For anyone wondering...no tornadoes near here, just a lot of
thunderbolts and lightning, very very very frightening, etc. About the
worst thing which has happened due to the weather (so far) was my
internet connection dropping just as my n00b Tauren was entering a
quillboar cave. ) (I resisted the urge to name him 'Phlanquestak',
'Stu', or 'Vennysun' -- instead, in honor of the fact he's missing a
horn, I went for Halfohrn.)
Speaking of games -- Civil IV is a hair-pulling nightmare, and not for
the usual reasons. It's elegant, fascinating, deep, a major leap over
Civ 3 while still having horrbiyl addictive' one more turn' gameplay --
and I can't get it to run on my system. In the early game, it sputters,
crawls, and crashes, and in the later game, it laboriously chugs
through one turn and then vanishes to the desktop. My sytem is WAY
above the minimum specs, I've got the latest drivers, and it still
sucks up 100% of processing time, fills the screen with
incomprehensible graphical gibberish, and then explodes. It's like
watching an Apple II trying to run 'Doom III'.
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It's been my experience that exploding computers are not a good thing.
I had a similar problem with WoW, you may need to reformat you harddrive. The way I understand it is this: hardrives can get bytes screwed up now and then which is usualy harmless but sometimes that vital piece of code needed for something. Files piled upon files without defragmenting (which isn't terribly effective anyway) make processing take longer to find anything. Soon it's like trying to find the remote control in my room- damn near impossible. That's when you reformat (blow up your room, napalm works good I've heard) and put everything back on from scratch. Pain in the frickin ass, but it made WoW work.