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Reply to What do you think of Internet Explorer 9? in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

I can't stand IE9 because you can't disable ClearType. Text is pretty much unreadable on my screen. Shame that Impulse uses it to render everything.

Reply to If you are thinking about a new pc...wait in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="27" id="2904296"] Oh ya it can be done.. but if i have to contact microsoft directly to do it I don't wanna deal with it. Not to mention its ethically wrong. [/quote] I never had to contact Microsoft. To be honest, I had expected the activation to fail the first time I tried an upgrade, so I had a second OEM license ready--but it worked, so I kept using the origional key. I guess you could say that it was ethically wrong behavior. Have yo

Reply to If you are thinking about a new pc...wait in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="Fistalis" reply="25" id="2904279"] Ya i didn't exactly explain myself well.The only version of windows 7 i could afford would be an OEM version.. which would leave me screwed the first time i upgraded my mobo. (not to mention i would have to reregister my version after things like processor upgrades/ or reconfiguring my system etc) [/quote] In my experience with Windows Vista over the course of a few years, I was able to activate the OEM license across thre

Reply to If you are thinking about a new pc...wait in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

[quote who="ekimragz" reply="2" id="2903970"]But won't be really available until later this year. Try finding a computer with it. [/quote] The desktop computer sitting next to me on my desk has two (2) USB 3.0 ports in it. I built this computer last fall. I had no trouble at all getting my hands on a motherboard supporting the USB 3.0 standard. If you are still convinced that you are correct, then explain to me why USB 3.0 appears in the tech specs of this alienware

Reply to If you are thinking about a new pc...wait in Personal Computing Stardock Forums

This article was written in December 2009. USB 3.0 is already available, sir.

Reply to Cake Simulator? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="FadedC" reply="7" id="2865553"]I guess the question is how realistic does she want it to be. [/quote] That is a very good question. She's looking for something as realistic as possible--I don't think she'll be satisfied with any of the flash games. Thanks for all of your suggestions so far everyone! I honestly didn't expect to get any responses :-)

Cake Simulator? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

Hey guys (and ladies), My wife is a hardcore PC gamer and ah...cake maker....and she has asked me to find her some sort of cake simulator for the PC. Or maybe a baking simulator. I figure if they make earth mover sims there's gotta be a baking sim out there. Right? Matthew

Reply to Help me find a game for my friend and I in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote quoting="post"]My friend and i are looking for a new game to play, we both love strat games, fps, rpgs, whatever. We recently burned through starcraft2, borderlands and are now sort of playing mount and blade: warband in tandem. We would love to find something similar in vein to Borderlands, but really anything similar to those games would be awesome. Thanks! [/quote] If you are looking for multiplayer co-op games, I can heartily recommend Left 4 Dead and Dawn of War II, d

Reply to Call of Duty: Black Ops - Fastest selling game of all time in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="TorinReborn" reply="2" id="2821211"]Is singleplayer longer then 8-10h this time? [/quote] The Gamespot XBOX 360 review here says that the single player clocks in at a "mere six hours long." What a shame.

Reply to SupCom 2 Demo out now! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="PurplePaladin" reply="82" id="2560278"]Well, here's what I think is REALLY bad: I read many forums, I see many "disapointed" or almost "heartbreaking" posts about SC2. Then it stops. That is really bad, because, peoeple are just trying it; purging, and moving on. Not even taking the time to troll-post or ream out the devs. They just are totally moving on. [/quote] I don't think this is solid reasoning. Your observations could

Reply to SupCom 2 Demo out now! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="ZehDon" reply="70" id="2556327"]My god, the Steam and Square-Enix provided Supreme Commander 2 forums are a buzz with hate. I haven't seen backlash like this since in quite a while. After Space Seige and then Demigod, I - and I'm sure Chris Taylor - was thinking it was time for GPG it have a hit and release something special. We should send Chris a bottle of Jack Daniels and a little silver trophy with "Nice Try" engraved. [/quote] Too early to tell, my fr

Reply to <b> Tag in Forum Issues Stardock Forums

[quote who="Ausvet" reply="14" id="2554348"]Bring back and [/quote] QFT! This.

Reply to Play with Entrenchment and Diplomacy multiplayer? in Sins of a Solar Empire Stardock Forums

Just run Diplomacy and forget about all the other versions. Diplomacy contains all of the features of vanilla Sins, Entrenchment, and of course Diplomacy. If you want them all bundled into one, you could always buy Trinity, but I'm not sure why you'd want to do that if you've purchased all the expansion packs anyway. Hope this helps!

Reply to SupCom 2 Demo out now! in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

The best thing about SupCom 2 is that the UI doesn't take up a third of the screen. That factor alone was enough to keep me from playing SupCom 1 for very long. So for someone that has not really played the first game in full, this second game is fantastic. No, I don't feel like the game is breaking any new ground in the genre, but I had heaps of fun playing the demo. I'm definitely getting a copy for myself--and because the gameplay is familiar and intuitive, my wife will be playin

Reply to New Steam UI Beta in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="5" id="2548221"] They're using their own text AA implementation. If there's any way to change it it's going to be steam-specific. [/quote] Appending "-no-dwrite" to the Steam shortcut took care of the issue.

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="Rishkith" reply="108" id="2549632"]DOOMED! [/quote] We're all DOOMED! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=potlDrRI01A

Reply to Is anyone interested in Diablo 3? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I'm interested, but I don't spend a whole lot of time thinking about games that won't come out for another few years. Once they announce a release date, THEN I'll pay more attention. Tell you what runs really well on low-end machines, if you're looking for a Diablo-type fix: Torchlight . Great game! You can download it directly from the developer's web site: http://www.torchlightgame.com/ Cheers, mp

Reply to New Steam UI Beta in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="kryo" reply="5" id="2548221"] They're using their own text AA implementation. If there's any way to change it it's going to be steam-specific. [/quote] Ah, interesting. Well then, another reason why Impulse wins :-) Thanks for pointing that out.

Reply to New Steam UI Beta in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="lokideath" reply="3" id="2548100"] open up: steam.styles in Steam/resource/styles and edit to basefontbold=”Arial”. It's a beta, you need to check the forum. [/quote] Modifying the CSS styles doesn't help, unfortunately. Here's an example of what I'm talking about. This is precisely the reason why I disable ClearType on every computer that I use. I only spent a few brief moments poking around in their forums this morning looking for a fix, but I'

New Steam UI Beta in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I gave the new Steam UI a shot this morning and found it to be a complete mess. Not only did they take away the small icons in the games browser window, but all the text in the entire UI is now being anti-aliased, despite me having ClearType disabled in Windows 7. I know they are now using a WebKit based rendering engine for the client and in-game overlay web browsing components (replacing Internet Explorer--something I wish Stardock would do as well), but there is no way

Reply to Are consoles d0med? in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

[quote who="VicenteC" reply="66" id="2544837"] About the consoles doomed joke, consoles produce much more money than PCs in game sales, and it doesn't seem things are going to change any time soon... [/quote] Pardon me, but have you heard of OnLive? There is a good chance that the service (and eventually others like it) could grab a pretty huge chunk of the console market share. If the service really works, I do indeed see things changing, very soon. mp

Reply to Mass Effect 2 fails to start in Stardock Support General Stardock Forums

I tried to help another lad with your problem in the following thread: http://forums.impulsedriven.com/374536/#2521439 Good luck!

Reply to Galciv II ultimate edition, substanstial bug. in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="x2y" reply="9" id="2486403"]Huh. Trolls eh? I think that's rather stupid Efthimios...[/quote] Note that Efthimios and others did their best to help you with your problem. I'd hardly call that trolling. You did say something funny by calling your rig with a 9600GT a "beast," so I think pe

Reply to Regrets. Regrets. Regrets. in PC Gaming Stardock Forums

I have purchased a lot of really bad PC games in the past 15 years, but I'll just name some of my biggest disapointments that I can name off the top of my head: Age of Conan After all the hype, this game was an enormous disappointment in just about every respect. I'll never forgive myself for purchasing the Collector's Edition. The only

Reply to Galciv II ultimate edition, substanstial bug. in Stardock Games Stardock Forums

[quote who="Marcus_Suridius" reply="6" id="2416266"]...he is still running an o/s from what seven years ago.[/quote] Windows XP was first released on October 25, 2001, so almost precisely 8 years ago. Fun fact of the day.