Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Frost]

Sorry, Hinds. To me, computers are sort of like fire: sorcery practiced by black wizards

[Harmony Ltd.]

I fear this is less the fault of Windows, and more the fact that Fo3 (and Fo:NV to a lesser extent) is a real piece of garbage when it comes to stability :

For me the game crashes something like once every ten to fifteen minutes on average. It makes it hard to get past the beginning...

[Stringtheory]

So a friend very generously gave me copies of VMWare and Windows 7, this gift arising from a conversation involving getting Fo3 working. Well, VMWare is working fine, and Windows 7, though it's doing nothing to convince me that I'm wrong in thinking OSX superior, is running without problems. Fallout 3, however, is running less well than it was when I was trying wrappers. Only twice have I managed to get to the crash on new game that the wrappers consistently gave me; most of the time on Windows 7 I can't even load the main menu without hitting an error that makes the Windows system crash to desktop and then freeze (at least the virtual machine restarts quickly). Any advice?

do you still have a laptop with an integrated graphics card? if so good luck getting it to work, maybe a newer integrated card would work, but if you have what I have (intel HD 3000), god help you
for me New Vegas barely runs, usually crashing after 15 minutes, it's sad that the newer game runs better then the older one...

[O. Hinds]

Well, I've given up on Fo3 again for the moment. I can probably still make use of VMWare, though. I'm also wondering how well VMWare can run Windows XP, which apparently Fo3 runs better on; I think that I'll bring it up with that friend the next time I see them.

[O. Hinds]

On a more or less completely different topic, I just found this rather nice picture:

Spoilered mostly for size, but there is, if it bothers you, a nude equine statue in the image. Of course, the chances of anyone on this forum being offended by nothing more than weathered unclothed statuary seem rather low, but I thought that I'd better add the warning anyway.:

[O. Hinds]

Oh, and I just learned that the Yugoslav airforce flew some Me109s at one point. I seem to be having a rather random night.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Didn't they get invaded by the Axis at the start of WW2 ? This may explain how they somehow ended up having some in their inventories.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Musak gim !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8DFwIVYn9Q

[Harmony Ltd.]

VirtualBox is a good virtualization tool if you're not a professional wanting to build a data center, and it's free.

[Frost]

For the Tech-Illiterate here, what exactly are these things?

[Frost]

Oh, I remember my dad telling me about setting virtual machines up for a security system. I just didn't recognize the terminology at all.

I probably outta start studying up on computer shit, but that's time away from studying up on gun shit.

[Kippershy]

>2013
>not living alone
Stay ple-

Wait, no. I mean to say that yeah, that's a total bitch. It's so much easier living alone in that sense. No-one to ever touch your shit and infect it or demand you fix their computer because "you broke it" despite you never touched it.

My brothers wife used to try pull that shit on me, saying that I somehow did x y or z despite the fact that I never even went near her shit as my shit has always been 5x more powerful.

Then she'd beg for my help when I reminded her of that and I would eventually begrudgingly help her only for her to make another fault some time later.

[Frost]

Gotta hate people like that.

Just the other day, my brother brought out his Mosin (which he was inspired to buy after I got mine)

Come to find out he's owned it for something like six months and has never bothered to clean out all the cosmoline in it.

I'm not sure if that's similar at all, but there you go. Regardless, I'll probably be researching a lot on computers in the coming days, so I hope I dont annoy anyone when I bring my exceedingly obvious noob-questions here.

[Kippershy]

Honestly, if you want any questions no matter how newbie, come to me or any of the rest of us.
I build computers for a hobby and I also browse a tech board religiously.
In my two weeks off I've got coming up, I actually plan to rewire and clean out my PC case for the hell of it.

...yeah. It's not because it's a challenge, but for something to do. Also, to take a nice picture of it with all the cables hidden away because I got lazy and installed a CD drive and didn't bother to hide the cables.

[Frost]

What do you do with said computers? Sell them?

[Harmony Ltd.]

Spoiler:

[Frost]

Spoiler:

Meanwhile, in France.....

[Harmony Ltd.]

Igor ! Pull the lever Igor !

...

It's alive ! It's Alive !

It's AAAAAALIIIIIIIIIVE !!!!

[Frost]

[Kippershy]

Mostly my building is upgrading my system, be it a small part or completely.
What do I do with the old stuff?
Well, I'm currently using my "old" (still new enough) motherboard though I have a new case, another HDD, a new graphics card, new set of RAM, a sound card..

So basically, the only part in it original is the brain of it and the bit the brain sits on.



I've smashed up my old computer and salvaged it for parts I wanted, the odd cable. Nothing much really.
That went to the skip.

I've still got my old old computer from eight years back, I plan to open that one day for the first time in those eight years and see what's inside. It's going to be one hell of a ride to find 500 dead spiders or some shit LOL.

[Harmony Ltd.]

My computer case has dust filters.

They're not 100% effective...

[Kippershy]

This eight year old computer has none.
Hell, my old computer had none.
My <a href="http://www.fractal-design.com/?view=product&prod=99">newest case</a> has really nice easily cleaned filters on the bottom and front, and I'll be putting in a filter for the side once I've got a fan on that.

The most effective way to filter dust though is to have a negative air pressure flow. (Basically, more air going IN through filtered ports and forcing their air OUT through unfiltered & the cracks in the case.

If you have a positive air pressure, it makes dust creep through cracks in the case.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Alternatively, you can design an airtight, solid- (through heat-pipes) or water-cooled system where the only thing that's exposed to the air is a solid radiator.

But then the thing will not be compact anymore, and will need a purpose built case.

[Frost]

Or you can simply employ a Mentat. Just have plenty of Spice on hand.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Don't you hate it when your employees OD on old spice and end up gathering dust for a few weeks while they are catatonic ?

Alternate punchline : There are problems with using Spice... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvtany3mSE

[Kippershy]

You could, but that's really not worth the time, effort or... effort.
Maintenance and upgrades would be one hell of a bitch. Besides, the money required for a custom project like that (if done properly) would be tremendous.

You really are much better off just getting something like my case, slapping the appropriate amount fan filters on for the intake fans, using an Nh-d14 or CM212+Evo and doing proper maintenance every 6 months.

[Harmony Ltd.]

The Old Spice must flow.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Kipper : Well, I was thinking for hardened systems used in desert conditions, where being resistant to airborne dust is a must.

[Kippershy]

Oh, and whatever you do - stay the fuck away from the GTX 460 and Titan cards.

...I once knew someone with a quad SLI of 460's.
I once knew someone with a quad SLI of 460's.

[Stringtheory]

Oh, and whatever you do - stay the fuck away from the GTX 460 and Titan cards.

...I once knew someone with a quad SLI of 460's.
I once knew someone with a quad SLI of 460's.

what happened to them?

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