BlackSmokeDMax

BlackSmokeDMax

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Reply to Windows 7 support in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I don't think Windows Live Mail is available to download anymore. It is likely it will be fine with an in-place windows upgrade, but if you ever do a clean install be aware that you may not find it to install. Unless of course you have the install file(s) on physical media. I would certainly suggest doing a hard backup of any data (all data - not just your email) on this computer before proceeding! I'd even go so far as to exporting your email data, that way it is in a format fit to send to a

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Reply to Marvel Cinematic Universe - Anything and Everything in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

[quote quoting="post"]I think, as a film, Winter Soldier may be the best put together. But from a pure action and enjoyment standpoint, I really love The Avengers. [/quote] I think that is just where I stand as well. Many of the movies had great moments, but these two stood above the rest to me for the exact reasons you stated. [quote who="Chasbo" reply="1" id="3744848"] For pure shits and giggles I love the two Deadpool movies best. [/quot

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Reply to Civilization VI announced in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

So, just wondering what others think of the new Gathering Storm expansion. Personally I really like it so far. Though the game definitely still needs some work. Both in user interface, and in AI.

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Reply to 64 in FE Support Elemental Forums

As far as I am aware, all of the Elemental games are still 32 bit. Gal Civ III is, I believe, Stardock's first 64 bit game. I would guess all future Stardock games will be built on a minimum of either GalCiv3's engine or the Nitrous engine.

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Reply to Star Trek: Discovery in Movies & TV & Books Elemental Forums

[quote who="SchismNavigator" reply="24" id="3740760"] Any thoughts on season 2 so far? Since it's on Netflix I don't have the "no CBS" excuse. In some ways it is definitely better than season 1, but in others it keeps doing things that are just odd, like occasionally referring to the transporter as the "teleporter". Not sure if that's just to help explain what it is to new viewers (which is odd in a second season) or just the writer did not care. [/quote] Isn't it only on Ne

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Reply to Forums vs. Social Media in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

I don't really "use" social media any longer. I have a facebook account which I haven't posted to in a couple years. I also have a twitter account, which I have never tweeted with, but have used for some direct communications with CS reps throughout the years. I still participate in quite a few forums. Most recently my heaviest forum usage was probably Steam (4 or 5 games and explorminate group), Rimworld (Ludeon studios), and then Stardock forums, with some other minor forum usage he

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Reply to Save game wont work in Elemental Game Series Elemental Forums

Any chance your save game folder somehow got set to "read only." I'm pretty sure this was something that Windows 10 was doing randomly to a lot of people at one point during the upgrade process. Haven't heard about it much recently, but if you hadn't been in there recently, perhaps it is still a remnant of that upgrade problem from a while back. You'd have to navigate to that folder via windows file explorer and check it out that way. No way to check for sure in-game. This pos

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Reply to Idea for Fences in OS Customization Elemental Forums

Thanks Basj! I was worried at first that it was going to be for "all fences" only, but checking that out on my computer, that drop down lets you select separate fences. Very nice touch!! Didn't find it originally as I was looking in the menu of each fence itself rather than the overall "configure fences."

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Reply to Discord Server? in Fallen Enchantress Elemental Forums

Not as far as I know, but if they do an official one for the Elemental games, I hope they let us know in this thread. Gonna subscribe so I don't miss it.

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Reply to Old games on new Intel graphics card... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="13" id="3736194"] Well $400 laptops don't have expansion ports. I'm stuck with Intel onboard graphics. [/quote] Typically you can't add laptop graphics after you purchase like you can a desktop. But you can order it with better graphics options, like mobile versions of the Nvidia 1070. (likely better than that now, that was just what was available the last time I went looking) I said "typically" because there is also the option of a

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Reply to Old games on new Intel graphics card... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="alaknebs" reply="6" id="3736080"] i know. that was referring to the integrated gpu taking preference over discrete card comment. [/quote] Yep, that is how it is supposed to work. You'll find the internet is full of tales where that does not happen as it should.

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Reply to Old games on new Intel graphics card... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

[quote who="kona0197" reply="3" id="3735182"] Quoting starkers, reply 1 Have you tried downloading the drivers and such directly from Intel? That may resolve the issue. Yes. I tried that yesterday. I uninstalled the HP video driver and installed the Intel driver. Nothing's changed. I sti

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Reply to Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes 2.4 in LH Support Elemental Forums

[quote who="onomastikon" reply="13" id="3735174"] ... not sure what's wrong with these forums and why noone from Stardock seems to be participating, but I did find the answer to my question from reply #11 above: The entire patch notes seem to be in the first post, an issue with the display of custom faction abilites has been fixed, that's it. I deduce that not much more can be expected to be fixed in the next few years. Thank you. [/quote] Should be getting something so

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Reply to Windows 10 and it's updates... in Personal Computing Elemental Forums

Wow, glad I'm staying on a way back build. 1709 IIRC. It runs pretty stable except for not liking to leave my icons on display #1 either after a reboot, or after having had the monitors turned off for a bit. edit: this is even with using Stardock Fences. I still have to open the Fences configure and reload from a snapshot of the correct layout. Likely it has to do with different resolutions on the two monitors. My main (on the right) is 2560x1440, my secondary (on the l

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Reply to Civilization VI announced in PC Gaming Elemental Forums

Posting for same reason as I did in reply # 32 https://forums.elementalgame.com/477430/get;3704419 Spam got deleted and thread is now consistently marked as having a new post. Even though there isn't one and having viewed it multiple times.

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