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Post by txchimama on Nov 19, 2016 3:45:40 GMT
I want to play DAI on my laptop but am having a hard time finding an affordable computer with the specs needed. I have also researched upgrading my laptop from:
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Post by dragontartare on Nov 19, 2016 4:22:56 GMT
As far as I know, you're going to need a decent graphics card to run DAI (as the requirements state). Does your current laptop have one, or only integrated graphics? What is your budget?
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Nov 19, 2016 8:25:32 GMT
Post by txchimama on Nov 19, 2016 8:25:32 GMT
My laptop has integrated graphics sadly. What would be a good computer to get? I might be able to go as high as $400. I was thinking about an XBOX ONE, but I love to mod and do console commands and I don't know if I could do that on an XBOX ONE.
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Nov 19, 2016 20:18:07 GMT
Post by PapaCharlie9 on Nov 19, 2016 20:18:07 GMT
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like $400 is enough to get a graphics GPU on a laptop that is good enough to meet the minimum specs for DAI, which are AMD Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB Graphics Memory. If you look at the performance hierarchy chart, where the fastest/most expensive are at the top, you can compare with what is available in $400 laptops. Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy 2016You can see that the laptop integrated Intel HD 530 is above the mimimum spec, but when I search for laptops that have the HD 530, all of them are above $400. The cheapest I could find was this refurbished Dell for $579: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834294777&cm_re=%22Intel_HD_530%22_laptop-_-34-294-777-_-Product
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Post by dragontartare on Nov 20, 2016 1:02:54 GMT
txchimama If $400 is your top price, you're probably better off saving for a while longer rather than getting a low-end machine that may just barely be able to run the game. The cheapest gaming laptop at Newegg, for example, is this one for $579. It has a mid-range Nvidia card. Here is a ranking of mobile graphics cards. The list above appears to be desktop cards.
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Post by txchimama on Nov 20, 2016 1:33:33 GMT
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like $400 is enough to get a graphics GPU on a laptop that is good enough to meet the minimum specs for DAI, which are AMD Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB Graphics Memory. If you look at the performance hierarchy chart, where the fastest/most expensive are at the top, you can compare with what is available in $400 laptops. Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy 2016You can see that the laptop integrated Intel HD 530 is above the mimimum spec, but when I search for laptops that have the HD 530, all of them are above $400. The cheapest I could find was this refurbished Dell for $579: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834294777&cm_re=%22Intel_HD_530%22_laptop-_-34-294-777-_-ProductWould I be able to play DAI on a Win 10 laptop?
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Nov 20, 2016 1:34:06 GMT
Post by txchimama on Nov 20, 2016 1:34:06 GMT
Unfortunately, it doesn't look like $400 is enough to get a graphics GPU on a laptop that is good enough to meet the minimum specs for DAI, which are AMD Radeon HD 4870 or NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT with 512 MB Graphics Memory. If you look at the performance hierarchy chart, where the fastest/most expensive are at the top, you can compare with what is available in $400 laptops. Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy 2016You can see that the laptop integrated Intel HD 530 is above the mimimum spec, but when I search for laptops that have the HD 530, all of them are above $400. The cheapest I could find was this refurbished Dell for $579: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834294777&cm_re=%22Intel_HD_530%22_laptop-_-34-294-777-_-ProductThanks for the help! I really appreciate it! The Dell only has 2.30 GHz. According to the DAI specs I need at least 3.0. Which one is better: AMD Radeon HD 7870 or the AMD Radeon 4870?
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Nov 20, 2016 1:49:41 GMT
Post by txchimama on Nov 20, 2016 1:49:41 GMT
txchimama If $400 is your top price, you're probably better off saving for a while longer rather than getting a low-end machine that may just barely be able to run the game. The cheapest gaming laptop at Newegg, for example, is this one for $579. It has a mid-range Nvidia card. Here is a ranking of mobile graphics cards. The list above appears to be desktop cards. Thanks for your help! I recently told Santa that I want either this computer: Centaurus Hydra Gaming Computer - AMD A8 7650K 3.8GHz, 8GB 1866 RAM, Radeon R7, 1TB HDD, Winodws 10 64bit or this one: CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GUA3100A Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-4300 Quad Core 3.8GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD, 24X DVD, AMD R7 240 2GB, Windows 10 Home. Would DAI work reasonably well on either? I'm talking CTD's. I really hate it when it happens! I found them on Amazon. Which would be better a desktop system or a laptop?
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Post by dragontartare on Nov 20, 2016 1:58:43 GMT
txchimama If $400 is your top price, you're probably better off saving for a while longer rather than getting a low-end machine that may just barely be able to run the game. The cheapest gaming laptop at Newegg, for example, is this one for $579. It has a mid-range Nvidia card. Here is a ranking of mobile graphics cards. The list above appears to be desktop cards. Thanks for your help! I recently told Santa that I want either this computer: Centaurus Hydra Gaming Computer - AMD A8 7650K 3.8GHz, 8GB 1866 RAM, Radeon R7, 1TB HDD, Winodws 10 64bit or this one: CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GUA3100A Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-4300 Quad Core 3.8GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD, 24X DVD, AMD R7 240 2GB, Windows 10 Home. Would DAI work reasonably well on either? I'm talking CTD's. I really hate it when it happens! I found them on Amazon. Which would be better a desktop system or a laptop? You're better off with a dedicated graphics card, rather than an integrated one. My last computer before this one had a very low-end (at the time) AMD Radeon dedicated GPU, and even that couldn't run anything better than Sims 3. When I was shopping for my current laptop (which I bought a little over a year ago), the advice I read from many sources was not to get anything below an Nvidia 950M, lest you be very disappointed with its performance in modern games. A desktop will pretty much always be more bang for your buck, provided you can find monitor and peripherals for a decent price, or already have them.
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Post by dragontartare on Nov 20, 2016 2:14:26 GMT
txchimama If $400 is your top price, you're probably better off saving for a while longer rather than getting a low-end machine that may just barely be able to run the game. The cheapest gaming laptop at Newegg, for example, is this one for $579. It has a mid-range Nvidia card. Here is a ranking of mobile graphics cards. The list above appears to be desktop cards. Thanks for your help! I recently told Santa that I want either this computer: Centaurus Hydra Gaming Computer - AMD A8 7650K 3.8GHz, 8GB 1866 RAM, Radeon R7, 1TB HDD, Winodws 10 64bit or this one: CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GUA3100A Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-4300 Quad Core 3.8GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD, 24X DVD, AMD R7 240 2GB, Windows 10 Home. Would DAI work reasonably well on either? I'm talking CTD's. I really hate it when it happens! I found them on Amazon. Which would be better a desktop system or a laptop? According to this, the AMD R7 240 is below the minimum requirements for DAI. I don't know how accurate that site is, since it claims my GPU is below the recommended settings for Witcher 3 and yet I had no problems running the game on high graphics. It's worth considering, though...spend $500 now on a PC that may or may not play DAI with a decent frame rate and resolution, or spend a couple hundred more later on a PC that you know can run DAI, as well as some newer games. According to the site PapaCharlie9 linked, the R7 240 is not quite powerful enough to fit DAI's minimum requirements. Keep in mind that if you go for the absolute minimum, your new PC may not run games newer than DAI at a playable quality. Just as an example, going by the hierarchy linked previously, the R7 240 is well below minimum requirements for both Witcher 3 and Assassin's Creed Syndicate, though it looks like it would run Sims 4.
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Post by olnorton on Nov 20, 2016 3:09:27 GMT
The minimum recommended card for DAI is a HD4870. It is twice as good as a R7 240 at most things and has four x the memory bandwith. You need a 256bit card at least.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Nov 20, 2016 18:58:14 GMT
Bookmarked! I looked all over Tom's Hardware for this, but the ones the have are outdated. You actually need both hierarchy's to translate the min specs, expressed as desktop models, to mobile specs. Ah, I see that you did that yourself in a later reply. And the mobile graphics one actually can be reconfigured to do both desktop and GPU!
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Post by deadlydwarf on Nov 20, 2016 18:58:37 GMT
No modding on the console version of any game AFAIK. If you could afford a gaming laptop, it would likely have the specs necessary for DAI. Laptops and games can be tricky. My old Dell laptop which was a pretty decent desktop replacement and was purchased the same year DAO came out. When I purchased DAO a year and a half ago, even with all the settings set at the lowest level, the game crashed every few minutes on the laptop and I had to resign myself to playing strictly on my newer desktop. A gaming desktop will likely be cheaper than a similarly capable laptop. If you're really on a tight budget, it will be much easier and cheaper to find a budget desktop that can run DAI as opposed to a budget laptop.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Nov 20, 2016 19:24:18 GMT
Thanks for your help! I recently told Santa that I want either this computer: Centaurus Hydra Gaming Computer - AMD A8 7650K 3.8GHz, 8GB 1866 RAM, Radeon R7, 1TB HDD, Winodws 10 64bit or this one: CyberpowerPC Gamer Ultra GUA3100A Gaming Desktop - AMD FX-4300 Quad Core 3.8GHz, 8GB DDR3 RAM, 1TB HDD, 24X DVD, AMD R7 240 2GB, Windows 10 Home. Would DAI work reasonably well on either? I'm talking CTD's. I really hate it when it happens! I found them on Amazon. Which would be better a desktop system or a laptop? You're better off with a dedicated graphics card, rather than an integrated one. My last computer before this one had a very low-end (at the time) AMD Radeon dedicated GPU, and even that couldn't run anything better than Sims 3. When I was shopping for my current laptop (which I bought a little over a year ago), the advice I read from many sources was not to get anything below an Nvidia 950M, lest you be very disappointed with its performance in modern games. A desktop will pretty much always be more bang for your buck, provided you can find monitor and peripherals for a decent price, or already have them. Agreed, desktop is better value, as long as you either already have a decent monitor or can get one such that the grand total of PC + monitor is less than an equivalent laptop. For a desktop, shoot for a Nvidia GeForce GTX 970/Radeon RX 470 or better. Newer AAA games coming out next year are targeting the next tier up from those GPUs, so they are already on the way to discount land. For CPUs, try for at least quad core, ideally with hyperthreading, like the Intel® Core™ i5-6400 Processor or AMD FX-8300 or better. The clock rate is important, but less critical. As long as it's 2.5 Ghz or over, it will be fine. For laptop, I agree that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M and AMD Radeon R9 M385X are the lowest you should settle for if you have to have a gaming laptop.
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Post by txchimama on Nov 20, 2016 22:59:48 GMT
No modding on the console version of any game AFAIK. If you could afford a gaming laptop, it would likely have the specs necessary for DAI. Laptops and games can be tricky. My old Dell laptop which was a pretty decent desktop replacement and was purchased the same year DAO came out. When I purchased DAO a year and a half ago, even with all the settings set at the lowest level, the game crashed every few minutes on the laptop and I had to resign myself to playing strictly on my newer desktop. A gaming desktop will likely be cheaper than a similarly capable laptop. If you're really on a tight budget, it will be much easier and cheaper to find a budget desktop that can run DAI as opposed to a budget laptop. I have a gaming laptop, and it's good for DAO and DA2 , but not DAI. Weird lol So now I looking to get a gaming desktop so I can play DAI. Besides Skyrim,these are the only games I play. Thanks for the help,I appreciate it!
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Post by txchimama on Nov 20, 2016 23:03:35 GMT
You're better off with a dedicated graphics card, rather than an integrated one. My last computer before this one had a very low-end (at the time) AMD Radeon dedicated GPU, and even that couldn't run anything better than Sims 3. When I was shopping for my current laptop (which I bought a little over a year ago), the advice I read from many sources was not to get anything below an Nvidia 950M, lest you be very disappointed with its performance in modern games. A desktop will pretty much always be more bang for your buck, provided you can find monitor and peripherals for a decent price, or already have them. Agreed, desktop is better value, as long as you either already have a decent monitor or can get one such that the grand total of PC + monitor is less than an equivalent laptop. For a desktop, shoot for a Nvidia GeForce GTX 970/Radeon RX 470 or better. Newer AAA games coming out next year are targeting the next tier up from those GPUs, so they are already on the way to discount land. For CPUs, try for at least quad core, ideally with hyperthreading, like the Intel® Core™ i5-6400 Processor or AMD FX-8300 or better. The clock rate is important, but less critical. As long as it's 2.5 Ghz or over, it will be fine. For laptop, I agree that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M and AMD Radeon R9 M385X are the lowest you should settle for if you have to have a gaming laptop. Thanks for your help! I have written down the specs you mentioned. Would the computer need to be running Win 7 or 8? Or would Win 10 be ok?
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Post by dragontartare on Nov 20, 2016 23:53:54 GMT
Agreed, desktop is better value, as long as you either already have a decent monitor or can get one such that the grand total of PC + monitor is less than an equivalent laptop. For a desktop, shoot for a Nvidia GeForce GTX 970/Radeon RX 470 or better. Newer AAA games coming out next year are targeting the next tier up from those GPUs, so they are already on the way to discount land. For CPUs, try for at least quad core, ideally with hyperthreading, like the Intel® Core™ i5-6400 Processor or AMD FX-8300 or better. The clock rate is important, but less critical. As long as it's 2.5 Ghz or over, it will be fine. For laptop, I agree that the Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M and AMD Radeon R9 M385X are the lowest you should settle for if you have to have a gaming laptop. Thanks for your help! I have written down the specs you mentioned. Would the computer need to be running Win 7 or 8? Or would Win 10 be ok? My laptop has Windows 10, and all the DA games run just fine. Out of curiosity, if you already have a gaming laptop, what GPU does it have? You'll want a major upgrade for this new PC, otherwise you're going to be buying again when we get DA4. Don't spend hundreds on something that is only incrementally better.
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Post by deadlydwarf on Nov 21, 2016 1:14:04 GMT
No modding on the console version of any game AFAIK. If you could afford a gaming laptop, it would likely have the specs necessary for DAI. Laptops and games can be tricky. My old Dell laptop which was a pretty decent desktop replacement and was purchased the same year DAO came out. When I purchased DAO a year and a half ago, even with all the settings set at the lowest level, the game crashed every few minutes on the laptop and I had to resign myself to playing strictly on my newer desktop. A gaming desktop will likely be cheaper than a similarly capable laptop. If you're really on a tight budget, it will be much easier and cheaper to find a budget desktop that can run DAI as opposed to a budget laptop. I have a gaming laptop, and it's good for DAO and DA2 , but not DAI. Weird lol So now I looking to get a gaming desktop so I can play DAI. Besides Skyrim,these are the only games I play. Thanks for the help,I appreciate it! How old is your gaming laptop? FWIW, my gaming desktop (purchased in 2015) is made by Alienware, now owned by Dell. A good name, though probably not the cheapest. The best advice they give about buying computers is to buy the best one you can afford. The better it is, the longer it will take for it to become out-of-date and obsolete. Good luck and let us know what you end up buying.
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Post by BansheeOwnage on Nov 21, 2016 1:56:48 GMT
No modding on the console version of any game AFAIK. Actually, Bethesda games are paving the way for this. Fallout 4 and Skyrim: SE have mods on consoles, though Sony is making it difficult for unknown reasons.
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Post by txchimama on Nov 21, 2016 17:25:43 GMT
I have a gaming laptop, and it's good for DAO and DA2 , but not DAI. Weird lol So now I looking to get a gaming desktop so I can play DAI. Besides Skyrim,these are the only games I play. Thanks for the help,I appreciate it! How old is your gaming laptop? FWIW, my gaming desktop (purchased in 2015) is made by Alienware, now owned by Dell. A good name, though probably not the cheapest. The best advice they give about buying computers is to buy the best one you can afford. The better it is, the longer it will take for it to become out-of-date and obsolete. Good luck and let us know what you end up buying. It's a year old. The only things that would need to be upgraded would be my CPU, and my video card. But,I can't find anyone in this area who upgrades computers affordably. Tell me what you think about these specs? I'm looking in craigslist & letgo for a gaming computer. Intel i5 4460 - 3.2 Ghz 16 GB DDR3 1600 Memory Intel Z97 1150 Motherboard GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 Video 1 TB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 24x DVD/RW Burner Phanton Gamer Case with Fans 550 Watt Gaming Power Supply Windows 10 Home Premium It's all greek to me lol
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Post by txchimama on Nov 21, 2016 18:22:57 GMT
Thanks for your help! I have written down the specs you mentioned. Would the computer need to be running Win 7 or 8? Or would Win 10 be ok? My laptop has Windows 10, and all the DA games run just fine. Out of curiosity, if you already have a gaming laptop, what GPU does it have? You'll want a major upgrade for this new PC, otherwise you're going to be buying again when we get DA4. Don't spend hundreds on something that is only incrementally better. I've found an entire desktop system that I'm thinking would work for $ 500. I'd like your input on whether you think these specs would work well. Intel core i7-2600K 3.4GHz, 16GB Ripjaws X DDR ram, AMD Radeon XFX R7970, 1TB WD HD, and 128GB OCD SSD. Thanks
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Post by deadlydwarf on Nov 21, 2016 18:37:10 GMT
How old is your gaming laptop? FWIW, my gaming desktop (purchased in 2015) is made by Alienware, now owned by Dell. A good name, though probably not the cheapest. The best advice they give about buying computers is to buy the best one you can afford. The better it is, the longer it will take for it to become out-of-date and obsolete. Good luck and let us know what you end up buying. It's a year old. The only things that would need to be upgraded would be my CPU, and my video card. But,I can't find anyone in this area who upgrades computers affordably. Tell me what you think about these specs? I'm looking in craigslist & letgo for a gaming computer. Intel i5 4460 - 3.2 Ghz 16 GB DDR3 1600 Memory Intel Z97 1150 Motherboard GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 Video 1 TB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 24x DVD/RW Burner Phanton Gamer Case with Fans 550 Watt Gaming Power Supply Windows 10 Home Premium It's all greek to me lol I'm genuinely shocked that you have a one year old gaming laptop that couldn't run a two year old game! Are you sure it wasn't a budget laptop not optimized for gaming? If it was a gaming laptop, I'd recommend staying away from that make. I would think any gaming computer that is advertised as such -- even a low-end one -- should be able to run all current games. Anyhow, I'm not really up-to-date on current computer gear. Any thoughts? PapaCharlie9 dragontartare What make is the machine cited above? Interesting to hear you mention upgrading your computer. When I got my first PC from Gateway2000 many years ago, I upgraded the hell out of that thing so that it could run the latest games, etc. Then computer prices dropped and all of a sudden, people didn't upgrade anymore; they just got new computers. And my guess is that laptops are even less upgradeable than desktops.
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Post by PapaCharlie9 on Nov 21, 2016 19:18:38 GMT
Tell me what you think about these specs? I'm looking in craigslist & letgo for a gaming computer. Intel i5 4460 - 3.2 Ghz 16 GB DDR3 1600 Memory Intel Z97 1150 Motherboard GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 Video 1 TB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 24x DVD/RW Burner Phanton Gamer Case with Fans 550 Watt Gaming Power Supply Windows 10 Home Premium It's all greek to me lol Either one of those is a good start. I personally would prefer a 800W power supply. You need more power for gaming CPUs and graphics cards and extra disk drives. Having 800W or more will allow you to upgrade to a better graphics card in the future. A 600W might be okay if you are very careful about choosing low power CPUs and GPUs, which fortunately most of the newest generation are. I'm surprised that system even ran on a 550W without having problems. It might skimp on cooling or something to keep the TDP low enough to fit in 550W.UPDATE: I found this article that exhaustively tests a range of game systems, and the bottom line is that for modern CPUS and graphics cards, 550W is sufficient. Only the very highest end dual-card 8 core overclocked systems, or ironically, slower components more than 3 years old, need more than 550W. www.gamersnexus.net/guides/2211-how-many-watts-does-a-gaming-pc-need-power-supplies/Page-3You also want to make sure that the motherboard has at least one PCIe 3.0 slot for the graphics card. The Intel one does. You'll need to get more info about the second system. You can check for yourself what slots are supported by doing what I did, I copy/pasted the motherboard line into google and looked at the newegg Specifications tab that was on the product page, here: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132118 . The graphics cards are good. The Nvidia 1060 is one tier above your target (Nvidia 970), the R7970 is one tier below, but both well above the minimum. The i7 and i5 CPUs are the same performance tiers, with the i5 being a bit cheaper.
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Post by dragontartare on Nov 22, 2016 0:04:55 GMT
How old is your gaming laptop? FWIW, my gaming desktop (purchased in 2015) is made by Alienware, now owned by Dell. A good name, though probably not the cheapest. The best advice they give about buying computers is to buy the best one you can afford. The better it is, the longer it will take for it to become out-of-date and obsolete. Good luck and let us know what you end up buying. It's a year old. The only things that would need to be upgraded would be my CPU, and my video card. But,I can't find anyone in this area who upgrades computers affordably. Tell me what you think about these specs? I'm looking in craigslist & letgo for a gaming computer. Intel i5 4460 - 3.2 Ghz 16 GB DDR3 1600 Memory Intel Z97 1150 Motherboard GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5 Video 1 TB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) 24x DVD/RW Burner Phanton Gamer Case with Fans 550 Watt Gaming Power Supply Windows 10 Home Premium It's all greek to me lol I would go with this out of those two, if it were me Though the solid state drive on the other one is nice to have. Can you give us the specs of your current one? If it's only a year old, I also am surprised it won't run DAI.
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