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thinder

thinder
Jack Winter said:
Not meant as a lesson in sucking eggs!

It might be worth your while to update the motherboard BIOS when upgrading RAM, as a newer bios might recognize the new RAM and be better able to work with it.
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My MB BIOS was and is up to date.

Again this has NOTHING to do with my system but my O.S early release and fresh install, there is NO update in this, it has to be installed before being updated, not worth the effort considering the trouble, much better doing a fresh install of Win 11 Pro 64 which had no trouble with the same system and BIOS.

For your info, I built my PCs since Pentium III and I know a thing or two about making sure those things doesn't occur, then the RAM was NOT "New" it was simply a 16GB/stick version of the previous, same die, same number of ranks, same latency and it worked with two sticks, meaning it was not the RAM but its capacity limit which prevented the O.S to boot after installation.

Not everything you read in Wikipedia or even Microsoft is applicable in real life.
 

Codger

Codger
Fnord Velkor said:
I thought the 25% cut was standard?

I just checked and no you cannot vary the tariff for vista. So I don't know what you saw.
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Nope. Vista doesn’t take a cut, ever. Carrier owner gets nothing either. Only cartographics takes the 25%.

You're right that you can't vary it, though. It's always zero.

That's what the DSSA guy are advertising, I suppose. They are just saying that there's no percentage taken, which is true.
 
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]M[

]M[
Marvin the Martian said:
The other saying is, "When everybody else but you are saying the same thing, it's not everybody else that's wrong."
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Well, one's got to be careful with that - there's also a saying that goes "great minds think alike", conversely another that says "fools never differ..."

...personally I rend to respect most those with the courage to think for themselves, rather than just follow the herd :]
 
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Codger

Codger
]M[ said:
Ah that is good to know - I had been wondering why I was still paying so much weekly upkeep, even while offloading milllllions to that still somewhat disapproving desk clerk - maybe it's actually because she doesn't earn anything on commission? ;]
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I don't know why they didn't have Vista take 25% like Cartographics does. Oversight, perhaps? Anyway it's always been like this, and I'd rather they didn't change it now :)
 

Fnord Velkor

Fnord Velkor
Codger said:
Nope. Vista doesn’t take a cut, ever. Carrier owner gets nothing either. Only cartographics takes the 25%.
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Codger said:
I don't know why they didn't have Vista take 25% like Cartographics does. Oversight, perhaps? Anyway it's always been like this, and I'd rather they didn't change it now :)
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I am sure it actually says "after 25% fee" or suchlike on the Vista transaction screen.

EDIT - nope, I had that wrong, sorry.
 
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Tyres O'Flaherty

Tyres O'Flaherty
Marvin the Martian said:
@Tyres O'Flaherty - I know you run a dual monitor setup. I'm thinking about doing one myself. Do you run your gaming monitor at 4k and your other monitor the same or do you lower it to 1080 to take the load off?
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I run the main monitor - where the game runs - at 4K whilst the second monitor is at 2560x1440. Works pretty well :) *

* Both are the "recommended" resolutions by Windows

ETA - I had to up the font size to 125% on the 4K monitor even though it's a 32" model. My eyes...
 
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nemolomen

nemolomen
Codger said:
I don't know why they didn't have Vista take 25% like Cartographics does. Oversight, perhaps? Anyway it's always been like this, and I'd rather they didn't change it now :)
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IIRC Vista samples do not affect influence, like Carto Data does...that may be the reason...strange though that carrier owner gets nothing...nada...zilch...makes it seem like carrier owners should not equip it...no incentive...
 

]M[

]M[
nemolomen said:
IIRC Vista samples do not affect influence, like Carto Data does...that may be the reason...strange though that carrier owner gets nothing...nada...zilch...makes it seem like carrier owners should not equip it...no incentive...
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Yep I think it'd be quite nice if it actually took a cut of my own hand-ins - really a matter of convenience, having it top up the carrier balance as I go, though also to get some sense of whether I'm breaking even against upkeep costs... also an additional incentive for other FC owners to leave it on while out in the void, providing more places for more hardcore ship-only explorers to hand in data... but as Codger says, mebbe best to leave this in peace just as it is ;]
 

nemolomen

nemolomen
]M[ said:
Yep I think it'd be quite nice if it actually took a cut of my own hand-ins - really a matter of convenience, having it top up the carrier balance as I go, though also to get some sense of whether I'm breaking even against upkeep costs... also an incentive for other FC owners to leave it on while out in the void, providing more places for more hardcore ship-only explorers to hand in data... but as Codger says, mebbe best to leave this in peace just as it is ;]
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I have over 2 Bil in my carrier and I keep 1 Bil in my personal account. Once every 2 weeks or so, I take whatever extra I have above the 1 Bil and transfer it to my carrier balance...to the tune of about 300 - 500 Mil/month...weekly upkeep (all services installed and turned on) is just shy of 36 Mil, so as long as I transfer > 200 Mil/month, my carrier is in the black.

I have my carrier upkeep set to 50% of the carrier balance, which is currently enough to pay for weekly upkeep for over 6 months...and provides me with a large cushion, should I need it...
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
nemolomen said:
Is there a fleet carrier in your future?


They did, they elongated the scale and applied it to everyone. So all the commanders who had Elite by the original scale were demoted, before you even began collecting samples after that update...
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Yes, hadn't realized they had made that adjustment. I don't know the rank structure right off hand for exobiology but I jumped from Geneticist to Elite with that data dump and am now at 0% on Elite.

As far as a carrier goes, I'm not sure. I really love my Anaconda as a long range ship with a jump range of almost 60 Ly, it's seems like it's an extension of me. I've been out here 8 months now and am looking forward to getting back to Colonia and flying something different but this ship will always be very special. But, it would be very nice to have one.
 

0threeleven

0threeleven
Codger said:
Nope. Vista doesn’t take a cut, ever. Carrier owner gets nothing either. Only cartographics takes the 25%.

You're right that you can't vary it, though. It's always zero.

That's what the DSSA guy are advertising, I suppose. They are just saying that there's no percentage taken, which is true.
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I remember seeing "No charges for Vista" in the little popup when you hover your cursor over a ship marker on the map (I think). But I definitely saw this.
 
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