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Post by blockhead on May 12, 2020 21:47:36 GMT
Eighteen years, yikes. Just a few more years and Morrowind will be old enough to buy beer. And no fair comparing it with a much newer game.
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Post by blockhead on May 10, 2020 12:31:41 GMT
Not to mention the sophisticated high-tech tree generation & placement algorithms.
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Post by blockhead on May 8, 2020 13:15:56 GMT
Your right only if the Great Lakes have migrated to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming Guess I zoomed out a bit much. For some reason I was expecting Thailand because I though Sniffles & Squishy lived there?
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Post by blockhead on May 8, 2020 12:58:35 GMT
I googled (well, duckduckgo) the coordinates. Zoomed out and saw the great lakes? Is that right or are my web search skills bad?
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Post by blockhead on May 6, 2020 12:25:41 GMT
Nope nope nope. C:\Program Files (x86) is locked. Security restricted. Access denied. I've tried everything I could find about this on the web. There are even several fixes from Microsoft about this problem, none of which work. It's something about the x86 files that 64 bit operating system restrict. My 64 bit Win 7 won't allow the security settings on the folders that the OS install created to be changed. Weird. There is a way around this but (a) it is a bit finicky & complicated and (b) really easy to make things worse than they already are. Oh, and (c) try to imagine complete destruction of all data on your hard drives and a machine that refuses to boot no way no how. We're talking nepalm in the jungle, nuclear war, yellowstone exploding, crossing the streams, all in your computer. Because of this I hesitate to mention it and I think would seek other methods before trying this one. That said: Get a Linux live CD. It will be an ISO file that you download and then burn to a CD.
Which one? There are many and the holy wars as to which distro is best are a nightmare to wade through. That said, System Rescue CD is one that I have used on occasion.
How do you burn an ISO in Windows? It's been so long that I had no idea. Like anything else in windows, it will be a fight and will involve trying to find, install, and run 3rd-party software.
Some live CDs can instead be put on a USB stick and you can boot off of that. Since come newer computers might not have a CD/DVD at all, you may have to do it this way.
Once booted in the Linux Live CD, mount the windows drive(s) in question and delete/move without restrictions. Which is the point of using the live CD: to get outside of windows to get around the stupid arbitrary restrictions of Windows.
However, file management in Linux is different than in windows. The commands are different. Easy to screw things up ... and of course, as is always in Linux, there are fifteen different ways to do it and if one were to ask which way ... holy war ensues.
Boot said live CD. Find the file or directory you wish to delete or move. Delete it or move it. Nothing will stop you.
If all has gone well (eep!) you tell the live CD (or USB stick) to shut down. Remove said stick. Turn your machine on. Boot into windows as usual. Put the live CD someplace safe for the next time you'll need it.
As stated before: you can do huge amounts of damage. Because you have never used Linux (or any other Unix?) before, this is your last resort.
p.s. Yes, I have left out details. this is less a how-to and more a yes-you-can-do-it-but-here-is-why-maybe-you-should-not-do-it.
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Post by blockhead on May 4, 2020 18:22:12 GMT
Oblivion...is more than standing around in your underwear.
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Post by blockhead on May 3, 2020 22:38:41 GMT
SnifflesGotta agree with you on that one: Vivec gets tiresome fast. Big imposing featureless monotonous buildings. It's like the Tamrial attempt at Brutalist architecture ... with even less windows. Actually, no Windows. Add no fast travel and yeah, it gets old fast. Thematically, though, it fits. It creates an oppressive, repressive and authoritarian mood, which does help clue the Player in as to how bad the Temple has become by the time the Player arrives in Vvardenfell. That and the ordinators saying, "We're watching you ... scum."
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Post by blockhead on Apr 29, 2020 2:50:39 GMT
heavily armed with a soup ladle
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Post by blockhead on Apr 27, 2020 3:55:50 GMT
Thank you ... I had been wondering about why suddenly techie was not supporting you. The closest thing to that LIL thing that regular people could get would be I suppose a hypervisor. I've not ever set one of those up so cannot say for sure. For hard drives I've been getting WD and Toshiba. Though in December I'd bought a WD "blue" and it had a some really weird problem that I could never sort out (the drive would suddenly be read-only every few days) so I had to return it. And I avoid Seagate: had one crap out on me in under a year. p.s. HP is utter crap. I didn't know they made drives. In the 1980s they made a fine line of calculators, but something changed over time and now they just make crap computers. p.p.s. Compaq is also crappy, btw. Actually ... didn't HP buy Compaq, or the other way around? So now they make crappier crap. Crap squared.
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Post by blockhead on Apr 25, 2020 22:46:59 GMT
Since 240 GB SSDs are cheap, about $30, I was planning on changing them on a regular basis. I'm not at all sure what regimen I should take though. Suggestions? I don't know enough to make a good suggestion. SSDs are still a very new thing to me and I don't want to give you bad advice. Sweet. Looks like you're ready to go, burner-wise.
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Post by blockhead on Apr 25, 2020 12:36:47 GMT
Re-reading your post some more...
As for motherboards and sound cards spontaneously dying ... how is the electricity where you are? spikes and dips in the power-level can play hell with electronics over time. Also, if you're running a desktop computer, consider a newer beefier power supply in your computer?
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Post by blockhead on Apr 25, 2020 12:17:00 GMT
Too late now, but for long-term archival data like Squishy's college work, consider m-disc DVDs. Most regular DVD-writers will write to m-disc. m-disc DVDs (and blu-rays) use the same data format as regular DVDs, the difference is rather in the physical disc: the chemicals in m-disc media (in theory) last longer. The wikipedia link explains it better than I do. p.s. My understanding is that if you have a DVD burner that is less than ten years old, it most likely has m-disc burning capability and even more likely has m-disc reading capability. p.p.s. You mention SSDs. They are nice, yes. Recently I had to put one in since the old HD died. An unexpected benefit on my particular machine is that the SSD makes the machine run cooler, which is something no one ever mentioned. There are now times when the fan actually turns off. Wow. Anyway, I digress, what I mean to say is: SSD's can and will fail, so trust them about as much as regular HDs. You still need to do backups and you still need to plan for failure.
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Post by blockhead on Apr 25, 2020 2:18:16 GMT
Almost one year later. I made a mistake a day or two after my above post. Yup. Blew Morrowind all to hell. Standard operating procedure. Make a test character. Run it for ten minutes or so to make sure it all works. Exit Morrowind. Do backups!Just think of all the neat places you get to explore. Morrowind is big enough that you may find something you missed the previous times around. p.s. Years ago I burned my data files directory to a DVD. Two copies. And it's also on multiple external hard drives.
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Post by blockhead on Mar 15, 2020 1:46:24 GMT
My solution was the nuclear approach.
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Post by blockhead on Feb 10, 2020 0:34:30 GMT
Oh well, guess you'll have to dig out the disc of the original version and reinstall ... oh wait: the gaming industry has screwed us all by not distributing games on physical media any more.
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