Fistalis

1. organized was removed because it was considered OP. However they never got around to removing it from the prebuilt Sovs. 2. Not sure if this is intentional or a bug TBH. 3. Another thing that was never properly fixed. Certain races/genders couldn't wear certain things in the older versions and I guess its just been ignored for larger bug issues (crashes etc) 4. Usually techs like this only apply to new units you build.. not exactly sure on this one. 5. D

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="2912013"]I have a suggestion that might help given your specs. Turn OFF the outlining in the graphics options. Some people with that card have reported massive performance hit due to that cosmetic option.[/quote] I always did this anyway.. but ya i noticed a performance difference on my machine as well... strange that outlines would cause a performance hit though. I have an older ATI card.. maybe its an ATI thing?

Bah thats during my weekly Sr2020 multiplayer session, i'll be sure to check out the transcript afterwards though.

Middle market is my market. Majority of games I personally buy are in that group. Why? Well to put it simply.. when a company spends 25 million dollars to create a game.. they tend to think, and probably rightfully so, that they need to make it as accessible as possible. Accessibility is great and all.. but it inevitably breaks down to the question of making returns on the investment. Someone says a feature is a bit too complex,or new players the genre/series need to be eased in etc etc. The

[quote]Regarding job hunting, at least in the United States, the vast majority of help wanted ads are online so you'll never even find them without the internet. And many of them don't give any contact information except for an e-mail address.[/quote] While your right about the help wanted ads being primarily online. Depending on your level of education and chosen field your more or less likely to find a job that way. Remember a major employer in the U.S. is small businesses. Your not

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="334" id="2909297"] Its funny that country with 10M people (Czech Republic) has more ISPs than entire USA - competition FTW! /waiting for upgrade to 40/40Mbps/[/quote] There are a quite a few ISPs in the U.S. but due to geography consumer choice is usually limited to 2 or 3 ISPs. Competition for any one particular customer is almost non existent. The size of the U.S. alone makes it difficult for most companies to even begin to setup any

[quote who="Rebell44" reply="331" id="2909153"] graphics card and plenty of new games to keep them occupied for a year rather than have the internet if it came down to it. I'm one of them. I pay 10€ per month for 16/8Mbps internet - if I wasnt able to afford internet I would have bigger problem than not playing games. Also even for those who are unemployed some basic cheap internet cost less than sending CV via mail or extra driving when looking for job - and ge

I hit this exact Error back in the 1.11 beta phase. Thought it had been worked out.. maybe its driver related IDK.

[quote who="Nesrie" reply="151" id="2811046"][quote who="Alstein" reply="150" id="2811036"]There's also a possibility the US will get caps also, due to non-existant regulation and a very pro-business political climate not seen since the Gilded Age. [/quote] Which is pretty awful. It's unfortunate I get reamed by my cable company as it is, high prices, higher prices if I don't have TV with them, very slow uploads, marginal downloads and now t

[quote who="charon2112" reply="16" id="2906183"]It's a shame that you have to focus on warfare so much in the beginning just to keep up. I'd like the choice to concentrate more on magic, or improving my cities. But you really can't do that, or you get walked on.[/quote] what version are you talking about? 1.09 and 1.11 I can concentrate on magic and still do well on mid level difficulty. Although its quite valid for higher difficulties. But thats no different than say.. having to B li

[quote who="RavenX" reply="14" id="2906212"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 13 I liked total war... then steam and empire happened. and now i am finding i like the cheap knockoff better. :-/ Agreed. TW is one of those series of games I was a rabid fan of until they went steamworks integrated, and had to look elsewhere for my strategy fix. I was extremely excited about shogun 2 til i realized they would continue on the same path. No worri

[quote]I liked total war... then steam and empire happened. and now i am finding i like the cheap knockoff better. :-/[/quote] Agreed. TW is one of those series of games I was a rabid fan of until they went steamworks integrated, and had to look elsewhere for my strategy fix. I was extremely excited about shogun 2 til i realized they would continue on the same path. [e digicons]X|[/e] No worries i still have my disc copies of the original shogun, rome etc

[quote who="RogueCaptain" reply="6" id="2906138"]One of the advantages of being owned by a mega publisher is they can help pressure the reviewers.[/quote] Ya but those pesky User reviews can't be bought... so they just post some to help counter act actual user reviews. If anyone thinks this is new they're crazy. This is just the first time an employee has been caught doing it. I don't mind people who worked on a game shilling for it.. just as long as they are upfront about the

Perhaps you need to read that OEM license and the EULA. As I stated YES you can install it after upgrading. However the terms of your license state that the license is tied to The Motherboard. Legally speaking, your not allowed to upgrade your motherboard and continue running that license, changing to a new motherboard voids the license. Not to mention the terms of the OEM license state one must sell the machine they install it on.. meaning just by installing an OEM versi

Sounds like an overheating issue.. or ram malfunction to me. But I do notice your running old drivers.. and its your driver file its faulting.. so update drivers would be my first suggestion.(even though I have NEVER seen drivers cause a BSOD, certainly doesn't mean it can't happen). What video card are you running.. is that onboard? (btw thats just my first thought... i'm sure kyro or someone will come along and offer a more knowledgeable assessment)

[quote who="kona0197" reply="28" id="2904303"] 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. You would have to reinstall 7 anyhow. Not to mention you will even have to reinstall XP with a new mobo. And by the way 7 does not call haome as often as you think. Don't believe eberything you hear or read. Oh and they are saying 8 will be released thi

[quote who="lazear" reply="26" id="2904285"] Quoting Fistalis, reply 25 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) In my experience with Windows Vista over the course of a few years, I was able to activate the OEM

[quote who="kona0197" reply="24" id="2904247"]I would think ESATA is a bit faster than USB 3.0 for data transfer. consequently the amount of upgrading and poking around I do is why i'm still running XP rather than one of the phone home/hash check windows versions Windows 7 doesn't call home as much as you think and even XP calls home. It's not a big deal as long as you are running a legit version of Windows.[/quote] Ya i didn't exactly explain myself well.The onl

[quote who="Jafo" reply="19" id="2904080"] why i'm still running XP rather than one of the phone home/hash check windows versions) Oh....you mean one of the MS OSes that actually WORKS? [Windows 7].... XP is a dinosaur.....that hasn't seen/noticed the meteor strike....yet.[/quote] Very true.. but the price of a NON OEM version of windows7 is something I haven't been able to justify to myself(yet). If only games were made for Linux.. lol. But ya at this point I'm r

[quote who="Jafo" reply="17" id="2904072"] But ya.. maybe I underestimate the amound of data transfers people do through USB. If you're not doing it yourself it is guaranteed to come back and bite you....eventually. Backing up data/work/etc is critical/essential.[/quote] LoL i Reformat yearly.(sometimes every 2 years.. anytime i do a major upgrade.)I have a rule.. i don't put any data on my PC I can't afford to lose(this is something that was engrained into me fro

[quote who="starkers" reply="15" id="2904063"] The thing is, when you have USB external HDD's, USB3 is a great innovation and a time saver for data backups and transfers, etc. Thus my next build most definitely will have USB3 ports because I already have 2 USB3 compatible external drives and I'd like to save more time when creating my weekly backups [2 OSes/2 internal storage HDD's}.[/quote] Oh i agree 100%. There is a use for USB 3 of course. I just personally wouldn't see

I would have told you to just wait for FE. I've said it once and i'll say it again. Original game vs Standalone expansion your usually better off just going with the stand alone. [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

[quote]I can connect o impulse just fine, what I can't do is connect from Elemental as elemental crashes before it ever gets to the title screen in order to alt+tab to get to the log in.[/quote] its due to your firewall blocking it. Elemental and impulse are 2 DIFFERENT programs as far as your firewall is concerned. Allowing Impulse doesn't magically make a firewall exception for elemental and vice versa. Also if your windows firewall is active as well as a 3rd party firewall yo

Pre built computers always lag a bit behind. If you build your own you can easily have usb 3.0 at this point. But really.. who cares? I never do anything speed intensive with USB anyway. I use it for.. my wireles mouse. my wireless controller, mp3 player and a printer.. lol

[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2903511"] How did he log in to the EA store to buy it then? Something aint right with that logic. Dunno, but that's what it says: Granted, this is a unique situation. v_ware is being prevented from installing his game because he bought it from EA's own store, meaning it requires account authentication; had the game already been installed, then he'd be able to play it and there'd be no issue. So it's not like this is going to