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turf

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Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« Reply #16500 on: November 11, 2024, 10:18:52 pm »
Been cruising around the site a lot for the last couple of days.
Thank y’all for keeping it going.


I necrothreaded a bunch of old posts I'd never commented on before a couple months ago in a attempt to stir up some conversation. This site is feeling more and more lonely with each passing year...

It does.
Facebook groups and things like that add to the inactivity on the site.

Do we have a Facebook group?


tripredacus

Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:
« Reply #16501 on: December 09, 2024, 10:43:12 am »
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.