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#1 physicalscience

Hey guys I am thinking about getting this for PC but looking at the system requirements has me a little apprehensive. I can still play a lot of games at a pretty high quality so I am just wondering if anyone has any sort of hard reccomendation.

Here are my specs:

AMD Fx 6300 Six core

8 Gb ram

AMD Radeon HD 7770

My obvious concern is the 7770. I have had this pc for a while and am currently in college so building a new one right now is a little out of the question. The game doesn't seem that taxing but I would rather not buy it and have it running on ultra low just to get it to have an okay framerate. Anyone have any advice? Should I be alright to buy or should I wait it out?

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#2 physicalscience

So this might be a shot in the dark but I bought destiny for the 360 and was wondering if anyone on here is playing it on that platform? I have a great PC so I haven't found a reason to buy the new consoles yet and I wasn't sure one game merited a purchase of a $300+ item. Honestly the game looks and runs fine on the older consoles so I am not upset with my purchase and there seems to be plenty of people online at any time. Just trying to see if there is anyone out there for raids/strikes/etc.

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#3 physicalscience

The one person in the video said it reminded them of Contra and had a pokemon interfacing feel.

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#4 physicalscience

@finaldasa: I agree with you, I mean holy shit the original halo was anounced as a RTS for the mac. Bungie has been around for a while and since Activision partnered with them they have changed. I don't see them calling the company Activision-Blizzard-Bungie so I would assume that Activision is taking the publisher role more than the partner role.

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@marc said:
@physicalscience said:
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I've tried it, but there's a lot of work to getting it set up right and I don't want to put in the effort. Of course, if I bothered to learn it well, it would probably be way easier to set up than Windows, but that's ok.

Ubuntu has become insanely user-friendly over the years. The setup is quick and painless. I always recommend it to people to try on a second laptop or whatever to see how they feel about it.

I myself use Linux exclusively on my laptop, and I dual boot Linux and Windows 10 on my pc. I pretty much only ever use Windows for gaming, which is not very often as a student.

I've tried Ubuntu but it still sometimes feels like something that should be simple isn't really so simple. For instance, I want to watch Netflix - but you have to have Silverlight to do that and you can't get that running on a Linux system easily.

It is hardly rocket science and I might decide to dive into Ubuntu again, especially after having to go in and disable all of the information gathering features that MS puts into Windows 10. I dunno, maybe I'll go put it on a virtual machine and start messing with it in my free time. How do you have your Linux and Windows partitions separated? Or do you have them on separate drives? My PC only has one internal drive, though I do have an external. I guess I could keep a 50GB Linux partition, the rest for Windows and gaming, and the external for all other files? See, you've got my damn wheels turning again, I'll get halfway through all of this and then get annoyed at something.

I do have a spare laptop but my brother's about to go to college so I'm going to give my dad this five year old spare and he's going to give my brother his fairly new laptop. I did have Ubuntu on that spare for some time. In high school, I took parts from a few different old computers and got one working and put an old version of Ubuntu on it, so I'm not really a noob with the OS or anything, I just find Windows a lot easier most of the time.

Yeah you run into silly things like the Netflix issue every blue moon. Luckily there are always a lot of great resources out there if you have the time and patience to look them up.

I have a 250GB SSD split down the middle for my two partitions, and a 2TB drive that I store all my goods on that both OS's share.

Setting up a dual-boot was definitely the most tedious part of my current setup. Windows is definitely easy to use, but I do feel a lot of it is just because of how ingrained in our brains it is after using it for so many years. A few years of running linux and that has become second nature to me as well. Definitely a learning curve to it, but nowhere near as steep as it once was. In many ways I find Ubuntu much easier to use than Windows. Especially considering how much better it tends to run, and not having to deal with all the garbage that can find its way onto Windows machines.

As someone studying computer engineering, Linux has also become a godsend for programming lol.

How? As someone in their junior year of a software engineer degree I can't see how this makes sense. IDE's, solidworks, and visual studio run great on windows (with the last two being exclusive to the OS). I can't see how linux helps anyone other than an IT guy who needs a networking solution that is more secure. I by no mean have any issue with linux at all, but in my first year of school I had to deal with a lot of tools from the CIT program taking the same class who only used "Ubuntu" because it was the best thing ever. Look man I just need to get eclipse running and get some shit done, I'm not looking at taking half an hour to install flash or silverlight on my damn laptop. I apologize in advance if I am making an argument for an OS in a work environment where this is more of a discussion about an OS used for entertainment. Still though, even OSX has xcode and swift, and if you want to go to the dark side and build something in C#, visual studio is actually really impressive( and free for students!). Also, disclaimer, if I am missing the whole point, I have been drinking seeing as this is the last weekend before classes start....

All comes down to preference, really. I mean, I haven't used the likes of Eclipse or Solidworks (for a Graphics and design course) since first year. But being at a stage in my education where I am no longer limited to using the IDE we are learning how to code on, Linux is where I like to do my work. Especially on my laptop which isn't a very impressive machine, as it is my desktop that I put the money into. Windows can be sluggish on my laptop, Linux runs like a dream. Makes work easier.

I totally agree with you. Also software engineering and computer engineering are a lot different as well. I have Linux on a few older laptops I for no reason at all still keep around but it has improved the performance significantly over the stock Vista they came with(yea these are some old ass laptops I for some reason keep around) lol.

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#6 physicalscience

@marc said:
@believer258 said:
@marc said:
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I've tried it, but there's a lot of work to getting it set up right and I don't want to put in the effort. Of course, if I bothered to learn it well, it would probably be way easier to set up than Windows, but that's ok.

Ubuntu has become insanely user-friendly over the years. The setup is quick and painless. I always recommend it to people to try on a second laptop or whatever to see how they feel about it.

I myself use Linux exclusively on my laptop, and I dual boot Linux and Windows 10 on my pc. I pretty much only ever use Windows for gaming, which is not very often as a student.

I've tried Ubuntu but it still sometimes feels like something that should be simple isn't really so simple. For instance, I want to watch Netflix - but you have to have Silverlight to do that and you can't get that running on a Linux system easily.

It is hardly rocket science and I might decide to dive into Ubuntu again, especially after having to go in and disable all of the information gathering features that MS puts into Windows 10. I dunno, maybe I'll go put it on a virtual machine and start messing with it in my free time. How do you have your Linux and Windows partitions separated? Or do you have them on separate drives? My PC only has one internal drive, though I do have an external. I guess I could keep a 50GB Linux partition, the rest for Windows and gaming, and the external for all other files? See, you've got my damn wheels turning again, I'll get halfway through all of this and then get annoyed at something.

I do have a spare laptop but my brother's about to go to college so I'm going to give my dad this five year old spare and he's going to give my brother his fairly new laptop. I did have Ubuntu on that spare for some time. In high school, I took parts from a few different old computers and got one working and put an old version of Ubuntu on it, so I'm not really a noob with the OS or anything, I just find Windows a lot easier most of the time.

Yeah you run into silly things like the Netflix issue every blue moon. Luckily there are always a lot of great resources out there if you have the time and patience to look them up.

I have a 250GB SSD split down the middle for my two partitions, and a 2TB drive that I store all my goods on that both OS's share.

Setting up a dual-boot was definitely the most tedious part of my current setup. Windows is definitely easy to use, but I do feel a lot of it is just because of how ingrained in our brains it is after using it for so many years. A few years of running linux and that has become second nature to me as well. Definitely a learning curve to it, but nowhere near as steep as it once was. In many ways I find Ubuntu much easier to use than Windows. Especially considering how much better it tends to run, and not having to deal with all the garbage that can find its way onto Windows machines.

As someone studying computer engineering, Linux has also become a godsend for programming lol.

How? As someone in their junior year of a software engineer degree I can't see how this makes sense. IDE's, solidworks, and visual studio run great on windows (with the last two being exclusive to the OS). I can't see how linux helps anyone other than an IT guy who needs a networking solution that is more secure. I by no mean have any issue with linux at all, but in my first year of school I had to deal with a lot of tools from the CIT program taking the same class who only used "Ubuntu" because it was the best thing ever. Look man I just need to get eclipse running and get some shit done, I'm not looking at taking half an hour to install flash or silverlight on my damn laptop. I apologize in advance if I am making an argument for an OS in a work environment where this is more of a discussion about an OS used for entertainment. Still though, even OSX has xcode and swift, and if you want to go to the dark side and build something in C#, visual studio is actually really impressive( and free for students!). Also, disclaimer, if I am missing the whole point, I have been drinking seeing as this is the last weekend before classes start....

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#7 physicalscience

I'm in the top 5% high scores in Pac-Man Championship DX+

I feel way more proud about that than I probably should lol

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#8 physicalscience

There is no way in hell this is real, but it's still great lol

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#9 physicalscience

IPAD MINI DUDE. Seriously though, ios on that fucker is smooth and the retina screen is outstanding. Not to mention there is just a higher quality app market on it.

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#10 physicalscience

I personally like asus a lot and bought a $350 15.1" laptop with an i3, 4gb ram, and a 500gb hd that got me through my first two years of college. Asus has fucking awesome track pads that handle multi-touch really good on a windows pc. Granted I also had a gaming rig that I used as my main computer while just using the laptop as my mobile solution. something like this asus might work for you though: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-15-6-laptop-amd-a10-series-8gb-memory-1tb-hard-drive-gray/4882013.p?id=1219644187138&skuId=4882013. Your always going to get amd for cheaper, and while it isn't on the same performance level as intel and nvidia, if price is your number one factor it might be the way to go