Calling on you gamers

[The Bull Shark]

BTW, Elite Dangerous is free from yesterday on Epic Game Store for a week.

 

Must say I really enjoy playing ED. I love the fact that you can do anything you feel like when you log on, even if the game is a bit grindy.

[bertusras]

You need to format and partition the drive. Right click on the Unallocated drive to get to the required options. Unfortunately I don't have a drive with an unallocated portion to run you through all the steps, but it is pretty straightforward. 

 

Edit: Also, I personally wouldn't go with a merge, I would rather start a fresh install. Gives you a good opportunity to do some housekeeping as well.

Edited December 4, 2020 by bertusras

[The Bull Shark]

You need to format and partition the drive. Right click on the Unallocated drive to get to the required options. Unfortunately I don't have a drive with an unallocated portion to run you through all the steps, but it is pretty straightforward. 

 

Edit: Also, I personally wouldn't go with a merge, I would rather start a fresh install. Gives you a good opportunity to do some housekeeping as well.

 

I always keep my OS and data on separate drives for this very reason. Gives me the option for a fresh install without having to move the data before doing that.

[Cois]

okay but how do I get windows on the new disk ?

You can’t “ghost or HDClone” an sATA to NVMe drive. Would say start with a clean Windows install on the NVMe.

Make sure to disconnect the sATA drive when installing Windows so that it creates a boot partition on your NVMe and not on the sATA drive.

 

What you need to have is a blank 8GB flash drive.

Search for Windows 10 media creator

Download and run the file

Create a Windows 10 install disk

Starting from the flash drive install Windows on the new Drive.

 

Make sure you download the needed mainboard drivers. Windows 10 is rather forgiving regarding drivers, but a system just works much better with the correct and newest drivers. And do not trust Windows Update drivers, they are still prone to break a system.

 

If you get stuck I am willing to help. Installing Windows is 2nd nature at the moment and a everyday thing at the office for me.

Edited December 4, 2020 by Cois

[Mojoman]

Can't be;ieve that was such a struggle but finally got windows 10 installed and working on the SSD ( well new SSD) 

 

 

Now to start the dowloading spree 

Lol, it will be worth it in the end...

[Fruity]

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[The Bull Shark]

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[Fruity]

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/14/microsoft-sony-nintendo-safer-gaming/

[The Bull Shark]

https://www.vg247.com/2020/12/14/microsoft-sony-nintendo-safer-gaming/

 

Or publishers should think twice about the content they are creating. No ways that the current ratings are adhered to. I can guarantee you many gamers under 13 are playing Cyberpunk 2077.

[The Ghost]

Or publishers should think twice about the content they are creating. No ways that the current ratings are adhered to. I can guarantee you many gamers under 13 are playing Cyberpunk 2077.

Parents should also parent occasionally.

[arabsandals]

Wow. How far things have come. We got a BBC micro in like 1984 or something and Elite was one of the games we had. Pretty amazing really. Came with a short story and all sorts of stuff. If I could have seen where it would end up then my brain would have exploded. 

[The Bull Shark]

Wow. How far things have come. We got a BBC micro in like 1984 or something and Elite was one of the games we had. Pretty amazing really. Came with a short story and all sorts of stuff. If I could have seen where it would end up then my brain would have exploded. 

 

What you probably also do not know from this video, is that Elite has an accurate as possible model of our galaxy to play in, with the stars accurately modelled and named, and some of the exoplanets that we know of also modelled. The planets to further stars are procedurally generated based on the star class. There are players that have travelled to Beagle Point, Bernard's Loop, the Whitch Head Nebula etc. There are another group that formed a colony 20kLy from Earth, which is not surprisingly called Colonia. Many of the starports are named after science pioneers and other contributors to science and cosmology.

 

Not surprisingly, the Thargoids are also still in the game, but just more dangerous.

Edited December 17, 2020 by Moridin

[The Bull Shark]

Parents should also parent occasionally.

 

Many parents just don't care, or want to bug the kids in fear of being called uncool when they prevent their kids from playing these games.

[Red Robin]

Many parents just don't care, or want to bug the kids in fear of being called uncool when they prevent their kids from playing these games.

 

I must be  beyond uncool then. Don't even let them play Fortnite even though lots of their class mates are  playing it. 

[The Ghost]

I must be beyond uncool then. Don't even let them play Fortnite even though lots of their class mates are playing it.

Same here.

Our kids don’t get to play or watch a lot of what other kids are playing and watching here, they also don’t have phones.

 

We know of kids of 6 years olds here with tic tok accounts and posting videos. The school had to intervene in an issue on a class WhatsApp group. Some 7yr olds playing games with much violence and gore.

One other kid we know (7yrs old) eats ice cream as meals with sweets as snacks while both her parents are at work and she has no adult supervision.