Favorite PC Game

[XPostFacto]

A few of you said I should re-format after installing the new motherboard. Well, this morning, after starting DAI and experiencing 2 hangups in a row, I did a cold boot and walked away. When I came back, I had nothing but a black screen. I rebooted and I saw the Windows 8 square, but instead of the little dots turning around in a circle, I saw an arc and nothing more. I ran diagnostics and was told the drive could not be repaired. Well, I have backed up everything and decided to see how long I could get by without doing it. The time has come.

As soon as I booted up with the CD, I was met with an error message, stating that the drive could not be reformatted or re-partitioned, stating that it was a MBR (Master Boot Record) vs. GPT(GUIID Partition Table). Huh? Okay, I looked it all up on my back up laptop, and what an eye opener. My Gigabyte motherboard gave me a bunch of options in the BIOS, mentioning UEFI, which I never heard of so when I installed the motherboard, I left the settings as is. Wrong move, but the Gigabyte instructions never explained what UEFI was. A short while ago, after doing some speed reading, I just took went back into BIOS and removed the UEFI settings and set the boot drive for P3 and where it gave me a choice for either UEFI or legacy, I chose legacy. That worked. After rebooting, I was able to get through the format and partition instructions. At this moment, my PC is going through the Windows 8 throes, loading up outdated files. Oh, my world is going to be busy for a few days. Oh yes, I will have to start all over again with DAI. I should be an expert on the beginning stages of the game.

 

[XPostFacto]

You can sell non-Steam games. If Steam or not, I download a crack for each game and my discs are save in their boxes and Steam isnt installed. The only launcher I have to accept is Origin. For BF3 Multiplayer. I can launch the Singleplayer without Origin, of course.

It's true that Steam blocks the sale of games, but on the other hand, games cost a fraction on Steam that they used to cost in stores.

Honestly, I've never sold a game in my life.

They may be cheap to download, but I don't have much breathing room, there, since my satellite internet provider only allows me to download 10 gigabytes per month.

 

[XPostFacto]

I have given away a lot of old games, and I would give others away, but Steam even blocks charity.

Mainly it blocks piracy.

Yeah, I understand that, but it means, that unaware buyers at yard sales will get gypped, buying previously owned games, since they are already registered in another name. You and I know not to buy games like that, but think of the fools that will buy my old games, after my widow has a massive yard sale and gives my computers away. She hates computers and doesn't understand them.

I bought her a laptop in hopes she would appreciate how useful a computer is. Well, that wasn't the case so now I have a backup PC. It is helping because otherwise, I wouldn't be on this site relating to you my tales of woe.

 

[Uncensored2008]

They cost less? On sale, maybe. In my country, at least. Normally, the prices dont differ from retail prices and instead of discs, boxes, manuals and bonuses like playing cards or artbooks you get steam between you and your games.

Full retail dropped about $10, and I never buy anything not on sale. I won't spend more than $20 on a game.

 

[Bleipriester]

They cost less? On sale, maybe. In my country, at least. Normally, the prices dont differ from retail prices and instead of discs, boxes, manuals and bonuses like playing cards or artbooks you get steam between you and your games.

Full retail dropped about $10, and I never buy anything not on sale. I won't spend more than $20 on a game.

I pay the full price for a multiplayer shooter that fully works for many years without further payments. However, even Origin has its Battlefield store. A sort of Broswer/Android game, that implements the commercialization of cheats as base frame. But very optional, of course. You can buy upgrades and new guns but all assault rifles available in BF3 for example have exact the same values except two of them. The uprades rather benefit the vehicles but the basic abilities of ground and air vehicles are unlucked quickly, anyway.

I play RPGs, too because thay also have a long playing time.

 

[XPostFacto]

I finally got my hard drive reformatted and everything reloaded. I didn't reload all those 15 or so games that I had already played, since I now have a 500 gig hard drive vs the one terabyte I had before. I also partitioned the drive in as close as I could go to 250 gigabytes each. I re-installed Dragon Age Inquistion, but the game still crashed on me. Others with high end systems had similar problems. Even though my graphics card set the game to play on high settings, I dropped the settings all down to low, turned off vertical synch and all the anti-aliasing whatevers. Even after doing that the game, continued to lock up. I began to think that maybe I should wait until Electronic Arts sent some more patches through the pipeline. Then I decided to turn down my screen resolution from 1920 to 1280, which resulted in the characters all looking fat. I was able to play for over an hour without any screen lockups. I then inched it up to 1380, and everything was better with thinner NPC's and still no lockups. I did put the game up to 1680 with medium settings and got lockups. Dragon Age Inquisition is such an awesome game, and I suppose it doesn't matter that I can't enjoy the awesome scenery so I will just have to live with the low settings if it means I get to finish the game. Maybe in another year EA will have figured out how to patch the game so that it plays for those of us with high end systems. Their recent multiplayer patch did nothing for the lockup problems people had already experienced before the patch.

 

[XPostFacto]

They cost less? On sale, maybe. In my country, at least. Normally, the prices dont differ from retail prices and instead of discs, boxes, manuals and bonuses like playing cards or artbooks you get steam between you and your games.

Full retail dropped about $10, and I never buy anything not on sale. I won't spend more than $20 on a game.

I pay the full price for a multiplayer shooter that fully works for many years without further payments. However, even Origin has its Battlefield store. A sort of Broswer/Android game, that implements the commercialization of cheats as base frame. But very optional, of course. You can buy upgrades and new guns but all assault rifles available in BF3 for example have exact the same values except two of them. The uprades rather benefit the vehicles but the basic abilities of ground and air vehicles are unlucked quickly, anyway.

I play RPGs, too because thay also have a long playing time.

I played Battlefield 2 and loved it, but since I don't play mulitplayer, I felt that I had wasted my money for a game that had a rather short single player game. I opted never to purchase any more of those games. Call of Duty was the same way, too short. The original Medal of Honor was very good, but I couldn't help but notice how the game treated the Americans in the game, by stressing more of the British and Russian campaigns and pretending that America had such a small part in the European theater. That really soured me for that series.

 

[Bleipriester]

I finally got my hard drive reformatted and everything reloaded. I didn't reload all those 15 or so games that I had already played, since I now have a 500 gig hard drive vs the one terabyte I had before. I also partitioned the drive in as close as I could go to 250 gigabytes each. I re-installed Dragon Age Inquistion, but the game still crashed on me. Others with high end systems had similar problems. Even though my graphics card set the game to play on high settings, I dropped the settings all down to low, turned off vertical synch and all the anti-aliasing whatevers. Even after doing that the game, continued to lock up. I began to think that maybe I should wait until Electronic Arts sent some more patches through the pipeline. Then I decided to turn down my screen resolution from 1920 to 1280, which resulted in the characters all looking fat. I was able to play for over an hour without any screen lockups. I then inched it up to 1380, and everything was better with thinner NPC's and still no lockups. I did put the game up to 1680 with medium settings and got lockups. Dragon Age Inquisition is such an awesome game, and I suppose it doesn't matter that I can't enjoy the awesome scenery so I will just have to live with the low settings if it means I get to finish the game. Maybe in another year EA will have figured out how to patch the game so that it plays for those of us with high end systems. Their recent multiplayer patch did nothing for the lockup problems people had already experienced before the patch.

Whats your graphics card?

 

[XPostFacto]

I finally got my hard drive reformatted and everything reloaded. I didn't reload all those 15 or so games that I had already played, since I now have a 500 gig hard drive vs the one terabyte I had before. I also partitioned the drive in as close as I could go to 250 gigabytes each. I re-installed Dragon Age Inquistion, but the game still crashed on me. Others with high end systems had similar problems. Even though my graphics card set the game to play on high settings, I dropped the settings all down to low, turned off vertical synch and all the anti-aliasing whatevers. Even after doing that the game, continued to lock up. I began to think that maybe I should wait until Electronic Arts sent some more patches through the pipeline. Then I decided to turn down my screen resolution from 1920 to 1280, which resulted in the characters all looking fat. I was able to play for over an hour without any screen lockups. I then inched it up to 1380, and everything was better with thinner NPC's and still no lockups. I did put the game up to 1680 with medium settings and got lockups. Dragon Age Inquisition is such an awesome game, and I suppose it doesn't matter that I can't enjoy the awesome scenery so I will just have to live with the low settings if it means I get to finish the game. Maybe in another year EA will have figured out how to patch the game so that it plays for those of us with high end systems. Their recent multiplayer patch did nothing for the lockup problems people had already experienced before the patch.

Whats your graphics card?

I am running the EVGA NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 with 2 Gigs of Video RAM. I don't over clock it or the motherboard. My CPU is an Intel Core I5 at 3.5 Ghz with turbo capability to 3.9 Ghz. I have seen it as high as 3.85 Ghz. I have no way of monitoring it while playing a game, other than alt-tabbing over to Task Manager and taking a quick peek. I have 16 gigs of RAM running at 1,333 Mhz. I thought about going to Core I7, but I got a good deal with the motherboard and I5 processor together. I can always plunk in an I7 in the future.

 

[Bleipriester]

They cost less? On sale, maybe. In my country, at least. Normally, the prices dont differ from retail prices and instead of discs, boxes, manuals and bonuses like playing cards or artbooks you get steam between you and your games.

Full retail dropped about $10, and I never buy anything not on sale. I won't spend more than $20 on a game.

I pay the full price for a multiplayer shooter that fully works for many years without further payments. However, even Origin has its Battlefield store. A sort of Broswer/Android game, that implements the commercialization of cheats as base frame. But very optional, of course. You can buy upgrades and new guns but all assault rifles available in BF3 for example have exact the same values except two of them. The uprades rather benefit the vehicles but the basic abilities of ground and air vehicles are unlucked quickly, anyway.

I play RPGs, too because thay also have a long playing time.

I played Battlefield 2 and loved it, but since I don't play mulitplayer, I felt that I had wasted my money for a game that had a rather short single player game. I opted never to purchase any more of those games. Call of Duty was the same way, too short. The original Medal of Honor was very good, but I couldn't help but notice how the game treated the Americans in the game, by stressing more of the British and Russian campaigns and pretending that America had such a small part in the European theater. That really soured me for that series.

The BF2 Single Player is very poor as it provides only the smallest version of each map. However, there are ways to change that and various mods that support single player. I have Nations at War 5.0, Point of Existence 2, AIX and Singleplayer_Mod_Bf2SP64_2.32. In addition, I made my own mod with different weapons and slightly changed behavior, such as an increase of the recover from sprint speed. The mod works with Singleplayer_Mod_Bf2SP64_2.32.

I wish the BF3 would have such a Single Player, too.

 

[XPostFacto]

So you have the modding kit. I took some programming classes some years back in C and Visual Basic and found them quite enjoyable, but I imagine with these modding kits, you don't have to get down to code level. Aren't you just presented with various scenes and so many characters that you can put in different scenarios?

 

[Bleipriester]

I finally got my hard drive reformatted and everything reloaded. I didn't reload all those 15 or so games that I had already played, since I now have a 500 gig hard drive vs the one terabyte I had before. I also partitioned the drive in as close as I could go to 250 gigabytes each. I re-installed Dragon Age Inquistion, but the game still crashed on me. Others with high end systems had similar problems. Even though my graphics card set the game to play on high settings, I dropped the settings all down to low, turned off vertical synch and all the anti-aliasing whatevers. Even after doing that the game, continued to lock up. I began to think that maybe I should wait until Electronic Arts sent some more patches through the pipeline. Then I decided to turn down my screen resolution from 1920 to 1280, which resulted in the characters all looking fat. I was able to play for over an hour without any screen lockups. I then inched it up to 1380, and everything was better with thinner NPC's and still no lockups. I did put the game up to 1680 with medium settings and got lockups. Dragon Age Inquisition is such an awesome game, and I suppose it doesn't matter that I can't enjoy the awesome scenery so I will just have to live with the low settings if it means I get to finish the game. Maybe in another year EA will have figured out how to patch the game so that it plays for those of us with high end systems. Their recent multiplayer patch did nothing for the lockup problems people had already experienced before the patch.

Whats your graphics card?

I am running the EVGA NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 with 2 Gigs of Video RAM. I don't over clock it or the motherboard. My CPU is an Intel Core I5 at 3.5 Ghz with turbo capability to 3.9 Ghz. I have seen it as high as 3.85 Ghz. I have no way of monitoring it while playing a game, other than alt-tabbing over to Task Manager and taking a quick peek. I have 16 gigs of RAM running at 1,333 Mhz. I thought about going to Core I7, but I got a good deal with the motherboard and I5 processor together. I can always plunk in an I7 in the future.

Hmm, maybe this could help:
Download Visual C Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 from Official Microsoft Download Center

And this, idk:

 

[Bleipriester]

So you have the modding kit. I took some programming classes some years back in C and Visual Basic and found them quite enjoyable, but I imagine with these modding kits, you don't have to get down to code level. Aren't you just presented with various scenes and so many characters that you can put in different scenarios?

All you need to do the changes I made is a good zip tool.

 

[Bleipriester]

Games currently installed on my phone:
Asphalt 7
WRC
GTA: San Andreas
Ravensword 2
Final Fantasy 3
Candy Crush Saga
Candy Crush Soda Saga
Klondike
Modern Conflict
Raging Thunder 2

I can recommend each of them.

In Asphalt 7 you need to invest a lot of real life money to be able to get cars that are powerful enough to grant a chance of victory in may stages. And even with the best cars that are available, some stages are really hard to win.
Fortunately, I have enough of that already and can enjoy the game.

 

[XPostFacto]

ble for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 from Official Microsoft Download Center

I watched the video but didn't get much out of what the author was saying. I did click on the link and noticed that there are 3 files. I suppose I must download all 3, but again, I don't know what they would do for my system. It might be nice to see DAI play better at high settings, but at this point in time, I'm still playing it safe at the low settings. I am now defragging because these constant restarts without first logging out of Windows are not good for my hard drive.

Thank you for the information. I downloaded all 3 files and will install them, later. Hopefully things will get better in the game. That is the second new game that has been fraught with problems. Assassins Creed Unity had choppy frame rates. My new system, played ACU much better, but every now and then I would see a lag. Now, I haven't experienced any choppiness with DAI, only locked displays, which have caused me to have to turn off the PC the hard way by taking power away.

 

[XPostFacto]

Okay, I installed 2 of the files, since one file indicated it didn't work with my PC. I started out with medium graphics settings at 1920 resolution, and game play continued. I then when up to high graphics settings and was able to play for over an hour with no hiccups. Then lockups started occurring. I am now back to low settings and a resolution of 1600. I understand that these Visual C++ redistribution files allow the program to communicate better with the DLL files, and that's just my basic understanding of it without going into lengthy code explanation, but DAI has some serious issues, and if EA isn't going to fix it, maybe they should rename the game, Dragon Crash because that's all it has done for me for the last 2 weeks and what a pity because it would have been such a great game.

 

[Bleipriester]

Now playing Gothic 3, again. Two years ago, since I played it last time.

The Orcs have won the war and occupied the midland. In Nordmar is still war and the Orcs have an agreement with the Assassins of Varant, the southern desert. They pay them for access to the sites where they search for old artifacts. Artifacts, the player should gather, whether he decides to join the rebels loyal to the king or destroy the rebellion for the Orcs.

 

[XPostFacto]

Regarding Dragon Age Inquisition, I am still experiencing screen freezes, but this time, I am able to use Ctrl-Alt-Delete to get to the sign out screen. I have gone back to a resolution of 1366 and low graphics settings. For a while, I was playing right along for several days at a resolution of 1600 and medium graphics settings.

I researched the C++ Redistributable libraries and discovered that these are a common set of code libraries that all game developers use that have common system code functions shared between all games. It would be very time-consuming to re-create this code for each game so the code is ready-made for any game. The X86 code is only used for 32 bit games, where the X64 code is for 64 bit games. I noticed that I didn't have the 2013 X86 code so I took the liberty of downloading and installing it thinking that maybe that was my problem, only to find out it is only for 32 bit. Dragon Age Inquisition is a 64 bit game, and it is my understanding was never programmed for 32 bit gamers.

 

[XPostFacto]

While playing Dragon Age Inquisition, I received an error which presented an error box referring to driver 347.09 of my NVIDIA graphics card. That was the second time I got that error. The first time, I just uninstalled the driver and re-installed it, since it is the latest NVIDIA driver. As a result, instead of re-installing the same driver, I removed it and installed November's driver, 344.75. The game automatically set itself for 1920 resolution, ultra mesh quality, and the rest of the settings to medium. The game has played superbly so far. Knock on wood, there have been no hiccups so far. Since I have had at least two errors regarding my GTX 660 board, then it may indeed be driver 347.09, which is causing the headaches. Yet, driver 347.09 played Far Cry 4 superbly.

 

[ogibillm]

While playing Dragon Age Inquisition, I received an error which presented an error box referring to driver 347.09 of my NVIDIA graphics card. That was the second time I got that error. The first time, I just uninstalled the driver and re-installed it, since it is the latest NVIDIA driver. As a result, instead of re-installing the same driver, I removed it and installed November's driver, 344.75. The game automatically set itself for 1920 resolution, ultra mesh quality, and the rest of the settings to medium. The game has played superbly so far. Knock on wood, there have been no hiccups so far. Since I have had at least two errors regarding my GTX 660 board, then it may indeed be driver 347.09, which is causing the headaches. Yet, driver 347.09 played Far Cry 4 superbly.

This is why im a console gamer. Not enough time to play as it is, i certainly dont need to screw around with them that much just to get them to play. I was done doing that back in the 90's when i was making custom config.sys and autoexec.bat files for ms-dos 6.22 to squeeze the most out of that 640k of conventional memory so i could run wing commander iv and descent and rebel assault