Comments on: MMOtivationally Challenged: Part 1

By: Tesh

Tesh — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:08:00 +0000

Aye, I’ve often thought that the whole “I play with other people, so *my* immersion is *so much better*” argument is bunk. Even the WoW DK starting area seems more alive than many of the cities, and it’s all because the NPCs *are* doing their own thing. (Playing their roles better than the players, as it were.)

If anything, other players screw up immersion with their constant chatter and spam.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:19:05 +0000

@SmakenDahed: No pants here. Hey! I feel a guild name in the making: The Pantless Bandits! Or something.

No, I bought the 4890 after getting all excited reading Openedge’s stuff a month or so ago. Then instead of waiting I thought I’d pop it into my current box just to see the performance difference. I’m thinking I must have not grounded myself — I’m usually very careful about that — and, for lack of a better term pre-coffee, “shorted” something RAM-related. Random apps crash. Sometimes the system thinks there’s a hard drive error during book so it runs CHKDSK. If an app crashes one time, I can usually reboot a time or two and it will work fine, but something else will crash. So, I apparently damaged some hardware somewhere. Whatever. I guess it was time for a new box, I just didn’t want to build one til November but I guess it’ll be a month sooner.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:59:26 +0000

Are the games crashing or is the system rebooting?

If the system is rebooting, you might have a cooling issue – dead fan or something.

Have you checked that all the hardware bits are in tight? Something could be lose, but if it’s happening whenever you fire up a game I’m going to bet it’s video card related.

Drivers updated?

Are you wearing pants? I hear wearing pants is the number one reason for games crashing. They generate too much static as you shift around in your chair and stuff like that.

Down with pants!