LadyCrimson

I thought some of the eventual unreadable burned CD problems came from incompatability of later software/drives/burn formats or something...but as usual I'm a total confused nub tech-wise, that's just an impression from reading some stuff.

The circle of plastic isn't the big cost factor - it's the labor that goes into what goes onto that circle of plastic. That and greed, of course.

The words 'novel' and 'fiction' usually clue me in....

All the more unusual features I've really liked haven't become standard far as I know. ala Majesty's units that you can't control or give orders/command queues. I don't think anyone's done that since? I don't buy lots of games tho, maybe I'm wrong.

The only glitches that bother me are game-stopping ones.

Hahahaha.... :D ...more seriously...I think BG was the last one I played where I actually had to swap CD's mid-gameplay.

I'm not hearing great things about it, like it's slow/talky/boring. I'll probably still go see it however...I'm curious. I haven't read the book, is it bad enough I won't 'understand' the movie if I haven't?

I have a floppy drive. I don't use it. Well, except I still have a few old archives on floppies somewhere.... I have a DVD-RW...tho I don't really care about the multiple disc thing in terms of just installing. If it means I have to switch discs to play, I don't like that tho. Some older games I'd install everything to the HD so I wouldn't have to switch. Bleh.

btw, at least if you have a nivida card, even Fraps won't take a movie with AA/Bloom on, even tho it will take a screenshot. I just tried. Edit: oh bloody hell, now it will. This is really weird, I didn't change anything. Whatever.

15 can feel ok if you're just walking around and not staring at the little FPS number in the corner and getting psyched out by the low digits - but it's too slow for combat. 20 is more optimum tho. I find it odd that Oblivion seems set up where AA only is noticable if you set it in-game. Every other game I've ever had I just set it in the vid card menu, and it applies to the game even if in-game it says it's off. Guess they really didn't want people making pretty screens on their own or something so they did something unusual.

Reading around, looks like the printscreen thingie doesn't work w/bloom, perhaps, just HDR..sorry, I remembered wrong...thought I'd used PS w/AA from the game menu on, guess not. So yeah, FRAPS. Free version puts a small logo & such, $20US to buy it and get rid of that. I have another program I use a lot, but it doesn't work w/Oblivion...which surprised me.

Not sure what you mean...print screen or something like Fraps works for me w/those things on.

Ring-around-the-rosie with some old friends. Easily amused. Hubby heard my giggles from the family room. I almost bought Fear the other day, along with Oblivion, then remembered I still haven't finished Doom3.

People who don't have a DVD player likely either A) just haven't gotten around to getting one yet because nothing has 'forced' them to, B) use their PC for nothing but email and don't give a hoot (my mother).

I think DR wa referring to Kaftan's link. Which is a good one, I'll bookmark it...even tho at this time I have nothing that requires it. :D

Performance talk: Even if your average FPS is ok and indoor/dungeon is more than ok, there's all these very bad 'hot spots' where it dips like mad. Dickering with all those little in-game settings doesn't do much of anything for me - hot spots are still hot spots. The only thing I found to consistently increase FPS to acceptable (18-20 or better) in those hot spots, while still having view/fade stuff all on high, was giving up and turning the image quality setting in the vid-card menu to 'performance' instead of my usual desired max 'high quality'. The other thing I found, dunno if someone posted this, is altering the grass via the ini file so it spaces them less densely, or changes their clump size, or something. That helped me quite a bit overall when you're outside and like grass on. In the Oblivion.ini in your "My Games" folder find 'iMinGrassSize'. It''s set by default to 80. Change it to 110 or 130, I put it 110, 130 looks too scattered.

@Hades Is there one that's not on FartPlanet? @BW - I have the most current forceware drivers that was on their download page since I got the new card - crashes happened before the new card, haven't had them again yet, the glitch in the screen is 'new'. Only happened once so far.

Far as I can tell, yes. I don't have the tools to measure heat right on the vid card tho. But not hot in the case, at any rate. Air blown out by the rear fan is still cool. Oblivion's crashed to desktop on me randomly a few times too. Just bugs I think. @mrkreku - thanks, that's much better for the inventory and stuff, and I like the weapon durability indictor etc. Can you use it to shrink the size of the health/map/weapon icons while playing, as well? I think those are too large too. I haven't figured that out. I'm spending more time tweaking this game than playing. Argh.

When I turned it on I quickly turned it off again cause it looked like this: @Hades - those arrows look painful. That heal spell is pretty ain't it? Moon goddess!

I like the smell of fresh moist dirt, like after a rain. Doesn't make me want to eat it, however. Blech. :D

I wouldn't mind that one myself. The huge interface icons and menus are irritating. Most mods I don't bother with tho, cause too many and they start to conflict or just become a pain to keep track of certain things. Plus I see a lot of ones tha aren't neccesary since you can achieve their affects w/the console commands. But interface and the improved textures, I'll have to try those. Or any cool new dungeons people make, perhaps. The editor looks pretty much the same 'format' as MW, shouldn't be hard to get the hang of things.

Forest & ferms and a house on the road. These are kinda big for dial-up, sorry, I was trying to not compress them so much for detail, this one time. Course how good they actualy look to you will depend on your own PC. This game sure has a lot of 'wallpaper' shots.

That wasn't a mod attempt, Hades...that was a game graphic glitch then a crash.

Wha size monitor do you have, Hades? 800 screenshots look ok when I take them...just doesn't look good blown up on my monitor I guess.

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