Deadly_Nightshade

Nice job copying and pasting much, if not all, of that post!

Humm... I really did not see much besides Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment and Culpa Innata 2: Chaos Rising* that I would buy right away. *I will be pre-ordering this as soon as a release date is set.

All you need to do to get NWN 1 working is to patch to 1.68 or 1.69 - if you use the latter you must then re-make the shortcut so you launch the actual .exe as the launcher no longer works (it will cause a CTD as soon as the game launches). NWN 2 does not, as far as I know, need any tweaking to run on Vista.

As far as I know, yes.

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Epic level Neverwinter Nights LAN while Steam games are downloading - although a bit of Left 4 Dead might also slip in.

The 2.10 should run that just fine.

Hey, I've gotten a few good ones too.

Not that Oregon Trail was a bad game...

Wasn't that a 2007 game?

Never underestimate the stupidity of some publishers - they added more DRM to the Steam game than the normal one, crazy isn't it? Well, it will act like a normal version of Clear Sky until you install it five times and then, bam, you've got an error saying you have run out of activations. You can contact TAGES and request more, the information on how to do this is on the Steam forums, and they'll generally give those out - but still, I would have not recommended that version of the game (the boxed version, the one I have, has TAGES but it is only a DVD-check and not the limited installations/activations).

The second set of graphs are from a Linux-based system running open-source drivers, and I'm sure there is more information is in the original article if you want it.

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****, you're in for a "good time" with that one - the Steam version has more DRM (id est installation limits) than the boxed DVD.

I'm already regretting buying Doom and Doom 2 - although they were only $0.99 each and thus not too much of a regret. Luckly I've only gone about $10 into the hole so far, maybe I'll spend more later but for now I think I'll stick with what I've got.

Let me see, off the top of my head here are some games from 2008 that were worth the money I paid for them... Fallout 3 Left 4 Dead Assassin's Creed de Blob S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky Super Smash Brothers Brawl The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Tomb Raider: Underworld

Thank you...I'm just astonished anyone remembers me. I remember you too!

Damn, damn, damn... Now I'll have to decide if my hatred of MMOs or my love of The World of Darkness is greater - unless it's a non-pay-for-play game that is...

No - it is not. I've got a 1.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo in one of my laptops and it can play anything I've thrown at it including Crysis (albeit at lower settings). EDIT: And, yeah, desktops kick laptop arse - but it's nice to have both.

I'm buying way too much - oh well, it's for a good cause (id est, my entertainment).

I've got a few of those going as well - although they're going alot better than the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. ones.

"S.T.A.L.K.E.R. The Shadow of Chernobyl - Oblivion Lost: Homebrew Edition." a.k.a. Let's see how badly I can ****-up modding the game this time!

No, but you do have to open it via Steam (although there is a way around this that only require you to find the .exe and launch from that instead). Yes.