🚀 go-pugleaf

On 5/19/2017 1:00 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 5/17/2017 10:51 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> Mid-Month Ramble - May 2017
>>
>> Ha! You didn't believe me when I wrote that I intended to make this a
>> recurring, monthly thing; well, I'm back. I honestly didn't think my
>> last maunder was worthy of any responses, but I guess talking about
>> the old times hit a chord; I'm not sure this month's blather will have
>> the same success. Not that will stop me, of course; blather is my
>> middle name...
>>
>> --------------------------------------
>>
>> So this month, I'm talking upgrades; specifically, wedging on new bits
>> of hardware to make your computer run better. It's on my mind because
>> I just got a new video-card. There's a certain joy in getting new
>> hardware and watching as your PC - seemingly slow and sluggish - is
>> revitalized into a ravenous devourer of framerates. Even more than the
>> practical effects, I enjoy the act of the upgrade: the study to
>> determine if an upgrade is worth it, the anticipation of how the
>> upgrade will reinvigorate the computer, the challenge of the actual
>> installation, the worry that you may have fucked something up during
>> the installation or wasted your money when performance doesn't
>> improve, the joy when you realize performance /has/ improved, and even
>> the eventual disappointment that - though framerates are smoother -
>> the games are still pretty much the same.
>>
> 
> I've typically only upgraded when there's something I just can't play at 
> all that I really want to.  No support for my ancient computer... Or 
> plays in a slideshow even at the lowest settings.
> 
I just looked into some kind of hardware upgrade for my dinosaur of a 
computer and basically got told "too old".  Its still XP and apparently 
you can't get new hardware that has drivers that will work with XP anymore.


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