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ixigia
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Posted: Sat, 16th May 2020 14:29 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Let's make DreDWeRkZ great again! All kidding aside, modern repacks with their compressions and selective installations (optional HD textures, videos, even multiplayer in some cases) are pretty much the rips of 201X. And just like twenty years ago, they partially save my ass from dealing with absurdly inadequate connections. Even when I already own a game on Steam/GOG, I often just grab the repack and play that instead for convenience since downloading several additional gigabytes means waiting an entire day (or more) on a shaky 4Mbit. At least I never had caps, the only silver lining to this story. Random creations of an insane mind / Screens from Bulgaria [Early Access]

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dethy

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Posted: Sat, 16th May 2020 22:11 Post subject:

vurt wrote:

I have 5 SSD's. I can never afford the largest ones so i'll just increase the number of drives over time. The biggest is my system disk which is a 1TB. Eventually i need to sell them off and just get 2x 4TB or whatever.

You're still saturating the same bus, regardless of how many drives you have.

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vurt

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Posted: Sat, 16th May 2020 22:27 Post subject:

dethy wrote:

vurt wrote:

You're still saturating the same bus, regardless of how many drives you have.

i bet, and its not why i have many drives, like i said, i just tend to buy a new when i run out of space..

At least it's better than with HDD's, then the whole system pretty much freezes up when you copy a larger file/folder, seems like one of the most demanding things you can do.

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tonizito
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Posted: Sat, 16th May 2020 23:04 Post subject:

dethy wrote:

vurt wrote:

You're still saturating the same bus, regardless of how many drives you have.

Still beats massive read/write operations within the same drive, though

boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:

i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then

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Civ01

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Posted: Sun, 17th May 2020 01:12 Post subject:

bronson wrote:

Nope. The pc-rip scene died when CLASS gave up the throne, but somehow lasted until MYTH got busted. There's really no need to have pc rips anymore, and the p2p repack groups do a good enough job if you're on limited bandwith.

I think that is probably for the best, because p2p come and go like shrooms after the summer rain, but if scene takes a hit and loses few big teams - it takes FOREVER to recover. Yeah, it is messy with p2p, quality is lower, safety is almost none, but at least it is way harder to kill.

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scaramonga

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Posted: Sun, 17th May 2020 03:55 Post subject:

Il_Padrino wrote:

I like the fitgirl releases, I prefer it over regular ones, as it removes the useless bloat. I guess it's the closest we are to the classic rips.

Try doing a normal 'codex' update on her release though Wink

Nah, no, what??

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