Erkki

The autosaves get overwritten. You should save manually if you need to.

Rudding? google gave me Rudding Park Hotel, dictionarys nothing.

HL2 gives you TWO quicksaves (and 2 autosaves?). Other games give you just one. How is this worse?

BTW. I was talking about the song "Personal Jesus". I thought everyone knew that...

Che Guevara is fucking taking over the world. I can barely turn around without seeing this somewhere (umm... on the internet and TV). I'm almost surprised half-life 2 didn't have that image anywhere.

Heads don't explode, they a splode.

That's why I used the "quotes". There's no real right answer?

I'm starting to love the sound-track. Especially I like "Killer Barbies". Is that a Finnish band? Too bad the songs are hidden inside a big file. On the other hand, it's great that the game has only like 10 files. Games that have thousands of files are kind of annoying.

Before remembering the "right" answer when Moos posted it, I thought she just killed her mother and sister for the inheritance, and the man was unrelated to that killing.

What? How's that?

The safe mode messes up my icon placement (or was it something else). Anyway, it messes up some explorer settings so I never use it (unless i really have to). I generally agree it's for the best to close everything when running defrag, though. PerfectDisk has this "offline defrag" mode that will start after a reboot (like window's scandisk) and optimize the page file and maybe something else too.

Haven't tried the multiplayer yet... should do that. Are they ever going to release a track editor or something?

As it was both a developement team and a label Interplay used, I suspect when people say 'Black Isle published they mean Interplay published under the Black Isle label. That's what I think. But Black Isle maybe had some publisheing side staff too separate from interplay? Don't know.

I don't think it's that dangerous. It may make it a lot slower, but Firebird has never crashed on me. I of course did close every background process etc. And the only files Firebird should mess with are cookies/temp. files. The defragment programs / Windows must have some kind of checks for files being used, otherwise there would be at least some mention in the help of using other programs at the time being dangerous. I was stupid though. Or purposefully ignoring this because I had nothing else to do at the moment. When I was surfing the process stayed at 70% or so for an hour but when I left for half an hour it had completed. Anyway, this still didn't help with Half-Life 2 much, still stuttering. Perhaps there's now less of it in the cut-scenes, can't really tell.

May we still call you Trep? Do we have to include a disclaimer? PS. What's the gameplay of WoW like?

Well, that seemed to pay off well... this program managed to create 11GB of largest free space instead of the <1GB of NortonSpeedDisk / Windows Defrag. And the slowness may have been caused by me surfing the web at the time...?

I'm STILL doing a defrag... stupidly I tried WinXP's own program, and then SpeedDisk. Neither of them could defrag the Steam files and some others. But they use different strategies it seems so defraging with one doesn't make the next defrag with the other one faster. And while one shows 1% fragmentation, the other shows 35%... aargh. Then I decided to get another program and after not finding a good comparision decided to download PerfectDisk 7.0 30-day trial, which seems to be doing a good job but is taking hours... I guess I'm going to have to keep defragging once in a while. I haven't done it very often because I've some negative experiences from before. In the past, both the SpeedDisk (which I now found has received much negative comments) and Windows' own defragger have often taken long times to defrag without actually reducing the fragmentation much...

Black Isle was part of Interplay. They were somewhat of a separate unit I think. Kind of like EA Sports I think.

You are getting repetitive.

That thread sucked and this thread was going to suck even more before someone took it back to the topic.

Hah... that's a finger? I always thought it was a drop of water or something. Never understood that smilie.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2004/11/22/news_6113747.html Rockstar will be realeasing a machinima movie based on GTA on DVD and two-cd soundtrack in the beginning of December. Sounds pretty cool.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinima Put shortly, it's movies done with game engines. Like that um... red vs. blue thing.

What do you mean by updated? Updated the hardware? Anyway, I just came and saw that as per my extreme luck in these cases as it has always been, THE FUCKING STEAM FILES WERE EXACTLY THE ONES THAT DIDN'T GET DEFRAGMENTED:......