Posts by D3adlode

  • It's about fucking time...

    Quote from Mazy

    short summary, im not gonna read all that

    PC had problems for about 4 years, thought it was graphics card, but it turned out that the RAM sticks were in the wrong slots because it's a duel layer setup :roll:

    Been playing GTA III a lot recently, runs so smooooooth (Yeah I know every man and his dog have finished it by now... shaddaup!)

  • Quake IV on time for Christmas (maybe)

    The latest issue of PCG UK has an 8 page spread on Q4 with new shots and info about the upcoming Quake II sequel, it also states that it will possibly be released by Christmas time. If anyone with said issue wants to scan in the pages that'd be cool unless someone's done that already, I have no time to do it myself. Shots look pretty good but I hope that they'll be more detail on the model skins in the final version, they look a bit boring at the moment. The outside screenshot with the flags is pretty damn good and is just what I was expecting. Only criticism is.. what the fuck is with the grey skies?!! I want ORANGE damnit, KFS.. you and me need to have words again!

  • It's about fucking time...

    ..that my pc was fixed and it is now thanks to work!

    I bought my current system about 4 years ago for about £700 (top of the range back then of course) and I was always having problems with it but seeing as I was on Windows 98 I just accepted that as the problem and eventually learned to live with the crashes and error messages. A few years later I'd moved onto XP and I still had the problems but I'd changed some hardware so I figured it must be something to do with drivers, so I spent a lot of time trying to change that to no avail. The problems were always there but I had other things to worry about so I just left it how it was, occasionally playing games dealing with blue screens or 'desktop-kicks' in between parts.

    Recently I was actually beginning to come to the end of my teather with the thing so I asked around to see if anyone could help out (I'd asked before on various message boards but no one seemed to know what the problem was).

    Anyway work said that they'd take a look at it, so I took it on wednesday for the experts to mess about with it. We tried changing drivers again, moving the graphics card over to another machine to prove that the card wasn't the problem, disabled the sound card and graphics vice versa. Eventually one of my collegues pointed out that the RAM may be faulty so I tested each 256 stick to see what would happen and then for the first time in since forever, I was able to drive around the streets of GTA III for a good hour with no problems, thus concluding that the RAM worked but there was something up with the connections.

    Finally they suggested that it may be a dual layer DIM setup which meant that rather than having the sticks in slots 1 and 2 they needed to be in either 1 and 3 or 2 and 4. So we tried that, stuck them in 1 and 3.. and voila.. problem solved!! You see you'll think I'm an idiot, but until recently I was never much for delving into the inside of a pc, I didn't want to touch the components in case something happened (daft I know..). I'd never of guessed in a million years that it was the RAM at fault, it really is amazing how big a problem such a small thing can cause.

    On the downside, my social life is really going to go down the pan now, but on the plus side... the VERY BIG plus side, I can run just about anything with no problems at all (even Doom III). I've got about 15 odd games I haven't been able to play until now so I'm pretty spoilt for choice and then of course there's the stuff I HAVEN'T got. So yeah, I'm pretty damn happy at the moment, there aint really anything that can spoil this as well...I still sit playing for hours thinking that there's gonna be a blue-screen, but it doesn't happen anymore. I've also ordered a new motherboard and 3.2ghz CPU, more RAM and a 160gb HDD so soon I will be catching up with you bastards! So now I'll be able to actually get HL2 running, possibly medium detail or something, I wont fuss, Hell.. Doom III looks great on the lowest setting IMHO..

    Ok, I'm done- you can laugh now.

  • Silent Hill games

    Quote from mike-0

    i thought silent hill 3 was great, and i heard of a PC release a while back, its not out yet?

    It was released last year I think, but it's not easy to find, even harder to track down is the Silent Hill 2 director's cut for PC. The room is the easiest to get hold of for obvious reasons.

    I really wish they'd release RE0 / RE remake from the cube on the pc..

  • Silent Hill games

    Quote from Mazy

    tried silent hill 1, was boring as hell n not very scary, havent tried a silent hill game ever since

    Really? I had you down as a big fan.. D:

    Where's Taylor when you need him...

  • Silent Hill games

    I've not got a console, but I know that Three and Four are out on the PC, what about the others? Which one's the best as well? I hear 3 is the dog's bollocks. I've played a bit of the first one but it was awhile ago and I don't remember a great deal, one of those games series I've never really got round to checking out...

  • Out Of Hell

    Quote from Kosmo

    Seems nice but all the zombies look the same, no distinction between any "type" of zombies and with HELL in the name of the game you would expect something more than just zombies.But I have never turned a mod down before trying it. So if it is as addictive as heroin I'm going to be hooked!

    They had more enemies than the ones down at the moment, but I think they're still making updates to the enemies page so expect to see them back again. I think there were some oddities that would rival the Silent Hill games for total 'fucked-up-ness'...

  • Game idea

    Quote from Tequila

    Silent Hill 3 did subways beautifully, and pretty scarily too. It could work, sure.

    Damnit I need to play that, but I can't till the PC is fixed..

  • Game idea

    Just finished watching 'Creep' this afternoon and it made me think how cool it would be to have a game like that set in London. Replace the 'troll' with demons from Hell and you've got yourself a decent idea.. ok so it sounds a bit 'Doom 3 in a subway', but it would work better as a survival horror game...

    What do we think?