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27-08-2019 2:03pm

I don't think you need an account. I've never made one afaik.

ShadowHearth · 27-08-2019 2:11pm

Okay, I uploaded it, and it made like a facebook fecking post. I can i get direct links for Photos so I can link them in Forums [IMG]stuff? NVM sorted.

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27-08-2019 2:16pm

ShadowHearth wrote: »

Okay, I uploaded it, and it made like a facebook fecking post. I can i get direct links for Photos so I can link them in Forums

What I do:

Go to https://imgur.com/

Click "new post" at the top left

Drop image to upload

Then open the newly uploaded image in a new tab (right click on it to get context menu)

Now you have a direct link to the image which can be uploaded with tags

ShadowHearth · 27-08-2019 2:19pm

Deleted User wrote: »

What I do:

Go to https://imgur.com/

Click "new post" at the top left

Drop image to upload

Then open the newly uploaded image in a new tab (right click on it to get context menu)

Now you have a direct link to the image which can be uploaded with

Cheers. Got it sorted. And already posted here on boards.ie

Nice to be back to PC gaming again.

Skerries · 29-08-2019 7:49am

Skerries · 04-09-2019 7:21pm

Steam getting library update on 17th

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110

Kiith · 05-09-2019 9:20am

Skerries wrote: »

Steam getting library update on 17th

https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110

Sure it's only take 10 years.

Skerries · 06-09-2019 6:28pm

no idea why PC users would need tissues ahem

EoinHef · 21-09-2019 7:07pm

Anyone remember Cube World?

Well its coming back for a release on steam september 30th. Thought that ship had sailed a long time ago.

Supposedly everyone who bought the game should recieve a key,be interesting to see if its followed through on.

EDIT: Had a look,if you bought the game previously:

1. Got to picroma.com
2. Log in with your old account credentials
3. Go to My Games (Top right)
4. Select Steam key at the bottom
5. Activate on Steam

Dcully · 22-09-2019 11:47am

Missed this, i just started a thread about it

fun game

Kiith · 02-10-2019 3:22pm

Anyone tried PSNow on the PC? I see that God of War and Uncharted 4 are now on it, and i'd love to play them both.

Glebee · 02-10-2019 3:40pm

Kiith wrote: »

Anyone tried PSNow on the PC? I see that God of War and Uncharted 4 are now on it, and i'd love to play them both.

Was going to do the trial a while ago but completely forgot about it. maybe some day ill try it out.

KilOit · 03-10-2019 7:19pm

Kiith wrote: »

Anyone tried PSNow on the PC? I see that God of War and Uncharted 4 are now on it, and i'd love to play them both.

Never even heard about this but if RDR2 is on it I'll buy it!

Subcomandante Marcos · 03-10-2019 7:21pm

Hey lads.
Just got a three month pass for XBox Pass for PC when I bought a new AMD CPU.
Any recommendations?

PopePalpatine · 03-10-2019 7:42pm

If you're into cars, Forza Horizon 4 should be your first stop.

dreamers75 · 03-10-2019 7:54pm

Subcomandante Marcos wrote: »

Hey lads.
Just got a three month pass for XBox Pass for PC when I bought a new AMD CPU.
Any recommendations?

GOW5
State of Decay 2
Forza
Sea of Theives

Should keep you busy, all are best playing in some form of Coop.

wotzgoingon · 03-10-2019 9:50pm

GOW 4 before 5 as the story follows.

Remouad · 04-10-2019 10:01pm

OSI wrote: »

Coming to PC natively in November! :eek:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/4/20898689/red-dead-redemption-2-pc-release-date-steam-epic-store

That's my December sorted.:)
I wonder will the keys on the key sites be for steam or epic.

Varik · 05-10-2019 1:57pm

Remouad wrote: »

That's my December sorted.:)
I wonder will the keys on the key sites be for steam or epic.

probably be their own store they launched recently.

Overheal · 10-10-2019 11:09pm

So signed on for Humble Monthly for the Battletech last week and thats consumed my life. As have the laborious loading times

11-10-2019 12:21am

Overheal wrote: »

So signed on for Humble Monthly for the Battletech last week and thats consumed my life. As have the laborious loading times

The one month I miss.... raging. I think I'd love that game.

Shiminay · 11-10-2019 11:52am

Yea, the loading times are a bit pants, might want to transfer it over to my SSD.

MOH · 11-10-2019 2:09pm

Overheal wrote: »

So signed on for Humble Monthly for the Battletech last week and thats consumed my life. As have the laborious loading times

Won't help with the load times, but in case you missed it, there's options to speed up the animations somewhere in the settings.
They look good, but the 5000th time you watch a mech trudge through a forest you realise how much time they're adding to battles.

iLikeWaffles · 14-10-2019 4:18pm

Any recommendations for a decent desk chair, with comfortable / height adjustable arm rests?

14-10-2019 6:27pm

iLikeWaffles wrote: »

Any recommendations for a decent desk chair, with comfortable / height adjustable arm rests?

I have one of these. Nice chair.

https://www.gtomega.co.uk/collections/chairs/products/pro-series?variant=20041543942232

iLikeWaffles · 14-10-2019 7:09pm

Deleted User wrote: »

I have one of these. Nice chair.

https://www.gtomega.co.uk/collections/chairs/products/pro-series?variant=20041543942232

Like the arm rests very close to the edge of the front of the seat. Looking at the one's on amazon they don't look well made, are the legs steel or plastic on that one?

14-10-2019 8:03pm

They are aluminium.

Overheal · 18-10-2019 12:14am

MOH wrote: »

Won't help with the load times, but in case you missed it, there's options to speed up the animations somewhere in the settings.
They look good, but the 5000th time you watch a mech trudge through a forest you realise how much time they're adding to battles.

Definitely felt my life wasting away though as it happened. Actually useful since I've been disassociating lately :pac:

EoinHef · 18-10-2019 6:20am

Messing around with Skyrim SE mods and ENBs,it is so time consuming!

Could spend hours just deciding on mods,then the load order has to be perfected which can take awhile,then once you get in game the endless tweaking starts with mod and ENB settings. Just cannot get the DOF to look right:p

Ive probably spent 6 hrs faffing around and have yet to actually start the game proper:o

Taylor365 · 18-10-2019 9:33am

EoinHef wrote: »

Messing around with Skyrim SE mods and ENBs,it is so time consuming!

Could spend hours just deciding on mods,then the load order has to be perfected which can take awhile,then once you get in game the endless tweaking starts with mod and ENB settings. Just cannot get the DOF to look right:p

Ive probably spent 6 hrs faffing around and have yet to actually start the game proper:o

I had 100 odd hours on oldrim. About 40 of those were from testing and retesting mods :pac:

EoinHef · 18-10-2019 10:30am

Taylor365 wrote: »

I had 100 odd hours on oldrim. About 40 of those were from testing and retesting mods :pac:

The setup i have is absolutely killing fps,as low as 30 on a 1080 at 1440P:(

I may have went a bit overboard considering i put an ENB over the top of all the mods,currently have 128 installed not including the stuff thats gone straight into the games main folder:P

I may actually just start again from scratch and chalk the current one to a learning experience,maybe lose the ENB,great for screenshots but i actually wanna play the game:pac:

Pity locking to 30fps isnt available,its the frame drops that are killing the experience,i could deal with a locked 30

Taylor365 · 18-10-2019 2:51pm

EoinHef wrote: »

The setup i have is absolutely killing fps,as low as 30 on a 1080 at 1440P:(

I may have went a bit overboard considering i put an ENB over the top of all the mods,currently have 128 installed not including the stuff thats gone straight into the games main folder:P

I may actually just start again from scratch and chalk the current one to a learning experience,maybe lose the ENB,great for screenshots but i actually wanna play the game:pac:

Pity locking to 30fps isnt available,its the frame drops that are killing the experience,i could deal with a locked 30

Absolutely no point without the ENB! That amplifies the graphics the the stratosphere!

Bring your list down to no more than 40.
Keep to 2k textures. 4k or 8K are tooo much :pac:
Make sure uGridToLoad isn't set to something stupid

Tophat mudcrabs add 20 fps.

I haven't modded in awhile some maybe things have gotten ridiculous. Every time i did, i would get to your stage and start again :pac:

EoinHef · 18-10-2019 6:40pm

Taylor365 wrote: »

Absolutely no point without the ENB! That amplifies the graphics the the stratosphere!

Bring your list down to no more than 40.
Keep to 2k textures. 4k or 8K are tooo much :pac:
Make sure uGridToLoad isn't set to something stupid

Tophat mudcrabs add 20 fps.

I haven't modded in awhile some maybe things have gotten ridiculous. Every time i did, i would get to your stage and start again :pac:

:P

Internet Friend · 18-10-2019 8:38pm

I've 150+ mods installed and sitting solid at 60fps @ 1440p. Although I'm running with a 3700x and 2080 Super.

I had an ENB installed and running smooth but was getting a weird issue at dusk where the sky would randomly (not every night) get ridiculously bright and would only fix with a restart of the game. Narrowed it down after a few days testing to an issue I was having with ENB series itself and couldn't find a fix online so had to completely remove it. Tried several re-installs to no avail.

EoinHef · 18-10-2019 9:10pm

Internet Friend wrote: »

I've 150+ mods installed and sitting solid at 60fps @ 1440p. Although I'm running with a 3700x and 2080 Super.

I had an ENB installed and running smooth but was getting a weird issue at dusk where the sky would randomly (not every night) get ridiculously bright and would only fix with a restart of the game. Narrowed it down after a few days testing to an issue I was having with ENB series itself and couldn't find a fix online so had to completely remove it. Tried several re-installs to no avail.

Id say thats the 2080 just powering through,my 1080 is showing 95-99% in riva. I reckon i just havent got the grunt. It does look so good but drops to 30fps are just too hard to put up with for me.

Internet Friend · 18-10-2019 11:18pm

Yeah, it looks great with an ENB installed and was hardly pushing the 2080. Pity I had issues with it but I don't mind as I'm using predator vision and it doesn't play well with ENB either.

Robert ninja · 18-10-2019 11:19pm

What's the situation like with Skyrim modding these days? Which version of the game is used now? I a "special edition" in the Library. Did they ever release that 2nd generation mod manager?

Internet Friend · 18-10-2019 11:43pm

SE is on version 1.5.somethingorother

Nexus released the NMM replacement Vortex a good while ago, over a year anyway, once it's set up properly it's pretty seamless. Loot, FNIS, etc all run automatically. So when you install a mod it updates everything in the background without having to run any programmes. SSEedit has also been updated to have an autocleaner function, so cleaning the base ESMs is simple. Mods are updated and maintained on Nexus pretty well too with the vast majority of the better mods from oldrim having been ported over.

EoinHef · 18-10-2019 11:47pm

Im using Vortex aswell,from a bit of googling MO2 seems to be better if you want to spend the time fine tuning but use Vortex if you want the program to be more automatic but possibly more prone to errors.

There are so many mods,some off the armor/weapon texture stuff is really nice. Ive not looked at much of the gameplay stuff yet as i wanna get the look right first.

Foolishly didnt back up the skyrim install when i started so gonna have to download that again

Internet Friend · 19-10-2019 12:14am

Thing I've found really useful with Vortex is it's good at identifying where there are issues, circular loads and so on. What I really like though is the updates to Loot where it'll tell you that you might be missing a compatibility patch and tell you which mod it relates to. I've read MO2 is good for tweaking stuff if you really want to but not really needed if you know what you're doing with SSEedit. Haven't had any issues with stability apart from the very odd freeze but they're really rare.

A lot of the good gameplay mods are there anyway, Deadly Dragons, Wildcat and so on. They all work as expected. If you've never played/used it I'd highly recommend Legacy of the Dragonborn.

EoinHef · 19-10-2019 1:54am

For me its been rock solid in the sense of zero crashes,i reckon i just used to many high poly textures re skins etc and its killing performance. Just there seems to be an opinion online that Vortex is not the best option. That could just be the oldschool hardcore types though as its been ok to me once ive got the hang of it

Things like the rustic textures,ruins clutter,franks armor/weapon reskins on top of the ENB and lighting effects are amazing and i can see why they would kill framerates so i reckon i just need to be more thoughtful when looking at these mods. Im due a GPU upgrade soon so i may just leave everything in place till then,try fallout mods for the time being

I have to say fair play to these people putting in so much work on this stuff,i did join the nexus as a supporter for 2 quid. Its genuinely a great resource imo. Modding like this is one of the few things that makes PC gaming genuinely unique in a world where money talks and greed is rampant

Internet Friend · 19-10-2019 11:06am

Are you using SSE Engine Fixes mod? It really helps with performance. Riften for example has a huge polygon count and that mod fixes things like that. I was getting ~30fps or less in Riften before installing it, now it's solid.

EoinHef · 19-10-2019 4:33pm

Internet Friend wrote: »

Are you using SSE Engine Fixes mod? It really helps with performance. Riften for example has a huge polygon count and that mod fixes things like that. I was getting ~30fps or less in Riften before installing it, now it's solid.

Yep have that installed. There were a few core mods recomended in most places and that was one of them