Personal computing discussed
JohnC wrote:ArmA2 was like $15 recently as an Amazon download...
Edit: hmm, looks like they have increased the price very recently, probably because of all DayZ players...
drfish wrote:No posts in nearly a year... No one else on TR playing this? I've been playing again lately and really enjoying it. Even if I'm pretty much going solo after Sheldmaus ditched me for more skilled companions. Right now I'm stuck way up north on the map with no matches so I just run around killing wild boars and eating raw bacon until my health is high enough to risk going back into more populated areas to search for loot. Sounds a little strange I know, but I still haven't had more fun in an FPS in, well, maybe ever...
Day Z was one of the main reasons I ditched my 5870s for my shiny new GTX 780 and whoa what an improvement! I've got everything maxed except for post processing which I intentionally turned off because if I wanted everything to look fuzzy I would just take my glasses off and not have to deal with the framerate penalty. Now I'm thinking about completing the upgrade by finally getting a decent set of surround sound headphones. I'm eyeing the Corsair Vengeance 1500s but since those are virtual surround I should probably see if my sound card can teach my current set any new tricks first...
But anyway, Day Z - surely someone else here has played it since the last post in this thread...?
Forge wrote:All this talk is making me think I should smuggle a machine into work and start up an unofficial tr dayz server. Anybody have any info? Free dedicated server available? Bandwidth/CPU/ram needs?
I've got an i5 2400 with 32GB of ram but no real GPU at work already, would just have to hook it up and set it up.
Forge wrote:Well, I guess that ends that. That seems to be a very excessive amount of restriction for a mod, no real adminning, no reserved slots, no deviation from the "official" naming convention, can't even ban cheaters??? Sorry, but interest went from high to zero on reading that last part. I'd rather run a curated, passworded, private server and be "blacklisted (so what, the cheaters won't come??) Than follow those community rules, quote unquote.
Utter nonsense.
Forge wrote:Thanks for the links, John. I have to ponder. I see the appeal of the fully hands-off stock experience, but I wouldn't tolerate some simian from the internet coming on and griefing all the TR people with aimbots/noclip/itemspawn/etc.