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Post by rhyls on Nov 13, 2014 9:25:56 GMT
Periodically I am being bonbarded from the sky by some unknown enemy. Exploding Boulders, Firebombs and some kind of magical effect. Not hurt me but haor by whom,I have no idea. s killed several other innocent people. What caused this I have hardly done anything since starting this new game. Is it possible that STEAM is annoyed because I went offline to play Skyrim? rhyls
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Post by jet4571 on Nov 13, 2014 10:06:13 GMT
I am going to assume you were drinking when you wrote that. Quite different from your usual more eloquent speech.
There has been a couple mods that allowed such magic effects so it could be a mod. But then again it could be the moved directory creating bugs. As for Steam? Nope wasn't Steam causing the problem, Skyrim is 1 out of thousands of games and you are 1 out of millions of customers using steam. If it was Steam there would be articles on every gaming website and news venue rather than Ubisoft replacing EA as the worst Game publisher.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 13, 2014 11:26:21 GMT
If it was Steam there would be articles on every gaming website and news venue rather than Ubisoft replacing EA as the worst Game publisher. Since when did Ubisoft contend with Sierra (Leisure Suit Larry) ?
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Post by rhyls on Nov 13, 2014 12:27:41 GMT
I am going to assume you were drinking when you wrote that. Quite different from your usual more eloquent speech. There has been a couple mods that allowed such magic effects so it could be a mod. But then again it could be the moved directory creating bugs. As for Steam? Nope wasn't Steam causing the problem, Skyrim is 1 out of thousands of games and you are 1 out of millions of customers using steam. If it was Steam there would be articles on every gaming website and news venue rather than Ubisoft replacing EA as the worst Game publisher. Hello, No I wasn't drunk, but I am in a lot of pain due to a badly twisted ankle. Being a single ELIGIBLE male, I can't rest up and have someone look after me, so no care and respite. Thank you for thinking I'm eloquent. I do try!! I did wonder if it was/is gremlins in the works and since that earlier entry I have opened the game to play and steam did an update. Now, using my skse shortcut to open, it opens with the vanilla window every time. Did a reinstall of SKSE, made no difference. So, yes there are some odd events occuring and now I'm thinking about going back onto my C:/ drive although it's much smaller. What I would prefer is to change the E:/drive into my C and make the C:/ drive into my E. Problem is I have no idea how to do that. True to say I am becoming: Well and Truly P***** Off rhyls
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 13, 2014 13:54:00 GMT
EaseUs Partition Master will reorder drives. Not sure why I'm saying this as you ignored my suggestion for EaseUS back up.
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Post by rhyls on Nov 13, 2014 14:24:17 GMT
No Sniffles, I didn't ignore your suggestion I did D/L it. At the moment I am struggling with some pain!! Miss my wifes soft bosom to rest on. Always helps with pains.
rhyls
I looked at your suggestion, I will D/L and then sit and think carefully about what I'm going to do(about a week, slow brain ). If I get this all right I'll buy you a pint in the tavern.
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Post by wotan on Nov 13, 2014 16:23:10 GMT
Periodically I am being bonbarded from the sky by some unknown enemy. Exploding Boulders, Firebombs and some kind of magical effect. It does sound like you've upset one certain black dragon who is now using his 'Call Meteor Strike Thu'um' - just my guess. Alduin does use that thing at the Throat of the World.
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Post by rhyls on Nov 13, 2014 18:08:50 GMT
Wotan Hello! I have uninstalled Skyrim completely until I get my Drives changed over. C to E and E to C. Then I shall reinstall into the new BIGGER C:/ drive. Sniffles proposed EaseUS Partition prog'being able to do that, but I can't see how it does it.
Don't know why he should be upset, to date I've only killed 5 dragons in this new game.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 13, 2014 23:08:02 GMT
Wotan Hello! I have uninstalled Skyrim completely until I get my Drives changed over. C to E and E to C. Then I shall reinstall into the new BIGGER C:/ drive. Sniffles proposed EaseUS Partition prog'being able to do that, but I can't see how it does it. Don't know why he should be upset, to date I've only killed 5 dragons in this new game. There are rules and limitations, a rigid hierarchy that must be followed for hard drive reordering, renaming and so forth. Nothing to do with the program I suggested. You may or probably will need an extra drive to handle data and act as a temporary drive with name x while you swap and move things around. It is a juggling act and unless you have spare hard drive(s) you will end up making logical partitions as holding patterns as you swap things around. Some rules. You can never have 2 drives with the same alpha-numeric designation IE C: D: etc. Drives and logical partitions must be in order, lowest to highest. You can't stick in a logical G: partition after the H: and so on. NOW, you may not need that software. If you have 2 separate drives and they both meet the criteria for a drive C:, that is they both have an operating system, just go to the BIOS and tell it which drive you want as drive c:, the boot drive. It will assign the letter designation C: and the other drive will get the next available drive letter designation. C: drive criteria. Must have an OS. There can not be another drive with the assigned name c: or a partition with the logical name c:. If there are drive(s) with c: They will get thrown into limbo and no longer be available. The BIOS is the boss and rigidly follows the alpha-numeric naming convention order. the boot drive, regardless of the assigned name, will always get redesignated the c: drive. So to give an example and confuse the hell out of you even more. I have on my first hard drive BOOT c:, and the logical partitions Spooler d:, Working e: and Junkyard f:. In junkyard is a copy of my OS. If I tell the BIOS to boot from Junkyard I would then have BOOT c: (Junkyard), d: Spooler, and E: Working. The original c: with the OS becomes unassigned. I could then take Partition Master and name the unassigned drive the next available drive letter which in this computers case would be j:. However, if j: is in use, say a memory stick, the next available name would be N: because I: K: L: and M: are bios assigned as card readers. OR, the BIOS MAY assign the name j: on it's own. That depends on the flexibility of your BIOS. Now if I wanted to boot from my second drive, Black, which also has an OS I would tell the BIOS to use it as BOOT. The BIOS would then install it as c: and because this is a dynamic and very spiffy BIOS, each existing drive would get bumped up one level in the A-N hierarchy. c: becomes d: and so on. However, d: is locked. It is my virtual drive which cannot be moved, adjusted or reassigned except by a special OS program, the virtual memory handler. So the BIOS naming reassignment would jump over that one. Maybe. Now the spiffy nifty. Our other computer, using EaseUS clone tools has a drive c: unique to it, and logical drives d: and e:. E: contains this computers drive c: d: e: and f: in a back up compressed format using EaseUS backup. There is a thumb drive locked away that accompanies that back up. If this computers c: drive goes to hell, I pull that drive and install it as my third HD in this comp. I then boot from the thumb drive and tell it to restore. It wipe this comps c: d: e: and f: and puts the back up in their proper places. That e: drive also exists in my techy's storage systems as a 100% redundant back up.
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Post by Dova on Nov 14, 2014 23:54:29 GMT
If your bigger hard drive is mostly empty, why don't you just copy everything from E to C, and install a OS on E? Once that's done, copy files from C to E, then reformat C? Of course, doing this, you will have to reinstall all the softwares, but it's less prone to registry errors. If you know how to use diskpart from command prompt.
Moving files around an OS sounds easy, but if something wrong happened, it can easily ruin the entire system.
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Post by jet4571 on Nov 15, 2014 4:54:19 GMT
aNOTHER THING IS HOW OLD IS THE os'S INSTALL? Effing caps... If the OS install is around a year old doing a fresh new install increases performance. It can even double your systems performance in many cases. Anytime an OS is a year or older I would suggest reinstalling fresh if you need to do something major like move to a new drive, major driver problems, or a virus.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 15, 2014 5:25:16 GMT
aNOTHER THING IS HOW OLD IS THE os'S INSTALL? Effing caps... If the OS install is around a year old doing a fresh new install increases performance. It can even double your systems performance in many cases. Anytime an OS is a year or older I would suggest reinstalling fresh if you need to do something major like move to a new drive, major driver problems, or a virus. Got the words of wisdom about reinstalling an OS. "An installation of an OS is done once per each new version. patch or upgrade. The OS is installed clean on the HD then backed up. Then one by one the support programs are installed, testing each. Last, necessity programs are installed. You then make certain the OS is booting rapidly and operating properly, including CPU and memory checks. Once you are satisfied you back up the OS. That back up becomes the new OS. Should an OS reload be required, you retrieve the back up. When a newer version of an OS comes along it is tested in the same manner. If it is found wanting... has microsloth ever produced a bad OS? you can revert to the back up. With disk drive space so cheap and available these days where you can store back ups there is no reason to ever install an OS or program twice."
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Post by jet4571 on Nov 15, 2014 10:15:20 GMT
aNOTHER THING IS HOW OLD IS THE os'S INSTALL? Effing caps... If the OS install is around a year old doing a fresh new install increases performance. It can even double your systems performance in many cases. Anytime an OS is a year or older I would suggest reinstalling fresh if you need to do something major like move to a new drive, major driver problems, or a virus. Got the words of wisdom about reinstalling an OS. "An installation of an OS is done once per each new version. patch or upgrade. The OS is installed clean on the HD then backed up. Then one by one the support programs are installed, testing each. Last, necessity programs are installed. You then make certain the OS is booting rapidly and operating properly, including CPU and memory checks. Once you are satisfied you back up the OS. That back up becomes the new OS. Should an OS reload be required, you retrieve the back up. When a newer version of an OS comes along it is tested in the same manner. If it is found wanting... has microsloth ever produced a bad OS? you can revert to the back up. With disk drive space so cheap and available these days where you can store back ups there is no reason to ever install an OS or program twice." Your tech works in the corporate business world and the PC usage is different from home. So installing only on new versions is expected simply because of money. 6 hours in updates and installs from a back up install like he describes makes no sense when there is 500 computers in one location and you have 10 locations. Ofcourse you would avoid doing a fresh install as much as possible and you don't care about the systems boot up speed or if there's any performance loss due to the registry becoming a mess. But in Rhyls case "Should an OS reload be required" can be valid, Migrating from one HDD to another is a good time to reinstall the OS so you have a fresh system. You don't have to reinstall yearly but if you are doing something major like Rhyls is and it's a year old install the ~8 hours is well worth it. I really don't see how his advice and mine are conflicting, and his advice on making a backup of a full install is excellent. Once you have that backup and you revert to it all that's needed is updates and install what was added since it was made. from ~8 hours install time to ~6 at most for anyone that doesn't do it for a living.
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Post by Sniffles on Nov 15, 2014 12:40:09 GMT
Your tech works in the corporate business world and the PC usage is different from home. So installing only on new versions is expected simply because of money. 6 hours in updates and installs from a back up install like he describes makes no sense when there is 500 computers in one location and you have 10 locations. Ofcourse you would avoid doing a fresh install as much as possible and you don't care about the systems boot up speed or if there's any performance loss due to the registry becoming a mess. But in Rhyls case "Should an OS reload be required" can be valid, Migrating from one HDD to another is a good time to reinstall the OS so you have a fresh system. You don't have to reinstall yearly but if you are doing something major like Rhyls is and it's a year old install the ~8 hours is well worth it. I really don't see how his advice and mine are conflicting, and his advice on making a backup of a full install is excellent. Once you have that backup and you revert to it all that's needed is updates and install what was added since it was made. from ~8 hours install time to ~6 at most for anyone that doesn't do it for a living. Well, I'm royally confused. I just follow his instructions. On this computer if the boot up takes more than 60 seconds 3 days in a row I plug in a memory stick and reboot. About 5 seconds later a screen comes up. I arrow down to restore and hit enter. Another screen comes up and I arrow down to the first hieroglyphics and hit enter again then go make a cup of coffee and feed the cats. When I get back I have a brand new OS that boots in 34 seconds, all programs up and working. I don't need the memory stick. He can do it remotely and does to dozens of computers each day but I'm too stupid to remember to leave the computer on during the maintenance period.
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Post by rhyls on Nov 15, 2014 18:11:56 GMT
If your bigger hard drive is mostly empty, why don't you just copy everything from E to C, and install a OS on E? Once that's done, copy files from C to E, then reformat C? Of course, doing this, you will have to reinstall all the softwares, but it's less prone to registry errors. If you know how to use diskpart from command prompt. Moving files around an OS sounds easy, but if something wrong happened, it can easily ruin the entire system. Dova, I think? I understand what you say, I assume OS = operating system! On my E drive I have 1.46 TB free(TB = trillion byte?) I havent space on my c drive for the 'E' stuff. I could put all 230GB from C to E. Then C would be completely empty. Can I then FORMAT it without a disc? Normally my techie takes it away and does what is needed.I don't even have a Win 7 disc. But how do I change the Drive Letters So E becomes C and the old C can be E empty! That allows me to install Skyrim onto the new C drive as Steam wants to do. Apart from regedit, I know nothing re the booot or bios, never heard of diskpart 'reinstall all the softwares,' what softwares? I think you mean my personal software ie Antivirus etc
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