PC Gaming Thread
11-12-14 | 10:03 AM
#452
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
GOG.com huge fall sale is live. Two daily bundles, flash sales every 40 minutes, free Mount & Blade today, free Witcher 2 and a movie if you visit 7 times spread over the week of sales.
11-13-14 | 06:53 PM
#453
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
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Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!
Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!
11-16-14 | 04:28 PM
#454
Re: PC Gaming Thread
I am posting these on another forum also, so I don't know what is still active and what isn't....
Monaco: What's Yours is Mine
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Metro 2033
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Replace ! with a two
The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=!m2ePFyzVkvbvXa8
Replace ! with a seven
Monaco: What's Yours is Mine
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=nCtkXTGXZw4Wn!rz
Replace the ! with lowercase M
Metro 2033
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=RcG7qwSfd!DXxtvq
Replace ! with a two
The Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack
https://www.humblebundle.com/gift?key=!m2ePFyzVkvbvXa8
Replace ! with a seven
11-16-14 | 08:24 PM
#456
Re: PC Gaming Thread
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Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!
Very impressive Diablo-like game from Korea called Lost Ark Online. Doesn't go into beta until next year and who knows if it'll ever release here, but here's hoping!
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12-12-14 | 05:44 PM
#459
DVD Talk Godfather
Re: PC Gaming Thread
http://www.polygon.com/2014/12/12/73...s-time-to-talk
Hope they have a better vision and push for PC Gaming.
Microsoft plans to hold a Windows 10 event at its Redmond campus in late January, according to the official Windows blog, and Xbox head Phil Spencer will be on hand with others to talk about the "consumer experience."
The news comes the same day that Spencer touched on the importance of Windows gaming in a tweet:
Phil Spencer ✔ @XboxP3
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@RpLayy I'll be focusing more on what we are doing on Win10 in January, it's time for us to talk about gaming on Windows.
The news comes the same day that Spencer touched on the importance of Windows gaming in a tweet:
Phil Spencer ✔ @XboxP3
Follow
@RpLayy I'll be focusing more on what we are doing on Win10 in January, it's time for us to talk about gaming on Windows.
12-14-14 | 12:51 AM
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
From what I've read it's basically having the same framework for Xbox/Windows PC/Windows Phone, so people can code for one and have apps/games ready for the other two pretty quick.
12-25-14 | 04:40 PM
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
Had some "classic" PC fun yesterday.
I was playing The Evil Within and the game had a hard crash, that it restarted my computer completely. Took a break and came back with my PC from 3-4 years ago. It was loading an old version of Windows, well, it was actually using the Ubuntu loader that I had at that time, where I had a screen where I could select what OS to start.
So I loaded Windows, looked around and found out that my SSD drive had disappeared. So it was actually loading an old drive that I kept there when I upgraded to an SSD drive. That old hard drive was the one with the old Windows and Ubuntu. So I enabled the SSD drive. Then went to BIOS and put that as my first boot selection. For some reasons that boot selection looked different from the last time I checked hmmm.
So I start from the SSD drive and of course it says that it can't find the boot manager or something like that. That I needed to use my rescue drive. So now I need to find my Windows 8 DVD. Thankfully it wasn't that hard. Now repair, fix problems, etc. but yeah, that didn't work. At the end I had to do a restore. Thankfully, for some reason, I removed a program last week, so that was the one available.
And that brought back my PC! This is the short version of course.
I was playing The Evil Within and the game had a hard crash, that it restarted my computer completely. Took a break and came back with my PC from 3-4 years ago. It was loading an old version of Windows, well, it was actually using the Ubuntu loader that I had at that time, where I had a screen where I could select what OS to start.
So I loaded Windows, looked around and found out that my SSD drive had disappeared. So it was actually loading an old drive that I kept there when I upgraded to an SSD drive. That old hard drive was the one with the old Windows and Ubuntu. So I enabled the SSD drive. Then went to BIOS and put that as my first boot selection. For some reasons that boot selection looked different from the last time I checked hmmm.
So I start from the SSD drive and of course it says that it can't find the boot manager or something like that. That I needed to use my rescue drive. So now I need to find my Windows 8 DVD. Thankfully it wasn't that hard. Now repair, fix problems, etc. but yeah, that didn't work. At the end I had to do a restore. Thankfully, for some reason, I removed a program last week, so that was the one available.
And that brought back my PC! This is the short version of course.
12-25-14 | 07:12 PM
#462
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
12-25-14 | 10:13 PM
#463
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01-04-15 | 03:19 AM
#464
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
- Worth: $3079 ($914 with sales)
- Games owned: 277
- Games not played: 140 (51%)
- Hours on record: 536.9h
Damn, almost 100 new games. At least I got my not played percentage down.
01-04-15 | 10:36 AM
#466
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
My current count is 131 games, 60% unplayed. However, I have at least a couple of dozen games at Humbe and other bundle sites that I haven't even redeemed on Steam so it's probably closer to 70-75% unplayed.
01-08-15 | 09:47 PM
#469
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
Beamdog, the makers of Baldur's Gate/Icewind Dale enhanced editions, is planning to release this year a new game that takes place between Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, using the Infinity Engine.
http://www.beamdog.com/beamblog
I don't know whether they've released anything original yet, or just done these remakes, so it'll be interesting to see if the quality is up to snuff.
http://www.beamdog.com/beamblog
I don't know whether they've released anything original yet, or just done these remakes, so it'll be interesting to see if the quality is up to snuff.
01-13-15 | 09:58 AM
#470
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
Heroes of the Storm goes closed beta today. If anyone is interested that wasn't in the alpha, let me know 
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01-13-15 | 11:55 AM
#472
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01-15-15 | 06:38 AM
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01-15-15 | 06:46 AM
#474
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Re: PC Gaming Thread
I never understood why anyone wets their pants over these non-real world scenario tests that require a ridiculous cooling system no average end user could ever afford (or even want). Just give me the specs of what it can achieve with normal cooling solutions under real world scenarios for an end user.
G.Skill sets new DDR4 overclock world record of 4,255MHz
G.Skill sent out a cheery email on Monday announcing that it has set a new world record for DDR4 memory frequency overclock speed. Using a single 4GB stick of Ripjaws 4 Series DDR4 memory in single-channel mode, the company has hit a DDR4 memory frequency of 4,255MHz CL 18-18-18.
The feat was achieved on an Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard (X99 chipset) with an Intel i7-5960X processor using a liquid nitrogen cooling system. The X99 chipset supports quad-channel memory, but a single-stick configuration is better suited for frequency record-setting.
Are you going to be running DDR4 at this speed on a typical gaming PC? Of course not. In other words, this is all a bit of a marketing ploy, but it's a cool ploy nonetheless. Our RAM feels just a bit sluggish today, for some reason...
Check out the full CPU-Z validation of the record below.
G.Skill sent out a cheery email on Monday announcing that it has set a new world record for DDR4 memory frequency overclock speed. Using a single 4GB stick of Ripjaws 4 Series DDR4 memory in single-channel mode, the company has hit a DDR4 memory frequency of 4,255MHz CL 18-18-18.
The feat was achieved on an Asus Rampage V Extreme motherboard (X99 chipset) with an Intel i7-5960X processor using a liquid nitrogen cooling system. The X99 chipset supports quad-channel memory, but a single-stick configuration is better suited for frequency record-setting.
Are you going to be running DDR4 at this speed on a typical gaming PC? Of course not. In other words, this is all a bit of a marketing ploy, but it's a cool ploy nonetheless. Our RAM feels just a bit sluggish today, for some reason...
Check out the full CPU-Z validation of the record below.
01-15-15 | 11:27 AM
#475
DVD Talk Legend
Re: PC Gaming Thread
I never understood why anyone wets their pants over these non-real world scenario tests that require a ridiculous cooling system no average end user could ever afford (or even want). Just give me the specs of what it can achieve with normal cooling solutions under real world scenarios for an end user.
This isn't a review, just someone boasting a record. Don't really understand why it bothers you.