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[Labadal]

****ing great. I will miss out on the KOTOR deal. Payment doesn't work with debit card. Tried paypal and that doesn't work either. Had no trouble during Christmas sale.

 

[Blu10]

Has anybody had any issues with the games they have picked up during the summer sale not starting at all, specifically Hamiltons's great adventure, and guardians of graxia? When I click the play button it says "preparing to launch ___" and then nothing happens. All my other games seem to work fine.

 

[Toma]

Has anybody had any issues with the games they have picked up during the summer sale not starting at all, specifically Hamiltons's great adventure, and guardians of graxia? When I click the play button it says "preparing to launch ___" and then nothing happens. All my other games seem to work fine.

W7, 64 bit? Quite a few games having issues with that. Dwarfs!? is another offender.

I heard of a few people having problems with Hamilton already, GoG is new to me though. Shame, I considered picking it up.

 

[Bucket-o-roadkill]

No some devs grew balls and cut off people clinging to a 10 year old OS in the name of graphical progress. You are the reason we never get DX10/11 support.

I have no idea what his excuse is but I'm still on XP because when I went onto 7, games that were silky smooth before were stuttering messes. I'd love to make the step over to 7 and enjoy all the benefits but until I can find out whats causing games to intermittently stutter every second there's no way I'm leaving XP.

 

[Stallion Free]

****ing great. I will miss out on the KOTOR deal. Payment doesn't work with debit card. Tried paypal and that doesn't work either. Had no trouble during Christmas sale.

If you PM me your email I'll gift it to you no strings attached.

Because the PC version is so goddamn superior.

I have no idea what his excuse is but I'm still on XP because when I went onto 7, games that were silky smooth before were stuttering messes. I'd love to make the step over to 7 and enjoy all the benefits but until I can find out whats causing games to intermittently stutter every second there's no way I'm leaving XP.

Yeah, that's not 7. That is an issue unique to your setup.

 

[someguyinahat]

What's Just Cause 1 like for 3.50?

Combat feels fine, no complaints about the graphics except you need a mod to play in widescreen, the storyline is about what you expect (brainless action movie level,) the storyline missions are okay, but the sidequest missions (liberations) get repetitive FAST considering they're all virtually identical. Overall, I thought it was okay but it didn't make me want to rush out and get the sequel.

Is it worth $3.50? I'm inclined to say yes.

 

[BY2K]

I have no idea what his excuse is but I'm still on XP because when I went onto 7, games that were silky smooth before were stuttering messes. I'd love to make the step over to 7 and enjoy all the benefits but until I can find out whats causing games to intermittently stutter every second there's no way I'm leaving XP.

I want to switch to 7, trust me. (I have a Direct X11 card, for crying out loud.) But I want to upgrade my PC first and until I have the money, I can't.

 

[wilflare]

To make resisting SpaceChem a bit harder, download the free demo and give it a shot.

If you are confused, read the end of this post. I wrote up a small tutorial for you guys:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=29016781&postcount=4501

i tried the demo..
i see its magic..
but but but

 

[Blu10]

W7, 64 bit? Quite a few games having issues with that. Dwarfs!? is another offender.

I heard of a few people having problems with Hamilton already, GoG is new to me though. Shame, I considered picking it up.

Yeah W7 . Perhaps this was just a lesson I needed to learn. Checked out GoG forum on steam and there are quite a few people who have the same issue. Note to self, check forums before buying a game.

 

[Bucket-o-roadkill]

I want to switch to 7, trust me. But I want to upgrade my PC first and until I have the money, I can't.

I hope you have a better experience than I did switching to 7. And yeah make sure you've got some cash handy, I ended up splashing out on 8gb ram, a faster HDD and even another PSU to try and sort this stuttering issue, in the end I just reverted back to XP. Pisses me off just thinking about it.

 

[Toma]

Yeah W7 . Perhaps this was just a lesson I needed to learn. Checked out GoG forum on steam and there are quite a few people who have the same issue. Note to self, check forums before buying a game.

Which is also nicely fitting for the debate regarding XP and W7. One has the "superior" operating system, the others can play all their games.

 

[The_Player]

X3: Terrain Conflict
Eschalon: Book 2
SpaceChem

BOUGHT.

 

[Ramma2]

Borderlands finally finished downloading last night, looks like it might run pretty good on my PC.

Also I'm going to be at a water park when the new deals hit... I want to bring my laptop with!!!

 

[Blu10]

Which is also nicely fitting for the debate regarding XP and W7. One has the "superior" operating system, the others can play all their games.

Yep, just bought this computer... loved XP on my old pc, but it couldn't play any games. Finally upgraded to play witcher 2 (which ran quite well), but I can't play some indy games :'(

 

[Red]

Is it not possible for you guys to dual boot XP and 7? That way you get the advantages of DX10 and 11 without sacrificing a fall back in case something goes wrong. Personally I've never had a single issue with running a game in W7 outside of The Longest Journey. And even then it ran, just with graphical issues.

 

[Weenerz]

Can't say I've had an issue running anything with my Windows 7 64bit machine.

 

[Marsipolami]

You can just make a separate category for The Sims games and minimize it. You only need some way to run the Sims3LauncherW.exe (or TS3W.exe if you want to skip the launcher) in the base game "Game\Bin" folder to run the game no matter what expansions you've installed.

Yes, but $80 bucks for 1 game is a no-go, therefore it would've been nice to get Sims 3 cheap.

 

[InfectedZero]

Is it not possible for you guys to dual boot XP and 7? That way you get the advantages of DX10 and 11 without sacrificing a fall back in case something goes wrong. Personally I've never had a single issue with running a game in W7 outside of The Longest Journey. And even then it ran, just with graphical issues.

Can't you just use boot options as admin to run as XP?

 

[Eric WK]

Hope nobody took my Crysis and Dirt 3 wishful thinking last night as gospel or anything. Crossing my fingers, though!

 

[Red]

Can't you just use boot options as admin to run as XP?

Not sure what you're saying. That W7 has an XP mode built in? There's a compatibility mode that's provided itself useful in rare instances, and there's always the ability to run a virtual machine with XP on it. But launching W7 as XP? Never heard of that.

 

[Marsipolami]

Which is also nicely fitting for the debate regarding XP and W7. One has the "superior" operating system, the others can play all their games.

Not really. Just Cause 2 and Hamilton's Great Adventure amongst others are Win7 only.

 

[Toma]

Not sure what you're saying. That W7 has an XP mode built in? There's a compatibility mode that's provided itself useful in rare instances, and there's always the ability to run a virtual machine with XP on it. But launching W7 as XP? Never heard of that.

Maybe he is talking of the right click "run in win xp compatibility mode" feature. Which doesnt work for these problems either, for whatever reason.

Not really. Just Cause 2 and Hamilton's Great Adventure amongst others are Win7 only.

Yeah its not like every machine has those problems, but there are definitely more problems on W7 64 bit machines overall, I'd argue its a compatibility issue regarding some kind of configuration.

 

[StuBurns]

I have Crysis, but a Warhead sale I'd bite on. Come on EA, love Steam as it loves you.

 

[Labadal]

Stallion Free is a gentleman.

 

[InfectedZero]

Not sure what you're saying. That W7 has an XP mode built in? There's a compatibility mode that's provided itself useful in rare instances, and there's always the ability to run a virtual machine with XP on it. But launching W7 as XP? Never heard of that.

Sorry I said it wrong, and yes the compatibility mode.

 

[Void Insanity]

Not really. Just Cause 2 and Hamilton's Great Adventure amongst others are Win7 only.

Not true. Just Cause 2 and HGA will run on windows XP, you just need the DX10 patch for windows XP. The only thing that will not run on XP is DX11 only games of which there are currently none.

 

[masterkajo]

Just played the demo of SpaceChem! Holy *** that games is good. First buy for me for today!

 

[The Technomancer]

How can I make the game look like that?
Is there a high resolution texture mod for it?

I too would like to know if this is the mod in the OP of that Vampire thread or if there's a different mod to be running to make it look this good.

 

[Jzero]

I want to switch to 7, trust me. (I have a Direct X11 card, for crying out loud.) But I want to upgrade my PC first and until I have the money, I can't.

Dude i have a piece of shit pc and i still upgraded to 7, the thing i did though is bought a new hard drive so that when i do upgrade the other components i could use the same one.

 

[Stallion Free]

I too would like to know if this is the mod in the OP of that Vampire thread or if there's a different mod to be running to make it look this good.

I do believe that's just proper widescreen + AA.

 

[shanshan310]

*cries* what the hell Australia. GAF says Shogun 2 is $30.. I check on steam: reduced from $90 down to $53.

 

[Bucket-o-roadkill]

Is it not possible for you guys to dual boot XP and 7? That way you get the advantages of DX10 and 11 without sacrificing a fall back in case something goes wrong. Personally I've never had a single issue with running a game in W7 outside of The Longest Journey. And even then it ran, just with graphical issues.

I have debated doing that in the past but was worried that running a dual boot could create issues for the entire system if either installation of Windows got botched somehow (virus, etc).

However I have another Samsung F3 HDD coming on Monday and I'm seriously tempted to take all my old HDD's out, putting 7 on it, and then putting all the disks back in and just selecting the HDD priority within the bios whenever I want to switch (I have a mate who does this, it successfully seems to keep the installations totally independant from eachother, keeping 7 and XP from being linked together at all).

 

[gtvdave]

For those who are undecided about Just Cause 2:

 

[Bucket-o-roadkill]

Not true. Just Cause 2 and HGA will run on windows XP, you just need the DX10 patch for windows XP. The only thing that will not run on XP is DX11 only games of which there are currently none.

Hmmmm Ok, I'm interested. Please tell me more...

 

[HBroward]

People who want Shogun 2 may have a better time looking at retailers. I got the limited edition from Newegg last month for the same price as the daily deal. I'm sure there are even cheaper copies out there.

Edit: If anyone was unaware, it is a Steamworks game, and registers on Steam no matter where you purchase it.

 

[Red]

I have debated doing that in the past but was worried that running a dual boot could create issues for the total system if either installation of Windows got botched somehow (virus, etc).

However I have another Samsung F3 HDD coming on Monday and I'm seriously tempted to take all my old HDD's out, putting 7 on it, and then putting all the disks back in and just selecting the HDD priority within the bios whenever I want to switch (I have a mate who does this, it successfully seems to keep the installations totally independant from eachother, keeping 7 and XP from being linked together at all).

This is what I do. I launch W7 from an SSD, OS X off a 2TB drive, and Linux from a 320GB drive.

I don't think you'd ever have a problem with viruses cross-contaminating your OS installs though. Even if they are on the same drive they are independent. The reason I use different drives is to have my data across multiple places, in case one fails or a partitioning error wipes my info for a neighboring OS.

Also I nearly always run into MBR disasters whenever installing multiples OSes on a single drive. Windows on Windows isn't as bad, but get a Unix OS next to a Windows one and problems start to crop up. There's always way to fix it, but I'd rather boot right off a drive instead of worrying about a boot system I'm not always in full control of.

 

[Minsc]

How can I make the game look like that?
Is there a high resolution texture mod for it?

That's just how it normally looks. Above's a couple more screens from the beginning I took last year, using nothing but the UOP. There's much better screenshot material later in the game too, I need to play through it again.

 

[Sanic]

I'm still holding out for indie bundles, but it's looking unlikely.

They'll probably just continue doing daily deals for the popular ones. I guess it was too much to hope for another 5 for $5 or even 5 for $10.

 

[S. L.]

ok spacechem is pretty fun, my first a tad more complex and highly inefficient factory

 

[Yaska]

For those who are undecided about Just Cause 2:

Just Cause 2 is awesome sandbox. Love flying around in fighter jets shooting everything I can

 

[Bucket-o-roadkill]

Just Cause 2 is one of those games which make me sick. Seriously, I feel ill while playing it, motion sickness or something. I get it with all COD games too. It really sucks, I loved the first Just Cause, got the 2nd one last year on 360 and have barely played it. Same happened with Batman AA. Really need to stock up and travel sickness tablets and get on these games.

 

[Sportbilly]

X3: Terrain Conflict
Eschalon: Book 2
SpaceChem

BOUGHT.

Oooh, I didn't realise Eschalon was on sale. Is the first episode also worth buying?

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

I do believe that's just proper widescreen + AA.

That's just how it normally looks. Above's a couple more screens from the beginning I took last year, using nothing but the UOP. There's much better screenshot material later in the game too, I need to play through it again.

Wow! looks as it had a new texture pack or something, did the game looked like that when it was released?

 

[TetraxShards]

Damage so far:

Back to the Future
Oblivion
KOTOR

Still got some money left. Bring on the deals!

 

[falconzss]

I'm running a 4 year old Macbook Pro 2,33 Ghz/2Gb Ram/X1600 256Mb so yeah it's already quite old but it would still shock me if it can't handle Puzzle Agent 2.
Damn i am just giving it a try now and report back.

Quoting myself here but yeah it's working just fine. I really don't trust those system requirements on steam anymore.

 

[Talyn]

Not true. Just Cause 2 and HGA will run on windows XP, you just need the DX10 patch for windows XP. The only thing that will not run on XP is DX11 only games of which there are currently none.

Tell us more about this patch. I'm still running XP (although I have a Win 7 upgrade disc I've never used due to laziness) and this is the only thing preventing me from buying Just Cause 2.

 

[The_Player]

Oooh, I didn't realise Eschalon was on sale. Is the first episode also worth buying?

It's very cheap, so you can take it as well, if you wish to know the beginning of the story. But, from my point of view, second part in all the ways better.

 

[Stallion Free]

Wow! looks as it had a new texture pack or something, did the game looked like that when it was released?

If you forced widescreen and AA, yes.

 

[TheNamelessOne]

A little more than two hours to go before the next deals. What are your predictions/hopes for todays sales?

Mine:
Portal 2 (must be someday)
Frozen Synapse
Brink
BF:BC2 (always on sale)

 

[Mimir]

Has anybody had any issues with the games they have picked up during the summer sale not starting at all, specifically Hamiltons's great adventure, and guardians of graxia? When I click the play button it says "preparing to launch ___" and then nothing happens. All my other games seem to work fine.

I had the same problem with Hamilton, but restarting Steam fixed it for me.