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Peter Huebner <no.one@this.address> looked up from reading the entrails
of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

>In article <4b94k8h7evrp7f3jo2lu783vima5mo3squ@4ax.com>, 
>zaghadka@hotmail.com says...
>> >
>> >-pw
>> 
>> Civ V: all settings on max - 80C
>> 
>> Witcher 2: high settings - 81C
>> 
>> Witcher 2: uber settings - 82C
>> 
>> RAGE - high res textures - 70C
>> 
>> OCCT - Vid card Stress test - 79-80C
>> 
>> IOW, Civ (at all settings max) works the card hard, as hard as the stress
>> test, but it's not unlike other games. Witcher 2 is worse, and ~80-81C is
>> fine in my book. Anything around <85ish is okay in my book, really.
>> 
>> http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop/geforce-gtx-680/specifications
>> 
>> Max op. temp for your 680 is 98C, which seems a bit excessive.
>
>
>Mmmh, after somebody gave me the tesselation tip on CivV I turned that 
>off and subsequently the operating temp of the gpu has dropped by 10C. 
>
>I just installed Fallout 3 GOTY and that won't run with Asus Smartdoctor 
>installed .. so I had to take my monitoring program off. Fine by me, 
>really, my ears are good enough as monitoring program ;-)for the time 
>being. I may not last long with Fallout, the thing is so bug-ridden in 
>terms of crashes, it's just not funny. 

Quite odd.
Are you patched up fully and are you using mods?

I used a few mods and the game remained pretty stable for me, just the
odd blue-moon crash, but certainly nothing regular.

>Not to mention that scratching 
>and scrounging for ammo all the time is tedious as hell (no, my toon is 
>a good shot, but how many 10mm bullets does it take to kill a 
>supermutant ... 1 mag at least. 

Well it does take more ammo early on and it really does depend on your
character skills and if you are using the VATS.
Headshots if you can make them seriously cut down on the number of hits
required.
The weapon you choose makes all the difference in the world - accuracy
is so very very important if you want quick kills.

I don't recall exactly when you get it, but Lincoln's Repeater is one
hell of a weapon, good damage and very accurate - it became my weapon of
choice for the time I got it right to the end of the game.
Very good for sniping, both with VATS or manually (I could shoot
manually from longer distances than VATS would allow.)

Xocyll
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