It seems to me that normal PCs without water cooling and without specifically modded gfx-card-fans are the vacuum cleaners among the home electronics, especially when playing a gfx heavy game. (Which it appears is pretty much every game that's released today :-)
I have been thinking that a gamin...
What steps do I need to do in order to connect my Xbox to Xbox Live through my laptop? I can connect them physically, but I also have a wireless adapter (if it's possible to create a bridge using the adapter as well).
The problem is that I am in an hotel for the next two months, forced to live o...
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How can I improve the performance of Minecraft?
I need to know ways to speed up Minecraft on my laptop. It is a new laptop with 4g RAM. I could play it with Generally no lag before the 1.0 update. Now I can't take a few steps on the lowest quality settings without l...
I'd like to play Super Mario World (SNES Mario) on my Macbook laptop using a controller that's somewhat similar to the SNES controller. What's the easiest way to do this (Software, controllers etc)?
@agent86 Yeah that is what worries me.. But the Arma 2 key binds SUCK. @fbueckert Arma 2 supports this and it would be much easier in theory to glance at the zombies about to eat me rather than taking my hand off the mouse or adding in the alt key to keys I am holding down :D
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How can I improve the performance of Minecraft?
I need to know ways to speed up Minecraft on my laptop. It is a new laptop with 4g RAM. I could play it with Generally no lag before the 1.0 update. Now I can't take a few steps on the lowest quality settings without l...
@fbueckert I do not think that would be that big of an issue really.. Cause if I am going to look away it wont matter if my character looks elsewhere :D
I have 3 monitors, and I could potentially use this with the conjoined resolution... but so far I have not
Sounds about right. Generally, a good fit would be a full rack of rails, afterburner and cap rechargers in the mids. armor plate (400?) plus damage specific resists in the low and maybe a magnetic field stab or two if you can fit one.
Ugh. I had a great ship in FTL. Fully upgraded weapons with a 5 shot cannon, a 3 shot cannon, and a 3 damage missile. Teleporter. Increased shield and cannon regen
I went through the questions which had technical-issues added to them due to the merge badp made, and have removed it where required. There were a few I wasn't sure what to do with, so I've posted them below. Feel free to re-tag them if you have any ideas on appropriate tags.
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I would like to play with StarCraft 2 on my MacBook Pro but I often (bad habit) use my laptop sitting on the couch where Mouse is not an option.
Do you think I could be able to fully enjoy StarCraft just using the MBP touchpad?
The one downside is that with those weapons, it took forever to get my first volley off. would have been very nice if I also had the upgrade that fully charges your guns when you warp in
Had like 40 missiles stockpiled too! I was certain I was going to beat the game on normal. Alas!
@Wipqozn Edit, Remove the "Do you think I would like it" and reword it to some wording more around is it possible to beat the computer on hard or what not.
@Jin Haha. That's a good question. I had the good luck to start the game around the same time as some other friends, so I had people to fly with from the start.
Can not tell if he/she would like it or not, but information given on how to compensate for having to use a trackpad instead of a mouse seems like good information to me.
@Sterno I saw that the other day, That right there would make you very unstoppable through most of the system.. My first volleys almost always disable their weapons
@James the falcon was somewhat similar "3d orientation" tech, although it used your hand instead of tracking your head. mostly what I found was that it was uncomfortable to use, weird as a control input, and not really well supported. it was mostly a headache
@Jin Probably the best noob corp that you can join in the game would be Eve University. They will accept anybody and will help you out with the basic game mechanics that you'll need to learn to play the game, as well as giving you some like SP'd people to fly with
@James: The top answer is just "use the keyboard", which is general SC2 policy. It doesn't contain any additional details about how to use a trackpad over a mouse.
@agent86 Yeah I have seen Track IR a few times and this one seems to have been going through better and better revisions... I am just not sure I buy that hype so I would like someone who has actually had one let me know what it does
I would try to recruit you to our corp, but we're not exactly noob-friendly. We're pretty much PVP only these days which is hard for a player who's still trying to build his bank roll. lol
If you're playing SC2 and not using the keyboard you're doing something wrong. IT has nothing to do with whether or not you're playing with a trackpad.
@Wipqozn Maybe a better answer would then be that using the keyboard is the main area of use in Starcraft 2 and that while a mouse is certainly easier it is not crippling to game play?
I am currently leveling as shadow spec as it's trivial enough to both heal and have the damage add in instances and solo questing below level 30 with shadow. Ultimately, I want to focus on healing, and having the most possible throughput for keeping a group alive via heals/defensive spells in the...
As I've got more into the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer and experimented with various different characters and powers I've noticed that many powers evolution trees often include choices between damage and radius/range.
Grenades are a good example of this but also lots of the biotic and tech powers s...
I dunno.. I am not a huge Blizzard RTS fan ( too much micro management ) so I am not a great judge on the info.. It just seems like a question that either people have gotten behind and backed or have found useful.. and I hate seeing anything useful vanishing.
I think the question should just be closed, and the user instructed to ask a new question along the lines of "How do you compensate for the lack of precision with a trackpad versus a mousE?" or something along those lines.
This is why closing fast is important. Once users have already posted answers it's a lot harder to rewrite the question.
@fbueckert Ah.. Head tracking in this case does just turn your head in game.. You are left moving the same way you were previously... not where you are now looking.
This is literally just for looking around, not for aiming/direction etc.
ie: glance at the zombie to see if i am far enough away to duck behind a wall and sneak off.
@James I've just found from history that most of these alternative controllers are too gimmicky to be useful, but your experience might be different, who knows :P
@fbueckert Just keys is all.. To run away from a zombie successfully I can be hitting anywhere from 1 to 4 buttons depending on what state it caught me in.. To look around either requires me taking my hand off my mouse to use the num pad, or hitting the left alt key and then using the mouse to look around.
In Thundermar when you enter a certain basement you get the warning message "You have a bad feeling about this basement...". Inside there is a spider, which is definitely not a threat to anyone who happens to be there.
What's the point? Am I missing something? Is that some sort of tribute to som...
@James Gust games tend to include an "Alchemy" system, where you gather ingredients on your journey. These ingredients can be combined in order to develop new items, and weapons.
@fbueckert Kewl, I will have to take a peak at them.. I have to say I keep hoping to find an Asheron's Call 1 crafting type system taken up by other games.
Blugh, I thought that StackOverflow meta was supposed to not be used for questions about the network anymore, but the StackExchange meta redirects to MSO...
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Where can I find lots of petty creatures to charge my soul gems?
So i have been enchanting a lot recently and have discovered Souls can no longer be stolen from Summoned creatures which is how i did it in oblivion. so is there another easy way to get a lot of low le...
Currently, Ask Ubuntu is swamped by a lot of poor tags that just refuse to go away. The efforts to get rid of them by both the community and the moderators by manual retagging just doesn't cut it enough. As we try to eradicate them, they keep coming back. This drains the energy of the community m...
@Alok I'm not sure that's an actual event, you're talking about the one where the guy's dying outside of the cave and there's a purple Desert Dervish inside getting attacked by the Coven? There's a lift in the middle that has a chest which never seems to give you anything useful.
I understand that secret achievements don't show up in Game Center if you haven't received them. Jelly Defence has 25 achievements, but only 21 are showing up for me right now. Unlike Xbox achievements, I have not been able to find any websites that list all Game Center achievements on the Intern...
This is the only answer I could find. Is this limited to just seeing the real name?
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5051975802
Also, why do my friends keep asking for my realid? Are there any added benefits?
@fbueckert You could not craft New items but you could salvage existing ones to materials to improve items.. So you would still hunt for the 'best' weapons but then you would also salvage materials in order to make them better :)
@GnomeSlicE it's a crowdsource site, where people can post a design job, and 100s of designers submit their entry. only one winner gets paid, the others get 0.
@Jin I don't think that that's a terrible idea to have around, it's good experience for newer designers, for example, but I agree that it's not a great way to approach serious design work. What happens to the losing designs?
@GnomeSlicE it gives people the impression that design work is cheap.
but to be fair, I'm not too too strongly against it. your typical mom 'n pop store owners won't have thousands to dump on a logo design or site design. so $500 is a lot more reasonable for them.
@Jin Exactly, and this sort of thing is good for less experienced designers (like me). You get a change to design something for a specific topic, even if you don't win.
I know that the main world in Minecraft for XBox is limited to 1024 x 1024. I have heard that the Nether in this version has a permanent wall of bedrock around it, so it also has a fixed size. But how big is it?
Also, if the Nether is 1024x1024, how does the faster travel work? For example on PC...
@fbueckert he found those exploits. he also lvled legitimately in softcore. he really knows this game well, and i think his points are valid.
I like D3 a lot, I think it's a great game. I'd recommend it for any casual gamers. But, for it to be a long lasting game like D2 was, it's not too well designed.
@fbueckert well, by loots i meant half decent loots. AH/RMAH is the only way most people can better gear their chars. If I farm A3/A4 as a DH, facing possibly high repair bills, and seeing lvl51 rares.. that's discouraging.
also as Kripp pointed out, getting better gear isn't the thing to do. after all, what's the point of it? better gear makes farming for even better gear easier? there needs to be something else. like a ladder system etc
Yeah, that's the worst part. I can stand getting bad loot, but getting loot that's bad because it could never have been good in the first place is a bit annoying. Hasn't really taken the wind out of my sails though, especially since I'm not through Inferno.
@fbueckert there hasn't been a lot of hacking going on in D3 yet, thanks to online only play. if anything, people can stack their gear if they're popular, like athene 'n kripp did
@Jin Yeah. The point I'm attempting to make (and probably doing so badly), is that if you use exploits to reduce the challenge, your complaints or suggestions on what needs to be done is moot.
@fbueckert actually I disagree. if you follow his stream, you'd know he's extremely skilled, and he REALLY knows d3 inside 'n out. that's why he finds exploits, and publicize them right away so blizz can fix them.
it'd be like a hacker, hacked into a bank system, and tells the bank what to do to fix it
@fbueckert he's talking about powers gamers, the type of players who would love to play this game for years like they did with D2, are having nothing to do right now.
those are the type of people whom blizz want to stick around, seed the RMAH, etc.
@fbueckert I think the problem is 1) people had too much expectation for D3, based on D2 2) people want D3 to be WoW
there are some unrealistic expectations from players for sure. but you'd think a company like Blizzard, who made D2 and WoW would strike a balance for D3, in terms of the content longevity and AH.
@ickleislands right I was aware of that. but still, I'd expect someone at blizz would be like "hmmm what made d2 so successful? what grind factors kept people around for years? let's keep all that 'n add more blings"
it'd be different if D3 was more social. I played WoW because I used it as a social hangout place, long after I lost interest in the game. D3 doesn't have that side..
Is there a recommended follower to use for each difficulty level? I completed Normal difficulty just fine with my Wizard class w/ my Templar follower. He seems to be doing alright through Nightmare mode. Should I stick with him or is one suited better for each difficulty?
@GnomeSlicE I'm aware. we use the same logo.png for chat onebox and on the main site. i'll have to see if I can tweak the logo without impacting the main site..
@Jin I know you have way more experience than me, but here's an idea anyway. That site has a solid colour header behind the logo (#24629f). Why not just put a thin border around the text in that colour?
Trying to run FlightGear 2.6 from PlayDeb on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32bits, I get this error every time :
fgfs: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libsgtsync.so.2.6.0: undefined symbol: svn_subr_version
Thanks for help.
For some reason my browser at work displays the Heart when there are new messages, but it doesn't do it here at home. My browser must just have the logo cached or sometihng.
@Wipqozn You don't have Yi Jiang's favicon script installed do you? (cc: @YiJiang - The data url probably needs to be updated in that script, I imagine)
@GnomeSlicE Not exactly, it changes the favicon when there are new messages so that you can pin the tab and still see that there's new stuff (since all chat does natively is update the page title with a number, which you can't see on pinned tabs). But it still uses the Heart logo, I think...
I know Zaeed is supposed to show up during Citadel: Volus Ambassador mission. But I've had several playthroughs and he's never shown up. Is this a glitch or something? Any ideas how to fix this? I'm playing on Xbox 360.
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How can I improve the performance of Minecraft?
I need to know ways to speed up Minecraft on my laptop. It is a new laptop with 4g RAM. I could play it with Generally no lag before the 1.0 update. Now I can't take a few steps on the lowest quality settings without l...
I'd like to play Super Mario World (SNES Mario) on my Macbook laptop using a controller that's somewhat similar to the SNES controller. What's the easiest way to do this (Software, controllers etc)?
I would like to play with StarCraft 2 on my MacBook Pro but I often (bad habit) use my laptop sitting on the couch where Mouse is not an option.
Do you think I could be able to fully enjoy StarCraft just using the MBP touchpad?
When the word "crafting" is used in games, what does it generally mean?
Possible Duplicate:
Where can I find lots of petty creatures to charge my soul gems?
So i have been enchanting a lot recently and have discovered Souls can no longer be stolen from Summoned creatures which is how i did it in oblivion. so is there another easy way to get a lot of low le...
This is the only answer I could find. Is this limited to just seeing the real name?
https://us.battle.net/d3/en/forum/topic/5051975802
Also, why do my friends keep asking for my realid? Are there any added benefits?
Is there a recommended follower to use for each difficulty level? I completed Normal difficulty just fine with my Wizard class w/ my Templar follower. He seems to be doing alright through Nightmare mode. Should I stick with him or is one suited better for each difficulty?
Trying to run FlightGear 2.6 from PlayDeb on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32bits, I get this error every time :
fgfs: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libsgtsync.so.2.6.0: undefined symbol: svn_subr_version
Thanks for help.
I know Zaeed is supposed to show up during Citadel: Volus Ambassador mission. But I've had several playthroughs and he's never shown up. Is this a glitch or something? Any ideas how to fix this? I'm playing on Xbox 360.
