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It is the most excited I’ve been about a project in years. May be worth looking into more π
Found the solution if you want to see what happens. I’d be a little surprised if it builds out of the box, though.
Will look at sending him a note. π
Nope. Should I?
May also be the FPS. I’m hitting a steady 100 FPS with everything maxed out and Gamebryo has some issues above 60, as we know. Most of the tools that were used to cap it in the past have been abandoned. Will need to do some digging since Radeon’s driver settings don’t provide a method to do it. May also help quiet down the fans a bit π
Thanks, will try those. I’m a little surprised that it can’t be done per application in Radeon Settings. Still better than changing the refresh rate to 60 Hz. π
Failing all this, I could just wait until Microsoft has them release a remastered version in ten or so years. Microsoft likes their remasters. They did two remasters for Age of Mythology! π
Just curious, from the other thread, does PrgLnch help any with the monitors? Using the Lnchpad isn’t a bad idea as suggested at NexusMods listing, of course PrgLnch has its own LAA facility. π
Edit: Also check OS compatibility, might go better in W7 mode, for instance.
Haven’t been with Lycos.com for a while now, it’s quite nice, and Tripod still offers web publishing. Signed up to htmlGear in 2002, retired some years later, the 404 page suggests Tripod, naturally. π
Looking over some other old accounts, signed up to Sourceforge in 2003, believe it or not. π
Couple of other items of interest, editing the thumbs.db as per this helped, but you still had to twiddle some of the other options before they bin.
Besides a caveat or three, the Win + P can be useful with windows lost in monitors. π
That was around 2016 or so? Something like that. Unfortunately, I no longer have the space for several screens π The fix was to move the HUD to the center monitor and adjust the FOV in the INI file. The issue was a sluggish UI that went away when only a single monitor was used. After making those adjustments, the game worked pretty normally. π
I think the LAA flag needs to be used like Skyrim with a wrapper but I haven’t looked into it yet. Will get there, though! Just been a tad slow lately π
Cool! Didn’t even realize that Angelfire was owned by them. They used to be abundantly but you don’t see may Angelfire sites anymore. Social media has mostly devoured the web π
You can also disable the generation of that file entirely! Just note that the policy editor doesn’t come with the basic versions of Windows. Wish it did as I use it to disable some of the other Windows annoyances.
LAA flag is just a setting for the linker in the 32 executable code, PrgLnch will set it for sure.
There was another site derived from GeoCities with numbers in the name, 777 or 888, Los Angeles? based, not listed as a free home page like these:
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Ah the nineties, this is a precis, the best websites, and all the things we miss.
Yeah, will try that soon. Just tried capping the frame rate in Adrenaline and it didn’t exactly go well. It caused a lot of lag, visual anomalies, and the game still crashed so I reset the setting back to the defaults. I may have to try switching the monitor’s refresh rate at some point. Assuming I don’t just give up and grab Fallout 4 first π
Sad to see that a lot of those have simply been taken over by other larger outfits and redirected to their homepages. Sometimes, the new outfit is in a completely different market. For instance, xoom now redirects to PayPal’s payment service. I posted about this years ago on the former site and in a few of the IRC channels I frequented, but Archive.org saved much of GeoCities before it went dark: https://blog.archive.org/2009/08/25/geocities-preserved/
Good lists! Fun fact, you can still explore Reddit in the old style and Craiglist hasn’t changed very much since then π
And, for those interested, Steam currently has the complete Wild Hunt edition for 10 USD. It’s tempting. Granted, I haven’t really played The Witcher games much. The first one felt strange in the animation department and the second felt weird on a keyboard and mouse.
I also found out that Beam.ng Drive has a learning mode on the ETK Testing map. π
Hogwarts Legacy is getting a huge update on January 30th that also includes modding tools. Why they mostly do annual updates is beyond me but at least we’re getting continual support!
NMS update just landed! It looks incredible!
Wonder if there’s the ability to run oldReddit on a premium account, for no other purpose than requiring the devs to maintain, tease and cajole it into a new shape of old! π
NMS is awesome, it’s an amazing revelation that in all these planetary views the nearby moons and planets loom so large. In reality, the tidal forces would be such that the peaceful pastoral landscape are instantly replaced with uber seismic activity, rampant volcanism, huge tidal waves and massive storms. In other words, the No Mans Sky is falling down!
Aw snap, out of the blue OneDrive had started to download everything as if everything got reset, or something. Luckily, “Free up space” in settings or right click stopped it, just took a few minutes to work it out. When performed in Settings, a potential downside is “Free up space” zapping local copies of everything on OneDrive, might be inconvenient if internet is down later.
Going through some of the old Github issues, noticed the GitHub issues for some of the MicrosoftDocs categories have been removed altogether. For instance, the following come up in the linked search:
MicrosoftDocs/cpp-docs Function Type: Typo?
MicrosoftDocs/windows-itpro-docs Easy Jump Link for Windows Home Subscribers
MicrosoftDocs/visualstudio-docs Totally unclear description
Interesting, ever since 2019 when removing Github issues got the green light, a few MicrosoftDocs categories yet remain for this user. Seems to be an increasing trend for the larger operators to move issues away from Github, for example, Reddit and even AutoHotkey. The wayback Machine has most of that stuff archived, best to search there by org or repo name, (don’t bother attempting to navigate from the front page. π ). Due to the 10,000 limit on results, a complete list of archived Github issues only pulls a paltry ~700 hits with the filter issues
applied.
According to this post, you can! You need to activate it in the settings on the old Reddit site, though. Weird π
The new update is gorgeous! Sure, we have giant planets all next door and smaller ones that haven’t been captured as moons. Not exactly accurate in terms of astrophysics but that’s okay!
In related news, X4: Foundations is currently 70% off. Never played the series but it’s been on my wish-list for a long time. May need to give it a whirl at some point.
I understand how it’s useful to have discussion elsewhere but having a list of issues and feature requests with the repositories is incredibly useful to help keep track of everything. It also helps tell users what to expect in terms of the present and future.
Logged on to the Final Fantasy forums after 8 years, there’s something funky about that install as performing any actions from saving stuff on your profile to navigating to another page gets one logged off! Very quiet now, there well may have been a first post for 2024, a final post in subsequent years may not be out of the question, and the fantasy of the assimilation of FF Forums into Wayback could turn out to be no more than an irksome reality. π
A little further back signed up with the Wrox forums regarding info on good programming books. Never made that post though, and a few years later it was death by a thousand spambots, bad luck packages like Cleantalk for vBulletin weren’t around then.
And the blech NewEgg account protection again, well meaning of course despite reviving for subscribers the ancient conundrum of Humpty Dumpty, and was he over protected? π
Yep, have had a couple of forums I visited do that. Always sad when they fade away π Even sadder when it happens during a lively discussion π
Looks like vBulletin has its own spam protection now. No idea how long its had it, though.
Never had that issue. I have had issues where they keep spamming me even though I keep telling them I want to be removed from the mailing list as I haven’t bought anything from them in well over a decade. They seem to put me back on the spam list every year or two for whatever reason. Pretty annoying π
On moving down to the South Coast around 2K joined up with this ISP and dropped them in 2007 for some reason, probably cost. The next provider was gotalk, and left them in 2010 as the service delivery dropped when they were taken over with focus more to mobile plans. Thus the provided email addresses also got nixed, these days it gets interesting when using one of those to sign in entities such as Scribd where upon there returns something like:
Check Your Email: To protect your account, we’ve sent a verification email to oldEmail@gone.com. Please click the link in that email to verify your identity. To learn more, please visit ourΒ FAQs.
Didn’t receive an email? Check your spam folder, or send again.
Not the correct email?Β Use a different email address
Not the correct email means signing up for a new account, so any info stored with the old one is lost, thus contacting them is the last resort, which by the looks of that page doesn’t help too much. What ever happened to webmaster or admin @suchandsuch.com?
History on the web is changing too, when Google stopped caching pages, there is now more encumbrance on IA than ever before. Did sign up with Furl way back, will anything like that come back again?
Also had an account with Shelfari, IIRC there never was a merging of accounts into Goodreads, understandable of course if there were millions of them.
In the past, sites used to be happy to merge accounts for you but very few do that now. It was nice being able to call customer service and explain the situation and get everything migrated.
Yep, really miss Google Cache. It was very handy, especially to grab a snapshot of a site when they were down for whatever reason. Nothing wrong with Archive.org but they don’t update their archive as often as Google’s bot crawls around the web on account of having much fewer resources.
There’s Pocket! The mobile version is hit or miss for me so I stopped using it ages ago as I like to save articles on one device and read them on another but it has always worked really well on the computer. Do note that to save a page that has gone offline requires a subscription, which I never signed up for. Also really miss StumbleUpon. Used to use the add-on all the time to get cool and random stuff. The Internet just isn’t the same these days. π
Ah, Pocket keep a cached copy of sites that have moved on, a costly exercise which explains it. Side-alley stuff like The Bored Hoard provides a refreshing alternative, here’s one:
Never used these sites personally, notwithstanding their marked improvement on the webrings of old. Always use search engines, and if something juicy crops up, yay. For bookmark management Raindrop.io looks tempting though, as the current state of the bookmarks here is shoddy at best, and somewhat outdated from lack of use.
Yeah, I find that the same stuff is mostly posted on Reddit. I don’t browse it very much as the atmosphere over on Reddit isn’t the best for me. Tried tuning the front page to my interests but Reddit keeps resetting them when I browse other communities so I’ve pretty much given up. I think I may try moving back to Feedly to try and get things. Will think on it some.
That one looks pretty good. Wiki has a small list of other services, too. One of these days, I need to go through and organize my bookmarks again. I last did it around 2019…. π
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