The PC Gaming Thread Phase II, The Masters of Gaming. No console peasants

Darksakul · November 16, 2019, 4:49pm

I pirate older games that have their authentication servers down and I still have the physical copies.

earthwormben · November 16, 2019, 6:22pm

On the topic of old games, I really wish I could get heavy gear working. That just doesn’t want to run unless I use very old hardware

Darksakul · November 17, 2019, 1:58pm

I haven’t yet test this out for myself but check this out
@earthwormben

https://www.gog.com/forum/general/heavy_gear_ii_for_win_10

Geese_Pants · November 19, 2019, 1:07pm

…aight.

mikeohara · November 19, 2019, 10:32pm

reserved one of the new Model D mice from Glorious PC yesterday. It’ll replace my Rival 600 that I’ve been using for the past year or so on and off.

mikeohara · November 27, 2019, 7:31pm

Steam Autumn Sale is now through December 3rd. So far in my haul, I picked up the following:

Resident Evil 2 Remake
Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night

This will probably be it for this sale. My major damage will probably be in the Winter Sale.

Geese_Pants · November 27, 2019, 11:04pm

Yeah…I’m gonna pass on the Autumn sale this year.

Only thing I did get was the Steam controller.

mikeohara · November 28, 2019, 12:11am

I need to do some in-place upgrades, mainly a newer motherboard and faster and higher capacity RAM (thinking a 32gb kit). I’ve had the same motherboard and RAM for close to three years (it’ll be January 3rd that marks the three year point for those items). I bought a MicroATX board initially to save money and complete my build.

Got the components that I want wishlisted on Newegg, will probably pull the trigger mid-December on them.

Shinkuu_Tatsumaki · November 28, 2019, 3:17am

So I reinstalled windows on a new ssd and it’s saying I can’t activate it because my key isn’t valid.

uhh… Help.

mikeohara · November 28, 2019, 3:24am

is your key tied to a Microsoft account, or to your hardware? Sounds like reinstalling to the new SSD generated a device ID change, which triggered your failed activation.

Hardware activation means your key isn’t tied to a Microsoft acct.

Shinkuu_Tatsumaki · November 28, 2019, 3:25am

Ok I did get a new mobo and cpu too. I never tied it to my microsoft account.

mikeohara · November 28, 2019, 3:29am

there’s this article I found that has a command to generate an offline ID that you can get Microsoft to provide a response to and you can reactivate that way …

You can also get the activation ID from the activation menu iirc.

Shinkuu_Tatsumaki · November 28, 2019, 3:54am

I don’t understand any of that, but it didn’t work.

Can I just put my old parts back in or what?

Meh whatever, just gonna buy a new key. They are cheap asf anyways. I didn’t now about the 1 PC thing with these OEM keys.

Darksakul · November 28, 2019, 4:38am

Just contact MS tech support telling them you need to reactivate windows, have your Serial Key ready, they will walk you through a process where you get reactivated

Shinkuu_Tatsumaki · November 28, 2019, 4:46am

I did that and the guy just said the key’s been exhausted already.

Hawkingbird · November 28, 2019, 5:09am

If you have a key for an old version of windows it should work. Like if you have an old win 7 key laying around you can use that to activate

Shinkuu_Tatsumaki · November 28, 2019, 5:24am

I went and bought a new one, but it didn’t work and when I called support the lady told me it’s because it’s a Win 7 key so I’m getting a refund.

Edit: Got one from ebay for $4 and it works.

mikeohara · November 28, 2019, 7:17pm

Fucking hell, I’m seriously tempted to temporarily stop my pledge to not give Blizzard/Activision money over the Gamestop deal for Modern Warfare on PC.

ZZZZzzzzzzzzz · November 29, 2019, 2:40pm

orochizoolander · December 1, 2019, 4:57am

Welp been 9 years since I built my first PC besides the SSD and HDD nothing else is carrying over, building a new rig from scratch trying to take advantage of these black friday/cyber monday deals GG my wallet.