Beriallord

A no-name 400w PSU is barely cutting it for a 650 TI . And it will only work if that PSU has at least one 6 pin connector, if it doesn't then your options for a GPU upgrade aren't looking good. On another note, you could always upgrade that PSU. I'm certain you could do an Nvida 650 TI + buy a PSU that could run it. Depends on what type of case/motherboard you got through. If its a micro-ATX + a mini tower you're probably screwed. As far as which PSU brands are good? Antec and Corsair are probably the best. Here is a decent one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139026 Providing you're not using a minitower. Dimensions 5.9"(W) x 3.4"(H) x 5.5"(L), if that will fit in your case it should work. 650 TI 2GB $144 after mailin rebate http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130841 You would still be close to within your budget give a few $.

Is that a prebuilt PC or a custom? Skyrim uses a lot of CPU, so an Intel I5 or I7 would get you better performance. You could get an I5 3570k. Also with an Intel Z77 motherboard, you can do smart caching, and use your SSD to boost the speed of your HDD. Basically your most used programs get cached on the SSD, which would be your OS + your most played games.

Thanks that helped a bunch. AmbientLightingIntensityInterior night/day was the setting I was looking for. It was set to 1.0 by default. To put how dark that was into perspective, you couldn't even see the walls in the stair well going up to the Arch Mage's chamber in the College of Winterhold. It was pitch black.

I'm using this ENB here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/30936//? Which settings in the ENB menu can brighten up the nights and dungeons? I've messed with a few and I'm not getting the desired results. This is so dark its borderline unplayable with or without torches/light spell.

There is a difference between sharing a political opinion, or a personal opinion in the public view, and shouting at the top of your lungs to create a public disturbance, or screaming "Fire" in a crowded theater. For example telling someone to **** off isn't a crime, but pursuing someone to repeatedly harrass them verbally is. If lying to the public were to be illegal, every single politician that was ever elected to power in America, would be subject for impeachment. The same goes for the media. The government has admitted in the past it uses false information to sway public opinion in favor of one thing or another. Its called psyops, and its a real tactic used by the military and intellgence community on our own citizens. The lies about Saddam having "WMDs" and the threat being imminent was one example of psyops on the American public. Its each individual's personal responsibility to discern truth from lies. If they don't know the differnece, then it sounds like a personal problem to me.

That is the problem with leftists, they see free speech with a big "IF" in the middle. The way I see it is freedom of speech doesn't grant someone the right to not be offended. And nobody should be accountable that speaks and influences what some crazy person does. Freedom of speech also means you have the right to lie and mislead people, publicly or otherwise. Infringe on that right means you would be infringing on free speech. If you hate freedom of speech just say so. People say a lot of things I find despicable, but that doesn't mean I don't support their right to free speech, even if I adamantly disagree with it, or even if I think they are outright liars looking to mislead people.

Its true, this is why I think the butthurt over 3D printed guns is pretty humorous. You don't even need a $1700 piece of equipment to rig together a zip gun.

The downloads fail for me too on Explorer, Firefox and Chrome, regardless of using a download manager. I did try the first time downthemall + firefox, it gave a size mismatch error which couldn't be resumed, so I tried regular downloads with no manager, and they failed too. I was trying to download these mods here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/607//? Particularly the HD 1.5 FULL Landscape. 263mb file, usually stops before it downloads 20MBs. One time it got to 150mb before failing. Tried to download it 10x, failed 10x in a row.

I can't download anything here either. I tried downloading the HD texture mods for skyrim here: http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/607//? The downloads always stop prematurely, or give me a size mismatch error if I use downthemall. I tried to download on 3 different browsers and 2 computers. Downloads are always failing today. I'm 100% sure its nothing on my end considering others are having the same problem. Neither NMM or manual downloads are working for me.

Thoughts on this anyone? I personally think its pretty cool, and this is just a prototype, and designs will only improve from here on out.

The traditional MMORPG teams are boring, they all play the exact same way and there is nothing new or challenging repeatedly playing a game according to that setup. Things get more interesting when you aren't locked into a specific team combination required to win. A game I used to play called City of Heroes, traditional team requirements were out the window in that game. Unless you were taking on a Arch Villain, which was pretty much = to a raid boss, you didn't really need a tank or healer. And you only needed a tank in AV fights because they could 1hko non-tanks. And there was a class called Controller, who could mitigate threat with holds, stuns, sleep, and then grab a heal or support role as secondary. That was the first MMO I played that did something completely out of the box.

Try turning the settings down to medium, and lowering the resolution. Play it like that and see if it crashes or not. Honestly your CPU is really old, and there is probably a stability issue with you stressing your already old rig to its limits.

http://i.imgur.com/YWd2dWQ.jpg :biggrin:

First time I saw one I actually got rofl pwned. They're actually quite powerful if they hit you. If you are lower level and don't have a lot of health they can easily 1hko you.

My current mouse has seen its better days, and I need a new one. I'm hoping for some suggestions.

Woah, I guess I'm gonna pass on it then. Especially about what I heard about the mechanics. Yeah that definitely sounds broken. You can't have an effective MMORPG team when tanks can't even tank and healers can't even heal without getting all the aggro. I read some replies on other forums about the game, and people are saying Warriors are underpowered, can't tank, can't DPS as good as the others. Clerics are able to tank better than warrior, and DPS better than warrior, etc. But to be fair though, Clerics were always very good in NWN games, one of the best all-round classes actually.

Go with something like this for a SL 100 mage: http://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls/?c=332883954502176016 The pursuers + bow combo is really good. Most people panic when you got pursuers up, and then you can pressure them with a bow while pursuers are chasing them. You could use a chaos +5 comp bow instead if you want a different damage type. You can also swap the bow out and parry someone with your shield if they try and rush you down while you're shooting a bow.

Out of curiousity, is this free to play, or pay to win?

If you got a PS3/360, there is a game called Nier, its a decent ARPG. You can buy it used for like $10. I played it recently and thought it was OK. My biggest criticism was for how many fetch quests they stuffed in the game, and that playing the game without doing those was really short. Of course, I didn't do the fetch quests so I was done with the game in about 15 hours. The boss battles were pretty well done, and actually required you use your brain, and the general combat mechanics were decent. The game was reasonably challenging.

For consoles: Chrono Trigger Wild Arms series Suikoden PC: Xcom: Enemy Unknown - loved the sound track and battle music.

Demon's Souls and Dark Souls were the last ones that left me with a good impression. The game is intence, especially invading someones world and killing them. I don't normally like PVP in games but enjoyed it in both of those games. If you get backstabbed too much by invaders, its only because you're bad at the game.

You can easily go 3 years without upgrading if you got a mid-range GPU, and solid CPU. I got crossfire 6970s and I'm not gonna have to upgrade for a few more years at least, and this rig is already 2 years old. I might get 5 years out of it.

I purchased a 64GB SSD when prices were still $150 for those. They've dropped considerably since. If you get a Z68 or Z77 intel board you can use an SSD as a cashing device and use a mechanical HDD along with it. In which case a 64GB SSD would keep your OS + most used programs on it, and cycle them out automatically for programs you use more. You don't need a huge SSD to take advantage of that and its a considerable speed increase over a mechanical HDD. If I was going to do a PC with no mechanical HDD and just SSD, it would have to be at least 256gb, and then you can always use a portable USB 3.0 drive to put your less important stuff on.

Personally this game is more fun if I just make weapons with gibbed editor and run around and blow stuff up. I recently started as Zero, but used gibbed editor to start in TVHM at level 50 with mobs scaled up to level 50 at the start. Going full sniper is actually sorta tough vs large groups of mobs its really not that great. Grenades help a ton in those sticky situations.

Also it seems like you can't buy anything in there without them asking you at least 3 times if you want to buy a gamestop rewards card, and twice if you want to preorder a game. Asking someone multiple times after they said no the first time is being rude and pestering, I don't care how you want to spin it. I would buy games from ANYWHERE else that sells them before I'd go to gamestop.