Coming late to the game

[Steeltrap]

Originally Posted by kylania

Find a PC you can just barely afford, then get an upgrade from that instead. Buy a PC that'll run software you didn't even know you need to run yet, otherwise you'll be buying PCs more often than Software.

A person after my own heart!!

I, too, have only just got a rig able to run SHIII. Also hanginig out for Medieval Total War II. I've tried to "future proof" it for some years to come.

Here's what I just did in accordance with that principle:

Systemboard
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe M/B, Asus - AM2 - NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI Technology, AMD Live!™ Ready, 4 DDR2 800/667/533 (8Gb Max),2 x SLI PCI-E x16, 1 x PCI E x4,1 x PCI E x1, 2 x PCI Slots, SATA II RAID, Firewire 1394, 8 Channel Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, USB 2, eSATAII, ATX
Processor
AMD® Athlon™ 64 FX-62 (2.8GHz) Dual Core Processor, Socket AM2 - 2 x 1Gb L2 Cache
Case
Quiet Black Antec TITAN Tower Case, Quiet CM 600W EPS/SLI Power Supply, (4) 5.25", (6) 3.5" Hidden, Front USB / Firewire Ports, Front Door, Dimensions:44.6cm (H) x 58.4cm (D) x 20.6cm(W)
Memory
2Gb DDR2 PC5300 at 667Mhz (2 x 1GB)
Video
1 x ATI Radeon® X1950 XTX, 512Mb, GDDR4
Monitor
Samsung 204B 20.1" LCD, Silver or Black - 1600 x 1200, 5ms
Hard Drive
WD Raptor Series 74Gb Serial ATA-150, 10000RPM, 16Mb
DVD
Sony 16x Dual Layer 16x DVD+/-RW Recorder & Nero Software
Sound
Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Platinum

[CybaGirl]

Dont worry Tchocky I did the same thing with (SWOTL) Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. I brought the game and all of it's addons before I brought my first IBM compatible PC .

Prior to my first IBM compatible PC I had been using Commodore Amigas for a few years. I also owned BOB (Battle of Britian) by the same company and played it to death. Another one of my favourites was Silent Service on the Amiga.

Then when I heard SWOTL was coming out. I could hardly wait. Knowing full well it would be better on the Amiga over the PC . But much to my surprise and disbelief they never ported the game over to the Amiga ..

So what was I to do? As I wanted to play this game so badly especially with all those secret weapon aircraft in the game. So I had no choice and I knew I would have to buy a PC even if it was only just to play SWOTL.

So what I ended up doing was going out and buying the game plus all the addons so that I had them ready. I then saved up and brought my first IBM compatible PC. You dont really want to know what it was. Nor do you want to know how much it cost me.

But either way the rest is history and I hope you enjoy playing SH3 .


EDIT:
Oh and I forgot to mention incase anyone is interested. I still have SWOTL and all of the addon's after all these years .

[Tchocky]

I wouldn't mind if I had my old computer with me, but that comes with moving house and country

[Tchocky]

After an absolutely horrific shipping experience (wrong country/customs delay/mysterious vanishing/missed dropoff), I finally loaded up SHIII this evening. I'm currently plowing through the Naval Academy, had my first horrid dud torpedo, closely followed by a near-miss of inches on a C2. What a great sim

[CptGrayWolf]

Originally Posted by CybaGirl

Dont worry Tchocky I did the same thing with (SWOTL) Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe. I brought the game and all of it's addons before I brought my first IBM compatible PC .

Prior to my first IBM compatible PC I had been using Commodore Amigas for a few years. I also owned BOB (Battle of Britian) by the same company and played it to death. Another one of my favourites was Silent Service on the Amiga.

Then when I heard SWOTL was coming out. I could hardly wait. Knowing full well it would be better on the Amiga over the PC . But much to my surprise and disbelief they never ported the game over to the Amiga ..

So what was I to do? As I wanted to play this game so badly especially with all those secret weapon aircraft in the game. So I had no choice and I knew I would have to buy a PC even if it was only just to play SWOTL.

So what I ended up doing was going out and buying the game plus all the addons so that I had them ready. I then saved up and brought my first IBM compatible PC. You dont really want to know what it was. Nor do you want to know how much it cost me.

But either way the rest is history and I hope you enjoy playing SH3 .


EDIT:
Oh and I forgot to mention incase anyone is interested. I still have SWOTL and all of the addon's after all these years .

Woohooo flashback! SWOTL, Silent Service