Delicate Dave

When I worked in IT having to buy maybe 2,000 computers a year people used to come to me with requests for different things they wanted. Most times anyone came for a Mac even for graphics I would set up a demo with the Mac the wanted and my choice of PC build. The only time they stuck with a Mac was if they were a company director and to be frank most of those are complete A holes and you can't tell the sky is blue if they think it's green.

One thing I've missed is using Wide Centre Backs on Support. Seems FM24 just killed the idea of CB supporting the wing backs which is sad. Perhaps its because they wouldn't work with the new inverted movements but I don't like using these inverted options. But as I say in general it's player revolts that have done me.

As we come to the end of FM24 I have say I'm very dispaointed in my experiances with this version. Having played other versions, over the past 5 years, I've always enjoyed those even if I wasn't always as successful as I wanted to be. But this one, although I've been as successful, won most things, taken lower league teams to the prem, won the world cup etc etc but the times I've almost just stopped playing out of pure frestration has been many and often. Tonight I packed up to wait for FM25 as I can't take any more. Perhaps it's just the way I am, being dylexic in a way that things that don't seem to follow logic affect me like polan affects hayfever sufferers. So the pains of being a FM24 Football Manager are many. The nonsense when players revolt, the pointless contract problems. Perhaps that really is how football is today But! - I mean why would any goalkeeper only sign for a club as a backup option. refusing to sign as first choice keeper? it's pure madness. I do hope FM25 had cleaned all this up and is it too much to hope that your season, playing for the game is not spoilt by the repetative themes if a team scores in the first 8 mins they conceeed 2 by half time. And the annoying habit of team going 2 or even 3 goals down and then coming back to square the game only to conceed in the 85 min. What I'm saying is the results are just predictable, well not the result but the way they happen. When goals are scored, how goals are scored etc. I guess the is only so many ways these can be coded. Anyway I'm disapointed.

I don't knot to be honest I have no idea why anyone would want a Macbook, just as I have no idea why anyone wanted an Ipod, Iphone etc etc <- These are all product that do things that cheaper product so better. But in my day people wore flairs so who am I to talk :-) Perhaps a desktop and laptop that are able to use the same SSD drive for their system drive?

No not at all, A licence is a right to use. So just get the activation number, a copy of windows and you are fine. You can download windows from MS. The are lots of ways to do it.

I have no idea what the result or score will be. Finals are often no realation to early rounds so I'm going to sit and enjoy it as much as I can. My only hope is the players on both side perform on the night and we don't have the slow creep towards a penalty shoot out. Always said if England got to major final again in my lifetime I would be there. I was 6 in 1966 and really don't remember anything about it but that's mainly because shortly after I was involved in an accident and my memory just doesn't exist before I was arounf 8 years old. I had intended to go to the WC in Brazil. I was earning well in the years before but by the time the tickets where on sale I was more interested in keeping the roof over our head than going to football. Come on England ! But please please, if it's not this time can we respect the players and the manager.

Have you tweaked the GPU using Afterburner? if so you might want to switch them back to default. MSI have software that will allow you to switch the performance mode, bestak not to above that esp if you have a full bank of ram. I assume you are able to clean the fans if needed, they do pull in a lot of dust, I have MSI and take the bottem on at least once a year to give it a good clean. Might also concider changing the thermal paste that is recommended ever 2 years.

I've never seen a bargain computer on Amazon, I'm 65 this year :-) Have a look on ebay, can't go wrong with the MSI at about half the amazon price but if you want to pay £1000 you can do mcuh better than those to imo - https://ebay.co.uk/itm/156274367642

Just want to say, if you have a current laptop or PC with windows on you can tranfer the licence over for the OS.

I think that would depend on the type of laptop you have. If it's just happening with FM and if it just started happening. Because we need to know if you have a dedicated graphics card, if so remove all the drivers for it, reboot and run FM. The are a lot of settings in FM and I don't know where and what they are off the top of my head but I think it adjusts to what is available by default. I run it turning of all the crowd and visual effects.

I think I understand what he means. The choice of the Chromebook was just a lack of insight, paying more doesn't always find better. People who can afford to buy the new models with the latest CPU from the last two years should have no problem but the market he's talking about is full of money traps. I think if you can't spend £1200 you really should be looking at the second-hand "games" market. But to be frank, for games like FM you shouldn't need to spend £1200 but no one is going to build a mid-range games laptop suitable for games like FM. Why sell a £500 item when people will pay 5 times that if it's the latest tech? So these people are left with searching the markets really intended for video playing and browsing the internet if they want new. Of course, this is no problem with desktops, you could build a FM24 desktop for £500 easy.

I suspect this is the type of thing you are looking for, it'll run FM25 and I'm confident FM25 but I'm not ruling out compromises on in-game details. You have room in your budget to get better so I would suggest you look up this model and see what comes after it till you reach the amount you want to spend. Each upgrade on this gives you better performance and longer life span maybe. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/226237263585 EDIT - Just noticed this has a bad keyboard and battery, the battery can be replaced but on these the keyboard in glued in. So use this as an example only and search on the model - Thought it seemed too good :-)

Second hand market is your best way to go. Use places like PCU Benchmark to evaluate the CPU first then for FM at the current version any dedicated GPU will be fine. Maybe next version insurance like for one with a 4gb GPU. Don't worry about disk space or ram as these can be ungraded and anyway for value it's better to be short on those and add new like swap a HD for SSD for example. MSI, HP & ASUS are the makes I would go for. I certain I can get a laptop that will play FM24 for around £100 on ebay but maybe I would go to £250 for one for the next 2 years.

Although I agree, of course I do it's what I use, I wouldn't like to give the impression that they are the best made. Certainly for me the best value but you need to look after them as I tend to find the plastics are not great. Mind you the build quality of Dell is hard to match but I have learned for all that they are the worst value on the market. I like HP & ASUS too, and probably wouldn't stray away from MSI, HP & ASUS after all I've learned since I bought my ZX spectrum on the first day of release :-)

This is why I like my MSI it has a regular fan, which I hardly hear when on but it also as a button that turns on another fan so if I hear the first I turn the second one on to help.

You can get replacements for those parts. Parts maybe cost you £100 to fix, I done that on 3 XPS 15s and each time buying at laptop with a MB fault cost less than £100 on eBay. I may still have a case but it would be a 15 not 13. Swopping out the MB is not hard at all on these, worst part about them it DELL's poxy idea for screws. Also check that you can't claim of your house insurance if you have that.

You have to be careful at places like Very which have the buying power to ask manufacturers to produce different models just for them. Or they'll buy a dump from the manufacturer. Always check the model number and even ask the manufacturer if the is a difference. That's why going to a computer supplier is often better.

What's wrong with the XPS, I have a lot of experience fixing these so might be able advice on the fix.

It's better than what I use currently, just depends on how long you want it to last. We don't know the specs for FM25 but I'm sure it's not going to rock the boat to much. However, if you are looking to FM26 and on then you might have to compromise on some aspects of the game maybe. I myself would prefer to spend £150 every few years on used laptops then £500-£2000 in one lump and hope it lasts. As for 1080p well does anyone play FM for the graphics? I think if the price it right you'll be fine.

Is it overkill? Your CPU score 53,398 - MY CPU SCORE 9,899 :-)

This, as far as I understand it, is a peer-to-peer thread. As such no one reading it should think anything other than the poster is relaying their own experiences. But I have to say, you having a go at me is a bit rich. I posted and it was you who came to me to tell me I was wrong in absolutes, you didn't say anything like "Well that is not what I see". you said; "This is a post by a player asking how to learn the game so in this case I will be clear: This is not a subjective issue: what you are saying is not reflective of how the game works." And "These statements are simply not true." And "When you're constructing your TIs and PIs you're impacting the tendency of your players to do something on the pitch. There is no other magic to it than that. " It's bad enough being dyslexic using forums (with all the spelling police in them) so if I also have to conform to censorship I won't bother. Have a great life and enjoy the game chap.

With respect, I don't claim to know how FM works, unlike you, but I do know how computer code works and how databases work so I stand by what I said. If that puts me on the naughty step fair enough, I was just contributing my own experience, I won't bother again as I'm wrong on so many things.

We'll have to agree to disagree and as I said from the start IN MY EXPERIENCE putting WB on SUPPORT and enabling Cross from byline creates more problems. I mean you wouldn't want your keeper to go up for corners all the time but if the was a setting for that someone would say it's fine to do. I maintain these settings are risky because they often contradict the roles your player plays best at and trains at. They are meant to be used on a game-by-game basis to take advantage of weaknesses in teams. Surely you can see that.

I guess I better expand on what I mean by not in my experience. WB on ATTACK is not the same as WB with the instruction to get to the byline before crossing - well it is but a hell of a lot depends on the quality of the player. When you play a player in a position & role you are also training them. So if you have WB on SUPPORT he should, depending on his potential, get better as a WB on SUPPORT - I think we all understand that. BUT ! This does not happen with instructions - They are on a match-by-match basis. So your WB on support is training to cross when suitable but mainly pass diagonally and be more defense-minded. Then on matchday, you are asking them to do something different. What does this mean? if the player already has attributes to do that job you are ok but if they don't all you'll end up with is a less productive player. BTW I wasn't saying it wouldn't help in general, I'm just saying if you want crosses from the byline SUPPORT is not the way to go in my experience. But it all depends on what levels you play at, I tend to play lower leagues where matchday instruction are very risky because players are very unlikely to be good at more than one or two things. Another example is putting a CB who is slow with low anticipation & positioning on STOPPER OR COVER it just causes problems.

Tis true but not in my experience.