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The game's max res is 1600x1200. For higher resolutions you need to edit C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Config\Graphics Rules.sgr and set maxResWidth and maxResHeight to your display's native width and height

12 volt DC output wall wart power adapter > hack on a fan plug > done. Done this many times myself.

*sigh* this again. There are so many factors involved no one can say for certain which is better long term. Factors most people don't even know about such as spinup spindown cycles being far harder on hard drives than leaving them spinning all the time, heat shock from the systems being warm and then cold slowly cracking solder joints, electromigration slowly wearing away at the joints between every single semiconductor junction in every chip in the system, people having no idea if tin whiskers grow more quickly with systems on or off, and so many more itll make your head spin if you ever really delve into the physics of it. I personally leave all my systems I use daily on 24/7 but I built them for power efficiency... and turn off the ones I dont use as often.

Wow. I just finally got done downloading it (I have incredibly bad slow internet) and this is insanely good. This is what it should have been like from the start. thank you!

YAY! he wrote back with a link to all the stuff in the CD except the PDF version of the book (which I dont want anyway)! Hooray for awesome people! Now just to wait for the book to arrive.

Ooh more (intentional) misinterpretation and accusatory and inflammatory remarks! Without punctuation, no less! Lesee here, where to start? It has been documented many times by many people that java, the only language I have said is poor in this regard, is. I then go on to agree with a poster that good programming practices make the difference between what another poster said was faster, C versus C++ (and several other ones, implied). It has been shown by now that if something said here can be misinterpreted you will do such. Pot and kettle, anyone?

Exactly! I think several people here are intentionally or unintentionally misinterpreting my posts.

Exactly! thanks for proving my point for me. I have been "driving" (using) software since the 80s. I can tell an efficient program from an inefficient one. I also have been a hardware tech since that time too. After enough time anyone with enough smarts can tell a good programming language from a bad one by sheer experience with using programs made from them. And thus your point is invalidated by your own arguments. Thanks. Done feeding the troll now. You've proven yourself yet again to be talking nothing.

Sure, I'll feed the troll. You don't have to know how to build cars to know when you are driving a crappy one.

way too true. You should try the demo of the game, it actually has one.

the physics of the vehicles is a little whacko, so if you run into something like a curb youre likely to make the combine jump up in the air and half-flip, stuff like that.... if your output chute hits a grain wagon or such it can make both vehicles kinda V up really funny... but other then weirdness like that it works great for farming equipment like combines, tractors, grain wagons.

Says who? Before I had to sell it I had a phenom II x6 with 16GB DDR3 and I ran it low and out of ram quite often. It truly depends on what you are doing with the system, and even "just" multi-gaming can drag 32GB down. (some call it multiboxing)

Here we go again, this bull. :rolleyes: :wacko:

I did. I didn't see bale handling being broken. Nobody seemed to talk about it when I read reviews of it. It's still enjoyable, just not worth this much as a partly broken game. I'm going the autostacker route now too.

because I thoroughly enjoyed operating equipment on the farm I helped with when I was young, and I am now unable to do so in person. Why else?

Thank you very much! My internet is too slow for youtube or any videos right now (and until I move at least)... I hope to change that, but until then I have to stick to the old ways. This is pretty much indicative of my 'net.

Ok, so bales sliding UPHILL off of wagons that are sitting there completely still, and then sliding UP OVER AND FALLING OFF OF the side and rear rail of trailers, baler stakes holding on to bales so strong that when you try to use a building to pull them off makes your TRACTOR fly up in the air over the building, baler grippers doing the jiggles and shooting bales up in the air for about 20 seconds of hangtime for no reason....farm poltergeist stuff..... yeah, that's not broken. <_<

I really want my money back for this piece of..... gaming software. Anyone that has played it and tried the bale handling at all can vouch for it being fundamentally broken and support requests have fallen on entirely deaf ears, no patches for this problem have ever been released (AFAICT). This kind of thing makes me so livid about the gaming and even software industry. If real bale handling equipment or any other real equipment was so fundamentally broken you can bet there would not only be a government required mandatory recall, there would be a class action lawsuit by now for the case. really, seriously, $40 for this? ($25 for farming simulator 2013 titanium and $15 for ursus addon which includes much of the broken equipment but not all of it) It's real money, it's real product. It's broken. We can't get a refund, the companies basically are laughing at us. And yes, I know there are mods out there that replace the broken mechanics and equipment... Has anyone successfully gotten a refund for this?

I am serious. What I want could be built with current tech (except the osmium copper alloy, they haven't succeeded in that yet).

That's one of many things I really hope to do with this knowledge. I have one of the adafruit.com boarduinos, and an FTDI friend to program it with from USB.

wrote the author, also found oreily archive of *SOME* of the files that were on the CD... hoping the author is kind enough to take the trouble to point me at a URL containing an ISO or something...

Honestly? A tablet PC (not a tablet! the old style tablet pc) which runs on solar paint it is covered with, frame built of osmium and copper alloy so it is incredibly sturdy, running molecular processors attatched to the frame for cooling and networked in such a fashion that they "beehive" beowulf cluster like compute anything I set the machine to, with a software defined radio with fractal antennas so it can be programmed to use any digital communications present to network, screen made of a mesh of near molecular sized LED capsules running at far under their rated brightness so they can last nearly forever, keyboard made of particles of that nanotech material that is being experimented with for armor replacement for soldiers which can be flexible or solid depending on the conditions of electric charge around it in order to create a tactile keyboard which will not fail during the forseeable future, and using ultracap material for when there is little to no light shining on it to make it work. That would be my realistic (within the means of human tech and physics buildable) dream computer.

apparently my book does not come with the companion CD.... hunting it down has been a nightmare. anyone have any ideas? already tried the usual suspects like TPB.

Yes. with reduced performance to match.

OK I think I have MingW installed. I'll play with it later, time to take a break, maybe get some shut eye, do other stuff.