Posts by dux

  • A Game of Thrones

    The only naked scenes that made sense or were actually "good" was the first brothel scene in season 1 with ned, petyr and jory, where jory kept starting at one of the topless prostitutes. It was 5 seconds and that was perfect. The other scene was with podrik (but this never happened in the book, as in the book podrick is 12-13)

  • A Game of Thrones

    Well to the people who never saw the red wedding coming (i.e dumb people who can't put 2 and 2 together), they're gonna love one of the deaths in season 4.


    Hur hur hur hureueoioioeiheoheuhoehoe.

  • World War Z

    Why is everyone so surprised that the film is poor and is nothing like the book? It's hollywood, they have to make it accessible to your average person. And they consider the average person as intelligent as a trash can that feeds itself popcorn. And what was the last summer "blockbuster" that made you think? They are always bang bang boom boom.


    Personally, I'm waiting for hollywood to make Deus Ex into a film. How fucking terrible would that be.

  • A Game of Thrones

    Also to add: The scenes in the book are a lot more explicit than what we get in the show (obviously) and several of the scenes aren't even in the book. I.E Theon with the prostitute Ros. I personally don't care for these as they get in the way of what little running time is available to explain what is actually happening. All the time with girls dancing around with their tits out could be put towards actually incorporating more of the story as there is so much left out that I believe could be included if it weren't for these tittie scenes. Don't get me wrong, tits and naked girls are great, but not when they are overused and take up too much time when time is at a premium - this is what really pissed me off about Season 3. For an example: when Jamie returns to Kings Landing you see him for about 5 seconds looking at Cersei and that's it. But there was a load of screen item given to girls getting their tits out and for an ending we get Danni spinning around like a dope. The season ending should of been with Cersei and Jamie.

  • How Gearbox canceled Duke 3D: Reloaded

    No surprise the Gearbox execs wouldn't let this out anywhere as it'd shit all over DNF. Very frustrating as I was really interested in playing this. And now that Gearbox have the Homeworld license I sure hope they don't drop the ball again with that. Borderlands 1 and 2 are good games but you can't ride on those forever.

  • Rise of the Triad 2013

    The trailer has heavy metal music blaring all over it. You're moving a million miles and hour blasting everything in sight in rapid succession and I can hear cheesy one liners. It doesn't make me think of the old RoTT. And before anyone thinks I'm saying it's bad I'm not, I'm saying it isn't RoTT to me personally from watching all of the trailers.

  • What are you playing now?

    Baldurs Gate. I've never played it. Wasn't interested in any of the steam sales so wondered off to GoG.com again.

    Edit: I got the Witcher 2 Enhanced Edition on the steam sale, but I'm a Witcher fanboy and already own a solid boxed copy of the Witcher 2. Good job I have a fast internet connection now this thing is huge.

  • Tech Support

    Quote from Al Anselmo~Intelect0

    The average temperature of my video board is 74ºC without anything open. I know it's high as hell, but it used to be 85ºC~ averagely and rise up to 101ºC~ when I played games. Then I decided to clean the shit out of it, and the temperature dropped significantly a little. AFAIK, it has never been lower than 65ºC.

    Is it an issue with the video card? Or with the computer screen? Is it a temperature issue? I don't know how I could make it lower.


    Yes. That's called overheating. The 4870's were knownfor getting pretty hot on their stock coolers but the temperatures you have posted are rather absurd even for an ATI card - NOTHING gets that hot unless there is real problem. My card for example (nvidia 560Ti 1gb), on full load hits 65 and idles happily at 35. But ATI do awesome cards, my last one was a 5870 and it was a fucking BEAST.

    My suggestion to you is dismantle the GPU, take off the heatsink and fan and clean all the dust and dirt out of it (I'd do this to my old 5870 and nvidia 6800 ultra cards) and examine it to see if anything has melted or is loose or faulty in someway. It's pretty straightforward all you need is a screwdriver. And if your case is always open then that's just a case with poor airflow and circulation. What kind of temperature is your CPU running at? Is that a stock cooler too? If it is then that'll be pumping out a lot of hot air too.

    I'd also suggest cleaning the shit out of your case and CPU and everything else inside it as well. After all that and you still get high temps, then it's time to invest in a new card.

    Edit: And just to add, if it was at 101c (what the fuck) then I'd be amazed if something hasn't melted on it yet. That's the biggest sign something is up. Take it apart and find out.