SDC isn't the good way. Too easy for installation, even if you need an activation ! Imagine, no matter who recovering the Dark Avatar expantion could install it where he wants

SDC isn't the good way. Too easy for installation, even if you need an activation ! Imagine, no matter who recovering the Dark Avatar expantion could install it where he wants

im sorry i dont understand what your saying...

Oy oy, it's solidly into the 16th, and I pre-ordered. When's the beta going to be posted on stardock?

read this thread?

@kryo

anychance of getting a little DA icon to show up in the forums if we are beta testers ?

Hehe, TheProgram, that's actually the original post in your second quote. It's always on top when a thread grows into another page.

damn u got 5mins then i got to go... COME STARDOCK YOU CAN DO IT!!

NO worries here, I am at work all day. I am just hoping that its ready for DL by the time I get home.

I finished my last game last night, I am ready to start my 17th game.

Hehe, TheProgram, that's actually the original post in your second quote. It's always on top when a thread grows into another page.

sometimes im special

SDC is really the best way, since an update to GC2 itself will also be required and there won't be a standalone patch for that as far as I'm aware. I'm not sure why you're opposed to SDC though.

Two reasons really. This first is that ES has to download from work then install at home. The second is that I really just don't want to install an otherwise extraneous program on my computer.

In my case what I would prefer to do is to take a ghost image of my boot drive, install SDC, download the file, burn a CD, restore the ghost image of my boot drive, load the file from CD and then install the game. The fact that I'm willing to go through this kind of effort to avoid having SDC on my computer should indicate how much I would like to avoid it.

The second is that I really just don't want to install an otherwise extraneous program on my computer.

And I thought I the most old school computer user floating around here

Seriously, though, you run Windows, right? That means you have "otherwise extraneous" programs by design

Since I remember when everyone got excited to see hard drives drop to a dollar a *megabyte*, these crazy drives of today have destroyed my old tidy-storage habits. Plus SDC makes it easy to lurk on the Stardock IRC, which is some fascinating reading at times like this.

p.s. If you're running XP, you should be able to skip that drive image saga and just use System Restore. If you're as OS-distrustful as me, you can manually create the restore point before installing SDC.

since it hasnt been posted in awhile.... where is it

p.s. If you're running XP, you should be able to skip that drive image saga and just use System Restore. If you're as OS-distrustful as me, you can manually create the restore point before installing SDC

Restore points do *not* work, they do not restore your registry to it's initial condition. They only *true* restore is to take an image of the boot drive with the OS inert. I boot with a floppy, take the image and if anything goes wrong I'm guaranteed to get back to my original state with no extraneous keys left over in my registry. Backup and System Restore are crap.

If I had my druthers, I’d still be on windows for workgroups 3.11. If it wasn’t for DirectX I’d still be on Windows 95 today. A PC is a “personal computer” there is no reason I should have to log on to my own personal computer. I want my PC to do what I want, when I want and not do anything unless I tell it to. None of this phone home crap or deciding for itself what it should do. I don’t want any pop up messages telling me that there’s no internet connection available and asking me if I want to work offline. I know the internet connection isn’t available because I turned the power off on my router and I don’t need to have a pop up pull me out of my full screen app to tell me about it.

I’ve designed computers, workstations, PC’s and network equipment my entire adult life. In the 30 years that I’ve been an engineer, CPU processing speeds, memory sizes and speeds and pretty much all computer related hardware has increased in performance by at least 1,000 and probably closer to 10,000 times. The net system performance improvement inclusive of software at the most generous assessment has increased by 10 times. Software has wasted hardware performance improvements of at least 100 times. 2 orders of magnitude. Pitiful.

So to answer your question, yes, I’m “old school”.

eventhough I have a wait time of less than 30mins for today? count 10minutes before I left home for the morning, and after my return just a while ago, I really wish you guy get what you want! Let's just wish Stardock is doing their best in getting the game uploaded to their server.



After pre-order since the August, all the waiting became meaningless to me!
I am heading out again, maybe when I return, I will start download the expansion, and hope the bandwidth for that moment is fast (anything in between 500kbyte/s to 100kbyte/s are acceptable to me!)

So to answer your question, yes, I’m “old school”.

(Attempts a graceful bow of deference but just looks clumsy)

I think we have some remarkably similar sentiments, but I've given up a lot of ground on account of having only one active PC and needing to do painfully Microsoft-centered work

p.s. Yes, I do have three (four?) old boxes lying around, mainly b/c I used 'em past hand-me-down stage, they are toxic waste, and I've yet to get a degausser to thoroughly purge the drives

I think we have some remarkably similar sentiments

We probably do. I assume you could tell that you hit a nerve there. I truly despise Microsoft with every bone in my body. It's not so bad that they have us by the b*lls, it's that they insist on squeezing so hard. And don't get me started on Vista.

I'm probably going to buy a new PC very soon just so that it will still have XP on it and I won't be forced onto Vista before I truly have to. If only Stardock made an OS. I'd spend literally thousands of dollars on any legitimate option to Microsoft.

2nd Mumble on Vista, but really hope he'll break down and join the beta 'cause us massive-game folks need the representation.

2nd Mumble on Vista, but really hope he'll break down and join the beta 'cause us massive-game folks need the representation

Oh, I'll be there. If I have to install SDC than so be it, but if there's a way around it I'll take it if at all possible.