Ian

So, last year I got a new desktop for school and gaming, however it does not perform well on many of my games. Here is what "Can you run it?" said about Medieval 2: Total War. CPU Recommended: Pentium 4/Athlon XP You Have: AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 630 Processor PASS CPU Speed Recommended: 2.4 GHz You Have: 2.8 GHz Performance Rated at: 5.6 GHz PASS RAM Recommended: 1 GB You Have: 5.7 GB PASS OS Recommended: English version of Microsoft Windows 2000/XP. You Have: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition (build 7600), 64-bit PASS Video Card Recommended: 100% compatible DirectX 9.0c 256 MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 2 support and the latest drivers (NVIDIA GeForce 6800+ You Have: GeForce 9100 PASS Features: Recommended attributes of your Video Card Required You Have Video RAM 256 MB 2.9 GB 3D Yes Yes Hardware T&L Yes Yes Pixel Shader version 2.0 4.0 Vertex Shader version 2.0 4.0 DirectX version Recommended: 9.0c You Have: 11.0 PASS Sound Card Recommended: Yes You Have: Realtek High Definition Audio PASS Free Disk Space Recommended: 11.0 Gigs of uncompressed free hard disk space You Have: 768.1 GB PASS DVD-ROM Recommended: 8x Speed DVD-ROM drive (1200KB/sec sustained transfer rate) and latest drivers You Have: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7231S5 SCSI CdRom Device PASS Yet when I play the game, I have to take the graphics way down to play it without choppiness. What is wrong and how can I fix this?

I have yet to watch any of the movies.

I prefer Civil Protection, but both are entertaining to me.

I'm hyped to see whether Dave gets crackers or not. Definitely setting some time away to watch this.

Ehm... Isn't this covered in the "What are you playing?", just a few places down de list? Good point, but that doesn't go as far in depth. Mr. 13, just change the title to reflect what you want people to do in this thread, because the two are different.

Rome: Total War - Barbarian Invasion (RTS) The first expansion to the Rome: Total War game, Barbarian Invasion takes place during the Barbarian Migrations and begins the fall of Rome. In the campaign you are placed on a map where you manage your cities. Here you can build shrines, meeting halls, markets, and shrines as well as creating your armies. These all affect public support, population growth, and income, as well as faith conversion. Being the time when Christianity finally set in the Roman empires, each faction varies a slightly in religion (this is expanded a lot in Medieval 2: Total War). Notifications on the right tell of your profits, marriages, deaths, declarations of war, and historical events. In the example below, the Frankish capital, Vicus Franki, is under siege by a Western Roman general with a massive army. This map also allows you to move diplomats, spies, assassins, boats, and armies to do their business around Europe. Alliances can be forged, bribes can be made, and battles of sheer strategy can commence here. Battles work in three of ways: a siege, a normal battle, or a naval battle.When a faction lays siege, your city is blocked from trade and your soldiers begin to die of food shortages. You can only hold out a siege for a certain amount of turns based on how big your city is. You can decide (or be forced) to leave the walls and attack or hold out until they make the siege equipment to attack. If your troops are traversing Europe, they can also battle other armies. Based on where you are on the map, a battle map is generated of the area around you to reflect where you are. Soldiers fighting by the sea will actually be by the sea, and battles fought over a bridge on the map will actually fight over a map. When a battle begins, your general gives a speech based off characteristics he is given in the campaign. You can wait three times in order to change weather and time of day. Thereafter, you set up your army however you want. Ambushes can be held by moving an army into a light forest. By chance, you can either catch the army completely off guard, where they will be positioned in a marching formation or they will have time to prepare. Each unit excels in something another does not. Archers can fire flaming arrows, Germanic soldiers with round shields can make a shield wall, cavalry can form a wedge, horse archers can form Cantabrian circle, and berserkers can go, well, berserk. If you are interested in ancient history or the transition from Ancient Rome to Medieval times, this game is for you. The thing about this game is that you WILL lose some battles. The game isn't just about winning, but rather how you get there. I hope you enjoyed this brief overview.

Yeah, that's also what I was expecting.

Although I generally eat pizza cold after, I feel like pizza is something you have to eat as soon as you get it and no other time.

What did I just watch?

I would name him Oscar.

Thank you, United States Congress, for authorizing October 9th as Leif Erikson Day. Now I can celebrate Norse history without leaving the country. If anyone hasn't yet noticed, I am obsessed with this kind of stuff right now. Give me some time; I'll calm down.

Now I know everything about Canada I wanted to know but was afraid to ask.

Hello, my name is Ian. I am a mod as well as a subtitle manager here, so if you have submitted subtitles, you may have already met me. I study languages, mainly Germanic, but I also take Mandarin Chinese in school. I hope I don't annoy any of you here, haha.

On the contrary, my friend and I were following your elections last year.

Gone with the Blastwave It's a comic about a post-apocalyptic world where three factions, Red, Blue, and Yellow, fight over a seemingly never-ending, bombed-out city. It's great because the two soldiers have the same relationship as Mike and Dave do in Civil Protection.

I've really been into Sigur Rós. I nearly died when I heard them on a Ford commercial. If anyone knows any bands like them that speak other Germanic languages, please tell me. I've love learning foreign languages through music.

I was hoping someone else would take care of this for me. I'm also from Pennsylvania.

Ah yeah, it didn't Oh well, I'll just link it.

Hm, I can see it now. It did go away for a second, however.

I made a CoD: WaW machinima with my friends as a challenge to some squeakers who made some insultingly stupid videos. We did it on a stormy, summer day in the late afternoon, and finished two hours later. It has poor quality, the story doesn't make much sense, and some things I attempted to re-shoot turned out worse. In the end, we uploaded it, and it is the only true machinima we have made.

Total Annihilation (RTS): I've had this game since my parents first bought a computer. This is the predecessor to Supreme Commander. http://www.rakrent.com/rtsc/rtsc_totala.htm The story is about a conflict between Arm and Core that has lasted for thousands of years and decimated galaxies. The battle came about when humanity learned how to transfer consciousness into machine for immortality. Some did not want to just throw away their bodies and believed it was wrong, so they formed the group called Arm; those that wished for immortality joined Core. The war goes on with Arm cloning their best warriors and Core basically copying and pasting theirs. The gameplay is amazingly fun. Coming in two discs, each hold a part of the game. On one, there is the campaign in which you play the last battles of the war for either side, while on the other there is a skirmish/multiplayer mode. No one played years ago, but the skirmish is well worth the time as well as the campaign's story. You already have a set amount of resources that recharge based on how much you're getting. You can make buildings that create bots, tanks, aircraft, and warships. I'd have to say, this may be my favorite game next to Rome: Total War and Minecraft.

I'm doing pretty well. I've made it through the week, so I guess I'll take the weekend to study Icelandic, Swedish, and Gothic. The weather is going to be rainy here; there won't be much to do otherwise.

Yeah, I was wondering if you looked at Minecraft at all. I'm addicted and I've had it since last September.