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  1. Flying Gribble

    The AMD Driver Thread

    Almost embarrassed to post this, but I finally got to the root of the problem. I had an "smart" extension lead with master and slaves - PC in the master and monitor and speakers in the slaves. When I turned off the PC, the extension lead detected that and turned off power to the slaves...
  2. Flying Gribble

    The AMD Driver Thread

    Thanks for the suggestion, but didn’t work for me. Not gaming much myself at the moment, so could have lived with this!
  3. Flying Gribble

    The AMD Driver Thread

    Thanks - will do. Beginning to think I'll need to try a full reinstall but that'll have to wait until after I've finished this assignment!
  4. Flying Gribble

    The AMD Driver Thread

    Thanks - tried that to no avail.
  5. Flying Gribble

    The AMD Driver Thread

    Last night I updated my Windows 10 box with the Meltdown patch, which also forced the Fall Creators Update to be installed. I checked and the Meltdown patch is active (no AV issues). Since the update, the graphics card dies and the screen goes black a couple of minutes after login - whatever is...
  6. Flying Gribble

    hi

    Sounds more like your TV is at fault or not able to display the resolution output by the graphics card. If the PC and graphics card worked with your monitor, then what's in the machine is ok - including the psu.
  7. Flying Gribble

    I fancy a space game

    Or you could join the beta for Elite Dangerous. It's awesome!
  8. Flying Gribble

    Open University

    That's good to hear. The books arrived earlier this week and look to be clear.
  9. Flying Gribble

    Open University

    I did a course in 2000 and am about to start an MBA in May. Bloody hard work, but worthwhile! I suspect it depends upon the subject area. The previous course had lots of compare/contrast assignments with other people in my tutor group, which proved tricky due to the mix. More technical or...
  10. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    Upped to the DDF. Had to be done!
  11. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    First played Elite in 1984 on a BBC, but skipped Frontier altogether. Currently sitting at the Alpha test pledge level, plus a few other things like the mug. Also pledged a decent amount to the books, including a Revenge Killing in Kate Russell's book :) Hope we clear the £1.5m goal clearly...
  12. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    Oops, my bad, didn't look far enough down the stretch goals
  13. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    The two games are superficially similar, but different in principle and detail. The biggest difference is that SC has 70 hand crafted star systems and is more story and scripted mission focused, whereas ED has millions of systems, mostly generated, with some missions, but the focus on the...
  14. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    It was about 972,500 at midnight, see here.
  15. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    You can't do those things through PayPal, but you can through the main Kickstarter. £500 includes a space station, £750 includes a planet, £3000 for a star system. I think that the tiers are cumulative as well. Anything at £40 or above puts your name into the naming database for random NPC's.
  16. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    Apparently, quite a few countries can't access the payment methods they use on the UK Kickstarter and so are unable to pledge. I agree that it's quite dangerous to open up PayPal for donations before the Kickstarter goal has been reached.
  17. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    £50 for second round beta, £100 for first round beta, £200 for alpha. Lots of other goodies in between. The sweet spot seems to be £85, which is a fully digital download of game, soundtrack, with your name in the naming database, beta access, free lifetime expansions and updates and lots of...
  18. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    Yup, plus all of the other carer start points and all of the future expansions :D
  19. Flying Gribble

    *** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

    Just upgrade to the new tier using the 'Manage Your Pledge' button on Kickstarter, type in the new amount at the top of the page and then select your new tier from the list below. Since they are new tiers, and not upgrades/add-ons, they would replace your £20 tier not add to it. So the...
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