December 25th, 2007
Long overdue update
October 20th, 2007Well, I got the new computer built back in August. I don’t have any benchmarks or anything like that, but this thing is blazing fast. It runs Battlefield 2, World War II Online: Battleground Europe, Company of Heroes, and Civ IV all without stutters or problems of any sort. Frame rates are amazing, compared to what they were before. On the old computer running a XFX 6800GT/256m on a PIV 2.53GHz CPU with 1GB of ram I would get maybe 20 - 30 FPS in Battleground Europe. Now I get anywhere from 35 to 205 FPS. Major improvement, though it’s not as stable as I would like. That has more to do with the game than my rig, though, I think. The lowest FPS is usually in highly populated battles, and usually when I’m also running Fraps or both accounts at the same time. And I can finally play Civ IV on a huge map with all 16 Civs at once. It does have a tendancy to pause for a few minutes after I click end turn after I’ve run the map for a few hours and have contacted all the other civs, but nothing like it used to be.
Now all I need to do is save up for the 30″ LCD monitor and my rig will be complete.
Back to the battlefield…Battlefield Europe, that is.
July 19th, 2007After taking off most of the last campaign (I think I stopped playing sometime just before tier 1) I’ve returned to Battlefield Europe. I’ve returned to the Allied side of the fence this time, taking up arms as either French or British. I don’t think I’ll join, or re-join, any squads right now. I want the freedom to play whatever side I want whenever I want. That’s not to say I won’t run with a squad or participate in a squad-led attack or defense, though. I’ve been in some good fights the last couple of nights, in Le Roche, Kalmthout, Bergen Op Zoom… just to name 3 of ‘em. I was going to stay out of the game until either I got my new system built or TOEs got in-game. But, it’s taking too long for either of those options and I’ve been jonesin’ for some killin’…
Know your warranty
July 14th, 2007In my job I talk to a lot of people who would be a lot happier if they had just read and understood their warranty. If you know ahead of time that your warranty does not cover shipping, then you avoid the heartache of calling us up and being told no when you ask us to pay for the shipping. Companies provide warranties for a reason, to protect themselves and the consumer by listing exactly what rights each party to the warranty has and what is expected of each in turn. Read the rest of this entry »
My complaint about robnolan.net
July 11th, 2007Multifarious avenues of approach vie for attention as potential retorts to robnolan.net’s lewd harangues. With this letter, I hope to confront and reject all manifestations of statism. But first, I would like to make the following introductory remark: If I didn’t think robnolan.net would eavesdrop on all types of private conversations, I wouldn’t say that it has — not once, but several times — Read the rest of this entry »
