At 3/5/09 05:26 PM, ThoseSneakyFrench wrote: As it stands, Burnout Paradise is probably one of the most exhilarating racing games I've ever played. Highly reccommended.

Also, I play at 2560x1600, which is a ridiculous resolution. It's completely immersive and gives a new life to every single game you own. I'm giving Half life 2 another play through this weekend, because a quick look I had at it was stunning.

Fuck your life savings, get a better monitor!

Actually, I don't really care much about hardware now. If I save up some, it would probably be for another game. Also, I've never actually cared much for my monitor. But 2560x1600 seems HUGE... My resolution, 1024x768.

JKMonkey, Eclipse914, and Grubby can join. All three of you have valid computer specs.

At 3/6/09 12:44 PM, sirtom93 wrote: This club rather penalizes people who have minimal funds. I for one can get 40+ fps on css, on lower settings on my comp (see page one for my specs).

Well, I have to admit, If you have minimal funds, you can't really join this club that easily. It's not really the processor, but I thought the RAM limit might have been a bit high. You say your RAM is 512MB. I used to have a 256 or so RAM, until I got another chip in. Now I use a whole new computer, and with more RAM, 2 Gigs, just up to the minimum.

If Elder wants, maybe he can lower the system requirements.

I've been getting into PC games lately thanks to some mods.

My PC specs aren't really high, well, I can run HL2: EP2 on the lowest resolution with everything else on low if I want a high-ish FPS.

that damn 3D skybox and lighting effects kill me.

I'll probably look into the specs later seeing as I'm on a different computer.

Thanks.

At 3/6/09 08:59 AM, TacoFreak wrote: My specs:

Sweet Rig man.

So do you guys have Xfire? Maybe we could all add each other as friends if you do?

At 3/4/09 08:45 PM, killslasher wrote: -Your processor must be 2.0GHz or higher to join.
-Also, you need a minimum of 2GB RAM.

Was going to join for the sake of joining/hopefully finding more TF2 players, but i only have 1 gig of RAM.

I thought for sure this would have been shut down. Doesn't PC gaming constitute as "video games"?

Either way, I play some source. Although computer gaming is really quite broad.... lots of games on computers. Hope it works out well for you guys though.

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Was going to join for the sake of joining/hopefully finding more TF2 players, but i only have 1 gig of RAM.

What's your Steam ID? I should be getting The Orange Box some time next week, can't wait...

At 3/7/09 05:33 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Was going to join for the sake of joining/hopefully finding more TF2 players, but i only have 1 gig of RAM.

What's your Steam ID? I should be getting The Orange Box some time next week, can't wait...

Team Fortress 2 sucks. I've had it for a while and I'm bored of it. Although the game Portal is really good. Too bad it's short.

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote:

At 3/4/09 08:45 PM, killslasher wrote: -Your processor must be 2.0GHz or higher to join.
-Also, you need a minimum of 2GB RAM.

Was going to join for the sake of joining/hopefully finding more TF2 players, but i only have 1 gig of RAM.

It should be lowered to 1GB. 4GB is pretty much the gaming standard these days, but when I had 1 GB 5 months ago I could play WoW and Counter Strike Source just fine.

At 3/7/09 01:24 AM, Jezuz wrote: Thanks TacoFreak, for the great template. Well, at least, I'm using it as a template.

CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33GhZ dual core.
Motherboard: Intel Media Series DP35DP. Shit shit shit board. No OC allowed :\
Memory: Corsair 4GB RAM running at 800 MhZ
Graphics Card: BFG nVidia 8800 GT manufacturer OC'd, believe it runs at 512 MB.
Hard Drive: Western Digital 650GB for Windows 7 partition, 250GB Western Digital for Vista partition.
Sound Card: Loldunno. SoundTEK maybe. Seem to have drivers for that.
Power Supply: 700W.
Case: It's big, black and sexy with a side window and some awesome blue lights. Been two years now :P
CPU cooling: Stock
GPU cooling: Stock
OS: Windows 7 beta 32. Vista 32 for times of beta trouble.
Monitor: Insignia 19" 720p HDTV, used as a monitor.

You should really get a CPU cooler, your temps will drop by a lot and you will be able to overclock your processor to 3GHz

At 3/7/09 01:13 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote:

At 3/6/09 08:59 AM, TacoFreak wrote: My specs:

Sweet Rig man.

So do you guys have Xfire? Maybe we could all add each other as friends if you do?

Ugh, check my sig. It says Xfire profile.

My Xfire is Bartmasta

TSF's Xfire is Yumzorz

At 3/6/09 05:16 PM, ironraven24 wrote:

At 3/6/09 08:59 AM, TacoFreak wrote: Case: CM 690 /w side window

Nice pretty blue case :3 I have a Cosmos Cooler master case. Its really big and silver. I could post a pic if your interested.

Pics pl0x <3

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, kRaZyAzN wrote: I thought for sure this would have been shut down. Doesn't PC gaming constitute as "video games"?

Either way, I play some source. Although computer gaming is really quite broad.... lots of games on computers. Hope it works out well for you guys though.

Well this is a club, so it belongs in the C&C section.

I like the idea of sitting in front of a monitor with a mouse and keyboard. Not only that but you can chat with people (as well as talk with a mic)

At 3/6/09 08:59 AM, TacoFreak wrote: My specs:

Whoa, nice specs man.

After a lot of thought, I'm lowering the requirements. The only "real" requirement is that you're a PC gamer. Anything else is up for consideration.

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, SpeedMetalSandwich wrote: Was going to join for the sake of joining/hopefully finding more TF2 players, but i only have 1 gig of RAM.

You can join, along with mooguy.

At 3/7/09 08:47 AM, TacoFreak wrote: Team Fortress 2 sucks. I've had it for a while and I'm bored of it. Although the game Portal is really good. Too bad it's short.

I prefer the Half-Life portions of the Orange Box, especially Half Life 2.

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, kRaZyAzN wrote: I thought for sure this would have been shut down. Doesn't PC gaming constitute as "video games"?

Either way, I play some source. Although computer gaming is really quite broad.... lots of games on computers. Hope it works out well for you guys though.

Well, it's a crew about gaming. But crew comes first, so I would say it belongs in a crew.

At 3/7/09 11:28 AM, Elder500 wrote:

At 3/6/09 08:59 AM, TacoFreak wrote: My specs:

Whoa, nice specs man.

After a lot of thought, I'm lowering the requirements. The only "real" requirement is that you're a PC gamer. Anything else is up for consideration.

Nice to know that the problem has been solved.
Also, I switch around game music with the music I like. You can do that in most games, as long as you rename the song to what the game song is. Though it's pretty much easier with Oblivion. I just throw music into the archives, and it works. No need to rename for me at all. Yes, it breaks immersiveness, though I prefer listening to music I like while I play.

At 3/8/09 09:22 PM, killslasher wrote: Also, I switch around game music with the music I like. You can do that in most games, as long as you rename the song to what the game song is. Though it's pretty much easier with Oblivion. I just throw music into the archives, and it works. No need to rename for me at all. Yes, it breaks immersiveness, though I prefer listening to music I like while I play.

That's pretty neat, actually. I don't think I can do it with Halo... doesn't appear to be any folder with music in it, or not any that I can tell.

At 3/8/09 10:13 PM, ParadoxVoid wrote: That's pretty neat, actually. I don't think I can do it with Halo... doesn't appear to be any folder with music in it, or not any that I can tell.

Actually, now I found out I don't really want to. Before for like a month. I liked it, but then when i switched those older songs for a whole new bunch of songs, I got pretty annoyed by the idea.
This is because in Oblivion, when an enemy spots you, the music picks from a combat folder. When you're exploring, it switches to an explore folder. This gets annoying, because you could be enjoying a certain track, when suddenly, the music automatically switches to something else.
Also, some of my tracks are much louder than others, so sometimes I barely here the noises that aren't music. And sometimes I can't hear music without an extremely loud noise. I could get this fixed with audacity, but I edited the same file twice, and another file three times, still not working THAT well.
However, ParadoxVoid, if you play halo on the PC. I suggest you try this out. Because from my past experiences, Halo doesn't usually switch tracks. At least that's from what I can remember. Also, it might not be in a folder. Maybe it could just be scattered throughout the data. But before you change anything, make sure you copy the whole entire Halo directory. Just in case something screws up.

Xfire: yumzorz

Hey, can I join? My specs (as far as I know) are:

Dell Dimension 3000
EVGA GeForce 7200GS
1.5Gb Ram
Windows XP

Those run most PC games. The 7200GS card has SM3.0.

At 3/10/09 08:29 PM, DrillHole wrote: Hey, can I join? My specs (as far as I know) are:

Dell Dimension 3000
EVGA GeForce 7200GS
1.5Gb Ram
Windows XP

Those run most PC games. The 7200GS card has SM3.0.

Sure, you can join. Nice specs also. Welcome, and what games do you play?

Anyways, I opened that box containing Unreal Tournament 3. I don't know why, but for some reason, the game says my computer doesn't meet system requirements. I can play it, even though it says my computer can't. It set the texture detail at 2, and it runs pretty smoothly even though everything no matter how close it is, looks blurry. This is as fast as I want the game to run, so if I want, I might bump the detail up to 3.

And another bad thing, is my computer can't process .bik files well. These are movies. Oblivion uses them, UT3 does, and several other games. I solved this in oblivion by just going to the .ini settings and deleting the pathways for what movies to run, therefore making it run no movies and just skip right to the game. However, I don't know how to solve this on UT3...

Fortunately though, it works, it runs fast. And I like the way it's set up. Awesome game, just that I need to find a way to be able to skip those .bik files before they freeze and waste 2 minutes of my time again. However the intro bik movies that display at the beginning run just fine. Very smooth. It's just the movies in the campaign that gets very slow. In Oblivion, all .bik's ran were slow. But then again, I didn't need to even watch them.

At 3/10/09 11:10 PM, killslasher wrote:

At 3/10/09 08:29 PM, DrillHole wrote: Hey, can I join? My specs (as far as I know) are:

Dell Dimension 3000
EVGA GeForce 7200GS
1.5Gb Ram
Windows XP

Those run most PC games. The 7200GS card has SM3.0.

Sure, you can join. Nice specs also. Welcome, and what games do you play?

Seconded

Anyways, I opened that box containing Unreal Tournament 3. I don't know why, but for some reason, the game says my computer doesn't meet system requirements. I can play it, even though it says my computer can't. It set the texture detail at 2, and it runs pretty smoothly even though everything no matter how close it is, looks blurry. This is as fast as I want the game to run, so if I want, I might bump the detail up to 3.

You should bump the detail up higher. Your computer should be able to make it, dunno why it's not running.

And another bad thing, is my computer can't process .bik files well. These are movies.

Ouch. In some games, movies are the key. Uh....call your computer company (if you didn't make it). Do you still have warranty? Maybe you could ship it in, they might fix that. If not, you could go to the many crews devoted to this kinda thing, like the Computer Hospital.

Fortunately though, it works, it runs fast. And I like the way it's set up.......

Sorry, can't help you there. :(

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, kRaZyAzN wrote: I thought for sure this would have been shut down. Doesn't PC gaming constitute as "video games"?

Doesn't Super smash bros count as "video games"?

I need to clean up a bit :P

vvv Pic :D! vvv

At 3/11/09 06:51 PM, Elder500 wrote:

At 3/10/09 11:10 PM, killslasher wrote:

At 3/10/09 08:29 PM, DrillHole wrote: Hey, can I join? My specs (as far as I know) are:

Dell Dimension 3000
EVGA GeForce 7200GS
1.5Gb Ram
Windows XP

Those run most PC games. The 7200GS card has SM3.0.

Sure, you can join. Nice specs also. Welcome, and what games do you play?

Seconded

Anyways, I opened that box containing Unreal Tournament 3. I don't know why, but for some reason, the game says my computer doesn't meet system requirements. I can play it, even though it says my computer can't. It set the texture detail at 2, and it runs pretty smoothly even though everything no matter how close it is, looks blurry. This is as fast as I want the game to run, so if I want, I might bump the detail up to 3.

You should bump the detail up higher. Your computer should be able to make it, dunno why it's not running.

Actually, I did. Although, all it did was run slower. Nothing else. It's just the graphics processing. And my computer does run it, just that everything seems a blurry. Also, I downloaded the v2.0 patch. I ran it and it told me to get a new driver from Nvdia. I went to the website, got the driver, and now the v2.0 patch works. But wait! The graphics are still blurry. The main menu isn't blurry, only the game.

And another bad thing, is my computer can't process .bik files well. These are movies.

Ouch. In some games, movies are the key. Uh....call your computer company (if you didn't make it). Do you still have warranty? Maybe you could ship it in, they might fix that. If not, you could go to the many crews devoted to this kinda thing, like the Computer Hospital.

Maybe I might actually consider to ask them. But not yet, only if it becomes a very bad problem. For Oblivion, all biks just run slow. In UT3, all biks run smoothly, except a few concerning new chapters freeze after a few seconds. Luckily, if I skip it before it freezes, I can get past this problem.

Fortunately though, it works, it runs fast. And I like the way it's set up.......

Sorry, can't help you there. :(

It's a nice game, and I'm enjoying the patch though.

At 3/11/09 08:33 PM, ironraven24 wrote:

At 3/7/09 01:26 AM, kRaZyAzN wrote: I thought for sure this would have been shut down. Doesn't PC gaming constitute as "video games"?

Doesn't Super smash bros count as "video games"?

I need to clean up a bit :P

vvv Pic :D! vvv

Very sheckshy monitor. TacoFreak said that playing 2500x1600 would increase immersiveness. Though, as I'm pretty sure I said before, I have never actually focused on the monitor. Mine isn't a fashionable monitor. Large, basic, Dell monitor. In fact, I'm not even sure if it's 800x600 or 1024x768!

I have 2 computers.

Acer Aspire 5315-2153:
2g RAM
180g HDD
Gentoo Linux

Frys GQ3151:
786m RAM
40g HDD
Windows XP Professional SP3

At 3/12/09 06:02 PM, iMate900 wrote: I have 2 computers.

Acer Aspire 5315-2153:
2g RAM
180g HDD
Gentoo Linux

Frys GQ3151:
786m RAM
40g HDD
Windows XP Professional SP3

By the way my processors are below 2.0GHz, but my Acer *ALMOST* meets the requirements: 1.73GHz.

At 3/12/09 06:03 PM, iMate900 wrote:

At 3/12/09 06:02 PM, iMate900 wrote: I have 2 computers.

Acer Aspire 5315-2153:
2g RAM
180g HDD
Gentoo Linux

Frys GQ3151:
786m RAM
40g HDD
Windows XP Professional SP3

By the way my processors are below 2.0GHz, but my Acer *ALMOST* meets the requirements: 1.73GHz.

Actually, on page two, it was said that the only requirements are that you are a gamer now. Quite an amount of people couldn't enter because of the requirements, but now, you only have to be a computer gamer.

And even though your processors didn't meet the old requirements, your Acer's hard disk drive would own mine. I only have 38.2G HDD. So, welcome to the crew, what games do you play?

At 3/12/09 07:42 PM, killslasher wrote:

At 3/12/09 06:03 PM, iMate900 wrote:

At 3/12/09 06:02 PM, iMate900 wrote: I have 2 computers.

Acer Aspire 5315-2153:
2g RAM
180g HDD
Gentoo Linux

Frys GQ3151:
786m RAM
40g HDD
Windows XP Professional SP3

By the way my processors are below 2.0GHz, but my Acer *ALMOST* meets the requirements: 1.73GHz.

Actually, on page two, it was said that the only requirements are that you are a gamer now. Quite an amount of people couldn't enter because of the requirements, but now, you only have to be a computer gamer.

And even though your processors didn't meet the old requirements, your Acer's hard disk drive would own mine. I only have 38.2G HDD. So, welcome to the crew, what games do you play?

Yes, I play some games, but not the "extreme" ones.

Freeciv (I pwn it)
Widelands (game that I was begged to install)
Inavders (BTW, this version, I pwn it too!)

I also make boring Flash games that some people like.

At 3/12/09 06:02 PM, iMate900 wrote: Acer Aspire 5315-2153:
2g RAM
180g HDD
Gentoo Linux

Linux eh? Why put Linux on the PC the better computer? Unless you've partitioned you HDD or something like that.

Anyway, I finally got The Orange Box, and it rocks hard. TF2 especially, I haven't had so much fun playing in ages.

At 3/14/09 02:18 AM, ParadoxVoid wrote: Linux eh? Why put Linux on the PC the better computer? Unless you've partitioned you HDD or something like that.

But Linux is also on the old computer. Ubuntu 8.10.

first post in like 3 months....

PC gaming club eh? Nice.

Right now I'm on my laptop, not too bad for gaming:
Intel Core Duo T5750 (2.0GHz)
3GB RAM
ATI HD 3650 (1GB dedicated)
Win7 / Vista home premium

My rig, upstate in my dorm:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz OC'd to about 2.88)
2GB RAM (need more)
ATI 4850 (ASUS, w/ aftermarket heatsink)
Win XP (will upgrade to win7 when it comes out)

As for games I play, I'm a huge Valve fan(boy), so mostly TF2, L4d. I've been playing a lot of GTA IV but have yet to hit the MP. Every so often I will pop into UT3 or UT2k4 for shits.
Steam ID

At 3/17/09 03:21 PM, Aksumka wrote:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz OC'd to about 2.88)

What a shitty overclock heh

At 3/17/09 03:51 PM, TacoFreak wrote:

At 3/17/09 03:21 PM, Aksumka wrote:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 (2.4GHz OC'd to about 2.88)

What a shitty overclock heh

Yeah it is. I don't care enough to do anything about it. Everything is fast enough as is.

Good point. What resolution do you play at?

At 3/17/09 04:43 PM, TacoFreak wrote: Good point. What resolution do you play at?

Laptop: 1280 x 800 (14" wide)
Desktop: 1680 x 1050 (22" wide)

My 4850 is doing a bang up job. All source games (TF2, L4D) running at max (I think 8X AA, 16X AF, everything else maxed).
The only game that run poorly at times is Fallout 3, but I'm not playing it so much right now anyway.

At 3/17/09 05:25 PM, Aksumka wrote:

At 3/17/09 04:43 PM, TacoFreak wrote: Good point. What resolution do you play at?

Laptop: 1280 x 800 (14" wide)
Desktop: 1680 x 1050 (22" wide)

Why does everyone manage to have a monitor that is at least above 17" wide? Anyways, around a week ago, I beat unreal tournament 3. It was an awesome game, too bad all models were highly distorted. But to overcome the lack of .bik file processing, I just watched all of the game-movies on youtube.

Ouch. In some games, movies are the key.

Yeah, I didn't know what was going on. Pretty important factors when it comes to the storyline that the movies guide.
Also, I will be receiving a new game. TES3, unlike TES4 Oblivion, will run a lot faster on my computer. Instead of godlike graphics and slow frame rates I get on Oblivion, I'll be getting the opposite. Since TES3 Morrowind was made in the 90's, instead of 2004(Or was it 2005), it should work awesomely. I mean, it may look bad, but managing to get a steady 50+ FPS sounds extremely awesome.

Requirements for The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion

512 MB system RAM
2.0 GHz processor
128 MB video card
8x DVD-ROM drive
4.6 GB hard disk space

And for The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Windows XP/2000 - 256 MB RAM, 500 MHz Intel Pentium III, Celeron, AMD Athlon or better processor, 8x CD/DVD-ROM Drive, 1 GB free hard disk space, DirectX 8.1 (included), 32 MB Direct3D compatible video card with 32-bit color support, DirectX 8.1 compatible driver, and Hardware Transform & Lighting support, DirectX 8.1 compatible sound card

Morrowind takes half that RAM, around one fourth of the processor. Same speed, but runs on a CD Drive also, less than one fourth of Hard Disk space needed, and only one fourth of the video card needed. This is going to be awesome. And to think, $23 in total, shipping included.