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I would be interested.

Same, I wondered where the game left out though.

As far as I know, they use Poser.

Poser? I didn't know about that lol, I thought Jeff used MS Paint to make his characters

Not really telling Jeff his drawings suck, but you can create Avernum characters out of MS Paint, just sayin'

Anyway, thanks for the info BMA, I might try it out once I got the router stable.

Jeff will be sad that his sale has fewer customers since most will have bought this summer.

Why don't the customers buy twice? You know, just to be sure that you've bought. You can never be sure of anything.

You should have started with The Witcher 2. It doesn't matter your personal preferences before the games, after you've played The Witcher 2 for like 5 minutes, it automatically becomes your favorite game

You play TW2? I didn't know that.

Who knew that you could edit posts without being a mod? That's awesome!!!

I'm not really looking for ways to improve my art, I'm just saying I can't make my own characters.

I copy a bunch of clothes/cosmetics/anything on the net, mash it up, and there's my character. But what about their behinds? Their rumps? Their backs? Their sides?

So it seems I'll probably need to start learning some tips to draw those things.

Hmm...

Now our computer class is all about Adobe Flash CS6, we were grouped into threes, and as usual, all the burden falls to me; the drawing, the animating, the storyline etc. I've made a really decent plot, I would learn animating through the lessons. So yeah I suck at drawing, so do the other two "useful" members.

Let's cut to the chase

I need help or any link that would give me an advice on drawing specialized for Adobe flash. Any ideas?

Nothing much can be done about it, I do feel your pain though.

I've played a lot of RPGs wherein you have to press Esc to close any menu, and I love it. But when I started playing Fallout 3, you have to press Tab, to bring up/close the stats/inventory/skills etc. menu. I got used to pressing Esc that instead of closing the menu, it pauses the game with the save/load options etc. and I almost swore 20% of the time it happens.

About the highlighting option, they kinda removed it in Avadon 2, also tried pressing Tab as that was the key for Geneforge, button brought up a map.

But they did include the close doors option, which wasn't in Avernum: Escape from the Pit

Ah. But tis just beginning. For instance: -Buy a new ram

Why not just download it? c:

Download a ram wth trintan

I think this topic is done for now.

I didn't do anything to speed up my PC, I guess I'll leave it just the way it is. Playing TW2 with 20-40 fps at the cost of having 800x600 screen res. I guess I just got used to Skyrim's "get more performance without sacrificing your graphics thing".*shrugs* I could play on even the lowest settings possible but the tiny font makes my eyes bleed.

Ok, calm down guys, I've seen some weird stuff over here.

I played Witcher 2 again, with auto-detect settings and my max (1366x768) res. Opened up task manager and found out that it was using only 15-20% of my memory, it isn't a memory leak if you ask me. Wait, what's memory leak?

EDIT: It uses about 600-700 MB memory

But he should not be having such troubles at Witcher 2. His machine is worthy to play that one fine, so I think we can try to help him troubleshoot to what is the problem on that one.

You're... serious?

Wow, I've never thought that I could play a game like that on this thing, I've searched for countless solutions from Steam to GoG, and most users' answers were the typical "turn off the ubersampling crap" and their problem is solved. But not mine D:

Although, I did noticed when I switched the game res to 320x240 which is pretty much the most ridiculous thing, I got about 30-45 fps, no keyboard delays, no mouse delays, everything was perfect on that tiny game window.

800x600 with 20-25 fps was good for me, but it seems like I have to decipher the jagged letters from the screen, windowed or not makes no difference at all.

I think I'll go and search for more solutions, and I might just reply to this thread if I found any.

Okay, possible Memory Leak. Is your game drm managed by Steam, or outside of Steam?

Outside of Steam, Gog.com

I was wondering why it was called good old games when I can't get a decent playable framerate.

You don't have to worry about that Sy, when I go to college, I'll try to earn some side cash to build my own PC. Being in 4th year highschool means I'll use up most of my time studying than crying and ranting about games, I just thought that maybe I have had an untapped potential on my laptop that I haven't discovered.

Thanks to all the helpful reply guys (especially to you Mr. Q +1 to you ), now I know that I'm left with no other choices but to upgrade, or get a new one.

Edit - can it be a memory leak? Does Witcher 2 run o.k. when you first start to play, but then it starts to break down or get choppy later?

YES! Yes it does, which is when I first ran it, the trailer had me 'woah, dat graphics' I could move my mouse on the menus smoother than butter, 120+ fps all the way, but when I actually started playing it, it feels worse than having TF2 on an intel atom netbook.

Thief 4 has crappier performance than Witcher 2, or was it better? Anyhow, I'm still stuck between 10-25 fps on these two games.

Any more help is appreciated, if there are any remaining ;_;

-Consider adding Glary Utilities to your cleaning regimen

-How often do you restart/shut down, even if you wouldn't need it for an update?

-What antivirus/security are you using?

I used BitDefender before, but it adds some load to my laptop. So I now use the default Windows Defender.

I cannot live a day without checking the laptop's resource monitor.

I also forgot to mention that I've disabled every single non-Windows service I could find in the msconfig.exe thing.

Thanks for the suggestions guys, will wait for more.

EDIT: I think I have an Ivy Bridge, since it is i5-3317u @ 1.7GHz

I swear, you've all heard this rant before, usually related to speeding up laptops, computers, netbooks etc. And this is what this topic is all about.

I have done everything in my reach to speed up my laptop. I just felt maybe it has some sort of untapped MOAR FPS power that I could tinker to get the max juice from it. I don't know if I had done that thing or not, but here's the details.

Hp Pavilion 15-n221sa

Intel Core i5

4GB ram

Intel HD Graphics 4000

Windows 8

-Always taken care of

-About two years old

-Always set to High Performance

-Always plugged in

-Has never overheated even once

-I am inside a room that has a cool temperature

-Set my virtual paging file size to a min of 6000 and a max of 6000

-I have the latest graphics card (maybe?)

-Regularly cleaned and checked with CCleaner and SpyHunter (once a week)

-From a 448GB HDD space, I still have 352GB free

That might be all I think.

Note that I won't answer to these suggestions:

-Your laptop sucks lol

-Get a new one/build your own, since laptop sucks lol

-Buy a new ram

-Turn that thing to Windows XP

Let's see:

-I can run Skyrim on a Low setting with an average of 35-60 fps

-Can run Spiderweb games perfectly

-Can run Fallout 3 with microstutters (probably to the 2 core problem thinggy)

I don't know why I'm still asking, but the next-gen games are coming, and I doubt my specs would be able to cope up with it.

-Ran Witcher 2 on the lowest setting possible, along with the ini tweaks with the lowest settings possible, got only an average of 5-10 fps on 1366x768 the max screen res, getting a 20-25 on 800x600, but I have to put in a lot of effort to read the font.

-Ran Thief 4 on the lowest settings possible, along with the lowest ini tweaks, got only 10-20 average fps from a 1024x768 res

I was thinking of getting an SSD, but I'll have to convince my dad to buy it, if everything else fails.

Steam Summer Sale does a good job of opening your wallet...

But the problem is...

I don't have money, nor a wallet, nor a Steam account, nor a gaming laptop ;_;

Plus, Witcher 2 is sale for like 3 dollars

Also, vahnatai graphics. Let's all pray that they do not look anything like the abominations from A4-6.

TAKE THAT

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OUCH MY EYES

Black Books

No.

Yes.

Welcome to Spiderweb Software, sanity please leave the your door. The Black Books fill your head with a sea of visions.

Aba = Aba Boot Bucker

Boot = Aba Boot Bucker

Bucker = Aba Boot Bucker

Aba Boot Bucker Aba Boot Bucker Aba Boot Bucker and inside those Aba Boot Bucker are more Aba Boot Bucker so technically...

Aba: Aba: Aba: Aba: Aba Boot Bucker Boot Bucker Boot Bucker Boot Bucker

What is this? Some sort of never-ending Schrodinger's Aba Boot Bucker?

Reminds me of me when I was 13, seeing x = x + y made me think: Hey, so x = (((((∞)+y)+y)+y)+y)

Skyrim leeks are waaaay better than your Vahnatai crop (crap), just take a look at those irresistible stalks growing from the rich plains of Whiterun. Trenton would even vouch for this quality crops.

Jeff should add these little things for immersion, and at least some neat rewards. A wishing well would be one, or maybe the sword in the stone thing wherein everyday, you can visit the stone with a 1% chance to pull it out, where the chances are raised depending on your luck skill.

Running in a Windows 8 64-bit laptop on a balanced performance mode, getting steady 60 fps on Avadon

4GB ram

Intel HD 4000

Intel i5

Strange, mine uses up only 2% of CPU, my highest was 10%. I don't know how Avadon manages to use up yours so badly, but maybe the number of cores would be the answer? I don't know about Mac, but that's just weird. Laptop's not heating up that bad either, even if it's in laptop (get it? because lap-top? it's on the top of my lap?)

Does it have a 1 x 10^-1337 chance of actually giving your wish or is it used mainly for immersion? Kinda wasted about 20 gold and I don't know if it actually works.

There are a couple of workarounds to force the limit of CPU usage.

 

If your cpu supports SpeedStep, and you are using Windows Vista or later, there is a built-in feature to set the maximum processor state. Create a new power plan, set the Maximum processor state value (see link) to 60% or so, and switch to that power plan before launching the game (don't forget to switch back after quitting). I have been using this and the effect is immediate. Note that if 60% makes the game slow or it still generates lots of heat and noise, change it to 50%, 55%, 65%, 70%, etc. until you find a balace between the heat of device and the smoothness of gameplay.

Mine is set to 100% but my laptop never overheated even once. Just stay on one place, use a table instead of a pillow, be in a cold room, clean your system, be sure to run one program at a time etc.

Baldurs Gate - being able to take the party from one game to the other and have lots of companion interaction

I don't know about Baldur's Gate, but do you mean creating a party then using them for different scenarios made by members? Well, Jeff has it.

If you have bought the complete saga from GOG.com (which costs about $12), then you have it, it's called Blades of Avernum

Welcome to Spiderweb Software, please leave your sanity at the door, a problem has been detected and Windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer, driver_irql_not_less_or_equal