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Old August 1st 19, 04:23 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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Default New games are hungry

I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein Youngblood"
and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58 machine, Well it
would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64 bit
system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his system
only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple channel
corsair 6 GB kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66. they are
getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.

Rene
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Old August 4th 19, 03:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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On 2019-07-31 10:23 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein Youngblood"
and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58 machine, Well it
would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64 bit
system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his system
only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple channel
corsair 6 GBÂ* kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66. they are
getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.

Rene


OK, added another 6 GB of memory for a total of 12 GB, no joy, the game
needs a more powerful CPU and Video card also.

BTW it runs fine on my new build, Anyway he will benefit in Photoshop so
nothing lost.

Rene
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Old August 4th 19, 04:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-07-31 10:23 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein Youngblood"
and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58 machine, Well it
would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64 bit
system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his system
only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple channel
corsair 6 GB kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66. they are
getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.

Rene


OK, added another 6 GB of memory for a total of 12 GB, no joy, the game
needs a more powerful CPU and Video card also.

BTW it runs fine on my new build, Anyway he will benefit in Photoshop so
nothing lost.

Rene


Did you try dialing down the settings ?

You could spend half-a-day fiddling with that.
It looks like a "tech demo" rather than a game :-)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...ormance-guide/

Paul
  #4  
Old August 4th 19, 05:09 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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Default New games are hungry

On 2019-08-04 10:51 a.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-07-31 10:23 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein Youngblood"
and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58 machine, Well it
would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64
bit system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his
system only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple
channel corsair 6 GBÂ* kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66.
they are getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.

Rene


OK, added another 6 GB of memory for a total of 12 GB, no joy, the
game needs a more powerful CPU and Video card also.

BTW it runs fine on my new build, Anyway he will benefit in Photoshop
so nothing lost.

Rene


Did you try dialing down the settings ?

You could spend half-a-day fiddling with that.
It looks like a "tech demo" rather than a game :-)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...ormance-guide/


Â*Â* Paul


The game won't start, it gives a dialog box
'getting ready to launch game" thne stays in windows, So I can't try
anything.

Rene



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Old August 4th 19, 05:57 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Paul[_32_]
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-04 10:51 a.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-07-31 10:23 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein
Youngblood" and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58
machine, Well it would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but
found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64
bit system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his
system only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple
channel corsair 6 GB kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66.
they are getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.

Rene

OK, added another 6 GB of memory for a total of 12 GB, no joy, the
game needs a more powerful CPU and Video card also.

BTW it runs fine on my new build, Anyway he will benefit in Photoshop
so nothing lost.

Rene


Did you try dialing down the settings ?

You could spend half-a-day fiddling with that.
It looks like a "tech demo" rather than a game :-)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...ormance-guide/


Paul


The game won't start, it gives a dialog box
'getting ready to launch game" thne stays in windows, So I can't try
anything.

Rene


I can't find any references to a logfile.

https://www.systemrequirementslab.co...ungblood/17973

Youngblood System Requirements (Minimum)

CPU: AMD FX-8350/Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-3570/i7-3770
CPU SPEED: Info
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Win7, 8.1, or 10 (64-Bit versions)
VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTX 770 4GB (Current available GPU GTX1650) or AMD equivalent
PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
FREE DISK SPACE: 40 GB
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 4 GB

I'd take a look at the video card and see
how close it comes.

Paul
  #6  
Old August 4th 19, 06:36 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Rene Lamontagne
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On 2019-08-04 11:57 a.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-04 10:51 a.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-07-31 10:23 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein
Youngblood" and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58
machine, Well it would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but
found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64
bit system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his
system only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple
channel corsair 6 GBÂ* kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for
$66. they are getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't
realize they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the
system requirements before I buy.

Rene

OK, added another 6 GB of memory for a total of 12 GB, no joy, the
game needs a more powerful CPU and Video card also.

BTW it runs fine on my new build, Anyway he will benefit in
Photoshop so nothing lost.

Rene

Did you try dialing down the settings ?

You could spend half-a-day fiddling with that.
It looks like a "tech demo" rather than a game :-)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...ormance-guide/


Â*Â*Â* Paul


The game won't start, it gives a dialog box
'getting ready to launch game" thne stays in windows, So I can't try
anything.

Rene


I can't find any references to a logfile.

https://www.systemrequirementslab.co...ungblood/17973


Â*Â* Youngblood System Requirements (Minimum)

Â*Â*Â* CPU: AMD FX-8350/Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-3570/i7-3770
Â*Â*Â* CPU SPEED: Info
Â*Â*Â* RAM: 8 GB
Â*Â*Â* OS: Win7, 8.1, or 10 (64-Bit versions)
Â*Â*Â* VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTX 770 4GB (Current available GPU GTX1650) or
AMD equivalent
Â*Â*Â* PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
Â*Â*Â* VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
Â*Â*Â* FREE DISK SPACE: 40 GB
Â*Â*Â* DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 4 GB

I'd take a look at the video card and see
how close it comes.

Â*Â* Paul



The video card Is a ATI HD5850 and the CPU is an i7 950, both of which
probably don't have enough horsepower to run these newer games.
Anyway Steam will now refund your money for games under certain
circumstances, so I contacted them and they gave me a full refund.

Rene
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Old August 4th 19, 08:17 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-04 11:57 a.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-08-04 10:51 a.m., Paul wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2019-07-31 10:23 p.m., Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein
Youngblood" and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58
machine, Well it would not start nohow so did a lot of googling
but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64
bit system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.

Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his
system only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple
channel corsair 6 GB kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for
$66. they are getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't
realize they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the
system requirements before I buy.

Rene

OK, added another 6 GB of memory for a total of 12 GB, no joy, the
game needs a more powerful CPU and Video card also.

BTW it runs fine on my new build, Anyway he will benefit in
Photoshop so nothing lost.

Rene

Did you try dialing down the settings ?

You could spend half-a-day fiddling with that.
It looks like a "tech demo" rather than a game :-)

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce...ormance-guide/


Paul

The game won't start, it gives a dialog box
'getting ready to launch game" thne stays in windows, So I can't try
anything.

Rene


I can't find any references to a logfile.

https://www.systemrequirementslab.co...ungblood/17973


Youngblood System Requirements (Minimum)

CPU: AMD FX-8350/Ryzen 5 1400 or Intel Core i5-3570/i7-3770
CPU SPEED: Info
RAM: 8 GB
OS: Win7, 8.1, or 10 (64-Bit versions)
VIDEO CARD: Nvidia GTX 770 4GB (Current available GPU GTX1650) or
AMD equivalent
PIXEL SHADER: 5.0
VERTEX SHADER: 5.0
FREE DISK SPACE: 40 GB
DEDICATED VIDEO RAM: 4 GB

I'd take a look at the video card and see
how close it comes.

Paul



The video card Is a ATI HD5850 and the CPU is an i7 950, both of which
probably don't have enough horsepower to run these newer games.
Anyway Steam will now refund your money for games under certain
circumstances, so I contacted them and they gave me a full refund.

Rene


The video card is Shader version 5, as near as I can determine.

The card might be a little low on dedicated video RAM. 1 or 2GB,
versus the 4GB quantity the above table suggests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon_HD_5000_Series

I would say you were "pretty close". Maybe it's the
version of DirectX. Some games will try to install
software to beef up the environment on you.

Paul
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Old August 4th 19, 10:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:

I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.


Maybe not much interest to your kid, but speaking of games...
Some of the best games are old games, like the real-time strategy (RTS)
game Age of Empires II (AoE2). On Steam, its popularity is somewhere
around 40 of all games being played. On "Voobly", there are currently
over 2500 players in the lobbies. Voobly can be accessed with a utility
(AoE2Tools) that transfers your Steam AoE2 to Voobly. Once done, besides
being able to play, you can spectate AoE2 to your hearts content. For
anybody who has always wanted to spectate AoE2, this is it, just grab
the utility and do it. Would be great if AoE2 were less of a clickfest
and more of a strategy game, but I don't know of any popular RTS that
isn't heavily dependent on mouse slinging.

Might be fun if first-person shooters allowed spectating, like from any
movable/variable viewpoint in the game. But I have no idea about that.
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Old August 4th 19, 10:35 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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PC gaming had always been like this since the 90s when I started using
PCs. :/ I'm glad that I don't play video games anymore due to busy,
tired, losing interests, costly, etc. I barely play my old games from a
decade ago too!


Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein Youngblood"
and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58 machine, Well it
would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64 bit
system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.


Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his system
only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple channel
corsair 6 GB kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66. they are
getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.


I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.


Rene


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Old August 4th 19, 10:51 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 2019-08-04 4:35 p.m., Ant wrote:
PC gaming had always been like this since the 90s when I started using
PCs. :/ I'm glad that I don't play video games anymore due to busy,
tired, losing interests, costly, etc. I barely play my old games from a
decade ago too!


Rene Lamontagne wrote:
I just bought the New game for my Son called "Wolfenstein Youngblood"
and had it installed on his Windows 10 Gigabyte X58 machine, Well it
would not start nohow so did a lot of googling but found no answers
After the fact I looked up the Requirements and Find it needs a 64 bit
system and at least 8 GB of memory and 40 GB of HD space.


Well as we know the 1366 X58 runs triple channel memory and his system
only has 6 GB, So I hunted for a while and found a triple channel
corsair 6 GB kit on Amazon and promptly ordered it for $66. they are
getting rather scarce
I hope it solves the problem but no lose if it doesn't as he runs
Photoshop CS6 and it will gain him there.


I have not bought any new games for quite a while and didn't realize
they where so resource hungry, next time I will check the system
requirements before I buy.


Rene



Well believe it or not at present on this new high speed build I am
playing a game that my eldest son played about 1996, it came on seven 5
1/4 inch floppies called "Phantasmagoria" Done by Roberta Williams of
Sierra Games. She was one of the early Greats.

rENE

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Old August 4th 19, 11:01 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Ant wrote:
PC gaming had always been like this since the 90s when I started using
PCs. :/ I'm glad that I don't play video games anymore due to busy,
tired, losing interests, costly, etc. I barely play my old games from a
decade ago too!


To exclude customers by limiting the range of
hardware that can run a game, seems counterintuitive
to making money.

*******

To give an example, there were games in the past, where
both DX8.1 and DX9 paths were provided. And if you happened
to flip the game to DX8.1, it ran smoother. Think how much
your customers approve of such things. I remember being
pretty pleased at the time, that such was possible.

On modern DX, there is one version of DX which was "object"
oriented, and it would make a single call to the video card
for every object on the screen. This approach was 30%
slower than other, more reasonable approaches.
(And yet... they released it!)

The next version of DX, switched to "display lists", the
way were doing it around 1990. The display lists can be
managed by a game. The game builds a list, and sends it to
the video card. So that's one example where you *don't*
switch to the slightly older method, because the slightly
older method was released without thinking about the
penalties involved.

And video cards have the "fabricated" DX version printed
on the box, while the chip rated DX version tells the
truth. A video card could be "DX11" on the box, and
the GPU chip is listed as "10_1". Which tells you if
you were to run a DX11 title, then software fills in the
differences if/when they exist. It's not good enough to
just look at the printed text on the box, because
it's bull****. Wikipedia makes it possible to get a
heads up about what you bought. Some low end video
cards have been rebranded three times, so you're
really getting "old kit".

Paul
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Old August 4th 19, 11:42 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 05/08/2019 00.01, Paul wrote:
Ant wrote:
PC gaming had always been like this since the 90s when I started using
PCs. :/ I'm glad that I don't play video games anymore due to busy,
tired, losing interests, costly, etc. I barely play my old games from
a decade ago too!


To exclude customers by limiting the range of
hardware that can run a game, seems counterintuitive
to making money.


They make more by also selling improved hardware :-)

I remember telling my late father, in the 90's, that computer
development had a huge debt of improvements to games. Such was the
importance of games - he could not understand the interest of gaming in
computers.

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Old August 6th 19, 02:04 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Rene Lamontagne wrote:
....
Well believe it or not at present on this new high speed build I am
playing a game that my eldest son played about 1996, it came on seven 5
1/4 inch floppies called "Phantasmagoria" Done by Roberta Williams of
Sierra Games. She was one of the early Greats.


Nice. My parents kept my Fire Hawk, Thexder's sequel, game from Egghead.
It still has 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks! My 20ish years old cousin
chuckled at the huge disks!
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Old August 6th 19, 12:23 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 06/08/2019 03.04, Ant wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
...
Well believe it or not at present on this new high speed build I am
playing a game that my eldest son played about 1996, it came on seven 5
1/4 inch floppies called "Phantasmagoria" Done by Roberta Williams of
Sierra Games. She was one of the early Greats.


Nice. My parents kept my Fire Hawk, Thexder's sequel, game from Egghead.
It still has 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks! My 20ish years old cousin
chuckled at the huge disks!


And we chuckled at the huge disks used by mainframes before that ;-)

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Old August 6th 19, 09:03 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 13:23:55 +0200, "Carlos E.R."
wrote:

On 06/08/2019 03.04, Ant wrote:
Rene Lamontagne wrote:
...
Well believe it or not at present on this new high speed build I am
playing a game that my eldest son played about 1996, it came on seven 5
1/4 inch floppies called "Phantasmagoria" Done by Roberta Williams of
Sierra Games. She was one of the early Greats.


Nice. My parents kept my Fire Hawk, Thexder's sequel, game from Egghead.
It still has 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disks! My 20ish years old cousin
chuckled at the huge disks!


And we chuckled at the huge disks used by mainframes before that ;-)


I used to use 8" diskette on micros.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

 




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