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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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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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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 |
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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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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 |
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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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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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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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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 -- Quote of the Week: "If I want to be a robber, I rob the king's treasury. If I want to be a hunter, I hunt the rhino. What is the use of robbing beggars and hunting ants? So if you want to love, love God." --Swami Vivekananda Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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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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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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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. -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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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! -- Quote of the Week: "If I want to be a robber, I rob the king's treasury. If I want to be a hunter, I hunt the rhino. What is the use of robbing beggars and hunting ants? So if you want to love, love God." --Swami Vivekananda Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://aqfl.net & http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / / /\ /\ \ http://antfarm.ma.cx. Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. | |o o| | \ _ / ( ) |
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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 ;-) -- Cheers, Carlos. |
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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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