So I just got the $5 off winter sales coupon, is there anything else worth saving/spending tokens on?
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PC Gaming ERA | December 2019 - A Monument To All Your Sins
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Go into disk management and you will see the issue pretty quickly.
You unfortunately cannot keep any drive plugged in except the system drive when installing Windows or it will put shit everywhere. You probably have boot on one drive and everything else on another one.
Finally got around to backing up all the crap on my PC and also swapped out all the main parts (mobo, CPU, GPU + RAM) + added a new SSD.
Would've liked to test-run it tonight, but alas, the new GPU only has HDMI and Displayport ports. So I'll need to buy an adapter for my DVI monitor.
Still, the new mobo looks sleek. And the GPU is impressively big compared to my old 3GB 1060, but yet everything still fits my old case, and I've got enough power to run it all.
Feels nice overall
Would've liked to test-run it tonight, but alas, the new GPU only has HDMI and Displayport ports. So I'll need to buy an adapter for my DVI monitor.
Still, the new mobo looks sleek. And the GPU is impressively big compared to my old 3GB 1060, but yet everything still fits my old case, and I've got enough power to run it all.
Feels nice overall
If I reinstall the Boot drive with the other unplugged will I still have this problem, or do I need to format the HDD?Go into disk management and you will see the issue pretty quickly.
You unfortunately cannot keep any drive plugged in except the system drive when installing Windows or it will put shit everywhere. You probably have boot on one drive and everything else on another one.
So much stuff I'll have to backup/redownload 😩
What's weird is it worked absolutely fine for a month or two and now it's a huge clusterfuck...
edit: does this look bad? two primary partitions..
If I reinstall the Boot drive with the other unplugged will I still have this problem, or do I need to format the HDD?
So much stuff I'll have to backup/redownload 😩
What's weird is it worked absolutely fine for a month or two and now it's a huge clusterfuck...
edit: does this look bad? two primary partitions..
Primary Partition is normal, just means that on that specific drive that is the primary partition (it even says that when there is only 1 partition). Everything looks fine except that your UEFI system drive is on your secondary hard drive, which is why you're seeing these issues. You definitely have to reinstall to fix it, and I am not 100% sure but I expect you'll be fine to not wipe the second drive.
You need to unplug the 1tb drive,
reinstall windows on the SSD,
boot into windows ensuring that the second drive is not necessary for boot,
shut down and plug the 1tb back in,
make sure your boot order is correct (the ssd)
I hope with this you will have no ill side effects other than missing 16.7GB from the 1TB drive
Thank you for your help! I really do appreciate it, even if everything does ultimately go south! 😄
Getting a bootable USB drive downloaded now 🙏
Looking at Giant Bomb's staff GOTY lists so far there is legit a chance Outer Wilds could take their overall GOTY.
Got it on RPS the other day too (even if they are always kind of vague about ranking their advent calendar). Love the momentum it's having toward the end here.
Disco is my number 1, but Outer Wilds is a very close 2 so glad it's getting love from some outlets.
Got it on RPS the other day too (even if they are always kind of vague about ranking their advent calendar). Love the momentum it's having toward the end here.
Disco is my number 1, but Outer Wilds is a very close 2 so glad it's getting love from some outlets.
The secondary drive shouldn't even be touched during the boot other than to power up, no matter what is on it, because everything needed for boot is on the first drive that it checks. But I've never personally tried it so I can't be sure, I'm sure someone knows.
You're welcome! Hope it goes well.
Reaching 60K concurrent users on Steam alone means that nobody wants to play the game.
Have you heard about a little game called Dragon Quest XI?
People also like the Saga Scarlet Grace but I haven't played that yet
It's amazing they didn't just take two seconds to think : Hey, maybe this sold way more on the store that had 30 days longer to preorder, had way better offers (free games + edition upgrades), yadda yadda.
There was zero reason to order it on EGS outside of maybe a few regions that had better regional prices there.
There was zero reason to order it on EGS outside of maybe a few regions that had better regional prices there.
"while we have no idea how many people bought it directly from Rockstar".
Yeah, so stop talking Techradar until you actually have that info.
SuperData info is probably bad, PlayTracker data is bad... but they are all used in reporting like they are facts.
PlayTracker also said that SW Jedi Fallen Order was sold in 300K copies on Steam and that is more-less impossible. Even StamSpy that is off shows between 1 and 2 millions and it can't be that off. But if we take concurrent players and number of reviews we also can see that 300K is low number (based on rough math from concurrent players and number of reviews).
SWJFO is most likely past 500-600k on Steam, it kept selling for weeks after the official release and it's the best selling game on Steam now, globally.
You could try adding a custom cursor image. Maybe that works.
Not bad when you consider you could just subscribe to Origin Premier for a month and blast through it.
Yup, i think EA is probably regretting leaving Steam for years, SW did really well on the platform.
this lead me to find a suitable cursor, thank you 😊
everyone's so nice and helpful today!
Scarlet Grace is the best RPG that has been made in Japan of the decade.
However, depending of what you expect in a JRPG, this might not be the game for you. It's a game with a fantastic combat system and the best music in the business, with cute stories, interesting and open side-quests, and no exploration whatsoever.
There should be an indicator on a game's page in the library or a warning if a game doesn't use cloud save. I mean who wouldn't expect Subnautica to have cloud saves, only to find out after you reinstall Windows that it doesn't and you just lost a save of 30 hrs
On the one hand, third gen Ryzen is very good, with single core performance bearing Intel for noticeably less money. On the other hand, AMD has been pretty reliable in getting another gen of Ryzen out each year. If your ambition is to build a new gaming PC to ride out the majority of the new gen of consoles, I'd probably wait for fourth gen Ryzen and specifically get the 4700. That should get you a CPU that's better than what the consoles ship with. Oh, and invest in a bunch of SSDs. I suspect games are going to start assuming they're installed in SSDs in the near future.
Alternatively, AMD is selling slightly worse binned 2600 chips as 1600s for $85 on Amazon US. If you want a bargain bucket PC while you save up for your Big Rig, that'll probably be the way to go.
Yes, the DLCs are amazing. The Hearts of Stone story is better than the main quest, and Touissant is such an incredible setting.
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Why Void Bastards is in the background while it wasn't included in any monthly yet?
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Why Void Bastards is in the background while it wasn't included in any monthly yet?
It was leaked for the first choice bundle, but I guess they changed it after the leak and it will be in the next one.
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Why Void Bastards is in the background while it wasn't included in any monthly yet?
it was meant to be in the first monthly choice, got removed at the last minute.
I don't know much about the new Catherine Full Body, but yes absolutely the original is well worth playing especially if you like some fast paced puzzle action. It was one of the most memorable games of the console gen for me.
but what happened to her? Like I remember her and Alphi in some restaurant or bar or whatever it was, then I completely lost track of her, it was so weird.
Iirc, they got in to a disagreement and went their separate ways to do their own things. If you do the Binding Coil of Bahamut raid chain she's featured prominently there. Only problem is you can't really duty finder those raids.
They are just nice because they haven't seen your discord handle.
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Shopping for future me is not easy. I am not sure what I will want to play in a month or two. I already got several games, some very lengthy, that I want to play currently. And last night all I played was hearthstone...
This the point where I stopped snapping up deals left and right during holiday sales 'cause the prices were too good to be true.
I've long since learned that any purchase I make today only to save for a rainy day sometime down the line has like a
Hell, I've pre-ordered hotly-anticipated games way out only to find myself not really in the mood at all when they finally drop months later.
Now I only purchase title I know I'm eager to fire up, like right NOW.
Bought it last Christmas and haven't played it yet.
I think I'm gonna have to make the big decision of not buying more games in 2020...... except in extreme amazing circumstances
It looks a little better than Eight Pages which this dev also made. As much of a fan of Slenderman as I've been in the past i feel like he's lost his luster by now. That said, the trailers look fine and at $0.99 it's not much of a risk. Probably not "must have" though.
I would say that yes, they improved the combat.
There are two main issues with the combat. 1) the combat before you unlock a lot of skills/signs is pretty bland, and 2) the encounter design is uninteresting.
For the DLC, you are sufficiently advanced that you have a larger combat moveset, plus you have access to more powerful signs that you can integrate into combat. The encounters you'll face in the DLC include more varied types of units. You'll face groups of men with spears, and with shields, and archers, forcing you to move across the battlefield while dodging and casting signs to deal with mid, short, and long-range foes. Some will need to be staggered, some will be tanks, others quick.
The DLCs also introduce boars and spiders, with erratic movesets that require greater dexterity and movement to counter.
Plus there seems to be a lot more thought put into the environment where you encounter these foes. Archers will be positioned in a manner that is intelligent to support the other enemies, instead of out in the open, boars will run about forested areas where trees will obstruct your abilities, etc.
You'll also face some special bosses that require new tactics to face, with unique attack mechanics.
I think the base of the combat was actually okay, but dumping you on a flat field with four bandits was uninspired. The DLCs remedied this by carefully designing the encounters and environments to compliment each other, plus adding enemies that you can't button-mash to death.
Yeeeaahhh, this happened to me. If you have Windows on a drive, then get a new drive and do a new installation of Windows, it will use files off the old drive to do it. edit: technically it uses the boot partition.
So from now on, I always make sure if I'm installing windows, all other drives are disconnected.
This seems like a common issue, I have no idea why MS designed it that way.
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Windows doesn't install onto every drive. What happened is that you had a previous installation of Windows on your drive, so when you go to install on your new SSD, windows doesn't bother with making a boot partition because it already finds one.Go into disk management and you will see the issue pretty quickly.
You unfortunately cannot keep any drive plugged in except the system drive when installing Windows or it will put shit everywhere. You probably have boot on one drive and everything else on another one.
Or like Thumper, will never appear.
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Windows definitely can choose random drive to install boot partition on. For me it has even chosen to make HDD boot when I have Windows Installed to SSD.
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