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  1. Does he have full control of his mouth and head? There's a top tier Street Fighter player (plays SF6) that plays *WITH HIS MOUTH* in masters/diamond (yes) rank, because he doesn't have use of his hands. he uses a playstation however. His twitch is Brolylegs, if you want to know just what he is capable of. https://www.twitch.tv/brolylegs
  2. You (meaning, your friend) can also advertise on meetup.com for any computer builders in your area who can help you (him) with building a system. If you have a car, it's extremely easy to meet in a public place, just ask in advance if you can borrow an outlet and make sure you patronize the shop if its a starbucks or something similar. If you don't have a vehicle, however, things can get rather tricky when dealing with strangers.
  3. This is the biggest troll thread I've seen in quite awhile. Phones are essential now. Not just for being able to CONTACT people when you need to contact someone (however, discord, SMS/call, whatever), sometimes you *need* to reach someone quickly. GPS is also invaluable. You can look where something is and know where you're going live. If you have a car, you can have the maps update. If you're riding a bicycle or on the bus, same thing. Now you tell me right now you're going to be HOLDING a laptop on your bicycle while trying to ride and find a location and I'll gladly sell you some land in Florida, alligator and mosquito free. Many places also require you to have a phone# as contact or security. Not having one can make it difficult if they don't have a system for only email or "landline" voice calls. I got my first ever phone (on low income support) in 2017. Once I finally had one, I realized they are extremely valuable because that's how life is these days. Comparing to how tedious things were in the 1990's for example, I'm very happy I have it.
  4. Do you have the soldering required version or no-solder version (newest)? I believe the instructions are different for each one. The newest ones require you to select "A" or "B" depending on if you have MEDA (A) or MHDA (B) type, with a switch under the thumbstick PCB, then after installing them and turning on the Steam Deck, you have to press a very small microswitch on the back (close to the select switch) which self-calibrates the hall sensor. As far as SteamOS calibration (desktop mode), can't help there.
  5. It sounds like the GPD Win Max 2 would be better suited for you than a Deck, but the Win Max 2 is MUCH, much more expensive; it costs as much as some basic Intel 11th+ 6+core laptops with Nvidia graphics.
  6. You either have to do ebay or look on 3dfx fan forum sites (reputable ones) where someone may be willing to part with old hardware. Many of these sites require X amount of posts or registration time, however I kept a V2 SLI + Roland SCC-1 build sitting around for years, but got rid of it some time back because I realized I never even used it (except randomly to boot up some Midi tunes), and the sad realization that MANY of these games simply aged poorly, and unless you never played them before, there's just not much reason to replay them, with all the nice retro/indie/platformer games on Steam, and of course, the presence of emulators, to cut down on all the clutter. I mean look at gems like "Abuse." (I don't even think this was a Glide game). This game stood out years ago, as a unique form of metrovania + sidescrolling shooter, in a unique control scheme that hasn't been used often in that type of format, but it's hard to want to play something like that now.
  7. I got my third "updated" Moderna booster like 5 days ago. Unlike the second one, it didn't knock me on my ass, but I sure didn't feel that great for a few days, but it was better than either the primary shot or the first two boosters. Felt like "I got exposed to something" and I definitely didn't feel like myself but I managed.
  8. This computer is as ancient as they come. i5-2400...Yikes. 4 cores/4 threads...at least it has 16 GB of DDR3. But you're going to have to upgrade this klunker eventually. It should still be able to run windows 10, but I'm not sure what you intend to do with this computer. If it's games, you're going to have a bad time if you are running anything newer than 8 years old. (and the video card is probably equally bad). I personally think you should get rid of that Seagate HDD and use it for a 2nd "data" drive only--and completely format it (slow format, not quick format) and check for bad sectors, etc. You can get a very cheap 1 TB 2.5" SSD drive that will be much faster than that spinner. Something like this won't break the bank. And this will be much more reliable than the old spinner hard disk drive. https://www.amazon.com/Timetec-800TBW-Speed-Performance-Internal/dp/B08GJCS69D/ Make sure you have a spare "SATA" data cable and SATA PSU power cable available. You will have to set it as the primary drive or set your BIOS to have the Timetec drive as the primary drive. Then prepare a windows ISO on your USB flash drive. Any reasonably recent version of windows 10 will do (21H1, etc). You can use a program called "Rufus" to install the windows 10 ISO on the flash drive. You can use the microsoft media creation tool to create the "ISO" file directly. Of course if you can't get windows running on this computer, you'll need to do this on a laptop or someone else's computer. Then you just boot to the USB flash drive and have it install windows on there that way. One way you can make sure it installs on the SSD is to disconnect the Seagate HDD (with the power turned OFF, OF COURSE!) and then turn on the system with only the new drive connected. If you still end up getting BSOD's and crashes when installing on a brand new SSD, then you have a direct hardware problem. Either memory, CPU or motherboard. And on a system that ancient, it's not even worth trying to pay money to fix it, unless you know someone who can give you some Z170/Z270/Z390 or similar motherboard, with a Kabylake, Coffee lake or Comet lake CPU (Comet Lake is for Z490 and Z590 ONLY, btw, Kaby Lake for Z170 and maybe Z270, Coffee Lake for Z370 and Z390)--better to save up for a modern budget system (and you'll need a new PSU as well).
  9. < removed by moderation > Anyway it's here on 64 bit windows: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Unreal Technology\Installed Apps\UT2004 If the game is installed previously and the cdkey disappears even though the game files are still there, you can re-add it by just making a string entry "CDKey" in that registry folder and entering in the entire key there, without dashes. The Steam version may take a little more work, but the key "should" be in the same location. https://steamcommunity.com/app/13230/discussions/0/810922320202540508/
  10. Yeah I meant 1060. My laptop I bought in March 2017 has an 8 GB 1070.
  11. Oops. I meant 1060's. But yes, 6 GB cards, and they were budget. 8 GB cards were the high end ones (GTX 1070 and 1080).
  12. 6 GB of VRAM in 2022? Avoid that. Higher end laptops were shipping with 8 GB GTX 3070's (the value / performance king) and 3080's (high end, especially if you had the 200W versions!) and lower spec 3060's (3060's were 6 GB) back in **2016**! That's 2016. SIX years ago. Why would you want to go backwards like that?
  13. You can update that BIOS without even having a CPU or memory installed. Never heard of the BIOS Flashback feature?
  14. I thought this was a thread about Silent Hill ....
  15. Good. More time for me to save money instead of buying $1500 video cards for the highest gaming FPS. My shunt modded retail HSF liquid metal thermal compound RTX 3090 FE will serve me well. I can put the extra money and time into some Steam Deck games.
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