Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on Yesterday, 08:00

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A lot of this 4k and 8k stuff is more of a marketing ploy, as it won't be noticable unless you have a big enough TV and are at the right viewing distance. It's also a bit like digital cameras and megapixels, as consumers are impressed by big numbers. However, the resolution is only one part of the …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on Yesterday, 04:58

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The only question left. For how long. It's already announced that Ghost of Tsushima will require account linking for the co-op to work.

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Re: How important is screen resolution to you?

Posted on 2024-05-06, 17:50

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Depends on the device. For a phone, something around 6" at most, around 1280×720 is perfectly fine. For tablets at 7-10" something around 1400×800 is should be perfectly OK. The 7" tablet I use for an ebook reader is 720p and it's still mostly OK. At very small text sizes its not perfect, but …

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Re: Does anyone bother cleaning their graphics cards?

Posted on 2024-05-05, 05:17

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When I get a new card I always replace the thermal paste if the heatsink isn't glued on. Most of the times these cards aren't serviced at all unless stated otherwise. Which means they have 20+ years old fossilized thermal paste. 2 days ago I just did that to a 7300GT I got from a coworker a while …

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Re: Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 19:39

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Laws can change, but those who can pay for lobbyists have opposing interests. So as nice as it would be, I don't see it happening. Especially not globally. Though some games are made permanently freeware by the copyright holders, like TES: Arena and Daggerfall or SWINE and I could imagine that after …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 19:30

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Not really underrated, it's just they are very limited. The S478 platform is generally cheap with good W98 support and perform well in W9x era games, but the support of PCI sound cards in DOS is not excellent which makes early Socket A boards as well as Socket 370 with ISA a more versatile option …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-05-03, 11:45

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or whether the content ("game world") was actually all online. I understood it was more like the latter (i.e., if the server is down - there is no world, and nothing to play). Nope, all the game was downloaded to your device. Only the community features required strictly to be online, the rest was …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-05-02, 16:17

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It's value is that the consumer has a convenient library of movies that they have access to. I can do it myself. I'd love to be able to buy movies digitally DRM-free to load it onto my self-made NAS and stream it for myself through Jellyfin. While I believe that the costs to enter the housing …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-05-01, 06:49

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I have no idea what this would be related to some creationist wedge strategy that you linked. The method. Just one foot in the door to establish a presence and normalize the situation then work from there. That aside, I don't think there is any reason to believe that this would cause the entire …

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Re: Why The Internet Archive Is In Danger Right Now...

Posted on 2024-05-01, 05:52

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Everyone is to blame from the very top all the way to the bottom as far as why we are where we are at as far as preservation. Those who infringe copyright better have the money and lawyers to back it up especially when they consistently do so. IMO, it should be regulated and just like you have a …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-05-01, 05:17

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I hate subscriptions for individual games or software (looking at you Adobe), but I actually really like Xbox Game Pass. It's far cheaper than buying games and I rarely replay any newer games, so I'm not really missing out by not owning them. For anything retro, I'd rather own it though. Game Pass …

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Re: What would you do different?

Posted on 2024-04-30, 20:24

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In the 90s I was between the ages of almost 0 to almost 10. I probably wouldn't have done anything differently. Living in the rural parts of a country that just got it's freedom back after half a century of soviet occupation in a not particularly wealthy family even with all the knowledge about …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-04-30, 15:41

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You got Halo 4 but not Reach? Well, I wanted to get the mainline entries first. Both ODST and Reach are on my wanted list, so I will eventually grab them as well. Not sure how they fit into the plot though, as I still need to check which order I should be playing the games in. From what I gather, …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2024-04-30, 14:33

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2024-04-30, 11:11: Halo.jpg Getting ready for my first playthrough of the Halo series. I might also grab the original version of Halo CE, as I heard that the Anniversary Edition isn't quite as good. You got Halo 4 but not Reach?

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Re: Choosing a GPU for a P4 build?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 08:00

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If it's a 2003-ish build, I'd go with the Radeon 9500 PRO. Also, the 2GB ram is way overkill for 2003. It won't hurt having it with WinXP or 2k, but back then it was rare to go above 1GB.

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Re: Help identify old hardware

Posted on 2024-04-24, 17:28

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This first one is some kinf of SDRAM but seems to can get a battery attached on the back ... It is from Compaq so.... server ? Can I it be used on normal PC ? will it explode ? :-) 20240423_213343[1].jpg 20240423_213328[1].jpg Probably ECC SDRAM. It doesn't work in boards that don't support ECC. …

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Re: How do you test a retro graphics card before buying?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 15:33

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How do I make sure the card won't crap out on me a week after me getting it? You don't. These are 20+ years old hardware, most of the time with unknown history. You just buy them, do basic maintenance and hope for the best. If the card was in good condition, stored well and you cleaned it and …

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Re: Boards with cool graphics on them.

Posted on 2024-04-21, 14:44

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I've been reorganizing my expansion cards and found this.

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Re: what is the funniest or oldest cpu/watercooling combo you have ever seen?

Posted on 2024-04-20, 06:38

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I've read an article in the early 2000's about someone making a water cooling system with a car radiator. The pump was also something never meant for water cooling a computer. I think it was something intended for garden ponds. I don't know for which platform. The X800 XT I got a couple of years ago …

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-18, 14:30

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That's only part of the story. First, a lot of game, if you want the full package cost already more than 70. Star Wars Fallen order is already 90€ for the Deluxe Edition and Assassin's Creed Valhalla is 140€ for the Complete Edition. At the same time digital content delivery platforms decreased …

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