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[Deathray 2,940]

The virtual RAM should stop the game from crashing but that's about all. Totally agree with EP's view on the subject.

 

How much of a risk is adding a stick of ram manually?

[Toast 16,132]

 

The virtual RAM should stop the game from crashing but that's about all. Totally agree with EP's view on the subject.

 

How much of a risk is adding a stick of ram manually?

 

 

You might give birth to a lamb?

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

The virtual RAM should stop the game from crashing but that's about all. Totally agree with EP's view on the subject.

 

How much of a risk is adding a stick of ram manually?

 

It's more of a question to ask is it worth it? Upgrading an old contraption in my view isn't really worth it. Games work best with a high speed processor, lots of RAM and a top notch graphics card. One out of three isn't really ideal.

[Deathray 2,940]

 

 

The virtual RAM should stop the game from crashing but that's about all. Totally agree with EP's view on the subject.

 

How much of a risk is adding a stick of ram manually?

It's more of a question to ask is it worth it? Upgrading an old contraption in my view isn't really worth it. Games work best with a high speed processor, lots of RAM and a top notch graphics card. One out of three isn't really ideal.

Beggars can't be picky.

[En Passant 3,741]

Caveat: I'm not a pc repair man, but that said..

 

Ok, we are talking bottlenecks here.

 

1. CPU - this might be the least of your worries and is probably up to the job, at least if you have item 2.

2. GFX card - if you don't have one, you almost certainly need one, it might not need to be a top end one, but you'll need something (current cpu's are better at this than historical ones, but even then a gfx card is the single best upgrade)

3, Ram - if you meet the minimum requirements for the game and O/S, adding more is unlikely to make that much difference and faster ram is fiddling round the edges and unnecessary. For your purposes ram is ram. Huge quantities of the stuff is normally added for video editing or running multiple apps concurrently not games per-se (so long as you meet the min req)

4. Disk. The bottleneck on the disk as you describe it would be connecting it via USB since the interface is much slower than the device is probably capable of (but I'm a bit confused here, any machine from probably the last 20 years should have sufficient on board hard drive space to run a game assuming you didn't fill it up with porn) Also if you are thinking of opening the box to put ram in, fitting a disk internally is no harder a task and is a lot better than putting it on the usb.

 

If you have a clunky too small internal drive, no discrete gfx card, too little ram and an old cpu then just as cat says, upgrading one will not fix it. If it improves anything at all it will simply push your bottleneck somewhere else.

About the only circumstance it will help is if you simply don't have enough RAM to meet min specs but the rest of the kit is up to the job. This isn't normally the case as the components are normally of a similar age and level due to being bought on a single machine.

 

It also depends on the game. Most games are graphically intensive. Which game is it? Lets assume it's Skyrim (2011) or something like that then it is definitely heavily gfx dependent and needs a gfx card.

The games usually have a minimum spec published and if you don't have box it came in you can probably find out on the net. Does what you have already meet that minimum spec? Will adding a stick of RAM take it over the line?

 

That said, to answer the question as stated, fitting a stick of ram isn't technically difficult or particularly dangerous, however you need to match it to what is already there and possibly install it in pairs, and that part, if you haven't done it before and the machine is old may be a bit confusing. Without knowing what the game is and the spec of the existing machine I doubt either of us can help any further.

 

Finger in the air? On the information cat and I have so far? You can keep the monitor keyboard and mouse, the rest needs upgrading, a stick of ram won't fix it.

Post what the game is and the spec of the pc you are trying to run it on.

[Deathray 2,940]

Reading divorce law for fun as you do an discovered this gem. If you're husbands fucking over men you can't claim adultery, similarly if your wifes fucking other women you can't claim adultery:

 

https://www.gov.uk/divorce/grounds-for-divorce

 

It doesn’t count as adultery if they had sex with someone of the same sex. This includes if you’re in a same-sex marriage.

[Lard Bazaar 3,799]

 

Reading divorce law for fun as you do an discovered this gem. If you're husbands effing over men you can't claim adultery, similarly if your wifes effing other women you can't claim adultery:

 

https://www.gov.uk/divorce/grounds-for-divorce

 

It doesnt count as adultery if they had sex with someone of the same sex. This includes if youre in a same-sex marriage.

 

WTF?

[Youwanticewiththat 611]

 

Reading divorce law for fun as you do an discovered this gem. If you're husbands effing over men you can't claim adultery, similarly if your wifes effing other women you can't claim adultery:

 

https://www.gov.uk/divorce/grounds-for-divorce

 

It doesnt count as adultery if they had sex with someone of the same sex. This includes if youre in a same-sex marriage.

 

WTF?

 

Break out the olive oil and paddling pool.

[CarolAnn 926]

I firmly believe in no fault divorce. File paperwork, end it all 69 days later and only maintain a connection if he's paying you child support.

[Handrejka 1,903]

Not sure I want to ask this but the discussion came up at work today and I thought someone here might know. If someone has sex with a taxidermy mount does that count as bestiality or necrophilia or both?

[Deathray 2,940]

Not sure I want to ask this but the discussion came up at work today and I thought someone here might know. If someone has sex with a taxidermy mount does that count as bestiality or necrophilia or both?

 

Surely necrobestiality?

[Handrejka 1,903]

Thanks. I didn't know there was any such term.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

 

Not sure I want to ask this but the discussion came up at work today and I thought someone here might know. If someone has sex with a taxidermy mount does that count as bestiality or necrophilia or both?

Surely necrobestiality?

 

A guy I knew years ago was into flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality; I told him he was flogging a dead horse.

 

I'll get me coat.

[Lady Grendel 139]

Not sure I want to ask this but the discussion came up at work today and I thought someone here might know. If someone has sex with a taxidermy mount does that count as bestiality or necrophilia or both?

 

I want to work where you work Handrjeka. We have a new boss in place in my workplace, well not that new, 9 months now and that sort of open conversation would have him running for the hills. The open, frank and often irreverent and humorous discussions us employees had are in short supply now. I have always been able to chat about DL and deadpooling in general with my colleagues, not so with the new boss. Rest assured I am finding new ways to make him uncomfortable in general conversations. I expect my P45 soon.

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

Not sure I want to ask this but the discussion came up at work today and I thought someone here might know. If someone has sex with a taxidermy mount does that count as bestiality or necrophilia or both?

 

it's wrong.

[Deathray 2,940]

Thanks. I didn't know there was any such term.

Although if you want to be pedantic you could argue that a taxidermy mount is not actually a dead animal and therefore it would be objectophilia

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/are-you-sexist-take-this-quiz/

Are you sexist.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/are-you-sexist-take-this-quiz/

Are you sexist.

Should be in the quiz thread.

https://forums.deathlist.net/topic/5924-quiz-time/

[Deathray 2,940]

DL related

 

If someone's birthday or year can't be found does that normally mean they won't obit?

[deadsox 894]

 

Thanks. I didn't know there was any such term.

Although if you want to be pedantic you could argue that a taxidermy mount is not actually a dead animal and therefore it would be objectophilia

 

 

I'm with Ray but I'd call it sawdustophilia.

[deadsox 894]

DL related

 

If someone's birthday or year can't be found does that normally mean they won't obit?

 

That would be a good indicator but it's still possible to obit if the person comes to light very suddenly.

[Deathray 2,940]

 

DL related

If someone's birthday or year can't be found does that normally mean they won't obit?

 

That would be a good indicator but it's still possible to obit if the person comes to light very suddenly.

I'm specifically thinking of third rate/bit part actors here. Most of them seem to lack public birth year information but some of them have very long careers.

[Toast 16,132]

 

 

DL related

If someone's birthday or year can't be found does that normally mean they won't obit?

That would be a good indicator but it's still possible to obit if the person comes to light very suddenly.

I'm specifically thinking of third rate/bit part actors here. Most of them seem to lack public birth year information but some of them have very long careers.

 

 

I don't think it's any indication at all.

 

Many people are a bit cagey about their exact age, but once they die it's out of their control. Someone has to go through all their documents, and birth certificates usually turn up.

[The Mad Hatter 1,092]

 

 

 

DL related

If someone's birthday or year can't be found does that normally mean they won't obit?

 

That would be a good indicator but it's still possible to obit if the person comes to light very suddenly.

I'm specifically thinking of third rate/bit part actors here. Most of them seem to lack public birth year information but some of them have very long careers.

I don't think it's any indication at all.

 

Many people are a bit cagey about their exact age, but once they die it's out of their control. Someone has to go through all their documents, and birth certificates usually turn up.

why it's litrally out of their control before death and even if a celeb is asked they can't refuse all they can do is say they are younger than they really are. So in short yes unavailable birth dates are not a good sign.

[Deathray 2,940]

 

 

 

 

DL related

If someone's birthday or year can't be found does that normally mean they won't obit?

That would be a good indicator but it's still possible to obit if the person comes to light very suddenly.

I'm specifically thinking of third rate/bit part actors here. Most of them seem to lack public birth year information but some of them have very long careers.

I don't think it's any indication at all.

 

Many people are a bit cagey about their exact age, but once they die it's out of their control. Someone has to go through all their documents, and birth certificates usually turn up.

Birth indexes include living people so it's not that hard to find info on someone if you really want