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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=24056 |  Jammrock (5) Aug 23, 2011 - 07:34 am » Edited on Aug 23, 2011 - 07:34 am
| » eh
First, I would rather check-in online than have my system inundated with DRM. I own SC2 and I've never played it offline (well, once when Battle.Net was doing maintenance) so I don't really care. Most games are moving this way anyway. And, again, I would rather do this than deal with on-system DRM destroying my OS. That and I'll be playing coop online with my friends almost exclusively so I don't really care. Maybe if I was lonely and had no friends I would, but I do so I don't.
Second, with real money being involved in D3 I don't want cheaters to prosper. If I find a truly rare item and decide to unload it I don't want the market flooded with dupped items to reduce the value of mine. And let's face it, dupping has been a problem since the first Diablo. With every drop registered on Blizard servers, with an ownership tag, dupping in the market won't be a problem.
And, lastly, if anyone truly doesn't want to play D3 online only I'm sure the hacking community will take all of 4-5 hours before there is a crack or bypass in place. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23748 | Jammrock (5) Jun 10, 2011 - 10:48 am
| Most of the "bloat" in Win7 comes from graphics (UI enhancements), ease of use features and WinSXS. The OS bits themselves are not much larger than WinXP. Features and services you don't want can be disabled. Graphics can be tuned down to be like XP. WinSXS...well, that you can't really touch. Without going into a technical discussion it's there so the Average Joe can't easily blow up the OS, or if you lose your install CD you can still install OS features.
IMO the benefits of moving to Win7, with the appropriate hardware, far outweigh the any drawback. Superfetch, OS caching, TRIM support for SSDs, support for large amounts of memory to handle increasingly large games are just some of them for gamers. And then there's DirectX 10 and 11.
Vista versus XP you have an argument. Win7 vs XP is no competition...in Win7's favor. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23748 | Jammrock (5) Jun 10, 2011 - 10:37 am
| This is actually pretty easy to do post-install once you know how. Programmers don't use absolute paths when your save files sit in your docs/library. There are environmental variables that are used for this, like %userprofile%, %appdata% and %localappdata%, and programmatic methods like System.Environment.SpecialFolder.
Say you have an SSD for boot and a HDD for primary storage. You could do something like the following to move your "special folders" like My Documents to the HDD. In Windows Explorer/My Computer everything would look and act the same, but the file path would be off C:.
1. Open Windows Explorer (WinEx) and create a profile folder on D: (HDD), which I'll call D:\User.
2. In WinEx, go to C:\Users\[username], where [username] is your user on the computer.
3. Right-click on My Documents and select the Location tab.
4. Click the Move button.
5. Navigate to D:\Users in the "Select a Destination" dialog, make a folder if you choose, then Open.
6. Repeat for any other system folder you wish to move.
If there are any absolute paths in the registry you may have to change those, but this should work in >90% of the cases. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=23748 | Jammrock (5) Jun 10, 2011 - 10:18 am
| » Other tips and tricks
Here are some tips and tricks I use to speed things up.
1. In Windows Vista/7 there is a built-in tool called SFC.exe (System File Checker). Boot to Safe mode, open an elevated command prompt (Run As Administrator if you are not the admin) and then run:
sfc /scannow
The app will go through your system files and fix any inconsistencies...most of the time.
2. You can save you user profile, and all your docs/libraries, using a built-in tool called "Windows Easy Transfer". It's wizard based and pretty easy to use. Export your profile to a network drive or external drive, rebuild the box, install your apps, use Windows Easy Transfer on the new install to restore your profile.
As long as your issue is not profile related this saves a ton of time on reconfiguring your profile.
3. To speed up the install itself you can convert a USB flash drive into install media. The tool to do this is a Microsoft store download and officially support. Just need a Win7 DVD or ISO, 4GB fast USB flash drive and a mobo that support USB boot. Just search for "Windows 7 USB/DVD download tool" to find it at microsoftstore.com.
A fast USB 2.0 flash drive can cut install time down to under 30 minutes. I haven't tried on a fast USB 3.0 drive, but I would guess your install time will drop to something like 10-20 minutes. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Cluster Shout Box Link » /matrix/cluster.asp/56 | Jammrock (5) Dec 10, 2007 - 06:12 pm
| » Why I deserve an SLI rig.
Overclock Me! A Haiku by Jammrock
Bullets fly by,
Teammates are down,
SLI keeps me alive.
The Haiku would have rocked if I had an SLI rig, I'm sure of it. Flag this | Edit this post |
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