Post everytime that you buy a new game...

Disheveled DrFreeze · Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:57 am

cant wait for the Q4 demo... im very curious how my rig handles it, and how it is

could anyone with Q4 report back with what kind of copy protection it has? i dont feel like buying a 60 euro game and finding out it installs some fucked up driver on my system

mattcky666 · Post by **mattcky666** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:39 pm

sonic gems collection - ps2

Wagh · Post by **Wagh** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 1:49 pm

secure rom 7 is what quake 4 has. The damn thing freaks if you have something like d-tools open when you play it.

gRiMgRaVy014 · Post by **gRiMgRaVy014** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:49 pm

Virtua fighter 3 and evolution2 for my dc.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:20 pm

Purchased Age of Empires 3: Collector's Edition. Now to build my new computer to play it on. Can't wait...damn, I love this series too much.

Egotistical EvilN · Post by **Egotistical EvilN** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:29 pm

I hope they'll patch daemon tools soon to defeat securom 7.

Smurph · Post by **Smurph** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:04 pm

Soul Calibur - DC
Unreal Tournament - DC

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:35 pm

SF Anniversary Collection PS2
The Thing PS2

Post by **Roofus** » Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:40 pm

Indigo Prophecy

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:02 pm

Wagh wrote:secure rom 7 is what quake 4 has. The damn thing freaks if you have something like d-tools open when you play it.

I have D-Tools running on mine, and it never complained. So I dunno. Actually, I extremely suprised how well Quake 4 runs on my computer. I have a 2.4ghz P4 with a 6600GT, and this game on high settings runs twice as fast as Doom 3 did. I was actually quite amazed how well this game runs.

Nico0020 · Post by **Nico0020** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:24 pm

xbox - worms 3D.
and I finished paying off HL2 for xbox.

heh i dont know why this topic is so cool.

Dreamcast4life · Post by **Dreamcast4life** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:35 pm

Castlevania : Dawn of Sorrow - Nintendo DS
Ridge Racer DS - Nintendo DS
Mario 64 DS - Nintendo DS

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:46 pm

well, i broke down today and got Quake 4 collectors ed (for the shiney box and the Q2 exp packs...)

also got a amd 64 3400 clawhammer to replace my sempron 2600, quake should fly once i finish rebuilding my sys (tomorrow ill switch from CD-RW+DVD to a DVD-RW and a new case, do the cpu swap too i gues)

Post by **melancholy** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 9:53 pm

Picked up an Xbox 360 controller ($28) and THUG2 for PS2 ($5). The first thing I did with the controller is plug it into my Xbox through my homemade USB port, and although the controller lit up, it did not work.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:06 pm

Nick wrote:Purchased Age of Empires 3: Collector's Edition. Now to build my new computer to play it on. Can't wait...damn, I love this series too much.

Holy shit, now this is what I call a CE. The box must weigh three pounds. Literally packed with stuff.

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Fri Oct 21, 2005 10:42 pm

Sounds good nick, can't wait till it pops up here.

Quake 4 DVD Special Edition. Turns out I do meet minimum system requirements.

D-Roc · Post by **D-Roc** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:28 am

Picked these up at Blockbuster today for XBOX:
-Halo
-Ninja Gaiden

Disheveled DrFreeze · Post by **Disheveled DrFreeze** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 3:42 am

Skynet wrote: Quake 4 DVD Special Edition. Turns out I do meet minimum system requirements.

dude skynet, how about some Q4/Q2 when i get it all installed?

i bought the game yesterday, but today ill be going to a big PC shop, picking up some stuff, then swapping half my own system for new stuff and building my lil bro a system, so i probably wont be able to play yet today

but on the bright side, ill be getting a new case, a DVD-RW drive and a amd 3400 instead of my lowly sempron

also, Q4 is supposed to run a lot better then D3, so maybe those system req's are a bit OTT to make sure everyone gets absolutely fluent play...

Skynet · Post by **Skynet** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 4:14 am

Um, I can't exactly play it online. It ran like utter crap. It wasn't the ping, but my machine just wouldn't cope.

It runs about the same as D3 for me. I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much from my rig or I have some serious issues. But I struggle to play D3 and Q4 on 800x600 low quality. It runs, but it's not terribly smooth. 640x480 with AA on and it runs better, just bleh. I tried MP today on a server with about 60-70ping and it was unbarable. I'm talking 15fps or so (didn't have fps counter on, don't know how).

My setup:
Athlon XP2000+ (looking to upgrade)
Jetway 6600GT ** (was forced onto jetway as pc store sold me wrong product initially, and wouldn't refund cash. Only store credit)
512MB PC2700 RAM

**Some of you may remember the horror stories I had with buying my new graphics card. First they sold me what I wanted but at a more expensive price than advertised . Once my gf got it home because I was working and unable to pick it up, I looked at the box and saw it was PCI-E, totally useless to me. When I complain they sold me the wrong product, they claimed it was her fault even though I wrote everything down word-for-word so they wouldn't do something like this and I had my ass covered as what I wanted was clearly written down. A6600GT not the PCI-E version. Once I got them to take it back they would only give me store credit, what was I gonna do with $350+ store credit at a store I hate? In the end I got to take the cheaper brand (wooo?

) and have difference refunded in cash. So yeah, I'm still unimpressed with that mob.

For aussies, I've been reading into it and although I knew ITWarehouse were dodgy before I bought from them, I've been hearing worse and worse things. Their 3 previous encarnations of stores all went bankrupt, that's a good starting point isn't it? And I've also heard bad experiences with the 2 stores that screwed me over, also.

Sorry for long post.

Disheveled DrFreeze · Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:01 am

i remember the jetway horror story back then, but still a 6600GT is a good card

id say look into a second hand barton amd xp, unless your willing to make the jump to a64, and see if you can find a second stick of cheap ram, i think 1 gb will help it out nicely