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Cool, I will have a look, and take it from there. Also have to consult with my software vendor, and make sure it will run under linux. I *think* they have a version for that. Nah, I got to work because I actually enjoy doing the work. The people are just an added bonus, as for the most part, I am locked away in the service area, and don't interact with anyone very much. (and the whole covid thing has only made me more secluded, I am old, and in several of the 'high risk' categories.... so, my boss hides me away.) I just like doin' the work. Makes me use my brain a bit. I enjoy a good challenge, and some of the stuff our customers can come up with, are truly interesting. :D And the custom builds are REALLY fun. :D At least a part of that though, I think is that I enjoy spending other peoples money. :D

I went from XP to 7, about six years after support for XP ended. :D To make it even more exciting, I was running 64 bit XP pro. It seems that no one wrote printer drivers for that O/S, and I couldn't convince the 32 bit fellers to work. :) So, I emailed anything I needed to print to myself, and printed from another machine. (at work, as I don't use one at home enough to justify owning one.) I went to 7 shortly after Firefox ended support for their browser on XP...... 7 was good, but, I still liked XP better...... :) I played with RedHat linux, and a couple other (much) older distros when I worked for Borders. (books and music, a company that no longer exists.....) But, my purposes at that time were work related, not gaming. Still running windows on my gaming machines back then. Now, I am retired.... for the most part.... just work part-time at a local computer shop. I don't really need the money, but, I enjoy the work, it's a cool place to work, and I get along with all of my co-workers. (a rare occurrence..... generally, there has always been at least one that no matter what I did, we just could NOT get along..... I do not miss that.) Oddly enough, I consider it "fun"..... (is there something wrong with me??)((you can lie to me, please. :) )) I have a laptop that I use to talk to various automotive computers.... Might try some flavor of linux on that. Provided my software will run on it. :D (yeah, I did the auto tech thing for many years as well. I like computers better. Smaller, cleaner parts, that NEVER see a Michigan winter. :D)

I knew that win 10 was simply spyware masquerading as an operating system....... But, my only experience with any variety of unix/linux was almost 20 years ago.... So, I'm a bit rusty. :D I wanted to get up and running as quickly as possible, and windows fit the bill. I like win 7 a LOT better than 10.... but, starting around the 7th gen of intel processors, there wasn't any support for win 7 any more. Bummer. :D In early versions of Win 10, you could actually turn off Cortana...... I think that went away around 1703..... More's the pity. I don't use cortana, so, I don't need it eating resources I would much rather be using to run my games.

I remember, me and my friend were fighting in HOMM3-Multiplayer by nights, me - for Solmyr, he - for undead (a lot of troops resurrrected), and the results were 50/50, we were roughly even :smile: Eh, I was only starting to learn programming languages in times of HOMM3, and didn't think to mod games... Good... But you didn't mention the Dragon Utopia :smile: I am still running windows. Recently rebuilt my machine, and was forced to go to Win 10. Of course, I have been dealing with win 10 at work for several years now, so, I know most of the tricks to turn off the telemetry MS is attempting to gather. (for the 'typical' user, that just accepts the defaults at first boot/installation, windows 10 reports EVERYTHING you do back to mother MS.) That and the forced updates are a couple of the (many...) reasons I don't like win 10. But, it works reasonably well, and I can generally beat it into submission to do what I want. :) So, I'll likely stick with it for a while yet. I am still waiting for some flavor of "ix" that will natively support DirectX. :) Modding HOMM3 is just editing various tables that establish the base chance of anything in particular happening. What skills you are offered, what spells show up when you build new levels to the mages guild, etc. Took me a bit to figger it out, but, turned out exactly the way I wanted. Which surprised me. :D Rarely does that happen. Dragon Utopia can be a real killer in the early game..... and I don't wanna sacrifice a significant number of troops that early. :D So, I usually hit 'em about mid-game. I think it would be cool to set them up so they also have the artifacts from any other heroes that have fallen prey to their lure. :D I would also like to 'inherit' the money/resources from any players that you eliminate. :D Or at least pick up some from taking over towns. But, I have no clue how to do that. Yes, I still play the game. With a bit o' tweakin' it runs great on win 10. :D

Wow ... Calling for the murder of another human being. Good to see that unity and tolerance they keep talking about. I called for the execution of a psychopath, the only common point those individuals have with the human beings is their physical shape. If you think Trump is a psychopath, you need to re-look up the definition of that term. He doesn't qualify. Narcissist? Yep. Arrogant? Yep. Egotistical? Yep. I would also add "somewhat delusional"...... But psychopath? Nah. Still and all, calling for someones death because you don't personally like them, is just a bit over-the-top. Doesn't really say nice things about you either.

Wow ... Calling for the murder of another human being. Good to see that unity and tolerance they keep talking about. The only 'tolerance' they have, is for the folks that agree with them.

What a coincidence! :smile: Also, totally OT: I remember, my favourite player was Solmir, with Chain Lightning... Ah yes, HOMM3. :) I always play Tower city to start, and Solmyr as my main dude. Chain lighting at low levels is awesome. :D I also modified the skills table, to make sure my Wizards get useful skills, and not some of the waste-of-slot fellers. I am still trying to figure out how to do the same for spells in the mages guilds. :D Town Portal plus Advanced/expert Earth Magic makes you pretty much unstoppable. :D

Patience was never my strong suit either. My wife suggested I go to WalMart, and see if they have any on sale..... but, I just couldn't bring myself to go there. :D

In the famous words of Colonel O'neill, "It's what I do." :D I am running an i7 9700KF (no onboard video, and no hyper threading, but, still, it's an 8 core......) with a GTX 1060 6gb, and it runs things like Skyrim and Fallout 4 VERY well. Framerate seldom drops below 40 FPS or so. I am happy with it, and will run it until the 30 series cards become available again. (April??) Hopefully the prices won't be as stupid. :D If you look at the chart, you can gauge expected performance by it's position in the list. Get as much VRAM as you can, as I suspect that is going to be the primary factor for performance for the immediate future. I was considering a 3060 with as much ram as I can get. Should keep me future-proof for the next couple generations of games. I hope. :D

I actually like Oldrim better..... as a fair few of the mods that I don't want to play without, don't seem to be available on SE.....

How much ya wanna spend? Good graphics cards range in price from a few hundred, to over a thousand dollars. Your CPU is pretty stout, so, you can get as weird as you want, just make sure your power supply will support your new vid card. At this point, the Nvidia 30 series cards are top o' the heap, but, it seems almost everyone is out of stock, and those that do have 'em, are asking stupid money for them. You could go with a 20 series card, as they still seem to be out there, or even the 1660TI, or Super. There is a nice ranking chart here. Have a look, and pick one in your budget. :D (keep in mind the power requirements as well.)

I know with some of the older games, it was possible to have more than one instance of the CK open at a time. Of course, that would REALLY drag down your PC..... So, best to get both open, do your copy/paste, save, then close BOTH. Maybe even restart your PC, then go back to playing.

Or, you have a mod that wants FOSE, and the mod is giving you the error.

You should automatically reload when your mag is empty. If there is only one left, you have to do it manually. Trying to write a script to automate reloading with anything other than an empty mag would be problematic.

Gotta change the animations. Not many folks can do that.

Better Console.

Drivers are a LOT less of an issue with Win 10 in any event. Generally, I do a base install of windows, then just run updates. Windows will grab 99% of the drivers it needs. I will usually grab video drivers from the card manufacturer though. I don't trust windows with those. (unless it's an intel or AMD integrated video....) For gaming machines, I will have a look at sound devices as well, as Windows tends to just want to use the MS drivers...... For the odd and strange hardware that windows can't figure out, Snappy Driver Installer has proven to be reliable, and reasonably accurate. It was a godsend when we were still doing windows 7 machines. Instead of having to manually go thru and install each individual driver, just plug in the USB stick, and let Snappy deal with it all. Made win 7 installs a snap. (until you started doing updates...... :) )

Social media are just an expansion of what's on people's minds and are only tolerant on subjects that aren't 'controversial' towards their own agenda. That agenda isn't substancial, but goes along with what's deemed 'mainstream'. 'Mainstream' is what society deems okay; not rocking the boat in any way or not going against the general consensus. Do what you're told to do, pray when it's thought necessary, be critical only of things you're told to be critical of. There's no freedom of speech when 'social media' shut you down because you go against the grain. Religion and politics are just constructs to keep you obedient. Social media are there to make you believe you have anything to say, that you matter. You don't. You're here to do what you're told, or you get excluded. I've been on the outside looking in all my life, and the older I get, the more glad I am my future is getting shorter and shorter. I don't know about that. I kinda enjoy the "Stupid Human Tricks" show. :D

Try turning off the Steam Overlay.

I don't trust ANY of those 'fix it' tools, they are more often than not, malicious software. (adware) Windows 10 already does a decent job of updating drivers...... and most of the big manufacturers have their own utilities for update drivers in any event, and they get them directly from the manufacturers website. The number of 'third party' driver sites that I actually trust is vanishingly small, and any site that wants you to install some software, in order to get your driver updates, is universally a scam.

Should be in the same folder where the game, and FOSE executables are.

Craigslist is a perfect example of just that as well. Congress passed a law (FOSTA) that would hold the liable for content posted on their site. So, in response, craigslist simply completely nuked their personals section.

I suspect that would only make censorship on those platforms even MORE over-the-top....... How so? If they aren't held accountable, then surely, provided they abide by the constitution, that should mean less censorship and a free flow of ideas? Depends on what message they want going out. If they don't like your message, they will find some reason to suppress it. Just like our government does.....

I suspect that would only make censorship on those platforms even MORE over-the-top.......

Despite whatever laws are protecting them from liability for content uploaded on their platforms, despite what the original purpose of those laws were created for, it is still a platform that is privately owned. They don't need to claim any exemptions for responsibility. The reality is, if a platform like Twitter or Facebook or any platform that has large scale traffic suddenly was to be held responsible for everything and anything uploaded to them, the platform would just eventually die out and cease to exist. No one would want to operate or host something that has large scale traffic and manually moderate everything that is being uploaded in fear of potentially being held liable. If your objective is to basically get rid of these social media platforms all together, then to hold them liable would be the way to go because then suddenly over night, Facebook, twitter, YouTube, etc... would all close down in an instant. This is naive and actually comes across as somewhat disingenuous on your part. These companies are far to large and widely used to collapse that quickly or easily. And I have nothing against them claiming exemption for that very reason. They are now, whether we like it or not, the "public squares" for the modern age, with a vast array of content, not just "problematic" content. But they CANNOT be allowed to editorialize or censor at their own will and whim in that case. That is a breach of freedom of speech and cannot be tolerated. And no, Not obfuscating obviously illegal content such as child pornography. The very concept of censoring freedom of speech is almost the epitome of evil, beaten only by certain things such as that mentioned above. Trouble becomes then: Who decides what is 'acceptable'? Or, since they are claiming to be the modern equivalent of the 'public square', should they need be permitted to censor anything at all? Should they leave the National Socialists rantings up there? The white supremacists? The Flat Earthers? Or any other conspiracy theories?? How about folks preaching overthrow of the government? (non-violent of course, as advocating for violent overthrow is already illegal....) One mans' poison, is another mans truth..... So, who is going to decide what is truth for all??