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« Reply #1425 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 00:01:27 » |
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Yea its a nice mix between serious and silly, good fun when it goes well but fucking frustrating when it all goes tits up!
My advice, don't leave the ERS series too early, if you win it take another year to boost your factory a bit more.
I've just finished second in my second season (Octave). I can see it's going to take years to have the facilities to progress much higher. |
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« Reply #1426 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 06:11:11 » |
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My game keeps freezing and I can't click any button and have to exit and start over  |
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #1427 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 10:24:28 » |
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I've just finished second in my second season (Octave). I can see it's going to take years to have the facilities to progress much higher.
Pieman playing an actual computer game??? |
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Simon Pieman
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« Reply #1428 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 10:50:34 » |
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Pieman playing an actual computer game???
We'll see how long it lasts  |
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Flashheart
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« Reply #1429 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 15:40:02 » |
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Today I treated myself to a couple of upgrades: An SSD and msi 970 gaming motherboard. Not only is my machine now a lot faster, but also the sound is fucking immense. I was not expecting such an improvement. Happy days.
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« Reply #1430 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 17:19:54 » |
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Today I treated myself to a couple of upgrades: An SSD and msi 970 gaming motherboard. Not only is my machine now a lot faster, but also the sound is fucking immense. I was not expecting such an improvement. Happy days.
An SSD is worth it! I managed to pick up a Samsung 850 Evo for £91 from Amazon in 2015 on a lightning deal. Massive improvement on loading times for games and startup time for windows - Going from near 60 secs to 15 secs! |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #1431 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 17:25:40 » |
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An SSD is by far and away the best cheap performance improvement for normal Windows, much better to spend £80 to £100 on an SSD than a similar amount (or even more) on memory or even processor.
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From the station at Colchester
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From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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Flashheart
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« Reply #1432 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 17:32:05 » |
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The difference has been impressive. It now boots in a fraction of the time and opening files happens pretty much instantly, which is great for working and what not.
I'm also very impressed with the sound from my new MB. I'd never really bothered in the past and just settled for standard on-board jobbies. I don't think I'd want to settle for a standard sound card after knowing the difference now though, it really does make a huge difference, although I suppose that'll depend on the game being played.
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #1433 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 18:37:38 » |
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I use a Soundblaster Z and the sound compared to a standard onboard is pretty amazing when twinned with good speakers or headphones.
A good SSD is a godsend, I use one 512gb for the OS and working files and one 512gb just for my steam installation, games load in seconds with the SSD.
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Samdy Gray
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« Reply #1434 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 21:32:23 » |
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512mb? Are you running a BBC Microcomputer with Acorn OS?  |
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« Reply #1435 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 21:56:35 » |
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512mb? Are you running a BBC Microcomputer with Acorn OS? in your dreams, those 5 1/4 inch disks only stored. 1.2mb.... yeah kids, you don't know you're born! |
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« Reply #1436 on: Tuesday, February 21, 2017, 21:56:47 » |
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That steam release of chuckie egg is well overdue.
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« Reply #1437 on: Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 17:07:18 » |
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in your dreams, those 5 1/4 inch disks only stored. 1.2mb....
yeah kids, you don't know you're born!
Only 5 1/4 inch? I remember 8 inches... |
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Peter Venkman
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« Reply #1438 on: Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 17:09:41 » |
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Only 5 1/4 inch? I remember 8 inches...
Said Rolf Harris to his cellmate. |
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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« Reply #1439 on: Wednesday, February 22, 2017, 17:16:24 » |
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in your dreams, those 5 1/4 inch disks only stored. 1.2mb....
yeah kids, you don't know you're born!
Only 5 1/4 inch? I remember 8 inches... you probably remember punch cards tbf |
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