Recent content by sapi

captain lust said:

@Sapi: I have no idea. I guess... take a castle and then renounce? They might be in a non hostile settlement too.

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Hmm, I'll have a look around the neutral settlements.  Taking a castle is a good idea, except the king has made peace with everyone (just as soon as I'd collected 6 prisoners, which I was promptly forced to release, sigh).  I can't remember, if you raid a caravan to get your relations with a faction into the negatives, can you then take one of their cities?

Not that I'd have much luck winning a siege anyway; my army is all Swadian Knights atm (as I wasn't planning on capturing territory any time soon) and they don't last long at all under crossbow fire

Samstag said:

Can't you find any of his other vassals either?  They can tell you where he's at.

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Nope, they were all captured except me.  I've since got messages that they've been released (as we're now at peace with everyone) but haven't run into anyone yet.

It's only getting problematic now because I can't pay my army's wages for long without winning battles

How can you renounce your allegiance to a faction that doesn't have any territory left?  The king was defeated in battle at the last castle's fall, and I've no idea if he's even on the map now.

I probably should have tried to help them, but dammit I wanted them to suffer for DoWing most of the map at once

Merentha said:

No problem.  Also, while the random dialog bug does crop up, it does tend to be very rare.  Morrowind crashes far more than M&B for me, just to put things into perspective.

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If morrowind (fully patched) crashes more than somethign than you're really in trouble

Interesting, but i dont' really see the point - why wouldnt' you just run mount + blade at your desktop resolution (which is always your max resolution if you're sane, that is )

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Type9 said:

My video card is gonna be a 7900 Gt. From what I thought it was irrelecant cuz M&B hardly uses a gfx card?  I mean, it works fine on my old comp, which is a 1400+, 512mb of ram, and a geforce3 ti 200.

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Bad drivers perhaps? i believe the 3800+ x2 is a 64 bit processor and you might need new or different drivers for that. Besides, if you have a Radeon 9800, you'd want to upgrade anyway.

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Nope; all athlon 64s run on 32 bit windows (because the 64 bit version is crap )

To the orignal thread starter, your rig with the 7900gt should be able to run 200 easly because the other guys saying they run 200 with lag and they have a 6800gt, or 6600gt which is much less powerfull, and you have a nice cpu to back up your rig.

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In my experience cpu is the thing for m+b; my 7800gt/2gb is throttled by by 3500 in terms of battle size.

That said, the only other game that happens in is oblivion.

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Archonsod said:

Yet the folks at pretty much any Take2, EA or Sony held publisher don't, and there's far more of them than there are of the Lionhead and Bioware's of this world. Hardly common. In fact, Lionhead is an exception - most Microsoft developers don't post directly to their forums, as a rule.

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It's commonplace that the staff of big gaming companies don't post on forums. It's not what they do, nor will they ever do it. The company is too large, and who ever WOULD post, would need to be of higher authority to speak on behalf of the company.
We are talking about small independant companies here, where it seems it's semi-common for the developers to post on the forums and communicate.

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Yeh - i notice like you do that most companies dont' have representives post directly to forums and i think it's stupid - the pr department at least should be able to spare some time to keep the fans interested 

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sapi said:

It may not be the best example of a generic fps but it's got enough atmosphere, story and innovation to make up for that.

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Deus Ex still kicks it's arse though Simply because I dislike HL2 doesn't mean I don't like FPS's. On the contrary, I find HL2 to be too much of a generic FPS. There's little in it which moves it above any other FPS, as a result I see little to recommend it over say Doom 3 or Farcry.

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tbh i hated deus ex; but it think that was just the graphics
Besides that it felt far too generic...

Meh; all the australian servers update on time so i have no choice in that respect.

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Official servers. Try playing something like Swat 4 or UT2004 and it's the opposite.

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Heh.  In australia we have a sort of 'gang war' between the two major server hosts and you stick to your patch

Titanx3 said:

Another difference of opinion - i'm not one of the 'old guys' in that i've never played more than a bit of hl1 (though i am waiting eagerly for bms) and so i look on hl2 more detached than most people, and to me it's just a great game.  If you don't like it than you won't like any fps...

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thats not true. i like FPS and i dont like HL2.

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How come?

It may not be the best example of a generic fps but it's got enough atmosphere, story and innovation to make up for that.

On an aside, did you like FEAR?

If yes, i know your type 

Archonsod said:

sapi said:

I never had that problem but i understand that i can't speak for you...

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A lot of people did. It was more teething issues than anything else, but it did demonstrate the fact that if anything happens to Valve's datacentre (power cut or similar) then it prevents you using any steam based services until they either fix the problem or come up with an alternative.

You can't play any online games until you update them so you have no choice anyway....

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It depends on the game (or rather whether the only servers are the company owned servers). Official servers always run the latest version, public/private servers may not. I know several servers for a number of games which don't run the latest version, primarily because they don't like the balance tweaks done in that version. Alternatively, they may hold off the update because mods they're using are incompatible with the latest version.

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Meh; all the australian servers update on time so i have no choice in that respect.

HL2 is an old game therefore that makes sense, but the fact remains you're saving almost 50% when you buy over steam....

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Depends on what your buying. As far as store based games go, I've yet to see Steam drop the price as quickly as a store.

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It depends - i usually buy games on release and so i don't need to worry about pricices dropping quickly or not.

They got caught => they suffered the consequences

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I kind of agree. The only problem I have with this is that not all Steam based games are made by Valve. Not only is it questionable whether Valve have the right to remove your access to someone else's game, but technically doing so would break your EULA with the company who produced the game. Besides which, would a more effective solution not have been to turn over the account details to the relevant authorities?

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The thing is they will have violated the Steam TOS and that gives valve the authority to do what it did and make a point...

Pity that most stardock software is rubbish...

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Last time Valve released a decent game was HL1, purely because no one had tried to do a scripted, plot based FPS.

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Another difference of opinion - i'm not one of the 'old guys' in that i've never played more than a bit of hl1 (though i am waiting eagerly for bms) and so i look on hl2 more detached than most people, and to me it's just a great game.  If you don't like it than you won't like any fps...

Archonsod said:

sapi said:

If you're playing source-based games that shouldn't be a problem; and it's minimal....

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Two weeks of having the server timeout whenever you try and activate a game is minimal?

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I never had that problem but i understand that i can't speak for you...

You'd rather run external software than something that a game was built to run on?

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Steam only works for Steam based games. Gameshadow covers a hell of a lot more. It also picks up on other stuff - popular mods, extra maps etc. It also gives you the choice of whether to install an update or not, whereas Steam usually updates whether you want it to or not.[/quote]You can't play any online games until you update them so you have no choice anyway....

It may have been a flop where you live but it got good reviews over here.....

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It got good reviews in most places. Unfortunately, good reviews don't equal good sales.

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Meh; i judge goodness off quality, not success

And since when did valve make sin?

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They didn't, but correct me if I'm wrong it is available on Steam (and suffered from cock up's with Valve's distribution)

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We're not going to agree on this, but i have no problem with internet-based distribution

Over steam, ep1 was ~$25.  In shops, it was $40+

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Ep 1 is currently £19.99, which is about $25. However, HL2 is now cheaper to buy in stores than Steam (in fact, it's price was the same as the Steam version for about three months, before it began dropping. Steam still offered it for full price for nearly a year).

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HL2 is an old game therefore that makes sense, but the fact remains you're saving almost 50% when you buy over steam....

Didn't they do that to people before? They found some HL2 pirates who were playing on steam, so decided "Hey, why not delete their accounts and all the legitimate games they bought?"

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They got caught => they suffered the consequences

For a company who's doing the direct download/update thing right, try Stardock (http://www.stardock.com/downloads/). Their stardock central software does all the things steam does, but if you don't want to use it you don't have to, you can just grab the updates etc form elsewhere. (i.e. GalCiv go to the games download page for a download of stardock central or the latest retail update).

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Pity that most stardock software is rubbish...

Archonsod said:

sapi said:

Steam is an excellent piece of software that protects and makes things easier for the consumer.  The only people who don't like it are pirates...

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Or people who really don't like seeing unauthorised activity on their net connection / actually like to think their system is secure. Then there's people who might like to play the same game in a few years time, which isn't going to be possible if Valve decide to remove the activation routines from their server. Then there's the whole carry on with activating the game, I know people who couldn't activate HL2 for over two weeks due to Steam collapsing. Finally, considering what it does it ties up an inordinate amount of system resources, even when running in the background.

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If you're playing source-based games that shouldn't be a problem; and it's minimal....

In addition, steam automatically updates your games so you never have to go searching for patches.

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Most games have had that functionality for the past few years. There's also things like Gameshadow which allows you to automatically patch pretty much any game

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You'd rather run external software than something that a game was built to run on?

More importantly, it allows indie developers to cut out the middleman to some extent and get their games out there into the public awareness.  Free game trials and demos are beamed out to consumers through a promotion system that is completely non-invasive.

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So does every other download service.

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Every other download service runs in teh background of your pc and allows you to play teh games you've bought legally on other computers?

You may not like it, but it's the future.  HL2 ep1 and SIN ep1 were successes; episodic content is going to become more and more important as it shortens game development time and allows the consumer to decide whether they want to buy the game after the first episode, saving them money if they choose not to.

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Sin ep 1 is a flop. They've released the boxed version early to try and reclaim some of their investment - originally they were going to release a full price box with the first three episodes (and presumably, every 3 episodes after that). They've also had a number of other problems with the episodic model, some of which are inherent in the model and others are Vavle's usual cock ups.

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It may have been a flop where you live but it got good reviews over here.....
And since when did valve make sin?

Pre-loading and cheaper prices truely makes steam something to like, and once you've configured your firewall correctly you can get all this through local mirrors (which in many cases are free).

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Cheaper?!? I've yet to see a non-exclusive on Steam which can't be bought cheaper somewhere else, in many cases it's cheaper to buy at the local store (HL2 being one of them).

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You're mad
Over steam, ep1 was ~$25.  In shops, it was $40+

phbbbt107 said:

And I despise Steam. Useless, intrusive POS. And since cd key's can only be used once, you're screwed if someone steals yours with a keygen. It makes pirating games much easier, and more harmful to consumers.

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Steam is an excellent piece of software that protects and makes things easier for the consumer.  The only people who don't like it are pirates...

If your cd-key is taken, there's a relitively simple process to get it registered to your account (involving sending in photos of the physical media with the key on it), and having the key registered to an account means that you can access your games anywhere, anytime.

In addition, steam automatically updates your games so you never have to go searching for patches.

More importantly, it allows indie developers to cut out the middleman to some extent and get their games out there into the public awareness.  Free game trials and demos are beamed out to consumers through a promotion system that is completely non-invasive.

You may not like it, but it's the future.  HL2 ep1 and SIN ep1 were successes; episodic content is going to become more and more important as it shortens game development time and allows the consumer to decide whether they want to buy the game after the first episode, saving them money if they choose not to.

Pre-loading and cheaper prices truely makes steam something to like, and once you've configured your firewall correctly you can get all this through local mirrors (which in many cases are free).

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I always thought that m&b ran on a really low resolution and to be honest i had no performance problems even when i was running it on an old 5200...

You can also use a program like xfire or fraps to take screenshots in game that are saved automatically...