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Kerflumoxed wrote:

Well, that simply means TWO SELF-PURCHASED CHRISTMAS PRESENTS! Now, about the wife of 48 years?

Jack

Jack,

I've been married 40 years. Do what I do. Tell her you won it as a door prize when you dropped by Best Buy. Of course, I'm not saying she'll believe you. Good thing you live close to the airport so you can make a quick getaway. Head west to Ansley (where I had family). No one will ever find you there.

John

Thanks, John...might try that.

Suppose she will accept the new horse as a door prize at the sale barn? Worth a try!

Former Nebraskan...where you at now?

Jack Hanger
Fremont, NE

Kerflumoxed wrote:

Thanks, John...might try that.

Suppose she will accept the new horse as a door prize at the sale barn? Worth a try!

Former Nebraskan...where you at now?

Jack Hanger
Fremont, NE

My mother's family was originally from Ansley. Mom left there during WWII to work in DC where she met my Dad who was a Marine. Her parents lived in Ansley until about the late 60's. The last time I was in Ansley was about 1963. I'm a native Pennsylvanian. Grew up in Windber PA. Now live near Adamstown, PA only about 1-1/2 hr from Gburg which helped inspire my interest in the Civil War.

The horse is easy. Just tell her it followed you home. My sister was visiting this week from Louisiana. She has a couple horses and my niece has a horse which just kicked her in the knee.

Another successful thread hijacking.

Jack,
If you are interested in stretching your brain around some of the details of CPUs and other hardware bits, SimHQ has some good articles and reviews.

See: http://www.simhq.com/_technology/technology.html as a good place to start.

In terms of a new system, the basics are simple, the faster/more $$ the new system, the longer it will be before it is too slow to take it anymore. That's my $0.02 anyway.

-Jim

Thanks, Jim,

I have been leaning in the direction you suggest. For example, as I looked at the recommendations and surfed the Intel website, I saw that Intel Core2 Duo has some progeny already. Quads, and more, and all "upgrades" appear to based upon cost. Accordingly, I am "saving" for bigger bang! Once you fine folks have completed (or nearly completed) your final suggested specs, I will take that info to the local Omaha custom builder and proceed from there. Fortunately, I can always teach another course at the college to cover the bill.

It would be nice to be able to have a "large" enough computer that I would not have to worry about upgrading for a long time to come.

Which begs the question(s): what specs are you folks developing and testing on?

Jack Hanger
Fremont, NE

PS: Yes, I must plead guilty to "hijacking" the thread!

I test with: C2D 3.0 Ghz, 3GB of Ram, ATI 4870 with 512 MB of video memory. I can run it full out with everything enabled fairly smoothly.

My old (as of 30 mins ago) rig was fine for most everything I do.
But it wouldn't run TCBR2 at much above the min. settings.
This Sirs was unexceptable! Especially with GB on the way.

As of thirty minutes ago, I am the proud owner (as soon as it ships) of a:

Core i7 920
Intel X85 chipset
6 GB DDR-3
Radeon HD 4870 1 GB

O.K., I've done my job, now I'm just sitting back waiting for you guys to finish the game.

Is it done yet?

Is it done yet?

Is it done yet?

Is it done yet? :laugh:

Kerflumoxed wrote:

Which begs the question(s): what specs are you folks developing and testing on?

3 gigs of ram, ATI 512 on-board graphics card, duel Intel 1.8ghz processors.

Like I said above, the game runs well on my machine overall, but I do have to scale it back some. However, as Norb stated there are still more performance options that need to be implemented, so what runs decent on my machine now, could run better by the time the game comes out.

I was testing MP in a division scenario against my daughter via LAN. Her system has a Pentium D (2 processors, 3.2 GhZ), 2 GB system RAM, and an NVidia GEForce 7800 with 256 MB. It ran that sized scenario without being, as she puts it, 'robotic-y'. This was with the default settings.

-Jim

As I try to "wade" through all this tech jargon, I find myself more and more muddled (of course, my wife says if it has nothing to do with X's & O's I am always muddled!).

Was looking on the internet today (bad idea) and found this:

MSI X58 Pro LGA1366 Core i7 X58 DDR3 Triple CrossFireX ATX Motherboard w/8ch HD Audio, eSATA, and GigaBit Lan

Cost of 229.99. Will take this to the local "builder" but was curious if I was on the right track?

Thanks

Jack Hanger
Fremont, NE