Daily HL2 Gold Rumors

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• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8783600 : rasputinreborn
• ITS COPPER!! with a Gold Plating! We've been HAD! : ShadowRam

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• can i get an amen to that. : uh dead
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  Indeed, indeed, I'm hoping that devs with the means will take on the role of the publisher with some of t... : SpaecKow
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    Blizzard is owned by VU, so no... : ease_one
    • Ya, I know it was just a hypothetical example of a developer that makes more then one title at a time, Bl... : SpaecKow
• There are already some other source games that have said they will be using steam. Some pirate game was ... : lont
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  making games into an impulse buy is probably good for business too. : foof
  • Yeah really. It's like having the game store sitting right there in your system tray. : Dynotaku
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  The friends list is horribly broken... it never correctly reports when people are online or are in games... : PUPSTAHS
  • The favorites list doesn't work worth crap either....it saves some favorites, but not others. : Waverider
• Think Valve because of steam will suddenly enter the Publishing Biz? Maybe see some smaller company's usi... : ShadowRam

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  You get HL2 and CS:S. : Carnivac
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    Well I guess it's Collector's Edition for me. : abubu
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      Collector's edition you only get HL2, CS:S, HL:S, plus t-shirt, book and fancy box (based on the descript... : AlvinKlein
      • It's worth noting that the CE is on a DVD while the normal edition is on several cds. : lechuck59
• Note: You CANT get DoD:S through a box, gotta order it online. (It believe they are releasing DoD:S as a... : ShadowRam

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  i completely agree with this. give us something to do plus refresh our minds with the story before the s... : sludge vohaul
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    Playing CSS isnt enough? : Cygnus X-1
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      some of us don't play cs:s. or play it well :( : ermac
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        yeah, i kinda gave up on playing CS after so many people had told me how bad i sucked at it. I always wan... : Ziz
        • Nothing wrong with lonewolfing. It's the only way I see flags get capped in T:V. : Dynotaku
    • Not when I get owned by you and everyone else every round. : sludge vohaul
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  I'd be happy with HL:S at gold announcement. HL2 would be better but I wouldn't mind running through HL ... : Peace frog
  • I say give us one level with nothing but junk to throw around with the gravity gun. That'd be more than e... : TigerRei
• Yeah but HL:S as cool as the idea is PcGamer tells how the only changes are better water and physics. Eve... : voodooraze
• Do you guys have no other games to play or something? : deadhorse

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• That seems to happen to numerous people, including me. After a while it'll start up again, if you just l... : megarust32
• That happened to me to. The only way I managed to finish the preload was to actually CANCEL the preload, ... : aramaic
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  Stuck at 69?? Call an ambulance! WE HAVE A BLEEDER! : inkninja
  • MAN DOWN! MAN DOWN! : mystifier
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  Try leaving it at paused and come back to it later. Mine was stuck around 79% the other day and eventual... : gyvoji
  • Canceling the pre-load and restarting seemed to do the trick - I'm at 100% now... : Malum
• http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8783230 : n0v4
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  I cancelled pre-caching and started it again and now it's at 100% :D : Deathlove
  • If the buttons don't seem to work. It seems cancel and restart is the only way. Just do a search on suppo... : rjklevels
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  If it happens you gotta look in steamapps and delete the .gcf with the old date, the rest should have the... : -pRy-
  • Thank you, kind sir! I was looking at a retail purchase when I got stuck at 69%, now Steam is back in con... : Leonard Ghostal

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• it's time for valve to do some serious restructuring/house cleaning. starting with the removal of gabe... : abubu
• I don't know if Valve can declare gold. maybe VU has to? : ease_one

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• THE PINATA HAS SPOKEN : thatguy2090

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• ahahahha this is great : Mad Brahmin Disease

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• money hats! : Shadowdane
• A ROLEX! Thanks Billy! </Billy Madison> : stelth
• Source Code : mojoald
• many beautiful women : cap n KRUNCH
• Head crabs! : Malum
• preemptive CHEESEBURGERS : rasputinreborn
• HL2 ATI vouchers : ihya
• strawberry juicey fruit : Break
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  Another pinata : BagelBoy
  • -----winner : acidravelamp
• The first early evening at home in months : gnoleb
• Half Life 2 : Stargazer78
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  The guy who stole the source a year+ ago : sgtsanity
  • no... he was the pinata : KinetiK
• strippers : Don Juan DeNerdo
• The antidote : TastyWheat
• Babies? Ok that was sad... : astrofunk

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  Delete ClientRegistry.blob from your /steam/ directory and re-start it. Pre-loading should be able to con... : n0v4
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    Didn't work. Had to cancel preload and restart it. : Fred Garvin
    • That is correct -> cancel : rjklevels
• That means random girls with low self-esteem on facethejury who want to give the impression they'll put o... : Vorlonesque
• If it happens you gotta look in steamapps and delete the .gcf with the old date, the rest should have the... : -pRy-

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  12/11/1998 for HL1 it says. HL1 was gold days and days before that I think, so it may take days for it ... : ease_one
  • that being Nov 12th, not Dec 11th. on that same page they havea 31/x/x date so... : ease_one

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• And I'm pretty sure it's spelled "sentence". : x-eyd|mary
• You're not the only one who's excited! Look what I've been doing yesterday and today... http://img30.... : SpaecKow
• more like "comedy" and less like "nipples" : Snifter_42

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  HALF-LIFE 2™ HAS GONE GOLD LOS ANGELES, Calif. (October 16, 2004) - Vivendi Universal Game... : manlyman
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    december 6th? no way. : maulla
    • I hope that actually is real. I might be able to have a new machine by then. : Dynotaku
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    FAKE 1) Today isn't a business day, they wouldn't likely make an announcement when their offices are e... : PUPSTAHS
    • Yeah I'm with you http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=8784626 : Carnivac
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      lol I've workjed for several game companies, and we most certainly worked weekends. When you work for ... : VegasX
      • Yes, but the idea of a Press Release is to... GET PRESS! And the gaming press doesn't work weekends so mu... : sgtsanity
  • stop all the lyin' : armaduck
  • Also, they post all their press releases right here: http://www.vug.com/corporate_news.do And that on... : SilverSnake
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  I really hope this is fake. : manlyman
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    Well what's the source? : UtilityMaximizer
    • http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=44211 : manlyman
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  december 6th, wtf. : edgewise
  • yeah, after black friday = bad idea methinks : johngloid
  • It's a Monday too which would be unusual. And two weeks between USA and Europe release? This is iffy.... : Carnivac
• lies. all lies. filthy lies. : crypt420

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• screenshots of both? : osiris_brad

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• blah blah blah blah : keroberos
• Well, as long as total lack of news generates this much interest (ie look how many comments these "news i... : BaBOon
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  Just go back to the latestchatty and stay there then. You don't have to read the front page if you don't ... : ovrlrd
  • hold me... : aliengrey
• WTF are you doing here in this news item, then? >:( : Maddog_Delphi97

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• You can play CSS. You can say you don't like CSS and whine. You can compare your steam package with... : mystifier
• Valve has no choice, they have a contract with Vivendi Universal. If they broke that date there would be... : Katarn3279
• But theres nothing saying we cant have it unlocked at 12:01am : City17Rebellion
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  lol you bought Silver off steam through your own volition and you feel ripped of? What did you expect hon... : VegasX
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    Leaps and bounds? Doesn't sound to me like you know much about Steam. The only thing holding Steam back... : Katarn3279
    • And if they do that stores will say "fuck you, we won't have your game on our shelves" and then Valve wil... : SilverSnake
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      lol you so missed my point by leaps and bounds. I was speaking about online distribution as a whole. I... : VegasX
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        Also smaller developers will still run into the same problem. You can sell your game through your own si... : Chod
        • Any developer that would be using that form of distribution would also probably be self funded and would ... : SpaecKow
        • totally agreed : VegasX
• Dude he just called us Homies!! : slicerd
• I had several incentives to buy through Steam. » Valve makes approximately 2.5 times the profi... : Sapiens
• Look at it this way...if you didn't preorder, you don't have to go store to store hunting down copies of ... : Magus

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• None of them will, AFAIK. : Kerath

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• HL source is in silver too. : special agent smith
• If you buy the normal retail version you get HL2 and CS:S. If you buy the collector's edition you get HL... : lechuck59

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  i think it's explained in this article http://www.hlfallout.net/articles.php/article_17/ : Mmmmmoo
  • Oh, groovy thx : SpaecKow
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  oh weird, yeah whats the login/PW : Turd Ferguson
  • gaben/gaben ? Nah. : BlackCat9
  • type "barnacle" hit enter : VegasX
• u: nova p: prospekt then barnacle : Skeez187

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  Misreply. That was meant to go in this thread: http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?comments=34071&8784630# : BlackCat9
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    So you meant it for this thread? Can I get a real link to the thread you meant? Sounds interesting. : Pacalon
    • Cancel that. Stopped being stupid and found it. :) : Pacalon

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• As much as I want straight info too, there marketing sense is genius. What there doing now is called teas... : icedcool

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• sweet, thanks : snowwolf
• link not working. : xilulus
• you have to log on with your steam account to get it to work. : cadbury
• What I mean by that is...I went through the steam client. So once you get to the forum section, then put ... : cadbury

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• Where's your contribution? : kingdepork
• I believe you mean "create an image in Adobe (r) Photoshop (r)" : mikecyb

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• hrmmm interesting. I'm still expecting a press release monday : epit
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  haha, that pretty much confirms it! :D : rasputinreborn
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    That pinata is from the original half-life release... : ArtilleryMarker
    • oic, thanks for the clarification. :\ : rasputinreborn
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      did you even read the post thats the second pinata : Iwannaacura
      • Yes but I wasnt talking to you. rasputinreborn clearly thought that the pic with gabe newell and that pin... : ArtilleryMarker
• I was gonna say 'Looks like Gabe lost some weight' then I realized that pic is from 1998. : ariakaz

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  Yeah, even though I get a really good framerate at 1600x1200, I see those massive explosion slowdowns too... : inkninja
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    Especially when you toss a grenade into that second floor area with the loose boards and they go flying. ... : loafywonk
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      Yes sir, you're absolutely correct. : inkninja
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        Thank god i'm not the only one experiancing this : tcxsnoop
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          ya, its kinda funny how accurately they got the CS feel ported... anyone remember the same stutters in th... : phokz
          • the stutter is the network code trying to cope with physics, not the physics themselves. : dopefish
    • I AGREE WITH THIS POST. : Rice-Rocketeer
• I noticed that in Office. I get an average 50fps in large multi games but when someone tosses a grenade ... : gyvoji
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  I suspect that the frame drop in CS:S when physics go nuts is bandwidth issue, not performance issue. The... : Dynotaku
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    Don't see why the fps would die unless the net code is tied directly into the render engine. Also it eve... : Wombat Woo
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      Absolutely all physics are done client side if you haven't noticed. Thats why you'll see someone in offic... : d0gbert
      • well isn't that just lame...so if i a barrel moves and you hide behind it for protection you might not ac... : flasher 907
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        that cant be right because i often use cabinets and barrels for cover and if they were in different spots... : spector
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          The answer: as Gabe said like a year and a half ago: large objects that affect gameplay ARE tracked serve... : lont
          • Clarification: this actually isn't even quite as bad as it sounds, because the clientside-only entities a... : lont
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    I think physics are done client side... like, the way you see a body positioned, might not be the same as... : snuff
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      I think only CERTAIN physics objects are done client-side (cans of paint, bodies, watermelons, bottles, p... : YamatoTwinkie
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        but even that doesnt make sense. sometimes for instance at the start of dust you'll get people shooting ... : spector
        • ok so barrels, cabinets and buckets. : steve_o
        • The server probably just doesn't track certain objects as accurately as others. Important stuff like bar... : Priest77
• Well one thing is for sure, The physics in Halflife2 will be much smoother then those in CS:S : scrub6969

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  It told me that after every preload session... : inkninja
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    oh ok, well same for everyone else? : seanisdabomb
    • yes : snowwolf
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    No, it said a locked copy of HL2 is now on your computer. It never said loading was complete and you can ... : tcxsnoop
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      Actually I think it changed to that new text once you purchased it. Anyone who hasnt bought a package se... : smacknca
      • It might be that (says this for purchased copies). In any case, I know for sure that I had that message p... : inkninja
    • It's said that after every phase of the preload so far (I have a screenshot of that exact window from Pha... : Dimmona

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  Probably because they want Steam to completely eliminate the publisher. : wunderbred
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    Not totally following you. I understand Steam as a delivery method for games that could eventually mak... : MatthewPhillips
    • Because it's the publisher that makes the CDs... Valve probably makes those t-shirts and hats themselves.... : SilverSnake
• They make the money off steam, if they sent you CD's, they'd have to be published, and then the publisher... : snuff
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  valve doesn't have cd printing facilities, the publisher does : slackor
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    I doubt they have the capabilities to print Posters, Hats, T-Shirts and make Collector's Boxes as well ;)... : MatthewPhillips
    • Yes, but with those they can avoid the publisher. : Anti_dentite
• The true reason is because of the agreement with Vivendi to publish the game. If Valve boxed up the CDs i... : ovrlrd

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  OMG SPOILERS :< Well, can't blame people for wanting to find out more about it. : mystifier
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    it is kinda of a spoiler as its stated.. but not much of one all it tells you are the maps.. big deal. it... : pluto69
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      Depends how long those chapters really are. Can't say I'm not intrigued by the Dark Energy chapter thou... : mystifier
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        http://universe.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/darkenergy.html : n0v4
        • It says "source" in the article. The link between dark energy and HL2 is as clear as Saddam and Al-Quad... : mystifier
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  They say that it will about 34 hours of game play, some chapters will most likely short and others longer... : City17Rebellion
  • Nice spoiler without the proper tag there... : SilverSnake
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  thats the ugliest and wierdest hl2 site I've seen.. : VegasX
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    Do you have a site ? VegasX ? if you do what is it. At least the site has news that no other site does. e... : pluto69
    • lol I didnt know my resputation was determined by whether or not I had a website on tha internets. You... : VegasX
  • It's just a Portal website template that someone added Half-Life 2 news content to. No design there at al... : MatthewPhillips
• its a basic site, looks like its not done, but it was good info about the game : City17Rebellion

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  I'll be in your dream with you. I want the same thing to happen. : stelth
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    They've said countless times that it won't be unlocked until the retail store release date. : inkninja
    • there's always the one guy who's like *POP* BITCH!! : Skateguy
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      ok, so if they are waiting til retail hits stores before unlocking steam version does that mean at midnig... : Peace frog
      • They'd prolly unlock it at midnight PST. So like 3am EST. ;| : stelth
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  cause its saturday. expect an official press release on monday : epit
  • ^^^^^^^ : jhof
• Because everyone @ Valve is hungover and looking for their pants. It's only 10:30am up there. On a Satu... : dawurz
• the first half-life went gold on a saturday, but wasn't announced until the following monday. : YamatoTwinkie

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• ppl were making a big stink in the chatty with multiple post after post. This may at least contain the h... : seanisdabomb
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  Because we're excited :O : dognose
  • oh so very very excited :D : d0gbert
• It's Saturday... duh! : KinetiK
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  plz go back to evening reading. this thread is for the faithful : snuff
  • I'll be sure to make it a point that every rumor should get frontpage news if I find a rumor. : Chod

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• The last half a dozen posts about HL2 was about HL2 going gold. : rorshack

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  yes, we'll all wait for you. : pinkeye
  • certainly, it's been valve's plan from the beginning! : proclone1

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  640x480 but won't do the game justice ;( : seanisdabomb
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    Thanks for your answer! It won't be that bad -> 17" LCD... It kinda anti-aliases for me :) : Function Pointer
    • is it MX or Ti geforce 4? : seanisdabomb