![]() ![]() However as we were making progress, I started to notice the game had changed a lot. We cruised through Normal and Nightmare difficulty. Vicky made a sorceress because she loved to be a caster in World of Warcraft. I already pictured cleaning the River of Flame with multishot Goldstrike. I created the character I remembered enjoying the most, an Amazon, intending to make it into a bowazon. Instead we relied on Discord's Chaos Sanctuary vibrant community. That was going to make trading difficult. The only real issue was the abscence of chat rooms. On top of that the developers did an outstanding job of explaining what was happening behind the scene which I appreciated. I was happy to see that Blizzard's gamble succeeded beyond their expectations and that many people still loved Diablo 2. I cannot believe I used to see this and enjoy it. The game features a "G" toggle to see the legacy renderer. The HD graphics were even better than I remembered them. I almost felt compelled to say "Ignition" before pressing it. It turns the mundane task of turning a PC on into a ceremony. You can see it on the photo in the lower left near the screwdrivers. I confirm it works.Įventually, I bought a PC Power Button ATX cable with a tiny button at the end so anybody could turn it on. ![]() Having the MacGyver song playing in the background helps to find the courage to do it. The consensus way is to locate the PWR and GRD pins on the motherboard and short them with a screwdriver. It was not even going to be able to run D2R maxed out but it would be better than the 15fps of an Iris Xe.įun fact: Working with a workbench means you have no "power on" button to start up the PC. ![]() It was so massive that it stuck out the back. The thing was a beast weighting more than all other components combined (bench included). It could be found on eBay for $1,300 which accounted for a 350% markup.ģ060 Ti, sold out for the whole year 2021.Īll I could find was a kind co-worker willing to sell a ZOTAC 1080 Ti AMP Extreme. The perfect one for this job, the Nvidia 3060 Ti was sold out everywhere. The hardest part of building the PC in the sweet month of August 2021 was dealing with the worldwide GPU shortage. If I had to redo it, I would buy a ThinkPad and use an external GPU or use a KVM monitor such as the BenQ PD2720U or the GigaByte M27Q.įinding a GPU, an adventure in the adventure before the adventure USB is a mess and Thunderbolt motherboards either don't support video or have stability issues. Disillusioned, I ended up with a freeze free ASRock Z590 Phantom Gaming-ITX/TB4 with no support for pass-through.Īt this point, I don't know what to do with desktop machines. One of the ports was Dead on Arrival and I never managed to make the pass-through work. I tried something beefier, the MSI Z590I ITX, advertised as a dual Thunderbolt-4 with Display Port pass-through video. I was never able to figure it out and RMAed it. Updating the BIOS and all the drivers, using the exact RAM parts number found on the QVL, switching RAM, using only one RAM, monitoring temperatures of chipset, CPUs and GPUs, and even enabling/disabling innumerable poorly documented mobo settings. The worse nightmare of a PC builder surfaced with random freezes. The Beautiful Machine was working well with an ASRock Phantom Gaming ITX TB-3 so I tried the same setup. The workbench turned out to be a sound idea. ![]()
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