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im still playing dsloa and ds2bw too but mostly playing it more for performance benchmarking or "testing" on how fast it can run with new hardware.

test 1: got bored playing alone. so i decided to make best use of my multicore cpu by running multiple instances of dsloa and ds2bw. cloned up quite a party of Femmes (Femme chars) with 4 instances of dsloa/ds2bw. maxed out my quadcore with 4 instances of the game! if only i cud afford a hyperthreading quad core or a core i7 extreme hexacore or octacore... that would mean 8 threads/cores to run 8 instances of dsloa/ds2bw! bam wud have a full 8 player game for maximum self cloning narcistic funness~ :mrgreen: me three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

test 2: stuttering fixes. found it quite annoying everytime the game stutters when a new region is loaded into the frustum. guess the new hardware fix for it? bingo an ssd. with its access time in microseconds as opposed to milliseconds for hard disk drives, u can now say bye bye to dungeon siege powerpoint slideshows.

test 3: more beautiful ds world scenery in the distance like in oblivion and skyrim. nowadays, with cpus having the hidden potential to easily overclock to 4ghz or more and the cheap availability of 8gb ddr3 ram, u can now enjoy an extremely large frustum radius by using seefar mods due to the additional computing power and heaps of ram u can get cheaply. i'd say ds2 gives oblivion a run for its money with a frustum radius of 80 or more. also with lots of ram, u can get ram disk software like imsoft virtual disk driver, create a ram drive in ur ram and then copy ds over to the ram drive while editing the shortcut and installation location in the registry to point to the new ram drive. if u cant afford an ssd but have 3gb of ram or more, then its certainly worth considering.

with all these performance enchancements, it seems ds is an extremely advanced game for its time. i'm still going to appreciate ds even more as i still continue to play it as i've found no other game that can be performance tweaked like ds can! a terrible pity its a victim of shitty publishers screwing with a dev's purse strings.

also, if the newer windows are bogging u down in your attempts to play ds, there are always ways to procure certain *ahem* copies of winxp pro to install on ur system to make it dual booting to play ds only. im sure ds is such a valuable game in itself to deserve such special treatment, right? imagine an os dedicated to playing ds only... it is certainly worth that is it not? do not let shitty windows get in the way of your fair use rights to play ds. i personally do NOT condone procuring *ahem* stuff but end users DO have their fair use rights to their software...