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12 years ago
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I am a (bad) gamer and one of the games I like is Borderlands.
To me one of the characters who was the most fun to play was brick; as soon as he would go into his berserker rage, he would get a narrowed vision and an insane [HEALTH] regeneration. I really liked beating the snot out of the bad guys with my fists.
I played it into the late hours trying to find as many rare weapons as possible.
Naturally, when part 2 came out I bought it only to find out that according to the package it needed at least a dual core processor, so I put it on the shelf to install it later.
Several months later however I became curious and decided to install the game in steam anyway, so even if it would not run it would still be available under Steam in case I found a faster computer.
What happened next is kind of cliché, but... it turned out that Borderlands 2 ran even faster then borderlands 1, loading is faster, less waiting times and overall much more fun to play.
A friend told me later that they vastly improved the game engine.
Unfortunately it did not work with Fallout New Vegas, the sound lags and the game crashes a lot!
Star trek online works okay until I go to Sol, then loading takes forever.
In case you are wondering, my machine is an Athlon 64 – 2,41Ghz single core machine with 2GB DDR(1) memory and a 1GB Nvidea GT430 Video card. OS is Windows XP Home with service pack 3 and all updates installed.
P.S. not that my computer is a “super computer” Once in a while the computer becomes extremely slow, the only remedy is starting with a recovery cd and typing chkdsk /r in recovery mode, 3 hours later it will function normally again.
P.P.S I also got legendary skins and heads when Borderlands 2 saw the game files of Borderlands 1.
P.P.P.S This is my personal experience YMMV.
To me one of the characters who was the most fun to play was brick; as soon as he would go into his berserker rage, he would get a narrowed vision and an insane [HEALTH] regeneration. I really liked beating the snot out of the bad guys with my fists.
I played it into the late hours trying to find as many rare weapons as possible.
Naturally, when part 2 came out I bought it only to find out that according to the package it needed at least a dual core processor, so I put it on the shelf to install it later.
Several months later however I became curious and decided to install the game in steam anyway, so even if it would not run it would still be available under Steam in case I found a faster computer.
What happened next is kind of cliché, but... it turned out that Borderlands 2 ran even faster then borderlands 1, loading is faster, less waiting times and overall much more fun to play.
A friend told me later that they vastly improved the game engine.
Unfortunately it did not work with Fallout New Vegas, the sound lags and the game crashes a lot!
Star trek online works okay until I go to Sol, then loading takes forever.
In case you are wondering, my machine is an Athlon 64 – 2,41Ghz single core machine with 2GB DDR(1) memory and a 1GB Nvidea GT430 Video card. OS is Windows XP Home with service pack 3 and all updates installed.
P.S. not that my computer is a “super computer” Once in a while the computer becomes extremely slow, the only remedy is starting with a recovery cd and typing chkdsk /r in recovery mode, 3 hours later it will function normally again.
P.P.S I also got legendary skins and heads when Borderlands 2 saw the game files of Borderlands 1.
P.P.P.S This is my personal experience YMMV.
But it seems my harddisk is dying as the drive constantly seems to be flagged as dirty? People tell me it might have switched to PIO mode, which basically is a term of the CPU handling the harddisk data traffic, but if i looked under the harddisks properies it stated it was still in Ultra-DMa mode.
That and the hardware exception crashes make me think the HD is dying.
On my computer the graphics look okay but the sound lags badly.
O well, sorry if I'm rambling again.
Taking about 10 years of mail with it, making me once again curse Thunderbird mail client for not having the same backup possibilities as Microsoft outlook.