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  1. Sounds like there's some hardware flaking out on you.. Might want to have a tech have a look at it.. I did and was told "bloody Win7, always have people bringing in Win7 machines with software issues.". They took the machine back and refunded me. I later learned that they solved the issue eventually by wiping hardrive and installing a different copy of Win7. OK.. So.. This system wasn't a name brand box (I.e. Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc...) but some "custom" job... Sounds like the people involved were using some questionable hardware. In my experience, Windows 7 is rock solid.. The only issues I've had were with flakey hardware that was on it's last leg. All copies of Windows 7 are the same - even between the various editions, the core of the OS is identical. The only difference is what features are unlocked by the product key... At least you got your money back..
  2. 1.73Ghz Intel, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb integrated graphics, 30Gb Hardrive. Laptop made before they decided to go for slimline, weighs exactly 6lbs and has 14 inch screen supporting 1400x1050 resolution. Was made in 2003/4 I believe. Egad... That system IS rather ancient by modern standards. How old is the Windows 7 system? The good news - that laptop might be upgradeable. Tho, to be honest, you'd be better off investing your duckets in something a bit newer. The laptop I have has Win 8.1, 6 GB RAM, latest generation I3 chip, Got it used for about $250 and hardly weighs anything. Oh.. Its also got a touch screen, tho the keyboard is permanently attached. The bad news is that that laptop IS already upgraded to the max, lol. I did have a desktop with Win7, but it repeatedly BSOD'd (black screen) even after factory reset with no software but windows on it! That's why I am still with my little XP laptop, because it works everytime, is compatible with virtually everything I use and has never ever given me any problems. Als my finances are stretched so tight that unless it is bargain basement prices, I can't afford a new computer. Sounds like there's some hardware flaking out on you.. Might want to have a tech have a look at it..
  3. Windows beta versions for Vista, 7 and 8 all had a "drop dead" date. Going to assume the 10 beta/preview has the same thing. What this means is simple - Once the expiration date comes and goes - you can boot the system but after 1 hour, it will shut itself off. Long enough to maybe get your data off. but not much more... Windows 8 already has some of this built in. Systems with the new EFI BIOS store the product key there instead of in the registry. Once a new product key is added to a system, it overwrites the one that's there and poof, it's gone. and getting into the EFI BIOS isn't as easy as getting into the old style BIOS.
  4. Mega bummer.. I recall playing DD and BD just before getting ahold of Sacred Underworld. I seem to recall it was a pretty good game - even if it was kind of limited replay-wise. Beyond Divinity added an interesting twist - the soul forging thing - being linked to the bad guy.
  5. So by "not being supported" people mean "we stopped taking into account that OS during software development"? Huh. I thought it would be more than that. By the way, do you have to buy the NEW latest version of the MS Office with the free update? frak that. I still use the good old Office 2003 with modern format support. At least this way I know where the page formatting settings are. Hate the simplified clutter 2007 redesign in office. But I do like the Win7 MS Paint over the simple WinXP MS Paint. Truth be told, XP is not the latest version of Windows to have a BSOD. I've seen one on Windows Vista - tho that particular one had to do with a hard drive that was failing. If you see a BSOD on a Windows Vista or later system, odds are it's hardware related - and in that case, time to replace the offending bit of hardware. I'd imagine 7, 8 and 10 will also feature a BSoD mechanism that's somewhat similar to the one from Vista for the same sort of reasons... Yes, that would be part of what Microsoft would be doing - no longer considering XP as an option for installation. But it goes further than that. If some enterprising skript kiddie manages to find another killer exploit, you can't get a patch to block it. For what it's worth, no, you don't NEED to buy a new version of Office to use on the latest version of Windows. I'm sure Office 2003 will still install on Windows 10. Though, I'm sure Microsoft would LOVE it if you did. Heck, I'm able to run PaintShop Pro 7 on my Win 8.1 system without any issues. And that one came out oh.. about 2001. Truth be told, I'm using Office 2013 Pro Plus on my new system. I managed to get a copy of that for $40 when I was enrolled in the Office 2010 course I took at the local college. It's actually pretty cool. The ribbon is your friend. It's not as scary as some people make it out to be. It's very logically put together and context sensitive. So if you're working on a table, you get a menu tab with table related stuff on it. When you're working on a picture, the picture menu tab pops up. Ditto for other specialized things like charts and the like. I'll have to go along with you - the 2007 version of Office wasn't that good, but the 2010 and 2013 versions are immensely better. Consider the 2007 ribbon to be like Vista - with issues. But the 2010 and 13 versions are immensely better. And myself, I prefer the 2013 version over 2000 - 2003 versions. Consider the following picture... Where do you think the document formatting options are? Bonus points if you said the "Design" tab... Actually, it's split between the Design tab and Page Layout. The version of Paint in 8.1 is a bit better than the one in 7. Tho, for my needs, Paint is too simple a program. Need more advanced features than MS bakes into the program. All in all, Windows and Office are getting better..
  6. 1.73Ghz Intel, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb integrated graphics, 30Gb Hardrive. Laptop made before they decided to go for slimline, weighs exactly 6lbs and has 14 inch screen supporting 1400x1050 resolution. Was made in 2003/4 I believe. Egad... That system IS rather ancient by modern standards. How old is the Windows 7 system? The good news - that laptop might be upgradeable. Tho, to be honest, you'd be better off investing your duckets in something a bit newer. The laptop I have has Win 8.1, 6 GB RAM, latest generation I3 chip, Got it used for about $250 and hardly weighs anything. Oh.. Its also got a touch screen, tho the keyboard is permanently attached.
  7. Ya know, when I first saw the song title, this was NOT the first thing to cross my mind. In fact, it was the Scorpions's song by the same title..
  8. FWIW, Windows 8 had some issues - but 8.1 actually is pretty good. Been using it for 6 months and it works rather nicely. The primary change in Windows 10 will be that the "start" menu will kinda go back to the way it was. It will still be tiled apps, but the tiles will show up in a small box - like in Windows 7 and before. That is, unless you get one of those convertible laptops (like the MS Surface) where the Keyboard can detach. Once you remove the kb, the start menu reverts to Windows 8.x style - which makes SENSE... Damn... How old is that system? Good grief. My older system (now going on 7 or 8 yrs old now) could handle Windows 7 and 8 without issue. As for what's wrong with XP.... I could give a rather lengthy list - FAR too long to post here. But some of the highlights are: 1.) XP is NOT secure. It's security is an afterthought. Namely, security was introduced with SP 2. Prior to that, just connecting your XP box to the Internet was dangerous. Even after SP 2, security still had plenty of holes. Most people ran XP in Admin mode - which in spite of what experts recommended, was typical. This allows malware to install itself without permission on your system. One bad click on a link and your system is compromised. 2.) Drivers... XP has what are known as Kernal mode drivers. Kernal mode, means the driver installs itself as part of the system kernal - the core of the OS. Seems like a good idea - every version of Windows up to XP used that. The problem is, if the driver crashes - it brings the entire system to a halt - with the now infamous Blue Screen of Death. Introduced in Windows Vista, User mode drivers changed all that. User Mode means the driver is now loaded as part of the system UI. If the driver crashes, it's not such a major problem. You get a message saying the driver crashed and will be restarted. Your hard work will NOT go poof along with your Windows session. That, btw, was the primary reason why Vista was so poorly received. Many vendors took their sweet time getting drivers ready for Vista - some taking 9 months or longer to get working drivers on the market. HP, for example, took that long to produce Windows Vista compliant drivers for their Color Laserjet 1600 printer. Seriously... 9 MONTHS? HP chose NOT to participate in the beta process saying the driver model was changing almost every day - which is utter bull... Nvidia, ATI and Intel were able to produce drivers for their graphics cards during this time. Realtek were able to produce audio drivers. HP was just too lazy. 3.) Windows XP is NO LONGER SUPPORTED. Took Microsoft long enough, but they finally killed the beast that would not die off.. New versions of software - like MS Office - no longer work with XP. In fact, Office 2013 requires Windows 7 or 8.x or 10. This is a trend that will likely continue. Ding dong, the witch is DEAD! That said, XP sucks rotten eggs. Now then, you say you have to install stuff by way of your XP box and then transfer it by way of flash drive to your 7 box..? That doesn't sound like it would work too well. Moving programs from one system to another can work OK for just copying the program, DLLs and other support files, but it doesn't transfer the registry entries for that system. created during installation. That can lead to all manner of problems.
  9. So basically the seraphim and dragons got together to have a baby named "Dragon Mage." New head connon activated. Er. That makes little sense.... If you read the book that came from Sacred 1 - The Book of the Seraphim, And I quote.. "Memorandum from Urisa'N TachYon regarding the use of cloned warriors: The first test run in the defense matrix GT-AS 565 went entirely satisfactory. The DNA morphing of Dragon Battle Lizards with female Elifa slaves produced effective fighting amazons in a very short time. These warriors can be used in combat against the three-dimensional giant Worgarians as a replenishable battlefield resource. Fiber-reinforced bone constructions and organic reflex amplifiers permit efficient close combat techniques to be employed. Fitted with transmitters to send enquiries from geostationary transfer satellites, these warriors prove to be very efficient terminators, since they are able to call energy bundles from orbit by vocal command or energized protective shields. The plans exist to carry out training routines to turn these clone fighters into efficient pilots for our space attack forces. The spacecraft of the Paladin Class seem to me to be a suitable basis for this.” So what we've got here - the Creator and his kind - used genetic engineering to create the Seraphim from Dragons and Elves. Add to that a bit of the sort of thing that made Wolverine (from the X-Men - the "Fiber-reinforced bone constructions" and you can see what makes a Seraphim quite the bad arse warrior. Now then, the phrase "replenishable battlefield resource"... This sounds an awful lot like Seraphim are manufactured - grown, rapidly. Much like the clones from Star Wars episodes 1-3 and given that there are more Seraphim in Sacred 2 than there are in Sacred 1, it would seem they aren't capable of reproduction... Besides there don't seem to be any male Seraphim about. While Seraphim and Dragons are apparently related, it would be seriously doubtful they could make babies together - not with the level of technologies available in modern Ancaria. And by that, I mean the Sacred 2 era.
  10. In my epic length story (which I'm sorry, I haven't had time to finish), "Sophia's Choice" - I kinda handle that discrepancy rather handily.. True Dragon Mages are reincarnated dragons. Dragons have a rather LONG life cycle and when one dies, it's soul reincarnates normally into another dragon. But since they came to Ancaria, many died but had not had a chance to do that as dragons only mate once every 10,000 years. And so, the dragon souls wound up attached to any body they could find - humans, elves, etc.. Given Dragons DO have an aire of superiority over humans, elves, and other denizens of Ancaria, it's not surprising that Dragon Mages would be a bit uppity toward their own species. If you look at the Sacred 2 logo found in the game - there are two dragon heads - which gives you an idea on who is really in charge on Ancaria...
  11. Welcome to DarkMatters...! It's more likely that no one is finding these videos as not many are looking. Let's be honest. The game is getting on in years. While it's still a great game and is still finding a new audience, the numbers are dwindling as the game is coming up on it's 10 year anniversary.
  12. Actually... The Anubis soldiers from Stargate weren't mechanical. They were humanoid Jaffa with special armor that transformed into an Anubis like head. All of the Goa'uld had their own styles in that regard. Witness these:
  13. Yes.. It IS a War Dog from the Fable series. Thinking you're missing the point.. Kind reminds me of our old pal - the Temple Guardian..
  14. So I've basically moved to Windows 8.1 on my laptop. It's not nearly as horrid as some people would like you to think.. BUT.. That's not quite what I'm posting about.. . As you might not know, Win 8.1 is like Android, iOS, etc.. It has a store for downloading apps. One of those apps happens to be a jigsaw puzzle app called Microsoft Jigsaw. And in game, they have numerous collections of pictures that are used to make the various puzzles.. Imagine my surprise when this one popped up from the Fable Anniversary collection... Look familiar?
  15. Honestly though...did you really like the garish, disney colors of that region? That was a real turn off for me when I started the game... In fact, I think someone even released a mod to subdue the colors a l'il bit gogo Honestly. Never noticed any "garish" colors in and around Bellvue. Now, in some areas of Underworld - yeh.. there were some parts that had "colors not found in nature" that kinda had me think BLEAH.. I've noticed that different monitors show colors differently. What shows up as a dark purple on say, my laptop, shows up as a bright magenta on my 20" Dell monitor.
  16. The problem with this question - it leaves out the other continent of Ancaria (From Sacred 1 and Underworld)... In that regard, I vote for Bellvue - and the surrounding area - for the fact that's where you start - and where you meet the characters you're playing for the first time. Ascaron spent quite a bit of effort on character building right off the top. It's the hook that drew me into the game far more than in Sacred 2.
  17. Odd. Can't open the attachment: "You do not have permission to view this attachment." Yeh.. I dunno WTH is going on here. Even I can't view the damn thing - and I posted it! Gogo says he can't see it either and he's a system "god" lol
  18. Sorta like this:) Sorry bout that. Having some technical difficulties. Here's a direct link to the picture... OK Now that's even weirder. I delete the links and the 2 pics show up on their own as attachments. Oh Schot.... Gogo... WTH is going on here?
  19. I dunno.. Nothing wrong exactly with the concept of "sausage dogs" - as long as they're talking about dachshunds. There are quite a few people who are big fans of the breed... And Goblins aren't exactly a new thought either as there were goblins in both Sacred 1 and 2. The naked lords with flowers, on the other hand sounds a bit off.
  20. Sorry.. Haven't really had much in the way of spare time to write. Which wasn't my plan - but hey.. Life tends to get in the way sometimes..
  21. Hmm Peanut butter doesn't sound all THAT bad actually. Maybe gives it a sort of Thai flavor. It's the JELLY that is revolting..
  22. Hmm a bit of an X rated MST3K track on that one LOL
  23. I would like to transfer these abilities to real world and receive benefits from it.What do you think? When can we use this in real life? In decades? centuries? or a millenia? discuss please.... Well.. TBH.. This question is kinda moot. We humans are quite a clever lot. Stuff that's supposed to be "centuries" away in sci fi shows turns up quite frequently a decade or two down the road. Case in point - Star Trek can be credited easily for inventing things like cell phones - aka their communicators. Seriously, the one Kirk and Spock ran around with back in the 60s looks suspiciously like a voice dialing enabled flip phone. OK.. So theirs had greater range.. Hello..? SAT PHONE! Another example: Uhura's ear thingy - Bluetooth hands free earpiece. Moving forward to the Next Generation - I just came across this article about how LaForge's VISOR was becoming a reality. That said... The Seraphim's Revered Technology stuff.. Let's take a look.. First off, somewhere in the description of RT, it mentions something about satellites transporting the weapon or technology down to the Seraphim requesting it. 1.) BeeEffGee - A long weapon that shoots energy bolts at your enemies. 2.) Archangel's wrath - a small missile (or two) that appears on the side of a sword and depending on mods made, can lock on and home in on a given target. These two require orbiting satellites and one of the few technologies we haven't quite gotten yet - the Star Trek Transporter... 3.) Warding Energy - An egg shaped energy shield. Another Star Trek tech we don't quite have yet. You would need a small power generator that produces an awful lot of energy that can be harnessed. Portable Fusion generators - we're supposed to have them now (Back To the Future - Mr Fusion, anyone?) but we're far from having this. 4.) Flaring Nova - this one is rather tricky - as it's a sort of mini explosion that happens where the Seraphim is located and radiates outward, damaging the enemy BUT without damaging the Seraphim herself. And in a party, one would hope not damage them either. This sort of selective damage isn't very easy to pull off. Most weapons today do NOT discriminate in the damage they deal. 5.) Divine Protection - Once again, requires energy shield tech we don't have just yet. Nor the power supply.. All in all, it depends on how much money and time is spent researching the technology.
  24. Seriouisly? you'd wanna eat a RASPBERRY JELLY covered HOT DOG?
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