modern warfare revisited.

[rattlesnake]

well.. haven't played anything in a long time.. picked up doom and was going through the single player on it.. when I remembered when I upgraded to windows 10 that my original cod4 install was no longer any good.. so .. went through and reinstalled after saving my profile and what not and updated it and got the punkbuster working correctly(latest punkbuster no longer supports cod4).. jumped in a few servers playing freezetag.. man what a blast.. and just for some info.. there are still over 4000 servers running for cod4.. this game was all about the gameplay.. and the excellent map making.. would love to see some reinstall it and play some.. the geezers still run 4 cod4 servers ourselves.. 3 custom and one stock.. hopefully once work slows down I can get back to some gaming again.. been too long. and got a new 1070 on its way off backorder.. will have a 770 for sale if anyone interested... evga..

[DrFr]

Stupid Steam sales have filled up my hard drives. I'll upgrade one of my drives this summer and reinstall.

[Scorpio]

[nervustwitch]

[Scorpio]

[DrFr]

I have a 250 GB SSD for Tanks and Origin; all else on a 1 TB drive. The 2 4TB drives are reserved for music and movies ...

[nervustwitch]

[DrFr]

When Barb and I married 9 years ago, we had probably 500 DVDs between us. And then we bought our house 6 years ago, and it's got limited space - but is our "forever house" (at least, until California goes so dumb-shit stupid that Barb says we're moving). So I began ripping DVDs to a hard drive to free up shelf space and wall space. Took me a while to get it down. I use WinX DVD Ripper and, for Disney DVDs, Aimersoft DVD Ripper. Got it down to about 3-4 GB per DVD. Recently began using Acrok Video Converter to rip BluRays. Those come in about 10 GB (30 fps on both). I have the movies on my gaming rig, then I use a 1 TB USB Western Digital Passport to move them to the Mac Mini for watching on the TV, and also have them backed up to two separate hard drives, including one I keep off-site.

The music is another matter. I've been writing about music for more than 30 years now, and have ripped probably 2/3 of my CDs - I have more than 144,000 songs in iTunes. I rip the jazz and classical to uncompress AIF, everything else to 320 kbps MP3. Of course, when I started on my first-gen iMac 15 years ago, I was ripping stuff to 128 - so I have a lot of stuff at less than ideal quality.

That, too, is kept on a hard drive hooked up to the Mac Mini (and backed up twice), which I run via HDMI to a Harmon Kardan receiver, and thus the vintage giant floor speakers ...

I picked up an iPod Touch that I use as a remote control on the Mac Mini.

Waiting for SSDs in the 10-12 TB range to come down in price. Eventually, I figure I'll have the whole library on one USB SSD, backed up 2 ways for safety.

[nervustwitch]

Thats way more than I have.
My music is only around 75gb's.
Movies are I dont even know.

As for moving files from my main PC to my HTPC, I have the house wired for gigabit. It takes no time at all to transfer files from 1 pc to another.
But I guess it helps that I have a huge box of cat5-e cable and ends so I can make and run all the cables I want in the house.

[DrFr]

It would be a pain to wire our house, so I upgraded the the N wireless standard for most stuff. But for moving movies and music, a portable USB 500 GB drive works just fine ...