HAPPY Birthday
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Well, I tried to avoid it, but here it is. I suppose I could have erased the date from my profile, but that would be cheating.

@Aktungbby: The Picasso picture is quite appropriate. I may not look like that but I sure feel it.

Thanks all.

Happy Birthday Steve!
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Happy Birthday Steve!
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Happy birthday Sailor Steve, hope it was a good one!

Well, now that it's almost over I can talk about my entertaining (?) day.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a new computer, pretty much the one I've always wanted. It's a desktop PC, in a tower, and it has the latest, greatest components. I admit it's near the bottom of the latest, greatest, but it's still far beyond anything I've ever owned before. It arrived last Saturday, and '100 Years' has kept me so busy I didn't have time to even plug it in. When I finally did it refused to talk to the monitor. It turned out that it has two HDMI ports. One connects to the onboard graphics and the other, which I didn't notice at first, goes straight into the super-duper (bottom of the line) graphics card. Once I had the cable in the right port everything worked perfectly.

Friday I copied everything off the main drive of the older laptop onto my 3-TB hard drive, and yesterday I started copying everything onto the new PC. this morning I took a break and treated myself to a steak lunch at Sizzler. Then some more work. Then a nap. Tomorrow I have some last downloading to do, then wipe the old PC clean and scrub the desk and floor. Then everything will be set to go.

Then my sister called me, and that's always fun. A good day, if not exactly an exciting one.

Congratulations on the new PC Steve!
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That's good Steve I hope you didn't scrub the old one too fast ... You should've left it alone for a back up

What OS are you using ... I've heard nightmares about OS10 :o

I have so many games I can play now on my newish gaming rig, that the real difficulty I face in deciding what to play next means I ultimately end up doing nothing. I understand that this is known in psychology as "the paradox of choice"

Nice to hear you had a good day !
OT 1: So your computer works, this is fine. Visited a friend yesterday who has the latest super duper overprized computer with Win 10.
Ran fine for a few days, now you cannot log in "...group policy client cannot be loaded..." after entering the (right) password, or right Pin alternatively (you can switch between - what the f..ormidable for?). No repair, no starting in "degraded" mode (lol), no set back to former saving point works. After trying for thee hours i had to leave him in his misery. Seems a new install is mandatory. B.t.w. it would not even get you to the login screen if it was not connected to the WLAN/Internet. Thanks MS for this wonderful stuff lol
I wonder why my Win10 still works, after two years. There are the strangest of messages appearing now and then but MS keeps telling those are not bugs but "features", in their help forum pages. Ah.


OT 2: @Eichhörnchen did you download the free Rise of Flight now, so we can finally have a scrap in the skies over Verdun? :D

Not yet... I haven't been able to make a decision on that yet. I don't know that my internet connection would survive such an encounter anyway :D

Is it still the case that I should disable Windows UAC before installing RoF? And it's about 8G, right? Only it took me over 24 hours to download "Stalker-Clear Sky" a couple of weeks ago and that was only 3.87G

So no twerking? That's good.

[QUOTE=Mr Quatro;2548676]That's good Steve I hope you didn't scrub the old one too fast ... You should've left it alone for a back up[quote]
I have left it alone. I'm just about to plug it back in, as there are a couple of things more I need to put onto the new one. Ultimately I want to give it to somebody else, as it was given to me. Of course there's always the chance that no matter how long I wait the new one will decide to die the day after. :yep:

It's Windows 10. I didn't have a lot of choice. It has some small quirks I don't like, but I'll learn to live with them.

I only plan to have a small handful of historically-based games, mostly ship and flight sims. This is partly because I want to keep them on the SSD for faster play, but mainly because I'm just not interested in that many games.

I had that happen with my laptop. In my case it was my own fault for downloading something from the wrong place. Still a pain though.

Of course. MS is never wrong. MS makes no mistakes. I had that happen with a very fun suite of Solitaire games. After some time I began to notice that the cards were always dealt in ways that were definitely not random. When I wrote to talk to them about it the reply was "Our program has more than a million possible combinations and there's no way that can happen! You just got unlucky!" Well, thousands upon thousands of games later it still deals two identical cards in a row every single hand. But of course they are never wrong.

I've looked at a lot of videos of ROF, and it is beautiful. I notice that the "free" version only comes with three planes. They have a great many for purchase, and that's where they make their money (that, and having to buy certain gauges). I'm still interested, but I'm going to buy Wings Over Flanders Fields Ultimate Edition first. It has no multiplayer, but it has a campaign system that is said to be second only to the one in Falcon 4. You can participate as early in the war as January 1915, flying Morane Parasols with no machine guns yet (the observer has a rifle). That really appeals to me.

HAPPY Birthday Steve.:up:

Without trawling back through what was said in a past thread, I'm pretty sure I discovered that I would not, for some reason, be able to have WoFF... and I decided that since I would far rather have it than RoF, I would do without either. I seem to remember that the landscape and aircraft looked much better in the former but that you have to play it via an online host?

Could be wrong about that last bit, but maybe now I'll take another look... I do also have a freeware DVD copy of RoF that came with PC Pilot but the whole thing falls on its arse every time I try to activate it. If the same thing happens after taking three days to download....