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Old 11-11-2012, 06:24 PM   Top  -  End  -  #991
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Some of us may be getting our florescent lightbulb halos soon if they do something about it.
As much as I would like one of those, I don't know if its wide spread enough to get them. Also I am curious if they are going to deal with the sudden introduction of a lot more BKs.

Also, the reason why I posted so soon (I do try to avoid posting 2/3).

Acknowledgement of the new engine, Source 2. That makes me very happy to hear.
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Since my google-fu has failed me, I'll ask. How does the bug work?
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:31 AM   Top  -  End  -  #993
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I recently downloaded Assassin's Creed 1, and I've encountered a glitch where the sound doesn't match up with the mouth movements of the person speaking. At first I thought my graphics settings were too high, but lowering them doesn't seem to have helped. Anybody have ideas on how to fix this?
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I recently downloaded Assassin's Creed 1, and I've encountered a glitch where the sound doesn't match up with the mouth movements of the person speaking. At first I thought my graphics settings were too high, but lowering them doesn't seem to have helped. Anybody have ideas on how to fix this?
This isn't a glitch; lip-synching just wasn't a common thing in 2007.

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This isn't a glitch; lip-synching just wasn't a common thing in 2007.

You've been spoiled by modern gaming.
And now I feel old. I thought 2007 was modern gaming...
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Old 11-12-2012, 04:07 PM   Top  -  End  -  #997
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And now I feel old. I thought 2007 was modern gaming...
I understand that prospective.

Reminds me of a conversation I had with my Dad a few months ago (ok maby half a year ago). I was talking about that 1998 was the best if not one of the best years in Video game history and I mentioned Half-life come out. He was convinced it was more around 2000, and HL2 came out around 2005. I ended up googling it for him.

He felt old. Doesn't help me any either, I remember it coming out and getting him to install it (Didn't quite trust me with that back then :P).
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I figured out what was going on--turns out that Folding@Home was interfering with AC1 for graphics card power.
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And now I feel old. I thought 2007 was modern gaming...
I remember booting up Assassin's Creed when I got my Xbox a couple years back, and thought, "holy cow, this looks amazing!"

I reinstalled Assassin's Creed II, and I realized that while the game itself is still stellar, the graphics do not hold up.

Plus, 2007 was five years ago. Let the paranoia sink in.
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But did it help?
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I thought 2001 was modern gaming

Attempt no LAN-parties there :E
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But did it help?
Yeah--pausing F@H cleared everything up.
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I remember booting up Assassin's Creed when I got my Xbox a couple years back, and thought, "holy cow, this looks amazing!"

I reinstalled Assassin's Creed II, and I realized that while the game itself is still stellar, the graphics do not hold up.

Plus, 2007 was five years ago. Let the paranoia sink in.
See, for me, I see it as "2007 was only five years ago". Slightly different emphasis, but it completely changes the meaning of that line.

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Attempt no LAN-parties there :E
Oh how I miss the days of LAN-parties. Yes lugging around however many computers/tvs/x-boxes was a pain, but it was always pretty great getting 10-20 people in a house to do an all nighter playing one game or another.

Some friends and I tried to do some LAN a few years back, only to learn that most modern x-box games restricted LAN use to one player per unit, which is like the designers waving a giant middle finger at the concept of the LAN-party.
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I figured out what was going on--turns out that Folding@Home was interfering with AC1 for graphics card power.
That's a thing you run when you aren't using the computer. Set it up as a screensaver or something.
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See, for me, I see it as "2007 was only five years ago". Slightly different emphasis, but it completely changes the meaning of that line.
Well I'm 16, and seeing how much my life has changed since then, and how far technology has advanced since then, 5 years is a very long time.
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Seriously, PC had a button that made it faster. Mind blown yet? :E
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Seriously, PC had a button that made it faster. Mind blown yet? :E
... how did you know when to use it? Because I would never stop pushing it.
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... how did you know when to use it? Because I would never stop pushing it.
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... how did you know when to use it? Because I would never stop pushing it.
Ironically, pushing it more often than not made PC slower

But these were the days where 3D accelerator cards caused drop in FPS, so... :E

Also, this.
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Seriously, PC had a button that made it faster. Mind blown yet? :E
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That's because it was designed to slow the PC down to a level where software which had been written assuming a 6MHz 286 didn't go crazy on a 33MHz 486. There was still software being released like that relatively late on--the PC version of Magic Carpet, which came out in 1994, runs unplayably fast on a modern system, for example.
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Seriously, PC had a button that made it faster. Mind blown yet? :E
It's been ages. My first computer was a Mac (and I hated it for being so basic), my second was a Windows '98 desktop (with a kickass Voodoo3 2000 AGP, maaaaaan), and then there was a gap of HP (ugh) laptops my mom bought (dammit, mom), and finally, my laptop for my 15th birthday (now I'm building a desktop).
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Everything except for the speakers and the headphones is older than 2007.

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We should totally play some 2142 sometime.
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...so. I forgot how awesome L4D2 is. Definitely playing it more.
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That's one sturdy keyboard, then. Mine is not even a year old and I already broke the A key's little spring-things. Damn shooters and their useful strafing.
Well it should be, considering it is a hulking beast that does not fit in a normal keyboard tray. Oh, and I don't have the armrest attached to it. That would make it even bigger.

Good thing it has 18 configurable keys with three tabs for a total of 54 keys for every profile. Makes playing Dota so much easier.
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Apparently the new Call of Duty game isn't that bad.

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I'm serious! It's innovating the genre really well!

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Maybe you should try playing it first?

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Don't be so quick to judge! It might be decent!

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