[BBC Vs ITV pundits]

3 hours ago, Baptista_8 said:

BBC, Cesc is great. Not a big fan of Shearer but even he's improving.

I think Shearer is better when he doesn't feel like he needs to act like "one of the lad". Like that one time I saw him as a pundit among two other women players discussing a Prem match. He was actually much better in that environment, more relax and engaging with the others by following up their points or bouncing off what others said. There were more thoughts and reasonings in what he said instead of trying to fall back to the book of football clichés.

[Resale/Refund]

44 minutes ago, Reidy_007 said:

I don’t get how people have the patience with it!?

I don't get why other people enjoy the game is a problem with you?

[FM and apple silicon]

On 12/12/2020 at 17:07, анонимный said:

Good thing about Macs (and Apple products in general) - even though expensive, is that they tend to hold their value over time. Specifically if comparing MacBooks to PC laptops. And if you can't be bothered selling your Apple product they now offer a trade-in service if you ever want to upgrade to a newer model. 

Yeah especially if you keep the box too. 

[FM and apple silicon]

On 18/11/2020 at 18:20, V3ntricity said:

every time i try to play games, including fm, on my mbp 2019 i just hate it. it get so hot it's ridiculous. can't imagine it will be any different on the new line.

Up to last year, I was still using my 2011 MBP when I travel for work. That thing easily double up as a heater when I launch FM on it.

[Will anyone be buying FM21?]

It's not a cult. You can buy the game if you like the demo. And you don't have to buy it if you feel the game has not improve from the last one. 

For me, I would be buying it. I don't even notice any ME bugs when I play it. I just blissfully going along with the game. I found that not popping into GD so much really help to maintain my ignorance on those things and just enjoy the experience. At the end of the days, it's £40. It doesn't even cover a decent meal out for two people in most grown up places.  

[New Laptop/PC Advice -Please Read the Opening Post]

On 13/07/2019 at 14:50, BlackCat03 said:

Hi. I'm putting together a desktop PC for work and FM:

Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Eight Core CPU (3.6GHz-4.4GHz/36MB CACHE/AM4)
Motherboard ASUS® TUF X470-PLUS GAMING (DDR4, 6Gb/s, CrossFireX)
Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 3200MHz (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card 4GB AMD RADEON™ RX 570 - HDMI, DP - DX® 12

My only concern is the graphics card. Is the rx 570 good enough to run FM on high settings?

If you are still shopping for GPU, Amazon is selling the Sapphire RX 580 Nitro for £125  https://www.amazon.co.uk/SAPPHIRE-Radeon-NITRO-2xHDMI-Graphics/dp/B071CFN75H/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=sapphire&psr=PDAY&qid=1563187834&s=prime-day&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&sr=1-2

Prime day deal though, so only last until... midnight tonight i think?

[New Laptop/PC Advice -Please Read the Opening Post]

On 04/07/2019 at 19:21, Mikeonhisboat said:

Thanks man - would be very interested to see your build choice, esp if it includes things like motherboard and power/cooling options as I have zero idea about that. Looking at the new amd chip raw pre-release info and likely prices I see what you mean... I'll likely go 3700x I'd think, but we'll see. Does lower power/tdp likely mean quieter too, all other things being equal? (3700x is 65tdp, 3800x is 105 and am drawn to the 65...)

3700x hit the sweet spot nicely in terms of cost and performance. The real question really is what board to use. 

I just replaced one of my older gaming PC with a 3700x and Asus board. Bought a bundle off AWD-IT which worked out 50 quids cheaper than most other retailers. 

[Westy's Tactics Thread]

Impressive 

[Football Manager Accessibility for Visually Impaired and Blind]

This thread reminded me a project I've done several years back. It was to develop tools to teach blind children maths. A lot of the basic maths elements such as shapes, angles, etc require a visual knowledge and it was always a challenge to teach children with visual impairment how to recognise shape etc. Our solution was to develop a 3D audio soundscape that would work on even a cheap pair of headphone you buy in Tesco for a tenner.

For a game like FM, the challenge would be how to delivery the masses of information to a VI user and allow them to navigate. Obviously it would be hard for the games that has already been develop. But my take on it would probably be using tabbing as a nvaigation method, and develop a comprehensive tabbling flow during the UI design stage. It certainly not impossible, but obviously with a cost implication in terms of time and resources.

What Ian has said above about colourblindness is interesting though. Taking a quick look at the stuff that I am using on my system, I've notice a lot of them are driven by colour scheme. If I have an issue with colourblindness, it would have been immensely awkward for me even to use some of the simple software for work, let alone games.