PM'd you the fix ;)

>google search previews fix
>click link
>404 not found

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use google cache, they cache the full page and you can view it
cachedview.com/

>why would you want to do that?

No, fuck YOU

>Maybe you shouldn't have pirated it

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Fix here
>links you to 50 page forum thread full of idiots haphazardly guessing evaluations and solutions to a similar but different problem
>last "fix" is the console version fix that some fucking retard posted on a steam thread

>"Dude what are your specs?"
>"You gotta tell me your specs"
>"How am I supposed to help you if I don't know your specs?"

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>"Just re-install your graphical drivers"

>use search function
>you must sign up to use the search function
>sign up and search
>”You should have just paid for the game instead of pirating ;). Thread locked -Mod”
>I did pay for the game

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>"Have you tried reinstalling Windows?"
>"thx did just that and it works now"

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>PM'd you the fix
>link to another site
>that site has been removed

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> "i've uploaded the fix for you"
> "thanks!"
> rapidshare.com
> spend hours looking for mirror
> finally find one
> file won't install properly on any machine older than win xp

>Find post with same exact issue
>"284 users have the same question"
>mod closes thread with "link to solution" in another thread
>"596 users have the same question"
>still no solution

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This has never helped me. Not once. Yet people keep saying it.

This shit right here

unironically based, thanks fren

upgrading them helped me once

>find thread that asks about problem with vidya
>months old
>link that has solution is ded
>make post asking if someone can give new link to fix
>mod somehow 2 fucking minutes later rushes in and locks the thread, seconds later get a ban for it
>"No necrobumping allowed"
>mfw no face

>problem mentioned on some ancient forum
>30 pages thread
>after the second page it's just forum members talking about something completely different ignoring the original question

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>The thing you need is uploaded to a shitty file host site.
>Need a premium account to download it.
>The uploader is someone who gets paid by the file host to get people to buy premium accounts.

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Forum moderators in the 2000s were literally Stalin, it was almost the return of Communism.

Holy shit that's fucking genius.

Downgrading them helped me twice.

>guy posts a paragraph that says absolutely fucking nothing and almost completely dodges the main question
FUCK OFF WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS

>have you tried reinstalling the game?

>not becoming a computer wiz just to play your shitty DOS games
shiggydiggydoo

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>”Go into your Program Files/System Files/System Settings and delete ghbv.wav”
>It actually works

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>"Use the search function next time. Locked."
>Search Function just links me to the same unsolved thread

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Where do clowns like you come from

>dad keeps reinstalling drivers and fucking up the family PC
>tell him to stop listening to forum karma whores and downloading stuff from totallynotshadythings.ru
>"shut up user I didn't ask for your /uneducated/ opinion now help me fix the computer or buzz off"
>repeat ad infinutum every 2-3 months
Fucking boomers, I swear

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>optimal balance of quality to fps
I'm so fucking glad I'm from another generation than faggots such as this kek

Why were they always so fucking quick to accuse you of pirating?

find what forum he posts on, start giving him the real solution to the problem, make your forum name an anagram for your real name

>389 people found this helpful

Everyone can come up with an insult, almost nobody can solve the problem except a handful of people.

Starts with a Pleb
Ends with a bit

>Works for me! ;)

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>all fixes and tweaks are properly documented and archived on PCGamingWiki and archive.org

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has she been BLACKED yet?

Community enhancement/mod is hosted on github/gitlab/bitbucket with additional archive.org

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This

>My free time is very limited
So in other words you are slave.

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Shit like that is why it's almost never worth playing an old game unless there's a semi-active community for it, like AoE.
Fuck having to go through forums made in the 2000's that died during 2002.

This comments about post count made me mad as fuck

This was my exact situation, though it was to try and get some specific porn instead of a game fix

It hurts bros. With guys like this out there, what hope do the rest of us have? Leave some girls for the rest of us dudes.

NO NECRO
Thread locked

Location : behind you
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Science flies you to the moon, religion flies you to buildings
~ BFMV ~

anybody remember a period of time where links or downloads were locked behind surveys?

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Wow, you really captured how it feels

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>just rename the exe to MOHAA.exe
>it works for Sin Gold, Soldier of Fortune, Gun and almost any old hard to run FPS

I had a physical reaction to this post. My stomach sunk into a knot reading.

I love tricks like this

This post triggered my ptsd

>follow the instructions included in the readme

>the instructions are so complicated its like reading a foreign language

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that's a worthwhile question though. if it's a a common enough issue with whatever piece of hardware, then a bunch of shit can be ruled out just by not having the troublesome hardware.

>16 october 2009
>Anyone found a solution to this?
>"Don't necro threads"
>thread locked

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>*blocks you're path*

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Posted: nine years ago

This thread will stay up while I get banned on my other IP for posting off-topic threads.....

>Maybe you shouldn't pirate the game and then it wouldn't crash!
>Thread locked.

youtu.be/iw-88h-LcTk?t=43
what an opening

>jacked into your family PC
>head to your forum of choice, ready to shoot the shit
>jump into a thread to reply
>THAT GUY that always replies to you or after you trying to keep the attention on him
What avatar was he using?
pic definitely related

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Downgrading them actually helped me once.

>complete survey
>you've won an iPhone! Enter credit card information to claim

>start up console
>game runs fine, no problems throughout entire playthrough

>start up PC
>hdd is dying
>psu needs to be replaced
>ram is bad
>graphics drivers are corrupted
>GPU fan stops working
>static shock ruins motherboard
>microsoft won't let me use a new cpu on an older OS
>steam drops support for OSes older than win7 and you literally cannot play your games anymore
>try to play game
>needs patches to run on new systems
>only patches that exist are bundled with graphic overhaul mods
>needs big fixes for issues like videos not playing it no sound or no music
>modern GPU can't properly render effects from older game so it causes stuttering or lag
>game is broken to some degree because lol developer still patching 20 year old game
>game is still buggy as shit in spite of said patching
>online only game has its servers shut down

>years later
>you remember what his avatar pic was
seems to me you were just out-cooled

I dunno if they're well known or not, but here are sites you can go to and put in a premium link and it'll generate a non-premium link for you. The sites are usually shady as fuck but I've gotten a lot of hard to find porn that way.

Alternatively, put him in a retirement home and forget about him.

Either this or the kitten holding a sniper rifle

That was me, and I used edgy avatars/signatures of Marik from Yugioh.

>brain so small he doesn't recognize one of the most common forum avatars ever used
what a shame

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also use the wayback machine/internet archive

Its only true for the console 15 years ago.

put a child lock on the pc

>jackhole dipfuck thinks he's King Shit and talks down to everyone on the forum
>avatar is Bender from Futurama smoking a cigar

Literally every time.

I wasn't clever enough to be on the center of attention, but I used a bloody tails

Literally me. I do this all the time.

Hey, I'm not the one getting butthurt by some now defunct forum avatar. Just because everyone remembers this guy, including the people who hated him, isn't reason for you to lash out.

lol, if fixing stuff like this is hard and time wasting for you, you need to kill yourself. You are too stupid to exist.

Stick with consoles faggot, but seriously kill yourself

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You don't need to be clever to have the highest post count on the forum, just really fucking annoying. Sometimes I wonder why no one ever banned me.

>boot up pc
>because I have a SDD it boots up in 15 seconds
>launch a game and I'm already in, loading my save
>play game and have fun

>turn on console
>takes 30s-2 minutes to boot up
>have to log into my account
>renew my monthly subscription
>update firmware, download patch for every installed with no way to conveniently stop it
>finally done after 2 hours because company pipes their network connections through their own service and its not based off your internet speed
>locate disc based game, need to install to the hard drive or it won't play, have to install the patch
>go to launch game
>entire screen filled with ads to buy dlc for the game, takes upwards of 5 minutes before you can even select load game, where it can take another 5 minutes for the game to load
>finally playing 3 hours later

well when you put it as truthfully and simply as this, it's clear to see who the winner is

You're responding to stale pasta, numbnuts.

FUCK OFF with your blatantly off-topic garbage. Fucking grow up

I used to think that you had to say witty things, like roasts in order to get attention, I had no idea what to say most of the time

>Never heard of your problem. Sounds like something you should fix yourself :/

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?

>[User has been deactivated. Posts are hidden]
>"Whoa! It actually worked! thx man! :)"

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>post a fun little trip down memory lane in a forum nostalgia shitposting thread about 'that guy' so my fellow boomers can reminisce

>some mentally deficient starts projecting a bunch of his autism at me
keep it down spergo

Why were forum moderators such disgusting faggots
Does it really bother them that much that you're "necro bumping" a thread about an unsolved problem?

>Be 11, 13 years ago
>Pretend I’m older than I was on a video game forum that had an off topic board
>Make a thread about oral sex thinking it was phone sex
>Everyone laughs at me for ten pages while I sperg out
>Hide offline for days and change my avatar

You are so boring holy shit

Because they were fucking sixteen year olds who got bullied at school

Moreover, why was this an issue on every forum back in the day. Who cares.

Most of the time forum moderators were actually the site owner's friends and actually had no supervising skills whatsoever.
Either that or .

Nah he’s right bro you’re a spaz

>replies all over the spectrum tonally
>completely irrelevant to the topic
>still sperging out
keep it down spergo

>Go to 500 page thread dedicated to a single motorcycle model
>Ask about some problem I'm having that is uncommon, curious if there's a more modern solution
>Told to search through the thread
>Search function is fucking horrible and I can't find it
>2 weeks later some other guy asks the same question
>Gets spoon fed everything

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The only place they had any control of their life, most forum moderators were losers with no purpose or meaningful relationships, so they take out their frustrations in the one place where they are venerated. Pretty simple.

Trigger warning for this post

>Have to pay now
rip

>forum search function has a timer
FUCK THIS SHIT WHY

>wanted to switch to consoles because I thought it would be as simple as plug in and play
>plug in console
>install game
>30 fps
>SEVERELY gimped controls (especially in fpses
>fps drops with absolutely no hope of being fixed except if the devs care enough to patch it out
>$60 average for 30 hour games
>massively less game variety than pc
Gee, I wonder why I switched back to pc.

Maybe instead of being bitter teenage nerds who took their frustrations out on strangers like a school shooter, maybe they should actually be friendly. Then they'd finally get friends.

>timer

Explain.

>Hey a feature of this hack isn't working
>Go onto the forums to figure out why
>"Just hack it in yourself you lazy fuck. lol"
>No clue how the hacking program works
>"Read the guide n00b. lol"
>The guide is about stupid shit like game design and making your own sprites
>After about an hour of stumbling around I almost solve the issue but it doesn't work for some reason
>Ask for help
>Some faggot typing in pink cursive font on a white background explains what I actually need to do to fix the issue in an extremely roundabout manner
>It works
>But it deleted the save file

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Update ur grafix driver and dl this patch
www.megaupload.com/?=RD145H52
use google next time
reoprted 4 necro
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I whispered back: "I am the storm"
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shit like "you must wait 30 seconds for searching again"

Why the fuck do they have to PM the fix instead of just posting it in the thread they were making? If people in the future get the same problem, search for it, and see the thread, all they're gonna see is "PM'd you the fix"
Then they try to make an account in that forum to PM the guy who said this, but the guy actually haven't logged on the forum for 5 years

That makes perfect sense in hindsight, but that's not really how a young mind works. You feel 'important' like people depend on you (regardless of the fact you could die and no one would notice)
so you end up going way out of your way to try and be that 'guardian' you've convinced yourself you are, and it often comes out as an over controling micro-police obsessed manbaby, because that's typically what they were. It's the one place in their life where the rules are what they say they are, and they'll be damned if anyone's going to step in their zone without their will being pushed.

>you must wait 48 seconds before making another search
supposedly it was to cut down on server costs and spam from people spam-searching dumb shit

>There are probably millions of people who silently suffered under the hands of retard moderators and never got to tell anybody

Let it out my bros. Let it out.

i refuse to believe you just conjured those specs out of nowhere, explain

Oh fuck I forgot about configs in sig

>people on the forum bully you for asking questions

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>The devil whispered to me: "You'll never withstand the storm" I whispered back: "I am the storm"

Why did we ever think this stuff was cool?

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How is this thread still up?? It's completely unrelated to video games

because it's edgy
and thinking edgy = cool like the dumb fucks we were, tried to out-edge each other

They're not optimized at all and it uses a lot of resources. That's the easiest way to take down a site.

>fix is actually using a cracked copy .exe
What the fuck max payne

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>He didn't warm the towel before starting a thread

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t. Console faggot

>he doesn’t use cracked .exes for all his video games, even the ones bought legally

>not tweaking and fixing your games since you were

Dick Masterson ran a lot of those sites back in the day. He's a SEO guy by trade so he just set up sites that would be on the top of your search and they'd lead you in a never ending loop of surveys.

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>download pokemon conquest rom
>dl link has a survey
>finish survey
>download finished
>its actually legit and works

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>this entire post
What a wonderful way to start the day. Thanks alot.

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"we"

this

>Console gaming
literally insert disk and go

>PC gaming
have to spend hours trying to see which parts fit on which components
have to register 10 different accounts
have to reinstall additional software and updates

before you can play its already the next day and its super complicated

Quads of truth everyone

>import mods from old game into newer game
>feature doesn't work "oh well"
>10 years later find out all you had to do was delete a single character from a text file and that feature would work for all your mods
TEN FUCKING YEARS

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that wouldnt "fly" in 2019 though, islam bashing

>alot
It's a lot. Think of an alot as a monster. A lot is the correct way to say it, newfag.

"wuz"

>start up console
>new system update
>have to manually download update
>server is absolute dogshit, takes forever
>have to manually select "install" instead of the download screen automatically starting the installation of the update you just then chose to download
>restart your console
>start game
>game must be updated
>download update?
>wait another 5 to 75 minutes depending on how badly the last update fucked things up
>install update (manually of course, can't do it automatically after explicitly telling the console to download)
>start playing, fucking finally
>struggles to hit 30fps, can't hit anything other than a heat threshold consistently
>controller battery dies because of course it stays on for the entirety of the update process
>have to update payment information to play online, time to give the benevolent console maker $15 this month for doing nothing at all
>some kid screaming into the mic in every multiplayer match barely manages to drown out the faggot beating his dog and the mexican whose parents are in the middle of a violent divorce
>the two people actually playing are just spamming ADS to abuse auto-aim

Didn't know that. Thanks, alot.

>Encounter that guy that thinks his really high post count means he can police the forums.

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Listen here you cheeky little shit

This.
>have to go to some hipster forum to find a fix for something
>have to register an account
>ask question
>get told to use the search function because I only have 3 posts
>some other faggot with the same problem posts
>he has 56,000 posts on the forum
>instantly gets spoonfed everything.

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Moooo
Skreeoooonk
I mean fuck you

This fucking guy

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>mfw that shit is literally having an effect on the development of Dwarf Fortress
>mfw the guy in question got famous for stealing mods from other people and slapping them into a modpack
>mfw the same guy gets as much monthly donations on patreon as the mathematician genius who coded the fucking game
at least the forumwhore modder got kidnapped when he was cycling through Syria on a holiday (I wish I was making this up lmao) and got his passport and money stolen by crooked military police.

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>H game has a problem during CGs where the characters won't show up and the game soft locks
>Look it up
>One guy even brings it up in a 10 page thread
>He gets completely ignored

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>"nvm i fixed it"

Cringe...

>nvm I found the problem: *incoherent technobabble that doesn't make any sense except to maybe some /g/ users*

Sweetie, did you forget to take your medication?

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Oatmeal

Cheecked and kek'd based user btfo'ing old farts

>Post count: 63775

based

Who the fuck goes cycling through Syria for a holiday?

You're going to trigger some people with this. Be careful.

>Detailed post explaining the problem and how to fix it

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>buy game for ps4
>default fov is about 80
>can't access the config files to set it to a reasonable degree

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anyone ever have the pain of going to a dozen forums to get rid of a virus? got a trojan vondu with msn messenger twice

>HDD1
>HDD2
>HHD3
>HHD4
oh fuck this hits me harder than it should
I used to have a 120gb and filled it with harry potter games, my mother always thought the games had viruses, but my sisters had learned about Ares by then and well...
angry but good memories indeed.

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Based

>I have nothing to add to this topic.
>post count: 23,346

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>trying to fix game
>google the problem
>no threads
>finally find one
>it's the OP asking how to fix and no replies
>4 years ago

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hey it's still a really good way of remembering

>ITT: faggots who want to be spoonfed

>look for fix
>find forum thread with like 200 pages
>can't skip to a specific number just +1 -1
>need to register to see links
>need to wait 200s on the TOS thing before you can continue
>need to verify e-nail
>the verification e-mail never comes
>click retry
>10 minutes later all of them arrive at the same time
>search through 20 mails for the correct link and login to forum
>gotta make 10 posts before you can see shit
>original link you did this for just links to a different forum

>that one snarky cunt that is always right
>his name is one letter away from being a harmless pesticide

>>HDD1
>>HDD2
>>HHD3
>>HHD4
It's not so different now
>ssd 1 for os
>ssd 2 for games
>hdd for file storage

Rekt

>limited free time
>browsing Yea Forums

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That's what they say to pretend they actually knew the answer when they don't
It's done to make the forum look good
you are a fool