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Not my usual format, but thought I'd post a solution here to a problem I had with my new vista gaming machine. When starting some Steam games I'd get the usual box that says Preparing to launch [game] - and the game would never start. It'd just sit there with the damn box showing. No error message, nothing. This was happening on two games in particular - Medieval Total War II and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - and I know from my copious web searching that it's happening for lots of other games as well... Anyways, after much poking around I fixed it by following the steps on this page - basically you need to restart your machine with only the basic microsoft services running. No other services or startup items. Then start each game and make sure it runs. Then you can put everything back to how it was. This worked for me and I had a brand-new install - there was hardly any non-microsoft stuff, but one of those few services and startup apps somehow broke steam. I don't think this is one to blame on Vista. I'd say the primary fault is Steam's - after all you should always give the user some feedback if a program fails to run or generates some other fatal error. That's essentially what was happening, but Steam was too dumb to give me any error message I could use to debug the issue. I hate it when programs do that - I'd rather have an ugly error message than nothing at all.
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It's something I've been wanting to do for a long time, but I think I exhibited admirable will holding off for so long after getting a decent job. Much debt has been paid down, so it's time for some reward. Of course this is all a little premature, as the new computer itself is no more than a random collection parts sitting in two newegg boxes. But assuming all goes well, tonight I'll have a new gaming rig. Basic specs - 3.0 ghz intel core 2 duo, 4 gigs ram, geforce 9600 video card. It's not a beast by any means, but it also didn't break the bank and it should still be a huge bump up from what I have now... And I have a long list of games that are either out but I never tried, or are coming out that I want to play:
- Empire Total War
- Supreme Commander
- Medieval Total War II (with the graphics turned up!)
- WWII Online (it's been so long since I could fly in that game)
- STALKER
- The new Call of Duty
- etc etc.
I haven't bought a new FPS in a very long time - in fact I think the last one I got was CoD II, so it's been a while. Fingers crossed!
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Bought this on Friday, as a sort of celebration after getting paid for some extra work I'm doing. I downloaded it for $30 from their online store - but just noticed you can get it for like $15 at Amazon. Anyways, if you've read any of my older entries, you probably know that I'm a fan of these paradox games. For a strategy gamer and history buff, their games are great. So I've played a bit now over the weekend, and I'm liking it. As usual I went with the longest campaign, and decided to go with England for my first nation. Of course, I made some stupid mistakes during the first play session, including leaving a fleet stationed at sea - and not realizing that they were subject to attrition until I got a message that my entire fleet had sunk... Oops! So I started over for my next session of EU3 - again as England. This time things are going better. I've been involved in a few wars on the continent - not by choice - and have managed to hold on to Calais as well as some provinces in Normandy. And the colonization of the new world is going quite well - it's not even 1500 and I have colonies on the east coast of North America, as well as in (what will become) Texas and even South America. Of course, I lost most of my fleet during a crossing of the Atlantic, losing some cavalry that had been campaigning against the Cherokee over in North America - a successful war that got me quite a few territories in the south. This is definitely a long campaign - it's not 1500 and it'll run to 1796! So this should be interesting!
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