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Thanks for reminding me I bought Original War. Time to get on that. This site is awesome.
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kode54 posted:Unplayable on modern AMD systems. Intel Core processors run the processor timestamp counter (RDTSC, which the original Unreal engine stupidly uses for timing) at a constant rate, regardless of core or current clock speed. So, no speed issues there. (Under Linux, this feature is reported in /proc/cpuinfo as the constant_tsc flag.) Would disabling the PowerNow! feature in the BIOS for AMD CPUs, thereby stopping the clock speed changes, fix this?
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Mar 9, 2009 21:44
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Nalin posted:Possibly. You should probably just download the AMD dual-core optimizer, as it is designed to fix the RDTSC problem: I've tried it, but it only fixes it for dual-core AMDs and I have one of their single cores with PowerNow. If it won't harm anything, I think I'll try it and post a trip report for anyone else who might need it.
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Mar 10, 2009 08:11
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kode54 posted:It does fix the problem of QueryPerformanceCounter querying RDTSC (by adding the /usepmtimer switch to boot.ini), and it also deals with RDTSC being out of sync between cores, but it does not deal with PowerNow! varying the speed of RDTSC. I've always had Power Management set to Always On, but disabling PowerNow! did fix it. Yay programming decisions that assume hardware architecture will never change. Not as lol-worthy as FFVII PC's "Let's base the speed of plot advancing mini-games on clock speed, to up the difficulty a bit for people with gaming comps", with their average speed being a 433 MHz CPU IIRC, leading to near unplayable speeds on scenes like the motorcycle race on rigs made anytime after 2002 or so. EDIT: Twitter says THREE new publishers, hell yeah. A Fancy 400 lbs fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Mar 11, 2009 |
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My debit card doesn't like Poland all of a sudden, and I'm having trouble getting ahold of my bank, any wanna gift me ~$12 worth of games and I'll Paypal you back in a few days when my bank account verifies? Contact me through Steam(https://www.steamcommunity.com/id/PenquinDude) or e-mail(PastmancerMaster@gmail.com).
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Got Giants and Rise of the Triad, which I haven't played, and FreeSpace 2 which I have. Giants is cool, but the jetpack controls annoy me. How often do I have to use it throughout the game?
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Jan 5, 2010 02:39
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What I've found is most people who claim something's incompatible with Win 7 x64 really mean "I've tried to get it to run once, and it didn't work, so I immediately blamed it on Win7 without trying anything to fix it." If you don't find anyone else complaining, it probably works. If not, there's always XP mode. Personally picked up Heroes III since I only had Vanilla when it came out, Disciples II since I like what I played of it on GameTap and Gothic II since I like what I've heard about it.
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Apr 3, 2010 00:08
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Gazaville Slugger posted:When is MOOII coming out already All the rights holders committed suicide after MOO3.
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Apr 5, 2010 07:48
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al-azad posted:Then you won't like Spellforce because the entire game is about management and the enemy AI is aggressive as gently caress. Later missions are wars of attrition where you're whittling each other down constantly hoping to gain the AI makes a mistake to gain a slight advantage and slowly overpower the enemy. Other than that it's a good game that's pretty drat long. Does it get quicker later on? I'm doing the tutorial, and I'm at the base building part, and once you have all your workers specialized and it's down to your last 2 out of 30 building something it takes FOREVER.
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Apr 10, 2010 07:33
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AGH. Playing Assassin's Creed 2 gave me a hankering to play PoP, and GoG let the sale go to midnight tonite. Curse you poor impulse control. 
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Jun 8, 2010 04:40
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Agh, my controller that I know works with PoP died. Wall jumping with a mouse and keyboard is evil.
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Jun 8, 2010 21:37
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Andrigaar posted:What? It's $6. That's the price of a value meal at a fast food place. The amount you'd likely save on a sale is going to be like $1.50, max. Just buy it if it appeals to you, it's worth it.
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Jun 21, 2010 23:07
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Jesus christ, I'm part of a leftist group on my campus that helps unions organize strikes and has a socialist book club and even I realize all this freaking out is retarded. Yes advertising can be used to manipulate people into doing bad, but it all depends on how it's used, just like any other tool, and this is clearly not GoG trying to make people into sheeple or some poo poo like that. It's not a hard loving concept.
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Jul 1, 2010 23:01
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Don't feel like spending $40 on the Rebellion Pack promo, since I own Evil Genius already and most of it is just strategy game sequels, but I do want to pick up a couple games. If I were to choose one from each of their series(Lords of, Ground Control and Empire Earth), which would be my best bets?
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Jul 9, 2010 20:41
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Yeah, when reading up on them I noticed that. Ended up going with Lords of Magic, EE1 and GC2. Also if you don't own Evil Genius, buy it, it's a wonderful base building game that absolutely oozes charm.
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Jul 9, 2010 22:35
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jvempire posted:For reference he's talking about this and it adds more than just a minion cap!: The English in that change list is atrocious. None of the bad spelling leaks into the game, does it?
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Jul 11, 2010 06:09
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JazzFlight posted:Alright, tonight is the last chance for the Rebellion pack. Whaddya guys think? Worth it? Depends on what you want/already have. If you really like strategy games, yeah, if not just pick and choose what looks interesting, my purchase of the three I found most interesting looking was like $12 total.
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Jul 12, 2010 23:56
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ikanreed posted:Look at the most requested games on GoG's site. GoG knows that people want planescape. Interplay has been pretty willing to sell things there already. I'm left to conclude it's EA who's mucking things up. What the gently caress does EA have to do with Planescape Torment?
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Jul 22, 2010 20:17
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ikanreed posted:A bit of a repetition, but they own Bioware these days. Correct me if I'm wrong, but besides licensing the Infinity Engine, there's like zero connection between Bioware and PS:T AFAIK. EDIT: VVV Sweet, I'm not crazy. VVV
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Just bought Earth 2150 and booted up the Eurasian Dynasty tutorial: Did seriously no one notice that during development?
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Picked up Two Worlds to treat myself for getting a dollar raise and more hours for work. Does it control better with a gamepad or M+K?
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GreenNight posted:M+K of course. Yeah, just fired it up, doesn't even look like it supports gamepads. I thought it was a 360 port, but I guess I must be confusing it with something else.
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Aug 21, 2010 02:09
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MoO I + II on Impulse for $6. Perhaps we'll see a GoG release soon?
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Sep 15, 2010 20:14
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Holy poo poo, how did I miss that.  In my defense, I don't check the top sellers list.
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Sep 15, 2010 20:43
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Jabarto posted:As long as we're talking about it, which of the two Age of Wonders sequels is better? I'm pretty set on getting Shadow Magic, but I'm open to opinions to the contrary. Shadow Magic is basically 2.5, so I doubt you will be getting any to the contrary.
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kuddles posted:Well, that sucks. It's kinda weird that I would be openly worrying about GoG not doing well for the past month but at no point considered downloading backup copies. I lot of the games I actually don't care if I lose as they were impulse purchases that I got bored with 10 minutes after the nostalgia wore off. But games like Divine Divinity - that actually had some improvements like official widescreen support added on - are the ones I wished I grabbed. Well, what's their ToS? I wouldn't be surprised if the ToS says they have to give notice before severing the service, and the price of lawsuits would be higher than the bandwith hit.
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Sep 19, 2010 18:43
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Sudbina posted:There's a new post on NeoGAF saying that some polish website has contacted GOG.com and was told that it was supposedly bought by one of it's competitors: Please let competitors mean Steam, Impulse or GamersGate and not Atari/EA/Ubisoft/etc.
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Sep 20, 2010 15:53
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I know I'm not the OP, but could a mod please update the title to reflect the fact that all downloads will be available again on Thursday? It'll (hopefully) cut down on people who just read the first few new posts and skip the rest complaining about not being able to download again.
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Sep 20, 2010 19:17
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For those wondering how terrible GameTap has become, here's the new games list.
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Quest For Glory II posted:Sounds great. Wish I could play them. However, Gametap refuses to work properly on any of my computers, so I don't care about your anecdotal evidence, and based on the fact that the Gametap thread went from multiple posts per day to 1 post per month, neither does anyone else. I'm not exactly sure how Gametap will even exist in 5 years. Maybe Metaboli is a great service in Europe, but it is not in America. This. GameTap != Metaboli despite being owned by the same people. And this is from someone who defended GameTap up through the transition. Metaboli had their chance with it and failed.
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What's that Impulse? I can download Duke 3D right now? Don't mind if I do. 
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To all the people saying they were paying for infinite downloads at any point in the future and not the game, that may be what you WANTED, but that is something no company can guarantee and therefore not what you were paying for. You paid for the game, and being able to download it multiple times was a bonus. Yes, it sucks that they're able to take the downloads down, and it totally makes sense if that stops you from buying from them again, but you did get what you paid for.
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Sep 21, 2010 19:02
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DatonKallandor posted:At the end of the day Valve still owns it. Which means they have final say. They could very easily tell publishers to gently caress themselves unless they offer a decent price. How well is Valve going to do as a business if they tell every major publisher to go gently caress themselves?
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Discount Viscount posted:Modern Warfare 2 dedicated server petition/boycott. Some of us are still boycotting. 
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Centipeed posted:So basically GOG.com are re-opening as a service whereby other services (Steam, D2D, GG, Impulse etc.) can license their service and therefore sell their Good Old Games for them? The way I read that is CD Projekt's games, and games from other publishers under license, can be sold through GOG.
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Sep 22, 2010 15:51
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Come on, ignore the obvious troll. Either that or he got lost on the way to the WoW subforum.
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PC Gamer's latest FaceBook update is "GOG.com apologise for hoax closure: "We could not miss a chance to generate some buzz." Full statement on PCGamer.com:", but the link isn't online yet.
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Hopefully NWN goes up too. I lost my vanilla CD key(though I still have all my CDs from the original releases in that bitchin holder that came with HotU) and I've just been copying my install from computer to computer for a while now. And hopefully PS:T too, I never finished it on GameTap.
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BadAstronaut posted:can someone please collect all the serious questions you want answered and post them into one post and I can try get them answered. If GOG was to shut down for real, what would be their target for how far beforehand they would tell us?
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Mercury Crusader posted:What if, like, instead of System Shock 1 and 2, they got BioShock 1 and 2, man? It's Good Old Games.
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