Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, Jul 05, 2002 6:47pm PDTBy some miracle, my home network has joined this century as I went crazy and spent $30 on getting a 100mbit switch to connect machines together. The woman transfering all that porn around on the network that she burns to CDs and sells at middle schools finally got to me. Hope everyone is enjoying their lengthy holiday weekend in the US. We're certainly taking advantage of it over here relaxing. No progress on any projects! Yeah! Here's some stuff:
- Snakehead fish found in Maryland - Russia wants people on mars - Spam is killing us all - Some more on those drug cartels and technology - War on terror technology - Search engines are ruling the world - Stock market shot up today for onceLastly, Men In Black 2 review - meh! Felt like going through the motions without any real cohesion. A few good parts in there but a completely forgettable experience. I give it a 6.3321. It'll entertain you for an evening but I'd suggest seeing Minority Report a second time instead.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
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1, it's fairly fun.
2, I've got a gf4 4200 128mb, overclocked to 4400 speeds - WITHOUT AA or anisotopic filtering on, OR very high detail textures only high - I still think that FOUR frames per second is a bit pushy. (I admit the gfx ARE nice)
3, I'm on second easiest mode and a "Veteran" 3d gamer - Hell I even "cheated" by enabling unlimited saves - why is it so hard in second easiest!?
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Blizzard knows how to put together a game...
I got the collectors edition too... $85.00.... but I had a $25 gift certificate and had pre-payed $15 a month before that so it was no sweat, and DAMN is this a fine collectors edition. "The Art of Warcraft" is a kickass book... I havent watched the DVD yet but it says there's more than an hour worth of stuff on it... amongst quite a few other things.
Fucking cool.
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I'm sort of forgetting why I chose to be a paladin in the first place.
Suggestions? I'm no hardcore D&D player, so the more difficult classes may be too much for me. Oi.
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- what framerate to expect, and if that framerate is minimum, maximum or average. (i'd want to know minimum)
- at what quality setting it can produce that framerate.
I don't care what the performance is during favorable conditions.
For sure, hardly any game can run at at least a minimum acceptable framerate, while at default quality settings, on the recommended system.
Also for sure most games fall far below that with any add-ons.
What specs would one need to run RTCW 64 client multiplayer on Tram or Market, at default quality, consistently at acceptable framerates? Extreme conditions perhaps but within official capabilities of the game.
My 1.1GHz Celeron / GF2gts regularly gets down to 10fps, while using reduced quality settings.
So i guess a 4 GHz P4 with an overclocked GF4Ti4600 might be able to keep fps at or above 40.
But not at full quality settings: fast sky, low geometry, no bulletmarks, no brass, picmip 1, 16 bit textures.
So i say: the specs should be more specific.
While such a machine would actually be far above the originaly recommended system specs.
There probably is no PC which can run the game at full quality and good fps, in the game situation i described.
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me and a friend of mine played it yesterday till about halfway ... so far so awesome.
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OMG! I want to sign up! :)
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With a Volcano 6Cu, that thing runs at 68C under full load. And my +12V volt, under ASUS PC Probe, lists it as running at 13.8V at some times. That's awfully high for both values; all other values (5V, VCore) seem ok.
The power supply could be for something. What is a good quiet HSF that will get it under 60C? maybe even 55C if possible
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U Z T Q C S S O N Z
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no good huh? I guess I'll wait to rent it.
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http://www.edmunds.com/future/2003/chevrolet/ssr/2drregularcab2wdsb/photos.html
I think I want one. I think.
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It's impossible to install the Audigy Platinum without the CD that came packaged with the sound card. The drivers off of their website require that CD to even unpack to install.
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Now that we have an appointment to have our roof replaced (next week) and the landscaper guy came buy to nuke some trees and carve others, I was afraid we wouldn't have any more house crisises. Thankfully, a mysterious leak in our downstairs bathroom solved THAT little dilemma!
God *DOES* provide!
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It was in a major league baseball game that a pitcher faced only 27 batters. Every batter he faced, he struck out. He allowed no hits and no runs. His team lost 4-0. How could this be possible?
(easy)
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