It looks like my ps3 slim just died. I was playing Fifa 13, and I went to make some lunch. Then I came back to the game, and the screen was blank. Now if I try to turn the system on it goes from red to green light just for a second then shuts off to no light. It sounds like my old ps3 that got the yellow light of death, but there is no yellow light this time. Just trying to find out for sure if this means my system is completely dead. Is there anything else I can try to turn the system on before I go out to get a new Ps3.

seriously, I've faced about 10 shots so far, but I haven't been able to make the keeper dive in any direction even once. someone please let me know which buttons to push to make the keeper dive when the computer is taking a penalty shot.

can anyone tell me how to make the keeper dive when facing a penalty shot? I'm playing on semi-pro, and I'm on the verge of winning the Barclays, but I may need to know this down the stretch.

Yes my highest resolution is closer to 1280 x 720, so I guess I may lose some of the edges of the game screen. At least I remember that happening when I had to run games on very low resolutions like 640 x 480.Most of my Ps3 games only play at 720p because of my tv, so it should be fine. maybe I won't have to adjust the settings, since that is my default res.

having problem with all of these download on a 56k modem, so I may be back in a month or so once I get high speed running. Still will give Steam another shot today.

[QUOTE="bb2945"]I'm surprised to hear that some of the games won't run on this laptop because you would think it would process faster than the xbox 360 or the ps3, since they are so old. Are you saying games like Far Cry 3 won't run on a 512 video card? I know it's a low/med end laptop, but I remember some of the games five years ago ran fine on a bottom of the barrel desktop. Any ideas why the Torchlight II demo won't even start the game? It said something about sliprt.dll, which I'm assuming means I'll have to download a new program, or just wait until I have a better internet connection to fully diagnose any compatability issues. maybe I'll have better luck with the Diablo III Starter's edition. Never know if I'll make it up to inferno or not, but there's still hope if I can ever get online then I'll have a good chance to get there because I'm really a good gamer when I set my sights on the right games to play. hopefully I'll get there some day in the near future. Torchlight 2 looks kind of like it is a download only game according to the gamespot that I get. It's also at the very top of the list of my most popular games. Never even heard of it before! Sounds really good and so does Diablo 3. either choice is a great pick.the_bi99man

Yeah, particularly a game like Far Cry 3, I'd be surprised if that video card will run it on anything but minimum, and even then, maybe not very smoothly, unless you're at a lower resolution. And referring to minimum/maximum settings, resolution is part of it, but there's also (in most games) several options for texture detail levels, shadow quality, particle effect levels, anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering levels, among other things. There's a lot of tweaking you can do to get better performance.

Regarding the Torchlight demo, did you download it with steam? If you did, find it in your library, right click, go to properties, and verify the game cache. That fixes like 90% of problems with steam installed games.

As for getting to inferno in diablo 3 because you're usually a good gamer... There's at least a little bit of skill involved with diablo, when it comes to just figuring out a good skill set, and attack patterns, and how to combine skills for maximum effectiveness... but once you get up to inferno, what matters more than anything is just having gear with good stats. Since the last big patch, it's a bit easier to find good stuff, because the drop rates, and item stat rolls were buffed a bit, but really good stuff is still quite rare. But even if you get to inferno and decide pushing through it will be too tedious to bother with, at that point you'll be level 60, and if you're not bored, you can start another character, of a different class. They all play very differently.

I didn't download the Torchlight II demo with Steam. It was just from the Torchlight II webpage. Would I have better luck starting over with Steam?

Diablo 3 sounds deep to me, and if I'm wasting all that time with games it would be great to have it work on my system. Maybe if they come out with it in time for the Wii U I can do it that way. However, you're saying I should at least be able to play Diablo 3 on my system.

[QUOTE="bb2945"]I'm surprised to hear that some of the games won't run on this laptop because you would think it would process faster than the xbox 360 or the ps3, since they are so old. Are you saying games like Far Cry 3 won't run on a 512 video card?wis3boi

memory alone has nothing to do with the speed of a GPU. You could have 500 gigs of memory on one, it wont make it any faster. The actual model is what determines the power

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I see what you mean about the style of game. you have definitely piked my curiousity about both games, but like I said I don't know how well my PC is setup for modern gaming. It's new, but it's nothing special. Definitely not a suped up gaming machine.

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I see what you mean about the style of game. you have definitely piked my curiousity about both games, but like I said I don't know how well my PC is setup for modern gaming. It's new, but it's nothing special. Definitely not a suped up gaming machine.

[QUOTE="bb2945"] Does it actually have anything to do with the original two games? Diablo 3 must be it's own masterpiece, but naturally one would think it should have a direct connection unless it's not a true sequel. I suppose if Diablo 3 is just a stand alone story all on it's own. Could Torchlight really have any direct connection just based on that? I see Torchlight 1 and 2 are supposed to be sequels. XaosII

If its 2 hours to download at 1.4 GB for the demo, thats about a 1.5 Megabit connection. Thats not great, but far from terrible, and more than adequate for gaming.

Torchlight 2 is in the same action rpg style of Diablo. Certain design mechanics for T2 are a bit closer to Diablo 2 than some of Diablo 3's. Its a bit like, the Silent Hill series compared to Resident Evil. Both are survival horror, but different. And, arguably, Silent Hill does survival horror closer to the original Resident Evil's since the newer Resident Evil's are more action-y.