problem, but others are saying it's normal after an overclock. Is the longer boot time something I should be concerned with? Or is this just something you deal with when overclocking?
Edit: I have an asus sabertooth x79 mobo and I'm at 4.5ghz at 1.25v with a 4820k
The internet seems to say that a longer boot up might be a problem, but others are saying it's normal after an overclock. Is the longer boot time something I should be concerned with? Or is this just something you deal with when overclocking?
Edit: I have an asus sabertooth x79 mobo and I'm at 4.5ghz at 1.25v with a 4820k
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