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Gunmonkey · 08-07-2019 12:37pm

Well this got a stealth release; EDF5 coming out on this month! (had hear a July 11th release but D3 removed exact date from Steam page)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1007040/EARTH_DEFENSE_FORCE_5/

K.O.Kiki · 15-07-2019 2:43pm

Resident Evil 3 HD mod - looks pretty decent!

Glebee · 15-07-2019 5:28pm

Hard Driver failure in PC, pain in the arse...

Skerries · 16-07-2019 12:01pm

that's your problem right there, that's not where it goes

16-07-2019 12:08pm

Glebee wrote: »

Hard Driver failure in PC, pain in the arse...

Fcuk me. I have a bunch of stuff that I absolutely cannot lost. You've just scared the **** out of me!

AlmightyCushion · 16-07-2019 12:36pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Fcuk me. I have a bunch of stuff that I absolutely cannot lost. You've just scared the **** out of me!

Office 365 is so handy. 1TB OneDrive backup and Microsoft Office for 6 people for 100 euro is great value. Even if you never use office it's worth it for the OneDrive back up. If you split the cost with a few others it's nothing.

Glebee · 16-07-2019 4:51pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Glebee wrote: »

Hard Driver failure in PC, pain in the arse...

Fcuk me. I have a bunch of stuff that I absolutely cannot lost. You've just scared the **** out of me!

Had nothing important on the hard drive so no worries there. Use google cloud to back up photos although i do have an external dive with stuff on it.

Glebee · 19-07-2019 8:34am

Xbox 1 vs ps4 if you were given a choice???Which system would be better for a 10 yr old who plays a bit on my pc. There was an old ps4 lying around the house but it was never really used for some reason. Id pick xb1 for some reason.

gazzamc · 19-07-2019 8:56am

Glebee wrote: »

Xbox 1 vs ps4 if you were given a choice???Which system would be better for a 10 yr old who plays a bit on my pc. There was an old ps4 lying around the house but it was never really used for some reason. Id pick xb1 for some reason.

Xbox One due to game pass, instant library.

d31b0y · 19-07-2019 10:24am

Find out what his / her friends play on, if anything, and go with that. Exclusives won't matter too much to a 10 year old.

Glebee · 19-07-2019 10:52am

d31b0y wrote: »

Find out what his / her friends play on, if anything, and go with that. Exclusives won't matter too much to a 10 year old.

A good split between both consoles really, I guess the days of swapping games are sort of gone with digital download.I cant remeber when I last bought a boxed game on PC.. I think were going with XBox. At least now he will get to see just how good PC is compared to consoles:D:D.

Kiith · 19-07-2019 11:14am

Switch, followed by PS4 for me. Most of the good XBox exclusives will be available on PC now, so not much point if you have a gaming pc.

Glebee · 19-07-2019 12:25pm

Kiith wrote: »

Switch, followed by PS4 for me. Most of the good XBox exclusives will be available on PC now, so not much point if you have a gaming pc.

He had been looking at a Switch alright but I tried to sway him away from it I guess, unit is expensive, games are expensive. You know yourself.

Skerries · 20-07-2019 4:14pm

get him a raspberry pi and stick loads of emulators on it

Andy-Pandy · 23-07-2019 7:35pm

Lo all,

Just picked up a pc i can game on for the first time since i used to play Counter Strike 1.6, so its been a while. How can i get on some irish discord servers? Playing Apex and will be playing PUBG within the next day or two.

Andrew

nix · 23-07-2019 7:37pm

Andy-Pandy wrote: »

Lo all,

Just picked up a pc i can game on for the first time since i used to play Counter Strike 1.6, so its been a while. How can i get on some irish discord servers? Playing Apex and will be playing PUBG within the next day or two.

Andrew

There ya go: https://discord.gg/xdWpuqA

Andy-Pandy · 23-07-2019 7:39pm

nix wrote: »

There ya go: https://discord.gg/xdWpuqA

Awesome, now to figure out how it works. Thanks

Spear · 25-07-2019 8:03pm

Piranha just announced that Mechwarrior 5 is now Epic exclusive. They're not even honouring the already taken sales with Steam keys, it's Epic or nothing.

https://mw5mercs.com/faq

I've requested a refund for my pre-order, I'm voting with my money that they're so desperate for.

Kiith · 25-07-2019 8:26pm

At least they are offering refunds. Guess i'll pick it up when it's not an exclusive in a years time.

Varik · 25-07-2019 8:47pm

Kiith wrote: »

At least they are offering refunds. Guess i'll pick it up when it's not an exclusive in a years time.

Don't think they can not offer refunds.

Also it's not like with console exclusives, they don't release it a year later at full price. I can see a lot of games just not bother, the game will have a years worth of a price drop and then the larger platform cut from Valve and then having to pay Epic for the engine.

Glebee · 26-07-2019 9:52am

Think my pc is starting to show its age and is starting to give problems. Can i pick up a decent gaming rig for less than €700?????

TitianGerm · 26-07-2019 9:56am

Glebee wrote: »

Think my pc is starting to show its age and is starting to give problems. Can i pick up a decent gaming rig for less than €700?????

Set up a thread on the PC building forum and someone will help you out. Include the specs of your current machine.

Other than that, AWD IT have decent deals on pre builts.

Or if your building yourself you could probably get a ryzen 2600 and a 1660 for reasonable enough money.

Taylor365 · 26-07-2019 10:58am

Glebee wrote: »

Think my pc is starting to show its age and is starting to give problems. Can i pick up a decent gaming rig for less than €700?????

Could just slap in a beefy GPU? Had my 2500k going for 7 years doing just that.

EoinHef · 26-07-2019 6:13pm

Depends on what CPU the poster currently has in there. Some processors are starting to really show their age now.

Skerries · 27-07-2019 12:31pm

Taylor365 wrote: »

Could just slap in a beefy GPU? Had my 2500k going for 7 years doing just that.

I did the same but it was time last year to upgrade it to the 2700X and a Vega 64

Glebee · 29-07-2019 10:02am

My gaming pc is officially dead. Its almost 10 years old and upgraded graphics card a few years ago but its been creaking recently. Hard drive failed recently so I got a new hard drive in it last week but other major problems have arose and i think the techical term is that its fcuked.. dont have the funds at the moment to invest in new gaming rig so i think after at least 21 years of pc gaming im switching over to xbox....

2Mad2BeMad · 29-07-2019 10:49am

Glebee wrote: »

My gaming pc is officially dead. Its almost 10 years old and upgraded graphics card a few years ago but its been creaking recently. Hard drive failed recently so I got a new hard drive in it last week but other major problems have arose and i think the techical term is that its fcuked.. dont have the funds at the moment to invest in new gaming rig so i think after at least 21 years of pc gaming im switching over to xbox....

Happened to me last year. My PC of 5 years **** the bed ( motherboard fried. I think the cooler broke but I was neglecting it for some time so it was my fault really)
Have been playing Xbox ever since.
Then I finally got the funds to buy a new PC last week and I had to return it. Hardware fault and to top it off the motherboard I chose the b450 tomahawk is apparently the worst one for the new ryzen CPUs .

Sometimes consoles are just easier to deal with haha.
It was slightly soul destroying after a while though.

mrcheez · 29-07-2019 11:15am

Glebee wrote: »

My gaming pc is officially dead. Its almost 10 years old and upgraded graphics card a few years ago but its been creaking recently. Hard drive failed recently so I got a new hard drive in it last week but other major problems have arose and i think the techical term is that its fcuked.. dont have the funds at the moment to invest in new gaming rig so i think after at least 21 years of pc gaming im switching over to xbox....

That's why I went with a gaming laptop

The portability has been a superb benefit, but also it's just nice when everything works.

It's not upgradeable, but I look at it as an expensive console

Glebee · 30-07-2019 5:59pm

Glebee wrote: »

My gaming pc is officially dead. Its almost 10 years old and upgraded graphics card a few years ago but its been creaking recently. Hard drive failed recently so I got a new hard drive in it last week but other major problems have arose and i think the techical term is that its fcuked.. dont have the funds at the moment to invest in new gaming rig so i think after at least 21 years of pc gaming im switching over to xbox....

False alarm, faulty RAM. Were back b1tches...... Scrrew you Xbox..

Skerries · 02-08-2019 12:11pm

02-08-2019 5:26pm

I've gotten a couple of free games with a graphics card but i have no real interest in them. Can i easily give someone the keys or does the fact they came with a card complicate matters.
Bethesda client and EGS if that makes a difference

Spear · 02-08-2019 6:01pm

Cake of Tremendous Power wrote: »

I've gotten a couple of free games with a graphics card but i have no real interest in them. Can i easily give someone the keys or does the fact they came with a card complicate matters.
Bethesda client and EGS if that makes a difference

It varies. Some of them require you to use the provided key on a separate website first, and that checks for their hardware while doing so.

The unhelpful but only realistic answer is that you'll need to research how the specific retailer key system works to see how feasible it is.

02-08-2019 7:43pm

Spear wrote: »

It varies. Some of them require you to use the provided key on a separate website first, and that checks for their hardware while doing so.

The unhelpful but only realistic answer is that you'll need to research how the specific retailer key system works to see how feasible it is.

Cheers Spear, looks like nvidia have them locked to the card. Miserable shítes

Varik · 02-08-2019 9:50pm

OSI wrote: »

That’s to stop the likes of the key resellers getting them from shady ****ers in the retailers.

Would say even legitimately bought cards would be an issue at times, becoming less of an issue now but imagine all the keys that crypto miners would have had at peak.

Ivefoundgod · 02-08-2019 10:47pm

I was able to give away World War Z and Division 2 that came with AMD card with mine but it was fairly painful, required installing an app on my pc to check if I had an AMD card before I could login to the site to redeem the code. Once I could do that it was fairly straightforward.

Skerries · 07-08-2019 11:01pm

Glebee · 08-08-2019 2:51pm

Cant find anything to play at the moment, nothing is holding my attention....

megaten · 08-08-2019 3:02pm

Is there a consistent way of adding EGS games to to steam? info on this seems a bit spotty. I mostly play PC games with a laptop hooked up to a TV so Big Picture mode is really useful.

AlmightyCushion · 08-08-2019 3:39pm

megaten wrote: »

Is there a consistent way of adding EGS games to to steam? info on this seems a bit spotty. I mostly play PC games with a laptop hooked up to a TV so Big Picture mode is really useful.

There is a way to add non steam games to steam. No idea if it will work with EGS games but it should. A quick google should give you a guide.

08-08-2019 3:54pm

Glebee wrote: »

Cant find anything to play at the moment, nothing is holding my attention....

I'm currently addicted to Dota Underlords

Moon54 · 08-08-2019 4:47pm

megaten wrote: »

Is there a consistent way of adding EGS games to to steam?

Yeah, it's straight forward to do, I've been meaning to do it for a while as well.

In Steam go to Games/Add Non-Steam game to my Library
Browse for game .exe's in your Epic Games folder location for each game;

Some are in odd locations as you can see.
Add all your exe's and they will look like this in Steam;

The game names can be edited by right-clicking in Steam and go to Properties.

Most games are DRM-Free but "What Remains of Edith Finch" & "Subnautica" needs a "-EpicPortal" command in "Set Launch Options" to stop them trying to run Epic Launcher.
For "Transistor" I had to use "/c=.. -AUTH_LOGIN=unused" in "Set Launch Options".

Everything worked perfect for me except for This War of Mine which won't launch via exe, despite what PCGW says, but I'll figure it out.

megaten · 08-08-2019 5:17pm

Moon54 wrote: »

Yeah, it's straight forward to do, I've been meaning to do it for a while as well.

In Steam go to Games/Add Non-Steam game to my Library
Browse for game .exe's in your Epic Games folder location for each game;

Some are in odd locations as you can see.
Add all your exe's and they will look like this in Steam;

The game names can be edited by right-clicking in Steam and go to Properties.

Most games are DRM-Free but "What Remains of Edith Finch" & "Subnautica" needs a "-EpicPortal" command in "Set Launch Options" to stop them trying to run Epic Launcher.
For "Transistor" I had to use "/c=.. -AUTH_LOGIN=unused" in "Set Launch Options".

Everything worked perfect for me except for This War of Mine which won't launch via exe, despite what PCGW says, but I'll figure it out.

Thanks, I knew some extra parameters were needed but didn't know what they were.

MOH · 09-08-2019 1:13pm

Moon54 wrote: »

Most games are DRM-Free but "What Remains of Edith Finch" & "Subnautica" needs a "-EpicPortal" command in "Set Launch Options" to stop them trying to run Epic Launcher.
For "Transistor" I had to use "/c=.. -AUTH_LOGIN=unused" in "Set Launch Options".

That's brilliant, thanks. I'm not bothered about seeing them in Steam but being able to run them without going through the launcher would be superb.

Also it looks like you've more or less stolen my Epic catalog.

Lone Stone · 13-08-2019 8:35pm

have rebel galaxy outlaw on the download now looking forward to jumping into that

Skerries · 16-08-2019 7:23pm

Kiith · 21-08-2019 3:07pm

Homeworld 3? Good god i hope so.

ShadowHearth · 27-08-2019 1:29pm

Guys, where do you upload your Screenshots for forums these days? I used to use Photobucket, until they decided to keep your photos ransom and ask you to pay money to even get them back.

wotzgoingon · 27-08-2019 1:35pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Guys, where do you upload your Screenshots for forums these days? I used to use Photobucket, until they decided to keep your photos ransom and ask you to pay money to even get them back.

I use boards itself.

Add a attachment but make sure to embed it as it does not do that automatically.

27-08-2019 1:36pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Guys, where do you upload your Screenshots for forums these days? I used to use Photobucket, until they decided to keep your photos ransom and ask you to pay money to even get them back.

imgur.com

If you use chrome, this add on is very handy https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/imgur-uploader/lcpkicdemehhmkjolekhlglljnkggfcf?hl=en

ShadowHearth · 27-08-2019 1:48pm

Cheers lads, made an Imgur account. Uploading now.

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