PC Gaming

Hey all,

I have recently got back into some serious PC stratgey gaming -

World in Conflict

&

Company of Heroes.

I was just wondering if any 1 had any of the above games and fancied a battle night?

1h 30 remaining on CoH download. Do you have any addons?

Yea just opsing forces-

Got some decent mods as well check out mod db

I have them both. Had them for years. Barely played them. CoH is pretty good, although I never got into it. I need to try World in COnflict again, I don't think I gave it much of a chance. Will probably install it onto my new PC

COH is amazing. One of my all time faves.

I play my laptop pretty regularly since I got the drivers for the graphics card to work (thanks to laptop2go.com). I have and semi-regularly play Company of Heroes online, although it isn't installed at the moment, and it takes FOREVER to patch up. Other than that, I play a lot of Civ IV and Dawn Of War 2, Race, STCC 2, rFactor.

Don't play as many FPSs as I used to, back in the day, because I find the laptop just isn't comforable to play them on. I have a Nostromo N52 and a decent mouse, but without a desk (got rid of my desk when I binned the desktop PC and got the laptop) I just can't get comfy enough anywhere in the house to play them. Used to be lethal at FPSs too...

Although, if they support a controller, I will sit down and play them, single-player at least. Just finished Crysis on the PC, which ran better than I expected, using the 360 wired pad.

I've been picking up the bargains on Steam recently. I've spent less than £35 since about February, and got Bioshock, Red Faction Guerilla, Tomb Raider Legend, Dirt, Race 07, STCC2, Battlefield 2 Complete, Crysis, Far Cry, the Commandos series, Medieval II, Civ IV and all its expansions, and Dawn of War 2 with Chaos Rising. Keep an eye on the weekend, midweek and daily deals there as you can pick up some gems.

If you want another RTS I would highly highly recommend Sins of a Solar Empire. Its a 4X RTS, so it can takes ages to do things and my usual player v AI games can last up to 10 hours (not at once, I save constantly)

You start off with 1 planet and have to build your empire by researching and colonisation. You zoom in from a close up planet view to see you buildings like hangers and outposts, and can then zoom all the way out until all you see is however many stars you have on the map. Each star can consist of up to 20 planets I think. It can be huge, and having to form alliances with the AI or being at war with them is awesome.

I ahve always wanted to go online with it, but unless it was someone I would know I wouldn't get a full game in.

I also didn't play FPSs on my old PC as my mouse and keyboard weren't up to scratch to play them well. My new PC has a gaming keyboard/mouse all ready for BF3

I love Sins of a Solar Empire, but I don't think its realistically a multiplayer game. Like you said, the games last hours which is fine when playing against the AI where you can save and come back to it later, but I can't imagine sitting through an entire round against other people.

I haven't actually played it online, but from what I understand if you and however many people play the game online you can save the game and come back to it as long as everyone is online at the same time, just like Homeworld 2. The tricky part is making sure everybody is online at once.

Ok cool so ther are a few of us how about company of heroes death match next week?

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Richy wrote:I haven't actually played it online, but from what I understand if you and however many people play the game online you can save the game and come back to it as long as everyone is online at the same time, just like Homeworld 2. The tricky part is making sure everybody is online at once.

I have Sins too - it's epic, but OMG Richy - plz can we play some HW2 as well?!? I LOVE that game. Relic if you're listening, make HW3 next plz!

I'll need to get Homeworld 2 instelled again, it was so incredible. I loved building parts onto ships and when you had battle using the cruisers you could detroy individual parts to cripple their engines or weapons.

Can I ask how you get a wired xbox controller to work on the pc? I'm thinking of purchasing a wired controller and I hear you need to install a driver or something. Also, would you recommend either the official xbox wired controller or the madcats version? Reason being that they're selling the official wired controller for £16 on play.com

Should be easy enough. And any will work.

If you buy and official MS Xbox controller that is wired then once you plug it into the PC the drivers will pick themselves up automatically as it is a signed MS device. If it is one of those "Wired Xbox controller for PC" branded ones (which is just the same as a standard wired one) then it may come with an installation CD with the drivers on it. The instructions will have it all in detail for you anyway. I would go for an official MS one at that price.

Ta very much chaps!

Also, I've just checked again (properly this time) on play.com and it's not £16 new, it's used. So I shall look elsewhere. D'OH! But it's £17.99 off the HMV website.

is this any good for £550?

Full Specification
CiT Vantage Black Midi Mesh Gaming Case, w/ 4x 12" Blue Fans + Card Reader
Modular 450W Quite 80+ Dual Rail High Efficiency Power Supply
Asus F1A75-M AMD A75 Socket FM1 Motherboard - uATX
AMD A8-3870K Black Edition, Quad Core, 3.0GHz, with AMD Radeon HD 6550D GPU
8GB 1600MHz DDR3 Memory (2x4GB)
1GB AMD RADEON™ HD6570 - DVI,HDMI,D_Sub
1TB SATA III 6Gb/s, 7200rpm, 64Mb Cache, 8ms Hard Drive
22x SATA Dual Layer DVD-Rewritable Super Format ±R/±RW/RAM
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64 bit - inc DVD & Licence(R)
FREE Microsoft® Office 2010 Starter Edition
BullGuard Internet Security ver. 10 - 90 Day Trial (pre-installed OS required)
7.1 High Definition onboard sound card - for 8 Channel Cinema sound
Free 3 Years Gold Warranty - inc 3 Months Free Collect & Return

hmmmmm not 2 bad, graphics may struggle to handle c.a.r.s plus i7 way to go but if uprgade power and graphics later thats cool

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-212-OE&groupid=43&catid=2040&subcat=

System Specification
- Case: Antec 300 Gaming Case
- Power Supply: OCZ ZS 650w PSU
- CPU: Intel Core i7 2700K 3.50GHz @ 4.80GHz Sandybridge CPU
- Motherboard: Intel Z68 Chipset GEN3 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard ** B3 REVISION **
- Cooler: OcUK H2 Flo Extreme Cooler w/ x2 Sharkoon Silent Eagle Fans
- RAM: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: 500GB HDD
- Graphics Card: Choice of DX11 Compatible Graphics Cards
- Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

Choose Your Select your Graphics Card:

GEFORCE GTX 560TI 2048 MB GGDR5

£1087.97 inc VAT

or

http://www.cyberpowersystem.co.uk/system/Infinity_Achilles_XT/

£1189.20 in VAT

hmmmm

Chris any idea?

Personally I'd go for the Overclockers option, possibly with a larger hard drive, or if you can, get a small SSD for your OS and programs (Office/Photoshop etc) to run off - you'll notice a significant performance boost, and they're silent (no moving parts).

plus cooler.

Step 2 would be purchase the following:

Battlefield 3
SWTOR
Sim City (the new one that's not out yet but looks A - mazing!)



http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/03/08/back-from-simulation-city-inside-maxis-glass-box/#more-98033

yea going go overclcokers order later, 1 hard drive will buy 2nd, excel will keep on work laptop PC for gaming and use windows live exchange for docs cheers buddy

reckon should get 67 FPS on BF3 on ultra

Well envious ;O( Let me know how you get on with Overclockers as that's where I hope to buy when I can afford a PC as CQR Hungover recommends them.

I've heard good things about them too, though I bought mine, and subsequent upgrades from Novatech (who I'd highly recommend too).