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[Xantalos]

Huh.
Hot weather is hot, anyhow.

[nenjin]

Jealous, Mon-Keigh?

That's not the word humans use to describe the desire to crush your skull with our bare hands.

[Xantalos]

Jealous, Mon-Keigh?

That's not the word humans use to describe the desire to crush your skull with our bare hands.

Do they even have skulls? I honestly forget.

[SalmonGod]

I'm so glad I'm almost done with this place.  It's so deeply infused with incompetence.  The search functions we rely on to find customer profiles in our database don't even work properly.

Trying to find "The Classical Guitar Store" in Philadelphia.

I try "Classical Guitar / Philadelphia"... no results.
"The Classical / Philadelphia"... no results.
"Classical / Philadelphia"... comes right up.  And there's nothing mispelled in the profile that would excuse the other search terms not being able to retrieve it.  WTF.  I've also seen ones that you can only find by typing in the first letter of the company name and the zip code, and then scrolling through hundreds of results.

And if, let's say, there were two profiles built for that company at that location (it's not uncommon to see half a dozen or more).  Your first search brings up results and you have no reason to believe that anything is wrong, so you choose a profile from your first search.  Unfortunately, your search didn't return all the profiles for that company at that location, and one of those had a database.  That's one strike out of four per year before you're fired for things that are completely not your fault.

One more day.  The timing couldn't be better.  I don't think I would have lasted much longer.  Supposedly, employees are going to start dropping like flies because of this policy within a month.

[AlleeCat]

Jealous, Mon-Keigh?

That's not the word humans use to describe the desire to crush your skull with our bare hands.

Do they even have skulls? I honestly forget.

Pretty sure Eldar are just space-elves, so yes.

[Xantalos]

Jealous, Mon-Keigh?

That's not the word humans use to describe the desire to crush your skull with our bare hands.

Do they even have skulls? I honestly forget.

Pretty sure Eldar are just space-elves, so yes.

Still funny to provoke.

[Putnam]

Anyone have any recommendations for a good splitter for coax?

[Reudh]

ARGHHHH

I bought Civ 5 yesterday. Here's the saga of trying to get it working.

• Installed Civilisation 5 via Steam. Worked fine.
• Started it up, played through the tutorial. Still worked fine.
• Started a new game up the next day after rebooting my shiny new laptop. Gets to the end of loading the new game, then BSoDs.
• BSoD with this error. " IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL" Related to software problem.
• Restart after bluescreen. Microsoft's solution is to do nothing.
• Read up on Google what causes this. After trawling through miles of unhelpful threads, apparently a BSoD during a loading of Civ 5 relates to old drivers.
• I run an AMD 7640M + 7610G together. This has caused me nothing but strife - it's a pretty decently powerful card, but it's supported so badly.
• Go to AMD's support. Use their driver detect program to determine what I need to download. "You can't download from us because you're using Toshiba's proprietary drivers that are terrible."
• Go to Toshiba's support. Search from a long, long dropdown list to find my computer. It's not listed. Tiny weeny little button allows me to search via product number.
• Finally find my laptop. Have to trawl through a big list of possible updates, find the right one, a driver update. It's 221MB. This shouldn't be an issue.
• Download starts and stays at 5-25kb/s instead of downloading at 180kb/s like my internet normally does. Gets halfway through the download, almost exactly 50% finished, and fails.
• It fails twice more.
• I'm bloody furious now. I want my money's worth. I bought a $1000 laptop that could play modern games. It can play /some/ modern games. Civ 5 BSoDs, Borderlands stutters like heck, Planetside 2 is lucky to get 5fps in UNINHABITED AREAS. I also bought a game that was well within the recommended specs. Doesn't really work.

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FRIGGIN COMPUTERS MAKE ME MAD SOMETIMES.
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[Bdthemag]

It's sort of your fault for buying a "gaming" laptop and expecting to get good system specifications, especially if it's from a company that doesn't really make gaming laptops like Toshiba. I mean, I hate Alienware with all of my very being, but at least what they make can run most games at 30 FPS despite being ridiculously overpriced.

Consider it a lesson learned, since you should ALWAYS research any kind of prebuilt PC/computer part online to make sure nothing's wrong with it.

[Reudh]

It's sort of your fault for buying a "gaming" laptop and expecting to get good system specifications, especially if it's from a company that doesn't really make gaming laptops like Toshiba. I mean, I hate Alienware with all of my very being, but at least what they make can run most games at 30 FPS despite being ridiculously overpriced.

Consider it a lesson learned, since you should ALWAYS research any kind of prebuilt PC/computer part online to make sure nothing's wrong with it.

Well, if I can run Skyrim easily, and it wasn't so much a gaming laptop as a laptop that didn't have an Intel card. This was the best one in my price range.

[Skyrunner]

Try using Free Download Manager? It makes sure that even if your host server drops the connection, it's going to chase that file down with ten tentacles to suck the file bit by bit from the server. B

[Haspen]

Youtube has that terrible code-brokening problem for 3rd day.

Goddamit YT, I want to watch my subtitled anime >:C

[Reudh]

It's sort of your fault for buying a "gaming" laptop and expecting to get good system specifications, especially if it's from a company that doesn't really make gaming laptops like Toshiba. I mean, I hate Alienware with all of my very being, but at least what they make can run most games at 30 FPS despite being ridiculously overpriced.

Consider it a lesson learned, since you should ALWAYS research any kind of prebuilt PC/computer part online to make sure nothing's wrong with it.

Moreover, I thoroughly researched this particular laptop with reviews and everything beforehand. It's a simple issue with the fact that ATI/AMD is not supported as well as Nvidia.

[Bauglir]

This doesn't seem the thread for telling people their problems are their fault.

[Mr Space Cat]

Moreover, I thoroughly researched this particular laptop with reviews and everything beforehand. It's a simple issue with the fact that ATI/AMD is not supported as well as Nvidia.

For future reference there's a nifty little website that uses a java plugin to check if your computer is capable of running a game and then shows you the results in a quick and easy to understand manner.

It helps to give an idea of how well a game might run or what you'd need to upgrade to get the game to run. It's pretty handy.