Don’t be that guy Reaps.

Totally be that guy Reaps. Come to the dark side. We have cookies! All your base are belong to us!

Yes....YES. I must ascend to a higher realm of gaming! I shale become one of the supreme beings!!!



PC Gamers: YAY---Another lost soul has come unto us. So will you use a keyboard and mouse?

Me: I'll probably use a gamepad.

PC Gamer: click.

Being recently bombarded by new Photobucket emails warning me that I am over image storage limits (number of images) for a free account, and that hosting (embedding images on other sites) isn't allowed with free accounts, I at long last took the plunge and cancelled my Photobucket account. I'd not uploaded anything new there in years. Almost every website/forum/etc. I linked its stored images to is now defunct (the old Bethesda forums, a few Everquest guild forums, etc.) or I simply don't update threads there anymore (Minecraft forum, etc.) Image originals still exist locally, so I've lost nothing.

Have to admit I'd have liked to keep my Minecraft "Hill Fort" thread fully intact. Most images of the Fort itself are from later, Imgur, uploads so still viewable. It's the older, non Fort images that were on Photobucket. I could of course upload those same images to Imgur, then edit the thread. But that thread was somewhat complex and a bear to edit without screwing up formatting.

At any rate, it's over and done with now....I hope.

Looks like I've found a new extension that gives me back old youtube look. THANK HEAVENS!!


Also; I'd like to welcome Dark Reaper over to the PC MR™

{ Godly Divine Winds Blowing. }

I have stepped onto Mount PC Olympus, and the air is fresh and the gaming is ambrosia.

Upon looking at my PC's specs I've deduced that all I really need in order to make a decent low-middle end grade gaming PC is to upgrade the processor and kick up the ram as high as it will go. My video card seems fine for the moment so I won't touch that as it runs at a 3.50 ghz so that's pretty good. I might just for price wise for the moment just buy the Ryzen 5 processor and kick the ram up to either a 16 or 32 gb ram. Throw in a Xbox One controller and I won't have to worry about a console till the PS5 comes out or just stick with the PC.

Was gonna setup my second Win7 backup computer and get Oblivion and Fallout 3 to work. Turns out, I can't. Not unless I get a dedicated graphics card. As of now I'm only using the motherboard. Guess that's why it couldn't even launch Oblivion...


Anyway, that computer now is my parents' backup computer because of that and the one I was gonna give them, namely this one I'm on, my first backup computer I've been on about, is now mine. Updated savefiles for both games and some bits and bobs regarding the internet.

Yeah most games like Oblivion are going to require either a dedicated graphics card or a souped up on board.

I dont know any newer games off the top of my head that will run on integrated graphics anymore.

but you go oblivion though on the one puter?

That was a botched up sentence if I ever saw one

I guess you mean works Oblivion on my first backup computer? Yes. Works nicely although a bit more RAM wouldn't kill it.

Im on my phone and autocorrect hates me, but yes.

Good you got it running at least.

Yes, both Oblivion and Fallout 3 work as they should with the only downside being a tiny bit of lag. The computer is one of those small boxes (not custom built) but I will try and have my computer guy install more RAM at some point if it's doable.

Can't wait for my house to be paid off, first chance I get to fully use my paycheck I'm getting this puppy here and my PC will become a decent gaming rig .

Looks like a good card there

Getting RAM for a pc that old, new, might be a challenge, bird. And I'm not sure I'd trust used parts.

And reaps, that's just a tiny step over my card. Basically 2 gigs more RAM and I think a bit higher clock speed.

Wasn't worth the extra to me.

Now I've got a guildmate running a 2080Ti....

One thing I can say about my PC, it can play World of Warcraft at max settings perfectly .

"That old?" It has PCI, not AGP!


And I wouldn't get an old card. My worries are the case might be problematic to open. Haven't checked. Also space.

Yeah minell run on ultra but I just haven't been bothered to try it. I currently run a custom graphics setting but I haven't changed it yet.

And bird, by old, I'm insinuating the RAM might be different somehow. Like, I buy a stick of 3200 speed in my old pc I had when oblivion came out, it wouldn't work.

They live making stuff that doesn't fit in older hardware....

Oh you're talking about just the graphics card? I'm not sure if put anything new in there... maybe try to find a 1060 or something. Perfectly good card. Space might be a concern though, mine was huge.

No, I was talking about RAM. And I guess you might be right about the fitting, which is why I'll have my tech guy have a looksie at some point.

Yeah I'd have them look at it. You might need something not made anymore but hopefully they can fix you up good.

More RAM would indeed be nice but not mandatory. Gaming and browsing needs to be a bit slower compared to my main computer since it otherwise slows down significally by itself. But in a pinch I could live with it and quite well in fact. I just wonder if it's bad that the AC adapter gets hot enough to cook eggs on it

That's probably a bad thing lol.

Well can't do much about it, can I?


Edit: Old youtube layout extension on Firefox stopped working AGAIN. I don't know what's up with this? There are many addons available but none works anymore except one I managed to find. If only they could stop not working!

Edit 2: And now that one stopped working too!!

Edit 3: And now it works again - what is going on??

Couldn't tell ya.

If its Ad Block issues I think YouTube is trying to implement ways of disabling it so people will buy their adless subscription service. I know my AdBlocker is giving me issue with it.

That wouldn't surprise me, reaps. At all.

It's annoying but I've tried most of the well known ad blockers on the net and even their customer support says they're having issues.

I don't have issues with blocking ads, only with the youtube layout. The extensions keep working/not working.

24 more hours till PC upgrade...The Hype is real!!!

Awesome

If all goes to plan I'll record a video my PC's performance . I guess I should record a before video for comparison but I'll have to use a camera for that, I think trying to capture photage might cause my PC to crash. Division 2 eats up ram like me and spaghetti.

Well---looks like it's back to console gaming for me, apparently I bought faulty memory cards and a processor. I'll be returning them back tomorrow and getting my money back and running over to CDR's for a new PS4 system

Waiting for the groceries to arrive . . .

For some time I’ve been nostalgic for TESIV Oblivion and TESV Skyrim. My not-so-new iMac has plenty of room for a Win10 partition, but I use it daily for things like ESO, mail, browsing and watching videos (Netflix, Acorn TV and TV+). I thought I would try Paralells to create a virtual Win10 machine to run Skyrim on the macOS.

Unfortunately, no matter what I tried, Skyrim did not play well in Parallels. If anything, it was WORSE then when I played it that way on my 2012 laptop back in the day. Even vanilla Skyrim had horrible freezing/stuttering that messed up my combat and destroyed any enjoyment I may derive from a trip down nostalgia lane.

During my investigations, I discovered that there is a downloadable version of Oblivion GOTY available for $15 from Beth. Hrrrm, it is very tempting - especially since getting an external DVD burner would cost me a minimum of $70 for the USB SuperDrive from Apple. I find it hard to justify that price for a single disc . . .

After evaluating my current storage situation on the iMac, I’ve decided to bite the bullet and reconfigure it with BootCamp and set aside 256 GB for Win10. Since I already purchased it for Parallels, might as well get my money’s worth out of it (why Microsoft is still charging for updates, when Apple stopped doing that over a decade ago - all macOS upgrades are FREE . . . Just beats the hell out of me).

I am still logging into ESO daily for writs and for research/mount training, but I think I will spend some time with Skyrim, and perhaps Oblivion (if I can find a decent mod list for it, such as I have for Skyrim).

Good luck with your gaming endeavours, guys!


Sorry it didn't work out for you, Reaps

Actually I manage to get my hands on an upgraded version of my PC. Details in the Everything Thread .

My server just bricked itself. There's a known issue with Atom motherboards in that series where the clock stops working, so the machine won't run at all, kind of like the A-Bomb bug. I didn't think mine was one of those affected until it did. Still, it lasted for quite a few years before it happened.

So ghastley.org is off the net until I get a new board and rebuild. No web site, no email. At least the network connection is independent of that.

Yikes! Sorry, ghastley. Sorry to hear that. If something like that happened to me I'd have to call. . . ghastley or SubRosa to help fix it!

It's possible I reported on this elsewhere, but just in case...

Upon receiving a new 'threat' notice from PhotoBucket, of a sort not seen before, I at long last deleted all images stored there and terminated my account. It breaks a ton of image links / embeddings, but the vast majority of those exist on long neglected / abandoned forum threads. My only real regrets are for my old Oblivion "Thoughts on A Second Play-Through" thread on the now defunct old Bethesda forums, and my long-neglected Minecraft Hill Fort / Autocracy of Decrepia thread at the official Minecraft Forums. There are a few more losses I might regret, but even I can no longer locate those ancient threads, so no big deal.

I saved all mine before getting rid of photobucket. I had some illicit wow screenshots hosted(basically I died and got lost corpse running and ended up in an area I wasn't supposed to be lol) but that was about it.

I look at screenshots from those days... ran at 600x800. Yeeeah....

Speaking of which, I unearthed several CDs of EQ1 guild group hunt screenshot compilations. Here's three of them. My character is the halfling warrior seen in two images:

Pic 1

Pic 2

Pic 3

Hehe old school eq!

Just posting another report on Firefox's old youtube layout extensions not working again.


I have no idea why it keeps doing this.


Edit: And now it works again! I don't even...!

Couldn't tell ya, I use YouTube default layout.

^ Same here. ^

Some PC oddness today. Firefox can't sign-in to my AT&T account today. I assumed it is an AT&T problem, until I launched Brave Browser and was able to log-in without issue. However, I can no longer log-in to YouTube with Brave. Research suggests (but doesn't prove) that this might be deliberate on Google's part, as Brave disables some of YouTube's ability to track/market what we watch. I can still watch YouTube videos, but I can't LIKE them or leave comments without being signed in. I remain logged in with Firefox.

As it stands now, I spend most of my time in Firefox, and launch Brave periodically to check email.

I get similar issues with downloading podcasts. I cannot download any episodes of Behind the Bastards from their Player FM site. But I have no problem downloading other podcast's episodes on Player FM. However, if I use Opera, I can download Behind the Bastards fine. Albeit a lot slower than normal. I also can't get to my Car Insurance's website with Firefox. But again, Opera works fine.

Amazingly, I paid the money. All my older pictures in those older stories are hosted through PB and it really annoyed me to see that PHOTOBUCKET logo across all of them. So yeah... sixty bucks a year I think it is.

Isn't the same thing going to happen eventually with imgur though? Won't they get to the point where they can't keep hosting zillions of images for free? I wonder how imgur gets away with it. It's not like they've got tons of ads.

I suspect so. My hope is that, like PB, imgur will phase in its evil capitalistic schemes over a multi-year period. If that's the case, there's a good chance that by the time its 'ultimatum' phase rolls out I'll no longer be around to worry about it. A benefit to being old and decrepit?

In other news, Firefox still can't Log In to my AT&T account. So long as Brave Browser remains Logged In I'm not going to lose sleep over it. (Oddly, I get no failure messages of any sort. The connecting indicator simply keeps 'circling' until I decide to close its browser tab.)

Aw don't say that Decrepit. Makes Renee sad.

Weird that you can't log in on one browser. Maybe it's an extension you have installed?

I wonder about that too. I've installed no new add-on in some time, though. On a hunch, I fired up my secondary PC yesterday, launched Firefox and attempted to log on to AT&T with it. Same results....nada. I also visited the support section of Mozilla's forums. No mention of my issue there. It may be nothing more than needing to clean out my browser cache, cookies, etc. I need to find a new utility program for that, my long reliable go-to for such maintenance, Ccleaner, now considered untrustworthy (after having been bought by the makers of Avast).