Thirith on 23/3/2011 at 22:59
:erm: Feeling like a real idiot right now... The game CDs were in the case in the wrong sequence, so I tried to install from disk 3. It's installing correctly now. :sweat:
gunsmoke on 24/3/2011 at 02:00
LOL. Sorry, but that is absolutely hysterical.
Thirith on 24/3/2011 at 07:45
I know... For an encore, I'll get confused by hanging chads and vote for the wrong candidate. :joke:
Shadowcat on 24/3/2011 at 08:46
I once tried to install Flight Unlimited 3 on a machine with two optical drives, and to save a little bit of time when doing all that disc swapping (5 CDs, including the FU2 scenery), I figured I could use both drives and always have the next CD ready to go as soon as it asked for it (it always prompted you for the location, so I thought it would handle this okay). It got horribly confused, and I ended up starting over from the beginning with a single drive.
And now multi-DVD games are fairly common. I wonder when the first multi-blu-ray game will appear, and if it will warrant all that data? (Actually, X-Plane's global scenery comes on 8 DVDs, which I guess is already in excess of a blu-ray disc, layer for layer).
june gloom on 24/3/2011 at 09:03
To be fair, X-Plane is a flight sim. Flight sim fans are crazy.
gunsmoke on 24/3/2011 at 10:44
And you did notice shadowcat was installing Flight Unlimited 3, right? Shadow, I think dethtoll's calling you crazy :)
Shadowcat on 24/3/2011 at 14:54
Don't worry, my home-made flight-sim cockpit comes equipped with an insult-shield made from vast quantities of optical discs! I'll be safe in there.
demagogue on 24/3/2011 at 21:22
By the time multiple blu-ray sized games come along, I wouldn't be surprised if most games are meant for digital download. My laptop from last year doesn't even have a CD/DVD drive built in, which is like the first time I've seen that start being common again since like 1997.
Edit: BTW, I've seen at least one game distributed on a USB flash drive, and IIRC it's plug and play -- but has some security thing you can't copy it off, or like the drive has to be plugged in for it to play. An expensive game, mind you. But as those get cheaper and can hold more memory it might work. You can already find ones for 10+GB for a few dollars and blurays are already about $1 for 25GB, so the difference is shrinking (retail, so I imagine wholesale as well), and flash drives are easier to have around than disks and all around more pleasant to deal with.
ZylonBane on 24/3/2011 at 21:37
Quote Posted by demagogue
By the time multiple blu-ray sized games come along, I wouldn't be surprised if most games are meant for digital download.
As opposed, of course, to the other,
non-digital kind of download.
Renzatic on 24/3/2011 at 21:49
Digital Downloads from The Cloud, perhaps?
After reading that, ZB will probably blow a blood vessel aneurysm in his thinking brains.
