This is what happens when I post a blue screen I guess :lol: It seems ok again now...JezC wrote: 01 May 2020 10:43 :threadjacked:
Anyway, I think we'd better leave this channel for the main man to document his woes & not pollute his blog any further - it probably justifies a thread all of it's own anyway! :D
Are you talking single player etc ? I can still play the games , but without the external server to connect to (outside of steem no doubt) you cant connect to multiplayer games before the server doesn't exist anymore.derkom wrote: 01 May 2020 10:48 Not really. Steam has offline mode, which works just fine. You just obviously don't get Steam Cloud saves, updates, etc.
@JezC Looks like you have fight on your hands then, Win10 and mechanical drives don't seems to play well (Experienced this on my old laptop, had to upgrade to SSD as well as update the bios)JezC wrote: 01 May 2020 10:43
Yes, @rubber_jonnie it does have some positives as well...but my laptop here has a mechanical drive & starting up Win 10 on it maxes out the drive for several minutes - and it's pretty much the same on other systems without an SSD.
Our systems are not that capable & the security/antivirus etc. do slug them quite badly. :roll:
However, it's the updates that are the killer for us - not only the downtime for an actual upgrade (and usually several more on the next few reboots as they fix what the main update has broken) but we find that it often stops parts of the system (particularly USB for us) from working properly & so we try to diagnose a problem in our software only to find it's a pending reboot that is fouling things up.
So, then it's a matter of rebooting and installing the updates & then trying to get back to where you were in debugging/testing.
If that is under 30 minutes you're very lucky - it's usually the best part of an hour & often more until you are back where you were. :(
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Anyway, I think we'd better leave this channel for the main man to document his woes & not pollute his blog any further - it probably justifies a thread all of it's own anyway! :D
Ah, yeah, I thought you were referring to DRM servers going offline. DRM is an evil we sadly aren't likely to see the end of, but Steam does seem to implement it in one of the least offensive ways I've seen.exxos wrote: 01 May 2020 10:54 Are you talking single player etc ? I can still play the games , but without the external server to connect to (outside of steem no doubt) you cant connect to multiplayer games before the server doesn't exist anymore.
Yes, we should probably un-jack your thread at this point... :lol::threadjacked:
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