New toys

An extra 1 gig of memory works wonders...

Noticias externas — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 16:11:00 GMT

I had previously installed Vista on my home machine , which had 1 GB. Vista was neat, and Civ 4 continued

My experiences Installing Vista at Home

Mike Stall's .NET Debugging Blog — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:27:26 GMT

I've upgraded my home computer from Windows XP sp2 to Vista , which you must have heard that Microsoft

re: New toys

Mike Stall - MSFT — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:35:01 GMT

rockingsoc - Sorry, I have no idea. The official Civ4 website is http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/home.htm. Try looking around there, or on the forums at http://www.2kgames.com/civ4/community.htm

re: New toys

rockingsoc — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 04:25:51 GMT

im having difficulties with civ 4. my screen when i play is really black and i can see my units and cities but no land plz help

re: New toys

Mike Stall - MSFT — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:41:48 GMT

Kevin - we have a bunch of data and programs on the old machine. We still need to copy it over. In the meantime, we TS into the old one now.
Damian - I agree about using older machines to develop.

re: New toys

Barry.Kelly — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 19:51:26 GMT

Odd coincidence: on Saturday I bought myself Civ 4 and a wireless mouse. Strange.

re: New toys

Damian Mehers — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 12:31:08 GMT

I do most of my development on a Sony Vaio SRX-99 with 256MB of memory -- it runs VS.NET and SQL Server 2000 without a problem, although it pretty much dies if I try to run much more.

But ... if stuff I write on this machine works pretty fast, I know for sure it will scream on most of my customer machines.

I think there is a lot to be said for developers using older machines!

Damian

re: New toys

Kevin Kitching — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:58:18 GMT

The machine I use for noodling around with the new stuff (VB.Net EE Beta 2) is a Dell Cpt - 550 Mhz and 256 Mb Ram. It's slow, but it does what I need it to do. XP runs on it - but I've had to tweak the settings towards the performance side as opposed to the pretty side.

Truth be told, I think XP is running faster on it than the Linux build I have on the other HDD for the thing.

Still, upgrading is cool. I'm thinking that when I finally give up on this old workhorse - which will be a sad day for me, we've been through alot - this machine and I, I'm going to get a Tablet.

The people who are laughing at us for our sturdy old computers are usually the types that just go buy a new machine instead of cleaning up the OS now and again anyhow. Like I said, this one is slow - but I can count on it.

Old computers never die, they just obsolece.

Find a good use for that other machine?