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dreamsharkProgress has been good at getting my new gaming computer up and running. Saving all my data on the external hard drive worked really well: just move the drive to the new computer and bingo! All my photos and data files are here! The best thing was the Downloads directory. That's where I put patches, drivers, updates, downloaded shareware/freeware, downloaded product manuals and any number of other things. This was invaluable. For instance, I could reinstall Foxfire without downloading the whole thng from the Internet via Explorer. And I was able to restore all my saved bookmarks from the Data Backups directory on the same hard disk (twice, in fact. I'm not sure why it reverted to defaults two days after I installed it, but what the hey.)
Ironically (remember, this is a gaming computer) the biggest problems have been games. Far Cry, which ran perfectly fine on the old Alienware, just doesn't work on the new machine. The graphics are great, especially since I can turn them up to ultra-high on The General. But the sound just will not work. I can hear the music just fine, and some of the sound effects, but no voices. I spent hours trying to debug this, trying different combinations of audio settings, looking up the problem on the Internet and tweaking the config files, to no avail. Bah. I guess that's one reason to keep the old Alienware in operation somewhere.
Now I'm trying to install Sims 2, from a perfectly legitimate copy I bought in a store about a year ago. I cannot find the serial number!!! The %^&$^(% installation routine says it's "found in the white box at the lower left of the back of the DVD/CD case" but there is no such label on the clamshell plastic case the game came in. I must have found that number at least once, since I successfully installed it on the Alienware. But where could it be??? I'm beginning to be afraid that it was on one of the paper CD sleeves, which I don't seem to have kept.
Ironically (remember, this is a gaming computer) the biggest problems have been games. Far Cry, which ran perfectly fine on the old Alienware, just doesn't work on the new machine. The graphics are great, especially since I can turn them up to ultra-high on The General. But the sound just will not work. I can hear the music just fine, and some of the sound effects, but no voices. I spent hours trying to debug this, trying different combinations of audio settings, looking up the problem on the Internet and tweaking the config files, to no avail. Bah. I guess that's one reason to keep the old Alienware in operation somewhere.
Now I'm trying to install Sims 2, from a perfectly legitimate copy I bought in a store about a year ago. I cannot find the serial number!!! The %^&$^(% installation routine says it's "found in the white box at the lower left of the back of the DVD/CD case" but there is no such label on the clamshell plastic case the game came in. I must have found that number at least once, since I successfully installed it on the Alienware. But where could it be??? I'm beginning to be afraid that it was on one of the paper CD sleeves, which I don't seem to have kept.
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