Gaming

Okay, so I started up FF7 to save a game so I had a savegame folder to move my old savegame files into and it struck me as curious that the sound was better on it than what it used to be.

Somehow I think the graphics card is what has caused that, I only have onboard sound but having a graphics card means it is cruching the numbers for the graphics and freeing up power in the main CPU for it to handle such things as sound. The fact that I have a more powerful CPU now than I did before may also help.

I am seeing the difference having a better CPU is making, programs open quicker and Notepad doesn't defer to Wordpad for longer files.

Also started in on FF8, I'm not giving silly names to the main characters (this time) but I am giving mildly silly ones to the GFs. Shiva's been renamed Ice Queen and I used Griever (the cheat program) to rename Quez Birdy and Ifrit FireBoy.

I'm less than eager to be constantly refering to a walkthrough printout so I'm going to fly [mostly] blind this time, only checking it after I quit.


That's another problem I have, I CAN'T FIND HOW TO QUIT THE GAME!!! I had to Ctrl+Alt+Del to get out of it! Does anyone know where I am suposed to find the Quit command? Yeesh!


Also on the current agenda, I agreed to beta read for Lady Yashodoa. Love her stories but her grammar... is not quite perfect. I don't know how good my own grammar is but I know I can clean up some of the things she has problems with.

Betaing however is NOT like simply reading, simple reading you can ignore minor mistakes but beta reading you have to go through it with a fine-toothed comb so you catch them. There's also the worry of really puzzling sentences that you just can't get the meaning of - worry whether the rewrite you've given agrees with the author's intention.

Ahh, but it's fun anyway, plus it means I get the new chapters of RtD a day earlier than FF.net does.