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[rlmergeuser]

Whats an operating system? I use dos... also I just got my 2 MB of rams.. im proud as ****


but to stay on topic:
XP: most likely
win 8: cant say, possibly

[mutetus]

I remember like it was yesterday when I got 16kB memory expansion on my Vic-20. And then found no use for it... Now you need gigabytes of ram just to open Facebook. It's stupid.

[jook13]

I remember like it was yesterday when I got 16kB memory expansion on my Vic-20. And then found no use for it... Now you need gigabytes of ram just to open Facebook. It's stupid.

Yeah, I remember my dad bringing home a state of the art Tandy 386 with windows 3.1. I remember he paid over 4,000 for it. It was awesome a few years later when Doom first came out and we were able to run it in "high detail" smoothly.

[rlmergeuser]

sudo apt-get install trials-gold.pkg.deb

Pfft, do it like a pro:

[codepkqvndp]cd ~/.build
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ev/evo-gold/evo-gold.tar.gz
tar -xf evo-gold.tar.gz
cd evo-gold
makepkg
sudo pacman -U evo-gold.pkg.tar.xz
cd ..
rm -rf evo-gold
rm evo-gold.tar.gz[/codepkqvndp]

...Or something, it's been a while since I used Arch, I'm used to FreeBSD's ports now.

[codepkqvndp]whereis evo-gold
cd /usr/ports/games/evo-gold
su
make install clean[/codepkqvndp]

[nannerdw]

RAM is so cheap today, or at least DDR3 is, that it would be kinda odd to have less than 12GB of memory.

Lolwut? I've got 8 GB of RAM, and the only thing that's ever come close to maxing it out was a week-long 3d render, and that was only because of a slow memory leak in the software. I'm expecting at least another 3-4 years before I'll absolutely have to have more than 8 GB of RAM for gaming, and by that point the RAM definitely won't be the bottleneck for me.

[D2Dahaka]

I agree about the gaming RAM requirements comment. I dont see next gen consoles having that much and seeing as game development is dictated by console these days. Id love to eat my words as PC gaming isnt what it once was...would be nice to see some games require out of this world pc requirements and not because of inefficient implementation.

[AnttiKi]

sudo apt-get install trials-gold.pkg.deb

Pfft, do it like a pro:

[code:wtmrjk7i]cd ~/.build
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ev/evo-gold/evo-gold.tar.gz
tar -xf evo-gold.tar.gz
cd evo-gold
makepkg
sudo pacman -U evo-gold.pkg.tar.xz
cd ..
rm -rf evo-gold
rm evo-gold.tar.gz[/code:wtmrjk7i]

...Or something, it's been a while since I used Arch, I'm used to FreeBSD's ports now.

[code:wtmrjk7i]whereis evo-gold
cd /usr/ports/games/evo-gold
su
make install clean[/code:wtmrjk7i]

Nah, just do:
[code:wtmrjk7i]emerge -av trials-gold[/code:wtmrjk7i]

[AnttiKi]

RAM is so cheap today, or at least DDR3 is, that it would be kinda odd to have less than 12GB of memory.

Lolwut? I've got 8 GB of RAM, and the only thing that's ever come close to maxing it out was a week-long 3d render, and that was only because of a slow memory leak in the software. I'm expecting at least another 3-4 years before I'll absolutely have to have more than 8 GB of RAM for gaming, and by that point the RAM definitely won't be the bottleneck for me.

I'm not saying that you _need_ over 8GB of RAM, just that 4GB DDR3 memory sticks are so cheap these days that there is no point in getting less than 2/3/4 of them, depending on your CPU architecture ( = amount of memory channels), meaning that you would probably get 8/12/16GB of RAM for a new computer most of the time if you wanted to get the most bang for your money.

[rlmergeuser]

[code:22eweug9]emerge -av trials-gold[/code:22eweug9]

Ugh, Gentoo. Had fun setting that up but it was a god damn pain in the arse trying to get my wireless adapter working with it. Didn't help that I had to download some drivers to compile them when I hadn't got an internet connection.

I'm not saying that you _need_ over 8GB of RAM, just that 4GB DDR3 memory sticks are so cheap these days that there is no point in getting less than 2/3/4 of them, depending on your CPU architecture ( = amount of memory channels), meaning that you would probably get 8/12/16GB of RAM for a new computer most of the time if you wanted to get the most bang for your money.

True dat, may as well future-proof it as much as possible if it's not gonna cost a **** ton.

[AnttiKi]

Pfft, Gentoo is awesome. For example, Gentoo has had Infiniband support since 2005 (or so) and other distros are only starting to support it now. These days I mostly use it on clusters or other really customized computers. Also, it's great for servers that need every bit of performance possible.
When I started using Gentoo around 2004, it wasn't easy. However, I used it as my _main_ OS for about five years and that's probably one of the reasons I now have a job at RL :3
But yeah, laptops and Gentoo aren't a good combination. At least they weren't in the days when you had only single core CPUs, because compiling something would take way too long on a laptop.