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Thanks, as I said, gaming is secondary, so I think I'll only play at home, and I already have a cooling system, despite of that I may avoid playing at summer at all, and I'll try to find a way to limit the processor usage as I hope it will be enough with a fraction of it.

Great, that you for your answers, if someone is interested I also found a way to limit the cpu usage, it is for windows 2000 and XP but I hope I'll find a similar way with windows 7.
 
I also don't know what's the power consumption of the graphics card when playing a game like this, I would like to keep my PC cool so that it will keep working for years, it would be good if blizzard managed the power consumption to keep it low, specially considering they managed to do so with the original starcraft.

I suppose that at this point in time we can only hope :-)
 
Again, thank you all.

I don't have a PC capable of running this game at this moment. I'll probably buy a laptop in some months, I'll then jump from XP to 7 and probably will get a core i? processor. Gaming for me is secondary in a PC, but it is something that I may like to do if that doesn't put too much stress to my PC.
 
A patch in SC allowed it to use less than 100% of the processor, which is a very nice thing for such an old game that needs so little resources when compared with current chips.
 
I would like to know several things, some should probably be better asked somewhere else, so you can skip those if you want
 

 Hi,
 
I'm sorry I couldn't and cant follow the news in the games market as I used to do, so I have to ask.
 
Years ago a developer wanted to offer free content on XBL, and microsoft didn't want to let them. I think it was about gears of war, I can't remember. I know there was a big controversy about that because on PC it would be possible, but there were restrictions on XBL, etc.
 
Which game was that about and which was the end to that controversy?
 
Thank you very much.

for some reason the long post I wrote did not make its way to the board. In short, I like to know (and I may ask from time to time) the best looking games to put examples (in pictures) to non-gamers about how far technologically they are getting.

AVP and AVP2 were great games, so I expect that this will follow suit. "

That means people will be importing that game in Australia individually, and the Australian government will be getting less money on duties, if this was the norm maybe they would change their mind about this kind of restrictions. I think Rebellion made the right choice.

AvP comics came before the movies and games? I'm not sure. "

So are you saying to me that the alien movie released in 1979 is based on the game released by atari in 1982? Wow! I'd have never expected that!

This is a game based on a movie based on a game based on two movies. Did I get it? Am I forgetting about something?
 
I'm not criticizing, it's just a paradigmatic example of the connection between both industries. It is not surprising that citizen siege is planned to be released in both media simultaneously, hopefully before Duke Nukem Forever.