I finally decided to get round to playing Bulletstorm a few months ago. I had it on the 360 but never played it, and got it cheap on Steam ages ago. Booted it up and it no longer runs because of GfWL.
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 11:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
DavPaz wrote: But... Directx is Microsoft Well yes but it's been around forever and generally speaking there's no real alternative, I'm more talking about them poking their noses into things that are already done perfectly well, like game stores and game integration technologies - which they've proven to be both shit and unreliable at, on the PC at least. The XBox 360 was good. They should stick to things like that. Basically I will never forgive them for breaking DiRT2. |
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| Author: | myp [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I finally decided to get round to playing Bulletstorm a few months ago. I had it on the 360 but never played it, and got it cheap on Steam ages ago. Booted it up and it no longer runs because of GfWL.
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| Author: | TheVision [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 12:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Lonewolves wrote: I finally decided to get round to playing Bulletstorm a few months ago. I had it on the 360 but never played it, and got it cheap on Steam ages ago. Booted it up and it no longer runs because of GfWL. You're not missing much. I didn't think it was any good. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 13:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Lonewolves wrote: I finally decided to get round to playing Bulletstorm a few months ago. I had it on the 360 but never played it, and got it cheap on Steam ages ago. Booted it up and it no longer runs because of GfWL. It doesn't run at all? Gta4 uses gfwl, I expect that still works. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 13:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
It depends how deeply integrated it is. With DiRT2 you literally can't get into the game by any means if GFWL isn't there. (i.e. Not even the single player mode can be accessed.) DiRT3 broke in exactly the same way when Microsoft decided to shit in everyone's face, but Codemasters patched GFWL out of DiRT3 and gave everyone 'DiRT3 Complete Edition' for free (which uses Steam's standard (and far superior) game integration), but they said DiRT2 was too old for them to spend the time and effort on doing the same thing. There are I believe replacement dlls available to get some GFWL games running in singleplayer, but multiplayer (which is what we wanted in DiRT2 of course) is gone forever. EDIT - Here's a Bulletstorm fix for single player, for example - http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Bulletstor ... ows_-_LIVE |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Sat Oct 01, 2016 14:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
They are also doing a Bulletstorm remaster on PS4/Xbox One/PC. Edit: I played it on PC but then hit a bug where it wouldn't load the next level so I stopped. I enjoyed it up until then though. Edit2: There is a list of GFWL games here. To the best of my knowledge, any that state "SSA" can no longer be installed, and any that list "Multiplayer" or "Leaderboards" will have the multiplayer and leaderboards taken offline. Obviously it never really worked well, and I'm glad it's gone, but it's a right mess for the games left in limbo. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Sun Oct 02, 2016 10:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
TheVision wrote: Lonewolves wrote: I finally decided to get round to playing Bulletstorm a few months ago. I had it on the 360 but never played it, and got it cheap on Steam ages ago. Booted it up and it no longer runs because of GfWL. You're not missing much. I didn't think it was any good. So wrong. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Thu Oct 06, 2016 19:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
After the latest round of Windows 10 updates I had an annoying problem. I was unable to access any of the folders on one of my Thecus NAS via explorer. The solution was to create a local account on the NAS then open up credential manager in Windows 10 and create a new Windows Credential that had the same details as the local account on the NAS. This only appears to be an issue when you log into Windows 10 using an MS account which I do. My other NAS already had a local account set up so was working OK, this is not only an issue with Thecus I found this solution online from someone posting about the same issue with a Synology NAS. |
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| Author: | DBSnappa [ Sun Nov 06, 2016 19:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
to save me a lot of online research, do you still need Anti Virus software with Windows 10? Asking on behalf of my 83 year old father in law... |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Nov 06, 2016 19:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
DBSnappa wrote: to save me a lot of online research, do you still need Anti Virus software with Windows 10? Asking on behalf of my 83 year old father in law... No, just use the built-in Windows Defender software, which will be automatically present if you don't install anything else. |
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| Author: | LewieP [ Sun Nov 06, 2016 19:30 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Might as well get the fairly good and reasonably simple to use Malware Bytes too. https://www.malwarebytes.com/ |
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Mon Nov 07, 2016 15:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Since I upgraded the battery life on my laptop has been awful ~15 minutes awful. Is there anyway to check if this is s/w misreading the power signals or actually the battery? |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Nov 07, 2016 15:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Bobbyaro wrote: Since I upgraded the battery life on my laptop has been awful ~15 minutes awful. Is there anyway to check if this is s/w misreading the power signals or actually the battery? Leave it running until it goes flat, and time it? |
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| Author: | Bobbyaro [ Mon Nov 07, 2016 15:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I can't leave it running, it shuts down. |
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| Author: | Mr Dave [ Mon Nov 07, 2016 16:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
There's sometimes some kind of battery recalibration software included with the laptop. Aside from that, no idea (that's all I've ever used) |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Mon Nov 07, 2016 16:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Bobbyaro wrote: I can't leave it running, it shuts down. Oh I see, so it's actually shutting down rather than just reporting 'you only have 15 minutes remaining'. This link looks interesting, and mentions at the end having to have a few power cycles for a new os installation. worth a read though. http://www.windowscentral.com/generate- ... windows-10 |
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| Author: | asfish [ Mon Nov 07, 2016 19:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
All sorts of fun going on with work Windows 10. Surprisingly somebody made the decision to let Office 365 deal with Office 2016 updates, so that fucked Outlook for 200 or so good and true pilot users. There were some really helpful suggestions to fix this from the technical team such as just have your computer re built! This Mondays grip was a 20 minute wait whilst updates installed. Best bit is the process for updating, they will send an email out to everyone inviting them to go to some online system which will tell them if they are ready for Windows 10 application wise. Then they have to answer some questions most of them won't understand about who they want to move their documents to OneDrive (IT or them) depending on that answer they may have to run some sort of copy tool. Reckon 20% max of people will read the email and 50% of them do anything. Still its the belief of my so called management that 100% of the users have a boner over Windows 10 and will be fighting to book upgrade appointments with the team from our new super IT service delivery partner who doesn't appear to have any idea what they should do next and is emailing me asking for guidance! Have a plan to sort it all out when it goes wrong, but I've been told to follow the process, so doing just that and waiting 
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| Author: | TheVision [ Tue Jan 17, 2017 21:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I've just loaded up Chrome in Windows 10 and looked what happened.... I got a little pop up from Edge telling me how great it is! Also, quite clever in that I pressed "print screen" and Windows automatically saved the image to my Onedrive folder. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Tue Jan 17, 2017 22:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I had that appear this morning too. Plus something about the Store too. I'm hoping Windows doesn't make a habit of plugging stuff. Looking at your screenshot, that 'Ask Me Anything' bar was the first thing I turned off when I upgraded to 10. I'd rather have that space for more launch icons
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| Author: | TheVision [ Tue Jan 17, 2017 22:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Yeah, that's the Cortana bar and I use it quite a lot. It's my new search bar so rather than click the start menu to find a program, I just search for the name of it. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Jan 17, 2017 22:36 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I get annoyed that my taskbar icons aren't all in moody black and white. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Jan 17, 2017 23:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
TheVision wrote: Also, quite clever in that I pressed "print screen" and Windows automatically saved the image to my Onedrive folder. Dropbox has done that for ages, fam. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Tue Jan 17, 2017 23:48 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Grim... wrote: TheVision wrote: Also, quite clever in that I pressed "print screen" and Windows automatically saved the image to my Onedrive folder. Dropbox has done that for ages, fam. Not for me it hasn't.. How odd? Do I have to enable it? Not that I will. Onedrive has my back, fam. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Jan 18, 2017 0:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Quote: Click the Dropbox icon in your menu bar. Click the gear icon and select Preferences… from the menu. Click the Import tab. Check or uncheck Share screenshots using Dropbox. CTRL + PrintScr gets the screenshot, puts it in your Dropbox and copies the public link to it to your clipboard. Can you do that with Onedrive, bred? |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Grim... wrote: CTRL + PrintScr gets the screenshot, puts it in your Dropbox and copies the public link to it to your clipboard. Can you do that with Onedrive, bred? I didn't know this. Amazeballs. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Wed Jan 18, 2017 11:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
OneDrive doesn't do all that Grim... You win this time but I'm sure the good people at Microsoft will be back very soon with some more features that no one asked for. |
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| Author: | Hearthly [ Sun Mar 12, 2017 18:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
So Windows 10 now serves up adverts in File Explorer! Mrs Hearthly has been on Windows 10 for quite some time and she's got used to it popping up messages along the lines of informing her that Microsoft Edge is much better and safer than Chrome, in exactly the same location and manner it flags up stuff that's, y'know, actually important and/or relevant. She's also got used to it adding new tiles to the Start Menu and all that sort of shit, and she understands the deal overall with Windows 10 being 'free' so it's clearly not 'free' because you become the product. However, even I was quite taken aback to see Microsoft start plugging One Drive in the main File Explorer window, as to me this changes something that's been fundamentally consistent in Windows pretty much forever, in that File Explorer is a solid, basic way to interact with the drives, folders and files on your PC. (She flagged it up to me as it concerned her, in case it was some sort of malware or virus, like a browser hijack sort of deal, (which it has to be said, she was fucking dreadful for in the pre-XP days), as she's been using Windows since Windows 95 and she's never seen File Explorer pull shit like that.) It looked like this, but a UK version. You can turn it off with a folder view option 'disable sync provider notifications' but there's currently no consensus on whether or not that would then also turn off such notifications that you might actually want to see. (If you just dismiss it using 'Not now' it'll also come back again whenever it feels like, apparently.) Attachment: spammo.JPG
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| Author: | GazChap [ Sun Mar 12, 2017 19:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I've used Directory Opus for Windows since basically forever. Not only is it a far, far better file manager than Explorer could ever hope to be, there's never any danger of this sort of bollocks. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Sun Mar 12, 2017 19:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
£30 tho? |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Sun Mar 12, 2017 22:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I've never had that pop up but I don't know if that's because I've disabled OneDrive or because i have my Explorer windows set to the old school bare minimum setup. It's still shitty either way mind. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 0:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
DavPaz wrote: £30 tho? In terms of hours of productivity I've gained through using it over Explorer, it's worth far, far more than that. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 0:17 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
What does it do? |
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| Author: | asfish [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Had some pop ups asking me what I think about features (when on my desktop) I have OneDrive so maybe that's why I've not been bugged Some info here on how to get rid of them http://www.pcworld.com/article/3039827/ ... -them.html |
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| Author: | Kern [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:28 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
An advert for the service popped up after I'd finished saving a spreadsheet in Excel the other day, irritating me no end.* *Irritation ended after 1.4 seconds |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 12:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Grim... wrote: What does it do? The things I use most: - Batch renaming (with regex if you want) built-in. - Built in FTP client that's decent (only criticism is that it's not multi-threaded for upload/download) - Dual pane, which I use with the above for uploading files to servers - supports "navigation lock" so it keeps the folder in view synchronised between left/right panes. - Synchronisation features for the above - Ludicrously powerful scripting available to make a toolbar button do pretty much everything you'd never need it to do And I use probably 10% of what it's capable of, if that. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 14:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Hmm. I don't really use FTP (because version control), but the batch renaming might be useful one day. |
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| Author: | TheVision [ Mon Mar 13, 2017 15:21 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
There's a bit on the Guardian about this today, including a link to show you where you need to go to disable them. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... ve-adverts |
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| Author: | asfish [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 8:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Quote: I've used Directory Opus for Windows since basically forever Can you set up shortcuts the same the quick access in Windows 10? Had a play but couldn't see how to do this? Like the 3 windows, you get with this, I'm in the process of moving music from 2 folders into a 3rd one which is my new library, have far too much music that I don't like as its other peoples collections etc. Was really easy to do with Opus. |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:11 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
asfish wrote: Can you set up shortcuts the same the quick access in Windows 10? Not sure I follow - what are the quick access shortcuts in Windows 10? |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 10:24 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Oh. Yeah, go to Preferences -> Folder Tree -> Contents, and tick "quick access" and the Quick Access shortcuts will then show up in the Folder Tree in DOpus. |
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| Author: | myp [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:31 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Haha, you use an application called Dopus. You dopus |
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| Author: | GazChap [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
 Here's a decent summary of the features and the benefits of said features. |
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| Author: | Kern [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 11:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Amiga Format gave it 98% . I remember telling Dad that we should get it because it was obviously the best thing you could have on an Amiga given that score. He declined, on the grounds that it was a file manager and our A500 didn't have a hard drive. |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Tue Mar 14, 2017 13:35 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I have had some use out of q-dir http://www.softwareok.com/?seite=Freeware/Q-Dir It's essentially a quad-window explorer. But I likes it. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:18 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I've set up Windows hello on my PC at home, it comes at quite a cost, the webcam I use is a Logitech Brio costing around £180. Aside from doing Hello its 4K and very good quality so we are using some in small meetings rooms, as such I was able to borrow one for a few weeks Works very well most of the time, however every now and again the camera is not on at log in. Once I log in with a password there are no issues with the camera it works in Skype etc. What I have to do is go back into Windows Hello setup to get it work again. Its a nice thing to have but until the cost of cameras drop won't be buying one for home. |
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| Author: | Cras [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Should get one like mine |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 12:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
I feel like I'm being watched... |
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| Author: | Bamba [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 13:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Those things amuse me when someone makes a slight noise in another site and suddenly the camera viewpoint swoops onto their confused faces. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Wed Mar 15, 2017 15:07 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Windows 10 |
Oh hey Bamba, I meant to ask you (or did, but you weren't here): Is this iPad thing what you do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpzRqw7KYNE |
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