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If your computer often doesn't power up at all then clearly the PSU is defective and needs to be replaced. Crashing during games could mean problems with your graphics card however since graphics cards also draw more power during gaming it's easy to see how a defective PSU can cause that too. You'll find out for sure once you've replaced the PSU.

I think this is good news. If Bethesda were to make a Fallout game that has the same kind of bleak world as the original Fallout games, a gripping story, well written creative dialogue and plays like a first person shooter...then heck, i'd be all over that like white on rice. Then again i wouldn't complain if it had turn based combat either. I just don't care. When it comes to game combat my tastes are far and wide. I don't care if it's turn based or real time action. As long as it's polished and fun to play i'll get much enjoyment from it. My only worry is that Bethesda will somehow dumb the game down to unbearable levels like they did with Oblivion. No silly level scaling please.

??? What do you mean? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I think he means is there anyone sane here who would approve of it?

Oh wow. Just thinking about seeing that for real gives me goosebumps.

Yes that's obviously what i meant

My desktop with all its dirty little secrets. I just realized it looks like the angel is fighting a losing war against the invading desktop icon army.

I wonder if the expansion pack is worth the purchase. 30 Euros for a 5 hour Expansion is a little too much for my taste though.... But yeah, the original FEAR still kicks ass. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I'll purchase it when the price drops to 10 bucks cause from what i hear the expansion simply isn't worth what it costs now.

F.E.A.R I love multiplayer shooters and usually find their single player parts boring, but F.E.A.R. is simply one of the most amazing gaming experiences i've ever had. If you love horror and shooting stuff, or just wanna see something pretty on your brand new ub4rPC then this is the game for you.

I just realized i've played females in almost all RPGs i've played recently. In HotU i kinda accepted Valens romancing and darn he kept calling me "my love" for the rest of the game. That got a bit freaky pretty quickly. I never finished HotU. If i ever get around to replaying NWN2 it'll be with a male char i swear :ph34r: In multiplayer games like WoW and Guild Wars i always play males though.

You repeat yourself however you have still failed to explain why the size of NWN2 savegames is stupid? Why can't savegames be 150MB in size in a world where 250GB drives are common in new desktop computers and cheap external hard drives make it easy to have extra storage room on any laptop or desktop for that matter? Do you know the reason why savegames are this particular size and if you do then please explain exactly what Obsidian has done wrong?

I feel this is a very strange complaint and has more to do with your personal preferences and isn't a fault in NWN2. All new games i've played recently have also put their savegames under My Documents. This protects your savegames from other users and makes them easy to backup and copy when you reinstall windows or move to a new computer. Storing savegames under My Documents is actually a good thing for most users. If you must have so many savegames and antivirus gives you trouble then simply tell your AV software to ignore NWN2 savegame folder. Also if your AV software is decent and you act responsibly then there's no need to run scans so often that it would be any trouble no matter how long the scan runs. Leave it on while you go out for example. Btw if you're going to call something stupid then please at least explain why it's stupid. I don't know anything about the reasons behind those large savegame files but i'm curious.

Oddly enough this is pretty close to how i would rate NWN2 so far :ph34r: I'm gonna have to give combat 7/10 though cause the way i play it, it's just too easy most of the time and i've been playing at the highest difficulty setting from the start. I'll admit i like to pause a lot though and take a more tactical approach towards battles. Also i'm a bit of a powergamer(not a min/maxer though) but i'd rate my powergaming effort so far as moderate. I haven't even bothered to put elemental damage enchantments on my weapons even though i have the required materials for some

Seems like this guy doesn't like NWN2 at all and decided to point out every little fault in it that he could find. I agree that the interface needs polish and i'm surprised patches are needed to fix it. I'm also unhappy with the crappy pathfinding that sometimes prevents characters from reaching a location 15 feet ahead. AI could probably need work too but since i control all my companions i don't care. Everything else is pretty trivial and doesn't distract me from enjoying the game. As far as i'm concerned NWN2 is the best RPG in years

I didn't even know the right mouse button does that until reading this thread. I've been using shift + right click cause i saw someone mention it on NWN2 boards and it brings up the menu without delay. I can't figure out why so many people are complaining about the camera control. It's exactly the same as in every other game with a similar view, at least as far as i can tell. You hold the middle mouse button and adjust it any way you like. Well maybe i'm so used to it due to spending obcene amounts of time playing WoW and constantly spinning the camera to spot potential threats. I still think it's by far the most efficient way to control the camera and everyone should try using it.

NOD32 is pretty good, i recommend it like mkreku. It's good at protecting your computer, easy to turn off and doesn't hog system resources. I still recommend occasional scans with some online scanners though cause noone's perfect. Recently we discovered an email spammer virus that NOD32 and many other antivirus programs out there were unable to discover. Kaspersky Antivirus found and removed it in the end which is surprising since my other experiences with their software have been less than stellar.

No it's not the model number. Geforce 6600LE might have all the bells and whistles but that doesn't make it any less crappy than it is. The card is simply way too slow to handle modern games properly. Think of it like having a really good CPU but running it at only half the speed.

That's why i said high settings not maxed. Many modern games seem capable of graphics beyond even the best hardware so some tweaking is usually necessary. Fiddle with the real heavy stuff like lighting, reflections, shadows and draw distance and you should be fine probably

Any Core 2 Duo CPU would be fine i'm sure. My C2D E6600 runs NWN2 fine for example. As for graphics i recommend a high end Nvidia graphics card like something from the Geforce 7900 line cause shadows are frelled with ATI cards Add 2GB of RAM and NWN2 and almost every other game will run like a dream at high settings

I had two problems. I'll post them with solutions so that people who experience similar problems know what to do about them. 1. I couldn't get 5.1 sound to work and the game would configure my speaker settings to 2.1 whenever i started it. Solution: go to nwn.ini and modify value of Speaker Type to 4. 2. Shadows flicker horribly with certain ATI video cards. My card is 1950 XTX and other 1900 XTX users had the same complaint on NWN2 boards. Current solution: None other than turning off shadows

Contact Alienware and ask if it's possible to upgrade your computers graphics and how much it costs.

The Player of Games was awesome. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Consider Phlebas was even better i think. A wild ride and plenty food for thought too.

I would gladly be a random citizen in any of Iain M. Banks's Culture novels. 300 years of sex, booze and travelling the galaxy. Yup, good times (w00t) Might get old after a while though.

Actually several gaming sites reviewed it before i bought it and said it had bugs but nothing too bad, giving it pretty high scores. It was kinda hard to expect such annoying combat bugs after that.

Good decision. I now recommend anyone who hasn't played it yet to do the same. I recently shelved the game myself and perhaps will return to it sometime next year when all pacthes have been released. I fear i went deep enough into the game to probably ruin it for myself forever though. I really tried so hard to like Gothic 3 and i sort of do, but it's too frustrating in so many wrong ways. It's not the difficulty, it's just that the difficulties you face are clearly not the difficulties the devs intended to throw at you.