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What the ♥♥♥♥? My laptop just failed to login a few minutes ago from this error:
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Probably a transient error. If you don't see it again in the near future, pretend it never happened.
On another topic, I think I accidentally dented my laptop's top lid and base, and now the base seems to be... permanently unsealed. I probably should start moving to single-piece laptops, even though they will be more difficult to be serviced without professional help. |
I love playing old school games on my laptop, meaning I don't really need a high-end laptop for that stuff. I think the newest I've gotten for both PC and online games would be either SimCity 4 or Old School RuneScape. and the oldest I've gotten is Raptor: Call of the Shadows and SimFarm for DOS. All those games kick ass <3
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Sim City 4 still needs enough processing power on a single core to run smoothly, though. It will crash to desktop every time it starts to use more than one core. Running it on a multi-core/multi-CPU system, it's a matter of when it'll crash, not if it'll crash.
I'm curious as to what you're running now and if you've chosen to limit the game to a single core. I've actually had a game crash my entire system (actually my current system) once because there was more memory available to the system than the game could actually recognize. The game was barely even 10 years old at the time, too, so it was presumably a 32-bit game, so emulation should have generally played nice! |
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Heh, just found out that my laptop's memory is expandable up to 16GB DDR3.. wondering if I should save up a little more and actually buy more RAM or just keep it at 8GB for now.
I was also considering getting Virtualbox onto the laptop and downloading a Linux distro to use as well just for the heck of it. |
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Linux is cool, man. Just don't expect to get internet easily when using a PC wireless adapter for Wi-Fi. |
I guess I'll go ahead and give Ubuntu a try. It's been several years since I last Ubuntu o.o
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As for virtual machines, that's usually the best way to use a Linux distribution on Windows laptops - Linux distributions in general tend to be fiddly with laptop hardware. |
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The worst thing to be able to get while setting up Linux as a native operating system might be "display backlight permanently turned off" :P |
Oh, sorry, I was thinking of those Netgear or Belkin adapters used with desktops that don't have wireless NIC cards. My bad ^^';
I've always used Microsoft Virtual PC for emulation. Is there VMWare that allows me to control things such as processor architecture, CPU clock speed, BIOS set used by the hardware, and total media hub customization to allow complete control of all of the USB connections and optical drives and whatnot? |
Just remember that when it comes to setting up virtual machines, the default settings are there for a good reason.
I think I'll get my laptop serviced this March. |
Sometimes though default settings aren't the best performance-wise :P
I guess I could try and set up a virtual machine with default settings to see how it runs.. luckily I have a Windows XP install CD with me at all times that I bought several years ago to install that into a VM. |
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So does Virtualbox adjust the defaults according to the OS minimum requirements? I don't think I'd be able to run Windows 7 with 64MB video memory :P
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Anything worse than that, Windows will just shrug and do it the old-fashioned way with Windows Basic. If you're running on Windows 8 or newer, though, this point is moot, as WARP will be used instead, giving you a nice desktop without the GPU. (Software mode, though... it's gonna be slow.) |
Wow, I didn't actually realize that a modern OS like Windows 7 had that low of video requirements to run, although I'd imagine performance and smoothness may not be the best with 64MB of VRAM.
Also, have I ever mentioned how horrible my school's wifi is? It's a college of course, and the network there is slower than the network from the public school district. |
I always take my phone with me when going to school, but never use wifi there. It's absolutely terrible. :P Sometimes, it'd take about six minutes to completely finish loading a webpage. Thank god I have 3G, haha.
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Are you sure, Zach? Where I go, speed always seems to be slower than that. Can't confirm what it actually is, though, as I've never bothered to check. xD"
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This is going to make me sound old, but whatever. When I was in college, we didn't have WiFi except in two of the courtyards haha. Our rooms never had it D:
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