Decadence? I've got that

Let the flames roll in...
Err... yeah, well I suppose you can talk about other stuff as well, maybe?

Moderator: Halleck

Post Reply
Turbo
ISO Party Member
ISO Party Member
Posts: 423
Joined: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:54 am
Location: TX, USA
Contact:

Decadence? I've got that

Post by Turbo »

My old 19" monitor died. It had a good run, about 7 years. So when I saw a 27" for the same price as what I paid for the 19" all those years ago, how could I resist?
http://3btech.net/viva2710hdwi.html

So now this is my desktop, featuring the new monitor and my even-older 18" monitor in portrait mode:
Image
Sitting at my normal distance, the new screen takes up my entire horizontal view angle. Yeah baby!

Sadly, a few seconds after I took this picture, VS 0.5.1 beta crashed as it does from time to time. So I tried again and got halfway through a mission before the next crash:
Image
I'll post the stderr to SourceForge later.

By the way, cockpit textures and splash screens are horizontally stretched on a 16:9 screen, so the girls on "Perilous Frontier" look like they're about my age. :P
Turbo

There are two speeds in combat: stopped, and as fast as you can go. Unless you run into something, going fast keeps you alive more often than stopping.
strook
ISO Party Member
ISO Party Member
Posts: 461
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:10 pm

Re: Decadence? I've got that

Post by strook »

Image

Uploaded with ImageShack.us

well... :mrgreen:

kicked the base ... with my i5 quad core and my 42'' Flat screen and hackintosh on it
8)
plz visit my vegastrike project branch here

plz support VegaOgre by donating to it!

My systems: Mac mini 1, 4gig RAM;
i5 Quad Core 2400, 300mbit WLAN, 1,3Tbyte HD, 60 GB SSD,
nvidia geforce 8400gs 512MB, 6gig RAM with Ubuntu 11.4,
win7 and hackintosh installed
loki1950
The Shepherd
Posts: 5841
Joined: Fri May 13, 2005 8:37 pm
Location: Ottawa
Contact:

Re: Decadence? I've got that

Post by loki1950 »

Droolll :mrgreen: I`ve only got a 24 in. 1920x1080 monitor :P but it does the job. I can hook up an older 19 in monitor at any time that i need it ie when it`s not needed to head an older box i will be using as a NAS. BTW strook that pic looks quite like your avatar image :wink:

Enjoy the Choice :)
my box::HP Envy i5-6400 @2Q70GHzx4 8 Gb ram/1 Tb(Win10 64)/3 Tb Mint 19.2/GTX745 4Gb acer S243HL K222HQL
Q8200/Asus P5QDLX/8 Gb ram/WD 2Tb 2-500 G HD/GF GT640 2Gb Mint 17.3 64 bit Win 10 32 bit acer and Lenovo ideapad 320-15ARB Win 10/Mint 19.2
strook
ISO Party Member
ISO Party Member
Posts: 461
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:10 pm

Re: Decadence? I've got that

Post by strook »

loki1950 wrote: BTW strook that pic looks quite like your avatar image :wink:

Enjoy the Choice :)

looooooooooooool :mrgreen:

and maybe in 10 years, i look like this :roll:

ya do you know what the pic says?

"real programmers code in binary" :wink:
plz visit my vegastrike project branch here

plz support VegaOgre by donating to it!

My systems: Mac mini 1, 4gig RAM;
i5 Quad Core 2400, 300mbit WLAN, 1,3Tbyte HD, 60 GB SSD,
nvidia geforce 8400gs 512MB, 6gig RAM with Ubuntu 11.4,
win7 and hackintosh installed
Turbo
ISO Party Member
ISO Party Member
Posts: 423
Joined: Mon Jun 11, 2007 11:54 am
Location: TX, USA
Contact:

Re: Decadence? I've got that

Post by Turbo »

Nice. Maybe by Christmas I'll be able to get a new desktop worthy of the monitor and video card.
Turbo

There are two speeds in combat: stopped, and as fast as you can go. Unless you run into something, going fast keeps you alive more often than stopping.
strook
ISO Party Member
ISO Party Member
Posts: 461
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:10 pm

Re: Decadence? I've got that

Post by strook »

Really, the monitor was about 600 bucks there was a time when it was at 400 bucks.
But it has a real good quality. I'm running it at true HD resolution 1920x1080. And it comes from Phillips.
The computer was at about max 400 bucks, too.
The most expensive part was the processor (165 bucks). Then came the motherboard (75bucks)
The rest was <40 bucks each part.
The graphics card was a running out model. Just 22bucks!
so, you see, there is nothing expensive really if you turn every cent 2times and you get performance for it.
If you go with mainstream parts there is nothing expensive.
plz visit my vegastrike project branch here

plz support VegaOgre by donating to it!

My systems: Mac mini 1, 4gig RAM;
i5 Quad Core 2400, 300mbit WLAN, 1,3Tbyte HD, 60 GB SSD,
nvidia geforce 8400gs 512MB, 6gig RAM with Ubuntu 11.4,
win7 and hackintosh installed
klauss
Elite
Elite
Posts: 7243
Joined: Mon Apr 18, 2005 2:40 pm
Location: LS87, Buenos Aires, República Argentina

Re: Decadence? I've got that

Post by klauss »

Last weekend I got to enjoy VS on a 32" Full HD TV :D

Fun.
Oíd mortales, el grito sagrado...
Call me "Menes, lord of Cats"
Wing Commander Universe
Post Reply