I wanna Cry!

you mean you didn't exit the game and shut down windows from within the OS?

if that's the case then well, yeah, duh.

Try a previous auto-save or something. Maybe an intact game could be loaded from that.

In any case, I ussually keep a save of my first turn on any given map I play just in case I would like to restart things from the very begining.

dystopic, yeah it was a duh moment... click... bed sleep now!... Oh shit lol.


Duh

I think you had that coming.

Leaving your computer on all night is a hell of a lot better for it than just turning it off. I used to do that when I was like, 12 (and our computers were running bleeding-edge Windows 3.11)

Ya.

Anyone stupid enough to turn the computer off by the power button deserves whatever comes of it.

It is even more stupid to advertise the fact.

Depending on the Mobo, you can set the power button (the moment switch) to actually shut down the OS through the normal Shut Down routine.

The power switch on the other hand, dun dun dun.

Good point, denyasis.

My power button will initiate a shutdown if pressed, and if held in for about 4 seconds will turn it off immediately.

That comes in handy for them occasional hardlocks, I have used it a time or two.

yeah the 7 sec shutdown was added so that if your OS crashes (ala win98 and XP and now Vista), the mobo is hard wired to just say "screw it" and cut power to everything, thus replacing the power switch of old.

Although, some power supplies and computers still come with a switch in back. Most people never use it, especially since mobos nowadays come with very fancy features like Power on by LAN, USB, keybaord, etc and turning off the epower completely turns off the features (when "off" modern mobos still draw power).


I've used the 7 second press more times than I can count on my poor computer, definietely comes in handy, especially since my reboot button is so small I have to use a pen to press it.

PSUs without a power switch on them are pretty pathetic TBH. They disappeared for a few years but appears that they're coming back since people missed them.

They sure beat having to unplug your computer. But if you need to restart from a hard lock, just hold the power button for five seconds. That should shut down any computer, laptop or desktop.

I duuno, I have had some really nice PSU's that came with out a switch. We're talking top shelf stuff like Pc Power and Cooling, etc. I wonder if the reermergence of the switch has to do with the whole "green marketing" thing nowadays. I remember reading some news article saying that a good chunk of our power usage comes from "idle" electronics (TV's VCR's, Computer's). The only reason to really use the switch is to save power and protect from a power surge (which is why I bought a new supply with a switch as my last computer got fried in an electrical storm).

Guess there is something interresting to be learned from this, apparetly the quick save function dont save the game proberly.
Normally the only real problem nowadays about a cold shutdown of the comp, the loss of data that you have not saved. As for the whole PSU thing then I think it is nice, I personally wont allow my computer to be turned on at all hours unless I use it for something (Even if it is just to help heat the room hehe). I used to do that back in the windows 3.11 days, but let us face it... back then a few uses of the toaster added more to the electricity bill then the computer did in a month. Currently my computer would have an idle power use of roughly 300W even with the power saving features of the CPU turned on, and at full load then we can talk about 500-600W depening if I am playing a grafics intensive game, or doing a CPU intensive calculation. So all in all, it is nice with more power saving features, as long as you can decide if you want to use them!

well the whole issue is that by powering off the PSU, you don't really know if the computer even had time to save properly. it could have only been half-saved, depending on lots of factors. if he didn't even wait to exit the program, we can't be sure.



oh i got intimately familiar with this feature when i had my old dell. when the PSU would fail and i'd get the blinking amber LED of doom, i'd have to use this feature to reset the mobo.