Looks like the upgrade went successfully. Forgot to backup all of my Dolphin stuff (saves+config). Dunno how that happened, could have sworn that was the first thing I did. Oh well...
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05-12-2014, 10:29 AM
... why do you not just keep your homedir? I've been keeping the same homedir for 6 years now.
Because I really want to clean out my homedir on every OS upgrade. It's an absolute mess after a few years (all of those hidden full-stop directories from programs I only used once or don't use anymore, not to mention every game I play thinks it needs its own :/ ). And I can't exactly be bothered to prune through them all on a regular basis. I prefer the nuclear option whenever possible. I just copy over a few folders that basically contain the majority of what I want to keep and throw the rest to oblivion. I just happened to forget to include Dolphin's folder this time.
The only worthwhile saves that got deleted (formatted to be more precise) were my Skies of Arcadia save and my 20+ hour Xenoblade Chronicles save. That's insignificant since I've beaten SoA a long time ago in Dolphin, and my XBC saves hadn't been seriously touched in a long time (and they're on the Wii anyway...) 05-12-2014, 02:09 PM
lol my first build was when I was 12 and that was a thread in here IIRC.
05-13-2014, 03:21 AM
Update:
A) I don't know the kid's parents. He's a friend of my brother and I offered to help his through Steam. The parents were the bottleneck, but he managed to persuade them to go to Scan. B) He got things, but deviated from my plan I think based on the fact that he decided to buy Windows for £100, instead of from a student discount site for £30, so couldn't afford a GPU. He therefore went for an AMD CPU for the marginally better integrated GPU as a stopgap. All of this was decided between him, his Dad, and the helpful people of Scan who are usually right and get corrected by a member of the public when they're not. C) He managed to put it together with his Dad, skipping the whole 'Reading the manuals' stage, and instead opting to put things where they fit. The only problems were Power/Reset muddling, CPU fan into a Case fan port, and he'd plugged a 4-pin (pins left over when you're only using 4 out of 8) Pentium 4 -> SATA power adapter with nothing on the other end to connect his hard drive up instead of a line to his PSU. To be fair, he'd lost the cable, and hadn't noticed, so didn't realise there were direct lines.
OS: Windows 10 64 bit Professional
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X RAM: 48GB GPU: Radeon 7800 XT 05-13-2014, 01:57 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-13-2014, 02:03 PM by ThorhiantheUltimate.)
Man.... I remember when I was 13 building my first computer. I bought a Phenom II X4 965 BE since back then I didn't know a ton about the more technical aspects of determining the performance of such things. Thankfully, for games and starting to get into 3D modeling, it worked out. I was stuck with some stupid integrated Nvidia GPU on the mobo, but it worked until I learned more about the importance of more powerful GPUs (and the funds to get a discrete card XD). Pretty sure it was a ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 1GB of GDDR3 RAM, played SC2 fairly well.
And Ugh, Im hating Ubuntu right now... Im going back to Arch Linux.... Way better with hardware compatibility in my case, and performance... Anyone know what slackware is like? Edit: Hmmmm..... Im thinking of maybe going with Gentoo, but I would miss pacman.... 05-13-2014, 02:39 PM
I remember when I was 13/14, me and my friends would make our own dream builds. Heh, we would even print out the pages from NewEgg to show off. Nothing ever got built though, because we were all broke. That was when I had a passing interest in PC games (mostly CS, UT).
ThorhiantheUltimate Wrote:Anyone know what slackware is like? It's the best. Enough said. :p I've always wanted to use Slackware since I first started exploring Linux. I remember hearing something about it being an "unadulterated" Linux, or whatever, that it tried to be as plain GNU/Linux as possible. That appealed to me when I was unfamiliar with Linux, but I like it today because it makes the least amount of assumptions about how I want to run my system (out of all the distros I have used so far) and I'm extensively familiar with it. I wouldn't recommend it though, simply because I don't recommend distros, period. Try it; see if it works for you; move on if it doesn't. Works for me (and works well too), so I use it. 05-14-2014, 10:28 AM
Wifi may be dead soon but the custom servers have emerged
https://forums.dolphin-emu.org/Thread-ni...#pid323287 05-14-2014, 11:27 AM
I still haven't found a decent replacement for battlefield 2/2142 and now EA is shutting them down: http://www.ea.com/1/service-updates
Great......
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(This post was last modified: 05-14-2014, 12:53 PM by kinkinkijkin.)
Hey, they shut down Burnout: Paradise strangely shortly after launch, and I haven't found an alternative at all. Really, there are no open-world racing games with even similar control styles, other than the god-awful F2P NFS online game which forces you to play with other people and has a completely different feel as an NFS game, and not a Burnout game. Really, if there were another open-world Burnout game, it would have my money all over it.
EDIT: Well, they shut down the DLC servers, and I think one version of the game had gameservers taken down. But, with the loss of DLC (which you get all of for free with the PC version, but cannot obtain anymore since the damn DLC servers are gone), ~80% of the game's content isn't there. Also, I'm fairly certain that multiplayer is only even still possible on the PC version because it used player hosting instead of a central gameserver, and had the magic touch of connecting players to each other through the EA authentication servers or something like that. But, with minimal multiplayer, most of the content gone, and console players not even having their multiplayer at all anymore, it's really gone.
in a perfect world we would all be piles of sand with no ability to form coherent bodies of body
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