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Yes. 9600GT = 8800GS and will be even worse given its a mobile component. From the benchmarks I've seen a 5770 is around twice as good as a 8800GT for TW2. Bear in mind though that it seems my cpu was very badly bottlenecking as I've overclocked to 2.66 Ghz and the frame rate is up towards 30fps and fairly stable. That's with most settings at medium (some of the gpu ones high but extraneous guff like motion blur off), no AA, 1440x900 and the only other change is that CPU throttling is now off in bios. I'm relatively happy with that given it's still a five and a half year old computer at its core. And it really does look rather pretty even on mainly medium settings. Yes think that's him. 'Leland' was an Alpha Protocol reference given they seem to have the same framing role and I actually had no idea who he was- initially thought he might be Velerad/ Vincent/ Thaler since just about the first thing said is that we know each other which I thought must mean a returning character. Might be useful as a comparison:

Hmm. Played about twenty minutes, will play more this evening. It is really rather beautiful and I can see why it has previewers drooling over it, but I'm badly in need of overclocking/ frame rate tweaking as I'm getting massive fluctuations (10-70fps; from fraps and vsync off so grain of salt; on an e6400/ win7/ 5770 1GB/ 4GB RAM). Think I'll try to go 266 -> 333 on the FSB and see if it helps, else I'll just have to try and work out which options only put load on the gpu. Got Raven's Armour + Aerondight + another sword which is presumably the Mahakam Rune Blade equivalent imported from my last TW save. Had some comments on other decisions from the first game too. On the negative side I had no idea who the 'Leland' from the framing narrative was until I checked the journal, and it kind of implies that you should know who it was. And I'm apparently a terrible shot with a ballista. Also Australian Puritanism is apparently no barrier to full frontal nudity.

And... installed. Tray motor just went on my DVD so I would like to record my gratitude to whoever thought of the stick-a-bent-paperclip-in-here emergency release hole. Crap censored Aus version despite not even being in that MA15 afflicted country, but at least it means I get to play earlier. Now to see whether the 87,000,000hz I'm missing will actually mean anything. OH GOD IT'S STARTING UP.

I guess sending the Secret Police around to arrest anyone who voted for Armenia worked out for Azerbaijan in the end then, even if it took two years.

[save vs meme: critical fail] What's the matter, Jaesun?

It'll just be the government telling the service providers to send the txt to all the people within range of the cellphone towers in state y, or just everyone in the country. While it could be a precursor to establishing something like a Five Minute Hate it isn't really anything to worry about privacy wise. If the government or service providers are routinely tracking you then they are already doing it and your only real way of avoiding it is not to have a cell phone in the first place.

I went neutral on my first playthrough too, and never questioned whether it was the right decision since both the sides were pretty crap options. Helped the order early on, then decided they were just a bunch of bigoted religious goons. Replayed on the side of the Scoiatel and never questioned that that was the right decision. Don't know if I'd feel the same if I'd picked the Order- fundamentally you should feel pretty stupid if you did pick them, I guess. But it does make a difference from the standard RPG fare where there is almost always the false good/ neutral/ evil trichotomy or good/evil dichotomy and it's flagrantly obvious 99% of the time which is which from the outset. That does happen in TW too of course (Adda, Vincent etc) but it is good at having delayed consequences which stop metagaming the prefect outcome. Stuff up the autopsy and you can be absolutely convinced that you've got the right suspect when you haven't and you only find out about it a lot later.

I always thought the 'point' of Schrodinger's cat was that it was impossible to prove whether it was the act of opening the box (observing) that determined the result (cat alive/ cat dead)- ie impossible to prove whether it was deterministic or not- because you had to observe in order to determine the results. It's a bit of a stupid thought experiment in any case as the cat would be observing itself even if Mr S wasn't.

A lot of people do eat irradiated food, as irradiation is a fairly frequently used and very reliable preservation process. Albeit they don't do it by sticking it next to a compromised nuclear reactor...

That should be the pre rendered cutscenes being nasty I presume, as all the levels/ locations were pre rendered too.

AT LEAST WE'RE BETTER THAN IRAN!!! CELEBRATE OUR ENLIGHTENMENT!!! THEN AGAIN, IRAN IS OK TOO BECAUSE VLACH VLAD TEPES WAS WORSE!!! OH NO BUT GENGHIZ KHAN WAS WORSE THAN VLACH VLAD SO HE'S ACTUALLY OK TOO!!! Good lord above the "at least we're better than" argument is a load of horse excrement. Yeah, I'm a greater humanitarian than Adolf Hitler/ Stalin/ Pol Pot/ Caligula/ Torquemada/ Timur. Wow, such an achievement. I'll just add that to my CV so next time I apply for a job there won't be any dispute about my personal qualities. :1440x900 rolleyes:

Japan has/ had banned milk and farm produce from around the area. I'm not sure if it is still in effect now. But a 'simple' meltdown isn't in quite the same league as what happened at Chernobyl in terms of radiation release. IIRC there was a meltdown at 3 mile island too and they only discovered it when they got around to dismantling the reactor years after the accident as it had very little actual effect beyond melting the fuel.

Science isn't faith based. It doesn't matter if you don't believe in gravity, because gravity believes in you. On the other hand, there's this thing floating around in space, you can notice its effects but you cannot observe it directly. Two groups of people believe in its existence.

There is plenty of stuff in the Koran that can be used to justify violence- it's a product of its time and Muhammad was a miltary as well as spiritual leader. Then again, plenty of people use the Bible as justification for violence and that's (NT at least) about a guy with mottos like "turn the other cheek" "love thy neighbour" and "render unto Caesar". Basically people like to dress up their power fantasies in some sort of 'legitimacy', be it religious, nationalist or a UNSC and will do so irrespective of the actual intention by seizing on the bits that support what they want supported.

The Pakistanis can just blame it all on Musharraf who is already loathed by much of Pakistan. I don't think there's much goodwill amongst Pakistanis in general towards either the US or their own government to be lost in any case.

Yeah, it's there for both, I forgot that you had to select a sound card first. Selected sb16 and its irqs/dmas etc and the option for a Roland came up. I can't guarantee that the option will actually work in practice though as I've only ever used the default dosbox set up. But the manual install files do all seem to be there and working.

The install files are there- I can screenshot what you get if it would be helpful. Note though, when I ran setup.exe the Roland was NOT listed as a sound card option. Not tested on the steam version but as Nightshape said, all the re-release xcom versions available are identical. That's also why them not being on GoG is so weird.

Not Sandy Bridge, it's out already. I think it's the next iteration (Ivy Bridge) that is using the smaller size, at least according to wiki. Not 100% sure but I think ARM may already have a 22nm chip released, as they're big on the energy saving side.

The dog story was on here, and was sourced from a main US TV network news- ABC, I think. Might have been slightly different from ~Di's one though as it had the dog and handler parachuting rather than rapelling from a chopper.

I think your Walsingham alt may be getting a bit tired Monte, time to retire him.

Yeah, early c2ds are easy to overclock. My e6400 is slower at stock than an e6600 and I've run it at 3GHz. Didn't make much practical difference, then again at the time I had a very weak graphics card I was trying to compensate for which was probably the main bottleneck.

I always thought the mage Triss was talking to in the mirror in the chapter 2->3 transition in TW1 was Eilhart, but she was blonde. They might have been using a generic high class hooker model rather than a unique one perhaps.

I was answering what the ultimate practical result of antimatter research would be- why it could have as much use in future as a mile highway, if you like. I agree that there's little realistic chance of anyone driving antimatter powered cars anytime soon but if you don't have a particular (hoho) interest in the subject there isn't really any great reason to care other than the potential to get an excellent energy source further down the road. Personally, I think (as with most knowledge) it's interesting for its own sake and because it has the potential to explain interesting theoretical questions, but I'd have difficulty going beyond that in explaining why anyone else should really be concerned about it.

Any advance on "it's OK when we do it because we're the good guys" No? Didn't think so. Wasn't expecting anything else, haven't been disappointed.

Theoretically and in brief? Matter and antimatter annihilate each other releasing a lot of energy- far more than fission/ fusion do- and it would be an excellent energy source. There's also a bunch of theoretical stuff around exactly why matter exists but antimatter (largely) doesn't.