woe is me, woe is me

over the last few days my computer has been acting up. Ever since I bought the new RAM everything is on the fritz and has been testing my patience and ability to dive deep into Advanced settings tabs and BIOS…. uhhg.  So until I can resolve the issue of my comp randomly crashing into the blue flames of computer hell WAR beta will have to wait until I can tackle this issue. On a last note, I have not checked yet to see if my motherboard can actually support 4 GiGs of ram and I hope that is not the issue

Round 2 comming up next…

28.5% ready.

The last few days have got away from me. Like others, I too have been upgrading my system to ensure smooth play in large RvR battles. My processor and graphics card are the weakest part of my system right now but they still rank above the minimum line by a decent amount so I’ll keep those units. Up until now I was running 1.5GB RAM with windows Vista so i picked up two sticks of Super Talent 2gb 800MHz RAM putting me at a very comfortable 4Gigs.  I got home and threw off my tower door like the hulk and begun to unpacked my RAM. The heat sinks on the sticks made it a tight fit and almost impossible to install and nearly missing a component on my motherboard. I booted up Windows and checked my system specs…. RAM: 3gig…..huh? I ran Dxdiag and updated my beta account anyways. As it turns out the salesman gave me the wrong chip and I had to wait till yesterday to exchange it.

My next move was obtaining Fraps since I plan on making short movies, strats vids, Epic RvR vids, and anything of the like.  I ran an unofficial stress test on my machine. This was easy, I started by recording fraps, ran a movie, opened 6-8 web pages, ran itunes, signed into Vent, signed into msn, and did my best to bogg my system down. I’m happy to say everything ran perfectly, but not for too long.

After receiving my Beta invite via CE reserve, set up Vuze with the task of DLing the 9+ gig beta file. Vuse would end up shanking my system repeatably and displaying “the blue screen of death”  <grumble>  I spent an hour or two researching the problem and trying to correct it. AHHHRRGG! I have a good amount of patience normally, but not today!! /uninstall and downloaded Utorrent to do the job. I left this morning at 28.5% the way to WAR!