The Unreliable

Last week consisted almost entirely of playing The Outer Worlds, and I am really in love with the game now. I managed to fix the crashing problem, and I didn't even have to re-install Windows. I was right about the fact that my new hardware was causing the problems though, but it turned out to be a pretty easy fix. My new CPU had multithreading enabled, and after disabling this function in BIOS, I haven't had a single crash occur. So now I can really enjoy the game, and not have to worry about saving every 2 minutes.

I really can't explain how cool The Outer Worlds is, and I really love the environment. The different planets I have been on so far have very varying and beautiful scenery. Right now I'm about 15 hours into the game, and after reading some reviews, it seems like the game isn't longer than 30-40 hours on Normal difficulty. In one way it's good, since I often drop longer games in lack of time/interest, but on the other hand it has turned out to be such a good game that I would have wanted some more content. Oh well, I suppose the replay value is kind of high here. Besides The Outer Worlds, I have been playing some WoW as well. I took a little break again from current content, and decided to hunt some new transmog gear. Everyone should know already that my DK doesn't wear any pants, only skirts or dresses, and plate versions of these are pretty hard to come by. Up until now I have had three different skirts to choose from, but now I have been hunting down a couple of other ones from old raids. There is one dress in particular that I really want, the Breastplate of the Lost Catacomb, which drops from the last boss in Heart of Fear. The drop rate is not very high here, so I probably have to run the raid many times before I get it...

I have had a busy week, and it continues until next week, so I'm off doing other things now. I just hope I'll have time for a little bit of The Outer Worlds tonight, or maybe on Sunday... One can always wish.

Every Day is Exactly the Same

For Christmas I got new parts for my computer, and I also celebrated with buying a new case. So now it's rebuilt, and looks and feels very good. There has been some problems though, whenever I play any games, they seem to crash at totally random places. WoW has been almost unplayable, since the crashes are so frequent. I also tried out Overwatch, and that one crashed in the same way. After this I started wondering if this was a Blizzard-only fault, so I played some Torchlight to kind of experiment. I got one crash, but otherwise I played many hours without any problems. Yesterday I finally decided it was time to start playing The Outer Worlds, and now I get crashes there as well..! They come at totally random points, so I have no idea what's going on. But very clearly, all of this has something to do with my new computer hardware.

I haven't really had too much time or energy yet to really get to the bottom of it, but I guess my last option is to try re-installing Windows. I really don't want to, it's so much work getting all of my programs re-installed and all settings back to the way I want them... That kind of operation would probably take an entire day, and I'm not sure when I have got that time. But I can't enjoy my games to the fullest at the moment, so something has to be done.

I am absolutely loving The Outer Worlds though, despite the fact that it crashes frequently. I just have to remember to save literally all the time. Very interesting and beautiful world, and cool characters. I personally think it resembles Fallout so much, that it feels like I'm just playing a Fallout game set in another timeline or something. I'm only a few hours in so far, so I'll give an update when I have played more. Have to go to work now, but when I come home tonight, I'll continue for sure.