Zydor

The easiest way around this is: 1. Get hold of a graphics package - there are Zillions out there, shareware, freeware, what-ever-ware, other than Paint. Paint is a Dog, its ok for real - reeeeeeal - basic stuff but thats as far as it goes. It was born as a freebie back in the pre-dark ages, and not changed a lot since. Its better than nothing - thats for sure - however there are Zillions of graphics alternative out there. Google is your friend .....

Too many remarks are made based on existing knowledge and experience, that together with personal preferrences is a heady and often misguided mix. Basing judgements on existing performance and currently visible features when a new Genre breaks into the market place is very often Fools Gold, as the abilities and facilities of yet to be visible facilities are what eventually rule the roost. Judgements need (at this stage) to be based in philosophical terms - ie who has the better

The Major difference between the two is the background services offered to developers and distributors, for Impulse that does not come out until Phase 3 later this year. When it does, I'll bet my future pension it blows away Steam in that regard, and in the long term that will be the deciding factor. Fans go where they can get their Game. If its only one place, thats where they will go - reluctant or not. The up front functionality is important

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155 was the first year of the Yongshou era of the Chinese Han Dynasty (I know you were all curious about this fascinating fact - take deep breaths, helps get over the excitement [e digicons]:rofl:[/e] )

The numbers of people without multi core in a couple of years will be very small. In any case this code is written "use multi / gpu" if available. New methodologies, new rules, more possibilities - and there is no need to leave anyone behind - just takes development will to go for it and throw the comfort blanket of the old rule book away. Its been done already, and the results are plain to see. Now it just takes the courage to be a trail blazer for general use -

I reckon the biggest Plus that GalCiv3 could give us is Parrallell Systems/Processing - ie proper use of multi-core and the underused GPU. The latent power sitting on User desktops right now is terrifying. The first one to bite the bullet and really grip the whole question of proper use of multi-core and gpu processing in the Games industry, is going to take the market by Storm - quite literally. It just needs the courage to do it and take the initial hit on cost ...... I re

[quote]To Zydor, I have a 550wa PSU, but its a real power pro from coolermaster, and my system without too many perph's is barely loaded at max. I do believe the 9850BE uses a touch more power, and I know my HD 4870does. Though there is one major diffrerence; your PSU is 3 years old, mine is about 1.5 years old. 700 would still be overkill.[/quote] I have a four hard drive array, and an external PC powered SSD, as well as all the other usual clagage, hence the 700w is groaning a bit -

Its hit the cap for that level of difficulty - so it shuts down lots of resource to claw back cash until the economy is back in balance - "balance" in this case is -2000bc. It probable that a close inspection of income bearing assets will show many if not all at zero, providing the means to rebalance the debt. Such drastic action also affects the stated income figure depending on how its chosen to forcefully rebalance everything and whats left, that has not been shut down, to show

The whole thing is a risk judgement, ie how much anyone is prepared to take. With the system he is going for 800/850 is crazily high, way over the top. 650/700 is usual for good reason all based on max power useage with some to spare for future beastie upgrades. Can it run on lower - yup for sure, its just a case of how much the beastie is going to be used, whether it will ever hit max cpu useage, and the amount of risk anyone is prepared to take - and whichever way you cu

I run a 9800GTX+ on a Phenom II 940, I have a 700W Enermax PSU from its original build 3 years ago (was a FX60 with twin 7800GTXs SLI), and its boarderline now that the case has a new motherboard, card and quad cpu. Does it run? Yes it does, but there are times when I hit a peak or attach lots of ancillaries like external hard disks, cameras, printers, headphones yaddie yadda - all the stuff we plug in these days without thinking, and it groans a bit

The difference between Impulse and Steam: Stardock/Impulse focuses on customer Care therefore makes lots of cash. Steam focuses on making cash, bolts on customer service, and therefore fails on both. There is a huge difference between Customer Care and Customer Service . Because Stardock practice the former, the latter just happens as a natural by product. Steam has no idea what the concept of Customer Car

Your Life The only things that stand between a person and what they want in life are the will to try it, and the faith to believe its possible Rich Devos Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there Will Rogers Its Choice - not chance - that determines your destiny Jean Nidetch </

One of the Structural issues with the game is once an area is captured/dominated, little happens - its very linear, all the "action " is up front. GalCiv 3 needs a new "big idea" conceptually to differentiate itself from previous versions to be saleable - incremental change of existing concepts is unlikely to be enough from a commercial viewpoint. The Events developments do attempt to fill the void that exists after taking an area/zone, and stop (to a degree) players leav

Its your own fault for getting all hissy about the Tea in Boston - fussy types [e digicons]XD[/e]

Well Done Guys - great news, and well deserved [e digicons]:w00t:[/e]

If there are any Chinese speaking forum members on tonight, would be most grateful for an assist on another forum. An individual has a problem getting going on his PC, we know whats wrong, but he doesnt speak English. If would be great if someone could help us get across to ths guy what he needs to do. Its the SETI Project. If there is anyone who could post a suitable reply translating from the english written solution grateful you have a look here: <a href="http://s

Great stuff - well done :) Keep your eye on Graphics Drivers - the GalCiv devs will automatically use any improvements in the Drivers as it gives us an ever improving game. If the driver you have loaded does not know about a particular routine they are using, it defaults to a slooooow routine to keep you going else you would in all likelyhood crash. It will be why the other games worked and GalCiv didnt - our Devs were using the latest uptodate facilities t

Other ideas - more to trigger thought than definitive probables .... - Sound Card, often a culprit of the wacky faults, check driver updates - Registry. Is it cleaned out? Use a Registry cleaner to check it - Uniblue do a good one, it doesnt cost much. Initial enthusiasm inherent in a new build means lots of loads and installs - registry can sometimes groan a bit under the weight of all the new stuff/deletions/poor software programming leaving bit

Worth checking your Video drivers and motherboard drivers/chipset are bang up to date - GalCiv devs will grab each new facility/improvement in updated drivers and use them where they can, and if yours are a couple or more issues behind - I once got caught after a game update being only one driver issue behind the curve - then the game will default to a less efficient use of the graphics drivers in order to keep you going. Given that Stardock issue so many updates and improvements, and m

I kept quiet on this one, as its not my election, I dont live there. Several things about the photos/comments struck me though. They were not "staged" in a sinister sense. The last was staged for sure, but its a natural follow on from the incident, and natural for the photographer to take advantage of what happened. The photographer, so it turned out after a lot of digging to find out who he was by a lot of people, was just a memebr of the crowd - not a mac

These photos really got to me, they are a perfect series of spontaineous shots taken on Election Night at the Park. They show in an incredibly powerful way what has been achieved. They are starting to go viral on the Web. Phenominal photos. Click external link above to view them. Regards Zy

nope - and if you've just had a run in with someone, dont worry about it, thats life "on the boards". The Sun always rises in the morning no matter how gloomy it seems during the night. Regards Zy

A report from Western media (reference support from the Chinese people) for once reporting the good in China not just the bad: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26374964/

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