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Old 10-02-19, 03:09 PM   #1
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Hi folks, I used to play SH3, & had quite a lot of mods thanks to the clever folk on here.
Then I had to change (or more likely update my PC....I had a local friend who could do anything. I struggled to install the mods after that upgrade, so just ran the basic game, but it crashed frequently. I then used a laptop for general web stuff & forgot about SH3.

Laptop broke. So used old pc, but the XP prevents a growing number of web pages from opening.

The other day I got an email re Wolfpack, so it's got me interested.

I would probably start again with SH3, - I tried SH4 & didn't like it. I've seen bad press about SH5..... to be avoided?

So I'm thinking I'd try a modded version of SH3 & perhaps Wolfpack Solo.

But I'm close to a dullard with computers. Seems like Windows 7 or 10 are the options.... which? I'm not sure whether to buy new or possibly a 'refurbished' one. A year's warranty advisable. ??
Or gut my tower & replace the components. The power supply is 450w..... enough?
I'm in the UK.

Any advice most welcome.
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Old 10-02-19, 10:21 PM   #2
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Old 10-03-19, 05:18 AM   #3
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I'm in the same boat as you, I used to keep up with PC developments, but they got so good from around 2008 on I stopped paying attention to CPUs and grfx cards. Now I keep a PC for 5+ years.
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Old 10-03-19, 08:09 AM   #4
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Ok....a bit more specific..... to run Wolfpack, with a bit of future-proofing, what spec motherboard/processor & graphics card would you recommend.

I don't really expect to play other games....but who knows.
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Old 10-04-19, 04:18 AM   #5
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Well, phew!! 110 views & zero help............
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Old 10-08-19, 03:31 AM   #6
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Hi Birdseye.

A lot depends on your budget, I am in Oz but generally you don't have to spend a heap to create a reasonable gamer.
There is a site https://pcpartpicker.com/ that can help you build a rig before you spend you Euros/Pounds and it will give you a good start.
I recently built a new PC after being out of the game for a few years, as it happened I went above the call but thats the way I roll. My rig runs SH3 at 400+ frames and SH4 at 200+ frames with all graphics maxed out.
Like I say it depends on your budget.

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Old 10-08-19, 12:44 PM   #7
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Well, phew!! 110 views & zero help............
Would you feel better if you got 110 posts all saying "Sorry, I don't know anything about that"?
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Old 12-01-19, 09:12 AM   #8
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Would you feel better if you got 110 posts all saying "Sorry, I don't know anything about that"?
No. But at least Colin above tried to be helpful.....

Components bought... someone who knows what they're doing about to build it.
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pay no attention to Steve, he's just an old grouch!!
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Win 7 is a thing of the past. Many, me in cluded, do not like this fact, but fact it is. No new hardware you buy is likely to run with it anymore. Reasons are... complicated...


Go with Win10 Pro, sine you want to game. For games, you need Win10 if wnatign to live hassle-free. If games were no interest of yours, only hoime computing: Linux Mint.



Once oyu got Win10 Pro for your gamingneeds, check forum or ask again for how to delay its autoupdate as much as possible - at least as long as you do not want to end up has a suicidal rabbit in Microsoft's beta-lab. Windows is no more what it used to be until W7, be advised on that from beginning on. It sells you away and is of lousy quality.



You want to get advise via web on how to switch off its many snooping "services". And even then it still will sell you away.



For serious, sensitive, critical computing, I would never consider a Windows-operated hardware platform anymore. Just for gaming, and no critical data proc essed via it, its okay. As long as some latest patch does not break something again. Hence my remark of delaying updates. I download them every 4-6 months only these days, and Windows built updates with a one year delay.


Don't want to intimidate you. But thats how it is. Much worse than years ago. As I said, just for gaming the risks are acceptable. But for business, sensitive, critical data processing: totally unacceptable. I would even prefer Google to Microsoft for that. It also snoops me out and sells me away, yes. But at least it works on the functional level, usually.
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Old 12-02-19, 04:39 PM   #11
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Our company needs a new system, the older Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2010 and Win 7 as clients are no longer supported.

So the boss asked what to do. I learned early that "no one who bought Microsoft has ever been fired".

But I risk it. We will not go the Microsoft way this time.

Too expensive, no small and middle class company can afford this anymore.
Not with all the bugs, problems, disadvantages, search not working, unintuitive GUI, licensing "system" (LMAO), this dated idiotic domain system, all data submitted to the US, backdoors and traps, fail updates destroying your programming, an outsourced exchange server and last not least this dumb aggressive MS behaviour, NSA and Trump.

I am not looking forward to it and there may be other spoofs and problems, but at least we will not pay for this joke of a company MS has become any more. Bye bye.


Privately, use it for gaming ok. Of course lots of disadvantages, all your private data and metadata stolen and tailored filter bubbles for you, but there is nothing you can do apart from abandoning all online stuff anyway.
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