[Tattersail_]

Silencer, on 28 June 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:

Tattersail, on 28 June 2012 - 11:34 AM, said:

How about a seperate hard drive?

Depending on how atrocious the normal HDD is, possibly...but if an external HDD was going to be *that* much better than your internal one - enough so to see a noticeable change in gaming performance - your laptop probably doesn't have a good enough connection to do anything other than make things worse (because it would bottleneck at the USB port, basically). So theoretically, yes. Practically? No way in hell!

The key areas for gaming performance are, naturally, RAM, GPU (graphics card) and CPU. There is no way to get more of those without internal modifications which are a bitch to do on a laptop. I'm assuming this laptop is quite old and/or really low-power, and in either case you're screwed, I'm afraid.

No i'm sure it'll be okay, maybe i'll transfer a lot of the stuff already on the Laptop onto the external harddrive and use the laptop for gaming. It's fairly new

[Silencer]

Tattersail, on 28 June 2012 - 11:46 AM, said:

Silencer, on 28 June 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:

Tattersail, on 28 June 2012 - 11:34 AM, said:

How about a seperate hard drive?

Depending on how atrocious the normal HDD is, possibly...but if an external HDD was going to be *that* much better than your internal one - enough so to see a noticeable change in gaming performance - your laptop probably doesn't have a good enough connection to do anything other than make things worse (because it would bottleneck at the USB port, basically). So theoretically, yes. Practically? No way in hell!

The key areas for gaming performance are, naturally, RAM, GPU (graphics card) and CPU. There is no way to get more of those without internal modifications which are a bitch to do on a laptop. I'm assuming this laptop is quite old and/or really low-power, and in either case you're screwed, I'm afraid.

No i'm sure it'll be okay, maybe i'll transfer a lot of the stuff already on the Laptop onto the external harddrive and use the laptop for gaming. It's fairly new

Well then that's a lot better situation and you'll probably be OK! XD Just depending on specs you may have to tone the graphics settings back down a bit. *shrug*

[Lucifer's Heaven]

Silencer, on 28 June 2012 - 11:42 AM, said:

Tattersail, on 28 June 2012 - 11:34 AM, said:

How about a seperate hard drive?

Depending on how atrocious the normal HDD is, possibly...but if an external HDD was going to be *that* much better than your internal one - enough so to see a noticeable change in gaming performance - your laptop probably doesn't have a good enough connection to do anything other than make things worse (because it would bottleneck at the USB port, basically). So theoretically, yes. Practically? No way in hell!

The key areas for gaming performance are, naturally, RAM, GPU (graphics card) and CPU. There is no way to get more of those without internal modifications which are a bitch to do on a laptop. I'm assuming this laptop is quite old and/or really low-power, and in either case you're screwed, I'm afraid.

Really? REALLY!?









Sorry, I am well aware it can be more of a pain in the arse with some models, but indignation is just so much fun
Really though, quite a few (I'd even go so far as to say most newer models) make replacing the RAM and HDD quite siple really. Most other bits I wouldn't bet on, but yeah.
Tatt, if you do find you want more of either and aren't sure about how to do it/aren't comfortable doing it yourself, then quite a few places will do it for you in a few hours for under $50 (plus the price of the new part). At least here in Australia anyway.
If it's a fairly new laptop, then yeah, you probably don't need to worry about it, Civ games don't require too much to run

[Mentalist]

single biggest bottleneck in laptop gaming is the GPU. Largely due to the prevalence of "integrated video-card laptops", where the GPU is part of the mobo, making it extremely difficult to upgrade. otoh, RAM is generally far less of a hassle, since most laptops feature a slot for an extra stick.

[Trull's son]

Back to Mount and Blade, again... sigh. It never lets me leave. Mods keep this game interesting.

Ben A. Delat 2: Eclectic Boogaloo, on 23 June 2012 - 01:16 PM, said:

I'm doing my gajillionth replay of Psychonauts right now, while betatesting the new and upcoming MOBA Smite (Still have two betakeys left, if anyone's interested).I wonder why there is no Psychonauts 2 yet. The Story, Gameplay and entire concept is insane, and insanely good. I also finished Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots a few days ago and am eagerly awaiting the Metal Gear Solid Bundle for the Playstation Vita. MGS4 is another great game, i've read some complaints about the hour-long cutscenes scattered throughout the game, but to me they just tie the game together. Can't wait to play Metal Gear Solid 2, 3 and Metal Gear/Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake.

I have heard quite a bit about this smite game. If you have a key and wouldn't mind parting with it, I would greatly appreciate it and award you with as much rep as I can manage.

[rhulad]

Started playing Civ 5 again... I no longer have time for anything else.

[Trull's son]

Nevermind the key, a buddy actually had one for me. Seems those things are everywhere. I like the perspective change of this moba. I haven't played enough to get a good handle on the gameplay or roles yet. I'll try more later tonight.

[Satan]

Satan, on 27 June 2012 - 10:43 AM, said:

Haa... Right you are. Having played too many Risk like games, I just figured he'd blitz his way all over me. So I quit. Now I have to reload from autosave at the beginning of the year. Crap.

Also, I love this game.

Right, now I've really mucked it up. Stupidly, for some reason I cannot for the life of me remember, I married my eldest son to a duchess. This effectively ended my dynasty, as the game oddly enough sets his children only to inherit the duchy of the mother, even when the son ascended to the throne. I tried killing off the first wife, marry anew and spawn more children - now as a king. But with primogeniture everything goes to my eldest, who is now not of my dynasty. I have too many children with my first wife to ever hope to kill them all. All that is left for me is to try to change laws of succession, but I have been dragged into a few wars by allies (should have declined, I had prestige to spare) that drags on and on and on. It will aslo suck massively to let my two kingdoms go to someone outside my family. I've worked to hard to lose it all now!

[Princess]

Hah, screw you and your political marriage crusader swords war things!

I'm playing Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion and 'tis glorious.

[Satan]

Satan, on 30 June 2012 - 12:58 PM, said:

Satan, on 27 June 2012 - 10:43 AM, said:

Haa... Right you are. Having played too many Risk like games, I just figured he'd blitz his way all over me. So I quit. Now I have to reload from autosave at the beginning of the year. Crap.

Also, I love this game.

Right, now I've really mucked it up. Stupidly, for some reason I cannot for the life of me remember, I married my eldest son to a duchess. This effectively ended my dynasty, as the game oddly enough sets his children only to inherit the duchy of the mother, even when the son ascended to the throne. I tried killing off the first wife, marry anew and spawn more children - now as a king. But with primogeniture everything goes to my eldest, who is now not of my dynasty. I have too many children with my first wife to ever hope to kill them all. All that is left for me is to try to change laws of succession, but I have been dragged into a few wars by allies (should have declined, I had prestige to spare) that drags on and on and on. It will aslo suck massively to let my two kingdoms go to someone outside my family. I've worked to hard to lose it all now!

FUCK!! Fuck, fuckertyfuckest in the fuckmost. That is all.

[Tapper]

That's a very odd glitch, haven't had that one myself. Unless the marriage was matrilineal, you ought to have your inheritance structure intact.

[Tapper]

Tapper, on 02 July 2012 - 11:24 AM, said:

That's a very odd glitch, haven't had that one myself. Unless the marriage was matrilineal, you ought to have your inheritance structure intact.

However, I have noted monarchs/rulers trying to convert an agreed regular betrothal to 'matrilineal marriage' when the youngest of the two reaches maturity, which is NASTY.

[Gothos]

Be very, very wary of AI proposing marriage. Very.

[Macros]

going totry this crusader kings 2 tonight.

[Macros]

wow.
This game is a lot more in depth than I'm used too.

And I'm already well lost, whats the best way to raise your reve nue stream, mines is a trickle at the minute.

[Tapper]

Macros, on 03 July 2012 - 01:52 PM, said:

wow.
This game is a lot more in depth than I'm used too.

And I'm already well lost, whats the best way to raise your reve nue stream, mines is a trickle at the minute.

Castle Villages in castles you own. Then build pallissades, walls et cetera for a slightly higher trickle of revenue. Invest in the Town Market chain and in Harbours (coast bound cities only) in the cities in your demesne: the revenue does't go to you but to their mayor (who then invests in his own city) but you tax him for at the very least 15% of his revenue so it's an added tiny trickle.

Or make one of your mayors a duke, give him a full duchy (which he will turn into a republic) and watch him make tons and tons of money in tribute for you. But that's a bit of an exploit.

[Satan]

It takes a while and a few tries to get into. But if you get a dynasty going, the pain will be tenfold when it rapes you up the ass.

I've managed to wrest the nation back into my slender, feminine hands, but everyone hates me and they kill off every single male stupid enough to stick their head out of my vagina. I've got one duke on my side, so my daughter is set to inherit the queendom upon what will probably my suspicious death. But I'm sick and tired of playing a woman. This shit is hard. I'm all for women's rights after this, because this men's club at the top is just downright unfair, it is!

[Bantato]

King Bear, on 09 May 2011 - 05:20 PM, said:

Sins of a Solar Empire. I was playing it a month ago. I'm still playing it now.

Although the last game I played was Mario Kart for the snes. I'd never played it before, and now feel like I've been missing out.

I heard of Sins of the Solar Empire when Angry Joe reviewed it. he seemed to like it

[Obdigore]

Briar King, on 26 July 2012 - 01:42 AM, said:

Bantato, on 21 July 2012 - 01:04 PM, said:

King Bear, on 09 May 2011 - 05:20 PM, said:

Sins of a Solar Empire. I was playing it a month ago. I'm still playing it now.

Although the last game I played was Mario Kart for the snes. I'd never played it before, and now feel like I've been missing out.

I heard of Sins of the Solar Empire when Angry Joe reviewed it. he seemed to like it

I've heard it was pretty cool. They just released an expansion pk for it also.

Yea its a fun game, I think I prefer the turn based-ness and ship-building of GalCiv2, though.

[Wolfy]

If you're more for the turnbased I'd recommend looking at Sword of the Stars & its expansions.