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Xanthippe
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May 15, 2012 05:40:00 AM Oakland CA US Departure Scan
May 15, 2012 04:58:00 AM Oakland CA US Out for delivery
May 15, 2012 04:06:00 AM Oakland CA US Arrival Scan
May 15, 2012 02:49:00 AM Ontario CA US Departure Scan
May 14, 2012 10:23:00 PM Ontario CA US Arrival Scan
May 14, 2012 09:11:00 PM Mather CA US Departure Scan
May 14, 2012 08:39:00 PM Mather CA US Arrival Scan
May 14, 2012 08:02:00 PM Sparks NV US Departure Scan
May 14, 2012 05:08:00 PM Sparks NV US Arrival Scan
May 14, 2012 04:45:00 PM Sparks NV US Departure Scan
May 14, 2012 12:48:00 PM Sparks NV US Shipment received by carrier
May 14, 2012 11:27:52 AM Fernley NV US Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit
I'm being tortured by UPS. Wtf would it fly from Sac to Ontario to Oakland, then put out for delivery when I live hours from Oakland. I sense no D3 for me today :(
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Numtini
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That's irritating. About ten minutes into playing my PC shuts down. I have no clue what's going on. The same thing happens in GW2 character creation, but I thought that was a GW2 bug. I can play GW2, LOTRO, GW for hours and never have a problem. It's not CPU or GPU temps. Dying power supply?
But it's been three years and it's a Core2Duo, so even now New Egg is packing an i5/2500, HD6950, and assorted motherboards and cases into a box. I'll be able to play this weekend at least.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Xanthippe
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That's really torture, Numtini. Glad you're getting a new box, but that's really weird. Sounds like temp but it's not? Wonder what it is.
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Slayerik
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Pull some RAM if you have multiple sticks. Weird problems can sometimes be attributed to that, so it is worth a shot anyway....
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fuser
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Pull some RAM if you have multiple sticks. Weird problems can sometimes be attributed to that, so it is worth a shot anyway....
This, and/or try Memtest86+ simple USB stick installer or ISO to download. |
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Xuri
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That's irritating. About ten minutes into playing my PC shuts down. I have no clue what's going on. The same thing happens in GW2 character creation, but I thought that was a GW2 bug. I can play GW2, LOTRO, GW for hours and never have a problem. It's not CPU or GPU temps. Dying power supply?
But it's been three years and it's a Core2Duo, so even now New Egg is packing an i5/2500, HD6950, and assorted motherboards and cases into a box. I'll be able to play this weekend at least.
It can still be the powersupply even if it's not actually dying. If it's not capable of keeping up with your system. |
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Engels
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Yep, my PSU was shutting the fuck off recently too. Purchased a new gold rated Corsair, and I'm good to go. No more random shut offs, which I was originally attributing to a dying vid card (which was dying for other reasons).
I think it was the 12 volt rails on my old one. Couldn't keep up the job past 2 years. It was a relatively shoddy Thermaltake PSU, which was always loud and pretty hot.
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Numtini
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Edit: Problem found. I did a full driver strip and reinstall and suddenly the card is showing as overheating. So something was screwed up with catalysts temp reports. I'll figure out tonight if its a clogged fan or a cable got snagged or if its dead.
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I have the memtest CD already, just didn't have time to run it before work. I don't like that answer though as I'm doing video conversions (we got a tivo which you can upload stuff to) and
The answer I really like though is the power supply. The specs are more than adequate for the system--I did my research on this one--so it's probably just going bad. I need to take a look and see if I can get it out without taking everything apart--if so I have another in the closet and can just pop it in.
I'd like to get it settled, so I can pass on or sell the system. It's still quite solid even for gaming (E8600 & HD4870).
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« Last Edit: May 15, 2012, 10:03:52 AM by Numtini »
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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calapine
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 *sighs* *wrings hands* I am willing to have Baals' babies in return for a working battle.net...  |
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apocrypha
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Planes? Shit, I'm terrified to get in my car now!
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Yeah I went to change chars to swap some crafting mats around and couldn't get back into the friend's game because battle.net is creaking under the strain. However it did make me realise what time it was and go and do some other things that needed doing... :)
Anyway, all runs fine on my main gaming rig but on the media PC it will only let me run at 800x600. I'm guessing it's because this PC has a non-standard DPI set since it's plugged into a 40" TV rather than a monitor. No big deal, annoying that this kind of problem happens so often with a high DPI though.
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Xanthippe
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My CE is on the UPS truck out for delivery now. Since 7:30am.
Oh well, household chores are getting done and my pets are getting plenty of attention.
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Malakili
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I managed to pick up one of three CEs this morning at the local Best Buy as it opened. Got their an hour early or I wouldn't have too, quite a line formed outside. I tried a couple midnight openings last night as well just to try and sneak a CE out of those, though they were admitted long shots and I didn't get one. So, woke up, tried again, and got lucky. On the plus side, not having the game until ~10am this morning worked to my advantage I think, the servers were quite stable by the time I got around to playing.
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Slayerik
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My CE is on the UPS truck out for delivery now. Since 7:30am.
Oh well, household chores are getting done and my pets are getting plenty of attention.
May 15, 2012 08:08:00 AM Flint MI US Out for delivery May 15, 2012 07:04:00 AM Lansing MI US Departure Scan May 15, 2012 05:39:00 AM Lansing MI US Arrival Scan May 15, 2012 04:36:00 AM Louisville KY US Departure Scan May 15, 2012 01:06:00 AM Louisville KY US Shipment received by carrier May 14, 2012 06:02:38 PM Whitestown IN US Shipment has left seller facility and is in transit I keep refreshing the tracking, hoping it will be there when I get home from work...I'm sure we're the last stop for UPS, now that I think about when I see the trucks roll through.... |
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Merusk
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I've been told in the past residences are almost always the last deliveries of the day. The order of delivery is Priority AM (Before 9am) , Next-day AM (before 11am) then regular deliveries starting with businesses. So unless your house is between two business districts, chances are you won't get it until the end of the driver's day.
Just what I'd been told in the past, though. No idea how accurate it is.
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schild
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Austin, TX, United States 05/15/2012 7:35 A.M. Out For Delivery
05/15/2012 6:59 A.M. Arrival Scan
05/15/2012 6:29 A.M. Departure Scan
05/15/2012 5:46 A.M. Arrival Scan
Louisville, KY, United States 05/15/2012 4:26 A.M. Departure Scan
05/15/2012 12:23 A.M. Arrival Scan
Tulsa, OK, United States 05/14/2012 9:54 P.M. Departure Scan
05/14/2012 8:22 P.M. Arrival Scan
05/14/2012 7:42 P.M. Departure Scan
05/14/2012 4:43 P.M. Origin Scan
United States 05/14/2012 2:05 P.M. Order Processed: Ready for UPS
ZEE PAIN
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squirrel
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1:55 p.m. PDT - Starting at approximately 2:15 p.m. PDT, we will be bringing Diablo III servers in the Americas offline for urgent maintenance to address several issues that are impacting the game. We anticipate that maintenance will last for about an hour and that servers will be available at approximately 3:30 p.m. PDT. We will provide further updates as they are necessary. Thank you for your patience.
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1:27 p.m. PDT - We're in the process of testing and implementing multiple fixes for the current service issues. We’ll provide another update in approximately 1 hour.
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11:30 a.m. PDT - We are in the process of performing an emergency maintenance for Diablo III servers in the Americas to resolve several issues that are currently impacting the game. This maintenance may cause some interruption in communication, ability to log in, use of in-game features, and disconnections. We anticipate all servers will be available for play at approximately 1:30 p.m. PDT. We will provide further updates as necessary. Thank you for your patience.
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10:22 a.m. PDT - We are in the process of performing an emergency maintenance for all North American Diablo III servers to resolve several issues that are currently impacting the game. This maintenance may cause some interruption in communication, ability to log in, use of in-game features, and disconnections. We anticipate all servers will be available for play in approximately 1 hour.
Thank you for your patience. It installed fine. MMORPG launches now standard for all games, yay! ;) |
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« Last Edit: May 15, 2012, 02:28:47 PM by squirrel »
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Dren
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Game is not playable. Epic fail from what I can see so far. Not a huge amount of testing yet, but couldn't log in (got error) before work. Left a bit early to get in some time before son's band concert after work and faced with queue ending in another error. Doesn't matter if want to play a solo or multi game. Can't play the game.
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Ingmar
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A year from now when you're still playing it you won't even remember these hiccups.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Malakili
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Game/login servers seem down atm.
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Lakov_Sanite
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Game is awesome, a full day of not being able to play it because of servers? Bad news.
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squirrel
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A year from now when you're still playing it you won't even remember these hiccups.
Ok. Wait, I'm pretty sure I won't be playing this pretty D2 re-skin in a year. GW2 perhaps. It was an impulse buy for me though, Im not that fussed about it. |
Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Tannhauser
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I rush home from work and can't play until 6:30 est. If then. Srsly, Blizz y u no let me play offline?
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Lakov_Sanite
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A year from now when you're still playing it you won't even remember these hiccups.
Ok. Wait, I'm pretty sure I won't be playing this pretty D2 re-skin in a year. GW2 perhaps. It was an impulse buy for me though, Im not that fussed about it. re-skin....lol |
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Ghambit
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Shit, most MMO launches go smoother than this. But this is the price we pay for a server-side ARPG I guess. Problem I have is if they were going to go so server-side then they should've had mechanics in place to deal with the load.
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Nightblade
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It never fails to impress me how this happens for Blizzard time and time again.
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01101010
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The official forums are awash with tears of woe ... in its own way, it is rather beautiful.
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squirrel
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Shit, most MMO launches go smoother than this. But this is the price we pay for a server-side ARPG I guess. Problem I have is if they were going to go so server-side then they should've had mechanics in place to deal with the load.
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Ingmar
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It may be a case of "we know the concurrent demand is going to be higher on the first day than it ever will be again and we don't want to spend on the extra hardware".
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Ghambit
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It may be a case of "we know the concurrent demand is going to be higher on the first day than it ever will be again and we don't want to spend on the extra hardware".
In the relative scheme of things it's pennies against the billions+ they'll be making. Factor in negative press/marketing and they actually lose more then they'd have invested in infrastructure. So meh, it's just silly any way you slice it. |
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Minvaren
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Tannhauser
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Oh snap! ME3 all over again!  |
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Lucas
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Further proof that Italians have suspect taste in games.
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caladein
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It may be a case of "we know the concurrent demand is going to be higher on the first day than it ever will be again and we don't want to spend on the extra hardware".
I would guess that's 99% of it. And they do the math the same every single time so I don't think it's the "pennies" that Ghambit is talking about. It's also different for a Blizzard than it is for any other company launching an MMO (or similar) as full servers mean there's a potential limit on how many copies you're going to sell. The install base for D3 is already so massive before launch that any bad word-of-mouth they're getting from "error codes trending in the middle of the night" is going to be outweighed by the positive word-of-mouth once people are actually playing. |
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schild
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The CE is a well produced thing.
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