Hellgate: London

I got myself Hellgate: London for 9,95 euros, thats about $15 US. If you like RPG or Diablo type games, then get your self a copy!

It is really a great hack and slash game. Personally I think it is the best Diablo type sci-fi game around.

The game works well for different hardware but is very memory hungry. You should have 2 GBytes of RAM to play this game without long load times.

EDIT: the story is not as good as Diablo II but the game has the same basic additiveness. I believe the longterm fun is there, especially a replay with a different character build and at a different difficulty level. It does generate random maps, which helps. Note though I havn't had/played it more than a month so far.

PC RAM Upgrade:

My old Windows XP rig with 1 GByte of RAM was having long load times. I have ordered a new rig as the old one is 5 years old now and getting a bit slow. I will give my old system to my significant other. She has huge spread sheets, so extra RAM and a new and much faster hard disk will do her fine in this system. Using 2 Gbytes made Hellgate run fairly smoothly, even on this older 2.8 GHz Pentium 4 machine.

The old RAM consisted of 512 MB 133 PC DIM and another 512MB 133/166 DIM. I added 2 Gbytes of DDR2-400 RAM. The system boots but after a few days I noticed it was unstable. Hellgate was giving me sound problems and freezing for a few seconds occasionally. Of course I had set the timings to the slowest RAM to insure that everything works, but it seems the hardware had troubles with this setup.

I have come to the conclusion that the PC can handle two different timings on RAM but not three. Even if you set the timings in the BIOS to a single speed manually the system has problems.