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Hmm. So, they cease porting the BF:BC2 Onslaught DLC (along with BF 1943) to PC, and now expect us to pay for another game? Right, because I'm suuuure the PC version will receive the same support as the console versions this time. 


BF2 may have been the FPS that introduced me to the genre, but I'm going to need a lot more than nostalgia before I even consider allowing myself to be duped by these guys again. 

That wall cling... thingy... was something I completely forgot about 3 minutes after it was 'introduced'. (It was the only real surprise I had during my second playthrough: "Oh, what's this, a feature I forgot about. *10 seconds later* Right, forgot about for a reason.  )

The PC version wasn't horrible, but it did have its flaws. Most notably, I experienced an issue where it'd just freeze entirely during loading screens every once in a while. Thankfully, there aren't that many loading screens in-game; annoyingly, almost all the missions end with a loading screen, and if it did freeze at the end of a mission, you'd have to restart the entire mission from the beginning. At least it was rare, happening twice in my first playthrough and once in my latest.

The short draw distance was also somewhat annoying. (Interestingly, despite it being a mild complaint that only hinders 100% completionists hunting every last bloody blue orb, I noted that every reviewer picked up on it and complained about it. Copy-paste from other reviewers, much?) It ties in to the whole "It works on consoles now go suck it" attitude - they probably didn't care that some people out there aren't sitting on mass-produced hardware that is now obsolete. 


Either way, I'm mildly interested in a sequel, and I'll keep my eye on this if anything interesting happens. At the very least, I heard inFamous 2 is also coming out - maybe there'll be another fan war to spectate! (Or another opportunity to see Mercer in a bra.)

Say I really wanted Avast or AVG, how would I go about getting rid of Norton entirely? The program is not as horrible as it is made out to be, but it does a lot of things without asking, or prevents me from changing options in my own damn system. Including stopping me from getting rid of it. Mind as well rename it SKYNET.

I'd probably go here. Norton's own support page holds a means of (theoretically) removing the software.

And then I'd strongly veer away from AVG.  Avast is good (I use it myself), and popular opinion on this forum is towards MS Security Essentials (which I've heard is good) or Comodo (which I know very little about).

AVIRA!
the only bad part about it is that it beeps when a virus is found. that can get annoying if you're on a virus-y computer.

http://www.avira.com

If you're on a virus-infested computer, having your AV beep at you is the least of your problems. 


I use Avast! myself, and I've heard a lot of good things about Microsoft Security Essentials (several fellow techies claim it's the only non-crap piece of software Microsoft has ever released!).

Quote from: Fayrik on January 17, 2011, 08:50:41 pm

Ahahaha!
You couldn't be more wrong, but welcome to multi-core machines!
An Intel i7-980X Exreme 12MB L3 3.33GHz Hexcore will deliver you 3.33GHz processing power, six times.
And by six times, I don't mean 6x. "Times" in this case means time, that thing that makes the universe more than just a picture.

Basically, what I'm trying to satirically say is, you're not ever going to get 19.98GHz from a 3.33GHz multi-core machine.
It'll be a 3.33GHz machine that can do 6 tasks at once.
You'll be grateful for it to do 6 things at once, but I wouldn't expect it to make anything faster that much.

Also, try to go with AMD. I would try and compare their minimal differences to show a slight advantage of having AMD against Intel, but right now AMD just have an infinite moral advantage to me.
(The only bigger advantage AMD could get is if they started making cardboard chips! Hahaha.)

So it can do 6 things at 3.33GHz?

That's... actually, probably one of the best descriptions of multi-core functionality I've heard. I may have to borrow that. 

To put it another way: Each core tackles one 'thread' at a time. On a standard, single-core CPU (like a Pentium), the CPU rapidly switches between threads to create the illusion of performing multiple tasks at the same time. Emphasis on 'illusion'. Besides a bit of overhead switching between threads, it means the CPU is either running your game or running your anti-virus software or running one of a dozen other processes currently on your machine.

With multiple cores, you can run one thread on each core. In other words, it's no longer an illusion - you actually are running all of those threads, at the same time. However, any given thread is still limited to a single core. Dwarf Fortress, for instance, has only a single thread. If you run DF on a 6-core machine, DF will completely consume one of the six cores, while the rest languish. (Technically, the other five cores provide a slight advantage, since all the background tasks running on your computer can be off-loaded to other cores. But that's only significant if you're using a noticeable percentage of your CPU for background tasks.)


And the AMD vs. Intel debate is a great topic for inciting nerd wars, right up there with ATI vs. nVidia. Right now, I seem to recall that Intel has the fastest chips, while AMD has a better power-to-price ratio (although I'm probably seriously oversimplifying right now!). But hey, if you find an awesome gaming laptop for 1.5k and it happens to have an Intel chip, don't pass it up just because you're dead-set on a competitor's brand name!

My computer cannot handle Vindictus. Please only recommend games that my computer could handle. I have my specifications listed above in the first post.

To be fair, your specs aren't the greatest - the CPU, in particular, leaves a lot to be desired. In fact, I had to check the Blizzard Support page to confirm, much to my disbelief, that you could play WoW on that machine. And you technically don't meet the DD:O system requirements, missing the CPU minimum requirement by 0.1 GHz. That, coupled with the pretty impressive list of games you've already played, makes our job a heck of a lot tougher, you see!

my outermost colony, Various Nonsense (yes, I did name all my colonies after the various B12 boards, with Bay12 being our homeworld).

This alone counts as a CMoA. 

It seems slower to me... but that might be because you only get perks once every two levels now. It's easy to remember the even-numbered levels, when you got some awesome new perk-based ability, and forget the odd-numbered levels, when all you got was +5 to Science and Repair.