Unemployment, Day 4
Today was the day I had a problem with relaxing.
My plan was to rest my weary bones and spend the day playing Civilization IV. I re-upped my subscription to GameTap for the 99c first month and started the game downloading. While waiting, I started sorting some of the many piles of papers that have built up in the office over the last couple of years.
Finally, the download was done and I launched my first game. The computer froze up, making weird screeching sounds. Clearly there was some incompatibility with my system. The next few hours were spent tweaking settings, tracking down and installing drivers for hardware and trying to run the game. This entailed a lot of waiting around, during which time I continued sorting and tidying the office.
In the end, I managed to persuade the game to play for a total of 4 minutes before it crashed my system. I wonder why it is people are always saying that PC gaming is dying... On the plus side, the office looks better than it has for a long time. I also took a break and ran through some tunes on Guitar Hero II. The PS2 was happy to run software that was designed for it.
My plan was to rest my weary bones and spend the day playing Civilization IV. I re-upped my subscription to GameTap for the 99c first month and started the game downloading. While waiting, I started sorting some of the many piles of papers that have built up in the office over the last couple of years.
Finally, the download was done and I launched my first game. The computer froze up, making weird screeching sounds. Clearly there was some incompatibility with my system. The next few hours were spent tweaking settings, tracking down and installing drivers for hardware and trying to run the game. This entailed a lot of waiting around, during which time I continued sorting and tidying the office.
In the end, I managed to persuade the game to play for a total of 4 minutes before it crashed my system. I wonder why it is people are always saying that PC gaming is dying... On the plus side, the office looks better than it has for a long time. I also took a break and ran through some tunes on Guitar Hero II. The PS2 was happy to run software that was designed for it.