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That's me. I really like zombie stuff, pretty much every type of video game, drawing things (It's been like six months), play music in a band, and am a geek. Very much so, in fact. Also, I drew the Maxx that I'm using in my header. It's going to stay there until I hit some inspiration for some video game artwork.

My job is to make the computers and electronics at my work rise again from the dead. It's alright, as jobs go. Of course, since I'm heavily into computers, I either have or have had every major type of personal computer known to man... so if you ever want to discuss computer things, I can probably have a lengthy conversation about it.

I live in the mostly sunny Central Florida, and have for about 16 years now. I'm pretty sure I'm too old to be playing games anymore, but I really don't see that ending any time soon and hope it never will.

I have a gaming PC (C2D E6550 2.33Ghz/8800GTS 512), PS2, Dreamcast, N64, DS, PSP, Xbox 360 and PS3, but I have owned an Odyssey2, Aquarius, ColecoVision, NES, SNES, Genesis, GameBoy (as well as Advance and SP), PS1, Xbox, and a Wii as well. They've all either been broken, sold, or have been grudgingly traded in for the "next best thing" due to lack of funds to buy them outright.

I read fanatically, and even though I have plenty of different books there are several that are read over and over again. Pretty much anything that William Gibson or Terry Pratchett have done are my favorites, but there are plenty of writers that still get my attention. To be certain, I'm happy Rhianna Pratchett is writing for videogames.

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Christmas came early this year.
vonneuton \| 2:56 PM on 06.05.2008	2 comments

(I figured most of us could enjoy that thought of christmas...)

Anyways. This past week has been chock full of PC gaming for me, especially the games that could not run well on my old 8500GT since I got a hold of something that makes me very happy, indeed:

A BFG 8800GTS 512MB OC video card!

The only thing bad about this is that now I want to upgrade my processor as well, or at least overclock it a bit. But it's so nice to finally be able to run games over 1024x768 with highest detail. I mean, the 8500 was fine for all the older stuff like HL2, but I love finally being able to run Assassin's Creed at higher than 15fps in low res. Also got my PS2 controller hooked up so that I could do some more emulation, since I'd kinda stopped. I keep forgetting about all these old PSX games I've got, like Soul Edge/Blade.

It was a bit of a chore backing up everything on my computer (had about 250GB on the OS drive to take care of), but the Vista install worked out very smoothly and haven't had a hiccup once. I'd run it before and my only real problem was streaming video to my Xbox 360 at the time. I got Home Premium so that I could use media center as well, and my only complaint there is that when you're in full screen it grabs the mouse. Only reason that's a problem is that I have the TV connected so it automatically uses that and my normal desktop becomes useless unless I go to windowed mode.

Since I also don't pay for cable TV (I have something against paying for 300 channels I never watch), I may get one of those USB ATSC tuners just for the hell of it as well. I have been missing my House in HD... Hulu is just not the same.

Anyone have any suggestions about a good one that isn't going to kill me on cost?

Hah. Time to go download the DMC4 trial.

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2 comments | showing # 1 to 2

braulio09

i got a boner, where can i get moar?

but the important thing is: CAN IT RUN CRYSIS?

vonneuton

Si. So far I've tried all the major titles, with good results. So far all these run on full high settings: Assassin's Creed, Crysis, COD4, Gears of War... and hopefully GTA4 when it comes out for PC (crosses fingers). Need to reinstall a few others, but I've been stuck playing COD4 for the past few days just to re-experience it.

Admittedly I'm running a few on 1280x800 to keep the framerate high, but they all run smooth.

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