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11-30-12, 09:46 PM
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The Old Man
 Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Denver, CO
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Sorry, no sympathy here either.
 10-15 minutes with GWX. My previous computer would push 20 minutes. 
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11-30-12, 11:11 PM
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Navy Seal
  Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Gresham Oregon
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Yours is about the quickest time I have seen posted.
 
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12-01-12, 12:28 AM
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Seaman
 Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Florence, MT
Posts: 31
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Holy crap. Yeah, I'm running GWX 3.0 too, you guys must have a lot of patience.
My laptop is not the fastest cpu- it is an Intel Core i5 2.5 GHz with 8 GB of DDR3 memory. But I love my SSD, makes things very fast. I thought over 3 minutes was kind of sucky. I'll quit my bitching now. 
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12-01-12, 05:33 AM
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Sea Lord
 Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope
Posts: 1,698
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 I hate buying new technology because it always seems to be a downgrade: from metal parts to even more plastic, from relative durability to a bigger risk of malfunctioning hardware. However the loading times of a fully modded SH3 are such that I have decided to take the risk of buying a new laptop with an SSD drive eventually. I hope and expect the prices will start dropping next year. Another bad thing about having to buy a new computer is that I probably have to buy a laptop with Windows 8 - who knows if that piece of ____ is even able to run SH3 
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12-01-12, 07:14 AM
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Sea Lord
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lux, betw. G, B and F
Posts: 1,898
Downloads: 66
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i mean like WTF?
siriously...
GWX+ MFM (no skins) HDD: Western Digital WD800 (75GB... 3.5inch) 7200RPM, driver date 2006, suspected build Date late 2005 loading time... 45 to 50 seconds game time, then clickong through "load career" and other menues 30 seconds... then loading the gam,e in the wilhelmshafen Harbor... 120 seconds... 3 minutes or a bit more, from SHIIIcommander to being on deck of the Submarine. Ur doing somfing wrong...? ugh? *puzzled*
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In conclusion: SH3 is the shizzle, yo. -Frau Kaleun Another negative about using your deck gun is that you are definately DETECTED, which has long term effects on your relationship with aircraft. -snestorm |
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12-01-12, 12:09 PM
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Seaman
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Florence, MT
Posts: 31
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sublynx- My Sandisk Extreme 120 GB was $120 on sale in April, now it is on amazon for $97 (the 240 GB is only $168). The hardest part about replacing the factory 5400 rpm drive in my brand new laptop was reinstalling Windows and my drivers. I put the removed drive in a USB enclosure and now have a 500 GB backup drive- actually about 450 GB while still having my original restore files and OS there. SSDs are mainstream now, no longer fringe toys for the early adopters. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that spinning drives over 200GB dropped below $200, I think the price/GB for SSDs is more than acceptable now. Reliability far exceeds mechanical drives. The only real bad thing about them I know is that if you have a failure nothing is recoverable. However, while data on a platter "may" be recoverable, have you priced what one of those data-recovery outfits charge? Let's just say that my $3,000 is better spent elsewhere, like on backup drives! |
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12-01-12, 12:16 PM
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Sea Lord
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope
Posts: 1,698
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12-01-12, 07:17 AM
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Sea Lord
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lux, betw. G, B and F
Posts: 1,898
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Another bad thing about having to buy a new computer is that I probably have to buy a laptop with Windows 8 - who knows if that piece of ____ is even able to run SH3
you do not have to. http://forum.notebookreview.com/wind...languages.html
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In conclusion: SH3 is the shizzle, yo. -Frau Kaleun Another negative about using your deck gun is that you are definately DETECTED, which has long term effects on your relationship with aircraft. -snestorm |
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12-01-12, 11:34 AM
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Eternal Patrol
 Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: High in the mountains of Utah
Posts: 50,369
Downloads: 745
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My almost-eight-year-old single-core rig takes about five minutes to load SH3 with GWX. On the other hand it won't run MFM, and I had to choose between the Wilhelmshaven and New Interior mods, as it won't run both without losing its lunch.
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12-01-12, 11:43 AM
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Sea Lord
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: In the conning tower of my VIIC scanning the sea through the periscope
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Thanks very much I have a Finnish 64-bit Windows 7 Home Edition now. I hope I can download one of these and I'll have a working operating system for years to come 
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