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Version 2 is somehow not recognised as an update - you'll have to manually delete the old version from your fms directory, to see the new one on the server...

For me, the loadscreen takes 18 seconds to start. Did you wait long enough?

Me too, please

If I may, I'd like to test on easy.

I added the following to the beta test thread, maybe it is useful here: I found out one more thing: It crashes, if the dial is touched, after the safe opens. Since I'm using the mousewheel for dialing, I seem to overshoot the last number one in five times. Reproducing it with the keys also will lead to a crash, if you put in one more keystroke, as the number you'll need. So it looks like its not the opening per se, but dialing after it opens - even if the door hasn't moved yet. Maybe this can help to get to the bottom of this.

I believe I did

Since this is a throwaway testbed, I gave it a go. "newest" comments from the blog are from 2 months ago... Hmm Search results are localised, and don't put me where I'd expect them to be. You know, e, g, Iranian content provider for movie downloads. I'm terrible sorry, but I'll pass.

It`s no big deal at all. Loading this mission makes me want to replay this wonderful mission again. A big thank you

Yes.

Well, the picks are now properly visible in 2.06/64, all three difficulty settings. But another minor thing came to my attention, when you approach the table with the first readable crouched, the scroll will highlight, but isn't frobable... Was the same in the "old" version, but I only noticed that now, after the guard threw rocks at me and I crouched to avoid them (I threw some objects at him, for shit and giggles ).

Looks like a 2.06 issue. The picks are invisible, but you'll get them if you "frob around".

You do realise, that both are the basically the same machine, with different components? You could downgrade the first you've linked to 256GB SSD and it'll fall under the price of the second one. In terms of SSD size, I usually treat them only as system drives with some programs installed, but not as a data grave. My first SSD lasted for around three hours, that learned me the lesson, not to put important data onto an SSD pretty fast But to be honest, that was my only SSD crash ever (knockin' on wood). The Stealth series looks much like the younger sibling of my Ghost, so I like it

If the weight is not weighting you down, the deal looks sweet indeed. When you are ready to spend this amount of money, treat yourself to the GTX 1060, it should make much more of a difference than the price increase. Caveat emptor, including the 1TB SSD will explode the price, no dual channel memory, colour rendering of 94% NTSC seems low and running Win7 will be still a bitch... Other than that, why don't we get this kind of deals over here

Regarding the MSI you linked, 8GB RAM is the bare minimum for gaming, I can easily fill the 8GB on my gaming laptop to 90% when playing e. g. Doom 2016 with full eye-candy. So it is sufficient right now, but for the future you might want to at least have an upgrade path available. Even more a no go in my opinion, is a mechanical HDD. My laptop came with an SSHDD, but even that was a constant pain in the derriere. I upgraded to an SSD (like pretty much all my other systems run for years) and never looked back. The Acer looks more modern, has a much better video-card, enough RAM and an SSD. The weight would be a bit on the high side for me, too. My gamer is an Terra Mobil 1590 (a.k.a. MSI Ghost) that retailed for €1400, I picked it up used for around 900. It was a Christmas present gone wrong, it had only 6 operating hours and looked like new. That was probably one of the more unusual action gems At 2kg also a nice companion. Most of my systems are bought used, usually from professional refurbishers, including a one year warranty. That plus buyer protection should be almost as good as new, for much less money. There seem to be not much refurbished gaming laptops, though. Mostly you can get three year old leasing business laptops... [edit] The Asus ZenBook Pro series looks like solid lightweights. Prices are a bit stiff, though.

If I find the time, I would like to play

Had to try that out When I run the installer and default to a directory named "thedarkmod", steam will list tdm under "T". No issue, just a matter of taste, I reckon. One can prompt steam to list wherever, by choosing the folder name. What's also interesting, tdm was not listed, when I started steam on this machine. I thought that the different program folder was the issue - I installed tdm on the other machine to the installer default directory, on this machine it sits in a different path. This seems not to be the case. After adding the game, then closing down steam, I renamed the folder. Starting steam still showed tdm, but couldn't launch it. Looks like the Library info is stored locally, which is a bit odd, since otherwise I always see my complete library, regardless of what is installed locally. Anyways, installing VC++ was again skipped, but this machine has a previous installation, so that might be normal.

Tried it on an TDM unaware Win10Pro 64bit machine. After the two Windows nag-screens, it installed itself into the correct 64bit program file directory. I've got three Desktop icons, The Dark Mod 32&64bit and the updater, all pointing to the right directory. Users have full access to the installation folder, creation and deletion of files and folders works. Other program folders seem unaffected. The later downloads also worked. The VC++ step got skipped. The steam integration shows the community page and with "add game", you could select TDM. Even though the entry is named The Dark Mod-64bit, it is alphabetically listed under the "D" section. You should probably change the default folder's name to the_dark_mod or something like that. Launching the game through the desktop icons worked. Launching via steam also works, steam overlay also seems to work. I would have liked to try it on a fresh Win7 system, but time was running out. I won't have access to a flat-rate machine until Sunday...

I did run the normal update from 2.05 with tdm_update.exe and got an TheDarkModx64.exe...

The mission isn't broken, sending a savegame from another person would defeat the purpose, I reckon. The bug only seems to happen, if you already have completed a mission with 100% loot and play it again. I did a couple more runs, changing the difficulty doesn't help, it doesn't matter if you get full loot on the replay, get hurt or whatnot. The workaround for Dave would be saving the game early in the replay, quitting the mission, pulling up the savegame again. At least that's what I did gather from my runs, I'm not going to touch closemouthed shadows for quite a while now

"i get the problem first time with the version 2.05 but only if I have completed a FM with max loot then if i play it again i get the bug." I did a couple of quick runs through closemouthed shadows and I could reproduce the bug! After finishing with 100% loot, I uninstalled the mission, installed it again, run it again and all statistics were zero... TDM 2.05 Win7 [edit] Did a couple more runs, uninstalling is not necessary, I'll get the bug when just running it again. If I pull up a savegame and finish it, the statistics are OK.

Nope, I don't have access.

Never did something like this, maybe this a good time to go for it What can I do to help?

Well, from the video I found,

That part worked fine for me, but I couldn't alter difficulty or by items. Mission crashed on me, after that present was placed. Sad.