Monday, 27 September 2004

I think that I have found a reason to upgrade

One thing that I found myself to be a sucker for over the years: star wars games. I have recently gotten my hands on Star Wars Battlefront and it looks great. There's just one tiny problem: I can't play it on my laptop. There is no way that my box even comes close to having the requirements for this game, and this is a game where you would want to have no lag in any way. So now I find myself with a reason to actually upgrade my computer after so many years. Strange.

I have my linux box sitting next to me right now, so I think that I'll check that out. I think that it's only at 800 MHz though, so I might have to do a few things before I have a "gaming box". Like 1) get a graphics card that can handle the game 2) Make sure I have enough RAM and hd space for it 3) make it a dual boot so that I can still have a linux box to play around with? and 4) I would probably need a better monitor, but that's farther down the road.

The whole reason why I made a linux box was so that I could play around with having a nice stable computer that I could use as a file server. Well, it is stable, but that's mostly because I never turn it on. And a file server? Well, I could never figure out how to get samba working so I just got an external USB drive for my laptop with a 120 G drive. I would like to be able to work from home, and it would be a good idea to have something that would allow me to do this....

One suggestion that was made to me today was to just a couple of removable drives and just swap out to the OS that I want to run. This sounds good, but 1) I would have to get another drive (not a problem) and 2) I would have to get a couple of the swappable drives bays. So many decisions... I think that I'll mull this over eating supper.

Anyone have the hardware to be able to run Star Wars Battlefront? Is it any good?
Listening to: A. Boublil and C. Schˆnberg - I Dreamed A Dream


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  1. peter bernier27 September 2004 at 22:19

    Just a personal opinion, but as someone who's struggled with Samba/Linux for years, I totally recommend going with the hard-drive racks.
    (ie, when you get pissed off and annoyed after spending two weeks trying to get it to work, you can just swap the drive out for a fully-functioning Win2k install and then pick up on Samba in a month when you've got the patience...)
    Plus that works to your advantage since you've got the external drive.. (as in you'd be able to read the files regardless of which OS is was plugged in to..)

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  2. Jim27 September 2004 at 22:23

    I just have to make sure that I have USB 2 in the other computer... USB 1 sucks when trying to move files around. It's okay to play mp3's off of though.
    You (or anyone else) know where I can get cheap hd racks?

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  3. Kibbee28 September 2004 at 09:33

    I know how much of a pain it can be to get Samba to work. I have gotten it to work though, despite it being quite a p.i.t.a. I was looking into getting a harddrive with a network interface. would be really nice for sharing files between computers.
    Anyway, about battlefront. There's a "free" preview of the game on the extra feature CD for the Trilogy dvd that just came out. Just have to find an x-box to try it out in.

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  4. Jim28 September 2004 at 09:50

    Yes, I already have a "free preview" of battlefront... *cough*
    I just wanted to see what it was like... if I get hardware to actually run it, I'll go out and buy it to play it online.

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  5. Scott28 September 2004 at 10:05

    You may want to read the IGN review on the game. After hearing about the game and getting the demo in the new Star Wars Trilogy DVD set, i was stocked about the game and was about to run out and buy an XBox. After reading the IGN review, i now have reservations.

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  6. peter bernier28 September 2004 at 21:23

    Just fyi, you may *not* want to try out that preview on someone else's x-box...
    http://www.boingboing.net/2004/09/24/lucas_put_malicious_.html

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  7. Kibbee29 September 2004 at 09:57

    Couldn't they just put a "feature" into the mod chips that prevents your x-box firmware from being upgraded?

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