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Apparently Grim Fandango has been successfully modded to convert its interface into a standard point-and-click setup. Amazing that something like that is even possible, thus correcting the game's one single flaw.

It also let you change your character in-game without restarting or using console commands. One big annoyance with character creation systems is often the initial creation screen has lighting so awful that once you get out into the game proper, you look a fair bit different to how you looked initially.

PCI-E regardless of version is backwards compatible. You have no worries there no matter what. There might be a completely insignificant speed penalty that might come out if benchmarked, but it's irrelevant in day to day use. No way that power will be an issue either.

Well what brought that comment on was playing a bit of Skyrim lately, and it is exactly a duplicate of the Gregorian calendar, down to the number of days in each month. I'm not familiar with Tolkien or various DnD settings, so if it's not as prominent outside CRPGs, then great. That said, I'm going to say that settings that just round the number of days in a month to 30 and make no other alterations are just as guilty of being derivative as the ones that duplicate the calendar exactly. EDIT: And looking up the FR calendar shows it as the typical 12 months a year, 30 days in a month, with the only difference being 5 spare days inserted. Eh, that's pointless to me. But at least the weeks are different. I'd compare it to how mundane animals are presented in fantasy settings for example. Some choose to create fictional ones that roughly parallel those in real life in terms of role, i.e. a beast of burden, something for milk, something for wool. That's great. But I think most just use the real-world animal directly, horses, cows, sheep, whatever. And that's fine too, both approaches are valid. Having horse, cows and sheep be exactly the same but giving them random fantasy names on the other hand, ehhh, that'd just be dumb.

It does, but as mentioned, if the writers want to do it properly then they should properly be unique, not have the same seven days in a week, twelve months a year just with different names. Some settings already do this of course, and while it's confusing, it at least it shows some thought has gone into it. Just renaming things is not creative or innovative in any way.

Fantasy settings that think it's a good idea to assign obscure names to seasons, months, days and even times of days when in fact they're obviously just a reskinned version of our modern calendar. If you're going to be different, go the whole hog, or just don't bother. My immersion isn't going to be shattered if the ingame clock tells me it's Sunday.

Not as much Monaco as I'd like due to spotty co-op time availability, but loving the design of the new missions, it's obvious that a lot more care has been taken with the level design than with the original launch campaigns. I have not, however, replayed the original ones since they were rebalanced late last year. Anyway, five out of eight missions done and desperately wanting more, not a lot of games do that to me. Really ought to get back to both Dragonfall and Stick of Truth, both shelved about three weeks ago for no good reason. Then there's the flurry of adventure games due this month, triple play with Broken Sword 5.2, Moebius and Tex Murphy.

If you mean the high resolution texture packs, then yeah, 2GB is plenty (1GB might struggle). If you mean all those mods that add extra fancy effects - not sure, I've never tried them. Skyrim vanilla wasn't all that demanding I've found. Played the bulk of my time with it back when I had a 1GB HD5850, and at 2560x1440 with 2xAA it ran perfectly fine on high details (not that I remember what settings it actually offers).

It'll work fine. Just be aware that the 750Ti is somewhat of an odd duck, it's brand new, indeed the newest product on the market, but is built around efficiency, not raw grunt. It was released as almost what could be called a demonstration of their next gen architecture and the theoretical gains it offers. The state of play is that at the ~$150 mark, it's the 750Ti vs the AMD R7 265 (or the HD7850, it's essentially the same product). The 750Ti impressively only eats about half the power of the 265 - approximately 75W to almost 150W - but is 15-20% slower for the same price. So really it's a matter of where your priorities lie. For the record, your current GTX 275 was a notoriously hungry card, probably near 200W, so there's no doubt your system could power either new option. EDIT: Don't worry about the upgrading from old high-end to new mid-range thing. The new cards will pants your old card - about triple the speed of the 275.

Subtract 10 from those numbers. :D

Geez, the way you people are talking makes me think I accidentally clicked on the Prosper thread instead of this one.

The new and final Monaco campaign is now available, and promises to be very challenging. Great to see new, free content almost a full year on from its release, and I can only sadly wish there was even more of my GOTY last year.

Seems like 'neither' is the answer here. Not SimCity, not Age of Empires, but Civilization.

All the affordable 4K displays are still running at 30Hz anyway. It's borderline deceptive marketing, and frankly I think they shouldn't exist.

I've seen someone in a similar position benefit quite a bit from gastric banding or something like that. After a few hospital trips I'd imagine the doctors might raise that option, and they'd be in a better position to evaluate the advantages of that than you would be. So perhaps paradoxically, the fact that she has been hospitalised for the condition makes it less of a concern than someone suffering silently - caveat being that I don't know the state of health care over there. Some might scoff, saying "Doctors? What do they care?", but I'd be inclined to trust them over someone's office colleagues. So at this point I'd personally be wholly unconcerned.

"Computer and Console" //ninjaed

Especially the "Dedicated to Evil" part.

It's not possible. Each GPU has its own frame buffer, it's the only way multi-GPU can be handled with today's technology. It is literally two 6GB Titans, including the memory restrictions: no black magic going on here, and certainly no memory advantage. I read a claim that it may be possible for compute tasks to utilise the memory in a different way, but I know nothing about that field so I can't really comment on the truth of it - but given it's no longer operating under SLI as such under those conditions, it makes sense. Perhaps that is the source of the confusion (or it may be just some people reading too much into the 12GB headline figure). EDIT: Confirmation on that last thing by an EVGA rep. Which makes total sense of course, 2x regular Titans with 6GB each is also effectively 12GB RAM for compute purposes. Having the RAM chips on the same PCB makes absolutely no difference. This is two Titans on one PCB for all intents and purposes, whether for graphics or compute.

Geez, that's a lot of traits to remember for an ordinary unit.

It would be in reference to the guy who got the $2b (if it's even a just one guy, I have no idea of the background behind this), not Carmack, who was just an employee. Is there even any news about what the original founders are doing? i.e. staying on in an active role?

Couple things: It having 12GB RAM listed means 6GB per GPU, which is the same as regular Titan (Black), so no advantage there. Second thing is that a PCI-E lane is a specific thing, different from a PCI-E slot. A full PCI-E slot has 16 lanes, hence the 16X terminology, though sometimes these slots only have 8 or even 4 lanes dedicated to them. The small PCI-E slots - the ones about an inch long - are single lane slots. Anyway, the point is that these cards are for people with an insufficient number of slots, yes, either wanting two Titans on an ITX board, or four on a mATX board. Thing is though, the large cooler means it probably won't fit in most ITX cases. And mATX, eh, you could upgrade your board and case instead for a fraction of the 2x Titan Z cost.

But where's the T-shirt?

Eh, just put up a safe password on your administrator account, the other people using your PC can use a limited guest account. That way you can be reasonably sure in future than any error made is probably yours.

I thought this was about competitive woodchopping. Or is that the second favourite sport? EDIT: 'Straya yeah! New world champ. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwzQ5DI1pHY

I generally don't play them. Those RPG staples of the 80s and 90s - Gold Box, Might & Magic, Wizardry, Eye of the Beholder, Lands of Lore, etc - I didn't play because I was uninterested in them. Whereas I am interested in Divinity Original Sin.