General gaming updates
- I had in recent months decided to put my PS3 on the upstairs TV and was originally planning to use an HDMI audio breakout for it. I had previously used that same breakout to test a Roku so I know it worked fine. I then had happened upon a used AVR at thrift for like $15 or something that not only had HDMI inputs but also supported upscaling. It was a no brainer to use that. After I had replaced the PS3 controller I had done a test and tried GTA V and everything seemed OK. So last night I had Batman Arkham City come up in my backlog and gave that a whirl. But I find out that I can't actually play it yet because I am missing sounds. I only have 2 speakers connected to the AVR and this particular one doesn't seem to have an option (nor the PS3) to force stereo. If I disable the subwoofer, then the fronts get disabled. When I play playing I couldn't hear Bruce Wayne speaking so I'm guessing all of his audio (and probably other sounds) were being sent to the center channel. So now I will have to find 3 speakers for that and put up some small shelves to put the speakers on. I also do not know where I would but a center channel quite yet. I don't want to use the PS3 on my downstairs TV because I am out of outlets there and can't really move anything away from that. The only way I could free up an outlet would be to run physical cabled surround rears and not use the wireless kit, or not use the turntable or something else like that.
- I have some older PC games coming up on the backlog and have a few issues with my computers. My Windows 98 computer the ODD doesn't read in Windows. I still have to put in the time to figure out why that is not working. I have the extra drives to test and made the boot disk to let me test the drives in DOS. I'm fairly certain that this is a Windows problem as USB CD drives do not work either. My Windows 95 computer was good to go but last time I turned it on the video driver stopped working. That computer had the repaired Voodoo 3 card in it so I hope that the card hasn't gone bad. If so I have another AGP card I can use but now I have to find where I put the driver CD. So I will be spending my gaming time on fixing computers for awhile, which I might just end up streaming because I have that ability now.
