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Carlo 10 Jan 2018 22:22:08 21,801 posts
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monkman76 wrote:
/sun lounger

/chaise longue

UncleLou Moderator 10 Jan 2018 22:34:17 40,723 posts
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DrStrangelove wrote:
@UncleLou

Thanks, sort by Steam Cloud does not work, it just changes order by something I don't know, but certainly not by Steam Cloud icon.

Hm, it should though, but within your own categories (if you use them).

Dirtbox 11 Jan 2018 00:29:27 92,595 posts
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Quite a lot of games that didn't start out on steam don't have cloud saves.

samharper 11 Jan 2018 01:10:06 1,124 posts
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I remember when my PS3 died in 2010 and I lost every single save I had, at the time I only played games on PS3 and a couple of strategy games on PC. Not a good time.

Xbox One is the gold standard as far as cloud saving goes.

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UncleLou wrote:
Hm, it should though, but within your own categories (if you use them).

Oh that was the problem, missed that. However, if no icon means no cloud save, I think that's more than half of my list.

Rogueywon 11 Jan 2018 07:08:33 12,387 posts
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@samharper Same happened to me in late 2013, just a few months before the launch of the PS4. PS3 went YLOD one day. "No problem", I thought, I'll nab a cheap slim as a replacement and just move the saves off the disc.

Nope.

For some inexplicable reason, Sony makes this completely impossible. Drives are encoded to lock them to the specific hardware. You got much less PSN cloud save space back then and so only a small minority of my stuff was on there. With a handful of exceptions, I lost almost seven years of saves.

On PC, I accidentally lost the odd save when migrating over to a new PC and failing to copy a save from some obscure location, but I've never had a wholesale disaster like the above. Even dying hard drives usually allow a grace period where you can still extract most stuff, provided you act quickly on the signs of failure.

DangerousDave_87 11 Jan 2018 08:26:59 7,074 posts
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As long as the save lasts until I finish the game, I'm ok with that. If DLC releases for a game and I've long moved on, then I'm only likely to get it if it's stand-alone content. If its DLC for an RPG then I'm even less likely to get it as I've likely put in enough hours already.

UncleLou Moderator 11 Jan 2018 08:30:57 40,723 posts
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DrStrangelove wrote:

UncleLou wrote:
Hm, it should though, but within your own categories (if you use them).
Oh that was the problem, missed that. However, if no icon means no cloud save, I think that's more than half of my list.

Rule of thumb: new(ish) games tend to have cloud saves, older games don't. Some newer ones don't because they have their own system (rockstar cloud), it's too complicated (ArmA), or for unknown reasons (Dark Souls 3). Not sure when cloud saves were introduced on Steam?

Malek86 11 Jan 2018 08:35:57 12,331 posts
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Steam Cloud started all the way back in 2008, but to my knowledge, only the biggest games used it back then. It wasn't until 2011-2012 that almost everything started to support it.

It's still unusupported for almost anything released before that time (very few titles patched it in), every Dosbox game, and whenever companies think it's not worth the hassle. Which is a very generic description, but there you go.

Armoured_Bear 31 Jan 2018 14:44:19 31,233 posts
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PC Gaming is such a pain in the arse.
As I have an Asus motherboard I used their Asus Suite software to set the fans, keeps them nice and quiet and works perfectly.
Turns out that a recent W10 update has fucked it and of course there's no support anymore.

Aye, plug 'n' play my fucking arse.

Fake_Blood 31 Jan 2018 14:46:52 11,093 posts
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Ai suite 3 works fine on my windows 10 install.

Armoured_Bear 31 Jan 2018 14:52:10 31,233 posts
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Fake_Blood wrote:
Ai suite 3 works fine on my windows 10 install.

Won't for mine, says wrong motherboard.

THFourteen 31 Jan 2018 15:02:14 54,987 posts
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Have you tried using the right motherboard?

disusedgenius 31 Jan 2018 15:03:59 10,677 posts
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Just burn the old PC and drop another 3 grand on a new machine you filthy pauper.

Technoishmatt 31 Jan 2018 15:06:20 5,365 posts
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I just spent a couple hours copying across my old Xbox 360 saves to the cloud, so I can access them on the xbone, and get get rid of the 360. Never know when I want to those Mass Effect saves or Gears

Armoured_Bear 31 Jan 2018 15:09:02 31,233 posts
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disusedgenius wrote:
Just burn the old PC and drop another 3 grand on a new machine you filthy pauper.

Is that just for the RAM?

disusedgenius 31 Jan 2018 15:15:54 10,677 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:
Is that just for the RAM?

Don't be silly, you can just download that.

Sharz 31 Jan 2018 15:16:43 2,121 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:

Fake_Blood wrote:
Ai suite 3 works fine on my windows 10 install.
Won't for mine, says wrong motherboard.

AI Suite (I think 2 on my Z68 board) was working fine till about a month ago. Now whenever Windows starts I get some random errors. Nothing serious, the sort of dialog boxes you close and ignore.

Given that I was only using ai suite for some fan profiles I will probably just uninstall it.

Armoured_Bear 31 Jan 2018 15:23:28 31,233 posts
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Sharz wrote:

Armoured_Bear wrote:

Fake_Blood wrote:
Ai suite 3 works fine on my windows 10 install.
Won't for mine, says wrong motherboard.
AI Suite (I think 2 on my Z68 board) was working fine till about a month ago. Now whenever Windows starts I get some random errors. Nothing serious, the sort of dialog boxes you close and ignore.

Given that I was only using ai suite for some fan profiles I will probably just uninstall it.

Same as me then, so how will you keep your fans quiet?
I'll fanny with the BIOS but it never worked as well as the software.
I can't find a version of FanXpert that works either..

magicpanda 31 Jan 2018 15:37:16 15,130 posts
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I don't think I've looked at any kind of fan profile in 20+ years. Stick the pc inside a Fractal case and forget about it.

Armoured_Bear 31 Jan 2018 16:32:31 31,233 posts
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magicpanda wrote:
I don't think I've looked at any kind of fan profile in 20+ years. Stick the pc inside a Fractal case and forget about it.

It's in an HTPC case in my living room and I like my fans as quiet as possible.

Sharz 31 Jan 2018 16:46:02 2,121 posts
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My pc is in a S340 case so isn't a huge problem. The issue I have is that the fans have a habit of pulsing if I don't use profiles. Which is bloody annoying having the hum sound constantly changing. Not sure why, but I assume something is buggered on the motherboard as the temps arnt really a problem. Wouldn't be the first thing to go wrong on the motherboard, poor thing is coming up for 7 years old.

Haven't worked out an alternative yet though.

1Million_Tons_of_TNT 31 Jan 2018 16:57:52 96 posts
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The last time I bothered with a PC game was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, about a year or so after it�s release.

After installing the game, i searched online on how to get it working. Then I downloaded and installed a massive patch that got the game working and fixed known bugs. Quite a lot of effort, to play a game.

Somewhere between 10 and 20 hours into the game, and thinking it was rather good, my PC was destroyed by a virus, requiring a complete re install of Windows.

The cause of the virus: I was waiting for a parcel to arrive from the US. An email arrived proclaiming to be from FedEx, and in my eager naivety, without checking the senders email address, downloaded the .pdf containing my parcel details, presumable a tracking number. It was a f*cking fake scamming c*nting email, that shafted my PC the moment I clicked on the download >8(

Stuck with Playstation ever since

BigOrkWaaagh 31 Jan 2018 18:15:32 10,554 posts
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@1Million_Tons_of_TNT You could save yourself a lot of keystrokes if your username was Megaton.

Fake_Blood 31 Jan 2018 20:56:25 11,093 posts
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Armoured_Bear wrote:

Fake_Blood wrote:
Ai suite 3 works fine on my windows 10 install.
Won't for mine, says wrong motherboard.

iirc, when you click the install exe it unzips everything to the windows temp folder.
Their exe probably fucks up when it tries to determine what mobo you have, but if you copy what it put in the temp folder before you close the failed install, you can manually install from that folder.

What board do you have, mine is a mini-itx Z97.

THFourteen 31 Jan 2018 20:58:42 54,987 posts
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If you ain�t got a custom loop it ain�t really a pc.

Dirtbox 31 Jan 2018 22:18:09 92,595 posts
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Windows sucks because the hardware manufacturer stopped supporting their old hardware? Christ, if that's a case someone can make then I should have been on here years ago bleating on and on about how OSX sucks because none of the pre-OS9 hardware would work. At. All.

richardiox 31 Jan 2018 22:37:51 10,097 posts
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Nah, PC Gaming can be a fucking ballache is the general gist here.

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