Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars
Well, I just had to have this game, even if my system can’t completely run it at this point of time, it is still nice to play it at some basic level. Although, basically, I can’t play the damn game at this point, since well, the game hates me.
Yes, I said the game hates me. Keeps giving me a damn “Disc not inserted.” error, which is annoying as hell, since it is inserted, but retrying doesn’t fix the problem and nothing online fixes the problem either. Well, I did find some resources and troubleshooting for those who downloaded the Warez version (bitches). I think it is sad and pathetic that those people are getting better help than someone who bought the game. Well, to be fair, I did contact EA support and should be getting some word back in a few days. Unlike the warez people, I can at least contact the company for support and hopefully a patch to fix the problem shortly.
I’m a sucker for DVD documentary’s, so I bought the Kane Edition. Can’t wait to be able to watch that. Hopefully sometime next week.
Media Center
I bought a SATA DVD Burner, which should be fascinating once I get it, and it is pretty quick also. I hope it also fixes my C&C problem, if it is the 8x DVD speed problem, else I’m screwed. Should be fun, since it has the LightScribe feature, which should save me some effort from damaging discs with permanent markers.
I also bought a 1GB RAM stick, which will knock my total to 2GB. While not all that much at this point, I’ll hopefully be able to buy 2GB more come May. I’ve been using more and more of a page file and I hope that the extra stick will hopefully allow me to use less. The goal is 4GB and it should be interesting to completely remove the need for having a page file at all.
Next Month
Come May, I should be getting another bonus check, so I’ll hopefully be able to buy some new hard drives. I think I should recycle my old drives once I do. I’ll have little need for a bunch of 80GB and 100GB, and a couple of 200GB drives. Less now that I can get a 400GB drive for about 100 USD and 500GB drives are failing monthly. By the time I start building the File Server, I should be able to get 500GB drives for around 100 USD also.
In May, I also plan on buying an exercise bike or some other equipment. I figure that since I’m too lazy to motivate myself to go to the gym then I should bring the gym to myself. I seriously need to lose weight for health reasons. When I go to the doctor for a checkup, I really don’t want to hear, “Hey, did you know you’re a fat ass?” Yes, in fact I do realize that. That is another thing that I plan on doing sometime before I go visit family in a sort of family reunion. Should be interesting to see everyone and take pictures (and perhaps video) of everyone.
It would also be fairly nice to show up with at least 40 pounds less (around 170-180 pounds), but hopefully, I’ll be down to 160 pounds before the New Year’s. My goal is to get down to around 130 to 140 pounds and stabilize that weight for around two or three years. If I can do that and continue working out while I have downtime then I should be motivated enough to visit the gym to gain weight in muscle, which will ultimately be the goal. I figure I have at least 70 pounds of extra fat to work off, before I can work on gaining muscle mass.
Actually, I’ve been working on losing weight since last year, by trying to eat the right foods. Before it would be rare to pick up a salad or fruit, but I’m eating that more. If I can afford it, I’ll eat more salad and fruit, but it’s quite expensive at times. I am staying far away from McDs and other fast foods, except Subway, which I’m loving their new personal pizzas.
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You have to love DRM – you take a dodgy DRM implementation, combine it with a slightly substandard DVD-ROM BIOS, and all havoc breaks loose when the application tries verifying the disc.
. I get the same thing all the time from an two-year old DVD-RW drive for a few games, but luckily restarting the PC from power off seems to help.
I haven’t played C&C yet – but it’s on the buy list. I just hope they have kept the hectic chaos of the older games which is too often overlooked these days. Strategy is great, but a little raw action has its own enjoyment!
Well, I just updated the driver of the DVD drive and I was able to play the game. There are still a few errors and glitches that I have to work out and that will probably go away when I have GPU that isn’t onboard. I’ll probably up the onboard VRAM from 32 to 128 and see if that keeps from errors happening. I’m getting the 1GB RAM, so I’ll be able to do that without causing to much RAM lost.
Oh, C&C is really awesome, I’ve been playing it and the first GDI is fairly easy to beat, but I’m at one scenio that requires a great deal of stategy, one false move and you have to reload. I am getting some interesting ideas from it on gameplay. I liked Homeworld 2, which I never did beat, but also gave some great ideas.
I heard the “lone ranger” style level made the cut
. I bet there’ll be reloading and gnashing of teeth when you get that one. 
Actually, that first “lone ranger” scenario was really easy, unless there is more than one. I only just started playing, but there seems to be a lot more different ways that you should handle the situations. Unlike one C&C where you mostly had the same type over and over with only a few scenarios that required different stategy. It does require more planning and retries than the first one I played. I haven’t played all of the C&C games, but this is perhaps one of the best RTS games I’ve played in a while. Which doesn’t say much since I’ve haven’t been playing any games since last October.
I had a lot of fun mowing down opponents. You do want to use better stategy on that one to avoid some battles. The Jet Pack is extremely useful to retreat. Might also want to have a competion on how quickly you can beat the level and pick up all of the bonuses.
I’ve played most of the C&C games – sounds like they kept the focus on action which is great. It wouldn’t be C&C unless you spent a lot of time wishing the AI would commit suicide at home rather than travelling all the way to your defence lines to do it
. I played some Supreme Commander recently – not much gaming time for a while – and it’s a slower pace than older C&C games, with a lot more time for planning and countering. So looking forward to C&C 3′s chaos 
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