LadyCrimson

But those are $100 more, at least in the store. I don't buy on-line. I guess I'm wondering if it's worth that much more to get the higher number if you're going to upgrade in a year or year and a half anyway. (edit) will I at least notice a noticiable improvement over my 6200? I suppose that's the most important thing to me, since that's why I bought one... ...and yes I can easily go back to the store and return or exchange it.

I don't like the grass off, it makes the flat CGI ground look terrible, no matter how great the rest of it looks, and I don't like it, loses immersion. I found that turning off the Bloom/HDR but leaving things like water/distance/drawing effects on etc. worked to give me an almost playable sensation while still looking pretty decent at 1280, just with non-smooth edges and lack of that soft 'glow' on everything. I just can't play in 1024 anymore..but I still bought a card. As to the female faces...yeah I spent an hour on her face I think. I turned her age to not quite the minimum, that helped. The rest didn't look right until I started making the cheek/chin adjustments while looking at the side of her face instead of head-on. The faces are much improved, but still mostly ugly...especially when the game likes to zoom in every time you talk to an NPC...scary.

So I thought the store still had some ge6800's on the shelf, but nope....didn't want the 6600, so I looked at the ATI's. I know nothing about them and the youthful salesguy (who plays Oblivion, haha) said the X1300 was probably close to the 6800 in comparison (AGP terms). Being an impatient soul I brought it home. Before I open the box thought I'd ask the geeks here....was I stupid, or will this card work until I upgrade to a PCIE setup in a year or two? lol

All I know is on the old computer, with the case on, the computer would flake out in the hot weather...with it off, it was fine and had nary a problem...and it still works, I still use it. That was a smaller case than the one on the current PC tho, and didn't have all the extra fans and whatnot.

Well I started to chug in the towns...still playable, but I turned off AA/AF in order to stay in 1280. I think I'm going to run out and buy a 6800 card while I still can. Hah. I spent about 15 minutes after waking up trying to chase a deer in the forest and take a 'picture' of it...yup...very cool. I'm not sure I like the new persuasion mini-game tho. :D

I used to keep my cases open...my old computer still is. It gets really really hot in this room in summer, plus in order to attach it you needed a lot of screws, making it a pain in the arse to take it off if you needed...so it was just easier to leave it off for more airflow. My main PC has better cooling and a snap on side so I leave it on. As to dust, you can just take it outside now and then and blow it around with canned air.

For those wondering, the below is what my game looks like in the dungeon. Shrunk from 1280, obviously. In screenshots it looks a bit jaggedy around her neckline but in-game it's not noticable really. Not bad I think considering the bottleneck that's my vid card. I'm always behind on the video, heh. Haven't had any performance issues using Bloom/4AA/4AF, going to try higher ones next. I tried HDR but it chugged like a mo'fo so back to Bloom it was (I don't even know what those things mean...bah)... I still haven't gotten outside, that's one long intro level, and I'm tired. Reading back in the thread a little, for reference, the Print Screen key didn't work until I edited the ini file in the MyDocuments folder, not just the ProgramFiles one. Or maybe it has to be both, I don't know, didn't check that. But I've been using Fraps (bmps), like Hades - I tend to like 3rd party screenshot programs better than PrintScreen for some reason.

Bah...enough abusing the system...(I can switch to my 2nd puter and websurf while listening to my sneaking footsteps, haha)...just wanted to see if one still could. lol Gotta get outside so I can see all the pretty stuff and see how it looks w/my old video card. I suspect I won't get really far into the 'plot' - I just like messing around with things. Two things I notice...I don't like the interface quite as much as MW - it seems more clunky, even if it's a bit more streamlined. In FP I tend to flail away at a monster before they're in range, because they apparently can hit me before my eyes tell me they should be able to so better safe than sorry. Disorienting, guess I'll get used to it, but it didn't feel that way so much in MW. 3rd person looks better to me but hard to taget stuff that way. Anyway, back to the game to get out of this bloody starter dungeon.

I'm on 1280x960, most settings 'on' and middling vid card quality settings and it looks/runs fine so far...I'm not outside yet tho...and I'm not as picky as, say, Kaftan. :D Question, do the skills that you increase in the tutotrial dungeon stick with you when you leave it? Or am I wasting my time increasing my sneak skill while away from the PC by abusing the system...I heard they fixed the stacking, broken alchemy, apparently didn't alter the sneak one tho.

I have fairly bad back issues too, although mine's upper back, between the shoulders, so it's a bit different. I work a lot on my arms and upper torso for muscle support around the neck/upper spine. Tai chi type movements and such. Definitely help...every time I slack off for too long I end up spending a day or three in bed.

Excellent? No...but it's not crap. The vid card's a little older tho (nvidia 6200 I think), and still AGP, so I won't have top of the line texture smoothing and all that tech mumbo jumbo, no. But I suspect it'll still look good. edit - the rest of my pc meets or exceeds the 'recommended' specs tho ...damn that's one long install....

That's a nice feature, letting you change once. Reading the brief manual, also nice you can buy for sale houses now, instead of finding some empty house to dump everything in, lol. I suspect I'll probably wander and explore more than 'play'...like I did w/MW. The install screens are pretty.

All right...I bought this game today, finally...along with some new headphones that sound much better. Now I can see what all the hoopla is about...

*looks at her files* It's version 2.61Basic. I told you it was ancient.

I pretty much laughed at the start of the game when I saw my Exile in her 1930's inspired (or something) 'underwear'.

Every time I see something like this, all I can think is how much the internet has changed in 20 years.

Editors make it all better. Well, mostly. But yeah...1st game was the classic. I just can't play it every day. LOL

Maybe something else you have checked/another setting is conflicting. I have Windows Classic 'style' and everything unchecked (in that list) except for that one, and it works for me.

Oh...the comic book guy. I've only seen him in a couple 'new' Superman comic compilation 'novels'. At least I think it was the same guy. What, are they killing him off or something?

Too many corpses littering your hallways? Call Happy Imp Cleaners...the dungeon's best housekeepers.

What was childish?

Not to say such readings aren't useful now and then...I looked up 'not breathing while sleeping' which is why hubby finally knows he has sleep apnea - but they can also turn people paranoid, or worse, into self-diagnosers that keeps them from actually going to a doctor. But I'm glad it worked out like that for you...always feels great when something you learn actually helps someone.

Waste of time is subjective...to me it's a waste of time and resources to get a program if I'll never use it for anything but one thing that Windows can do anyway...but if you like the program and want all its features, that's great, maybe others will too....either the guy will do it XP way or try your program, or both, who cares? heh

It appears to be gone...maybe too long inactive and they delete it?

I second that who.