Rally Pat

Install a VM on the windows 7 machine. Have them VM run XP?

Doesn't work that way, a VM of XP is still treated as a stand alone computer running XP.

Take a look at these

 

http://www.mochasoft.dk/

 

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/i/access/solutions.html

 

 

P.S. what kind of weird licensing do you have that microsoft is going to charge you directly for holding onto XP machines?

Microsoft and Corporate will charge $200 per machine to keep writing security patches for ones still in service, that's what I've been told by those above me, anyway.

Thanks for the links, we actually use Mochasoft as one of our terminal emulators, but I am not sure if it will have the functionality he needs. The other we use is Attachmate.

AS/400 brings back terrible memories!

Ours is slowly being decommissioned in favor of Oracle, but its not gone till its gone.

I work in IT at my company, and have been hammering away at getting rid of the last remaining XP machines before Microsoft starts charging us for them. There is one guy who has one that all he does is remote into it from his Windows 7 laptop and uses it to upload data into an AS/400 using IBM Client Access Express.

I am trying to find the same program or a newer alternative to install on this guy's laptop so that I can simply decommission this one instead of replace it. IBM's website is almost completely uselss, and has no download links to the software.

Anyone who knows anything about this would be a great help.

Thanks!

I am planning on getting their 3/8" ratchet to see how it does just for giggles.

Let me know how it turns out. Are you buying the red one in the same set as the impact?

Anything less than 400hp and I'll be disappointed.

I think +/- 300ish would be the ideal number for a car in that class, but something capable of 400 with some work for sure, which I think the FA20 could handle.

I've definitely got the minimums covered. Let me see if I can remember all this off the top of my head...

 

-i5 2500k

-8gb RAM

-Nvidia 570 gtx sc

 

So I'm sure I can run it, I just wanna be able to get a really good framerate. Also, I'd prefer to play with a controller (I know, I know...I just like it better), and I heard it's got auto aim/aim assist for people with controllers. Any input on that?

Make sure you use the Geforce Experience software to get the best config for your setup.

As far as the controller goes, it works, I played a bit with mine, but obviously you will likely still be out-gunned by mouse/kb players.

Ugh I want to play this really bad. I'm not about to throw down $500 on an Xbox One, and I don't know if my PC is up to the task. Any one playing on medium-ish settings?

What are your specs? Titanfall runs on the Source engine, and its not very taxing on older computers.

Edit: Here are the minimum specs

PC Minimum Requirements:

OS: Windows Vista SP2 64-bit / Windows 7 SP1 64-bit / Windows 8 64-bit

CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz

RAM: At least 4 GB

HARD DRIVE: At least 50 GB of free space

VIDEO: AMD Radeon HD 4770 with 512MB RAM or better / Nvidia GeForce 8800GT with 512MB RAM or better

DirectX: DirectX 11

INPUT: Keyboard and mouse, Microsoft Gamepad

ONLINE CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS: 512kbps down and 384kbps up or faster Internet connection

Impressions?

It's a lot of fun. The most fun I have had playing an FPS in recent memory. Not the prettiest game being a Source engine game, has some muddy textures here and there, even on the highest setting. The weird multiplayer campaign thing's story doesn't make a ton of sense, but then again its kind of bolted on to the side of regular multiplayer. The rounds feel like they are just the right length, not too long or short, and the DOTA style AI Grunts really help make the battles feel epic despite only being 6v6.

i used the VPN trick to unlock it earlier today, been playing since I got home from work, just taking a break to watch the (train wreck of a) launch on twitch.tv/xbox.

MegamanEXEv2 on Origin

Never played ingress, but I played CodeRunner back when it was new.

http://www.coderunnergame.com/

Not bad. Thanks the the link. I have been to microcenter twice this week already. The big thing is i want to be able to run 1080i/p out of my machine. I currently have it connected via VGA, which does support 1080, but my tv does not support 1080 through vga. Best it can do is 720p. Pat, what system are you running on your htpc?

 

Oh, one other thing... Do graphics cards support audio through hdmi? Any way of rendering that so i dont have to have a separate set of cables going to my receiver?

Yes it does do audio out. I'm running a Dell Optiplex 755 small form factor, it's a Core 2 Duo machine with 4 gigs of ram. We were tossing a bunch of them at work, I grabbed a few for my family to use. It was having a bit of trouble with 1080p until I enabled hardware acceleration. Works great now! We're running Windows 7 with XBMC.