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by Maarten Goldstein, Feb 20, 2006 8:47am PSTHappy President's Day. I'm guessing its a real good day if you dont have school or work today. Commie. Movie: Vengeance is a lazy form of grief
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8Happy President's Day. I'm guessing its a real good day if you dont have school or work today. Commie. Movie: Vengeance is a lazy form of grief
uggh
it reeks of so much desperation...it makes me want to shoot myself. Not to mention full of narcicism.
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Doing some high resolution timer work today I ran into a wacky XP (SP2) and AMD X2 Dual core processor bug. The bug can cause lowered performance, and the cores going out of sync with each other timer wise. For me that means wacky timer perf, but for you it means stuttering, hanging, and general inconsistant performance in a lot of games. I have packed up the needed files (An official AMD driver from their site, an official post-SP2 hotfix from MS, and instructions for the registry and boot.ini fix (care of microsoft)) and some instructions here: http://iplay.shackspace.com/X2_Patches.zip
It's real easy to do, and if you have had wierd stuttering, chopping, or all out hangs in games like WoW or BF2 give this a try. At first i thought it was SLI acting up, but it turns out its the processor.
Just so you know im not messing with your processor here is an official MS link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896256/en-us#XSLTH3120121122120121120120
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Anyone own one of these fine vehicles and have some insight?
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omfg I hate those motherfuckers.
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Minimum Requirements
CPU: 2.8Ghz
RAM: 512MB
Graphics: Geforce 6 series
Recommended System
CPU: 3-4Ghz
RAM: 1024MB
Graphics: NVIDIA 6800GT/Ultra or 7800GT/GTX SLI
UT2007 Technical features and requirements
* Dual-core CPU: Multi-threading is supported and should provide much better performance
* 64-bit version to be available with better textures
* Renderers: SM3.0, 2.0, possible DX8 renderer
* HDR supported
* Physics: Novodex Physics Engine
* AGEIA PhysX PPU supported.
Here is the link to that source:
http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:LxsgOamN43IJ:unreal.freakygaming.com/pc/action/unreal_tournament_2007/system_requirements.html+&hl=en&gl=sg&ct=clnk&cd=1
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29799
With 7800 GTX's already being removed from production has my idea of buying a 'cheap' upgrade with a second 7800 GTX in about 8-9 months time just gone out the window?
I take it 7800 GTX's wont be SLI compatible with 7900 GTX's? :-(
Whatta crock-o-shit from nVidia that would be...
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watch now...
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I haven't been able to get into a single game all day long. Blizzard's making cash hand over fist.
There's no excuse as to why everyone can't get into play.
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My friend was in line at BEST BUY today and sees KATEE SACKHOFF (Starbuck on BSG) in line buying BSG DVD's. He jokingly said something to her about how she should be able to get them for free. She was like I Know Right! and they had a little laugh. End of story.
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Are you ready to listen to one of the most awkward things you'll ever hear?
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The following hoax was forwarded to me:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/shuttle2.asp
One look at the pictures tells you this is a hoax. Even a little knowledge about the facts of this tragedy would indicate that this was bullshit. The shuttle came apart while re-entering earth, not orbiting well above it. Just that little bit of knowledge should have tipped her off before she sent it. But beyond that, just looking at the photos should have been enough to make her realize that there was no way a satellite could have taken photos like this.
It just takes a little bit of a spark of curiosity. A little bit of a critical eye to recognize most hoaxes immediately. Just a little intelligence. And if all else fails, just look it up on Snopes.
The sad thing is, this woman is no idiot. She's just incredibly gullible and incurious I guess. I sent a "reply all" and in as gentle language as I could muster, said she might want to look these up before she sends them out.
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1) The maps went too quickly. To avoid long load times, we decided (a long time ago) to play two rounds per map. But perhaps we need to increase the ticket count a tiny bit.
2) There really needs to be a way to randomize the teams between rounds, so that a team doesn't dominate over and over again.
3) The patch really did a good job addressing air power. AA positions are much more effective. I was still able to do a bit of plane whoring on Operation Clean Sweep, but I had to spend a lot of time focusing on taking out AA emplacements and vehicles first. Other jets seemed even more effective as anti-air than they were before. Some of my controls are still a bit screwed up, and I'm not quite fully used to my new joystick, so I hope to do some better tests in the future.
4) Communication is really important. I switched from MEC to U.S. after the U.S. kept losing, and found that the U.S. team wasn't talking (on teamspeak or even on VOIP). Lots of people weren't even in squads.
Overall, the game seems much better now. I'm quite happy with it. I might even be persuaded to buy the expansion(s), if enough other shackers do so. They still need to fix a few things, but it's in pretty good shape now.
Finally, does anyone else get weird stuttering when they have googletalk running in the background? I have this problem in both BF2 and BF1942. Turning off googletalk makes for a much smoother experience. I have no idea why this would matter.
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Going to 72.36.222.229 get on teamspeak so boomstick can make a slot for you to get in!
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Professional studios around the world spend millions of dollars and man-hours producing commercial entertainment. Please don’t steal their work or in ten years, it will cost $50 to see a movie in the theater.
I think if Hollywood keeps up the crapfest for another ten years and we're expected to pay $50 to see Honk Bag 3, they deserve to go bankrupt.
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http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/guildwarsfactions/news.html?sid=6144516
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2357448098911229950
PROOF that masons control the world!!!
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I remember that one promo video with the really nice footage of sticking some baddie with a sword, using a foot to remove the sword, fireballs at a dragon ..etc etc .
I think it was billed as an RPG, but the footage I saw looked more like Hexen on a superb engine.
Did it fade off into development hell or what?
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Lesson learned: RIP OUT the serial cable from the port once I'm done with whatever I'm doing on a Sparc machine.
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To be expected when hypochondriacs take antibiotics like they're Pez.
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You should do this too!
I'm glad I stuck with it till the king kong 1st part because the game gets better after that. Though the puzzles for the guy just plain suck. Carry some damn fire 500 yards? Find a stupid stick to put into a pole 10 times? The king kong section is so awesome I question if the human part was designed by the by a different person