DuckyofDeath123

I use StartisBack but there are many other good options out there now. SiB isn't free ($1 pr seat though...) but now there are certainly free ones that work as well. I don't use any though. Maybe oddjob has an idea?

Wow. Just, wow. You state that Windows updates are just shit and do nothing, all the while not installing any. Which means your system contains a shitload of bugs, many of them security, stability or performance related. Yet you somehow feel you have the tehcnical knowledge to then slander me with a misquote. OF COURSE you found a program that helps with core parking in Windows 7 - windows 7 is the OS which has that issue. Unlike Windows 8 which does not have the issue where it parks threads on cores that are busy, leaving idling cores unused and slowing shit down, which is what the core parking issue was about on Windows 7 (and Vista but nobody uses that of course). Then, you go on at some length about the installation process for W8 consumer, which indeed tried to tuck you into an MS account and if you had a Windows phone tried to tie that in as well. How's that relatyed in any way to it being better for games? I won't even mention that you subsequently compare your 7.8 phone losing all support (and the apps which you didn't update to current versions and that of course got pulled) to Windows 8 since it's a different OS on a different platform and I have no idea why you would drag that into a simple technical question: is Windows 8(.1) better for games than 7. The 5% frame hike you mention isn't due to JUST DirectX 11.2 and on my machine it's, I've measured, a fuckton more than 5%. Especially the minimum framerate goes up drastically. Average framerates are useless if you have high peaks and low dips - you want consistently acceptable framerates, rather than some good moments and then stutters. Windows 8's tablet interface is naff. I completely agree. But the underlying OS is better, faster, more stable, more secure and more reliable in every measurable way than it's predecessor. I don't care who you think it impresses, the adaptation of a new OS is always a 2 year cycle in businesses and as a professional who gets paid quite a lot of money for knowing what he's talking about on the subject of IT deployment and support in a large organization I take offence at the notion that your ignorance and purely emotional "I don't like it thus it must be crap" is in some way as valid an argument against Windows 8.1 as my actually knowing what I'm talking about is. The question was "which is better" not "which do you like". Specifically the question wasn't "could you all come and bash Windows 8 with unfounded uninformed rubbish and then become angry when the IT pro's point out 8.1 is actually better than 7. Grown men telling me they know their stuff because they build a PC. I don't know WHAT barron does for a living but it sure as hell isn't anything to do with desktop management for a large company. Again. The pro's say "get 8.1" and the uninformed and apparently religiously devoted people who are not pro's say 7 is obviously better, despite the fact they don't even know enough to install patches. I was done with this topic a while ago. I am now also done being "called out" by barron3K who apparently hasn't learned what he's talking about. Leave me alone unless you want actual tech advice, supported by facts rather than N=1 religious rantings about the virtues of an unpatched Windows 7.

You got frustrated that other players beat you and you bought hacks and used them on public servers fucking up everyone's day for two days and that's OK and we shouldn't judge. I used to be head admin for the DEmon Internet NL counter-strike servers before I had broadband. Every frickin' day there would be a dozen replays waiting for me in my inbox to ban yet another insufferable 14-year old who invariably was "only trying it out to see what it's like" and every single fucking one of the cunts thought it was unfair to ban them since they didn't mean to mess up the evening of a dozen or more players. To make all those players acutely aware that there are cunts in the world who will come and fuck up your evening's game time because they want to win, as if winning a video game somehow matters more than having fun. I have banned hundreds of teenage twats for this sort of "only testing the hax since others use them too!" but fairly few adults. I'm pretty sure XI is an adult clan. To my mind, being an adult does mean not doing this sort of trash. So yeah, I'm judging. You idiot, what the fuck do you think you're doing messing up other people's day and add insult to injury byu doing it wearing foXI tags. If you were within arm's reach, your ear would be red hot and stinging right about now. Whether you get ousted and banned from the site or not I don't know, but I certainly wouldn't expect this sort of behaviour to make you many friends. Certainly not many with beaks.

Seriously SOB? Nobody's made a joke about "have you been using it wrong?" yet?

No, this crashes a lot more

I was going to reply to this again but frankly, I can't be arsed since it would simply end up getting shot down with things like "the way microsoft works they make a good os then a bad os then a good os then a bad os 8.1 is the bad one" The professionals are saying "buy 8.1" and the amateurs are saying "8.1 is shit". All you have to do is choose who you take your advice from.

This was a hilarious read, thank you. Although of course comedy won't help Dean. Let me pop some bubbles. #1 it will try to Defrag or "Optimize" your HDD while your Trying to play games if the CPU and HDD activity is low. - if you manage to play a game that does not load your PC, this won't matter. BF4 certainly won't let your PC sit idle. I play a lot of games and have 6 HDDs, none of which ever get defragged in-game. I think it's more likely you just have a HDD instead of an SSD and are noticing that stuff is being loaded ingame, causing stutter. The fix for that would be:L get more RAM, or don't play Arma. #2 Metro fucking sucks - agreed. Get one of the start menu replacers that make it work exactly like win7. takes 5 minutes. #3 It parks 1/2 the CPU cores making them unusable until you Unpark them - bullshit. Windows 7 did core parking stupidly. 8 does not. And making anything unusable? nah mate. #4 Memory usage will be low Until you run it for a couple months Then it will use 1 1/2 times the memory that Win 7 does - UNused RAM is being used to cache things you're going to use soon, based upon previous use records. Win 8 does this smarter than 7, but both do it and both eventually find things to do with all that spare RAM. Neither of them poses a threat to system speed with it. #5 If you run the Cracked version of Windows 8 - If you do this, you're a fool. You have no idea what malware you're puling in, you don't get your stability and security updates, and you can't upgrade to 8.1 which is even better than 8. Let me put it this way. Your framerate in BF4 is going to be higher on windows 8(.1) than on 7. Your pc will be faster on 8(.1) than on 7. IT people will agree that, with Metro replaced by a start menu, 8(.1) is simply a better OS than 7. So yeah. Install 8.1, legally, and enjoy a faster PC. IF you go to get advice on tech, get it from the tech people.

Supi - that's easy to do too. I get explosives and LMG kills every round anyway.

M60e4 - #162 w/ 2575 kills top 1% w/ Support I'm in the top 10% of 7 weapons, which pretty much means I play with shit nobody else likes, cause I play nearly half my Support time with the M60, and I play support 79.99999%* of the time *what lunatic thought "80" was a good code for a smiley?!

This is what happened 7toes.

Happy birthday ya wankah!

So, as someone who has been recorded a lot during COD:black ops for hacks, aimbots, wallhacking and god knows what the fuck else I would like to point out that if your video isnt accepted as evidence, please consider the fact it may not be a hacker. If I had a dollar for every time someone mailed evidence in of my hacking (to me, the poor fucking idiots, since it was my own server) i would have had the server for free. Especially in COD good use of audio and a decent knowledge of maps and of where people were and where they were going ten seconds ago, a good bit of wallbanging and ambushing can lift your Kill/death ratio well above 3/1 in a good round. It doesn't take much to have someone begin to throw accusations around at that stage. Just because you think you've caught a hacker doesn't mean you haven't missed a slew of audio clues, glimpses of players and other signs someone may be sitting behind a wall or under some cover.

Back at Eddtheduck's place! We went to see Windsor today. Bobbarker's been arrested for saying feck eff wanka to a man in uniform with a fully automatic rifle but he should be getting deported tomorrow morning so it should be OK. Nice weekend guys. Photo uploads tomorrow evening when I get home.

The lack of responses after Daddas last post indicate, the rest of the weekend was harder to get through :-)

Dont tease Cheese. He needs his Tequila.

Were all stuck in traffic. Be there eventually.

First pic is on the facebook page...

There they are

I think i can hear edtheduck bringing bob barker this way now.

I assume we'll be the ones loudly getting hammered at the bar when everyone else comes in. To make sure you find the right people, I'll be dressed in a business suit and I will pretend not to know you until you hug me or kiss me on the cheek. First one to kiss the right guy in a business suit wins a beer

never been to a dog track, so why not.

"a bit of a squeeze"? I thought you're a builder, surely you have a van? [insert joke about Cheese being a tool]

Of course I booked on time. I knew you would take all of them.

You could still have a <20 player map cycle which just includes maps that work well on CQ or CQL with few players. There are a few out there. Gulf of Oman CQsmall works well with small numbers of players, especially when the storm hits and the jets are effectively grounded. Peaks works well for small player numbers since it's all infantry, so even with 5 players per team you won't get a tank-whoring fest. Locker and Metro obviously fit CQ and CQL even with few players - Metro is probably a better map with 20 players than with 60 anyway. The only Naval Strike map that does not work in CQL with <20 players is probably the one with the sub base in the center - the others are all pretty open maps on a central island. Lots of opportunity for infantry there. Flood Zone CQsmall does good on the EU HC server when it's low on people, just remember to wipe the roof with a helicopter roadrage every few minutes. You could try slipping in a list like that, see if it makes a difference.

I will definitely be driving from Germany. I will be head straight west to Calais through the north of France. Is anyone looking for a car-pool opportunity? The car is comfy and quiet, but you'll need to smoke during stops - outside the vehicle. I'm carpooling with Eddtheduck from London. so... thanks Edd