Zombies

[Poisonedv]

Step 1. dont be a moron

[etnlIcarus]

And what sort of improvements should I notice in my operating system?

[Poisonedv]

Why don't you go outside for once?

[etnlIcarus]

Oh come on, Poison; I lobbed you an easy one there.

[Patrick Alexander]

Originally Posted by Poisonedv

Why don't you go outside for once?

What the hell is this shit? If you're going to hurl dumb insults you could at least make them funny.

EDIT: Don't hurl them at all, though. I'm weary of you pulling down the tone of the forums every time you happen to be in a pissy mood, which seems to be a lot of the time. I keep wondering if I can red card someone for something as vague as 'excessive negativity'. (I can, of course.)

If you've decided someone's an idiot and not worthy of responding to properly, don't respond.

EDIT: Unless I've got this all wrong and you two are like BFFs IRL or something.

[Reasonableman]

I dunno, Poisonedv's pissy insults seem to have grown on me. He's practically a fixture of the forums.

[Poisonedv]

Originally Posted by etnlIcarus

Oh come on, Poison; I lobbed you an easy one there.

nliteos.com is a good start. also hundreds of registry tweaks.

patrick your post is correct and I'm sorry for being a dick, but most of the time there isn't any negativity actually behind it, I do it just for the sake of doing it.

back to the topic also: you guys say the PC is all strategy and FPS games, but you forgot the PC is the home of adventure games and hundreds of indie platformers.

[matte_k]

Hang on, didn't this thread start about zombie games originally?

But before we head back to topic, i'll chuck in my 10p's worth (has to be pennies, because of my location) and say I wholeheartedly support PC gaming. Consoles are great fun too, but I enjoy the flexibility and support PC gets in comparison to consoles. This semi-sentient tower of frustration I'm currently using was a complete overhaul from the last one, cost £600 for the parts on ebay, and won't need an upgrade for about 2 years. A console could cost up to half of that, and won't do all the other stuff I need it to.

Plus- moddability (is that a word? well, i'm using it anyway). For instance, Oblivion and Stalker are far better games due to a great support community and the ability to configure extras for the game tailored to your preferences. Even the console versions of TF2 don't get extra maps, community or official, or the extra weapons kits- I know a few 360 owners who are quite pissed about that, not to mention the lovely Portal: Flash maps pack that gives us more GLaDOS than anyone else.

Strangely, I find myself agreeing with Poisonedv for once-he's made some good points about PC's as a gaming platform

[etnlIcarus]

Originally Posted by Patrick

Unless I've got this all wrong and you two are like BFFs IRL or something.

Oh, to have a friend as cynical and unlikable as myself. We would have such a jolly ...depressing time together.

nliteos.com is a good start. also hundreds of registry tweaks.

I'm familiar with nLite and it's not really what I'm looking for. What XP and, to a lesser degree, Vista need are a modern, standards-specific API (somewhat improved with Vista, need to remove all the legacy libraries, though); toolkit which isn't based on decades old code and doesn't force developers to embrace .net; pre-emptive window manager with functionality conducive to multitasking (somewhat fixed by use of alt shells, though most are buggy, hacky, depreciated and can leave you without a shell if you look at them the wrong way); focus model which isn't field-specific; adjustable pointer acceleration; recommended menu layout which doesn't assume you'll only ever install eight applications; multi-user support which isn't a massive hack (still an issue on Vista); sensible security model (Vista at least has a security model. Wouldn't describe it as sensible, though); doesn't assume all users are pirates; a release and code model which doesn't require the latest hardware to run the OS smoothly; unified package management (and no, Add/Remove Programmes doesn't count) with dependency checking; an OS which doesn't load my apps into RAM without my asking, when all I ever really wanted were light applications to begin with; an OS which doesn't lie about HDD usage, nor forget to flush out it's temp files; kernel with pre-emptive multitasking which plays nice (NT was certainly better than the DOS days but still far from perfect. Supposedly improved in Vista. Haven't tested it much, though) and a kernel that can properly synchronise calls to optimise increasingly important interactive processes (though considering MS micro kernel design, this isn't likely to be fixed any time soon).

Now, I've really run the gamut of both end-user tweaks and underlying architectural problems so I don't expect most of them to be fixable without dumping the entire Windows code base and not letting MS anywhere near my PC but which ones can I fix with registry tweaks?

Originally Posted by matte_k

Oblivion and Stalker are far better games due to a great support community and the ability to configure extras for the game tailored to your preferences. Even the console versions of TF2 don't get extra maps, community or official, or the extra weapons kits- I know a few 360 owners who are quite pissed about that, not to mention the lovely Portal: Flash maps pack that gives us more GLaDOS than anyone else.

Wholeheartedly agree with this. The console manufacturers have been absolute Nazis with their platforms. I understand most of this has come from Publishers so it's good to see Sony adopt a less hostile stance to hackers with the PS3 and, more recently, fewer firmware-bricked PSPs. They're still pretty tight about giving you access to anything more closely related to the games or APIs, though.

[Poisonedv]

Everyone knows that the real reason for modding is NUDE mods.

also that was a big chunk of text but development on windows for me is fine