harpo99999

harpo99999

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Reply to constant freezing, forcing me to pull power on my pc in Technical Sins Forums

i don't know wow or silent hunter 4, but of the other two civ 4 should work in a 2d card and spore wants a 3d but works in a gf5200 which is a similar vintage to your 2600, BUT sins works in an integrated cideo card in laptops, as far as load on a system the cpu workload appears least with civ4, then spore and sins most cpuload. another thought might be the cpu heatlocking on you, sorry but it is trail and error to solve this harpo

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Reply to black screen in Technical Sins Forums

have you tried holding the "S" key down it tells the debug window to "S"kip the error message window that is also black hope this helps harpo

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Reply to Where do i put mods? in Sins Modding Sins Forums

first check the mod's forum to see which version of sins they are compatible with ie 1.05, 1.10-1.13 or entrenchment make sure that you have that version of sins ie bottom righthand corner of sins menu screen to find the location to extract the mods first turn off then hidden files & folders and hidden extensions in explorer / tools / folder options in sins click on options, then mods then show mod path, then write down the path on xp it typical

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Reply to Unbearable turtle pace!!! in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

[quote who="Blair Fraser" reply="16" id="2055536"] quoting posti find the pace of sins to be painfully slow ;l if im playing sins am also doing any combination of the following to cope with the down time involved: watching a movie, talking on the phone, folding clothes, cooking, playing guitar, studying when 1.1 beta came out i was so excited that they beefed up the speed to be damn near unmanagable (in others words not mine) my only complaint with the speed wa

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Reply to Need help adding ships to planets in Sins Modding Sins Forums

first in the map in galforge double click on the planet that you want to specify the forces at to open the template/group editor then click the add in the group editor click add then choose the conditions of the spawning then choose each item you want to add then click the add under the units/buildings list when you have added all the ships/buildings you want to the planet then close the planet window, and repeat for each planet that you want to do thsis for harpo

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Reply to Need Mod help in Technical Sins Forums

jeremy,fair point, but the install instructrions have been covered several times in the thread, the people working on the mod know it the best, and also have probably solved any problems that might arrise and helped other users by posting the advise and instructions there already harpo

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Reply to Need Mod help in Technical Sins Forums

7 deadly sins is ONLY for 1.05 sins. if you have updated past 1.05 then it would minidump on you. I suggest reading all 109 pages o this thread https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/306277/page/109 and you will then know all available info without playing it harpo

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Reply to constant freezing, forcing me to pull power on my pc in Technical Sins Forums

I agree with your suspision of the video card, but I think it might be the powersupply not having enough spare capacity, I have seen articals on the web that suggest power supplies can lose up to 30% or their rated power rating in one year due to component aging. the 4870 wants at least 170watts fo the card, each hard drive wants at least 10 watts, the cpus can use from 40 to 160watts the motherboards can use 20 to 80 watts, the opto drives want up to 30 watts so I would sugge

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Reply to mods issue in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

for the mods folder on vista/w7 it should be c:\users\"user name"\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\mods for xp it should be C:\Documents and Settings\"user name"\Local Settings\Application Data\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\mods if you do not see the mods folder with one or more folders with the name of the mods in the folder name then the mod were extracted to the wrong location. if you only see rar files then you need to e

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Reply to Nvidia driver confusion in PC Gaming Sins Forums

in my professional experience, nvidia drivers WILL update successfully without needing to un-install the old drivers, but does want a re-boot after updateing,but when you uninstall the drivers you need to re-boot twice, first after uninstalling, the second after installing the new driver harpo

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Reply to SOLUTION for Vista crashes in Technical Sins Forums

the nvidia quadro cards are designed for serious use not gaming, but the latest drivers for the card are at http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_181.20.html, btw the geforce family of nvidia cards are the gaming cards, but several people seem to be having problems with sins & nvidia, and I do not have any idea why, as I have several computers with different video cards from an old geforce 7600, 8600gt, 8800gt,6600 and an ati 4850, the only prbs that show up for me are running out of

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Reply to mini Dump? in Technical Sins Forums

the more minidumps they get the better chance of fixing the problems harpo

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Reply to Multi-core support/usage in Technical Sins Forums

[quote who="Kitkun" reply="4" id="2052405"]Almost certainly not. Although I have no idea what program you're talking about. What multicore program for SupCom? [/quote] kit there is a program to alter the affinity of thread to different cores for supcom to even out the processor load & improve the game performance about 10-15%, from memory it called supcom core optimiser or manager, but supcom is a very multiple thread program and i think tha

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