LadyCrimson

Not my usual style, but this time I did it. Yay. Goober question...single GPU/card use, do I need the multiple-GPU function/choice? Or can I check the "disable it"? What I'm not understanding is that EVGA's Precision thingie, only GPU2 gets "hot" to any degree when gameplaying, like it's largely/only using that one/is only one, yet it shows settings for 2. That normal? Does it only use GPU1 if you're actually drawing upon the "amazing real time physics effects?" I don't understand?

Well...the store didn't have any 590's (expected) but they did have some of the 590 Classified's ($30 more for it vs. just '590'). I agonized a while whether the $140 increase over the 580 was worth bothering for but in the end I said F-it and bought it. I'd have bought the plain old 590 if they had it but for $30 wasn't going to stop me so... Keep in mind I don't have water cooling and SLI'ing two hot-running cards that are going to be practically sitting on top each other in my case isn't a good idea, so single-card is it for me. Besides, I don't run super-resolution for games. AC unit in the room does pretty good and I always have it on anyway since I don't like hot weather.... Anyway...since I don't OC no problems with that one issue. I've never bought the "latest & greatest" before, so we'll see what I think of spending the ridiculous sum of $830 (that's w/tax) to get it.

I categorically refute this. _I_ have the ugliest toenails in the world. Several fell off after marching and one got completely mangled playing football and never grows back properly. I lost most of mine on both feet when I was 13, too. Backpacking. Plus I have small/flat feet (give them a frog-toe like appearance), a nail fungus on one toe that gives it a black stripe (really hard to get rid of) & the big toenails are starting to "curl" a lot so I have ingrown toenail issues. Edit: Also, Comcast has been utter garbage the past few weeks. Grr.

I'm ready to buy a new video card and was thinking about getting one of the hydro cooler thingies this time...but then remembered I'd have to configure my pc case for the water cooling blocks etc. and I don't feel like it...didn't build this PC with that in mind so it'd probably be a hassle (and extra expense above the card itself). Next PC...I'll just keep using the room AC instead. But I'm gonna run out and buy a GTX 580 now. Can't believe they're still close to 600 bucks for the 3GB memory one. Better be awesome...and maybe serve me dinner too.

I have the ugliest (non-diseased) toenails in the world. They were never pretty, but they're getting weirder and weirder as I age. At least I don't have ear hair yet.

As long as it's something different from Oblivion/Morrowind I'll probably at least be able to live with it. (still haven't gotten around to playing FO3 so no clue) And I'm also hoping that modding capabilities will help overcome anything I may not personally like in the game.

If you mean the weird arm angles, he's probably in the middle of some dual-wield overhead waist-twisty attack animation. The character animations in the game aren't that great, imo.

The problem - not that it's really a "problem" - with games like Two Worlds One/Two is I never end up finishing the quest/storyline because by the time I'm done free-exploring, crafting, & all that, I no longer care about the end. I'm definitely not about the quests. Skyrim's going to be like that for me too, I'm guessing. Or rather, hoping. Man I just love exploring.

Well, so much for free-roaming. Hardeharhar! (they teased me by letting me swim a long long time w/that castle in sight...sigh) Can't hide from me! Told Ya. Die, Furries, Die. (everyone who's played this game has screenies of the sneak-kill bit I'm sure)

Defragged my main hard drive. The excitement never ends. Shower, errands, more gaming.

From what I've seen so far, I'd have to agree. It does look nice sometimes, but yet...there's something not quite "right." Also, the character hip/leg run animation is horrible. Makes me laugh tho, so +1 even so.

Two Worlds 2: your character is such a manly man!

Two Worlds 2 - one of the longest, "action-enforced", hold-you-by-the-hand tutorial's I've encountered (might even be worse than Oblivion's), which left a bad early impression ("come on already, when do I get to start free-roaming??"). I know it was trying to make it an interesting part of the story, but blech, not my thing. BUT...once I finally got past all of that, it opened up and I was able to go roaming. The graphics are better than the 1st but some things feel worse/not great (what is with the hair being all out of focus/fuzzy when the clothes are super-sharp?), even after fiddling with Bloom/DoF settings etc. Still, it looks nice enough as you're running around. Gameplay so far feels pretty similar to the first, just with somewhat altered ways of doing the skills and magic, like most sequels do. The 1st horse I acquired, however, decided to get stuck endlessly running into a fence, so I stayed on foot. Since I could barely control the horse riding movement (I must be doing something wrong...) I prefer on-foot anyway. I like the wider variety of animals in the land (big rhino's, big cats, warthogs, ostriches, and so on). They've made hunting for herbal ingredients tougher tho, with much taller grass etc. And I have yet to see a beaver.

I don't know who that is, but in that getup at least, he's definitely more how I'd envision Drizzt. Oh, I didn't mean that Diesal couldn't maybe act the part....but he does not, in my mind at least, look the part at all. I just cannot picture Entreri, who is a very agile, very fast, "lean," "wiry" and not very tall swordsman being played by tallish, large-biceped, muscular, somewhat broad/rounded face Diesal. I guess I think of someone more along the lines of, say, a Bruce Lee body type. (same for Drizzt, really, who's supposed to be even shorter than Entreri)

Agrees with Hurlshot. I've decided I'm definitely going to buy it, partly because of hype & partly because I'm just curious to see it graphically, at this point...(and I'm not getting D3 so I'll have time)...but I'm still not excited. But hoping it'll surprise me and I'll find myself wanting to wander & explore & being sucked into it non-stop for several weeks.

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It's a principle thing. I paid for the game, I don't want to see a giant ad within the game. The "Update/Look For Update" button should be enough. There was also this horrible way they dealt with one of the Steam friends thingies. In FNV it would pop up in the corner for a brief moment and then go away, in 2W2 it wasn't going away and when I pressed shift+tab it would put up this giant overlay of crap before letting me click yet another spot to make that go away. (so I turned the friends setting off). Just ticked me off...I'll get over it I suppose.

More variety re: weapon mods/stuff to play with appeals to me. And since most of the weapon mods that people make haven't appealedo....yeah, think I'll buy it.

See that giant ad bar? Go away please? ...I'm not impressed.

.... lol...silly me. I'd thought you were younger than that, but then I thought "well maybe I was wrong", since I'm terrible at keeping stuff like that in my memory.

I know what you mean. I was a bit late to have the Vietnam association, but when I think of that long ago, what comes to mind is John Lennon's murder. Big Beatle fan when I was 12 and seeing that on the news (near Xmas too!) was horrifying at the time.

Thanks for that...baseball bat mods, haha! I love it. I may have to get it then.

Anecdotal evidence (i.e. my own experiences), so far none. If you have some really antiquated, obscure (and unsupported) hardware, you might have trouble finding drivers, but anything released by most popular brands is updated a long time ago by now. Haven't found a game or application yet that hated W7 x64 more than it hated my hardware. Very old stuff can run on Dosbox or VirtualPC anyway. Yup, that's about it for my experience too. I don't see any reason not to run the 64-bit version.

If you have/use the GECK yourself at all, you can do all that yourself in about 5 minutes. But yeah, lowered XP gain mods are a must imo. Question: has anyone bought the Gun Runner's Arsenal yet? I noticed on the Steam description it mentions 40 extra weapon mods, which I don't remember from the lists someone posted earlier, and was wondering if those might make it worth the $4...or if they suck.

Plumber had to be called in...I think these old houses have roots growing into all their pipes. Everyone just grinds out the roots every year or two because no one wants to spend thousands and thousands ripping up concrete foundations to replace all the piping (neither does the city of course). All these aging infrastructures...gonna be a big problem someday soon. heh Chinese food and bad TV, then good book and bed. I would be playing FNV/DLC's or Two Worlds2 but Steam site ticked me off. Maybe tomorrow.