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Falcon said:
MasterP said:
Also, cross-room networking between consoles will not be possible.
*will be a logistical nightmare. “not be possible” assumes that you don’t have some good lengths of network cable and routers/switches to relay between rooms, and permission to run them. I’ve seen smaller inter-room dorm competitions work.
Not possible as in networking will not make half the entire UC 2nd floor gaming-capable for ethernet cables plugged into the wall, not possible as in we don’t have long enough cables to run between the rooms, not possible as in we don’t have enough switches for more than 3 rooms, and not possible as in we can’t run cables in the hallways.
I started all 14 Left4Dead2 servers…
Yes that’s 12 populated l4d2s and yes that’s a steady 3% cpu usage.
Nickname said:
MasterP said:
MajorMajorMajor said:
Starcraft will be win because you can install in literally 10 mintues, use only 1 key for 100 people, and RTS which is awesome.
Yeah see we try to stay legit…
that is the biggest lie ever masterp and you know it lol.
I mean we’ve pirated before but none of those companies really care a whole lot.
Blizzard rapes people for even thinking about pirating.
Ephraim said:
Unless I am mistaken, we tried having a Starcraft tournament a year and a half ago and it was canceled. What happened there?
We’ve held 2 Starcrafts in the past. First one was freeplay and it was decent with like 8 people. Maybe 8. The second one was regular tournament play and had like 5 people.
FTE Kaz-Ka said:
You do know that we actually had a fair amount of PC gamers playing this game too right? And a good portion of those people actually wanted to use the keyboard to play (and I watched one of them while he was practicing and he was actually doing pretty good against the CPU). Im actually trying to work on making this happen (use the keyboard for the game in a 2 player vs match, which Im sure will not be a problem). Honestly we had a decent turnout for this game from both the PC, PS3, 360, and Wii owners of the club. Diss the game if you want, but its a good game and has some potential, which has been proven. I mean come on, would you complain if I tried to hook up a PS3 controller while playing TF2 during the LAN?
You can’t have had many PC gamers want to play it because you only had about 5 PC gamers there according to the tournament attendance sheet.
If you wanted to use a console controller for TF2, which you can btw, I would complain as well. If you want to play that game with mouse/keyboard great, it takes away about half the animosity I have towards it, but you’ll also lose over half the players in the process.
MajorMajorMajor said:
Starcraft will be win because you can install in literally 10 mintues, use only 1 key for 100 people, and RTS which is awesome.
Yeah see we try to stay legit…
Nickname said:
The # of ppl that own supreme commander 2 is comparitively tiny compared to starcraft. Starcraft is still suprisingly popular so I support this game.
I would hope so, the game comes out next week… I was tossing it out as an example. Despite what the campus members may be telling you, companies other than Blizzard make RTS games.
Btw, just because Starcraft still has a decent number of ONLINE players doesn’t mean it’ll be any more successful on campus. Those 30k players won’t be driving to the LAN.
Nickname said:
Was anyone concerned when we had 5 PC FPS games in the past?
Yes there was quite a bit of whining going on about it even before we graduated.
Nickname said:
If they were able to work it last time, I am sure they can do it this time. Plus that game got the most votes.
They had 1 PC with 2 PS3 controllers.
Nickname said:
Last I checked, we were a non-profit organization.
We are nonprofit but when we’re out of cash we have to close our doors. Considering how much money we’ve lost in the last year that endpoint isn’t too that far away. Remember that money drive PCs did that raised like $2000 in a 2 day stretch? Yeah something tells me we don’t have members like that anymore willing to donate en-mass to get the club out of a crunch.
nake said:
i may be new to the club… however the people voting for the game are people that do actually show up.
A warcraft/starcraft game has been voted in for the last 3 events and has never done “well”. In fact warcraft3 was disqualified because even through it always had many votes it never had more than a handful of players. Considering the PC attendance last time (and note that no one voted online b/c we weren’t allowed to) the whole “they do show up” argument falls apart.
Kazka said:
If Im not mistaken 25. Which is, from what I was told, a good turnout for the PC side.
How many of that 25 were console players? Of course you’re going to pull in every PS3 player if you play a fighter game on another system. The point he was trying to make, and that I’ve made several times, is that you aren’t growing the PC side. You have a “strong” tournament, big deal, those aren’t PC players. If you replaced the entire PC lineup with console fighters you’d have the strongest PC turnout in years but that doesn’t mean it was a successful PC LAN. All it means is that you know how to artificially inflate turnout on a console of your choosing.
Don’t get me wrong. If Starcraft gets 20 players I’ll be all for playing it again. If WC3 had brought in 15-20 I’d do the same with it. What I won’t sit quietly for is when non-American PC games are voted in and in the entirety of campus there are maybe 3 copies, of which we don’t even know if they’re legit.
Starcraft == Warcraft3. They are the same and people who hate one also hate the other. SC will fail the same way. If you want an RTS get something new and worth a *edited*, like Supreme Commander 2.
3 LANs will not work well, you need to focus on getting attendance up before you start expanding. If you expand with a weak foundation you risk turning the club into what the NCSU gaming club is, lots of smaller events but nothing big.
Is anyone else concerned about there being 5 console fighter games?
Also, what happened to the “if you don’t own, have never played, and don’t know where to get the game don’t vote for it” rule? We had what, 1 copy of Guilty Gear at the last LAN? Since it’s not even sold on PC in this country I can’t imagine that those 15 people all own it…
Multiple rooms will work but as anyone that’s been to an ASU event can tell you it’s a serious pain for the players. If at all possible, this should be avoided. Also, cross-room networking between consoles will not be possible.
Kazka, I know you’re trying to help, but doing business with LMP is a mistake. Every exec who’s dealt with them in the past has told you this and you seem to just not care. The room may be free but food/drinks won’t be. You may think it ok to not make a dime but the club isn’t in a position right now to start doing charity work in conjunction with other organizations, especially others that are directly propped up and supported by the university. LMP doesn’t care about us or about making money because they have a bottomless supply of taxpayer dollars to draw upon, we do not. They approached us because we are the largest student organization on campus and they want to use our success to benefit themselves. If you can’t see the real intentions behind this you need to let the VPs do the negotiating. If they’re going to use us in this fashion then WE dictate the terms, not them. Working together would help both groups but one should not have to sacrifice all gain while the other sacrifices nothing to gain all. It’s not financially sustainable, or worth it. Also remember that no prizes will hurt attendance. It shouldn’t but it will.
Also word of warning, just because you schedule the events now doesn’t mean you won’t get bumped later. I would wait until early April, after all the official university events are scheduled. Please discuss all dates with the exec council before proposing and having them voted on.
If the game is so unbalanced why do you keep playing it?
When PC games are terrible we quit playing them and they quickly die. After a couple fails the developer learns to quit making terrible games or they close shop. This cool trick also works with console games.
Nothing should make a character bannable IMO. Now I fully understand that some characters are higher “tiered” than others and there are some characters that someone who’s never played the game before can use and beat seasoned veterans with but that doesn’t make the character unbeatable, nor does it constitute an unfair advantage.
Each and every character has weaknesses. This is true of every fighter game since MK1, if not earlier. If you aren’t good at one character, try a different one. If you suck, practice more. The ability of a character to be unbeatable or “MONSTEROUSLY POWERFUL OMG WTF WE HAVE TO BAN IT NO FAIR HAXS!!!1!1one” is 100% in your mind.
The wiimote will never be as effective a controller as the light gun. The engineering behind it prohibits its usefulness as a gun.
With that said, the engineering behind the light gun keep it from being useful with modern games.
Nintendo learned their lessons about controller attachments with the N64 and will be keeping them to an absolute minimum from now on. Instead they’re focus will be on using the expansion ports on the console itself, something Nintendo has very rarely done in America.
The cop that saw my first car get totalled drew a pretty epic picture of me getting hit. He even managed to get the small details, like the jeep being on top of my hood… >.
I imagine you discovered the same thing I did when I hit 23:
It’s really no different than 19, or 20, or 21, or 22. It’s just another day that has mearly an arbitrary meaning.
Mitch says: so heres how this is going to work
you’re going to finish the day from home
and we’ll l4d2 it up
Mike says:
not likely
Mitch says:
/do it
Mike says:
/no
Mitch says:
N
A
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Mike says:
gtfo my messenger
Mitch says:
lol
What is the exact model number off the bottom sticker?
Nvm I can’t read.
Start search: device manager
Under display adapters open the only video card listed
Go to Details tab, click the scroll down menu and select Hardware IDs
The top listing should be PCI\VEN_XXXX&DEV_XXXX……..(etc)
Please give me the VEN and DEV ids that are listed.
Also, by “2008 driver” I assume you mean the one listed here:
The body background color isnt properly defined.
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_background.asp
It also looks like your website width is locked at 838 pixels throughout the whole css document. Not sure what did that but you might want to extend it out or find the auto-adjust value.
Nickname said:
MasterP said:
If you’re running Windows7 you can’t be using a driver released in 2008…
unless he is using a vista driver.
My old laptop (HP dv2000z) with its geforce go6150 wouldn’t work right unless I used a vista driver from back in 2007; even the windows update driver would cause issues.
The HP DV series has working Win7 video drivers.
If you’re running Windows7 you can’t be using a driver released in 2008…
As for HP, they’ll help you at any point, in or out of warranty, but if you need something replaced it gets really expensive, really fast. Not really their fault though, all manufacturers are that way.
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