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| Red Faction : Lounge : anyone use a netbook? |
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| keyser_soze |
  Posted 29th Apr 2009 9:31am |
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hi all!
does anyone use a netbook to play RF? is it possible to play by using
a mobile internet solution (umts, hsdpa)? |
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| Molodiets |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 9:39am |
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No!
I spit at netbooks!
Most netbooks don't have a cd driver.
otherwise it might be possible |
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sobe  |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 10:18am |
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| Quoting molodiets | No!
I spit at netbooks!
Most netbooks don't have a cd driver.
otherwise it might be possible |
People still use CDs? |
| "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006 |
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| Molodiets |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 10:37am |
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only people who bought RF |
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SkipRat  |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 12:18pm |  |
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Depends what spec the netbook is... |
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| Assman15 |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 3:37pm | |
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It's hard to find a PC that doesn't meet the minimum requirements for RF these days. Unless you bought it used chances are you'll be able to play the game just fine. |
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| sobe |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 6:54pm |
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| Quoting molodiets | | only people who bought RF |
Doesn't mean you need a CD.... Sure, I bought Red Faction and indeed do have the original disks. But I have nearly all of my games in a virtual enviroment in .iso format on an external drive... Figured most people did that nowdays as it is. |
| "Apparently, Plaintiff believes that he could sue an egg company for fraud for labeling a carton of 12 eggs a dozen, because some bakers would view a dozen as including 13 items." - Western Digital 2006 |
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| Molodiets |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 9:34pm |
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| Quoting sobe | | Quoting molodiets | | only people who bought RF |
Doesn't mean you need a CD.... Sure, I bought Red Faction and indeed do have the original disks. But I have nearly all of my games in a virtual enviroment in .iso format on an external drive... Figured most people did that nowdays as it is. |
doesn't matter what you do.
You have either to buy the game or to have it borrowed by a friend (which is piracy).
If you buy the game, you'll get it on a cd and if you want it as a virtual cd to install it on your nertbook, you'll need another computer with a cd drive to create the virtual CD |
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| Assman15 |
Posted 29th Apr 2009 9:41pm | |
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You don't necessarily need a second PC. A USB CD drive would work just fine, and be pretty cheap too. Total cost of an IDE drive and an IDE to USB converter is about $15 USD. |
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NoClanFrank  |
Posted 30th Apr 2009 4:15am | |
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I recently bought another 8 gig USB flash drive to load my current game onto it. I now can play it at work if i do choose to. Of course only during my breaks and my lunch hour. 
Nitro should be able to better answer you, since I know he has a net-book.  |
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| StuPidaso |
Posted 3rd May 2009 2:24am |
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| Quoting NoClanFrank | | Nitro should be able to better answer you, since I know he has a net-book. |
I wasn't patient enough to wait for Nitro to answer (if he even has time). I figured I'd test RF on my EeePC 900, so I loaded XP and copied my RF CD to an SD card and RF fired right up. I can't find anything to complain about, all seemed very comparable to my normal desktop install, and the 9" screen wasn't too bad either.
If you plan on playing RF on a NetBook, I don't think you'd be disappointed as long as you don't mind the small screen.
Also, thought I'd mention 2 other things. I have a couple NetBooks (both ASUS) and I have nothing but good things to say about them. Of course I don't care for the OS they come with, but they boot Ubuntu quite well, and the SD slot is great for booting other OS's like BackTrack (I'm not a MS fan). |
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| keyser_soze |
Posted 8th May 2009 1:59pm |
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oh thx stu for your test! i will take a look at the asus eee.
did you try it out by using an mobile connection? |
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| StuPidaso |
Posted 8th May 2009 10:11pm |
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| Quoting keyser_soze | | did you try it out by using an mobile connection? |
No, I'm afraid I didn't. I'm still using a PCMCIA Sprint card and didn't have a way of connecting that to the eeepc.
Here is a pic of my eeePC running RF. I used a $1 (that I stole from my wife this morning) as reference to the size of the netbook.
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