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Posted 09-06-2009 at 06:49 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
I think it is more sensible (and easier on me) if I just link you to my thread on the PureSim forum. If you want to keep up with this league, and you know that you do, just follow the link below.
1946 St. Louis Cardinals
We are only one-half game out of first place at the end of May, and the trade deadline is approaching. Things will be heating up soon.
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Posted 09-04-2009 at 10:05 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
I thought this blog might improve a lot if I actually played some games. So here we go with the first month of the season.
GM's Monthly Status Report - April 1946
This was a short month since the season started on the 16th. We finished April at 9-5, tied for second with the Giants and 1 game behind the Braves (10-4). Rookie manager Eddie Dyer seems to be getting comfortable in the job, and I don't see any problems with the way he is handling the players or in-game decisions....
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Posted 09-04-2009 at 05:30 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
Updated 09-04-2009 at 10:07 PM by Orcin
reprinted from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch of April 15, 1946:
As the Cardinals prepare to open the season at home tomorrow against the Pirates, General Manager Orcin is busy working the phones and has completed two minor deals today.
Veteran catcher Ken O'Dea was shipped to the Brooklyn Dodgers in return for minor-league pitching prospect, Rex Barney. Orcin said, "Baseball is, and always has been, all about starting pitching. You can never have too much of it....
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Posted 09-03-2009 at 08:11 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
Updated 09-04-2009 at 02:38 PM by Orcin
Note: If you have no idea what this post is about, please read my previous "baseball simulation" blog entry for the introduction.
Orcin -> 1946 St. Louis Cardinals (9/3/2009 1:24:24 PM)
I wanted to try a historical replay league with the new AI GM, and this concept was at the top of my list of ideas. The St. Louis Cardinals are my favorite team, and Stan Musial was/is my favorite player. The Cardinals won the WS in 1946, but did not win again until 1964...
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Posted 09-03-2009 at 08:05 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
I am posting this under "PC Gaming", although it could be equally correct under "Sports". Another of my life-long (off and on) hobbies is baseball simulation. I wrote a long story about this once, but I'll just put the short version here.
I played Strat-O-Matic baseball as a kid (Google it if you are not familiar with it and curious). In my early adult life, I moved up to computer-based baseball games: Earl Weaver Baseball and Tony LaRussa Baseball. All of these...
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Posted 06-01-2009 at 09:37 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
The new computer is very stable now, and the initial thrill of high-speed gaming is wearing off. So it's time to focus on my headphone rig again, and purpose #2 for the new computer: a source for my high-quality digital music collection.
To achieve my plan, I needed several things: - Vista/WASAPI instead of XP/ASIO4ALL
- Coax/Optical output instead of USB
- FLAC instead of Apple Lossless
- A better player (FLAC-compatible) than iTunes
- A much bigger hard drive (1TB should do it)
I...
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Posted 05-15-2009 at 02:56 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
I posted on Mushkin's forums and learned that the proper timings for my memory were 6-7-6-18, 1T. This sounded great, so it was time to get the rig stable with these settings. The starting point was to get serious about the “auto” settings, and get rid of as many as possible.
Advanced CPU Features:
CPU Clock Ratio………….....…. [20x]
Intel(R) Turbo Boost Tech…. [Enabled]
CPU Cores Enabled………...... [All]
CPU Multi Threading………..... [Enabled]
CPU Enhanced...
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Posted 05-12-2009 at 05:07 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
Assuming that you can boot into Windows without incident, how do you tell if your overclock is unstable? It's a good sign that you have a problem when you get corrupt data in an application. You can be sure when you run a stress test and get a blue screen of death in two seconds. I'll lay out the story, but there is a newbie mistake and a veteran good move in this tale - see if you can spot them both.
Our saga starts with a very stable overclock at 3.5GHz with many settings on Auto....
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Posted 05-09-2009 at 09:32 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
Updated 05-13-2009 at 02:13 PM by Orcin
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Fry's had Crysis: Maximum Edition for $35 today, so I ran down there and bought it to test out my rig. Obviously, I had not played this game before on my Dell.
It runs beautifully on DX10 at 1920x1200 with 2x AA! I am getting 30-35 fps with all settings at Very High, except using High for Shadows and Post Processing. I can get 20 fps with all settings on Very High and it's very playable, but lowering those two by one notch gets me an extra 10 fps with very little penalty in image...
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Posted 05-08-2009 at 03:11 PM by Orcin (Orcin's Blog)
Updated 05-08-2009 at 07:11 PM by Orcin
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I went into the "Tweaker" section of the bios last night to continue my quest for a better overclock. I dropped the CPU voltage to 1.35v and disabled C1E and EIST to be sure that they were not interferring with the voltage setting in any way.
I decided to further scan the "auto" settings and evaluate what I might be able to do manually. I noticed PCI-E clock was set to auto. Most o/c guides say to set this manually, so I changed it to the stock value of 100....
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