trying to use EC

[Taylor]

Thank you for the advice. I'll..start working on the wife.

 

[Old Man of UO]

I'm a liberal artist. My brain gets kinda fuzzy when I see numbers. >.<

Neways, the EC still runs better on my laptop than the CC, which is why I've been using it recently. If I had $1,000-$2,000 to spend on a computer--and if I didn't have a wife to deter me from such extravagance--then I would upgrade. Alas, this hypothetical does not mirror my situation. Thus, my current set up will have to do.

the major bottleneck in that situation is probably the hard drive

As I see it, the major bottle neck in that situation is the Wife!

*ducks*

 

[Taylor]

*ducks too*

 

[G.v.P]

USB will be a bottleneck. that is for storage or testing.

if you have a laptop you would buy a new internal drive like a western digital scorpio black and re-load windows.

Well I was thinking it would be a cheaper way to store data, then you could use your laptop HDD just for games . Would cost about $80 for example to get dock and a 500 GB HDD to store data, then could use laptop HDD for games.

 

[Old Man of UO]

Well I was thinking it would be a cheaper way to store data, then you could use your laptop HDD just for games . Would cost about $80 for example to get dock and a 500 GB HDD to store data, then could use laptop HDD for games.

If that's what you have in mind, data storage, a better solution would be to buy an external HDD such as the Western Digital Elements 640GB USB 2.0 for about the same price.

Even better if you have a newer laptop it should have an ESATA port. Find an ESATA external hard drive like the Cavalry CAXM Series 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA or similar for about the same price. The transfer speeds will be about twice USB 2.0, close to an internal hard drive.

Lots of brands to choose from, but either would be better I think.

 

[G.v.P]

If that's what you have in mind, data storage, a better solution would be to buy an external HDD such as the Western Digital Elements 640GB USB 2.0 for about the same price.

Even better if you have a newer laptop it should have an ESATA port. Find an ESATA external hard drive like the Cavalry CAXM Series 1TB USB 2.0 / eSATA or similar for about the same price. The transfer speeds will be about twice USB 2.0, close to an internal hard drive.

Lots of brands to choose from, but either would be better I think.

Well, a Western Digital 500 GB internal costs $40, the dock costs $30, then with shipping it's $80 ('cause who buys from retail stores anymore, haha). Elements 640 GB is $80 w/o shipping. Shrugs, the internal/dock method is still cheaper imo, especially if you buy multiple internal drives versus external drives (the Elements 640 is 4.5 GB less a dollar versus the 500 internal, so internal gets you more for the buck).

But if you're talking speed, eSATA or USB 3.0 are better, yeah, haha. A glorified external operation in that case but I'm just thinking of a cheap and easy way to backup stuff (and I'm willing to bet it's the old laptop owners who would need to think about backing stuff up, not the new eSata owners and whomever has USB 3.0 now).

 

[Gilmour]

I love the auto-navigate around objects feature.

I hate this feature

I tried the EC container mode but I do not like it. I do not like the grid and while I think the list is useful I still switched to Legacy mode.

I did this as well very rapidly.

I understand because of the zoom there will be problems w/ the 2D art being blurred

not to mention pixelated

Also, 1 thing about targeting, health bars should close when you right click on them in Legacy mode.

i think this behavior is a request from many players, that they dont close on right click.

if it wasnt for the unfinished graphics and the unfinished paperdolls, id likely be EC more or less full time.

Greets
Gilmour

 

[Basara]

OF course, if you have a 200-300 GB drive pulled from another machine (or truthfully, even a 40GB), an external mounting case, to use a former internal drive as a data storage device (not for running anything off of that drive), is a decent way to go. This is especially true if your main machine is SATA-based and you're trying to find a use for that old IDE-cable-tech drive from your older machine, that set you back over $100 when you bought that drive new, several years ago.

After all, do you really NEED your MP3 collection (or downloaded anime, porn, or what have you) cluttering up your main HDD, when it will play fine coming in through a USB port?

For that matter, if you are going to swap out a laptop's SATA 2.5" drive, you might even be able to recoup some of your new drive cost, if the drive is larger than a Friend's PS3's current drive.

Have the friend contribute $20 to your new drive, then you clone your old drive onto your new one (using a desktop), then repeat the process cloning his PS3's drive onto your old one. Then drop your new drive into your laptop, and your old one goes into his PS3, and everyone's happy.