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The Hobbit Hole III - Journey to the Cross-roads!
Posted on 12/17/2002 7:32:02 AM PST by HairOfTheDog
Welcome to The Hobbit Hole!
Journey to the Cross-roads
The Two Towers Edition
Come on! Come in! -if you would like to have some seedcakes and a pint and relax a while. (If it is a special occasion, we still have a few bottles of the old wineyards left!)
Our first thread ( New Zealander builds Hobbit hole ) reached 4,100 posts, and we thought that was big. Our second thread (The New Hobbit Hole ) held us for over 48,000 posts, and we loved it dearly. We talked about moving to a new thread for the last 38,000 posts, but we are really slow to muster! Finally, the time has come. Tomorrow (at 12:01 am, to be precise!) The Two Towers comes out, and we start a new chapter.
TOPICS: The Hobbit Hole
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To: Overtaxed
Does it have yogurt in the recipe?
14,721
posted on
02/13/2003 2:55:39 PM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 17 whistles)
To: HairOfTheDog
I gotta go for a while...spend a while with my kids just sitting around visiting.
I'll be back after they go to bed...Steve is at school till probably 10pm again tonight.
14,722
posted on
02/13/2003 2:57:06 PM PST
by
2Jedismom
(HHD with 17 whistles)
To: 2Jedismom
No. Not this one.
To: 2Jedismom
I am going for awhile myself!
I have to go to town.... on an errand, and then meet a friend for a pint!
To: SuziQ; rightwingreligiousfanatic
Heh, I lost my northern accent after only a few months of living in Texas... I can still fake it though, and it tends to slip back without me noticing if I'm talking with one of my relatives long enough.
14,725
posted on
02/13/2003 3:16:50 PM PST
by
Bear_in_RoseBear
(Wanted: One Tag Line, must be short but witty.)
To: HairOfTheDog
Just raises my opinion of Sean Astin even more!! Could we call him General Astin?
14,726
posted on
02/13/2003 3:19:57 PM PST
by
SuziQ
(Still working my way through!)
To: HairOfTheDog
Ooohh! Loser-night at the Hobbit Hole! Yay! I'll be there, but I don't know when. Parents are apparently not going out to dinner because they missed their reservations. And we're getting all this snow.
14,727
posted on
02/13/2003 4:06:38 PM PST
by
JenB
To: JenB
And we're getting all this snowHeh Heh, I'll bet our son at CMU is glad he took his boots back with him after Christmas. I got him a new hat, scarf, and gloves as well, so he must be a happy camper!
To: SuziQ
Yes, it's been the first winter in years, really. I understand we may get more than 6 inches tomorrow night.
14,729
posted on
02/13/2003 6:08:00 PM PST
by
JenB
To: ksen
Ah, ksen, Where am I? Lol
To: CindyDawg
I think ksen may have pinged you to the wrong thread. :)
This is the HobbitHole. We're friendly and don't bite (often). If you like Tolkien you're welcome to stay a bit!
14,731
posted on
02/13/2003 6:18:37 PM PST
by
JenB
To: JenB; Bear_in_RoseBear; RosieCotton; HairOfTheDog; ecurbh; All
Okay, I have a computer question.
I installed a new game for the little one last night. It runs "okay" but the sound is out of sync with the graphics.
Then we went to play a couple of other games we've had for a while. One crashed midstream and one wouldn't load without crashing. I uninstalled an re-installed one of those with no success.
But could some component of the new game have caused the others to crash? Or do I have other troubles?
I'm running a Packard Bell "Legend II" (piece of crap) which says its comparable to a Pentium II processor. We KNOW we need to upgrade...
Any and all suggestions welcomed.
To: Corin Stormhands; Ramius
I think the answer is that yes, it is possible for one thing to screw up other things, but I will ping brother Ramius for a more qualified answer....
He will probably need more details, if you have them, like the game, it's requirements, if you know them, and what system you are running.
To: HairOfTheDog; Ramius
Thanks. I tried uninstalling the new game, but it didn't help. I ran ScanDisk and Defrag as well, just 'cause I needed to anyway.
To: Corin Stormhands
I wouldn't think that simply installing a game would mess with other installations, but it is remotely possible I guess. A little more information would be helpful:
Which version of Windows?
Do you know the speed of the processor?
What are the requirements for the game?
What kind of crashes are they - error message, blue-screen-of-death, or a freeze?
Here is the first thing I would do. Restart the computer, then shut down as many background processes as possible with the Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del). Try to shut down everything but Explorer and Systray. Then run the program again and see if it still crashes.
14,735
posted on
02/13/2003 7:45:49 PM PST
by
ecurbh
(Elen síla lúmenn omentielvo)
To: Corin Stormhands
Hi, Corin!
What operating system are you running? And did you try uninstalling the new game?
To: Rose in RoseBear; ecurbh
Oh good, the geeks are on the scene! - I was afraid he was stuck with useless ol' me to talk to!
To: Corin Stormhands
But could some component of the new game have caused the others to crash?Short answer is yes, it's possible. For instance, the new game could have installed a newer version of Direct-X with which your older games may not be compatible.
When was the last time you loaded the OS on this computer?
To: HairOfTheDog
Non-geeks have their uses....
To: Bear_in_RoseBear
I would like to think so! - Have any idea what those uses are?
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